 | Art nouveau - 1896 - 412 pages
...lamp, passed round with it behind the mask, held it high, and let the rays stream downwards from above. The astounding way the face changed must have been...of a god had been substituted for that of a satyr You saw a splendid dome-like head, Shakespearean in contour ; a broad, smooth, finely-modelled brow... | |
 | Cedric Ellsworth Smith - English literature - 1928 - 488 pages
...lamp, passed round with it behind the mask, held it high, and let the rays stream downwards from above. The astounding way the face changed must have been...of a god had been substituted for that of a satyr. . . . You saw a splendid dome-like head, Shakespearean in contour; a broad, smooth, finely-modelled... | |
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... lifted to his lips the communion cup, and therein squatted a toad. A sort of murmur of frantic protestation began to rise in his throat; but Peschi, unconscious of our agitation, now lifted the lamp, passed round with it behind the mask, held it high,... 