Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 · New York : H. Holt and Company · leaf 275
Dame inParis is the carved form, of human size, represented in our figure (15). There is in theface a remarkable expres-sion of pride and satisfac-tion as he looks forth on thegay city and contemplatesall the wickedness in it,but this satisfaction iscuriously blended with alook of envy and lust.His… … THE DOOM OF IBLIS. 261 place assigned him in Eastern traditions — ruins anddesert places,—but otherwise he fairly fulfilled, no doubt,early ideas in selecting his headquarters at Paris. Amussulman legend says that when, after the Fall of Man,Allah was mitigating the sentences he had…
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