The May sunshine reflected tremulous spirals on the walls, and now and again a flash of gold lightning raced across the aquarium, stirring the green sedges and grasses.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann
It was like trying to catch hold of the goldfish in the aquarium.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann
Then followed a clever series of "Contrasts," such as the professional fasting man fortune-making at the aquarium, and a Balaclava hero left to starve by a grateful country-thus repeating unconsciously Cruikshank's famous plate of "Born a Genius: Born a Dwarf," wherein the tragedy of Benjamin Robert Haydon and the triumph of Tom Thumb, both proceeding in the Egyptian Hall, were dramatically depicted.
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann