The Smart Set, Volume 15George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken Ess Ess Publishing Company, 1905 |
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Page 97 - In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Page 58 - The moon shines bright : — In such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise ; in such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls, And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night.
Page 97 - Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Page 97 - Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit - not to be reckoned one character - not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong; and our opinion predicted geographically, as the north, or the south?
Page 105 - Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens : and he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant ; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
Page 156 - Though at times her spirit sank ; Shaped her heart, with woman's meekness, To all duties of her rank : And a gentle consort made he, And her gentle mind was such, That she grew a noble lady, And the people loved her much. But a trouble weighed upon her, And perplexed her night and morn, With the burden of an honor Unto which she was not born.
Page 138 - IF the year be at her spring I neither know nor care ; I have the bird-song of your speech, The warm rain of your hair. I question not if thrushes sing, If roses load the air; Beyond my heart I need not reach When all is summer there. I go not by the blue above, By grasses green or sere; Your silences, your sigh, your smile, They mark my time o
Page 122 - Negro counselors are as prone as white ones to feel that what was good enough for them ought to be good enough for the young. Some have a "Who the hell do you think you are?
Page 49 - I'll give you one last chance," he said, clenching his flaccid jaw. " Chance ! I don't want a chance ! Now I know how things must go! Now I know how to act! And before we settle it between us, and if I have to — to lose everything, I want you to know one thing. I want you to know that I'm doing it for Durkin! I'm doing it all, everything, for him!
Page 77 - ... that there is one law for the poor and another for the rich.