The Smart Set: A Magazine of Cleverness, Band 5George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken Ess Ess Publishing Company, 1901 |
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Seite 59 - Leave gormandizing; know the grave doth gape For thee thrice wider than for other men. Reply not to me with a fool-born jest: Presume not that I am the thing I was; For God doth know, so shall the world perceive. That I have turned away my former self; So will I those that kept me company.
Seite 102 - N. take thee M. to my wedded husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love, cherish, and to obey, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance ; and thereto I give thee my troth.
Seite 45 - My meat shall all come in, in Indian shells, Dishes of agate set in gold, and studded With emeralds, sapphires, hyacinths, and rubies. The tongues of carps, dormice, and camels...
Seite 86 - I will be frank, too," he said at last. " I must tell you plainly I have not the money to go; and under the circumstances you can scarcely expect me to avail myself of yours. Besides, we are working night and day on a Government order. I should have to throw up my job if I went. They would never take me back if I left them in the lurch. It is not that I should mind that myself, if I were the only one to consider, but the fact is, my father's illness has left me the only bread-winner of the family....
Seite 124 - How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That had'st thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired ; Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be...
Seite 81 - ... me. If there has been anything to trouble you since you saw your father why have you not written and told me ? Is your trouble about me ? " " Well, of course it is, in a sort of way." " I will not be a trouble to you." " Now you are going to misunderstand me ! Of course, you are not a trouble to me. You know that I love you better than anything in the world.
Seite 43 - It was the return of that ancient Venus, not dead, but only hidden for a time in the caves of the Venusberg, of those old pagan gods still going to and fro on the earth, under all sorts of disguises. And this element in the middle age, for the most part ignored by those writers who have treated it preeminently as the "Age of Faith...
Seite 50 - Alcibiade!' to the long-aproned waiter. I explained to Miss Spencer that my companion had lately been her ship-mate, and my brother-in-law came up and was introduced to her. But she looked at him as if she had never seen him before, and I remembered that he had told me that her eyes were always fixed upon the eastward horizon.
Seite 99 - Old Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard, To get her poor dog a bone: But when she got there The cupboard was bare, And so the poor dog had none.
Seite 126 - AMELIA waved her fan with glee, And being in a playful mood, She gave the airy toy to me, And bade me flirt it, if I could. The pleasing toil I quick began, But jealous pangs my bosom hurt: ' Madam, I cannot flirt a fan, But with your leave I'll fan a flirt.