The Smart Set: A Magazine of Cleverness, Volume 6George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken Ess Ess Publishing Company, 1902 |
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Page 36 - With him came mighty Davies. On my life, That Davies hath a very pretty wife :— Statesman all over !— In plots famous grown !— He mouths a sentence, as curs mouth a bone.
Page 130 - I know of no comedy for many years that has so much exhilarated an audience, that has answered so much the great end of comedy — making an audience merry.
Page 121 - Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, but now I know it, with what more you may think proper.
Page 127 - He is a middle-sized, spare man, about forty years old, of a brown complexion, and dark brown coloured hair, but wears a wig, a hooked nose, a sharp chin, grey eyes, and a large mole near his mouth...
Page 130 - It quieted pain and sorrow, Like love overcoming strife ; It seemed the harmonious echo From our discordant life. It linked all perplexed meanings Into one perfect peace, And trembled away into silence, As if it were loath to cease. I have sought, but I seek it vainly, That one lost chord divine, That came from the soul of the organ, And entered into mine.
Page 125 - he was one of those divine men who, like a chapel in a palace, remain unprofaned, while all the rest is tyranny, corruption, and folly.
Page 122 - The virtuous are touched with commiseration towards the guilty, the disagreeable, and the wretched. There are those who betray the innocent of their own sex, and solicit the lewd of ours. There are those who have abandoned the very memory, not only of innocence, but shame. There are those who never forgave, nor could ever bear being forgiven. There are those also who visit the beds of the sick, lull the cares of the sorrowful, and double the joys of the joyful. Such is the destroying fiend, such...
Page 40 - Лог male, nor female, neither and yet both ; Of neuter gender, though of Irish growth; A six-foot suckling, mincing in its gait ; Affected, peevish, prim, and delicate ; Fearful it eeem'd, though of athletic make, Lest brutal breezes should too roughly shake Its tender form, and savage motion spread O'er its pale cheeks the horrid manly red.
Page 122 - The ill are employed in communicating scandal, infamy, and disease, like Furies : the good distribute benevolence, friendship, and health, like Angels. The ill are damped with pain and anguish at the sight of all that is laudable, lovely, or happy. The virtuous are touched with commiseration towards the guilty, the disagreeable, and the wretched. There are those who betray the innocent of their own sex, and solicit the lewd of ours. There are those who have abandoned the very memory, not only of...
Page 40 - O'er Its pale cheeks the horrid manly red. Much did It talk, in Its own pretty phrase, Of genius and of taste, of players and plays; Much too of writings which Itself had wrote, Of special merit, though of little note; For fate, in a strange humour, had decreed That what It wrote none but Itself should read; Much, too, It chatter'd of dramatic laws, Misjudging critics, and misplaced applause; Then, with a self-complacent, jutting air, It smiled, It smirk'd, It.