Sinbad

_“I’m not a young man.... I had studied myself; I had had experience of myself; I knew how much I loved her, and how happy I should be.... But I had not--I feel it now--sufficie...

_“I saw a man pursuing the horizon; Round and round they sped. I was disturbed at this; I accosted the man. ‘It is futile,’ I said, ‘You can never--’ ‘You lie,’ he cried, And ra...

_“The sexes deceive themselves about each other: the reason is that in reality they honor and love only themselves (or their own ideal, to express it more agreeably). Thus man w...

The rain dripped softly and the paved streets were filled with dim reflections. Window-panes were streaked with tiny rivulets. People bent under umbrellas. Early-lit street-lamp...

Em sometimes feared Howard. She wished his detachment were often less complete. His contempt of morality seemed to her a little false. We’re all dependent on each other, she tho...

_“I may be allowed to observe, that his honour, to my great admiration, appeared to understand the nature of the YAHOOS much better than myself. He went through all our vices an...

Home again! Liberty drowning in the harbor, Manhattan mushrooms sprouting in the haze (lower Broadway dividing them like a gash), murky snakes of water curling round the low isl...

“You can’t go now.” He spoke rapidly in a low voice and tried to pull her down. Her face was pale and she jerked her arm from Howard’s grasp. Pierre Gouvain’s beautiful eyes sen...

_“Let them fight it out, friend! things have gone too far. God must judge the couple! leave them as they are-- --Whichever one’s guiltless, to his glory, And whichever one the g...

_“Knowledge is not our proper Happiness. Whoever will in the least attend to the thing will see that it is the gaining, not the having, of it, which is the entertainment of the...

_“A handless man a letter did write, A dumb dictated it word for word: The person who read it had lost his sight, And deaf was he who listened and heard.”_

_“I smiled at him, and looked pleasantly, and beckoned to him to come still nearer. At length he came close to me, and then he kneeled down again, kissed the ground, and laid hi...

_“The attempted answer of Speusippus ‘that Pleasure may be opposed and yet not contrary to Pain...’ will not hold: for he cannot say that Pleasure is identical with evil of any...

_Magda._--My puss! My little one! How my little one has grown! My pet--my--(_kissing her passionately_). But what’s the matter? You’re dizzy. Come, sit down. No, no, please sit...

_“O’er the hill-tops all Lies gentle rest, In the tree-tops tall Thou scarce feelest One single quivering breath. E’en the birds are silent now: Wait, yes wait, for thou Must, t...

_“Here is our Drama played, our Farce begun.... Here our souls speak their mirth and grief and rage-- Satires in silk, light wit, and passion’s heat, Unspoken pain, hid sorrows,...

_“Roussillon dismounted and opening the dead man’s breast with a knife, with his own hands tore out his heart ... and calling the cook, said to him, ‘Take this wild boar’s heart...

_“He who bred me up sold a certain young maid of Rome; whom when I saw many years after, I remembered her, and began to love her as a sister. It happened some time afterwards th...

_“There was once a King and a Queen, and they had twelve children, all boys. One day the King said to his wife: ‘If our thirteenth child is a girl, all her twelve brothers must...

_“I saw a little girl in tears, said the moon; she was crying over the wickedness of the world. A most beautiful doll had been given her as a present. Indeed it was a splendid d...

Em and Les were pathetically glad to be together again. Their first night together they had both wept, Les silently and Em hysterically. The remembered rooms, the familiar thing...

_“I won’t be my father’s Jack. I won’t be my father’s Jill. I will be the fiddler’s wife, And have music when I will. T’other little tune, t’other little tune, Prythee, love, pl...

_“In the evening they talked together pleasantly, then quarrelled, then came to blows. In the morning both are ashamed and surprised, they think it must have been the result of...

_“I dreamed we lived in a wood, Mama, And rested beneath its bowers, When a butterfly came in its flaunting pride And I chased it away to the forest wide, And night came on and...

_“But ah! you should have seen me when I was sweet seventeen. I was the very moral of my poor dear mother, and she was a pretty woman, though I say it that shouldn’t. She had su...