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14268	And again:"What?
14268	And then, when the wedges of doubt have, as it were, been driven into the citadels of our minds through these gateways, where will be its liberty?
14268	Did the judges realize that the error might be theirs rather than his?"
14268	For our adversary goes about as a roaring lion seeking what he may devour, and do you still think of peace?
14268	Full often did I repeat the lament of St. Anthony:"Kindly Jesus, where wert Thou?"
14268	Has fortune such power To smite so lofty a head?
14268	His incredible industry resulted in such a mass of Writings that Jerome himself asked in despair,"Which of us can read all that he has written?"
14268	Is it not called more rightly the altar of Him who receives than of Him who makes the sacrifice?
14268	One asks instantly: What cord?--Whether Grace, for instance, or Free Will?
14268	What followed?
14268	What is a species: what is a genus or a family or an order?
14268	What path lay open to me thereafter?
14268	What wonder is it, then, if to that Person to Whom the apostle assigned a spiritual temple we should dedicate a material one?
14268	Who can endure the continual untidiness of children?
14268	Who would presume to erase from above the door the name of him who is the master of the house?
14268	Why then was I wedded Only to bring thee to woe?
14268	know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?"
14268	where its fortitude?
14268	where its thought of God?
37865	Dear mother, with such burning After my love he''s yearning, Ungrateful can I be? 37865 For what harmony is there,"she asks,"between a scholar and a nurse, a writing- desk and a cradle, books and spinning- wheels?
37865	How is it that you lived, and what is it that you did?
37865	Nay, I trust to rule a knight in armor; How then should I listen to a farmer? 37865 Nay, mother, what is God?"
37865	Sire,he replied,"how could I sing unless I loved?"
37865	What harm can happen to me, since my lady is gracious? 37865 What if she refuses me?"
37865	Who gave you the right to lock up my gown?
37865	Who, when you walked abroad, did not hurry to look at you, rising on tiptoe and with straining eyes?
37865	Why should I not be angry at his insolence? 37865 You little grasshopper, whither wilt thou hop away from the nest?
37865	A cry of exultant renunciation of the wilds of life''s ocean, and of contentment at the holy calm in the bosom of the church?
37865	And again:"Did you ever see so gay a peasant as he is?
37865	And still a third, while eating at a bishop''s table, loosened his girdle?
37865	And what has this old German gallant to say of himself?
37865	At this last moment is she hesitating?
37865	Can it have been the increase in the culture of the Virgin, that beautiful and beneficent phase of mediæval religion?
37865	Compare an earlier lover''s cry in the loveliest of French romances:"What is there in heaven for me?
37865	Did they step forward to meet him?
37865	Does he believe she feels herself disgraced by this relation?
37865	Does he no longer attract her?
37865	Fated to make thee wretched, why did I Become thy wife?
37865	Fie, who brought him here?
37865	God?
37865	Has he made a mistake?
37865	Has not a rich man ridden over the field of his god- father?
37865	Has not another rich man eaten bread with crullers?
37865	Has the world renewed its hold upon her?
37865	He is haunted by the secret of life:"How is the soul made?
37865	He selected a master, but Fleur, when he was bidden to study, burst into tears and cried,"Sire, what will Blanchefleur do?
37865	Her lips part, and what will be her last words as a lady of the world?
37865	How does the soul deserve God''s wrath before it is born?"
37865	How may I her favors gain?
37865	If laymen and gentiles have lived thus continently, bound by no religious profession, what does it become a clerk and a canon to do?
37865	Indeed this was all the contentment which the blushing young knight desired:"Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?"
37865	Is he sacrificing himself for her?
37865	Is it possible that the anonymous heroine heard of such trivial infidelities?
37865	May we go farther, and say that her spirit did adjust itself to its new conditions, and lose its pain in a submissive piety?
37865	Nothing?
37865	Or was it the Crusades?
37865	Poor clumsy louts, how can the girls endure them?
37865	Prithee, answer; Is it maid or is it man?
37865	Shall the birds lose their happiness because of me?"
37865	She kissed his lips:"Why am I opposing highest God?
37865	Sir, can love from care beguile us And our sorrowing distress?
37865	Sir, what is love?
37865	So when the guest appeared,"Did the woman and the man cry''Welcome back, Helmbrecht''?
37865	Some scriptural exhortation to her friends to follow her as she follows Christ?
37865	Sweet, love is so strong and mighty That all countries own her sway; Who can speak her power rightly?
37865	This happened three times; and yet, guileless Ulrich, you had no glimmering that perhaps it was a joke?
37865	This will cure you( I assure you) Of all sorrows, all alarms; What alloy In his joy On whom white and pretty arms Bestow their charms?
37865	Unwomanly does it appear, this unwillingness of Heloise to become her lover''s wife?
37865	Was it all for nothing these ceremonial disciplines?
37865	What did the child do?
37865	What if Wordsworth had tried to support himself and win fame by singing at castles?
37865	What if the rustic lad gives me a shove?
37865	What least joy may ye impart, She so dear and good denied me?
37865	What other love- letters equal the intensity, the tenderness, the womanliness of these final appeals for the broken love?
37865	What region is thy heritance?"
37865	What though this friend believed that the lady cared for him?
37865	What though wealth exalt thy name?
37865	What, not go back with so much to do?
37865	When life some pleasure gives, In tears my heart will scan My face, and tell its smart; How then can pleasure stay?
37865	Where''s the key?
37865	Who can doubt that he did-- that every deep nature always has?
37865	Who will teach her?
37865	Why is it worth while to introduce to English readers this peasant tale of the middle ages?
37865	Will she snatch herself from God?
37865	With fair living reconcile us, Gaiety and worthiness?
37865	Yet why should he manifest such reserve, at the same time that he mentions the subject so constantly, referring to it long after he has left Bavaria?
37865	[ 4] We recall his great countryman''s modern cry:"Wohin es geht, wer weiss es?
35977	( this is the last time I shall use that expression) shall I never see you again?
35977	**_ Qua conjugata, que virgo non concupiscebat absentem,& non exardescebat in presentem?
35977	After this can I hope God should open to me the treasures of his mercy?
35977	Ah?
35977	All who are about me admired my virtue, but could their eyes penetrate into my heart, what would they not discover?
35977	And do you question either?
35977	And love th''offender, yet detest th''offence?
35977	And must I use any other prayers than my own to prevail upon you?
35977	And what a happiness is it, not to be in a capacity of sinning?
35977	And what time shall I find for those prayers you speak of?
35977	And yet we can be saved by nothing but the Cross, why then do we refuse to bear it?
35977	And, can you believe it,_ Philintus_?
35977	Are not interest and policy their only rules?
35977	Are these the wishes of my inmost soul?
35977	Are we not already sufficiently miserable?
35977	But can you be sure marriage will not be the tomb of her love?
35977	But do you owe nothing more to us than to that friend, be the friendship between you ever so intimate?
35977	But do you,_ Abelard_, never see_ Heloise_ in your sleep?
35977	But how barbarous was your punishment?
35977	But how difficult is this in the trouble which surrounds me?
35977	But how much did my curiosity cost me?
35977	But if you do not continue your concern for me, If I lose your affection, what have I gained by my imprisonment?
35977	But to what purpose dost thou still arm thyself against me?
35977	But what could resist you?
35977	But what do I say?
35977	But what excuses could I not find in you, if the crime were excusable?
35977	But what have I gained by this?
35977	But what is there for you to fear?
35977	But what secret trouble rises in my soul, what unthought- of motion opposes the resolution I formed of sighing no more for_ Abelard_?
35977	But when love has once been sincere, how difficult it is to determine to love no more?
35977	But whence, arose that pray''r?
35977	But whither am I transported?
35977	But whither does my vain imagination carry me?
35977	But why should I intreat you in the name of your children?
35977	But why should I on others''prayers depend?
35977	But why should I rave at your assassins?
35977	But, in this article of consolation, how comes it to pass that he makes no mention of_ Heloise_?
35977	But, tell me, whence proceeds your neglect of me since my being professed?
35977	Can any one sin who is persuaded of this?
35977	Can it be criminal for you to imitate St. Jerome, and discourse with me concerning the Scripture?
35977	Can not this habit of penitence which I wear interest Heaven to treat me more favourably?
35977	Can so heavy a misfortune leave me a moment''s quiet?
35977	Can you think that the traces you have drawn in my heart can ever be worn out?
35977	Canst thou behold those lovely eyes without recollecting those amorous glances which have been so fatal to thee?
35977	Canst thou forget that sad, that solemn day, When victims at yon altar''s foot we lay?
35977	Canst thou forget what tears that moment fell, When, warm in youth, I bade the world farewell?
35977	Could I not more easily comfort myself in my afflictions?
35977	Could an outrageous husband make a villain suffer more that had dishonoured his bed?
35977	Could you ever retire but you drew the eyes and hearts of all after you?
35977	Could you imagine it possible for any mortal to blot you from my heart?
35977	Could you think me guilty of sacrificing the virtuous and learned_ Abelard_ to any other but to God?
35977	Did not every one rejoice in having seen you?
35977	Did not the apprehension of causing my present death make the pen drop from your hand?
35977	Did you write thus to me before Fortune had ruined my happiness?
35977	Do fathers consult the inclinations of their children when they settle them?
35977	Do n''t you know, that there is no action of life which draws after it so sure and long a repentance, and to so little purpose?
35977	Do you now,_ Heloise_, applaud my design of making you walk in the steps of the saints?
35977	Do you think learning ought to make_ Heloise_ more amiable?
35977	Does thy grace or my own despair draw these words from me?
35977	Does_ Abelard_ then, said I, suspect he shall see renewed in me the example of Lot''s wife, who could not forbear looking back when she left Sodom?
35977	Dost thou still nourish this destructive flame?
35977	For if my conversion was sincere, how could I take a pleasure to relate my past follies?
35977	Fulbert surprised me with_ Heloise_, and what man that had a soul in him would not have borne any ignominy on the same conditions?
35977	Has Vice such charms to well- born souls?
35977	Hath not our Saviour borne it before us, and died for us, to the end that we might also bear it and desire to die also?
35977	Have I not tired out his forgiveness?
35977	Have not the gentle rules of Peace and Heav''n, From thy soft soul this fatal passion driv''n?
35977	Have you purchased your vocation at so slight a rate, as that you should not turn it to the best advantage?
35977	How can I do that when you frighten me with apprehensions that continually possess my mind day and night?
35977	How can I separate from the person I love the passion I must detest?
35977	How did I deceive myself with the hopes that you would be wholly mine when I took the veil, and engaged myself to live for ever under your laws?
35977	How difficult is it to fight always for duty against inclination?
35977	How happy is the blameless Vestal''s lot?
35977	How happy should I be could I wash out with my tears the memory of those pleasures which yet I think of with delight?
35977	How little is that?
35977	How many ladies laid claim to them?
35977	How much better were it entirely to forget the object of it, than to preserve the memory of it, so fatal to the quiet of my life and salvation?
35977	How much did I wrong you, and what weakness did I impute to you?
35977	How the dear object from the crime remove, Or how distinguish penitence from love?
35977	How unhappy am I?
35977	How void of reason are men, said Seneca, to make distant evils present by reflection, and to take pains before death to lose all the comforts of life?
35977	How weak are we in ourselves, if we do not support ourselves on the cross of Christ?
35977	How would my enemies, Champeaux and Anselm, have triumphed, had they seen the redoubted philosopher in such a wretched condition?
35977	I could meet him at all his assignations, and would I decline following him to the feats of holiness?
35977	I dote on the danger which threatens me, how then can I avoid falling?
35977	I have armed my own hands against myself?
35977	I have made them in the presence of God; whither shall I fly from his wrath if I violate them?
35977	I reproach myself for my own faults, I accuse you for yours, and to what purpose?
35977	I said to myself, there was a time when he could rely upon my bare word, and does he now want vows to secure himself of me?
35977	I tear myself from all that pleases me?
35977	I thought you disengaged and free; And can you still, still sigh and weep for me?
35977	I was young;--could she show an infallibility to those vows which my heart never formed for any but herself?
35977	I who have not refused to be a victim of pleasure to gratify him, can he think I would refuse to be a sacrifice of honour to obey him?
35977	If I had loved pleasures, could I not yet have found means to have gratified myself?
35977	If a picture, which is but a mute representation of an object, can give such pleasure, what can not letters inspire?
35977	If the memory of him has caused thee so much trouble,_ Heloise_, what will not his presence do?
35977	Is it not your part to prepare me, by your powerful exhortations against that great crisis, which shakes the most resolute and confirmed minds?
35977	Is it not your part to receive my last sighs; take care of my funeral, and give an account of my manners and faith?
35977	Is it possible I should fear obtaining any thing of you, when I ask it in my own name?
35977	Is it possible a genius so great as yours should never get above his past misfortunes?
35977	Is it possible that_ Abelard_ should in earnest think of marrying_ Heloise_?
35977	Is it possible to renounce one''s self entirely at the age of two and twenty?
35977	Is it so hard for one who loves to write?
35977	Is not your soul ravished at so saving a command?
35977	Is this a state of reprobation?
35977	Is this discourse directed to my dear_ Abelard_?
35977	It is for you for_ Abelard_, that I have resolved to live; if you are ravished from me, what use can I make of my miserable days?
35977	Lucille( for that was her name) taking me aside one day, said, What do you intend, brother?
35977	Marriage has made such a correspondence lawful; and since you can, without giving the least scandal, satisfy me, why will you not?
35977	Might not a small temptation have changed you?
35977	Might not a young woman, at the noise of the flames, and the fall of Sodom, look back, and pity some one person?
35977	Must I renounce my vows?
35977	Must a weak mind fortify one that is so much superior?
35977	Must a wife draw on you that punishment which ought not to fall on any but an adulterous lover?
35977	My reputation had spread itself every where; and could a virtuous lady resist a man that had confounded all the learned of the age?
35977	Nor foes nor fortune take this pow''r away; And is my_ Abelard_ less kind than they?
35977	Or did you believe yourself a greater master to teach vice than virtue, or did you think it was more easy to persuade me to the first than the latter?
35977	Ought this to seem strange to you, who know how monasteries are filled now- a- days?
35977	Our life here is but a languishing death?
35977	Our present disgraces are sufficient to employ our thoughts continually, and shall we seek new arguments of grief in futurities?
35977	Remember what St._ Paul_ says,_ Art thou loosed from a wife?
35977	Shall the laws and customs which the gross and carnal world has invented hold us together more surely than the bonds of mutual affection?
35977	Shall this be the fruit of my meditations?
35977	Shall we have so little courage, and shall that uncertainty your heart labours with, of serving two masters, affect mine too?
35977	Sprung it from piety, or from despair?
35977	The wounds I have already received leave no room for new ones; why can not I urge thee to kill me?
35977	Then too, when Fate shall thy fair frame destroy?
35977	These tender names, can not they move you?
35977	Thou dost not give me any respite?
35977	Thus those songs will be sung in honour of other women which you designed only for me?
35977	Transform''d like these pale swarms that round me move, Of blest insensibles-- who know no love?
35977	Was it not the sole view of pleasure which engaged you to me?
35977	Was not your Treatise of Divinity condemned to be burnt?
35977	Were you not threatened with perpetual imprisonment?
35977	What a fool am I to tell you my dreams, who are sensible of these pleasures?
35977	What a haven of rest is this to a jealous mind?
35977	What a prodigy am I?
35977	What a storm was raised against you by the treacherous monks, when you did them the honour to be called their Brother?
35977	What abhorrence can I be said to have of my sins, if the objects of them are always amiable to me?
35977	What an injury shall I do the Church?
35977	What an odd fight will it be to see maids and scholars, desks and cradles, books and distaffs, pens and spindles, one among another?
35977	What answer can you make?
35977	What can not you induce a heart to, whose weakness you so perfectly know?
35977	What country, what city, has not desired your presence?
35977	What curse may I not justly fear, should I rob the world of so eminent a person as you are?
35977	What did I not say to stop your tears?
35977	What did not those two false prophets** accuse you of, who declaimed so severely against you before the Council of Sens?
35977	What doth thou say, wretched_ Heloise_?
35977	What efforts, what relapses, what agitations, do we undergo?
35977	What great advantages would philosophy give us over other men, if by studying it we could learn to govern our passions?
35977	What have I not suffered,_ Abelard_, while I kept alive in my retirement those fires which ruined me in the world?
35977	What have I to hope for after this loss of you?
35977	What means have I not used?
35977	What occasion had you to praise me?
35977	What occasion have I given him in the whole course of my life to admit the least suspicion?
35977	What powerful Deity, what hallow''d Shrine, Can save me from a love, a faith like thine?
35977	What progress might one make in the ways of virtue, who is not obliged to fight an enemy for every foot of ground?
35977	What recompense can I hope for?
35977	What right had a cruel uncle over us?
35977	What rivals did your gallantries of this kind occasion me?
35977	What scandals were vented on occasion of the name Paraclete given to your chapel?
35977	What would the world say should they read your letters as I do?
35977	When I am in this condition, why dost not thou, O Lord, pity my weakness, and strengthen me by thy grace?
35977	When I but think of this last separation; I feel all the pangs of death; what shall I be then, if I should see this dreadful hour?
35977	When I had settled her here, can you believe it,_ Philintus_?
35977	When love is liberty, and nature law, All then is full possessing and possess''d, No craving void left akeing in the breast?
35977	Where heav''nly- pensive Contemplation dwells, And ever- musing Melancholy reigns; What means this tumult in a Vestal''s veins?
35977	Where was I?
35977	Where was your_ Heloise_ then?
35977	Where, where was_ Eloisa_?
35977	Who does not know that it is for the glory of God to find no other foundation in man for his mercy than man''s very weakness?
35977	Why did you not deceive me for a while, rather than immediately abandon me?
35977	Why do you not deal after this manner with me?
35977	Why feels my heart its long- forgotten beat?
35977	Why provoke a jealous God by a blasphemy?
35977	Why rove my thoughts beyond this last retreat?
35977	Why should I conceal from you the secret of my call?
35977	Why should I only reap no advantage from your learning?
35977	Why should you use eloquence to reproach me for my flight, and for my silence?
35977	Why was I born to be the occasion of so tragical an accident?
35977	Will it not be more agreeable to me, said she, to see myself your mistress than your wife?
35977	Will she not be a woman?
35977	Will the tears I shed be sufficient to render it odious to me?
35977	Will you have the cruelty to abandon me?
35977	Will you marry her then?
35977	With what ease did you compose verses?
35977	Would I its soft, its tend''rest sense controul?
35977	Would I, thus touch''d, this glowing heart refine, To the cold substance of this marble shrine?
35977	Would you destroy my piety in its infant- state?
35977	Would you have me forsake the convent into which I am but newly entered?
35977	Would you have me stifle the inspirations of the Holy Ghost?
35977	Ye holy mansions, ye impenetrable retreats, from what numberless apprehensions have you freed me?
35977	You are no longer of the world; you have renounced it; I am a Religious, devoted to solitude; shall we make no advantage of our condition?
35977	You can not but remember,( for what do not lovers remember?)
35977	You have quitted the world, and what object was worthy to detain you there?
35977	You may adore all this if you please; but not to flatter you, what is beauty but a flower, which may be blasted by the least fit of sickness?
35977	You tell me, that it is for me you live under that veil which covers you; why do you profane your vocation with such words?
35977	_ Job_ had no enemy more cruel than his wife: what temptations did he not bear?
35977	and do you not wish you could like Magdalen, wash our Saviour''s feet with your tears?
35977	and has not my tenderness, by leaving you nothing to wish for, extinguished your desires?
35977	and how could you describe them to me?
35977	and how long are we tossed in this confusion, unable to exert our reason, to possess our souls, or to rule our affections?
35977	and how was I surprised to find the whole letter filled with a particular and melancholy account of our misfortunes?
35977	and what a shame and disparagement will it be to you, whom Nature has fitted for the public good, to devote yourself entirely to a wife?
35977	and why?
35977	and will not love have more power than marriage to keep our hearts firmly united?
35977	and, when we have once drank of the cup of sinners, is it with such difficulty that we take the chalice of saints?
35977	are you deaf to his voice?
35977	are you insensible to words so full of kindness?
35977	art thou still the same?
35977	at an age which claims the most absolute liberty, could you think the world no longer worthy of your regard?
35977	but how humbled ought we to be when we can not master them?
35977	can I never free myself from those chains which bind me to him?
35977	can my feeble reason resist such powerful assaults?
35977	can we dare to offend thee?
35977	canst thou view that majestic air of_ Abelard_ without entertaining a jealousy of every one that sees so charming a man?
35977	do my words give you any relish for penitence?
35977	do you acquaint me with a thing so certain to afflict me?
35977	do you doubt?
35977	do you entertain her with the same language as formerly when Fulbert committed her to your care?
35977	does not the love of_ Heloise_ still burn in my heart_?_ I have not yet triumphed over that happy passion.
35977	dost thou know what thou desirest?
35977	for what hast thou to dread?
35977	hast thou not persecuted me enough?
35977	have I not yet triumphed over my love?
35977	have you not remorse for your wanderings?
35977	how does she appear to you?
35977	how far are we from such a happy temper?
35977	how much shall I disoblige the learned?
35977	how was it possible I should not be certain of your merit?
35977	how will it be possible for thee to keep thy reason at the sight of so amiable a man?
35977	in what temper did you conceive these mournful ideas?
35977	must we aggravate our sorrows?
35977	my memory is perpetually filled with bitter remembrances of past evils, and are there more to be feared still?
35977	one that practices all those virtues he teaches?
35977	or St. Austin, and explain to me the nature of grace?
35977	or Tertullian, and preach mortification?
35977	or are these the consequences of a long drunkenness in profane love?
35977	or dost thou fear, amidst the numerous torments thou heapest on me, dost thou fear that such a stroke would deliver me from all?
35977	or how bear up against my grief?
35977	or that any length of time can obliterate the memory we have here of your benefits?
35977	pursued I, dost thou not almost despair for having rioted in such false pleasure?
35977	shall I never have the pleasure of embracing you before death?
35977	shall I, to soothe you dry up those tears which the evil spirit makes you shed?
35977	shall my_ Abelard_ be never mentioned without tears?
35977	shall thy dear name be never spoken but with sighs?
35977	shall_ Abelard_ always possess my thoughts?
35977	that mouth, which can not be looked upon without desire?
35977	what are you to love?
35977	what can I then hope for?
35977	what can confine me to earth when Death shall have taken away from me all that was dear upon it?
35977	what desires will it not excite in thy soul?
35977	what disturbance did it occasion?
35977	what folly is it to talk at this rate?
35977	what lamentations should I make, if Heaven, by a cruel pity, should preserve me till that moment?
35977	what means this most cruel and unjust distinction?
35977	what other rival could take me from you?
35977	when you awake are you pleased or sorry?
35977	where is that happy time fled?
35977	whither does the excess of passion hurry me?
35977	why did you place the name of_ Heloise_ before that of_ Abelard_?
35977	will you hasten it?