This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
| identifier | question |
|---|---|
| 12914 | It is a matter of the imagination, and to the question"What is one to read?" |
| 30419 | Hampshire: Bibliotheca Hantoniensis, H.M. Gilbert, 1872?" |
| 30419 | Is the librarian''s valuable time well occupied by looking after cheap copies of books? |
| 30419 | Many special points arise for consideration when we deal with the question-- How to buy at sales? |
| 30419 | The first publication was"What is an Index?" |
| 30419 | What can be said of the libraries of the Duke of Roxburghe, Earl Spencer, Thomas Grenville, and Richard Heber that has not been said often before? |
| 30419 | Why does he not burn half? |
| 30419 | Will not such action prevent the publication of excellent books on subjects little likely to be popular? |
| 30419 | and can he want to keep them all?" |
| 30419 | why, how can he so encumber himself? |
| 42877 | How shall the world be served? |
| 42877 | *****----Quorsum hæc tam putida tendunt, Furcifer? |
| 42877 | Are not these things in our time what Drake and Spanish gold and Virginia, what Clive and the Indies, were to other centuries? |
| 42877 | But who else of famous authors is greater in his life than in his book? |
| 42877 | Did he write hymns, for piety and wit, Equal to those great grave Prudentius writ? |
| 42877 | Did he-- I fear Envy will doubt-- these at his twentieth year? |
| 42877 | Did his youth scatter poetry wherein Lay Love''s philosophy? |
| 42877 | HUTTON APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA: BEING= A Reply to a Pamphlet= ENTITLED"WHAT, THEN, DOES DR. NEWMAN MEAN?" |
| 42877 | In the literature of knowledge, what branch is unfruitful, and in the literature of power, what fountainhead is unstruck by the rod? |
| 42877 | Shakespeare and Milton-- what third blazoned name Shall lips of after- ages link to these? |
| 42877 | The Greeks conquered Rome, men say, through the mind; and Rome conquered the barbarians through the mind; but in Gibbon who finds Greece? |
| 42877 | What strain was his in that Crimean war? |
| 42877 | Whence is its germinating power,--what is this genius of the English? |
| 37795 | Do you want to know how I manage to talk to you in this simple Saxon? 37795 Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? |
| 37795 | Is it not a new England for a child to be born in since Shakspeare gathered up the centuries and told the story of humanity up to his time? 37795 What is a great love of books? |
| 37795 | Do you suppose when you see men engaged in study that they dislike it? |
| 37795 | Has it been superseded by a later book, or has its truth passed into the every- day life of the race? |
| 37795 | Is it within my grasp? |
| 37795 | Is the author such a man as I would wish to be the companion of my heart, or such as I must study to avoid? |
| 37795 | Is the book simple enough for me? |
| 37795 | Is the matter inviting my attention of permanent value? |
| 37795 | That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time?... |
| 37795 | V. Will the book impart a pleasure in the very reading? |
| 37795 | What effect will it have upon character? |
| 37795 | What effect will the book produce upon the mind? |
| 37795 | What is the relation of the book to the completeness of my development? |
| 37795 | What will be the effect on my skills and accomplishments? |
| 37795 | When did a thing such as that ever happen? |
| 37795 | Will it exercise and strengthen my fancy, imagination, memory, invention, originality, insight, breadth, common- sense, and philosophic power? |
| 37795 | Will it fill a gap in the walls of my building? |
| 37795 | Will it give me a knowledge of what other people are thinking and feeling, thus opening the avenues of communication between my life and theirs? |
| 37795 | Will it give me the quality of intellectual beauty? |
| 37795 | Will it help to build a standard of taste in literature for the guidance of myself and others? |
| 37795 | Will it make me bright, witty, reasonable, and tolerant? |
| 37795 | Will it store my mind full of beautiful thoughts and images that will make my conversation a delight and profit to my friends? |
| 37795 | Will it supply a knowledge of the best means of attaining any other desired art or accomplishment? |
| 37795 | Will it teach me how to write with power, give me the art of thinking clearly and expressing my thought with force and attractiveness? |
| 37795 | _ Do they live?_ If so, believe me, TIME hath made them pure. |
| 21869 | What have our literary critics been about that they have suffered such a writer to drop into neglect and oblivion? |
| 21869 | What have your parents against me? |
| 21869 | Am I damned?" |
| 21869 | And what shall we say of Helen von Donniges? |
| 21869 | And what was I myself? |
| 21869 | Are there in the English language, including translations, a hundred books that stand the test as_ Hamlet_ stands it? |
| 21869 | At such times nobody asks,"Pray, friend, whom do you hear?" |
| 21869 | Did not The Babes in the Wood come out of Norfolk? |
| 21869 | Do you betray me? |
| 21869 | Do you destroy me? |
| 21869 | Had she a friend in the neighbourhood? |
| 21869 | Have you not by your own lips and by your letters, sworn to me the most sacred oaths? |
| 21869 | Have you not filled me with a longing to possess you? |
| 21869 | Have you not implored me to exhaust all proper measures, before carrying you away from Wabern? |
| 21869 | His pathos, his humanity-- many fine qualities he has in common with others; but what shall we say of his humour? |
| 21869 | How many memorials has Norwich to the people connected with its literary or artistic fame? |
| 21869 | I could thresh his old jacket till I made his pension jingle in his pocket!"? |
| 21869 | I have said that Captain Marryat was an East Anglian, and have we not a right to be proud of Marryat''s breezy stories of the sea? |
| 21869 | It sounds like rank blasphemy to question it, but what is poetry? |
| 21869 | Of how many books can this be said? |
| 21869 | To what friend could he take her? |
| 21869 | Was his Jewish faith against him in her eyes? |
| 21869 | Were they poets at all-- those earlier eighteenth century writers? |
| 21869 | What can I possibly say that has not already been said by one or other of the Brethren? |
| 21869 | What does it amount to? |
| 21869 | What does that matter? |
| 21869 | What is the''it''that is unrevealed by the courteous Dr. Knapp? |
| 21869 | What makes an author supremely great? |
| 21869 | What then do we know of Johnson''s father from the ordinary sources? |
| 21869 | What then will Norwich do for George Borrow? |
| 21869 | Where are your means of subsistence? |
| 21869 | Who are our greatest letter writers? |
| 21869 | Who would for a moment wish to disparage St. Bonaventure, the Seraphic Doctor, or Aquinas the Angelic? |
| 21869 | Why had she not obeyed him? |
| 21869 | or"What do you think of the five points?" |
| 21869 | { 278b}"What is the best book you have ever read?" |
| 13852 | And what,you demand,"should that guiding principle be?" |
| 13852 | And could one exclude Sir Isaac Newton''s_ Principia_, the masterpiece of the greatest physicist that the world has ever seen? |
| 13852 | And now I seem to hear you say,"But what about Lamb''s famous literary style? |
| 13852 | But amid all this steady tapping of the reservoir, do you ever take stock of what you have acquired? |
| 13852 | But does it live in the memory as one of the rare great Tennysonian lines? |
| 13852 | But in what imaginable circumstances can you say:"Yes, this idea is fine, but the style is not fine"? |
| 13852 | But they are all dead now, and whom have we to take their place?" |
| 13852 | But what do those people mean who say:"I read such and such an author for the beauty of his style alone"? |
| 13852 | But what does he polish up? |
| 13852 | But why ruin the scene by laughter? |
| 13852 | But why? |
| 13852 | By what light? |
| 13852 | Do you ever pause to make a valuation, in terms of your own life, of that which you are daily absorbing, or imagine you are absorbing? |
| 13852 | Do you suppose that if the fame of Shakespeare depended on the man in the street it would survive a fortnight? |
| 13852 | Do you suppose they could prove to the man in the street that Shakespeare was a great artist? |
| 13852 | Does the book seem to you to be sincere and true? |
| 13852 | Have I got to be learned, to undertake a vast course of study, in order to be perfectly mad about Wordsworth''s_ Prelude_? |
| 13852 | He seeks answers to the question What? |
| 13852 | How are you to arrive at the stage of caring for it? |
| 13852 | How can he effectively test, in cold blood, whether he is receiving from literature all that literature has to give him? |
| 13852 | How can he put a value on what he gets from books? |
| 13852 | How do I know? |
| 13852 | How do you know that his passions are strong? |
| 13852 | How often has it been said that Carlyle''s matter is marred by the harshness and the eccentricities of his style? |
| 13852 | How to cross it? |
| 13852 | How( you ask, unwillingly) can a man perform a mental stocktaking? |
| 13852 | How? |
| 13852 | In reading a book, a sincere questioning of oneself,"Is it true?" |
| 13852 | In the face of this one may ask: Why does the great and universal fame of classical authors continue? |
| 13852 | Is it a novel-- when did it help you to"understand all and forgive all"? |
| 13852 | Is it ethics-- when did it influence your conduct in a twopenny- halfpenny affair between man and man? |
| 13852 | Is it history-- when did it throw a light for you on modern politics? |
| 13852 | Is it nothing to you to learn to understand that the world is not a dull place? |
| 13852 | Is it poetry-- when was it a magnifying glass to disclose beauty to you, or a fire to warm your cooling faith? |
| 13852 | Is it science-- when did it show you order in apparent disorder, and help you to put two and two together into an inseparable four? |
| 13852 | Moreover, if the style is clumsy, are you sure that you can see what he means? |
| 13852 | Or am I born without the faculty of pure taste in literature, despite my vague longings? |
| 13852 | What are the qualities in a book which give keen and lasting pleasure to the passionate few? |
| 13852 | What causes the passionate few to make such a fuss about literature? |
| 13852 | What drives a historian to write history? |
| 13852 | What happens usually in such a case? |
| 13852 | Where does that come in?" |
| 13852 | Who will now proclaim the_ Idylls of the King_ as a masterpiece? |
| 13852 | Why am I not? |
| 13852 | Why does he affect you unpleasantly? |
| 13852 | Why is_ Dream Children_ a classic? |
| 13852 | Why? |
| 13852 | You think some of my instances approach the ludicrous? |
| 13852 | instead of to the question Why? |