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23547Why should n''t he?
34903Fine laces and jewels are allowed to be antique-- could not the circle of such things be a little broadened?
34903Has woman ever looked more supreme through all the centuries of extravagant styles and distortions?
42682Wh- what, mum?
42682What''s your real name? 42682 Why Wo n''t They Alter It?"
42682Is it Bill, or Tom, or Bob, or what is it?"
42682The first question which we will endeavour to answer is, Why are they there?
110788?
11078And do you remember the dramatic ending?
11078Did you ever observe, dear comrade, what an element of caricature lurks in clothes?
11078Have we not Lord Chesterfield''s word for it, that"No woman is ugly when she is dressed"?
11078How many women consider their backs when they dress?
11078How the smart one on the fatal day sought to"press the button"and finding it gone, lost his wits completely and failed ignominiously?
11078Many of us when we have lost a sustaining button, have we not felt as ridiculously helpless and wit- benumbed as the smart speller?
11078The lines of your form, the modelling of your face, are they not worthy of your discerning thought?
11078Who has not seen just such, or a similar sight, and laughed?
11078Why does she play so much with her back to the audience?
10940Am I not fit to be your master? 10940 And that one,"I asked,"with the large Milanese cap on his head, who holds an old book?"
10940Eh, but, my son,they said,"have you dispensation from fasting on a Friday?"
10940How did our fathers live?
10940Of what use are these cloaks?
10940That one,I replied,"and who has turned towards us?"
10940That one,he answered,"who is scratching the end of his nose with one hand and his beard with the other?"
10940What do you think of that?
10940What institutions had they? 10940 Whose garments are the more valuable and the more useful?
10940Can there be a greater_ miracle_ than is to be seen in this court, where the maimed walk upright?"
10940Can you not place before us their pastimes, their hunting parties, their meals, and all sorts of scenes, sad or gay, which composed their home life?
10940Frédégonde said one day to Rigouthe,''Why do you continually trouble me?
10940One respectable lady approached her and said,''My friend, what do you call that fashion?''
10940What were their political rights?
10940Where, then, did the gipsies obtain interpreters?
10940Who is there who could thoroughly describe or even appreciate all the happy or unhappy vicissitudes relating to the establishment of the Communes?
10940mine, for which I have only paid a sou( about twenty- two francs of present money), or yours, which have cost so much?"
10940they answered,"if He had appeared on earth should we still be miserable?"
10940what will the Duke Francis and his Bretons do?
21914Are you a woggle- bug?
21914Are you not afraid to kill me?
21914Could n''t they find a better king than you?
21914Dear me, what have we here?
21914How much do you pay these workmen?
21914Is n''t he just wonderful?
21914So you tank Ay I ban loavely?
21914Tell that to our king, and he''ll decorate you with the medal of the Omnipotent Order of Onerous Orthographers, Are you ready to meander?
21914Want your fortune told?
21914Was that your wife?
21914What do you mean by insulting my wife?
21914What''s in a name?
21914Why not?
21914Why should I be afraid?
21914Why?
21914Will you permit me to call upon you this evening?
21914And what does my dear boy want?"
21914But how, I wonder, do they manage to get it?"
21914Do n''t you know you''re mine?"
21914May I feel your exquisite texture, my dearest Fabric?"
21914Miss Chim, will you kindly get the gasoline can?
21914What do you wish, my darlings?"
21914Why should I not be happy and content?"
21914Woggle- Bug?"
21914exclaimed the King of the Jungle, in a querulous tone,"Is it an over- grown pinch- bug, or is it a kissing- bug?"
34092An infant with a waist"growing fine by degrees and beautifully less"!--was there ever such a deformity?
34092Are their figures better, their health stronger, for the compression of their tender bodies by stays?"
34092Are they less susceptible of cold than boys?
34092Instead of the beautiful, the graceful, and the becoming, what are the attractions offered by the dress makers?
34092Is it any wonder that persons so deformed should have bad health, or that they should produce unhealthy offspring?
34092Is it any wonder that so many young mothers should have to lament the loss of their first born?
34092Is it to display a beautiful neck and shoulders?
34092Is it to obtain the admiration of the other sex?
34092Is their circulation less languid, that their clothes are so much thinner?
34092Is there less skill and talent, less taste required to clothe the form which we are told is made after God''s own image, than to furnish an apartment?
34092What are the terms used to invite the notice of customers?
34092What reason can be assigned why a woman''s work, if equally well done, should not be as well paid as that of a man?
34092When will our people be able to show designs of such elegance?
34092Who could imagine that there would be an attempt to revive the hoop petticoat in the nineteenth century?
34092Why should not shoemakers be taught the shape and movements of the foot?
34092Yet is not dress an art- manufacture as well as a cup and saucer, or a teaboard?
34092_ Julia._ The blue one, sir?
53267O wha will shoe my fair foot, And wha will glove my han''? 53267 ''But why did you not complain to me at first?'' 53267 ''How could you be so foolish,''I exclaimed,''as to sacrifice your health for the sake of a fashionable figure?'' 53267 And now, sir, after this tedious account, what would you advise me to? 53267 And wha will lace my middle jimp Wi''a new- made London ban''?
53267But is this any reason or authority for concluding that every gentleman of taste is of a like opinion?
53267But what kind of stays were they which produced this result, and were no other causes discernible?
53267But who does not know that practice often belies theory, or that theory is frequently at fault?
53267Do we never hear of men dying suddenly, or fainting away from overheat?
53267Have you seen my body?"
53267If all that was said against the corset were true, how is it so many ladies live to an advanced age?
53267If the petticoats as well as the stays thus diminish, what shall we do, dear Mentor?
53267If, then, the wearer suffers, who is to blame but herself?
53267Is a small waist admired by the gentlemen?
53267Is it not natural that a young lady should be anxious to present a sylph- like form instead of appearing matronly?
53267Is there no way to be cleared of these malicious calumnies?
53267May I inquire what has become of your correspondent Mary Blackbraid?
53267What can Mr. Buckland, or any one not of the corset- wearing sex, know of the practical operation of this indispensable article of female attire?
53267What is beauty worth that makes the possessed thus unhappy?
53267What is the smallest- sized waist that one can have?
53267What right has any one to make these special attendants on small- waisted ladies?
53267What tho''like spires or pyramids they show, Sharp at the top, and vast of bulk below?
53267What young man cares to dance with girls who resemble casks in form?
53267Where the one begins and the other ends, who shall say?
53267Whither shall we direct our eyes?
53267Why was Nature so lavish of her gifts to me as to make her kindness prove a cruelty?
33020''A heart near the eye--_l''assassine_, eh?
33020''All''s Well that Ends Well'':''Why dost thou garter up thy arms o''this fashion?
33020''And how are we to know that all this is true?''
33020''And what,''says country dame to country dame lately from town--''what is the mode in gentlemen''s hair?''
33020''But you have seen the new hoop?''
33020''Hay yee any kitchen stuff, maids?''
33020''What will be the next wear?''
33020''Will you buy any straw?''
33020A message to whom?
33020All this, for what purpose?
33020And the second gentleman in green and red, with heels of red on his shoes?
33020And what are we doing to help modern history-- the picture of our own times-- that it may look beautiful in the ages to come?
33020And what had you in your mind''s eye when you wrote''liefer than a gown though it were of scarlet''?
33020But is it adornment?
33020Do I revile the time if I say that the men had an air, a certain supercilious air, of being dukes disguised as art students?
33020Does a great procession go by the window of your mind?
33020Dost make a hose of thy sleeves?''
33020From the splendid pageant of history what figures come to you most willingly?
33020High collar, low collar, short hair, long hair, boot, buskin, shoe-- who wore you first?
33020How did the gentle whispers of love ever penetrate those bosses of millinery?
33020How is a fashion born?
33020How, they and we ask, are breeches, and slop- hose cut in panes, to be lined?
33020I wonder did they drink it all themselves?
33020Must I wear a_ galante_ on my cheek, an_ enjouée_ in my dimple, or_ la majestueuse_ on my forehead?''
33020Need one say more?
33020Or a star near the lips--_la friponne_?
33020Shall we imagine that it is night, and that the lady is going to bed?
33020Should I write''The Ladies''?
33020THE WOMEN''What fashion will make a woman have the best body, tailor?''
33020That lucky sixpence with the hole in it that you gave to a cabman, Beau Brummell, was that loss the commencement of your downward career?
33020The Carpenter in''Julius Cæsar''is asked:''Where is thy leather apron and thy rule?''
33020The first, whose clothes are of white silk sewn with red and blue, whose trunk hose have clocks of silk sewn on them, reminds us of whom?
33020The sporting man had his own idea of dress, even as to- day he has a piquant idea in clothes, and who shall say he has not the right?
33020Was history ever better dressed?
33020Where,''they ask,''are the venerable anecdotes which are given a place in every respectable work on your subject?''
33020Who last condemned you to the World''s Great Rag Market of Forgotten Fads?
33020Who mothers it?
33020Who nurses it to fame, and in whose arms does it die?
33020Who would suspect it?
33020Will ye buy any new brooms?''
33020how did you ever hear the soft speeches of gallantry?
1051''But is it not the deepest Law of Nature that she be constant?'' 1051 ''But is not a real Miracle simply a violation of the Laws of Nature?''
1051Again, could anything be more miraculous than an actual authentic Ghost? 1051 And yet, O Man born of Woman,"cries the Autobiographer, with one of his sudden whirls,"wherein is my case peculiar?
1051But if such things,continues he,"were done in the dry tree, what will be done in the green?
1051But thou as yet standest in no Temple; joinest in no Psalm- worship; feelest well that, where there is no ministering Priest, the people perish? 1051 But what boots it(_ was thut''s_)?"
1051Do we not see a little subdivision of the grand Utilitarian Armament come to light even in insulated England? 1051 For whether thou bear a sceptre or a sledge- hammer, art not thou ALIVE; is not this thy brother ALIVE?
1051Great practical method and expertnesshe may brag of; but is there not also great practical pride, though deep- hidden, only the deeper- seated?
1051How I lived?
1051I asked myself: What is this that, ever since earliest years, thou hast been fretting and fuming, and lamenting and self- tormenting, on account of? 1051 Meanwhile what are antiquated Mythuses to me?
1051Nevertheless, need I put the question to any Physiologist, whether it is disputable or not? 1051 Of great Scenes why speak?
1051Or thinkest thou it were impossible, unimaginable? 1051 Shall we tremble before clothwebs and cobwebs, whether woven in Arkwright looms, or by the silent Arachnes that weave unrestingly in our Imagination?
1051The Soul Politic having departed,says Teufelsdrockh,"what can follow but that the Body Politic be decently interred, to avoid putrescence?
1051To the eye of vulgar Logic,says he,"what is man?
1051Were it not wonderful, for instance, had Orpheus, or Amphion, built the walls of Thebes by the mere sound of his Lyre? 1051 What, for example,"says he,"is the universally arrogated Virtue, almost the sole remaining Catholic Virtue, of these days?
1051What, speaking in quite unofficial language, is the net purport and upshot of war? 1051 Who am I; what is this ME?
1051& c.& c. Or again, has it often been the lot of our readers to read such stuff as we shall now quote?
1051''She looks on thee,''cried he:''she the fairest, noblest; do not her dark eyes tell thee, thou art not despised?
1051A Voice, a Motion, an Appearance;--some embodied, visualized Idea in the Eternal Mind?
1051A man that devotes his life to learning, shall he not be learned?
1051A new Adamite, in this century, which flatters itself that it is the Nineteenth, and destructive both to Superstition and Enthusiasm?
1051Again, leaving that wondrous Schwarzwald Smithy- Altar, what vacant, high- sailing air- ships are these, and whither will they sail with us?
1051Again, what Cookery does the Greenlander use, beyond stowing up his whale- blubber, as a marmot, in the like case, might do?
1051Again, what may the unchristian rather than Christian''Diogenes''mean?
1051Again,_ Nothing can act but where it is_: with all my heart; only, WHERE is it?
1051Alas, the fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself; and how could I believe?
1051Am I a botched mass of tailors''and cobblers''shreds, then; or a tightly articulated, homogeneous little Figure, automatic, nay alive?
1051Am I to view the Stupendous with stupid indifference, because I have seen it twice, or two hundred, or two million times?
1051An unmetaphorical style you shall in vain seek for: is not your very_ Attention_ a_ Stretching- to_?
1051And knowest thou no Prophet, even in the vesture, environment, and dialect of this age?
1051And now does the spiritual, eternal Essence of Man, and of Mankind, bared of such wrappages, begin in any measure to reveal itself?
1051And now of you, too, I make the old inquiry: What those same unalterable rules, forming the complete Statute- Book of Nature, may possibly be?
1051And now, for all this perennial Martyrdom, and Poesy, and even Prophecy, what is it that the Dandy asks in return?
1051And then?
1051And yet why is the thing impossible?
1051And yet, thou brave Teufelsdrockh, who could tell what lurked in thee?
1051Are not our Bodies and our Souls in continual movement, whether we will or not; in a continual Waste, requiring a continual Repair?
1051Are they not Souls rendered visible: in Bodies, that took shape and will lose it, melting into air?
1051Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility?
1051Are we returning, as Rousseau prayed, to the state of Nature?
1051Art not thou the''Living Garment of God''?
1051Art thou not tried, and beaten with stripes, even as I am?
1051Art thou the malignest of Sansculottists, or only the maddest?
1051At a small cost men are educated to make leather into shoes; but at a great cost, what am I educated to make?
1051Because the THOU( sweet gentleman) is not sufficiently honored, nourished, soft- bedded, and lovingly cared for?
1051Besides, of what profit were it?
1051Bright, nimble creatures, who taught you the mason- craft; nay, stranger still, gave you a masonic incorporation, almost social police?
1051But how came"the Wanderer"into her circle?
1051But is not this same looking through the Shows, or Vestures, into the Things, even the first preliminary to a_ Philosophy of Clothes_?
1051But nobler than all in this kind are the Lives of heroic god- inspired Men; for what other Work of Art is so divine?
1051But what does the writer mean by''Baphometic fire- baptism''?
1051But what next?
1051But what of the awe- struck Wakeful who find it a Reality?
1051But what then?
1051But what then?
1051But what was her surname, or had she none?
1051But whence?--O Heaven whither?
1051But why,"says the Hofrath, and indeed say we,"do I dilate on the uses of our Teufelsdrockh''s Biography?
1051But, alas, what vehicle of that sort have we, except_ Fraser''s Magazine_?
1051By way of proem, take the following not injudicious remarks:--"The benignant efficacies of Concealment,"cries our Professor,"who shall speak or sing?
1051By which last wire- drawn similitude does Teufelsdrockh mean no more than that young men find obstacles in what we call"getting under way"?
1051Can I choose my own King?
1051Can a Tartar be said to cook, when he only readies his steak by riding on it?
1051Can any Sovereign, or Holy Alliance of Sovereigns, bid Time stand still; even in thought, shake themselves free of Time?
1051Can he not arrest for debt?
1051Come there not tones of Love and Faith, as from celestial harp- strings, like the Song of beatified Souls?
1051Could she have driven so much as a brass- bound Gig, or even a simple iron- spring one?
1051Death?
1051Did he never stand so much as a contested Election?
1051Did not the Boy Alexander weep because he had not two Planets to conquer; or a whole Solar System; or after that, a whole Universe?
1051Did that reverend Basket- bearer intend, by such designation, to shadow forth my future destiny, or his own present malign humor?
1051Do our readers discern any such corner- stone, or even so much as what Teufelsdrockh, is looking at?
1051Does Legion still lurk in him, though repressed; or has he exorcised that Devil''s Brood?
1051Does any reader"in the interior parts of England"know of such a man?
1051Does not the following glimpse exhibit him in a much more natural state?
1051Dost thou, does man, so much as well know the Alphabet thereof?
1051Doth not thy cow calve, doth not thy bull gender?
1051For Matter, were it never so despicable, is Spirit, the manifestation of Spirit: were it never so honorable, can it be more?
1051For have not I too a compact all- enclosing Skin, whiter or dingier?
1051For is not a Symbol ever, to him who has eyes for it, some dimmer or clearer revelation of the Godlike?
1051For what is it properly but an Altercation with the Devil, before you begin honestly Fighting him?
1051For which reason it was to be altered, not without underhand satire, into a plainer Symbol?
1051For which, as for other mercies, ought not he to thank the Upper Powers?
1051From which is it not clear that the internal Satanic School was still active enough?
1051Had Teufelsdrockh also a father and mother; did he, at one time, wear drivel- bibs, and live on spoon- meat?
1051Had not my first, last Faith in myself, when even to me the Heavens seemed laid open, and I dared to love, been all too cruelly belied?
1051Had these men any quarrel?
1051Hadst thou not Greek enough to understand thus much:_ The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought_, though it were the noblest?
1051Hadst thou, any more than I, a Father whom thou knowest?
1051Hast thou not a Brain, furnished, furnishable with some glimmerings of Light; and three fingers to hold a Pen withal?
1051Hast thou well considered all that lies in this immeasurable froth- ocean we name LITERATURE?
1051Have any deepest scientific individuals yet dived down to the foundations of the Universe, and gauged everything there?
1051Have we not seen him disappointed, bemocked of Destiny, through long years?
1051He can say to himself:"Tools?
1051He exclaims,"Or hast thou forgotten Paris and Voltaire?
1051Hear in what earnest though fantastic wise he expresses himself on this head:--"Shall Courtesy be done only to the rich, and only by the rich?
1051Here, looking round, as was our hest, for"organic filaments,"we ask, may not this, touching"Hero- worship,"be of the number?
1051How came it that the Wanderer advanced thither with such forecasting heart(_ ahndungsvoll_), by the side of his gay host?
1051How came it to evaporate, and not lie motionless?
1051How from such inorganic masses, henceforth madder than ever, as lie in these Bags, can even fragments of a living delineation be organized?
1051How happens it that no intelligence about the matter has come out directly to this country?
1051How is this; or what make ye of your_ Nothing can act but where it is_?
1051How shall_ he_ give kindling, in whose own inward man there is no live coal, but all is burnt out to a dead grammatical cinder?
1051How then could I believe in my Strength, when there was as yet no mirror to see it in?
1051How then?
1051How thou fermentest and elaboratest, in thy great fermenting- vat and laboratory of an Atmosphere, of a World, O Nature!--Or what is Nature?
1051How?
1051However, that is not our chief grievance; the Professor continues:--"Why multiply instances?
1051I said that Imagination wove this Flesh- Garment; and does not she?
1051If he loved his Disenchantress?
1051If it prove otherwise, why should he murmur?
1051If our era is the Era of Unbelief, why murmur under it; is there not a better coming, nay come?
1051If so, what are those_ Prize- Questions_; what are the terms of Competition, and when and where?
1051In Death too, in the Death of the Just, as the last perfection of a Work of Art, may we not discern symbolic meaning?
1051In Pagan countries, can not one write Fetishes?
1051In all that respects openness of Sense, affectionate Temper, ingenuous Curiosity, and the fostering of these, what more could I have wished?
1051In like manner, ask me not, Where are the LAWS; where is the GOVERNMENT?
1051In which country, in which time, was it hitherto that man''s history, or the history of any man, went on by calculated or calculable''Motives''?
1051In which words, indicating a total estrangement on the part of Teufelsdrockh may there not also lurk traces of a bitterness as from wounded vanity?
1051Increased Security and pleasurable Heat soon followed: but what of these?
1051Independence, in all kinds, is rebellion; if unjust rebellion, why parade it, and everywhere prescribe it?"
1051Is he not in most countries a taxpaying animal?
1051Is it by short clothes of yellow serge, and swineherd horns, that an infant of genius is educated?
1051Is it of a truth leading us into beatific Asphodel meadows, or the yellow- burning marl of a Hell- on- Earth?
1051Is not God''s Universe a Symbol of the Godlike; is not Immensity a Temple; is not Man''s History, and Men''s History, a perpetual Evangel?
1051Is not Shame(_ Schaam_) the soil of all Virtue, of all good manners and good morals?
1051Is not he a Temple, then; the visible Manifestation and Impersonation of the Divinity?
1051Is not such a prize worth some striving?
1051Is that a real Elysian brightness, cries many a timid wayfarer, or the reflex of Pandemonian lava?
1051Is that a wonder, which happens in two hours; and does it cease to be wonderful if happening in two million?
1051Is the Past annihilated, then, or only past; is the Future non- extant, or only future?
1051Is the heroic inspiration we name Virtue but some Passion; some bubble of the blood, bubbling in the direction others_ profit_ by?
1051Is the pitifullest mortal Person, think you, indifferent to us?
1051Knowest thou none such?
1051Knowest thou that''_ Worship of Sorrow_''?
1051Let the Philosopher answer this one question: What figure, at that period, was a Mrs. Teufelsdrockh likely to make in polished society?
1051Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?
1051Man is called a Laughing Animal: but do not the apes also laugh, or attempt to do it; and is the manliest man the greatest and oftenest laugher?
1051Meanwhile, for Andreas and his wife, the grand practical problem was: What to do with this little sleeping red- colored Infant?
1051Meanwhile, the question of questions were: What specially is a Miracle?
1051Meanwhile, what portion of this inconsiderable terraqueous Globe have ye actually tilled and delved, till it will grow no more?
1051Namely, that while the Beacon- fire blazed its brightest, the Watchman had quitted it; that no pilgrim could now ask him: Watchman, what of the Night?
1051Names?
1051Nay, even for the basest Sensualist, what is Sense but the implement of Fantasy; the vessel it drinks out of?
1051Nay, has not perhaps the Motive- grinder himself been in_ Love_?
1051Nay, in any case, would Criticism erect not only finger- posts and turnpikes, but spiked gates and impassable barriers, for the mind of man?
1051Nevertheless, wayward as our Professor shows himself, is there any reader that can part with him in declared enmity?
1051Nevertheless, which of the two was the more cunningly devised article, even as an Engine?
1051O Heavens, is it, in very deed, HE, then, that ever speaks through thee; that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?
1051Of what station in Life was she; of what parentage, fortune, aspect?
1051Once more I say, sweep away the illusion of Time; compress the threescore years into three minutes: what else was he, what else are we?
1051Only a torch for burning, no hammer for building?
1051Or even where is the use of such practical reflections as the following?
1051Or has the Professor his own deeper intention; and laughs in his sleeve at our strictures and glosses, which indeed are but a part thereof?
1051Or hast thou forgotten the day when thou first receivedst breeches, and thy long clothes became short?
1051Or how, without Clothes, could we possess the master- organ, soul''s seat, and true pineal gland of the Body Social: I mean, a PURSE?"
1051Or is the God present, felt in my own heart, a thing which Herr von Voltaire will dispute out of me; or dispute into me?
1051Or is this merely one of his half- sophisms, half- truisms, which if he can but set on the back of a Figure, he cares not whither it gallop?
1051Or was there something of intended satire; is the Professor and Seer not quite the blinkard he affects to be?
1051Or, cries the courteous reader, has your Teufelsdrockh forgotten what he said lately about"Aboriginal Savages,"and their"condition miserable indeed"?
1051Or, on the other hand, what is there that we can not love; since all was created by God?
1051Perhaps also in the following; wherewith we now hasten to knit up this ravelled sleeve:--"But there is no Religion?"
1051Plummet''s?
1051Remarkable, moreover, is this saying of his:"How were Friendship possible?
1051Rest?
1051Said I not, Before the old skin was shed, the new had formed itself beneath it?"
1051Say it in a word: is it not because thou art not HAPPY?
1051Seems it not at least presumable, that, under his Clothes, the Tailor has bones and viscera, and other muscles than the sartorius?
1051Seldom reflecting that still the new question comes upon us: What is Madness, what are Nerves?
1051Shall I not have all Eternity to rest in?''
1051Some one''s doing, it without doubt was; from some Idea, in some single Head, it did first of all take beginning: why not from some Idea in mine?"
1051Spake we not of a Communion of Saints, unseen, yet not unreal, accompanying and brother- like embracing thee, so thou be worthy?
1051Stands he not thereby in the centre of Immensities, in the conflux of Eternities?
1051Sure enough, I am; and lately was not: but Whence?
1051Than which paragraph on Metaphors did the reader ever chance to see a more surprisingly metaphorical?
1051That living flood, pouring through these streets, of all qualities and ages, knowest thou whence it is coming, whither it is going?
1051The Overseer(_ Episcopus_) of Souls, I notice, has tucked in the corner of it, as if his day''s work were done: what does he shadow forth thereby?"
1051The first ground handful of Nitre, Sulphur, and Charcoal drove Monk Schwartz''s pestle through the ceiling: what will the last do?
1051The stirring of a child''s finger brings the two together; and then-- What then?
1051The thunder- struck Air- sailor is not wanting to himself in this dread hour: but what avails it?
1051The voice of Prophecy has gone dumb?
1051The withered leaf is not dead and lost, there are Forces in it and around it, though working in inverse order; else how could it rot?
1051Then, have we not a Doctrine of Rent, a Theory of Value; Philosophies of Language, of History, of Pottery, of Apparitions, of Intoxicating Liquors?
1051There are not wanting men who will answer: Does your Professor take us for simpletons?
1051Therefrom he preaches what most momentous doctrine is in him, for man''s salvation; and dost not thou listen, and believe?
1051These Limbs, whence had we them; this stormy Force; this life- blood with its burning Passion?
1051These are Apparitions: what else?
1051Thinkest thou there is aught motionless; without Force, and utterly dead?
1051This is even what I dispute: but in any case, hast thou not still Preaching enough?
1051Thou art still Nothing, Nobody: true; but who, then, is Something, Somebody?
1051Thou foolish Teufelsdrockh How could it else?
1051Thou foolish"absolved Auscultator,"before whom lies no prospect of capital, will any yet known"religion of young hearts"keep the human kitchen warm?
1051Thou hast no Tools?
1051Thou thyself, wert thou not born, wilt thou not die?
1051Thus has not the Editor himself, working over Teufelsdrockh''s German, lost much of his own English purity?
1051Thus, were it not miraculous, could I stretch forth my hand and clutch the Sun?
1051Thy very Hatred, thy very Envy, those foolish Lies thou tellest of me in thy splenetic humor: what is all this but an inverted Sympathy?
1051To the eye of Pure Reason what is he?
1051To the''_ Worship of Sorrow_''ascribe what origin and genesis thou pleasest,_ has_ not that Worship originated, and been generated; is it not_ here_?
1051Unhappy Teufelsdrockh, had man ever such a"physical or psychical infirmity"before?
1051Want, want!--Ha, of what?
1051Was Luther''s Picture of the Devil less a Reality, whether it were formed within the bodily eye, or without it?
1051Was Teufelsdrockh also a fringe, of lace or cobweb; or promising to be such?
1051Was her real name Flora, then?
1051Was it by the humid vehicle of_ AEsthetic Tea_, or by the arid one of mere Business?
1051Was it not the still higher Orpheus, or Orpheuses, who, in past centuries, by the divine Music of Wisdom, succeeded in civilizing Man?
1051Was she not to him in very deed a Morning- star; did not her presence bring with it airs from Heaven?
1051Was the attraction, the agitation mutual, then; pole and pole trembling towards contact, when once brought into neighborhood?
1051Was there so much as a fault, a''caprice,''he could have dispensed with?
1051We ask in turn: Why perplex these times, profane as they are, with needless obscurity, by omission and by commission?
1051We figure to ourselves, how in those days he may have played strange freaks with his independence, and so forth: do not his own words betoken as much?
1051Were I a Steam- engine, wouldst thou take the trouble to tell lies of me?
1051Were thy three broad Highways, meeting here from the ends of Europe, made for Ammunition- wagons, then?
1051What Act of Legislature was there that_ thou_ shouldst be Happy?
1051What English intellect could have chosen such a topic, or by chance stumbled on it?
1051What are all your national Wars, with their Moscow Retreats, and sanguinary hate- filled Revolutions, but the Somnambulism of uneasy Sleepers?
1051What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms?
1051What argument will avail?
1051What cares the world for our as yet miniature Philosopher''s achievements under that"brave old Linden"?
1051What henceforth becomes of the brave Herr Towgood, or Toughgut?
1051What is the use of health, or of life, if not to do some work therewith?
1051What make ye of your Christianities, and Chivalries, and Reformations, and Marseillaise Hymns, and Reigns of Terror?
1051What then?
1051What, for example, are we to make of such sentences as the following?
1051What, for instance, was in that clouted Shoe, which the Peasants bore aloft with them as ensign in their_ Bauernkrieg_( Peasants''War)?
1051What, then, was our Professor''s possession?
1051Whence, then, their so unspeakable difference?
1051Where, then, is that same cunningly devised almighty GOVERNMENT of theirs to be laid hands on?
1051Wherefore, like a coward, dost thou forever pip and whimper, and go cowering and trembling?
1051Wherein consists the usefulness of this Apron?
1051Whereto?
1051Whereupon the Professor publishes this reflection:--"By what strange chances do we live in History?
1051Which function of manhood is the Tailor not conjectured to perform?
1051Whither should I go?
1051Who can refrain from a smile at the yoking together of such a pair of appellatives as Diogenes Teufelsdrockh?
1051Who ever saw any Lord my- lorded in tattered blanket fastened with wooden skewer?
1051Who is there now that can read the five columns of Presentations in his Morning Newspaper without a shudder?
1051Whom I answer by this new question: What are the Laws of Nature?
1051Why can not he lay aside his pedantry, and write so as to make himself generally intelligible?
1051Why mention our disquisitions on the Social Contract, on the Standard of Taste, on the Migrations of the Herring?
1051Why not; what binds me here?
1051Why of Shakspeare, in his_ Taming of the Shrew_, and elsewhere?
1051Why should I speak of Hans Sachs( himself a Shoemaker, or kind of Leather- Tailor), with his_ Schneider mit dem Panier_?
1051Why was the Living banished thither companionless, conscious?
1051Why, if there is no Devil; nay, unless the Devil is your God?"
1051Will Majesty lay aside its robes of state, and Beauty its frills and train- gowns, for a second skin of tanned hide?
1051Will all the shoe- wages under the Moon ferry me across into that far Land of Light?
1051Will the whole Finance Ministers and Upholsterers and Confectioners of modern Europe undertake, in joint- stock company, to make one Shoeblack HAPPY?
1051Wilt thou know a Man, above all a Mankind, by stringing together bead- rolls of what thou namest Facts?
1051Would he have all this unsaid; and us betake ourselves again to the"matted cloak,"and go sheeted in a"thick natural fell"?
1051Writings of mine, not indeed known as mine( for what am I?
1051Yes, long ago has many a British Reader been, as now, demanding with something like a snarl: Whereto does all this lead; or what use is in it?
1051_ Is_ the work a translation?"
1051_ Wo steckt doch der Schalk_?
1051a little while ago, and he was yet in all darkness: him what Graceful(_ Holde_) would ever love?
1051and calls it Peace, because, in the cut- purse and cut- throat Scramble, no steel knives, but only a far cunninger sort, can be employed?
1051cries an illuminated class:''Is not the Machine of the Universe fixed to move by unalterable rules?''
1051exclaims Teufelsdrockh,"Have we not all to be tried with such?
1051how could he hope it; should he not have died under it?
1051how did he comport himself when in Love?
1051how should they so much as once meet together?
1051thou hast no faculty in that kind?
1051what are these to Clothes and the Tailor''s Goose?
1051what is the sum- total of the worst that lies before thee?
1051what is this paltry little Dog- cage of an Earth; what art thou that sittest whining there?
1051why do I not name thee GOD?
1051why journeyest thou wearisomely, in thy antiquarian fervor, to gaze on the stone pyramids of Geeza, or the clay ones of Sacchara?
20585Have you hope?
20585She looks on thee,cried he:"she the fairest, noblest; do not her dark eyes tell thee, thou art not despised?
20585To which of these Three Religions do you specially adhere?
20585What do I see?
20585Which is the great secret?
20585Why talk and complain; above all, why quarrel with one another? 20585 Wuotan?"
20585& c.& c. Or again, has it often been the lot of our readers to read such stuff as we shall now quote?
20585''"But is it not the deepest Law of Nature that she be constant?"
20585''"But is not a real Miracle simply a violation of the Laws of Nature?"
20585''Again, could anything be more miraculous than an actual authentic Ghost?
20585''And yet, O Man born of Woman,''cries the Autobiographer, with one of his sudden whirls,''wherein is my case peculiar?
20585''But if such things,''continues he,''were done in the dry tree, what will be done in the green?
20585''But thou as yet standest in no Temple; joinest in no Psalm- worship; feelest well that, where there is no ministering Priest, the people perish?
20585''But what boots it(_ was thut''s_)?''
20585''Detect quacks''?
20585''Do we not see a little subdivision of the grand Utilitarian Armament come to light even in insulated England?
20585''For whether thou bear a sceptre or a sledgehammer, art thou not ALIVE; is not this thy brother ALIVE?
20585''Gain influence''?
20585''Great practical method and expertness''he may brag of; but is there not also great practical pride, though deep- hidden, only the deeper- seated?
20585''How I lived?''
20585''Hypocrisy''?
20585''I asked myself: What is this that, ever since earliest years, thou hast been fretting and fuming, and lamenting and self- tormenting, on account of?
20585''Is not Belief the true god- announcing Miracle?''
20585''Meanwhile what are antiquated Mythuses to me?
20585''Nevertheless, need I put the question to any Physiologist, whether it is disputable or not?
20585''Of great Scenes why speak?
20585''Or thinkest thou it were impossible, unimaginable?
20585''There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has Force in it: how else could it rot?''
20585''To the eye of vulgar Logic,''says he,''what is man?
20585''Were it not wonderful, for instance, had Orpheus, or Amphion, built the walls of Thebes by the mere sound of his Lyre?
20585''What, for example,''says he,''is the universally- arrogated Virtue, almost the sole remaining Catholic Virtue, of these days?
20585''What, speaking in quite unofficial language, is the net- purport and upshot of war?
20585''Who am I; what is this ME?
20585--He went out for the last time into the mosque, two days before his death; asked, If he had injured any man?
20585A Voice, a Motion, an Appearance;--some embodied, visualised Idea in the Eternal Mind?
20585A false man found a religion?
20585A humble, solitary man, why should he at all meddle with the world?
20585A man embraces truth with his eyes open, and because his eyes are open: does he need to shut them before he can love his Teacher of truth?
20585A man that devotes his life to learning, shall he not be learned?
20585A mean man he, how shall he reform a world?
20585A new Adamite, in this century, which flatters itself that it is the Nineteenth, and destructive both to Superstition and Enthusiasm?
20585A_ great_ man?
20585Accordingly all persons, from the Queen Antoinette to the Douanier at the Porte St. Denis, do they not worship him?
20585Again Thor struck, so soon as Skrymir again slept; a better blow than before: but the Giant only murmured, Was that a grain of sand?
20585Again, leaving that wondrous Schwarzwald Smithy- Altar, what vacant, high- sailing air- ships are these, and whither will they sail with us?
20585Again, what Cookery does the Greenlander use, beyond stowing- up his whale- blubber, as a marmot, in the like case, might do?
20585Again, what may the unchristian rather than Christian"Diogenes"mean?
20585Again,_ Nothing can act but where it is_: with all my heart; only, WHERE is it?
20585Ah, does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?
20585Alas, is not this the history of all highest Truth that comes or ever came into the world?
20585Alas, was not his doom stern enough?
20585Alas, yes;--but as Cato said of the statue: So many statues in that Forum of yours, may it not be better if they ask, Where is Cato''s statue?"
20585All crowns and sovereignties whatsoever, where would_ they_ in a few brief years be?
20585Am I a botched mass of tailors''and cobblers''shreds, then; or a tightly- articulated, homogeneous little Figure, automatic, nay alive?
20585Am I to view the Stupendous with stupid indifference, because I have seen it twice, or two- hundred, or two- million times?
20585An unmetaphorical style you shall in vain seek for: is not your very_ Attention_ a_ Stretching- to_?
20585And accordingly was there not what we can call a_ faith_ in him, genuine so far as it went?
20585And did he not interpret the dim purport of it well?
20585And if_ true_, was it not then the very thing to do?
20585And indeed may we not say that intellect altogether expresses itself in this power of discerning what an object is?
20585And knowest thou no Prophet, even in the vesture, environment, and dialect of this age?
20585And now does the Spiritual, eternal Essence of Man, and of Mankind, bared of such wrappages, begin in any measure to reveal itself?
20585And now in this sense, one may ask, Is not all worship whatsoever a worship by Symbols, by_ eidola_, or things seen?
20585And now of you, too, I make the old inquiry: What those same unalterable rules, forming the complete Statute- Book of Nature, may possibly be?
20585And now still, what hinders it from being the name of a Heroic Man and_ Mover_, as well as of a god?
20585And now, for all this perennial Martyrdom, and Poesy, and even Prophecy, what is it that the Dandy asks in return?
20585And then the''honour''?
20585And then?
20585And thereupon the unbelievers sneer and ask, Is this your man according to God''s own heart?
20585And we call it''dissimulation,''all this?
20585And what therefore is loyalty proper, the life- breath of all society, but an effluence of Hero- worship, submissive admiration for the truly great?
20585And who are you that prate of Constitutional Formulas, rights of Parliament?
20585And yet what were all Emperors, Popes and Potentates, in comparison?
20585And yet withal this hypochondria, what was it but the very greatness of the man?
20585And yet, thou brave Teufelsdröckh, who could tell what lurked in thee?
20585Answer it;_ thou_ must find an answer.--Ambition?
20585Are not all dialects''artificial''?
20585Are not our Bodies and our Souls in continual movement, whether we will or not; in a continual Waste, requiring a continual Repair?
20585Are not you yourselves there?
20585Are they base, miserable things?
20585Are they not Souls rendered visible: in Bodies, that took shape and will lose it, melting into air?
20585Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade- away again into air and Invisibility?
20585Are we returning, as Rousseau prayed, to the state of Nature?
20585Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the Almighty have lived by and died by?
20585Art not thou the"Living Garment of God"?
20585Art thou not tired, and beaten with stripes, even as I am?
20585Art thou the malignest of Sansculottists, or only the maddest?
20585As for the Old Woman, she was_ Time_, Old Age, Duration; with her what can wrestle?
20585Ask now, What Paganism could have been?
20585At a small cost men are educated to make leather into shoes; but at a great cost, what am I educated to make?
20585Ay, what?
20585Bad methods: but are they so much worse than our methods,--of understanding him to be always the eldest born of a certain genealogy?
20585Ballot- boxes, suffrages, French Revolutions:--if we are as Valets, and do not know the Hero when we see him, what good are all these?
20585Because the THOU( sweet gentleman) is not sufficiently honoured, nourished, soft- bedded, and lovingly cared for?
20585Begging is not in our course at the present time: but for the rest of it, who will say that a Johnson is not perhaps the better for being poor?
20585Besides, of what profit were it?
20585Bright, nimble creatures, who taught_ you_ the mason- craft; nay, stranger still, gave you a masonic incorporation, almost social police?
20585But alas, what help now?
20585But call it worship, call it what you will, is it not a right glorious thing, and set of things, this that Shakspeare has brought us?
20585But how came''the Wanderer''into her circle?
20585But how shall we blame_ him_ for struggling to realise it?
20585But how was this to be done?
20585But if you ask, Which is the worst?
20585But indeed that strange outbudding of our whole English Existence, which we call the Elizabethan Era, did not it too come as of its own accord?
20585But is not this same looking through the Shows, or Vestures, into the Things, even the first preliminary to a_ Philosophy of Clothes_?
20585But nobler than all in this kind, are the Lives of heroic god- inspired Men; for what other Work of Art is so divine?
20585But now, intrinsically, is not all this the inevitable fortune, not of a false man in such times, but simply of a superior man?
20585But what does the writer mean by''Baphometic fire- baptism''?
20585But what next?
20585But what of the awestruck Wakeful who find it a Reality?
20585But what then?
20585But what then?
20585But what was her surname, or had she none?
20585But whence?--O Heaven, whither?
20585But why,''says the Hofrath, and indeed say we,''do I dilate on the uses of our Teufelsdröckh''s Biography?
20585But would it be a kindness always, is it a duty always or often, to disturb them in that?
20585But, alas, what vehicle of that sort have we, except_ Fraser''s Magazine_?
20585By way of proem, take the following not injudicious remarks:''The benignant efficacies of Concealment,''cries our Professor,''who shall speak or sing?
20585By which last wiredrawn similitude does Teufelsdröckh mean no more than that young men find obstacles in what we call''getting under way''?
20585Can I choose my own King?
20585Can a Tartar be said to cook, when he only readies his steak by riding on it?
20585Can any Sovereign, or Holy Alliance of Sovereigns, bid Time stand still; even in thought, shake themselves free of Time?
20585Can he not arrest for debt?
20585Can not a man do without King''s Coaches and Cloaks?
20585Can not we conceive that Odin was a reality?
20585Can not we understand how these men_ worshipped_ Canopus; became what we call Sabeans, worshipping the stars?
20585Can the man say,_ Fiat lux_, Let there be light; and out of chaos make a world?
20585Can we not understand him?
20585Come there not tones of Love and Faith, as from celestial harp- strings, like the Song of beautified Souls?
20585Compared with any speaker or singer one knows, even with Æschylus or Homer, why should he not, for veracity and universality, last like them?
20585Could she have driven so much as a brass- bound Gig, or even a simple iron- spring one?
20585Creative, we said: poetic creation, what is this too but_ seeing_ the thing sufficiently?
20585Death?
20585Did Hero- worship fail in Knox''s case?
20585Did he never stand so much as a contested Election?
20585Did he not, in spite of all, accomplish much for us?
20585Did not the Boy Alexander weep because he had not two Planets to conquer; or a whole Solar System; or after that, a whole Universe?
20585Did that reverend Basket- bearer intend, by such designation, to shadow- forth my future destiny, or his own present malign humour?
20585Did the Westminster Confession of Faith add some new property to the soul of man?
20585Do not Books still accomplish_ miracles_ as_ Runes_ were fabled to do?
20585Do not we feel it so?
20585Do our readers discern any such corner- stone, or even so much as what Teufelsdröckh is looking at?
20585Do we not see well enough how the Fable might arise, without unveracity on the part of any one?
20585Does Legion still lurk in him, though repressed; or has he exorcised that Devil''s Brood?
20585Does any reader''in the interior parts of England''know of such a man?
20585Does like join itself to like; does the spirit of method stir in that confusion, so that its embroilment becomes order?
20585Does not the following glimpse exhibit him in a much more natural state?
20585Dost thou, does man, so much as well know the Alphabet thereof?
20585Each one of us here, let the world go how it will, and be victorious or not victorious, has he not a Life of his own to lead?
20585Effect?
20585England, Scotland, Ireland, all lying now subdued at the feet of the Puritan Parliament, the practical question arose, What was to be done with it?
20585Ever the constitutional Formula: How came_ you_ there?
20585Every such man is the born enemy of Disorder; hates to be in it: but what then?
20585Fame, ambition, place in History?
20585Faults?
20585For Matter, were it never so despicable, is Spirit, the manifestation of Spirit: were it never so honourable, can it be more?
20585For have not I too a compact all- enclosing Skin, whiter or dingier?
20585For is not a Symbol ever, to him who has eyes for it, some dimmer or clearer revelation of the Godlike?
20585For our honour among foreign nations, as an ornament to our English Household, what item is there that we would not surrender rather than him?
20585For this world, and for all worlds, what curse is so fatal?
20585For what is it properly but an Altercation with the Devil, before you begin honestly Fighting him?
20585For which reason it was to be altered, not without underhand satire, into a plainer Symbol?
20585For which, as for other mercies, ought not he to thank the Upper Powers?
20585Forger and juggler?
20585From of old, a thousand thoughts, in his pilgrimings and wanderings, had been in this man: What am I?
20585From of old, was there not in his life a weight of meaning, a terror and a splendour as of Heaven itself?
20585From which is it not clear that the internal Satanic School was still active enough?
20585Given your Hero, is he to become Conqueror, King, Philosopher, Poet?
20585God has made many revelations: but this man too, has not God made him, the latest and newest of all?
20585Had Teufelsdröckh also a father and mother; did he, at one time, wear drivel- bibs, and live on spoon- meat?
20585Had not my first, last Faith in myself, when even to me the Heavens seemed laid open, and I dared to love, been all- too cruelly belied?
20585Had these men any quarrel?
20585Hadst thou not Greek enough to understand thus much:_ The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought_, though it were the noblest?
20585Hadst thou, any more than I, a Father whom thou knowest?
20585Has he not solved for them the sphinx- enigma of this Universe; given assurance to them of their own destiny there?
20585Has he not the power of articulate Thinking; and many other powers, as yet miraculous?
20585Has it not_ been_, in this world, as a practised fact?
20585Has not each man a soul?
20585Hast thou not a Brain, furnished, furnishable with some glimmerings of Light; and three fingers to hold a Pen withal?
20585Hast thou well considered all that lies in this immeasurable froth- ocean we name LITERATURE?
20585Have any deepest scientific individuals yet dived- down to the foundations of the Universe, and gauged everything there?
20585Have we not seen him disappointed, bemocked of Destiny, through long years?
20585He asked of the Parliament, What it was they would decide upon?
20585He can say to himself:''Tools?
20585He courts no notice: what could notice here do for him?
20585He exclaims,''Or hast thou forgotten Paris and Voltaire?
20585He has the power of holding his peace over many things which do not vitally concern him,--"They?
20585He is the fatal man; unutterably fatal, put in the high places of men.--"Why complain of this?"
20585He was a great_ ébauche_, a rude- draught never completed; as indeed what great man is other?
20585He was a weak child, they told him; could he lift that Cat he saw there?
20585Hear in what earnest though fantastic wise he expresses himself on this head:''Shall Courtesy be done only to the rich, and only by the rich?
20585Here, looking round, as was our hest, for''organic filaments,''we ask, may not this, touching''Hero- worship,''be of the number?
20585Hero- worship,--Odin, Burns?
20585Hero- worship?
20585His love of Music, indeed, is not this, as it were, the summary of all these affections in him?
20585His scorn, his grief are as transcendent as his love;--as indeed, what are they but the_ inverse_ or_ converse_ of his love?
20585Homer yet_ is_, veritably present face to face with every open soul of us; and Greece, where is_ it_?
20585Hot weather?
20585How came he not to study his words a little, before flinging them out to the public?
20585How came it that the Wanderer advanced thither with such forecasting heart(_ ahndungsvoll_), by the side of his gay host?
20585How came it to evaporate, and not lie motionless?
20585How can a man act heroically?
20585How could a man travel forward from rustic deer- poaching to such tragedy- writing, and not fall- in with sorrows by the way?
20585How could he?
20585How could it else?
20585How could the rude Earth make these, if her Essence, rugged as she looks and is, were not inwardly Beauty?
20585How from such inorganic masses, henceforth madder than ever, as lie in these Bags, can even fragments of a living delineation be organised?
20585How happens it that no intelligence about the matter has come out directly to this country?
20585How is this; or what make ye of your_ Nothing can act but where it is_?
20585How much does one of us foresee of his own life?
20585How shall he stand otherwise?
20585How shall_ he_ give kindling, in whose own inward man there is no live coal, but all is burnt- out to a dead grammatical cinder?
20585How then could I believe in my Strength, when there was as yet no mirror to see it in?
20585How then?
20585How thou fermentest and elaboratest, in thy great fermenting- vat and laboratory of an Atmosphere, of a World, O Nature!--Or what is Nature?
20585How to regulate that struggle?
20585How was it, what was it?
20585How was this?
20585How will you govern these Nations, which Providence in a wondrous way has given- up to your disposal?
20585How?
20585However, that is not our chief grievance; the Professor continues:''Why multiply instances?
20585Hypocrite, mummer, the life of him a mere theatricality; empty barren quack, hungry for the shouts of mobs?
20585I do not assert Mahomet''s continual sincerity: who is continually sincere?
20585I said that Imagination wove this Flesh- Garment; and does not she?
20585I?
20585If Hero mean_ sincere man_, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
20585If he loved his Disenchantress?
20585If he owed any man?
20585If it prove otherwise, why should he murmur?
20585If our era is the Era of Unbelief, why murmur under it; is there not a better coming, nay come?
20585If so, what are those_ Prize- Questions_; what are the terms of Competition, and when and where?
20585In Death too, in the Death of the Just, as the last perfection of a Work of Art, may we not discern symbolic meaning?
20585In Pagan countries, can not one write Fetishes?
20585In all that respects openness of Sense, affectionate Temper, ingenuous Curiosity, and the fostering of these, what more could I have wished?
20585In all this what''hypocrisy,''''ambition,''''ca nt,''or other falsity?
20585In fact, if a man have any purpose reaching beyond the hour and day, meant to be found extant_ next_ day, what good can it ever be to promulgate lies?
20585In like manner, ask me not, Where are the LAWS; where is the GOVERNMENT?
20585In such circumstances what was needed?
20585In the commonest meeting of men, a person making, what we call,''set speeches,''is not he an offence?
20585In the one sense and in the other, are we not right glad to possess it?
20585In the same direction have not we their descendants since carried it far?
20585In which country, in which time, was it hitherto that man''s history, or the history of any man, went on by calculated or calculable"Motives"?
20585In which words, indicating a total estrangement on the part of Teufelsdröckh, may there not also lurk traces of a bitterness as from wounded vanity?
20585Increased Security and pleasurable Heat soon followed: but what of these?
20585Independence, in all kinds, is rebellion; if unjust rebellion, why parade it, and everywhere prescribe it?''
20585Influence?
20585Is he not in most countries a tax- paying animal?
20585Is it by short- clothes of yellow serge, and swineherd horns, that an infant of genius is educated?
20585Is it even of business, a matter to be done?
20585Is it of a truth leading us into beatific Asphodel meadows, or the yellow- burning marl of a Hell- on- Earth?
20585Is it such a blessedness to have clerks forever pestering you with bundles of papers in red tape?
20585Is not God''s Universe a Symbol of the Godlike; is not Immensity a Temple; is not Man''s History, and Men''s History, a perpetual Evangel?
20585Is not Shame(_ Schaam_) the soil of all Virtue, of all good manners and good morals?
20585Is not a man''s walking, in truth, always that:''a succession of falls''?
20585Is not all work of man in this world a_ making of Order_?
20585Is not every leaf of it a biography, every fibre there an act or word?
20585Is not he a Temple, then; the visible Manifestation and Impersonation of the Divinity?
20585Is not such a prize worth some striving?
20585Is not that a sign?''
20585Is not this the sincerest yet rudest voice of the spirit of man?
20585Is that a real Elysian brightness, cries many a timid wayfarer, or the reflex of Pandemonian lava?
20585Is that a wonder, which happens in two hours; and does it cease to be wonderful if happening in two million?
20585Is the Past annihilated, then, or only past; is the Future non- extant, or only future?
20585Is the heroic inspiration we name Virtue but some Passion; some bubble of the blood, bubbling in the direction others_ profit_ by?
20585Is the pitifullest mortal Person, think you, indifferent to us?
20585It is like Pococke asking Grotius, Where is your_ proof_ of Mahomet''s Pigeon?
20585It was Superstition, Fanaticism, disgraceful Ignorance of Constitutional Philosophy to insist on the other thing!--Liberty to_ tax_ oneself?
20585Joyful to men as the dawning of day from night;_ is_ it not, indeed, the awakening for them from no- being into being, from death into life?
20585Knowest thou none such?
20585Knowest thou that"_ Worship of Sorrow_"?
20585Let the Philosopher answer this one question: What figure, at that period, was a Mrs. Teufelsdröckh likely to make in polished society?
20585Liberty of judgment?
20585Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?
20585Man is called a Laughing Animal: but do not the apes also laugh, or attempt to do it; and is the manliest man the greatest and oftenest laugher?
20585May we not call Shakspeare the still more melodious Priest of a_ true_ Catholicism, the''Universal Church''of the Future and of all times?
20585Meanwhile, for Andreas and his wife, the grand practical problem was: What to do with this little sleeping red- coloured Infant?
20585Meanwhile, the question of questions were: What specially is a Miracle?
20585Meanwhile, what portion of this inconsiderable terraqueous Globe have ye actually tilled and delved, till it will grow no more?
20585Men speak much of the Printing- Press with its Newspapers:_ du Himmel!_ what are these to Clothes and the Tailor''s Goose?''
20585Mighty fleets and armies, harbours and arsenals, vast cities, high- domed, many- engined,--they are precious, great: but what do they become?
20585Mirabeau''s ambition to be Prime Minister, how shall we blame it, if he were''the only man in France that could have done any good there''?
20585Miracles?
20585Money?
20585Morality itself, what we call the moral quality of a man, what is this but another_ side_ of the one vital Force whereby he is and works?
20585Mother of God?
20585Mother?
20585Namely, that while the Beacon- fire blazed its brightest, the Watchman had quitted it; that no pilgrim could now ask him: Watchman, what of the Night?
20585Names?
20585Napoleon looking up into the stars, answers,"Very ingenious, Messieurs: but_ who made_ all that?"
20585Napoleon''s working, accordingly, what was it with all the noise it made?
20585Nay I may ask, Is not every true Reformer, by the nature of him, a_ Priest_ first of all?
20585Nay here in these pages, such as they are, have we not two mere Poets, if not deified, yet we may say beatified?
20585Nay not only our preaching, but even our worship, is not it too accomplished by means of Printed Books?
20585Nay, a man preaching from his earnest_ soul_ into the earnest_ souls_ of men: is not this virtually the essence of all Churches whatsoever?
20585Nay, at bottom, what else is alive_ but_ Protestantism?
20585Nay, even for the basest Sensualist, what is Sense but the implement of Fantasy; the vessel it drinks out of?
20585Nay, has not perhaps the Motive- grinder himself been_ in Love_?
20585Nay, in any case, would Criticism erect not only finger- posts and turnpikes, but spiked gates and impassable barriers, for the mind of man?
20585Nay, is it not what all zealous men, whether called Priests, Prophets, or whatsoever else called, do essentially wish, and must wish?
20585Nevertheless, wayward as our Professor shows himself, is there any reader that can part with him in declared enmity?
20585Nevertheless, which of the two was the more cunningly- devised article, even as an Engine?
20585Nevertheless, you will say, there must be a difference between true Poetry and true Speech not poetical: what is the difference?
20585Not so Cromwell:"For all our fighting,"says he,"we are to have a little bit of paper?"
20585Not to pay- out money from your pocket except on reason shown?
20585Notoriety: what would that do for him?
20585O Heavens, is it, in very deed, HE, then, that ever speaks through thee; that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?
20585Of Odin what history?
20585Of a man or of a nation we inquire, therefore, first of all, What religion they had?
20585Of all acts, is not, for a man,_ repentance_ the most divine?
20585Of what station in Life was she; of what parentage, fortune, aspect?
20585Oliver''s life at St Ives or Ely, as a sober industrious Farmer, is it not altogether as that of a true and devout man?
20585Once more I say, sweep away the illusion of Time; compress the threescore years into three minutes: what else was he, what else are we?
20585Only a torch for burning, no hammer for building?
20585Or are we made of other clay now?
20585Or coming into lower, less_ un_speakable provinces, is not all Loyalty akin to religious Faith also?
20585Or even where is the use of such practical reflections as the following?
20585Or has the Professor his own deeper intention; and laughs in his sleeve at our strictures and glosses, which indeed are but a part thereof?
20585Or hast thou forgotten the day when thou first receivedst breeches, and thy long clothes became short?
20585Or how, without Clothes, could we possess the master- organ, soul''s seat, and true pineal gland of the Body Social: I mean, a PURSE?''
20585Or indeed what of the world and its victories?
20585Or is the God present, felt in my own heart, a thing which Herr von Voltaire will dispute out of me; or dispute into me?
20585Or is this merely one of his half- sophisms, half- truisms, which if he can but set on the back of a Figure, he cares not whither it gallop?
20585Or was there something of intended satire; is the Professor and Seer not quite the blinkard he affects to be?
20585Or what of Scotland?
20585Or, on the other hand, what is there that we can not love; since all was created by God?
20585Our own Wednesday, as I said, is it not still Odin''s Day?
20585Over- population: With a world like ours and wide as ours, can there be too many men?
20585Peace?
20585Perhaps also in the following; wherewith we now hasten to knit- up this ravelled sleeve:''But there is no Religion?''
20585Plummet''s?
20585Popeship, spiritual Fatherhood of God''s Church, is that a vain semblance, of cloth and parchment?
20585Possible?
20585Precious they; but also is not he precious?
20585Pure?
20585Really his utterances, are they not a kind of''revelation;''--what we must call such for want of some other name?
20585Reform Bill, free suffrage of Englishmen?
20585Remarkable, moreover, is this saying of his:''How were Friendship possible?
20585Rest?
20585Said I not, Before the old skin was shed, the new had formed itself beneath it?''
20585Say it in a word: is it not because thou art not HAPPY?
20585Seems it not at least presumable, that, under his Clothes, the Tailor has bones and viscera, and other muscles than the sartorious?
20585Seldom reflecting that still the new question comes upon us: What is Madness, what are Nerves?
20585Shall I not have all Eternity to rest in?"
20585Shall we say, then, Dante''s effect on the world was small in comparison?
20585She was a widow; old, and had lost her looks: you love me better than you did her?"
20585Some one''s doing, it without doubt was; from some Idea, in some single Head, it did first of all take beginning: why not from some Idea in mine?''
20585Spake we not of a Communion of Saints, unseen, yet not unreal, accompanying and brother- like embracing thee, so thou be worthy?
20585Stands he not thereby in the centre of Immensities, in the conflux of Eternities?
20585Sure enough, I am; and lately was not: but Whence?
20585Sword and Bible were borne before him, without any chimera: were not these the_ real_ emblems of Puritanism; its true decoration and insignia?
20585Taxgatherer?
20585Than which paragraph on Metaphors did the reader ever chance to see a more surprisingly metaphorical?
20585That living flood, pouring through these streets, of all qualities and ages, knowest thou whence it is coming, whither it is going?
20585That_ he_ stood there as the strongest soul of England, the undisputed Hero of all England,--what of this?
20585The Age of Miracles past?
20585The Atheistic logic runs- off from him like water; the great Fact stares him in the face:"Who made all that?"
20585The Giant merely awoke; rubbed his cheek, and said, Did a leaf fall?
20585The Overseer(_ Episcopus_) of Souls, I notice, has tucked- in the corner of it, as if his day''s work were done: what does he shadow forth thereby?''
20585The Poet indeed, with his mildness, what is he but the product and ultimate adjustment of Reform, or Prophecy with its fierceness?
20585The Prophet too has his eye on what we are to love: how else shall he know what it is we are to do?
20585The Time call forth?
20585The Writer of a Book, is not he a Preacher preaching not to this parish or that, on this day or that, but to all men in all times and places?
20585The builder_ cast away_ his plummet; said to himself,"What is gravitation?
20585The crabbed old Schoolmaster used to ask, when they brought him a new pupil,"But are ye sure he''s_ not a dunce_?"
20585The eye too, it looks- out as in a kind of_ surprise_, a kind of inquiry, Why the world was of such a sort?
20585The first ground handful of Nitre, Sulphur, and Charcoal drove Monk Schwartz''s pestle through the ceiling: what will the last do?
20585The human Reynard, very frequent everywhere in the world, what more does he know but this and the like of this?
20585The light which now rose upon them,--how could a human soul, by any means at all, get better light?
20585The poor old Mother!----What had this man gained; what had he gained?
20585The rough words he articulated, are they not the rudimental roots of those English words we still use?
20585The stirring of a child''s finger brings the two together; and then-- What then?
20585The thunder- struck Air- sailor is not wanting to himself in this dread hour: but what avails it?
20585The uses of this Dante?
20585The voice of Prophecy has gone dumb?
20585The withered leaf is not dead and lost, there are Forces in it and around it, though working in inverse order; else how could it_ rot_?
20585The world''s heart is palsied, sick: how can any limb of it be whole?
20585The world- wide soul wrapt- up in its thoughts, in its sorrows;--what could paradings, and ribbons in the hat, do for it?
20585The''imagination that shudders at the Hell of Dante,''is not that the same faculty, weaker in degree, as Dante''s own?
20585Then, have we not a Doctrine of Rent, a Theory of Value; Philosophies of Language, of History, of Pottery, of Apparitions, of Intoxicating Liquors?
20585There are not wanting men who will answer: Does your Professor take us for simpletons?
20585Therefrom he preaches what most momentous doctrine is in him, for man''s salvation; and dost not thou listen, and believe?
20585These Limbs, whence had we them; this stormy Force; this life- blood with its burning Passion?
20585These are Apparitions: what else?
20585They are lamentable, undeniable; but after all what has Luther or his cause to do with them?
20585They called him Prophet, you say?
20585They say scornfully, Is this your King?
20585Think, would_ we_ believe, and take with us as our life- guidance, an allegory, a poetic sport?
20585Thinkest thou there is aught motionless; without Force, and utterly dead?
20585This I call a noble true purpose; is it not, In its own dialect, the noblest that could enter into the heart of Statesman or man?
20585This Rome, this scene of false priests, clothed not in the beauty of holiness, but in far other vesture, is_ false_: but what is it to Luther?
20585This Universe, ah me-- what could the wild man know of it; what can we yet know?
20585This body, these faculties, this life of ours, is it not all as a vesture for that Unnamed?
20585This indeed is properly the sum of his offences, the essential sin; for which what pardon can there be?
20585This is even what I dispute: but in any case, hast thou not still Preaching enough?
20585This is the Work he and his disciples made so much of, asking all the world, Is not that a miracle?
20585This night the watchman on the streets of Cairo when he cries"Who goes?"
20585This was imperfect enough: but to welcome, for example, a Burns as we did, was that what we can call perfect?
20585Thou art still Nothing, Nobody: true; but who, then, is Something, Somebody?
20585Thou hast no Tools?
20585Thou thyself, wert thou not born, wilt thou not die?
20585Though all men walk by them, what good is it?
20585Thought, true labour of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?
20585Thus has not the Editor himself, working over Teufelsdröckh''s German, lost much of his own English purity?
20585Thus, were it not miraculous, could I stretch forth my hand and clutch the Sun?
20585Thy very Hatred, thy very Envy, those foolish lies thou tellest of me in thy splenetic humour: what is all this but an inverted Sympathy?
20585Till it do come, what have we?
20585Till we know that, what is all our knowledge; how shall we even so much as''detect''?
20585To be Sheik of Mecca or Arabia, and have a bit of gilt wood put into your hand,--will that be one''s salvation?
20585To the eye of Pure Reason what is he?
20585To the"_ Worship of Sorrow_"ascribe what origin and genesis thou pleasest,_ has_ not that Worship originated, and been generated; is it not_ here_?
20585To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not a God made visible, if we will open our minds and eyes?
20585True, you may well ask, What could the world, the governors of the world, do with such a man?
20585Unhappy Teufelsdröckh, had man ever such a''physical or psychical infirmity''before?
20585Utility?
20585Want, want!--Ha, of what?
20585Was Luther''s Picture of the Devil less a Reality, whether it were formed within the bodily eye, or without it?
20585Was Teufelsdröckh also a fringe, of lace or cobweb; or promising to be such?
20585Was her real name Flora, then?
20585Was it Heathenism,--plurality of gods, mere sensuous representation of this Mystery of Life, and for chief recognised element therein Physical Force?
20585Was it by the humid vehicle of_ Æsthetic Tea_, or by the arid one of mere Business?
20585Was it his blame?
20585Was it not the humble sincere nature of the man?
20585Was it not the still higher Orpheus, or Orpheuses, who, in past centuries, by the divine Music of Wisdom, succeeded in civilising Man?
20585Was it not_ true_, God''s truth?
20585Was not such a Parliament worth being a member of?
20585Was not the purpose so formed like to be precisely the best, wisest, the one to be followed without hesitation any more?
20585Was not the whole Norse Religion, accordingly, in some sense, what we called''the enormous shadow of this man''s likeness''?
20585Was she not to him in very deed a Morning- Star; did not her presence bring with it airs from Heaven?
20585Was the attraction, the agitation mutual, then; pole and pole trembling towards contact, when once brought into neighbourhood?
20585Was there so much as a fault, a"caprice,"he could have dispensed with?
20585We all love great men; love, venerate, and bow down submissive before great men: nay can we honestly bow down to anything else?
20585We ask in turn: Why perplex these times, profane as they are, with needless obscurity, by omission and by commission?
20585We figure to ourselves, how in those days he may have played strange freaks with his independence, and so forth: do not his own words betoken as much?
20585Well, answers Luther, what harm will a cassock do the man?
20585Were I a Steam- engine, wouldst thou take the trouble to tell lies of me?
20585Were they not indubitable awful facts; the whole heart of man taking them for practically true, all Nature everywhere confirming them?
20585Were thy three broad Highways, meeting here from the ends of Europe, made for Ammunition- wagons, then?
20585What Act of Legislature was there that_ thou_ shouldst be Happy?
20585What Act of Parliament, debate at St. Stephen''s, on the hustings or elsewhere, was it that brought this Shakspeare into being?
20585What English intellect could have chosen such a topic, or by chance stumbled on it?
20585What am I to believe?
20585What am I to do?
20585What are all earthly preferments, Chancellorships, Kingships?
20585What are all your national Wars, with their Moscow Retreats, and sanguinary hate- filled Revolutions, but the Somnambulism of uneasy Sleepers?
20585What are the supreme lessons which he uses it to convey?
20585What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms?
20585What argument will avail?
20585What built St Paul''s Cathedral?
20585What cares the world for our as yet miniature Philosopher''s achievements under that''brave old Linden''?
20585What could gilt carriages do for this man?
20585What henceforth becomes of the brave Herr Towgood, or Toughgut?
20585What indeed are faculties?
20585What is Florence, Can della Scala, and the World and Life altogether?
20585What is Life; what is Death?
20585What is it?
20585What is the chief end of man here below?
20585What is the use of health, or of life, if not to do some work therewith?
20585What made it?
20585What make ye of your Christianities, and Chivalries, and Reformations, and Marseillese Hymns, and Reigns of Terror?
20585What man''s heart does, in reality, break- forth into any fire of brotherly love for these men?
20585What then?
20585What we want to get at is the_ thought_ the man had, if he had any: why should he twist it into jingle, if he_ could_ speak it out plainly?
20585What will become of your harvest through all Eternity?
20585What will he do with it?
20585What wonder it runs all wrong?
20585What, for example, are we to make of such sentences as the following?
20585What, for instance, was in that clouted Shoe, which the Peasants bore aloft with them as ensign in their_ Bauernkrieg_( Peasants''War)?
20585What, then, is the moral significance of Carlyle''s"symbolic myth"?
20585What, then, was our Professor''s possession?
20585What_ is_ this unfathomable Thing I live in, which men name Universe?
20585What_ will_ he do with it?
20585Whatever wrongs he did, were they not all frightfully avenged on him?
20585Whence comes it?
20585Whence, then, their so unspeakable difference?
20585Where, then, is that same cunningly- devised almighty GOVERNMENT of theirs to be laid hands on?
20585Where, then, lies the evil of it?
20585Whereby, is not spiritual union, all hierarchy and subordination among men, henceforth an impossibility?
20585Wherefore, like a coward, dost thou forever pip and whimper, and go cowering and trembling?
20585Wherein consists the usefulness of this Apron?
20585Whereto?
20585Whereupon the Professor publishes this reflection:''By what strange chances do we live in History?
20585Whether they shall take him to be a god, to be a prophet, or what they shall take him to be?
20585Which Englishman we ever made, in this land of ours, which million of Englishmen, would we not give- up rather than the Stratford Peasant?
20585Which function of manhood is the Tailor not conjectured to perform?
20585Whither goes it?
20585Whither should I go?
20585Who can refrain from a smile at the yoking together of such a pair of appellatives as Diogenes Teufelsdröckh?
20585Who ever saw any Lord my- lorded in tattered blanket fastened with wooden skewer?
20585Who is called there''the man according to God''s own heart''?
20585Who is there now that can read the five columns of Presentations in his Morning Newspaper without a shudder?
20585Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us?
20585Who knows but, in that same''best possible organisation''as yet far off, Poverty may still enter as an important element?
20585Whom I answer by this new question: What are the Laws of Nature?
20585Why can not he lay aside his pedantry, and write so as to make himself generally intelligible?
20585Why could not Dante''s Catholicism continue; but Luther''s Protestantism must needs follow?
20585Why is Idolatry so hateful to Prophets?
20585Why mention our disquisitions on the Social Contract, on the Standard of Taste, on the Migrations of the Herring?
20585Why not; what binds me here?
20585Why not?
20585Why of Shakspeare, in his_ Taming of the Shrew_, and elsewhere?
20585Why should I speak of Hans Sachs( himself a Shoemaker, or kind of Leather- Tailor), with his_ Schneider mit dem Panier_?
20585Why should the Prophet so mercilessly condemn him?
20585Why should we misknow one another, fight not against the enemy but against ourselves, from mere difference of uniform?
20585Why should we?
20585Why was the Living banished thither companionless, conscious?
20585Why, if there is no Devil; nay, unless the Devil is your God''?
20585Will Majesty lay aside its robes of state, and Beauty its frills and train- gowns, for a second- skin of tanned hide?
20585Will all the shoe- wages under the Moon ferry me across into that far Land of Light?
20585Will the whole Finance Ministers and Upholsterers and Confectioners of modern Europe undertake, in jointstock company, to make one Shoeblack HAPPY?
20585Wilt thou know a Man, above all a Mankind, by stringing- together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts?
20585With spurious Popes, and Believers having no private judgment,--quacks pretending to command over dupes,--what can you do?
20585Would he have all this unsaid; and us betake ourselves again to the''matted cloak,''and go sheeted in a''thick natural fell''?
20585Writings of mine, not indeed known as mine( for what am_ I_?
20585Yes, long ago has many a British Reader been, as now, demanding with something like a snarl: Whereto does all this lead; or what use is in it?
20585Yet, at bottom, after all the talk there is and has been about it, what is tolerance?
20585You will burn me and them, for answer to the God''s- message they strove to bring you?
20585Your Cromwell, what good could it do him to be''noticed''by noisy crowds of people?
20585Your harvest?
20585_ Editorial Difficulties_ How to make known Teufelsdröckh and his Book to English readers; especially_ such_ a book?
20585_ Is_ the work a translation?"
20585_ Shooting Niagara: and After?_ 1867( from"Macmillan").
20585_ Was_ it not such?
20585a little while ago, and he was yet in all darkness; him what Graceful(_ Holde_) would ever love?
20585am not I sincere?
20585and calls it Peace, because, in the cut- purse and cut- throat Scramble, no steel knives, but only a far cunninger sort, can be employed?
20585cries an illuminated class:"Is not the Machine of the Universe fixed to move by unalterable rules?"
20585cries he; what miracle would you have?
20585exclaims Teufelsdröckh:''Have we not all to be tried with such?
20585how did he comport himself when in Love?
20585how should they so much as once meet together?
20585infandum!_ And yet why is the thing impossible?
20585said the Preacher, appealing to all the audience: what then is_ his_ duty?
20585the fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself; and how could I believe?
20585thou hast no faculty in that kind?
20585what are they?"
20585what is the sum- total of the worst that lies before thee?
20585what is this paltry little Dog- cage of an Earth; what art thou that sittest whining there?
20585why do I not name thee GOD?
20585why journeyest thou wearisomely, in thy antiquarian fervour, to gaze on the stone pyramids of Geeza, or the clay ones of Sacchara?