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.
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7409 | Bursts out, resistless, with a thundering tide, But where''s the man who counsel can bestow, Still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know? |
7409 | Like some fair flower the early spring supplies That gayly blooms but even in blooming dies What is this wit, which must our cares employ? |
7409 | [ 445] If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn? |
7409 | leave the combat out?" |
14528 | But when,_ Mecænas_, will Thy Star appear In our low Orb, and gild the_ British_ Sphere? |
14528 | Can we forget how_ Damon''s_ lofty Tongue Shook the glad Mountains? |
14528 | Hail_ English_ Swan? |
14528 | How could Learn''d_ Athens_ with contempt refuse, Th''immortal labours of so vast a Muse? |
14528 | How goes the State of_ Parnassus_? |
14528 | I scorn to Flatter, or the Dead defame; But who will call a Blaze a Lambent Flame? |
14528 | Is he oblig''d to_ France_, who draws from thence By_ English_ Energy, their Captive Sense? |
14528 | O Soul_ Seraphick_, teach us how we may Thy Praise adapted to thy Worth display, For who can Merit more? |
14528 | O_ Sacharissa_, what could steel thy Breast, To Rob_ Harmonious Waller_ of his Rest? |
14528 | Say, art Thou come, and, to deceive our Eyes Dissembled under_ DORSET''s_ fair Disguise? |
14528 | Was not loathsom Night And ever- during Dark sufficient Pain, But Man must Triumph, by our Fall to Reign, And Register the Fate which we Sustain? |
14528 | What Prince can equal what no Muse can praise? |
14528 | What has the Battle of_ Ramillies_ produc''d? |
14528 | Who shall describe Him? |
14528 | Who''d not be_ Dryden_; tho''his Faults are great, Sooner than our Laborious_ Laureat_? |
14528 | With what Delight he tunes his Silver- Strings, And_ David''s_ Toils in_ David''s_ numbers Sings? |
14528 | he cries,_ Despair of better state, and loss of Light Irreparable? |
14528 | or what Eye can trace The Matchless Glories of his Princely Race? |
14528 | or who enough can Pay? |
3377 | Do you think it''s much worse than being shut up to their tradition of indecency? |
3377 | Shall we always be shut up to our tradition of decency? |
3377 | At what moment did our fiction lose this privilege? |
3377 | But do they really believe it? |
3377 | But what editor of what American magazine would print such a story? |
3377 | But what is it that gives tendency in art, then? |
3377 | But what is this idea of the beautiful which art rests upon, and so becomes moral? |
3377 | Do not you know that this small condition of yours implies in its fulfilment hardly less than the gift of the whole earth? |
3377 | Do they mean anything more or less than the Mastery which comes to any man according to his powers and diligence in any direction? |
3377 | In what fatal hour did the Young Girl arise and seal the lips of Fiction, with a touch of her finger, to some of the most vital interests of life? |
3377 | Then, are we critics of no use in the world? |
3377 | Were these men second- rate in their way? |
3377 | What is it makes people like this at one time, and that at another? |
3377 | Who calls Washington a genius? |
3377 | Who can endure to read old reviews? |
3377 | Why? |
3377 | Will he play us false or will he be true in the operation of this or that principle involved? |
3377 | With her example before them, why should not English novelists have gone on writing simply, honestly, artistically, ever after? |
3377 | Yet who would trifle with that great heir of fame, that plain, grand, manly soul, by speaking of"genius"and him together? |
3377 | or Franklin, or Bismarck, or Cavour, or Columbus, or Luther, or Darwin, or Lincoln? |
36245 | Est- ce là défense et illustration,he exclaims,"ou plus tost offense et dénigration?" |
36245 | Take an actual history,says Scaliger;"how does Lucan differ, for example, from Livy? |
36245 | [ 142] But what, according to Castelvetro, are the conditions of stage representation? 36245 [ 227] That is, how does a poem differ from a well- written historical narrative, if the former be without organic unity? |
36245 | [ 61] Poetry, then, is an ideal representation of life; but should it be still further limited, and made an imitation of only human life? 36245 After all, since it is the public who pays for these stupidities, why should we not serve what it wants? 36245 But after all, what is_ extra rem_? 36245 But how out of purpose, and place, do I name art? 36245 But how should he be that just imitator of life, whilst he himself knows not its measures, nor how to guide himself by judgment and understanding? 36245 But if poetry is a matter of inspiration, how can it be called an art? 36245 But what is the origin of the two other unities,--the unities of time and place? 36245 But what produces laughter? 36245 But who can doubt it? 36245 Et voir à nos misteres Les Payens asservis sous les loix salutaires De nos Saints et Martyrs? 36245 First, what is the meaning of imitation? 36245 How did the classic spirit arise? 36245 How then are the true poets to be known? 36245 If genius alone suffices, what need is there of study and artifice? 36245 Now, in what way can we discover exactly how to imitate nature, and perceive whether or not we have imitated it correctly? 36245 Now, what constitutes a serious action, and what actions are not suited to the dignified character of tragedy? 36245 The imitation of the classics having thus become essential to literary creation, what was to be its relation to the imitation of nature? 36245 The question as Giraldi had stated it was this: Does every poem need to have unity? 36245 The question as discussed in the Tasso controversy had changed to this form: What is unity? 36245 The question at issue, as we have seen, is that of unity; that is, does the heroic poem need unity? 36245 To whom then are the rules of Aristotle useful? 36245 What is the aim of the poet? 36245 What more can the poet desire, and indeed what more can he find in life, and find there with the same certainty and accuracy? 36245 What was the origin of the principles and precepts of neo- classicism? 36245 What, then, is the function of the poet? 36245 Whence did it come, and how did it develop? 36245 [ 184] Why should tragedy be limited as to time, and not epic poetry? 36245 [ 476] Where shall you find in life such a friend as Pylades, such a hero as Orlando, such an excellent man as Æneas? 36245 and what in life is the subject- matter of this imitation? 36245 but, How are the poets to be used? 36245 et du vieux testament Voir une tragedie extraite proprement? 36245 quel plaisir seroit- ce à cette heure de voir Nos poëtes Chrestiens, les façons recevoir Du tragique ancien? 14637 ''Like that?'' |
14637 | ''And always I ask and wonder( Though often I do not know it) Why does this water not smell like water?...'' |
14637 | ''How can a bell sound on into a race?'' |
14637 | ''Mais tu ne seras plus? |
14637 | ''Tell me honestly who of my contemporaries-- that is, men between thirty and forty- five-- have given the world one single drop of alcohol?... |
14637 | ''Vous ne le voulez pas? |
14637 | ''_ Bast_.--James Gurney, wilt thou give us leave awhile? |
14637 | All that remains to be said is that Mr Monro is fond of dogs(''Can you smell the rose?'' |
14637 | And what exactly_ is_ a philosophic critic? |
14637 | And what, indeed, have material things to do with the purification and the peace of the soul? |
14637 | And which( strange question) is the more consoling, the more satisfying, the more acceptable? |
14637 | Are we to look for a music of verbal melody, or for a musical elaboration of an intellectual theme? |
14637 | But can we isolate the philosophic critic in the same way? |
14637 | But what happens in_ The Way of all Flesh_? |
14637 | Can the source be defined or indicated? |
14637 | Do you, because you clothed yourselves in the shreds of a moral respectability which you had not the time( or was it the courage?) |
14637 | Et puis?... |
14637 | How shall we recognise him? |
14637 | How shall we say it? |
14637 | How_ could_ a race be drowsy? |
14637 | I am myself a mouth for blood....''Perhaps we do wrong to ask ourselves whether this and similar things mean, exactly, anything? |
14637 | Into what cloud cuckoo land have we been beguiled by Coleridge''s laudanum trances? |
14637 | Is it not Mr Hardy? |
14637 | Is it not Mr Hardy? |
14637 | Is it not always on the point of degenerating into a jingle-- as much an exhibition of the limitations of a poetical theory as of its capabilities? |
14637 | Is it surprising that we do not trust these gentlemen? |
14637 | Or would he hear the eternal arc- lamps sputter, Only that; and see old shadows crawl; And find the stars were street lamps after all? |
14637 | To be serious nowadays is to be ill- mannered, and what, murmurs the cynic, does it matter? |
14637 | Was it laziness, was it a felt incapacity? |
14637 | What does he do? |
14637 | What does it matter? |
14637 | What if after all, the true end of man be those hours of plenary beatitude he spent lying at the bottom of the boat on the Lake of Bienne? |
14637 | What if the old truth is valid still, that man is born free but is everywhere in chains? |
14637 | What is the secret of poetic power like this? |
14637 | What is''the race of night?'' |
14637 | What right had you to suppose that a man disarmed of tradition is stronger for his nakedness? |
14637 | What right, indeed, have these to condemn the logical outcome of an anarchic individualism which they themselves so jealously cherished? |
14637 | What shall we require of her? |
14637 | What shall we require of poetry? |
14637 | What would he not have found in those mighty seekers, with whom Hardy alone stands equal? |
14637 | What_ can_ it mean? |
14637 | When, when, Peace, will you, Peace? |
14637 | Whence came the power that compelled it? |
14637 | Where are we to call a halt in the inevitable process by which the kinds of literary art merge into one? |
14637 | Which is the more beautiful? |
14637 | Who alive can say,''Thou art no poet-- mays''t not tell thy dreams''? |
14637 | Who but a fool would ask Mr De la Mare to write an epic or Miss Mansfield to give us a novel? |
14637 | Who could hurt him more than he had been hurt already? |
14637 | Who may not well be plunged up to the lips in sorrow at parting from one of whom he can say this in all soberness and truth? |
14637 | Why did you not see that the end of all your devotion was to shift man''s responsibility for himself from his shoulders? |
14637 | Yet even here, where the general beauty is undoubted, is not the music too obvious? |
14637 | _ Present Condition of English Poetry_ Shall we, or shall we not, be serious? |
14637 | _ The Wisdom of Anatole France_ How few are the wise writers who remain to us? |
14637 | or''Hé, que ne suis- je puce?'' |
14637 | quand la paleur Qui blemist nôtre corps sans chaleur ne lumière Nous perd le sentiment?... |
14637 | to analyse, dare to denounce us because our teeth are set on edge by the sour grapes which you enjoyed? |
13764 | Alas,he wrote in another letter,"what can I do with my wit? |
13764 | Blameable in ten thousand other respects,he wrote to Conway seventeen years later,"may not I almost say I am perfect with regard to you? |
13764 | Have you forgot,he asked his followers,"the close, the milk- house, the stable, the barn, and the like, where God did visit your souls?" |
13764 | How can a tall man help thinking of his size,he asked,"when dwarfs are constantly standing on tiptoe beside him?" |
13764 | Know him? |
13764 | Might he not,he asks,"have written these prophetic lines with his mind''s eye upon France of the Terror or upon modern Russia?" |
13764 | Was ever so agreeable a man as King George the Second,he wrote,"to die the very day it was necessary to save me from ridicule?" |
13764 | What have I written,he asks,"that was worth remembering, even by myself?" |
13764 | What signifies what a man thought,he wrote,"who never thought of anything but himself, and what signifies what a man did who never did anything?" |
13764 | Why so? |
13764 | Why then,he asks, should the Germans have attempted to lay violent hands upon our Shakespeare? |
13764 | Will your baby tell us anything about pre- existence, madam? |
13764 | And what next? |
13764 | Are we not told that Wordsworth died as his favourite cuckoo- clock was striking noon? |
13764 | Are you that d-- d atheist, Shelley?" |
13764 | Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we are Copies?" |
13764 | But did he? |
13764 | But how else is one to define the peculiar quality of his style-- its hesitations, its vaguenesses, its obscurities? |
13764 | But of what quality is this fascination? |
13764 | But was there ever a passage written suggesting more forcibly how much easier it is to explain poetry by writing it than by writing about it? |
13764 | But what of the equipment of the reviewer? |
13764 | Could there be a more effective example of the return to reality than we find in the final shape of this verse? |
13764 | Did not Stevenson write_ Pulvis et Umbra_? |
13764 | Did not even Horace attempt to escape into Stoicism? |
13764 | Do it? |
13764 | Do n''t you think, if he had never been heard of before, that he would have been invented on the late partition of Poland?" |
13764 | Do you ever stop and ask,"Is it all going to happen again?" |
13764 | For who do you think should be there but I and Mrs. Love- the- flesh, and three or four more, with Mr. Lechery, Mrs. Filth, and some others?" |
13764 | He cries out against a love that is merely an ecstatic friendship: But O alas, so long, so far, Our bodies why do we forbear? |
13764 | He had a strong imagination and the true sublime? |
13764 | He was scarcely capable of open rudeness in the fashion of Beau Brummell''s"Who''s your fat friend?" |
13764 | His line in_ The Everlasting Mercy:_ And yet men ask,"Are barmaids chaste?" |
13764 | If he the tinkling harpsichord regards As inoffensive, what offence in cards? |
13764 | If we consider realities rather than labels, however, what do we find were the chief political ideals for which Swift stood? |
13764 | Is it any wonder that during a great part of his life Tennyson was widely regarded as not only a poet, but a teacher and a statesman? |
13764 | Is not the old ward- robe there still? |
13764 | Is there any prettier anecdote in literary history? |
13764 | Is this to lower literary standards? |
13764 | Since I was fifteen have I not loved you unalterably?" |
13764 | The shoemaker,"being an honest man,"had at once told the boy''s master: Bowyer asked me why I had made myself such a fool? |
13764 | Thought''s"Wherefore?" |
13764 | Was his a generous genius? |
13764 | Was it not Mr. Gosse who early in the war glorified the blood that was being shed as a cleansing stream of Condy''s Fluid? |
13764 | What has the"sweet master Campion"who wrote these lines to do with poisoned tarts and jellies? |
13764 | What of his standards? |
13764 | What, then, are his standards to be? |
13764 | What, then, of Mr. Ransome''s estimate of_ Salomé_? |
13764 | Who is so safe as we, where none can do Treason to us, except one of us two? |
13764 | Who is there who would not rather have written a single ode of Gray''s than all the poetical works of Southey? |
13764 | Will it embarrass you if I now present you with the entire brood in the name of a friendship that has lasted many midnights? |
13764 | With his pet hares, his goldfinches, his dog, his carpentry, his greenhouse--"Is not our greenhouse a cabinet of perfumes?" |
13764 | Would he have turned pessimist if he had lived to see the world infected with Prussianism as it has been in our time? |
13764 | _ What is Art?_ was unquestionably the most remarkable piece of sustained hostile criticism that was ever written. |
13764 | and"When?" |
13764 | died, he wrote a brief note to Thomas Brand:"Dear Brand-- You love laughing; there is a king dead; can you help coming to town?" |
13764 | how can anybody hurt them? |
6106 | Pilgrim''s Progressand"The Thousand and One Nights"could serve as models for success, and the question, What makes popularity in fiction? |
6106 | After all, why expect a century and a half of semi- independent intellectual existence to result in a great national literature? |
6106 | All this is a world away from the anonymous, dogmatic reviewing of a century ago, But who shall say that in this respect our practice is retrograde? |
6106 | And how many Americans are willing to criticize it with eyes wide open? |
6106 | And the cure is more civilization, more intellectuality, a finer and stronger emotion? |
6106 | And why does Butler revisit Erewhon? |
6106 | Are his novels long or short skirted? |
6106 | Are reviewers bewildered by the coveys of novels that wing into editorial offices by every mail? |
6106 | As for the older generation, what actually is it, and who in reality are they? |
6106 | Because some among us insist that the mystic rose of the emotions shall be painted a brighter pink than nature allows, are the rest to forego glamour? |
6106 | But is it a reason for writing more of an author already more discussed than any English stylist of our time? |
6106 | But it is not Hardy''s philosophy, sound or unsound, that counts in his art? |
6106 | But romance that pretends to be realism, realism that fizzles out into sentimental romance-- is there any excuse for that? |
6106 | But what is an appeal to the emotions? |
6106 | But, even so, shall blankness be for aye?... |
6106 | Can other countries, other times, show such a phenomenon? |
6106 | Does he write for_ Harper''s_ or_ The Dial_? |
6106 | Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Whitman-- was idealism ever more thoroughly incarnate than in them? |
6106 | Even if it provides"heart interest"and an effective climax? |
6106 | Had she cared to dance with him after all? |
6106 | Have they had worthy successors? |
6106 | How many modern novels does one find well bound, and placed on the shelves devoted to"standard reading"? |
6106 | If the great American story should arrive at last, would we not call it"only a novel"? |
6106 | Is he to lay out the possible fields of emotion as a surveyor prepares for his blue print? |
6106 | Is it Newland Archer, who bears the uncomfortable ferment within him? |
6106 | Is it because she is, after all, just what that loftiest if not most impeccable of Puritans called her, stern daughter of the voice of God? |
6106 | Is it his wife, the lovely May, whose clear blue eyes will see only innocence? |
6106 | Is it necessary to prove this public disrespect? |
6106 | Is it true that because we are not to be damned for playing golf on Sunday, nothing can damn us? |
6106 | Is it true that if we cease being Puritans we can remain without principle, swayed only by impulse and events? |
6106 | Is our author conservative or radical? |
6106 | Is the editor more competent? |
6106 | Is the reviewing of novels left to the novice as a mere rhetorical exercise in which, a subject being afforded, he can practise the display of words? |
6106 | Is there somewhere a reviewer''s manual, like the manual of correct social phrases which some one has recently published? |
6106 | Is this true? |
6106 | One woman he invented entirely( was it Tess?) |
6106 | Or, from another angle, how many readers buy novels, and buy them to keep? |
6106 | SEMI- CHORUS I OF THE PITIES Nay;--shall not Its blindness break? |
6106 | SPIRIT OF THE YEARS What wouldst have hoped and had the Will to be?... |
6106 | Says the intellectual, why_ should_ he write for the general public? |
6106 | Shall anything be done about it? |
6106 | Shall it die? |
6106 | Some poetry of Whitman''s and of Poe''s, some essays of Emerson, a little Thoreau, and what important besides? |
6106 | Suppose they want to marry? |
6106 | TIME''S MIRROR What is the use of criticizing modern literature unless you are willing to criticize modern life? |
6106 | That because the rock- ribbed Vermont ancestor''s idea of duty can never be ours, we have no duty to acknowledge? |
6106 | The question I propose, therefore, is, What makes a novel popular in our time? |
6106 | To what emotions does the popular book appeal? |
6106 | To what? |
6106 | Was May right when, with the might of innocence, she forced Newland to give up life for mere living? |
6106 | Was her nose properly powdered?... |
6106 | Was the fact so surprising after all? |
6106 | What are these instinctive cravings that seek satisfaction in fiction and, finding it, make both great and little books popular? |
6106 | What can we do about it? |
6106 | What has become of Charles Kingsley''s novels, of the apologues of Maria Edgeworth? |
6106 | What is an"Anglo- Saxon"American? |
6106 | What is the biography of this modern youth? |
6106 | What is the cause? |
6106 | What is the moral for the writer? |
6106 | What is the moral of this discussion for the critical reader? |
6106 | What is to be done about it? |
6106 | What makes a novel sell 100,000 copies, or a short story bring$ 1000? |
6106 | What makes"Treasure Island"popular? |
6106 | What was he, or rather, what did he stand for, and inflict upon us, to- day? |
6106 | What was_ his_ end? |
6106 | Who can make use of it? |
6106 | Who exalted? |
6106 | Who is the real Anglomaniac in America? |
6106 | Who is this terrible Puritan? |
6106 | Who wants it? |
6106 | Who will be dulled by it? |
6106 | Why are the characters therein depicted so persistently disagreeable, even in the lighter stories? |
6106 | Why are the women always freckled, the men predominantly red and watery in the eye? |
6106 | Why are we sentimental? |
6106 | Why did"Main Street"have such an unexpected and still reverberating success? |
6106 | Why give eye and ear all the fine experiences? |
6106 | Why has duty become so unpopular in American literature? |
6106 | Why is the country so flat, so foggy, so desolate; and why are the peasants so lumpish and miserable? |
6106 | Why not do something for poor, slovenly mind? |
6106 | Why should a hard race-- if we are hard-- read soft books? |
6106 | Why should it not be? |
6106 | Why? |
6106 | Yea, must not Its heart awake, Promptly tending To its mending In a genial germing purpose, and for loving- kindness''sake? |
6106 | have we degenerated from Lincoln''s day? |
3379 | And are you taking all your household stuff with you? |
3379 | And do you pretend that the two- dollar drama is intellectual? |
3379 | And do you think you had a profitable hour at that show? |
3379 | Are you a brother Yankee? |
3379 | Do n''t you think you are going from bad to worse? |
3379 | Have you been at the circus yet? |
3379 | Profitable? |
3379 | Tell me,said my friend,"do you read the advertisements of the books of rival authors?" |
3379 | Ten cents, for instance? |
3379 | Then you do n''t believe that the offer to meet your want suggested it? |
3379 | What do you say to the ten- cent magazines? |
3379 | Why do n''t you turn it to account? |
3379 | Why,I asked,"do you see any harm in it?" |
3379 | Wof? |
3379 | Yet? |
3379 | You do n''t think you''re making yourself rather offensive? |
3379 | You goin''past Jim Marden''s? |
3379 | You will admit that there is everything else here? |
3379 | All this seems probable and natural enough at the writing; but how will it be when one has turned one''s back upon it? |
3379 | Are n''t the arts one? |
3379 | As early as ten, as nine o''clock? |
3379 | But does it ever move you to get what you do n''t want?" |
3379 | But really is it any such emotion? |
3379 | But what is to become of the race when it is penetrated at every pore with a sense of the world''s demand and supply?" |
3379 | But what was the use? |
3379 | But why should I be so violent of phrase against these guiltless means of millionairing? |
3379 | Come, is n''t there hope in that?" |
3379 | Could one say to his next- hand man,"Will you please keep my place?" |
3379 | Did some of them even meditate the thankless muse and not mind her ingratitude? |
3379 | Did they ever quarrel over questions of precedence? |
3379 | Did they read the new historical fictions aloud to one another? |
3379 | Do you still read such advertisements with your early zest?" |
3379 | Had they some comity, some etiquette, which a man forced to leave his place could appeal to, and so get it back? |
3379 | Have they any use for each other such as people of unbroken associations have? |
3379 | Honestly is not it a cruel embarrassment, which all the hypocritical pretences can not hide? |
3379 | How came they all here, seven hundred miles from any larger land? |
3379 | How can you say that any art is higher than the others? |
3379 | How can you watch three sets of trapezists at once? |
3379 | How did they pass their illimitable leisure, when they rested from the fishing- net by day and the chicken- coop by night? |
3379 | How early did these files begin to form themselves for the midnight dole of bread? |
3379 | How were all those similar souls to know themselves apart in their common eternity? |
3379 | If he reformed that and gave the saving to hunger and cold? |
3379 | If so, did the fact argue habitual destitution, or merely habitual leisure? |
3379 | If the men had borne their part as well, there would not have been these tears: and yet, what am I saying? |
3379 | Is it clear, simple, unaffected? |
3379 | Is it true to human experience generally? |
3379 | Is not each wishing the other at that end of the earth from which he came? |
3379 | It sufficed as it was; and when he said to Rosencrantz,"Will you pleh upon this pyip?" |
3379 | Now, why not suggest something that is really level with the popular taste?" |
3379 | Shall I say that he seemed the only member of that little circus who was not of an amiable temper? |
3379 | She called down, in English that sounded like some delocalized, denaturalized speech, it was so strange then and there,"Is it all right?" |
3379 | Take the article of old friends, for instance: has it ever happened to the reader to witness the encounter of old friends after the lapse of years? |
3379 | The old friends smile and laugh, and babble incoherently at one another, but are they genuinely glad? |
3379 | This must sometimes happen, and what did they do then? |
3379 | V."Does that view of the situation still satisfy you?" |
3379 | We are supposed to have associations with the old things which render them precious, but do not the associations rather render them painful? |
3379 | What do you think it was worth?" |
3379 | What remains? |
3379 | What should I do with the family in that case? |
3379 | Which of them were old- comers, and which novices? |
3379 | Who can possibly read them? |
3379 | Who cares even to look at them? |
3379 | Who would not wish his novel to sell five hundred thousand copies, for reasons besides the sordid love of gain which I am told governs novelists? |
3379 | Who would not wish his picture to draw a crowd about it? |
3379 | Why do they do it, or, having done it, why do they mind it, since the public does not? |
3379 | Why is it nobler to contort the mind than to contort the body?" |
3379 | Why not? |
3379 | Why should such an exhibition as that be supposed to give pleasure? |
3379 | Will it be credited that I became willing something should happen, anything, to vary it? |
3379 | Will it not lapse into the gross fable of travellers, and be as the things which the liars who swap them can not themselves believe? |
3379 | Would some New- Year''s day come when some President would proclaim, amid some dire struggle, that their slavery was to be no more? |
3379 | Would the world ever outlive it? |
3379 | You may call it interesting them, if you like; but, really, what is the difference? |
3379 | and would this man say to an interloper,"Excuse me, this place is engaged"? |
3379 | why should their sable shadows intrude in a picture that was meant to be all so gay and glad? |
6320 | ''_ Do n''t_ you like it?'' |
6320 | ''tis here: and what can suns give more? |
6320 | --_Donne._ Who but Donne would have thought that a good man is a telescope? |
6320 | Again, a man might ask out of what commonwealth Plato did banish them? |
6320 | And again, by Tityrus, what blessedness is derived to them that lie lowest from the goodness of them that sit highest? |
6320 | And do they not know that a tragedy is tied to the laws of poesy, and not of history? |
6320 | And doth the lawyer lie, then, when under the names of John a stile and John a noakes, he puts his case? |
6320 | And may not I presume a little further, to show the reasonableness of this word_ vates_? |
6320 | And say that the holy David''s Psalms are a divine poem? |
6320 | And then how will you discern what to follow but by your own discretion, which you had without reading Quintus Curtius? |
6320 | And what could prove more clearly that the old metrical form was dead? |
6320 | And why not so much the better, taking the best of both the other? |
6320 | Are the times so much more reformed now than they were five and twenty years ago? |
6320 | Are we to judge of a given work merely by asking: Is it clearly conceived and consistently carried out? |
6320 | Aristotle writes the Art of Poesy: and why if it should not be written? |
6320 | But if it be so in_ Gorboduc_, how much more in all the rest? |
6320 | But they will say, how then shall we set forth a story, which containeth both many places, and many times? |
6320 | But what need more? |
6320 | But what needeth more in a thing so known to all men? |
6320 | But what, shall the abuse of a thing make the right use odious? |
6320 | But what? |
6320 | But where doth Euripides? |
6320 | But, after all, it may be asked, is a painter like Botticelli-- a secondary painter-- a proper subject for general criticism? |
6320 | Do we not see the skill of physic( the best rampire to our often- assaulted bodies), being abused, teach poison the most violent destroyer? |
6320 | Doth not knowledge of law, whose end is to even and right all things, being abused, grow the crooked fosterer of horrible injuries? |
6320 | Doth not( to go to the highest) God''s word, abused, breed heresy? |
6320 | For see we not valiant Miltiades rot in his fetters? |
6320 | For wants he heat or light? |
6320 | For what else is the awaking his musical instruments? |
6320 | For what is it to make folks gape at a wretched beggar, or a beggarly clown? |
6320 | For who will be taught, if he be not moved with desire to be taught? |
6320 | From what other cause has it arisen that the discoveries which should have lightened have added a weight to the curse imposed on Adam? |
6320 | His notable prosopopeias, when he maketh you, as it were, see God coming in His majesty? |
6320 | Homer has celebrated the anger of Achilles: but was not the hero as mad as the poet? |
6320 | If this were wit, was this a time to be witty, when the poor wretch was in the agony of death? |
6320 | In its most general form, the problem of criticism amounts to this: What is the nature of the standard to be employed in literary judgments? |
6320 | Is it by his own impression, or by the code handed down from previous critics, that in the last resort the critic should be guided? |
6320 | Is it for a few wild speeches, an occasional licence of dialogue? |
6320 | Is it possible to account otherwise for his disparagement of Moliere, or his grudging praise of Wordsworth and of Coleridge? |
6320 | Is it the lyric that most displeaseth, who with his tuned lyre, and well accorded voice, giveth praise, the reward of virtue, to virtuous acts? |
6320 | Is it then the pastoral poem which is misliked? |
6320 | Is not the evidence conclusive? |
6320 | Is the poor pipe disdained, which sometime out of Melibeus''s mouth, can show the misery of people under hard lords, or ravening soldiers? |
6320 | Is, then, the peerage of England anything dishonoured when a peer suffers for his treason? |
6320 | It was when he came to ask, What is the nature of those ideas, and how does the artist or the critic arrive at them? |
6320 | Lodge''s_ Defence of Poetry, Musick, and Stage Plays_, 1579(?). |
6320 | Now, whom shall we find( sith the question standeth for the highest form in the school of learning) to be moderator? |
6320 | Once dead, how can it be, Death should a thing so pleasant seem to thee, That thou should''st come to live it o''er again in me? |
6320 | Plutarch teacheth the use to be gathered of them, and how if they should not be read? |
6320 | Pompey and Cicero slain then, when they would have thought exile a happiness? |
6320 | See we not virtuous Cato driven to kill himself? |
6320 | Sidney''s_ Apologie for Poetrie_, 1580(?). |
6320 | Since''t is my doom, Love''s undershrieve, Why this reprieve? |
6320 | Sulla and Marius dying in their beds? |
6320 | The cruel Severus live prosperously? |
6320 | The excellent Severus miserably murdered? |
6320 | The just Phocion, and the accomplished Socrates, put to death like traitors? |
6320 | The often and free changing of persons? |
6320 | The second is the far more important question, How far is the dramatist bound by conventional restrictions? |
6320 | To sell thyself dost thou intend By candle''s end, And hold the contrast thus in doubt, Life''s taper out? |
6320 | Tully, when he was to drive out Catiline, as it were with a thunderbolt of eloquence, often used that figure of repetition,_ Vivit? |
6320 | Was rhyme a"brutish"form of verse? |
6320 | What are the conventional restrictions that surround the dramatist, and how far are they of binding force? |
6320 | What child is there, that coming to a play, and seeing Thebes written in great letters upon an old door, doth believe that it is Thebes? |
6320 | What flesh, like loving grass, would not covet to meet half- way the stroke of such a delicate mower? |
6320 | What is poetry? |
6320 | What is the detecting of a fault, but the feeling of an incongruity, of a contradiction, which may exist in ourselves as well as in the object? |
6320 | What joy could''st take, or what repose, In countries so unciviliz''d as those? |
6320 | What poet has been so alert to recognize the master- spirits of his own time and his father''s? |
6320 | What poet has felt and avowed a deeper reverence for the great Latins? |
6320 | What sort of a figure would he cut, translated into an epic poem, by the side of Achilles? |
6320 | What would Ovid have done on this occasion? |
6320 | What, then, shall we say? |
6320 | What, then, was Johnson''s method? |
6320 | What, then, was it that drove Burke to a position so markedly at variance with the idealism of his later years? |
6320 | Whence comes that empyrean fire, which irradiates their whole being, and pierces, at least in starry gleams, like a diviner thing, into all hearts? |
6320 | Wherein lies that life; how have they attained that shape and individuality? |
6320 | While in the meantime, two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field? |
6320 | Who readeth Aneas carrying old Anchises on his back, that wisheth not it were his fortune to perform so excellent an act? |
6320 | Who shall say in which? |
6320 | Who would imagine it possible that in a very few lines so many remote ideas could be brought together? |
6320 | Whom do not the words of Turnus move? |
6320 | Why doth my She Advowson fly Incumbency? |
6320 | Would any man, who is ready to die for love, describe his passion like Narcissus? |
6320 | Would he think of_ inopem me copia fecit_, and a dozen more of such expressions, poured on the neck of one another, and signifying all the same thing? |
6320 | Would their effect be the same if we were not acquainted with the text? |
6320 | Would then the mere superaddition of metre, with or without rhyme, entitle these to the name of poems? |
6320 | Yet who shall say that the facts answer to these expectations? |
6320 | ], which in his youth he learned, and even to his old age serve him for hourly lessons? |
6320 | ]_?_ No perchance it is the comic, whom naughty play- makers and stage- keepers have justly made odious. |
6320 | and His name abused, become blasphemy? |
6320 | and rebel Caesar so advanced, that his name yet after 1600 years, lasteth in the highest honour? |
6320 | and what its practical application? |
6320 | and what so much good doth that teaching bring forth( I speak still of moral doctrine) as that it moveth one to do that which it doth teach? |
6320 | is not easily to be done; but what can not Milbourn bring about? |
6320 | is so nearly the same question with, what is a poet? |
6320 | or a virtuous man in all fortunes, as Aneas in Virgil? |
6320 | or a whole commonwealth, as the way of Sir Thomas More''s Utopia? |
6320 | or rather the vipers, that with their birth kill their parents? |
6320 | or would have store Of both? |
6320 | or, against law of hospitality, to jest at strangers, because they speak not English so well as we do? |
6320 | who can be so strong? |
6320 | who doth not only teach and move to a truth, but teacheth and moveth to the most high and excellent truth? |
6320 | who maketh magnanimity and justice shine, throughout all misty fearfulness and foggy desires? |
6320 | who would be less weak than Calantha? |
13408 | Above all, what grounds have you for supposing that we can have, or ought to have, a drama based upon true observation of life? 13408 Do you think,"she said,"that it is pleasant to hold an eight or ten guinea hat on your knees, to say nothing of a boa and muff and veil? |
13408 | Indeed; do n''t you think half- a- guinea is enough to pay for a stall without buying a special hat into the bargain? 13408 Sometimes you think,''Are they married?'' |
13408 | Why did you do that? |
13408 | Why do you persist in girding at Mr Tree because he gives beautiful scenery instead of what you think fine plays? 13408 Why not,"asks a fair correspondent, whose letter has incited this article--"why not begin with the last act?" |
13408 | A last matter-- why is it supposed that almost all the characters in a play are wearing new clothes on a first night? |
13408 | An audience is entitled to say,"What care I how good he be if he seem not good to me?" |
13408 | And England? |
13408 | And Pinero-- our exception-- how would"Percival"classify_ His House in Order_, which has a strong story? |
13408 | And what does it matter where the plays come from any more than where the nuts come from? |
13408 | Another question may be asked: Why do people stay away though able to go? |
13408 | Are the soliloquies of Hamlet likely to lure them to the severe intellectual task of reading the play scrupulously? |
13408 | Are there no kind friends on the stage to give unpalatable advice? |
13408 | Are they able to distinguish beautiful blank verse from bombast? |
13408 | Are they content that the great half- washed should remain in their present condition, which exhibits painfully a great lack of education? |
13408 | But was Shakespeare,"Shakespeare"? |
13408 | By- the- by, why has De Quincey gone out of fashion? |
13408 | By- the- by, why was the press that was so indignant about the so- called problem play almost silent concerning these French dramas? |
13408 | Can it be that the triumph that we sometimes see, of the actress over the actor, is partly due to the fact that she reduces make- up to the minimum? |
13408 | Can one imagine any foreign company able to present_ His House in Order_ without entirely destroying the stage illusion and losing the colour? |
13408 | Can they recognize profound thoughts at first hearing, or at all? |
13408 | Could a Gautier who hated music_ honestly_ criticize a symphony; could a blind man_ honestly_ criticize a picture? |
13408 | Could it be-- the thought is painful-- that they did not quite understand_ L''Age d''Aimer_ and imagined that all the people were married? |
13408 | Do newspaper criticisms affect it?" |
13408 | Do services such as this count for nothing? |
13408 | Do the critics exist? |
13408 | Do they merely help themselves out of the common fund of ignorance? |
13408 | Do they think that the public needs no education in theatrical art? |
13408 | Do we make no sacrifices when we come to their aid? |
13408 | Do you believe that British Drama, as you understand it, ever did live, or ever will? |
13408 | Do you think I care to run the risk of removing my hat without even a looking- glass to guide me? |
13408 | Do you think you can flog it into life? |
13408 | Does Mr Cavendish Morton think players were really worse off before the latest refinements in make- up were invented? |
13408 | Does anyone exist who knows really what is the average level of acting in the four countries named? |
13408 | Does it mean anything? |
13408 | Does she ever consider the costumes in relation to the scenery? |
13408 | Does the Syndicate regard any critic who expresses an unfavourable opinion about its wares as"absolutely impartial,"etc.? |
13408 | Does the critic really get jaded? |
13408 | Does the public for such a theatre exist? |
13408 | Does the word_ repoussoir_ mean any thing to her? |
13408 | Has Mr Max made it? |
13408 | Has the Stage Society ever considered the question of a revival? |
13408 | How can an author claim, under such circumstances, to remain the absolute master of his work?" |
13408 | How could they be without our aid? |
13408 | How is he to understand why Hamlet is so rude to Ophelia, yet later on declares that he loved her prodigiously? |
13408 | How is the reader to guess that they all mean the same thing? |
13408 | How is the solicitor treated on the stage? |
13408 | How often have we seen a French, German or Italian performance of an English play concerning English people? |
13408 | How on earth could the critic know whether his suggestions were true? |
13408 | How, I ask you, are these London successes manufactured? |
13408 | I mean,"he added, hastily anticipating a question,"would people go more or less to the theatre, or would the kind of plays and acting change? |
13408 | I suppose it would make a little difference; would the difference be great?" |
13408 | In which would"Percival"place Shakespeare''s? |
13408 | Is Mr Max Beerbohm''s assertion well founded? |
13408 | Is it a really good thing that_ Hamlet_ should be offered to those who have little or no acquaintance with the tragedy? |
13408 | Is it easy to doubt that it is the sentimental treatment which has caused the history of the play to be so different from that of the novel? |
13408 | Is it the true one? |
13408 | Is it unfair that the"jaded"critic should deal with the average play? |
13408 | Is my occupation to become like that of the Moor of Venice-- merely because managers are forgetful? |
13408 | Is not service of this character to be counted? |
13408 | Is there a vicious circle, in which each and all accept as true what others have written? |
13408 | Is there no lesson in this? |
13408 | Is this matter too horrible for the stage? |
13408 | Is this surprising? |
13408 | It comes from the country cousin, and is generally in these words or thereabouts:"What piece ought we to take tickets for?" |
13408 | Need it be added that the training of the body insisted upon by the mime would cause some of our players to move more gracefully on the stage? |
13408 | Need it be added that the"star"actresses of other nations were all eager to appear in these pieces? |
13408 | Shakespeare, indeed, might ask the gallery in the phrase of Benedick,"For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?" |
13408 | Suppose that the critic has come to the conclusion that he knows the truth about a play, with what is he to tell it? |
13408 | The curtain rises, and you ask yourself the question,''Will they marry?''" |
13408 | The last prodigious production of_ Faust_? |
13408 | The scornful may answer with the question,"Why begin at all if you''ve nothing better than our ordinary drama?" |
13408 | Then came the charming utterance of quaint old songs-- who can forget Béranger''s"La Grandmère"as it came from her? |
13408 | Under what circumstances are we invited? |
13408 | Was the author making an anticipatory hit at Mr Lauder? |
13408 | Was the great Eleonora as painfully truthful as Mrs Patrick Campbell in_ The Second Mrs Tanqueray_? |
13408 | We use it frequently; who can find a word in the French language that exactly represents it? |
13408 | What about the expense of coming to and fro? |
13408 | What about the navy? |
13408 | What art has ever made progress under laws dictated by the great half- washed? |
13408 | What combination is likely to be formed to fight it; and if there be none, what is the inevitable result? |
13408 | What does your wife do?" |
13408 | What has been the outcome? |
13408 | What is honesty? |
13408 | What is knocking? |
13408 | What is the manager to do? |
13408 | What method does the manager adopt? |
13408 | What native plays have we had by men during the period covered by these four ladies dealing with similar questions? |
13408 | What opinion is he to form of the perfectly idiotic, complex conspiracy between the King and Laertes to get rid of Hamlet? |
13408 | What would happen if fifty of us were to take off our hats and touch up our hair in a room too small for fifteen, before taking our seats? |
13408 | What, then, are the necessary qualifications of the critic who takes his work and himself seriously? |
13408 | When a play is doing good business? |
13408 | Where are the splendid Puritans who howled about_ A Wife without a Smile_? |
13408 | Where were the phrases, such as miasmatic putrescence or putrescent miasma-- I forget which it was-- that used to greet the dramas of Ibsen? |
13408 | Which of our playwrights does not envy the licence of a Capus? |
13408 | Who can imagine a picture gallery as seen by the person who suffers even mildly from colour- blindness? |
13408 | Who is to decide whether the critic in a particular case is"absolutely impartial, absolutely just, and on the most dignified plane"? |
13408 | Who knows whether his wrath has not a touch of the_ spretae injuria formae_? |
13408 | Who would be satisfied that justice had not slept if such evidence were excluded? |
13408 | Who, if names had been altered, would have guessed that the hero of the piece was the author of the immortal poems? |
13408 | Why do the enthusiasts rage and profess that it ought to be endowed? |
13408 | Why do we go to the Theatre? |
13408 | Why do you keep howling against melodrama and musical comedy? |
13408 | Why do you not cease flogging that dead horse, the British Drama? |
13408 | Why does the theatre exist? |
13408 | Why does"Percival"ignore them? |
13408 | Why have you not got a sense of humour? |
13408 | Why not? |
13408 | Why should an exception be made in case of a player? |
13408 | Why should it be otherwise? |
13408 | Why, then, do we go to the theatre? |
13408 | Why, then, should Balzac and Browning have failed where Shakespeare and Sardou have succeeded? |
13408 | Why? |
13408 | Why? |
13408 | Would not_ Dorothy_ have died young but for our intervention? |
13408 | Would the pieces and performances be affected by the suppression of criticism? |
13408 | Would they have combined? |
13408 | Yet who will pretend that any of the pieces that he concocted alone or in conjunction with others is worth the least valuable of his novels? |
13408 | _ The Interviewer_:"How is public taste formed? |
13408 | which generally has an under- surface suggestion, and might be translated into:"For what theatre are you going to get us seats?" |
11251 | But say, what was it? |
11251 | By the way,does Mr. Leigh Hunt suppose that the aged nurses of Rimini weep with their mouths? |
11251 | From England, and from Thornfield; and--"Well? |
11251 | How dare you? |
11251 | My dear doctor,said he to Goldsmith,"what harm does it do to a man to call him Holofernes?" |
11251 | Not the voyage, but the distance, Sir; and then the sea is a barrier--"From what, Jane? |
11251 | Pooh, ma''am,he exclaimed to Mrs. Carter,"who is the worse for being talked of uncharitably?" |
11251 | ''s sharp essay on the Cockney Poetry cut him to the heart? |
11251 | ***** Who comes from the bridal chamber? |
11251 | And again in"The Golden Dream,"-- When shall all men''s good Be each man''s rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land? |
11251 | And what has he learned by leaning on his own soul? |
11251 | And what idea? |
11251 | And what think ye of that bastard temper? |
11251 | And yet why? |
11251 | Are any of their materials such as a pedlar could possibly have dealt in? |
11251 | Are the manners, the diction, the sentiments, in any, the very smallest degree, accommodated to a person in that condition? |
11251 | Are the various forms under which she has exhibited it no more for her than the Mahometan and Hindoo systems were for the poet of Thalaba and Kehama? |
11251 | As for prose, we give up Cicero as compared with Demosthenes, but with no one else; and is Livy less original, or less admirable, than Herodotus? |
11251 | Being_ learned in music_, is intelligible, and, of Milton, true; but what can Mr. Hunt mean by saying that Milton had"_ learnedly_ a_ musical ear_"? |
11251 | But how is his difficulty really affected? |
11251 | But how many passions have amalgamated to form that hatred? |
11251 | But if we abandon it for the new one proposed to us by the Rationalist party, how shall we be able to stand? |
11251 | But is it otherwise with"the_ reading_ public"? |
11251 | But what could induce him to suspect the amiable Bill Hazlitt,"him, the immaculate,"of being Z.? |
11251 | But what did the Divine Teacher say? |
11251 | But what has all this to do with our opinion of their poetry? |
11251 | But what is to be thought of the fact that the authoress of these tales is also the translator of Strauss''s notorious book? |
11251 | But what of that? |
11251 | But where was the Greek model of the noble poem of Lucretius? |
11251 | But why not? |
11251 | But why stop here? |
11251 | But, were he, which Heaven forbid, taken from us, whom have we to succeed him? |
11251 | But, with all her rage for morality, had not that fair accused have better left the matter alone? |
11251 | Can we lay down the pen without remembering that Coleridge the poet is but half the name of Coleridge? |
11251 | Coleridge-- do you? |
11251 | Coleridge?" |
11251 | Could he have gone on much farther without having had recourse to some of the ordinary shifts of witch tales? |
11251 | Couldst thou wish for lineage_ higher_ Than twin sister of_ Thalia_? |
11251 | Curb and thrill the world? |
11251 | Did not your great- great- grandfather love and delight in Don Quixote and Sancho Panza? |
11251 | Discern ye not his faults of taste, his deplorable propensity to write blank verse? |
11251 | Do n''t they move laughter and awaken affection now as three hundred years ago? |
11251 | Does Mr. Wordsworth really imagine that this is more natural or engaging than the ditties of our common song- writers?... |
11251 | Does any one believe that ever at any time there was a greater number of deaths referable to that comprehensive cause a broken heart? |
11251 | Does it not prove indisputably that I am not as other men are?" |
11251 | For who would bear the whips and scorns of time?" |
11251 | Harp? |
11251 | Has Mr. Smith really gone through the controversy upon this subject? |
11251 | Has he discovered any new materials? |
11251 | Has he produced a new fact? |
11251 | Have they lost their vitality by their age? |
11251 | He and Leigh Hunt are Arcades ambo Et cantare pares-- Shall we add, et respondere parati? |
11251 | He seems seriously to have proceeded on Mr. Bays''s maxim--"What the deuce is a plot good for, but to bring in fine things?" |
11251 | His books may have lost in art, perhaps, but could we afford to wait? |
11251 | How can we account for all this? |
11251 | How comes it that Jane had acquired neither? |
11251 | How could it meet Rationalism on the one hand? |
11251 | How could it withstand Popery on the other? |
11251 | How should it, when both the pointing and the language are corrupt? |
11251 | How should such a Christian instruct an innocent and beautiful child, his pupil? |
11251 | How, then, are we to solve them? |
11251 | I sent thee six- pence for thy leman( mistress): had''st it?" |
11251 | In fancy I can almost hear him now exclaiming,_"Harp? |
11251 | Indeed, who that knows any thing of Poetry could for a moment suppose it otherwise? |
11251 | Is Cain, the dark, dim, disturbed, insane, hell- haunted Cain, a failure? |
11251 | Is Mrs. Trollope less vain than they when she declares, and merely_ declares_, her own to be the real creed, and stigmatises its rival so fiercely? |
11251 | Is Mrs. Trollope serving God, in making abusive licencious pictures of those who serve Him in a different way? |
11251 | Is Sardanapalus, the passionate, princely, philosophical, joy- cheated, throne- wearied voluptuary, a failure? |
11251 | Is he so eager for money as to be indifferent to revenge? |
11251 | Is it to be happier than others? |
11251 | Is that a death- bed where a Christian lies? |
11251 | Is the Gospel which she has represented in so many attractive lights nothing better to her, after all, than"fabula ista de Christo"? |
11251 | Is the Roman less an unapprochable master, in his peculiar line, that of sentimental history, than the Grecian in his? |
11251 | Is there any thing in his learned, abstracted, and logical harangues, that savours of the calling that is ascribed to him? |
11251 | It may be proper in them; but what can make it proper to us? |
11251 | Know ye that he has never tasted the birch at Eton, nor trodden the flags of Carfax, nor paced the academic flats of Trumpington? |
11251 | Know ye that in mathematics, or logic, this wretched ignoramus is not fit to hold a candle to a wooden spoon? |
11251 | Know ye that your new idol hath little Latin and less Greek? |
11251 | Know ye what ye do? |
11251 | Lyre? |
11251 | May I request, Sir, said the prince, and frowned, Your ear a moment in the tilting ground? |
11251 | Must we at once pronounce them profane, and is nothing to be set down to the score of natural temper inclining them to wit and humour? |
11251 | No.... Was he idle? |
11251 | On what then is the new theory based? |
11251 | One hears the cauliflowered god exclaim, mournfully shaking the powder out of his ambrosial curls,"What strange new folly is this? |
11251 | Only why print them after they have had their day and served their turn?... |
11251 | Or Benedick''s? |
11251 | Or Harry the Fifth''s? |
11251 | Or Lear''s? |
11251 | Or Macbeth''s? |
11251 | Or Othello''s? |
11251 | Or Shylock''s? |
11251 | Or Wolsey''s? |
11251 | Or so bent on both together as to be indifferent to the honour of his nation and the law of Moses? |
11251 | Or so eager for revenge as to be indifferent to money? |
11251 | Or that of Cassius? |
11251 | Or that of Falconbridge? |
11251 | Or who would expect vanity to be conscious of its own loathsomeness? |
11251 | See ye not how, from describing law humours, he now, forsooth, will attempt the sublime? |
11251 | Shall we not kill her? |
11251 | Such sort of concessions are very gratifying to us; but how will they be received by the children of the Tabernacle? |
11251 | Take, for example, Leslie in physical science, and what airs of majesty does he ever assume? |
11251 | The question, therefore, comes simply to be-- which of them is the most proper object for poetical imitation? |
11251 | They asked each other"What manner of man is this?" |
11251 | They took her to themselves; and she, Still hoping, fearing,"is it yet too late?" |
11251 | Think you he nought but prison walls did see, Till, so unwilling, thou unturn''dst the key? |
11251 | Was he envious? |
11251 | Was he false? |
11251 | Was he insolent? |
11251 | Was he servile? |
11251 | Was he vain? |
11251 | Was she really the daughter of Roland de Vaux, and would the friends have met again and embraced?... |
11251 | We have heard it asked, what was the proposed object of Mr. Coleridge''s labours as a metaphysical philosopher? |
11251 | What could he have made of her? |
11251 | What danger could there be in the performance of his exploits, except that of being committed as a Vagrant? |
11251 | What did the poet mean to make of her? |
11251 | What does he mean by saying that life seemed cheap? |
11251 | What does this creature know of virtue, who finds it_ by leaning on his own soul_, forsooth? |
11251 | What good to mankind has ever flowed from the confessions of Rousseau, or the autobiographical sketch of Hume? |
11251 | What has Campbell ever obtruded on the Public of his private history? |
11251 | What indeed could rank appear to a person thus voluntarily degraded? |
11251 | What interpretation are we meant to give to all this sound and fury? |
11251 | What is Hamlet''s ruling passion? |
11251 | What is Samuel Coleridge compared to such a man? |
11251 | What is the vitality of the Iliad? |
11251 | What new deity do you worship? |
11251 | What reason does he give for this work of supererogation? |
11251 | What right have we poor devils to be nice? |
11251 | What should such a philosopher do? |
11251 | What so solemn as to see the excellent passions of the human heart called forth by a great actor, animated by a great poet? |
11251 | What strange disguise hast now put on, To make believe that thou art gone? |
11251 | What though the perfections with which imagination has decorated the beloved object, may, in fact, exist but in a slender degree? |
11251 | What, except the mere idea, did the Georgics borrow from Hesiod? |
11251 | What, though the pursuit may be fruitless, and the hopes visionary? |
11251 | Where can be found a spectacle more worthy of sorrow than such a man performing and glorying in the performance of such things? |
11251 | Where is every feeling more roused in favour of virtue, than at a good play? |
11251 | Where is goodness so feelingly, so enthusiastically learnt? |
11251 | Where, we may ask, is not at this moment the effect of that movement perfectly appreciable within our body? |
11251 | Which would ye show to the Horticultural Society as a fair specimen of the tree? |
11251 | Who and what is Geraldine-- whence come, whither going, and what designing? |
11251 | Who can listen to objections regarding such a book as this? |
11251 | Who can, with any face, liken a dear friend to a murderess? |
11251 | Who has not felt the beauty of a woman''s arm? |
11251 | Who shall his fame impair When thou art dead, and all thy wretched crew? |
11251 | Who would not have expected them to be insipid likenesses of each other? |
11251 | Why does he select such? |
11251 | Why had she formed no friendships among them? |
11251 | Why is Shakespeare the greatest of poets? |
11251 | Why is it that, speaking of this friend or that, we say in the tender mercies of our hearts,"No, she is not_ quite_ so bad as Becky?" |
11251 | Why not roast dissenters at slow fires? |
11251 | Why should he not meet him as well as any one else? |
11251 | Why should it be? |
11251 | Why then did Mr. Macaulay not content himself with beginning where Mackintosh left off-- that is, with the Revolution? |
11251 | Why was this? |
11251 | Why"inexplicable"? |
11251 | Why, on the theory of creation, should this be so? |
11251 | Why, then, is this prerogative of punishment, so eminently paternal, to be withheld from a paternal government? |
11251 | Why, then, should not every free inquirer agree with the Church? |
11251 | _ There_, brother? |
11251 | _ Tickler._ Southey-- Coleridge-- Moore? |
11251 | and by what Greek minor poems are they surpassed? |
11251 | and the"What then, sir?" |
11251 | and what Greek historian has written anything similar or comparable to the sublime peroration of the_ Life of Agricola_? |
11251 | and what, in the matter of_ tones_ and_ sounds_, is the effect of_ frankness_? |
11251 | and whoever thinks of comparing the two poems? |
11251 | and why, good Johnny Keats? |
11251 | for why is the striping of one species a less real difficulty than the striping of many? |
11251 | or are they not eminently and conspicuously such as could not by possibility belong to it? |
11251 | or to be better? |
11251 | she spoke in a deeply- shaken, half- smothered voice:"what right have I given you to insult me?" |
11251 | think you he did wait? |
6081 | And of himselfe imaginid he ofte To ben defaitid, pale and woxin lesse Than he was wonte, and that men saidin softe, What may it be? 6081 And what, Sir,"he said, after a short pause,"might the cost be?" |
6081 | Only three guineas for selling a thousand copies of a work in two volumes? |
6081 | Queen of all harmonious things, Dancing words and speaking strings, What god, what hero, wilt thou sing? 6081 STATUE- GHOST.--Will you not relent and feel remorse? |
6081 | Was not this love? 6081 What then are we to understand? |
6081 | --"Thirty and two pages? |
6081 | --a sophism, which I fully agree with Warburton, is unworthy of Milton; how much more so of the awful Person, in whose mouth he has placed it? |
6081 | --or have brought all the different marks and circumstances of a sealoch before the mind, as the actions of a living and acting power? |
6081 | --or have spoken of boys with a string of club- moss round their rusty hats, as the boys"with their green coronal?" |
6081 | A man of fortune? |
6081 | Alexander and Clytus!--Flattery? |
6081 | Alexander and Clytus!--anger-- drunkenness-- pride-- friendship-- ingratitude-- late repentance? |
6081 | And by the latter in consequence only of the former? |
6081 | And by what rules could he direct his choice, which would not have enabled him to select and arrange his words by the light of his own judgment? |
6081 | And how came the percipient here? |
6081 | And how can I do this better than by pointing out its gallant attention to the ladies? |
6081 | And how much, did you say, there was to be for the money?" |
6081 | And since then, Sir--? |
6081 | And to what law can their motions be subjected but that of time? |
6081 | And what is become of the wonder- promising Matter, that was to perform all these marvels by force of mere figure, weight and motion? |
6081 | And yet, though under this impression, should have commenced his critique in vulgar exultation with a prophecy meant to secure its own fulfilment? |
6081 | Anna mia, Anna dolce, oh sempre nuovo E piu chiaro concento, Quanta dolcezza sento In sol Anna dicendo? |
6081 | Are they the style used in the ordinary intercourse of spoken words? |
6081 | As eyes, for which the former has pre- determined their field of vision, and to which, as to its organ, it communicates a microscopic power? |
6081 | But I must yield, for this"( what?) |
6081 | But Milton-- D. Aye Milton, indeed!--but do not Dr. Johnson and other great men tell us, that nobody now reads Milton but as a task? |
6081 | But are books the only channel through which the stream of intellectual usefulness can flow? |
6081 | But are such rhetorical caprices condemnable only for their deviation from the language of real life? |
6081 | But is this a poet, of whom a poet is speaking? |
6081 | But is this the order, in which the rustic would have placed the words? |
6081 | But now, perplex''d by what the Old Man had said, My question eagerly did I renew,''How is it that you live, and what is it you do?'' |
6081 | But tell me, do tell me,--Is I not, now and den, speak some fault? |
6081 | But what is there to account for the prodigy of the tempest at Bertram''s shipwreck? |
6081 | But where are the evidences of the danger, to which a future historian can appeal? |
6081 | But where findeth he wisdom? |
6081 | But why need I appeal to these invidious facts? |
6081 | But why should I say retire? |
6081 | But why then do you pretend to admire Shakespeare? |
6081 | By meditation, rather than by observation? |
6081 | By reflection? |
6081 | CHAPTER XXIII Quid quod praefatione praemunierim libellum, qua conor omnem offendiculi ansam praecidere? |
6081 | Can any candid and intelligent mind hesitate in determining, which of these best represents the tendency and native character of the poet''s genius? |
6081 | Coleridge?" |
6081 | D. But do you not know, that he has distributed papers and hand- bills of a seditious nature among the common people? |
6081 | Dear, could my heart not break, When with my pleasures ev''n my rest was gone? |
6081 | Devils, say you? |
6081 | Does e''en thy age bear Memory of so terrible a storm? |
6081 | Does he not send for a posse of constables or thief- takers to handcuff the villain, or take him either to Bedlam or Newgate? |
6081 | Does not the Prior act? |
6081 | E che non fammi, O sassi, O rivi, o belue, o Dii, questa mia vaga Non so, se ninfa, o magna, Non so, se donna, o Dea, Non so, se dolce o rea? |
6081 | For surely these words could never mean, that a painter may have a person sit to him who afterwards may leave the room or perhaps the country? |
6081 | For to what law can the action of material atoms be subject, but that of proximity in place? |
6081 | For wherein does the realism of mankind properly consist? |
6081 | Had she remained constant? |
6081 | Harp? |
6081 | Hast sent the hare? |
6081 | Have we not flown off to the contrary extreme?] |
6081 | Here then shall I conclude? |
6081 | How can we make bricks without straw;--or build without cement? |
6081 | How convened? |
6081 | How is the reader at the mercy of such men? |
6081 | How shall I explain this? |
6081 | How then? |
6081 | How, therefore, is the poor husband to amuse himself in this interval of her penance? |
6081 | How? |
6081 | However, as once for all, you have dismissed the well- known events and personages of history, or the epic muse, what have you taken in their stead? |
6081 | I began then to ask myself, what proof I had of the outward existence of anything? |
6081 | I know all about it!--But what can anybody say more than this? |
6081 | IMOG.--(with a frantic laugh) The forest fiend hath snatched him-- He( who? |
6081 | If a man be asked how he knows that he is? |
6081 | If he continue to read their nonsense, is it not his own fault? |
6081 | If it be asked,"But what shall I deem such?" |
6081 | If possible, what are its necessary conditions? |
6081 | In fancy I can almost hear him now, exclaiming"Harp? |
6081 | In the assertion that there exists a something without them, what, or how, or where they know not, which occasions the objects of their perception? |
6081 | In what sense does he read"the eternal deep?" |
6081 | In what sense is a child of that age a Philosopher? |
6081 | In what sense is he declared to be"for ever haunted"by the Supreme Being? |
6081 | Is I not in some wrong? |
6081 | Is I not speak English very fine? |
6081 | Is it comedy? |
6081 | Is it obtained by wandering about in search of angry or jealous people in uncultivated society, in order to copy their words? |
6081 | Is it, perhaps, that you only pretend to admire him? |
6081 | Is the diffusion of truth to be estimated by publications; or publications by the truth, which they diffuse or at least contain? |
6081 | Is there one word, for instance, attributed to the pedlar in THE EXCURSION, characteristic of a Pedlar? |
6081 | Is, is-- I mean to ask you now, my dear friend-- is I not very eloquent? |
6081 | It can not surely be, that the four lines, immediately following, are to contain the explanation? |
6081 | JOHN.--Are these some of your retinue? |
6081 | Lastly, if you ask me, whether I have read THE MESSIAH, and what I think of it? |
6081 | Learning, Sir? |
6081 | Lyre? |
6081 | Metre in itself is simply a stimulant of the attention, and therefore excites the question: Why is the attention to be thus stimulated? |
6081 | Muse, boy, Muse? |
6081 | My beauty, little child, is flown, But thou wilt live with me in love; And what if my poor cheek be brown? |
6081 | Need the rank have been at all particularized, where nothing follows which the knowledge of that rank is to explain or illustrate? |
6081 | No!--A clerk? |
6081 | No!--A merchant''s traveller? |
6081 | No!--A merchant? |
6081 | No!--Un Philosophe, perhaps? |
6081 | Only fourteen years old? |
6081 | Or between that of rage and that of jealousy? |
6081 | Or even if this were admitted, has the poet no property in his works? |
6081 | Or have represented the reflection of the sky in the water, as"That uncertain heaven received into the bosom of the steady lake?" |
6081 | Or in the IDLE SHEPHERD- BOYS? |
6081 | Or in the LUCY GRAY? |
6081 | Or is wealth the only rational object of human interest? |
6081 | Or must he rest on an assertion? |
6081 | Or not far rather by the power of imagination proceeding upon the all in each of human nature? |
6081 | Or on the other, that they are not prosaic, and for that reason unpoetic? |
6081 | Or that it is vicious, and that the stanzas are blots in THE FAERY QUEEN? |
6081 | Or where can the poet have lived? |
6081 | Our whole information[ 84] is derived from the following words--"PRIOR.--Where is thy child? |
6081 | Over what place, thought I, does the moon hang to your eye, my dearest friend? |
6081 | P. But I pray you, friend, in what actions great or interesting, can such men be engaged? |
6081 | P. It is your own poor pettifogging nature then, which you desire to have represented before you?--not human nature in its height and vigour? |
6081 | Pierian spring? |
6081 | Quid autem facias istis, qui vel ob ingenii pertinaciam sibi satisfieri nolint, vel stupidiores sint, quam ut satisfactionem intelligant? |
6081 | Say rather how dare I be ashamed of the Teutonic theosophist, Jacob Behmen? |
6081 | Sir, the men are without number, and infinite blindness supplies the place of sight? |
6081 | Such a position therefore must, in the first instance be demanded, and the first question will be, by what right is it demanded? |
6081 | That there exist no inconveniences, who will pretend to assert? |
6081 | The grammar, Sir? |
6081 | To their question,"Why did you choose such a character, or a character from such a rank of life?" |
6081 | Vel-- and vat is dhat? |
6081 | Was it ambition? |
6081 | Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write Above a mortal pitch that struck me dead? |
6081 | What God? |
6081 | What Man shall we celebrate? |
6081 | What can be more accurate yet more lovely than the two concluding stanzas? |
6081 | What happy man to equal glories bring? |
6081 | What has a plain citizen of London, or Hamburg, to do with your kings and queens, and your old school- boy Pagan heroes? |
6081 | What have you heard? |
6081 | What heroes has she reared on her buskins? |
6081 | What if he himself has owned, that beauties as great are scattered in abundance throughout the whole book? |
6081 | What literary man has not regretted the prudery of Spratt in refusing to let his friend Cowley appear in his slippers and dressing gown? |
6081 | What then did he mean? |
6081 | What then may you be? |
6081 | What then shall we say? |
6081 | What? |
6081 | Whence gained he the superiority of foresight? |
6081 | Whence then cometh wisdom? |
6081 | Where dwelleth understanding? |
6081 | Where is the place of understanding? |
6081 | Where is thy child? |
6081 | Who also can deny a portion of sublimity to the tremendous consistency with which he stands out the last fearful trial, like a second Prometheus? |
6081 | Who can listen to you for a minute, who can even look at you, without perceiving the extent of it? |
6081 | Who dares suspect it? |
6081 | Who dies, that bears Not one spurn to the grave of their friends''gift? |
6081 | Who lives, that''s not Depraved or depraves? |
6081 | Whom has your tragic muse armed with her bowl and dagger? |
6081 | Why dost thou urge her with the horrid theme? |
6081 | Why need I be afraid? |
6081 | Why, I repeat, do you pretend to admire Shakespeare? |
6081 | Will it be contended on the one side, that these lines are mean and senseless? |
6081 | Would then the mere superaddition of metre, with or without rhyme, entitle these to the name of poems? |
6081 | Yet will Mr. Wordsworth say, that the style of the following stanza is either undistinguished from prose, and the language of ordinary life? |
6081 | and are they by no other means to be precluded, but by the rejection of all distinctions between prose and verse, save that of metre? |
6081 | and what are they? |
6081 | and what do you know of the person in question? |
6081 | are not our modern sentimental plays filled with the best Christian morality? |
6081 | by conscious intuition? |
6081 | by knowledge? |
6081 | does he ever harangue the people? |
6081 | e qual pur forte? |
6081 | have his daughters brought him to this pass? |
6081 | is--? |
6081 | non vonne errando, E non piango, e non grido? |
6081 | only three guineas for the what d''ye call it-- the selleridge?" |
6081 | or by any form or modification of consciousness? |
6081 | or hast thou swallow''d her?" |
6081 | or how can it be called the child, if it be no part of the child''s conscious being? |
6081 | or so inspired as to deserve the splendid titles of a Mighty Prophet, a blessed Seer? |
6081 | or, if convened, Must not the magic power that charms together Millions of men in council, needs have power To win or wield them? |
6081 | the fiend or the child?) |
6081 | the sentimental muse I should have said, whom you have seated in the throne of tragedy? |
6081 | thou hast something seen?" |
6081 | what Hero? |
6081 | what could this mean? |
6081 | what man to join with these can worthy prove? |
6081 | who can the sothe gesse, Why Troilus hath al this hevinesse? |
6081 | without some lehrning? |