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