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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25808 | IS HE STILL IN BERLIN; OR WHERE IN THE UNIVERSE IS HE? |
25808 | QUESTION,"WHO WROTE Matinees du Roi de Prusse? |
25808 | SUCCINCT HISTORY OF THE SPANISH WAR, WHICH BEGAN IN 1739; AND ENDED-- WHEN DID IT END? |
25808 | WHAT IS PERPETUAL PRESIDENT MAUPERTUIS DOING, ALL THIS WHILE? |
25808 | WHO WAS TO BLAME FOR THE AUSTRIAN- SUCCESSION WAR? |
2101 | Justify? 2101 ''Nevertheless, Madam,''said I,''does not your Majesty place really your trust in God? 2101 -- So that, it would seem, there WILL gradually among mankind, if Friedrich last some centuries, be a real Epic made of his History? 2101 --Which will mean also that M. de la Bergerie may go home? 2101 --While this was going on, her Brother, Duke Ernst August, came into the Queen''s room,--perhaps with his eye upon me and my motions? |
2101 | 74( quoting_ Memoires du Comte de Dohna);_& c.& c.]--about what? |
2101 | A Crown- Prince of Prussia, ought he not to learn soldiering, of all things; by every opportunity? |
2101 | All that he did was to knock at the gate( the Kaiser''s gate and the world''s), and ask,"IS it achieved, then?" |
2101 | And then her mind,--for gifts, for graces, culture, where will you find such a mind? |
2101 | And what did he achieve and suffer in the world?" |
2101 | Are you for Bedlam, then?" |
2101 | But now, how extricate the man from his Century? |
2101 | But what else was possible? |
2101 | Curiosity quickened, or which should be quickened, by the great and all- absorbing question, How is that same exploded Past ever to settle down again? |
2101 | Do not you fly(_ n''a- t- elle pas recours_) to the blood and merits of Jesus Christ, without which it is impossible for us to stand before God?'' |
2101 | Do you not very earnestly(_ bien serieusement_) crave pardon of Him for all the sins you have committed? |
2101 | Does not the new Sovereign Lady, in her heart, wish YOU were dead, my Prince? |
2101 | Elector Friedrich was indeed advised, in cipher, by his agent at Vienna, to write in person to--"Who is that cipher, then?" |
2101 | Every original man of any magnitude is;--nay, in the long- run, who or what else is? |
2101 | Has the reader heard of Sauerteig''s last batch of_ Springwurzeln,_ a rather curious valedictory Piece? |
2101 | Hope it perhaps? |
2101 | How did the like of him contrive to achieve Kingship? |
2101 | Is Brandenburg grown ripe for having a crown? |
2101 | Kaiser, Karl or Charles VI.? |
2101 | Let us give some Excerpt, in condensed state:--"How can St. Jerome, for example, be a key to Scripture?" |
2101 | Men not"of genius,"apparently? |
2101 | One question only are we a little interested in: How he came by the Kingship? |
2101 | Such waste of labor and of means: what can one do but be silent? |
2101 | We are to try for some Historical Conception of this Man and King; some answer to the questions,"What was he, then? |
2101 | What doomed dog questions it, then? |
2101 | What remains but that I blow my brains out, and do at length one true action?" |
2101 | Whence, how? |
2101 | Why not give him this promotion; since it costs us absolutely nothing real, not even the price of a yard of ribbon with metal cross at the end of it? |
2101 | Will it be needful for you to grant Brandenburg a crown? |
2101 | [ Mirabeau,_ Histoire Secrete de la Cour de Berlin,_ Lettre 28?? |
2101 | [ Mirabeau,_ Histoire Secrete de la Cour de Berlin,_ Lettre 28?? |
2101 | at Madrid, 1st November, 1700, for whose heritages all the world stood watching with swords half drawn, considerably assist Pater Wolf? |
2102 | Soft, your Hungarian Majesty,thinks Jobst:"till my cash is paid, may it not probably be another?" |
2102 | We are clear, then, at this date? |
2102 | What is it, then? |
2102 | Whip my Abbot? 2102 --How it came about? 2102 67,?? 2102 67,?? 2102 A servant waiting at dinner inadvertently let slip the word:--Zisca there? |
2102 | After Barbarossa, Coeur- de- Lion and Philippe Auguste have tried it with such failure, what wise man will be in haste to try it again? |
2102 | And for the Order a happy time? |
2102 | And he IS to pay, then,--Archbishop of Beelzebub?" |
2102 | Body, all cut in pieces, and nailed to poles, had long ignominiously withered in the wind; perhaps it was now only buried overnight for the nonce? |
2102 | But now, How raise such a ransom, our very jewels being sold? |
2102 | Confused crank machine this of the German Empire too, your Majesty? |
2102 | Conrad retires into himself:"What is her real sin, perhaps, to mine?" |
2102 | Grow fat, become luxurious, incredulous, dissolute, insolent; and need to be burnt out of the way? |
2102 | It was very dangerous to go;--and with what likelihood of speeding? |
2102 | It will never leave off its dire worship of Satan, then? |
2102 | Kaiser of the Holy Roman Empire, and so much else: is not Sigismund now a great man? |
2102 | Law thy hand created for protection of thy children: but where now is Law? |
2102 | Lies buried in Quedlinburg Abbey:--any Tomb? |
2102 | No hope in the SCHWERTBRUDER for Prussia;--and in massacred Missionaries what hope? |
2102 | Or will the reader care to know how Culmbach came into the possession of the Hohenzollerns, Burggraves of Nurnberg? |
2102 | Otto''s Wife, all streaming in tears, and flaming in zeal, what shall she do? |
2102 | Regardless of God and man, and of the last look of a dying Brother? |
2102 | Sovereignty of multiplex Princes, with a Peerage of intermediate Robber Barons? |
2102 | Stork, when wilt thou appear, then,"and with thy stiff mandibles act upon them a little? |
2102 | The Teutsch Order helps valiantly in Palestine, or would help; but what is the use of helping? |
2102 | There is no hope of converting Preussen, then? |
2102 | These things were; but they have no History: why should they have any? |
2102 | This was the beginning of Pawnings to Brandenburg; of which when will the end be? |
2102 | Times alter greatly.--Will the reader take a glimpse of Conrad von Thuringen''s biography, as a sample of the old ways of proceeding? |
2102 | What can Dryasdust himself do with them? |
2102 | What multiple of the Equator was it, then, O Dryasdust? |
2102 | Who his Markgraves were? |
2102 | Will you give your daughter to a dog?" |
2102 | YOU have taken Acre?" |
2102 | [ Menckenii_ Scriptores,_ i.?? |
2102 | [ Menckenii_ Scriptores,_ i.?? |
2102 | xi.?? |
2102 | xi.?? |
2108 | ''Was it not your intention to go to England?'' 2108 ''You have learned nothing of what is to become of me?'' |
2108 | The first sane step was to throw myself at the feet of the King: King said,''Are you content with me? 2108 What is wrong, Herr General?" |
2108 | What to make of all this? |
2108 | Whereupon the King asked him:''Was it thou that temptedst Katte; or did Katte tempt thee?'' 2108 Years''imprisonment? |
2108 | ''O Heaven, my Brother?'' |
2108 | --Well; but was Schlubhut sentenced to hanging? |
2108 | --Why then, O Princess? |
2108 | And MAY my ursine heart flow out again, and blubber gratefully over a sinner saved, a poor Son plucked as brand from the burning? |
2108 | Apologies, subterfuges do but provoke him farther; it is not long till he starts up, growling terribly:"IHR SCHURKEN( Ye Scoundrels), how could you?" |
2108 | Are we become as Hebrew Elijahs, then; so that the wild ravens have to bring us food? |
2108 | As my Father brought him proofs from Scripture, the Prince asked him one time, How he could keep chapter and verse so exactly in his memory? |
2108 | But what the Prince, in his own heart, thought of it all; how he looked, talked, lived, in unofficial times? |
2108 | Crown- Prince said:''I should like to know what that good old gentleman does with a Mistress?'' |
2108 | Crown- Prince, when I did, in some interval of the dance, report this of Grumkow, and say, Why so changed and cold, then, Brother of my heart? |
2108 | Did readers ever hear of such a thing? |
2108 | Do n''t you see those strangers who have just come in?'' |
2108 | Do you keep two weights and two measures, in that Criminal- Collegium of yours, then? |
2108 | Does He( ER) know what stealing means, then? |
2108 | For, in the first place, your Highness, is it not written in the Law of God, Adulterers shall not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven?" |
2108 | Frustrate, bankrupt, chargeable with a friend''s lost life, sure enough he, for one, is: what is to become of him? |
2108 | He caressed me greatly( ME GRACIEUSA FORT); afterwards questioned me about my way of life in Vienna; and asked, if I had diverted myself well there? |
2108 | How the commonest convicted private thief finds the gallows his portion; much more a public Magistrate convicted of theft? |
2108 | I then took the liberty of saying:''Monseigneur, the most, at present, depends on yourself.--''How so?'' |
2108 | Is He aware that He, in a very especial manner, deserves hanging, then?" |
2108 | Is theft in the highest quarters a thing to be let off for refunding?" |
2108 | Jamaica, say you? |
2108 | King LOQUITUR:--"How do you like your Custrin life? |
2108 | Modest travelling- equipage rolls up into the inner court; to the foot of the grand staircase there, whither only Princes come:--who can it be? |
2108 | Money back? |
2108 | Or IS that all the thanks he has for Wilhelmina? |
2108 | Or shall his Majesty compel him?" |
2108 | Papa, in hopeful moments, asks himself:"To whom shall we marry him, then; how settle him?" |
2108 | Poor Wilhelmina never thought of disobeying her parents: only, which of them to obey? |
2108 | Poor old Hesse could not tell:"God is my witness, no penny of them eyer stuck to me,"asseverated poor old Hesse;"but where they are--? |
2108 | Refund? |
2108 | Sugar? |
2108 | Suspects poison, you think? |
2108 | Truly, yes; where is the liberty of private capital or liberty of almost any kind, on those terms? |
2108 | What Seckendorf and Grumkow thought of all these phenomena? |
2108 | What can be the meaning of it? |
2108 | What has become of these thousands, Sir? |
2108 | What shall we say? |
2108 | Whither is he to turn, thoroughly beaten, foiled in all his enterprises? |
2108 | Who knows but, of all the offers she had,"four"or three"crowned heads"among them, this final modest honest one may be intrinsically the best? |
2108 | answers Schlubhut, high mannered at the wrong time:"I can and will pay the money back!"--NOBLE- man? |
2108 | as you called it?" |
2108 | cried I:''But I do n''t see him; where is he? |
2108 | of Spain, leaving a younger Son to be King of Naples, ancestor of the now Majesty there?" |
2108 | thinks the desperate young man? |
2104 | A_ Candidatus Theoligiae,_ your Majesty,answered a handfast threadbare youth one day, when questioned in this manner.--"Where from?" |
2104 | For the Housemaids at Wusterhausen,Do n''t I pay them myself? |
2104 | Was it not Catholic once? |
2104 | Who are you? |
2104 | Yes, truly, too many of them; but there are exceptions; I know two.--"Two? |
2104 | --Surely not so many as four hundred, you too witty Princess? |
2104 | 418,? |
2104 | Admire?" |
2104 | All right here?" |
2104 | And the Pretender is coming again, they say? |
2104 | And then the execution, the realizing, amid the contradiction, silent or expressed, of men and things? |
2104 | And truly we might ask, What has become of the other more considerable"spheres"in that epoch? |
2104 | At which"correspondence,"when the Facts are once well recognized, he has at last to ask himself with amazement,"Did I ever recognize it, then?" |
2104 | Bargain clear enough: but will this Karl Philip incline to keep it? |
2104 | But Nature is still capable of such products: if in Hellas long ages since, why not in Brandenburg now? |
2104 | CORPS EVANGELICORUM, so presided over as at present, what can be had of such a Corpus? |
2104 | Fever, pestilence, are bad for the body; but Doubt, impious mutiny, doubly impious hypocrisy, are these nothing for the mind? |
2104 | For the poor Heidelberg Consistorium, as they could not undertake to give up their Church on request of his Serenity,--"How dare we, or can we?" |
2104 | For, in fact, he was dangerous; and would ask in an alarming manner,"Who are you?" |
2104 | Heathen Latins, Romans;--who perhaps were no great things of Heathen, after all, if well seen into? |
2104 | His favorite dish at dinner was bacon and greens, rightly dressed; what could the French Cook do for such a man? |
2104 | How could they? |
2104 | In King Friedrich''s time, there were wo nt to be a thousand saddle- horses at corn and hay: but how many of them were in actual use? |
2104 | Instantly after which, my Son shall get into bed; shall be in bed at half- past 10;"--and fall asleep how soon, your Majesty? |
2104 | Is not this an ursine man- of- genius, in some sort, as we once defined him? |
2104 | May we not say that, in matter of religion too, Friedrich was but ill- bested? |
2104 | No help for it, so sore as it goes against us:"Why will the very King whom I most respect compel me to be his enemy?" |
2104 | One of their words,"RAGOTIN( Stumpy),"whom does the reader think it designates? |
2104 | Or will the Kaiser, his Jesuits advising him, interfere to do us justice? |
2104 | Partly a kind of Milton''s- Devil physiognomy? |
2104 | People dreaded it might be a"Spectre"of Swedish tendencies; aiming to burn the Palace, spirit off the Royal Children, and do one knew not what? |
2104 | Perhaps? |
2104 | Poor Fritz, they say, had tears in his eyes; but what help in tears? |
2104 | Posthorses,"two hundred and eighty- seven at every station,"he has from the Community; but the rest of his expenses, from Memel all the way to Wesel? |
2104 | So that here is the Majesty of Prussia, who beyond all men abhors lies, giving orders to tell one? |
2104 | The money saved is something, nothing if you will; but the amount of mendacity expunged, has any one computed that? |
2104 | The supremest loud- trumpeting"political activities"which then filled the world and its newspapers, what has the upshot of them universally been? |
2104 | Then have you anything to drink?" |
2104 | This new KUR- PFALZ( Elector- Palatine) Karl Philip is by genealogy-- who, thinks the reader? |
2104 | Was there ever seen such a travelling tagraggery of a Sovereign Court before? |
2104 | We infer only that everything went by inflexible routine; not asking at all, WHAT pupil?--nor much, Whether it would suit any pupil? |
2104 | What help for it? |
2104 | What is Justice but another form of the REALITY we love; a truth acted out? |
2104 | What is to be done with them? |
2104 | Without subsidies, do you think, so many as 15,000? |
2104 | [ Carlyle''s_ Miscellanies,_ v.? |
2104 | and"Whether he, Friedrich Wilhelm, ought not perhaps himself to be Director?" |
2104 | which then?" |
2105 | Balance of Power, they tell me, is in a dreadful way: certainly if one can help the Balance a little, why not? 2105 In God''s name, what is the real truth of all that?" |
2105 | Kaiser''s messenger, why not? |
2105 | What is that? |
2105 | Who is that? |
2105 | --"Lost it, say you?" |
2105 | 348,? |
2105 | 78,? |
2105 | A very Dictionary of a man; who knows, in a manner, all things; and is by no means ignorant that he knows them: Would not this man suit his Majesty? |
2105 | Alas, and why not? |
2105 | An appropriate enough catastrophe, comfortable to the reader; upon which perhaps he will not grudge to read still another word? |
2105 | An iracund bear, of dangerous proportions, and justly irritated against us at present? |
2105 | And if the thing had been only a popular Myth, is it not a significant one? |
2105 | And now, at some Guard- house of the place, a Prussian Officer inquires, not too reverently of a nobleman without carriage,"Who are you?" |
2105 | And they hope that he will do it? |
2105 | And who may you be that ask?" |
2105 | And yet who dare interfere? |
2105 | Another is, to make alliance with Russia, by well flattering the poor little brown Czarina there: but is not that a still poorer? |
2105 | At the appointed day he reappears; the chest is ready;--we hope, an unexceptionable article? |
2105 | Best chance, instead of the worst chance as at present: ah me, ah me, who will reduce fools to silence again in any measure? |
2105 | Blockheadism, Unwisdom, while silent, is reckoned bad; but Blockheadism getting vocal, able to speak persuasively,--have you considered that at all? |
2105 | But Nature''s gifts have not prospered with him: how could they, in that hackney- coach way of life? |
2105 | But by disobedience, by rebellion open or secret? |
2105 | Colic? |
2105 | Did"the Old Pretender,"who was then in his expectant period, in this same village of St. Germain, see it too, as Fassmann did? |
2105 | Echo answers, What? |
2105 | Finding Anton Ulrich still continue Protestant, she wrote to him out of Spain:--"Why, O honored Grandpapa, have you not done as you promised? |
2105 | Grumkow, purchased by his Pension of 500 pounds, is dog- cheap at the Money, as Seckendorf often urges at Vienna, Is he not? |
2105 | Has his Majesty no prize questions to propose, then? |
2105 | He is two years older than my little Wilhelmina: why should not they we d, and the two chief Protestant Houses, and Nations, thereby be united?" |
2105 | He once officially put these learned Associates upon ascertaining for him"Why Champagne foamed?" |
2105 | He said to himself, Why should not my Netherlands trade to the East, as well as these English and Dutch, and grow opulent like them? |
2105 | Here are mines of native Darkness and Human Stupidity, capable of being made to phosphoresce and effervesce,--are there not, your Majesty? |
2105 | How else can we be certain of getting those indispensable Apanages, when they fall vacant?" |
2105 | Majesty, in Tabagie, notices Gundling''s coat- breast:"Where is your Key, then, Herr Kammerherr?" |
2105 | Nay at length the Kaiser''s Ostend Company came to light: what will third parties, Dutch and English especially, make of that? |
2105 | Or perhaps that their affairs will go thither of their own accord? |
2105 | Perhaps the poetic temperament is more liable to such morbid biases, influxes of imaginative crotchet, and mere folly that can not be cured? |
2105 | Poor Kirkman, does he sometimes think of the Hill of Howth, and that he will never see it more? |
2105 | Pretty little Grandson this, your Majesty;--any future of history in this one, think you? |
2105 | The Troubles of Thorn( sad enough Papist- Protestant tragedy in their time),--who now cares to know of them? |
2105 | Usage? |
2105 | Was there ever seen such horse- play? |
2105 | What in the world has become of it? |
2105 | Why they sent the poor little Lady home on those shocking terms? |
2105 | You would have said, the first question he asks of every creature is,"Will you covenant for my Pragmatic Sanction with me? |
2105 | You, therefore, what is the good of you? |
2105 | and his Majesty looks dreadfully grave.--"Key lost?" |
2105 | inquired his Majesty, of the practical man:"DOES Wolf teach hellish doctrines; as Lange says, or heavenly, as himself says?" |
2105 | our precious Cousin, of Schwedt, is not he Sister''s- son of that Old Dessauer? |
2105 | thinks his Majesty:"And what are the laws, if an ignorant fellow is shot, and a learned wise one escapes?" |
2105 | thinks his Prussian Majesty:--"Who knows?" |
2110 | Baron von Obergwas the other:--Hanoverian Baron: the same who went into the Wars, and was a"General von Oberg"twenty years hence? |
2110 | Change in the value of money? |
2110 | Has all success forsaken me, then, since Eugene died? |
2110 | He had no trial; but was there any doubt he had justice? 2110 M. de Voltaire( for we now drop the Arouet altogether, and never hear of it more) came to England-- when? |
2110 | Ought to be refuted by somebody? |
2110 | Such a bulk of light luggage? |
2110 | We hate war; but can not quite do without justice, your Serenity,thinks Friedrich Wilhelm:"must it be the eighty thousand iron ramrods, then?" |
2110 | Well,--is there anything more? 2110 What have you been reading lately, M. de Beausobre?" |
2110 | What is the use of arguing with anybody that can believe in Machiavel? |
2110 | ''Can not come,''answers Arouet;''how can I, so engaged?'' |
2110 | ''Hm, the Rising Sun?'' |
2110 | ''In ever- talking, ever- printing Paris, is it as in Timbuctoo, then, which neither prints nor has anything to print?'' |
2110 | ''Monseigneur de Sulli, is not such atrocity done to one of your guests, an insult to yourself?'' |
2110 | --"Alas, not long,"answered Pitsch.--"Say not, alas; but how do you( He) know?" |
2110 | --"And what?" |
2110 | --"Impossible,"said he, lifting his arm:"how could I move my fingers so, if the pulse were gone?" |
2110 | --Much oppression, forcing men to build in Berlin.--"Oppression? |
2110 | --To which the response is:"Hm, think you so, most happy, gracious, illustrious Prince, with every convenience round you, and such prospects ahead? |
2110 | All at once the Crown- Prince steps in; direct from Reinsberg:[ 12th April, 1740? |
2110 | Allies? |
2110 | And Mr. Pulteney exclaimed: Palatinate? |
2110 | And why do so few Princes seek this glory? |
2110 | And yet who knows but, in his very simplicity, there lay something far beyond the Ill Margraf to whom he was so quizzable? |
2110 | As I advanced, he asked,''Whence I came, and whitherward I was going?'' |
2110 | Bog- meteor, foolish putrescent will- o''-wisp, his Majesty promptly defined it to be: Tom- foolery and KINDERSPIEL, what else? |
2110 | But is there no help? |
2110 | Can not we get away from this scurvy wasp''s- nest of a Paris, thought they, and live to ourselves and our books? |
2110 | Concerning which will the reader accept this condensed testimony by an eye- witness? |
2110 | Derschau, you who managed it?" |
2110 | Did modern readers ever hear of"John Pine, the celebrated English Engraver"? |
2110 | Has not Jenkins''s Ear re- emerged, with a vengeance? |
2110 | Has not this Kaiser lost his outlying properties at a fearful rate? |
2110 | His bow to the divine Princess Caroline and suite, could it fail in graceful reverence or what else was needed? |
2110 | Hm!--And then there is forgiveness of enemies; your Majesty is bound to forgive all men, or how can you ask to be forgiven? |
2110 | How soon shall it be realized, then? |
2110 | Kaiser and Reich, with the other Mediating Powers, go on mediating; but when will they decide? |
2110 | Kaiser, so ruined lately, how can he send thirty thousand, and keep them recruited, in such distant expedition? |
2110 | Maypole Schulenburg the lean Aunt, Ex- Mistress of George I., over in London,--I think she must now be dead? |
2110 | Might build, new- build, an ACADEMY OF SCIENCES at Berlin for your Royal Highness, one day? |
2110 | Or did the reader ever hear of"M. Fredersdorf,"Head Valet at this time? |
2110 | Perhaps it is so with the rest of these Serenities, here fallen upon evil tongues?] |
2110 | Quitted England-- when? |
2110 | Readers remember how Jenkins''s Ear re- emerged, Spring gone a year, in a blazing condition? |
2110 | Shall we add the subsequent felicities of Anton Ulrich here; or wait till another opportunity?" |
2110 | She is in the family- way, this summer 1737, a very young lady still; result thought to be due-- When? |
2110 | The rest of its history either pure somnambulism; or a mere Controversy, to the effect,''Realized Voltairism? |
2110 | The very name VOLTAIRE, if you ask whence came it? |
2110 | This was the chosen soul''s employment of Friedrich, the flower of life to him, at Reinsberg, through the yea? |
2110 | To all which Roloff, a courageous pious man, answers with discreet words and shakings of the head,"Did I behave ill, then; did I ever do injustice?" |
2110 | What date? |
2110 | What may not Francois hope to become? |
2110 | _''Quel est done ce jeune homme qui parle si haut,_ Who is this young man that talks so loud, then?'' |
2110 | pretending to use me in this manner, is it other, in the court of Rhadamanthus, than transcendent Stupidity, with transcendent Insolence superadded?'' |
2110 | was it not their benefit, as well as Berlin''s and the Country''s? |
2117 | Can not? 2117 Enter that room? |
2117 | How get across the Elbe? |
2117 | Plunge into the Austrians with a will: Prussian Soldiery,--can Austrians resist it? 2117 Prisoners of War,--to keep them locked up, with trouble and expense, in that fashion? |
2117 | The''League with Russia against you''is nonextant, a thing of your imagination: Have not we already answered? |
2117 | Tried? |
2117 | YOU will? |
2117 | ''What? |
2117 | --and in what humor Bruhl answered:"Hah? |
2117 | 159,? |
2117 | A most triumphant thing, thinks Hanbury: Could another of you have done it? |
2117 | Alas, my heavy- laden constitutional heart; but what can we do? |
2117 | And do you think it can be the interest of your Master[ and his Scarlet Woman] to abandon us to the fury of our enemies? |
2117 | And the French,--what are the French? |
2117 | And this does hinder, effectually while it continues:"How march to Bohemia, and leave the road blocked in our rear?" |
2117 | Archives of a crowned Head? |
2117 | Are not Excellency Broglio, and France, and Austria, and the whole world at our back?" |
2117 | At Pirna are plenty of boats; and by oar and track- rope, the River itself might be a road for them? |
2117 | Austria, it appears, is quite ungrateful:"Was n''t he bound?" |
2117 | Bruhl and Polish Majesty''s Army, still only about 18,000, have their apprehensions of such visit: but what can they do? |
2117 | But how return on our steps? |
2117 | But unless Browne''s Army had wings, how is it ever to get there? |
2117 | Did not he use them as a cloak for highway robbery, and swallowing of a peaceable Saxony, bad man that he surely is?" |
2117 | Eight miles of abysmal roads, our horses all extenuated? |
2117 | Fact how accomplished; by what methods? |
2117 | Friedrich, who likes Nivernois and his polite ways, answers quizzingly:"Island of Tobago? |
2117 | Hitherto the axiom always was,"Prussia the Adjunct and Satellite of France:"now to be entirely reversed, you say? |
2117 | I am told, they are but weak in those posts; surely, by double impetus, and dead- lift effort from us both, they CAN be forced? |
2117 | Indignant Broglio reappeared, next day, on foot; Lieutenant- General Prince Friedrich Eugen of Wurtemberg the chief man in charge:''Do you dare?'' |
2117 | Is it so wonderful that she does, by degrees, rise into eminent suspicion, anger, fear, violence and vehemence against her bad neighbor? |
2117 | Island of Tobago( a deserted, litigated, but pretty Island, were it ever ours), will not that entice this King, intent on Commerce?" |
2117 | Kings and Queens,--yes, and if that were all: but their poor Countries too? |
2117 | Little, or even nothing, of fighting there is: why should there be? |
2117 | Next day Broglio appeared in his state- carriage, formally demanding entrance, free thoroughfare:''Do you dare refuse me?'' |
2117 | Not a measure for imitation, as we said!--How Friedrich defended such hard conduct to the Saxons? |
2117 | Not ruined at all; but foiled, frustrated; and has to devise earnestly,"What next?" |
2117 | Of the question, What is to be done with those Saxons? |
2117 | Perhaps the English will pacify the Russian CATIN for me; tie her, with packthreads, bribes and intrigues, from stirring? |
2117 | Poland is to be stirred up;--has not your Czarish Majesty heard of his intrigues there? |
2117 | Poor Hanover indeed; she reaps little profit from her English honors: what has she had to do with these Transatlantic Colonies of England? |
2117 | Rutowski had not known it, then? |
2117 | Rutowski had said to himself, perhaps not quite with the due rigor of candor proportionate to the rigorous fact:"How get across the Elbe? |
2117 | So that now the loud uproar is reduced to one small question with us, What did he read in those Menzel Documents? |
2117 | Starvation, or the Austrians, which will be first here? |
2117 | The French, in reality a good deal astonished at the Prussian- Britannic Treaty, affected to take it easy:"Treaty for Neutrality of Germany?" |
2117 | The Most Christian Majesty''s Ambassador, and treated in this way? |
2117 | The Pompadour, for instance: who was it that answered,"JE NE LA CONNAIS PAS; I do n''t know her!"? |
2117 | The ill- informed world rang violently, then and long after, with a Controversy,"Was it of his beginning, or Not of his beginning?" |
2117 | The question now is: Will he go back to Budin; or will he try farther towards Schandau? |
2117 | The very Pamphlets printed on it,--cannot Dryasdust give me the number of tons weight, then? |
2117 | These are the two chief Towns, which do all the trade of this region; picturesque places both:--the Tourist remembers Pirna? |
2117 | WE never would sign anything; what have we to do with it? |
2117 | What Fact lying in them was it that Friedrich had to read? |
2117 | What alternative is there? |
2117 | What will Friedrich decide on attempting? |
2117 | Which feat, when Browne hears of it, means to him,"Going to cut me off from Budin, then? |
2117 | Who would now trust us?''" |
2117 | Will not?" |
2117 | Yes, a diabolical pair, they, sure enough:--and the thing they betrayed against their Masters, was that a celestial thing? |
2117 | Yes, of course; nay I am this moment going to the Empress: only you must tell me about what?" |
2117 | counsel they:"You can not drag your ammunitions, say you; your poor couple of big guns? |
2103 | I could borrow the money from the Fuggers of Augsburg,said the Archbishop hesitatingly;"but then--?" |
2103 | Is not she NEAREST of kin? 2103 No salvation possible, says my Dearest? |
2103 | On that condition, jackanapes? |
2103 | Weisse Frau? 2103 What would you have me do towards reforming the Teutsch Order?" |
2103 | Who is this we have got for a Governor? |
2103 | ''s younger Brother) will have to conform to this Treaty of Utrecht: what other possibility for him? |
2103 | --"How agree?" |
2103 | --"Philip is not permitted to go,"said Imperial Officiality;"Philip is to continue here, and we fear go to prison."--"Prison?" |
2103 | --and sit obedient? |
2103 | 109- 158,? |
2103 | 138, 140(? |
2103 | ? |
2103 | A Kaiser chased into the mountains, capable of being seized by a little spurring;--"Capture him?" |
2103 | All Offices, are they not, by nature, ours to share among us?" |
2103 | An inconsistent, treacherous man? |
2103 | And an innocent Court- Mask or Dancing Soiree is criminal in the sight of God and of the Queen? |
2103 | And then Gustavus''s sudden laying- hold of Pommern, which had just escaped from Wallenstein and the Kaiser? |
2103 | And this, then, is the end of Sweden, and its bad neighborhood on these shores, where it has tyrannously sat on our skirts so long? |
2103 | Are there no memorials left of those"English volunteers,"then? |
2103 | But what man that believed in such a Universe as that of this Dead- Sea Pamphleteer could consent to live in it at all? |
2103 | Can not we ride together?" |
2103 | Can two Protestants fall to slashing one another, in such an aspect of the Reich and its Jesuitries?" |
2103 | Complaint emphatic enough:''Where will you find a man that has not suffered injury in his rights, perhaps in his person? |
2103 | Does the reader remember that scene in the High Church of Stettin a hundred and fifty years ago? |
2103 | For which what safe method is there, but that the Kaiser himself become proprietor? |
2103 | He who wants that, what else has he, or can he have? |
2103 | His Despatches, are they in the Paper- Office still? |
2103 | How King Ferdinand permitted himself such a procedure? |
2103 | How could Kaiser Max revoke his Father''s deed, or Kaiser Karl his Great- grandfather''s? |
2103 | If, again, the Ritterdom was not dead--? |
2103 | In Heaven or Earth, then, is there no hope for me? |
2103 | Jarrings were unavoidable; but how mend it? |
2103 | Monkish vows, Pope, Holy Church itself, what is one to think, Herr Doctor? |
2103 | Nay, in fact, to whom will you fling it up? |
2103 | O Heaven, who could laugh? |
2103 | Ora pro nostro Principe;_ der fromme Mann und herzliche Mensch ist doch ja wohl geplaget"( Seckendorf,_ Historia Lutheranismi,_ ii.? |
2103 | Pfalz- Neuburg, who married the Second Daughter, he is actually claiming, then;--the whole, or part? |
2103 | Probably his new allodial Ritter gentlemen were not the most submiss, when made hereditary? |
2103 | Protestant or not Protestant? |
2103 | So the Kaiser, on hardly any pretext, seized Mecklenburg from the Proprietors,--"Traitors, how durst you join Danish Christian?" |
2103 | Suppose we gave the Kaiser''s self a shot, then?" |
2103 | That is very certain: she too is on flight towards Saxony, to shelter with her uncle Kurfurst Johann,--unless for reasons of state he scruple? |
2103 | That were a painful thought?_]; and this one, as his Sister[ WILHELMINA] did, gets them[ THE TEETH] without trouble. |
2103 | The Elector listens with both ears: What Territory, then? |
2103 | The question meant everywhere:"Is there anything of nobleness in you, O Nation, or is there nothing? |
2103 | This was a questionable step; feasible perhaps for a great Elector of Saxony;--but for a Margraf of Anspach? |
2103 | Was this a cheering issue of such an adventure to the poor old expensive Gentleman? |
2103 | What could Father do more? |
2103 | What could an unfortunate Kurfurst do, but tremble and obey? |
2103 | What is to be done? |
2103 | What then is to be done? |
2103 | What were pedlers and mechanic fellows made for, if not to be plundered when needful? |
2103 | Which has been of uncountable advantage to Brandenburg:--how could it fail? |
2103 | Which probably, after all, it may have had, in Nature, some tendency to do? |
2103 | Withdraw, therefore; fling it up!--Fling it up? |
2103 | [ In Carlyle''s_ Miscellanies_( vi.? |
2103 | i.? |
2103 | iv.? |
2109 | ... As to what you tell me of the Princess of Mecklenburg,for whom they want a Brandenburg Prince,--"could not I marry her? |
2109 | Are you actual Protestants, the Treaty of Westphalia applicable to you? 2109 But were you ever at her toilette?" |
2109 | Emigrate, says your Imperial Majesty? 2109 I felt mad to see him so humiliate himself,"said Grumkow afterwards to Wilhelmina,"J''ENRAGEAIS DANS MA PEAU:"why not? |
2109 | King gets into passions; has beaten the pages[ may we hope, our dark friend among the rest? 2109 O Kaiser, Kaiser of the Holy Roman Empire; and this is your return for my loyal faith in you? |
2109 | To the question, How with the King and you? 2109 Treaty of Westphalia? |
2109 | What individual the Polish Grandees would have chosen for King if entirely left alone to do it? 2109 What? |
2109 | ''But, your Majesty, what is it ruffles you so? |
2109 | ''Lorraine? |
2109 | ''Why do you cry?'' |
2109 | --"And our properties, our goods and chattels?" |
2109 | 70 feet, but fell on"sewerage,"and did not die, but set the whole world on fire? |
2109 | And because I was of faith more than human, you took me for a dog? |
2109 | And still rarer, have readers noted what a power of holding his peace this young man has? |
2109 | And then as to poor Stanislaus? |
2109 | Are the Laws of Nature fallen void?" |
2109 | But then what will the neighboring Kings say? |
2109 | Did the reader ever hear of Finance- Minister Creutz, once a poor Regiment''s Auditor, when his Majesty, as yet Crown- Prince, found talent in him? |
2109 | Did we inform the reader once about Kaiser Karl''s young marriage adventures; and may we, to remind him, mention them a second time? |
2109 | Dullish, we should apprehend,--and perhaps BETTER lost to us? |
2109 | Eternal friendship, OH JA:--and as to Julich and Berg? |
2109 | For I should prefer being made a"--what shall we say? |
2109 | Have east- winds a heart, that they should feel pity? |
2109 | Having not a groschen of money, how could he succeed? |
2109 | He has a thousand vexations from it every day.... And what aim has the King? |
2109 | Hope your Majesty likes Prag? |
2109 | How can people''s feelings be saved? |
2109 | How the Grand- daughter changed accordingly, went to Barcelona, and was wedded;--and had to dun old Grandpapa,"Why do n''t you change, then?" |
2109 | I am to get nothing out of Brandenburg, my dear Hacke? |
2109 | I tell you there have fallen no snows this winter: how can inundation be?" |
2109 | Imperial Majesty will make me break my word before all the world? |
2109 | In what way shall I offer stronger proofs? |
2109 | Is it worth any human Creature''s while to look into the plans of this precious pair of individuals? |
2109 | Leave Salzburg?" |
2109 | Long ago, at the beginning of this History, did not the reader hear of a pestilence in Prussian Lithuania? |
2109 | Naples itself, crown of the Two Sicilies, lies in the wind for Carlos;--and your junior infant, great Madam, has he no need of apanages?" |
2109 | No end to people''s kindness: many wept aloud, sobbing out,''Is this all the help we can give?'' |
2109 | No money to fight France, say you? |
2109 | Not mere fanatic mystics, as Right Reverend Firmian asserts; protectible by no Treaty?" |
2109 | One Catholic, unequalled among Captains, we already have; but where is the Protestant, Duke Eberhard being dead? |
2109 | Or Wallenstein''s Palace,--did your Majesty look at that? |
2109 | Or the Council- Chamber window, out of which"the Three Prag Projectiles fell into the Night of things,"as a modern Historian expresses it? |
2109 | Poor Fred, who of us knows what of sense might be in these demands? |
2109 | Possible; and yet so very dangerous,--perhaps not possible? |
2109 | Pragmatic Sanction, hitherto refused as contrary to plain rights of ours,--that, if conceded to a spectre- hunting Kaiser? |
2109 | Protestants these two last: but they can not both have it; and what will Wurtemberg say to either of them? |
2109 | Prussian Majesty stares wide- eyed; the breath as if struck out of him; repeats,"Julich and Berg absolutely secured, say you? |
2109 | Readers know of a Book called_ Hermann and Dorothea?_ It is written by the great Goethe, and still worth reading. |
2109 | Terms perhaps known to August to be rash; to have been frightfully rash; but what can he now do? |
2109 | Terrific Spectre, thought to be in Swedish pay,--properly a spy Scullion, in a small concern of Grumkow VERSUS Creutz? |
2109 | The diversions for the Duke of Lorraine are very well schemed; but"--but what mortal can now care about them? |
2109 | Their conversation, road- colloquy, could it interest any modern reader? |
2109 | Thirty men I had to shift out of my company in consequence[ of Buddenbrock''s order]; and where am I now to get other thirty? |
2109 | To Stanislaus, to France?'' |
2109 | We dare;--dare we?" |
2109 | What is a mendicant like you come hither for?" |
2109 | Whereby the thoughtless young men were again driven to think of nocturnal charivari? |
2109 | Who in the world will it be, then? |
2109 | Who knows,--or need know? |
2109 | Why stand ye without?'' |
2109 | Why take the eldest, if so? |
2109 | With some hereditary King over it, and a regulated Saxony to lean upon: truly might it not be a change to the better? |
2109 | You young creatures, you are of one intention with your parents in this matter? |
2109 | Zisca''s drum, for instance, in the Arsenal here? |
2109 | of my Spouse[ as Ludwig Rudolf does, by all accounts], than to have a blockhead who would drive me mad by her ineptitudes? |
2109 | said he:"What is little Frederika[ my little Baby at Baireuth] doing?" |
2109 | shrieked the Right Reverend Father:"Are we getting into open mutiny, then? |
2111 | BRUSSELS, 29th August( 1740),_ 3d year since the world flattened._How the Devil, great Philosopher, would you have had me write to you at Wesel? |
2111 | But it is worth trying? |
2111 | But what need have I to excite you to glory? 2111 Do you intend to support it? |
2111 | HeRambonet"wore big linen ruffles at his wrists, very dirty[ visibly so in the moonlight? |
2111 | Holland? 2111 Indivisibility? |
2111 | Just Rights? 2111 Probably the weakest Piece I ever translated?" |
2111 | Sha''n''t we go to the Play, then, Monsieur le Marechal? 2111 TOUT LE PAYS SERA RUINE( the whole Country will be ruined),"say you? |
2111 | Tell me, I beg, if the enormous monad of Volfius--[Wolf, would the reader like to hear about him? 2111 The Exact Sciences, what else is there to depend on?" |
2111 | What he will grow to? |
2111 | What shall I do, in this sudden case? |
2111 | What shall I write to England? |
2111 | Wo n''t you have me send you some Books? 2111 Would not your Majesty perhaps consent to sell this Herstal, as your Father of glorious memory was pleased to be willing once?" |
2111 | ''Look me in the eyes,''said he;''have I the air of one dying? |
2111 | ''When will they be out, and the thing complete?'' |
2111 | ''Your Majesty, those old Sovereigns are to obtain Heavenly mercy by them, to be delivered out of Purgatory by them.''--''Purgatory? |
2111 | --"In eight days I leave for[ where thinks the reader? |
2111 | --''And what good does anybody get of them?'' |
2111 | 318; Newspapers,& c.]"Goose, Madam?" |
2111 | All summer there has gone fitfully a rumor, that he wished to see France; perhaps Paris itself incognito? |
2111 | Amiability is good, my Princess; but the question rises,"To whom?--for example, to the young gentleman who shot himself in Lobegun?" |
2111 | And if so, How, and to what lengths, will he proceed about it? |
2111 | And in that case, how will Austria, Europe at large? |
2111 | And now this Herstal business; the Imperial Dehortatoriums, perhaps of a high nature, that are like to come? |
2111 | And the Kaiser, what will the Kaiser say to it?" |
2111 | And they are not yet out, those poor souls, after so many hundred years of praying?'' |
2111 | Apparently that is the Piece by Voltaire? |
2111 | As to the royal mind and understanding, what shall Bielfeld say? |
2111 | At his first meeting of Council, they say, he put this question,"Could not the Prussian Army be reduced to 45,000?" |
2111 | Belonged to the Spaens, fifty years ago;--some shadow of our poor banished friend the Lieutenant resting on it? |
2111 | Brussels, too, is so near these Cleve Countries; within two days''good driving:--if only the times and routes would rightly intersect? |
2111 | But Friedrich Wilhelm was on the alert for it: Are you coming in with your NIE POZWALAM( your LIBERUM VETO), then? |
2111 | But in Germany, what need of Austria being so superlative? |
2111 | But thoughtless Konig, strong in his opinion about the infinitely little, appealed to Maupertuis:"Am not I right, Monsieur?" |
2111 | But, on the other Frontier, neither England nor Holland could take umbrage,"--points clearly to Silesia, then, your Excellency Dickens? |
2111 | Can no one else be got to do it? |
2111 | Colonel Loigle sends word to Broglio; Broglio despatches straightway an Officer and fine carriage:"Will the foreign Gentleman do me the honor?" |
2111 | Could not Voltaire go and try? |
2111 | Extremely interesting to know what Friedrich of Prussia will do in such contingency? |
2111 | Friedrich, in these same days, writes this Autograph; which who of men or lions could resist? |
2111 | Harrington''s reply is to the effect,"Hum, drum:--Berg and Julich, say you? |
2111 | Hope;--though who can say? |
2111 | If that is the nature of the Bashaw, and one''s sole mode of fishing knowledge from him, why not? |
2111 | Impossible to answer; minds not made up here:--What will his Prussian Majesty do for US?" |
2111 | Jordan, with his fine- drawn wit, French logics, LITERARY TRAVELS, thin exactitude; what can be done for Jordan? |
2111 | Meseems a heavier whip than that of satire might be in place here, your Majesty? |
2111 | Or perhaps the Bishop of Liege will bethink him, at last, what considerable liberty he is taking with some people''s whiskers? |
2111 | Orange itself, for example, what was to be done with the Principality of Orange? |
2111 | Perhaps Botta will penetrate him? |
2111 | Perhaps it had been better to stand by mere Prussian or German merit, native to the ground? |
2111 | Princess Tour hopes she shall lodge this unparalleled Prince in her Palace:"You, Madame?" |
2111 | Prussian Budget is fixed, many things are fixed: why talk of them farther? |
2111 | Schloss Moyland: How far from Brussels, and by what route? |
2111 | Schonborn, Austrian Kanzler, or who? |
2111 | Shall we now apply to the Royal Doggerel again, where we left off, and see the other side of the picture? |
2111 | There are magazines being formed at Frankfurt- on- Oder and at Crossen,"--handy for Silesia, you would say? |
2111 | This foreign Count speaks French wonderfully; a brilliant man, whom the others rather fear: perhaps something more than a Count? |
2111 | To Baireuth;--who knows if not farther? |
2111 | Truly; but then again, there are considerations:"What is this Friedrich, just come out upon the world? |
2111 | Two days''driving? |
2111 | Voltaire told us he himself"did one Manifesto, good or bad,"on this Herstal business:--where is that Piece, then, what has become of it? |
2111 | What Preachers he was acquainted with in Berlin? |
2111 | What are rights, never so just, which you can not make valid? |
2111 | What he thought of comedies and operas? |
2111 | What is the young King to do with this paltry little Hamlet of Herstal? |
2111 | What is to be done? |
2111 | What real fighting power has he, after all that ridiculous drilling and recruiting Friedrich Wilhelm made? |
2111 | What work was left for them? |
2111 | What you want of me? |
2111 | Whether he too was a Writer of Books? |
2111 | Who lived in it; what kind of thing was it, is it? |
2111 | Why not? |
2111 | Why should not, say, Three Electors united be able to oppose her?... |
2111 | Will he be faithful in bargain; is not, perhaps, from of old, his bias always toward France rather? |
2111 | Will his Britannic Majesty guarantee me there? |
2111 | Yes; but also towards Cleve, certain detachments of troops are marching,--do not men see? |
2111 | You still say those Masses, then?'' |
2111 | Your great Sea- Armaments, did I ask you any questions about them? |
2111 | [ Busching''s_ Beitrage_(? |
2111 | ["Look me in the eyes; pack of fools; you will have to dissect me, you will then know:"Any truth in all that? |
2111 | answer the most, in their various dialects:"who is he that we should sup with him?" |
2111 | exclaimed a philanthropist projector once, whose scheme of sweeping chimneys by pulling a live goose down through them was objected to:"Goose, Madam? |
2111 | modestly suggests Dickens.--''Well, if France will guarantee me those Duchies, and you will not do anything?'' |
2111 | poor Broglio is thinking to himself:"must write to Court; perhaps try to detain--?" |
2111 | thinks French cultivated society:"and has not Monsieur done a feat in that line?" |
2106 | Captain Natzmer to swing on the gallows? 2106 Dismissed, turned off for some fault or other-- or perhaps because the Princess knows enough of English?" |
2106 | Hearken, Louisa( HORE, LUISE), it is still time,said the King:"Tell us, wouldst thou rather go to Anspach, now, or stay with me? |
2106 | Is that enough? 2106 No answer yet?" |
2106 | No answer? |
2106 | Small- pox; what will Prince Fred think? 2106 These intolerable usages from England[ Seckendorf is rumored to have said], can your Majesty endure them forever? |
2106 | What is this? 2106 When will it go off, then( WANN GEHT ES LOS)?" |
2106 | Where is our real King, then? 2106 Who''s dat who ride astride de pony, So long, so lean, so lank and bony? |
2106 | Write to England? 2106 Your whole debt, then, is that? |
2106 | --"Hm, Na, would it, then?" |
2106 | --"What third party, then?" |
2106 | --''What do you mean by that?'' |
2106 | --O my dim old Friend, these surely are sublimities of the sick- bed? |
2106 | 110; Johnson''s_ Lives of the Poets,_? |
2106 | 306,? |
2106 | 307,& c.? |
2106 | A man of quality caught me, the other day, reading a Latin Author; and asked me, with an air of contempt, Whether I was designed for the Church? |
2106 | A man of some worth, too;"scrupulously kept his word,"say the witnesses: a man always conscious to himself,"Am not I a man of honor, then?" |
2106 | A successful visit; burns off like successful fire- works, piece after piece: and what more is to be said? |
2106 | After which he left me?" |
2106 | Alas, in the end of June, what far other Job''s- post is this that reaches Berlin and Queen Sophie? |
2106 | Alas, the money was eaten; how could the money be paid back? |
2106 | And the Double- Marriage, in such circumstances, are we to consider it as dead, then? |
2106 | And they called Rebecca, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? |
2106 | And this man is probably one of the"Four Kings"she was to be asked by? |
2106 | And with whom? |
2106 | At length Borck hits on a consideration:"Your Majesty has been ill lately; hand perhaps not so steady as usual? |
2106 | Barely possible some lighter readers might wish to see, for one moment, an Excellenz that has been seized by a Press- gang? |
2106 | But having no forces in the country, what could he do? |
2106 | But how to turn it aside? |
2106 | But is his Britannic Majesty aware? |
2106 | But the settlements, the applications to Parliament:--and all for this perverse Fred, who has become unlovely, and irritates our royal mind? |
2106 | But what can anything profit? |
2106 | Did English readers ever hear of Franke? |
2106 | Does not hate us, he, perhaps; but only Grumkow through him? |
2106 | Friedrich Wilhelm had answered,"Gout?" |
2106 | Friedrich Wilhelm sees well that it all comes from George''s private humor: Why should human blood be shed except George''s and mine? |
2106 | He asked my Sister, If that gave her pleasure? |
2106 | Her Majesty is overjoyed to hear it: who would not be? |
2106 | I am breaking up, then?" |
2106 | If his Majesty had looked into the wood- closet? |
2106 | Is not Grumkow worth his pension? |
2106 | Is not this itself sufficiently tragical? |
2106 | It is certain, the dilapidated Polish Majesty having become a Widower, questions would rise, Will not he marry again? |
2106 | Or can it be the State that will profit from such a marriage? |
2106 | Or shall we not clutch at England, after all,--and perhaps bring him to terms? |
2106 | Part of his road lies through Prussian Territory:"Shall he have free post- horses, as his late Majesty was wo nt?" |
2106 | Perhaps uses may lie in it there? |
2106 | Pragmatic Sanction once acceded to, would probably propitiate the Kaiser? |
2106 | Princes of the Powers of the Air, Shall we define them? |
2106 | Probably the Kaiser will sit still? |
2106 | Probably the Termagant, with all the fire she has, will not do much damage upon Gibraltar? |
2106 | Prussia and Hanover retained hold of their Hypothecs; for as to the expenses, what hope was there? |
2106 | Shall we sum up that sorry matter here, and wash our hands of it? |
2106 | Simple honest Orson of a Prussian Majesty, what a bepainted, beribboned insulting Play- actor Majesty has he fallen in with!--"Hm, so? |
2106 | So that things look well? |
2106 | Some''eight cart- loads of hay,''worth say almost 5 pounds or 10 pounds sterling: who is to mow that grass, I wonder?" |
2106 | Sovereign will is to the effect:"Write to England one other time, Will you at once marry, or not at once; Yea or No? |
2106 | Such a mass of potential- battle as George or the Hanover Officiality are-- ready to fight? |
2106 | Taken on Brandenburg territory too, and not the least notice given me?" |
2106 | The Formera, beautiful as painted Chaos; yes, her;--and why not, after a while, the Orzelska too, all the same? |
2106 | The SECOND,--cannot WE guess who the second is? |
2106 | The question means withal, What is to be done in these dreadful Congress- of- Soissons complexities, and mad reelings of the Terrestrial Balance? |
2106 | Then his Russian Unique of Wives:--his probable adventures, prior and subsequent, in Uncle Peter''s sphere, can these have been pleasant to him? |
2106 | Then there is the Meadow of Clamei which we spoke of:"That belongs to Brandenburg, you say? |
2106 | Then, you English, what is the meaning of these war- fleets in the West Indies; in the Mediterranean, on the very coast of Spain? |
2106 | There exists no Prussia, then, for little George?" |
2106 | These Diplomatic gentlemen,--say, are they aught? |
2106 | Thus the negotiation hangs fire; and will do so,--till dreadful waterspouts come, and perhaps quench it altogether? |
2106 | To a wise much- meditative House- Mastiff, can that be pleasant, from an unthinking dizened creature of the Ape species? |
2106 | Treaty of Seville; a part to be acted on the world- theatre, with applauses, with envies, almost from the very demi- gods? |
2106 | What Friedrich Wilhelm did with such a mass of wild pork? |
2106 | What to do in such a crisis? |
2106 | Who his associates there or at Potsdam were? |
2106 | Why did not the bargain close, then? |
2106 | Why should he? |
2106 | Why was there no Hansard in that Institution of the Country? |
2106 | Wilt thou, Louisa?'' |
2106 | Would Finkenstein( Head Tutor), or would Knyphausen( distinguished Official here), be the agreeable man?" |
2106 | [ Fassmann, p. 392; see Forster,& c.] Is not this a sublime patient? |
2106 | and How she would regulate her housekeeping when married? |
2106 | he, doubtless, will help in quelling those Peasant and other Anarchies? |
2106 | replied the King:''what is there wanting at my table?'' |
2106 | says adoring Fassmann; who privately knows of"Courts"( perhaps the GLORWURDIGSTE, Glory- worthiest, August the Great''s Court, for one?) |
2106 | what would Wilhelmina have thought? |
2107 | But what is to become of Nosti? 2107 Coffee- houses?" |
2107 | Field of Blenheim, says your Majesty? 2107 I AM Kaiser now, then?" |
2107 | I was so little moved by it, that I answered, going on with my work,''Is that all?'' 2107 QUE FAIRE? |
2107 | QUE FAIRE? |
2107 | Tush,answers old Karl Philip always:"Bargain?" |
2107 | Well,answers England,"who can help it? |
2107 | Wish we could manage the Marriage; but this Grumkow, this--Cannot they contrive to send an ORIGINAL strong enough? |
2107 | ''Infamous CANAILLE,''said he;''darest thou show thyself before me? |
2107 | ''Well,''says he,''the Emperor will abandon the Netherlands, and who will be master of them? |
2107 | ''What,''cried the Queen,''you have had the barbarity to kill him?'' |
2107 | ''Yes, I tell you,--but where is the sealed Desk?'' |
2107 | --"Quit of him? |
2107 | --"Why bother with the Kaiser and his German puddles?" |
2107 | ---Then why not SILENCE about both, my Friend Smelfnngus? |
2107 | --Which, alas, what can it avail with the Britannic Majesty, in regard to such outrageous Propositions from the Prussian? |
2107 | A brisk military man, in the prime of his years; who might do as Prussian Envoy himself, if nothing great were going on? |
2107 | A loyal, clever, and gallant kind of young fellow, if your Majesty will think? |
2107 | Across the Rhine to Speyer is but three hours riding; thence to Landau, into France, into--? |
2107 | Ah, DID you send me Berlin sausages, then, you untrue Papa? |
2107 | All is right, Nosti, is it not? |
2107 | And August the Strong-- what shall we say of August? |
2107 | And I insinuated something of it to his Majesty, the day before yesterday[ 27th April, 1730, therefore? |
2107 | And his Royal Highness the Crown- Prince all this while? |
2107 | And now--? |
2107 | And this, then, is what the Hotham mission is come to? |
2107 | As my Brother was most in my anxieties, I asked, If it concerned him? |
2107 | At Bamberg why should a Prussian Majesty linger, except for picturesque or for mere baiting purposes? |
2107 | At Gera, dim, old Town,--does not your Royal Highness well know the"Gera Bond( GERAISCHE VERTRAG)"? |
2107 | Baked by machinery; how otherwise could peel or roller act on such a Cake? |
2107 | Bargains?" |
2107 | Buddenbrock was there, and Anhalt- Dessau: for their very sake, were there nothing farther, one surely ought to go? |
2107 | But is it not the seed- ground of the Hohenzollerns, this Nurnberg, memorable above cities to a Prussian Majesty? |
2107 | But it is not in the power of reward or punishment to bend her female will in the essential point:''Divorce, your Highness? |
2107 | But what then? |
2107 | But where can the Prince be? |
2107 | Could Jupiter Tonans, had he been travelling on business in those parts, have done better with his dinner?--"At Sinzheim?" |
2107 | Could not Katte get a"Recruiting Furlough,"leave to go into the REICH on that score; and join one there? |
2107 | Deeply pondering these things, what shall the poor Prince do? |
2107 | Divine Laws, are they not? |
2107 | Duhan: did not forget to inform you of that? |
2107 | EINMAL KORPERLICH MISSHANDELT: why did not the Professor give us time, occasion, circumstances, and name of some eye- witness? |
2107 | Franz Josias, a hearty man of thirty- five, he too will stand by the Kaiser in these coming storms? |
2107 | Friedrich Wilhelm said, this Sunday evening at Darmstadt to his own Prince:"Still here, then? |
2107 | German puddles?" |
2107 | Give it up; and go, unmolested, to the-- in fact to the Devil: Can not you?" |
2107 | Has not she, by her incantations, made the stone houses dance out hither? |
2107 | He must be in the Hague? |
2107 | Heilbronn, the most famous City on the Neckar; and its old miraculous Holy Well--? |
2107 | Into France, into Holland, England? |
2107 | Let him take the answer they give him?" |
2107 | May not one reasonably pretend that a bargain should be kept? |
2107 | My Amiable and his Seckendorf, need they ask if Nosti will, and in a way to give them pleasure?"... |
2107 | Nay need we, a few months ago, have spent such loads of gold subsidizing those Hessians and Danes against him? |
2107 | Nay what is still more mortifying, my Brother says,"On the whole, I had better, had not I?" |
2107 | Nay, at any rate, what are the Letters? |
2107 | Need he fear their new Hotham, then? |
2107 | No definite countenance from England, the reverse rather, your Highness sees;--how can there be? |
2107 | Or is not the ultimate closing day perhaps still notabler; a day of universal eating? |
2107 | Or perhaps he has the curiosity to know the speech of birds? |
2107 | Ought we not to make a run to Dresden, therefore, and apprise the Polish Majesty? |
2107 | Page Keith, at this moment, comes with a pair of horses, too:"Whither with the nags, Sirrah?" |
2107 | Political men take some interest in the question;"Why neglect your Prince of Wales?" |
2107 | Prince Friedrich to be STATTHALTER in Hanover with his English Princess? |
2107 | Reader, have you tried such a thing? |
2107 | Seckendorf emerges from the other Barn; awake at the common hour:"How do you like his Royal Highness in the red roquelaure?" |
2107 | Seek justice for himself by his 80,000 men and the iron ramrods? |
2107 | Sits the wind in that quarter? |
2107 | Suppose he went to the Hague, and took soundings there what welcome we should have? |
2107 | Surely the law of No- company does not extend to that of an innocent child? |
2107 | That is the method settled on; neighborhood of Berlin, clearly somewhere there, must be the place? |
2107 | The Townhouse too( RATHHAUS), with its amazing old Clock? |
2107 | The meaning, we perceive, is in sum:"Hm, you wo n''t, surely? |
2107 | This Deserter Crown- Prince and his accomplices, especially Katte his chief accomplice, what is to be done with them? |
2107 | This is what it is come to?" |
2107 | To glide out of their quarters there, in that waste negligent old Town( where post- horses can be had), in the gray of the summer''s dawn? |
2107 | To overturn the Country, belike; and fling the Kaiser, and European Balance of Power, bottom uppermost? |
2107 | Truly, yes; they mean to ask in Parliament( as poor gamblers in that Cockpit are wo nt),''And why did not you make the offer sooner, then? |
2107 | WAIBLINGEN, within an hour''s ride, has got memorability on other grounds;--what reader has not heard of GHIBELLINES, meaning Waiblingens? |
2107 | Was ever Father more careful for his children, soul and body? |
2107 | Was there ever such a baffled Royal Highness; or young bright spirit chained in the Bear''s Den in this manner? |
2107 | Well, yes, your Majesty, divine and human;--or are there perhaps no laws but the human sort, completely explicit in this case? |
2107 | What high person would not keep for himself, to say nothing of eating, some fraction of such a Nonpareil? |
2107 | What is Friedrich Wilhelm to do? |
2107 | What is the use of our industries and riches?'' |
2107 | Whither can I fly when haunted, except to thee? |
2107 | Who knows, in spite of the light going out, but Keith is still there, merely with a window shutter to screen him? |
2107 | Why Papa was in such a fuss about this little circumstance? |
2107 | Why has no Prussian Painter done that scene? |
2107 | Will English readers consent to a momentary glance into his affairs and him? |
2107 | Will the very Army break its oath, then?" |
2107 | Would the reader wish to look into this Nosti- Grumkow Correspondence at all? |
2107 | [ Buddaus,_ Lexicon,_ ii.? |
2107 | [ Carlyle''s_ Miscellanies,_ vi.? |
2107 | again leaving only Daughters; will not this change the notion? |
2107 | and is assiduous in studying them,--evidently very desirous to know the face of Germany, the Rhine Countries in particular? |
2107 | can it, be thought that any liberality in use of the bellows or other fire- implements will now avail with his Majesty? |
2107 | said Osiander:''Do we not say, DELIVER US FROM EVIL?'' |
2107 | we are all right?'' |
2107 | what hissing far aloft is that? |
2122 | ''Am I in Rome? 2122 ''Amtsrath? |
2122 | ''And have you children?'' 2122 ''And whose?'' |
2122 | ''Are there still improvements needed here?'' 2122 ''Are they good people, these Colonists? |
2122 | ''Are you married too?'' 2122 ''But give me some idea: what kind of appearance had the Luch before it was drained?'' |
2122 | ''But how many more have they in all? 2122 ''But why do you grow no hemp?'' |
2122 | ''But your capons and poults, you could bring these to Ruppin?'' 2122 ''Ca n''t I see Wusterau,''where old Ajax Ziethen lives,''from here?'' |
2122 | ''Ca n''t we yet see Pechlin?'' 2122 ''Did General von Ziethen gain, among others, by the draining of the Luch?'' |
2122 | ''Do the people too increase well? 2122 ''Do they manage their husbandry well?'' |
2122 | ''Do you keep more cattle than your predecessor?'' 2122 ''Do you know how long it is since I was here last?'' |
2122 | ''Ha, ha, the Herr with the white feather!--Do you sow wheat too?'' 2122 ''Have I to drive through the village?'' |
2122 | ''Have you had it here?'' 2122 ''Hear now: these people are not prospering here?'' |
2122 | ''Hear: Is it far to the Mecklenburg border, here where we are?'' 2122 ''Here you, now: how are you content with the harvest?'' |
2122 | ''How do you know?'' 2122 ''How far is that?'' |
2122 | ''How has it come that you sow so much more than he?'' 2122 ''How long has he been there?'' |
2122 | ''How many more?'' 2122 ''How much did your predecessor use to sow?'' |
2122 | ''How much have you sown?'' 2122 ''How much?'' |
2122 | ''I''ll give them nothing, though.--What village is that, there ahead of us?'' 2122 ''In the Guards? |
2122 | ''Is he of the Nobility?'' 2122 ''Is the General at home?'' |
2122 | ''Is your wife among the ladies yonder?'' 2122 ''Its name is Brenken- hosius- hof!--Are these the Stollen hills that lie before us?'' |
2122 | ''Kanonicus? 2122 ''Na, tell me now, do n''t you really know why that Kleist at Protzen took his discharge?'' |
2122 | ''Sha''n''t we see it, when we come closer?'' 2122 ''So, so; that I am glad of!--Who is He( are you)?'' |
2122 | ''So? 2122 ''So? |
2122 | ''Steigs, what is that?'' 2122 ''Tell me now: how did you get on in the last War[ KARTOFFEL KRIEG, no fighting, only a scramble for proviant and"potatoes"]? |
2122 | ''Tell me, then, where does Stollen lie?'' 2122 ''That I am glad of!--What is the Beamte''s name in Alt- Ruppin?'' |
2122 | ''That is bad.--Tell me though; there lived a Landrath here before: he had a quantity of children: ca n''t you recollect his name?'' 2122 ''To WHOM belongs it?'' |
2122 | ''To whom belongs it now?'' 2122 ''To whom belongs it?'' |
2122 | ''To whom belongs it?'' 2122 ''To whom belongs it?'' |
2122 | ''To whom belongs this estate on the left here?'' 2122 ''To whom does it belong?'' |
2122 | ''Very well? 2122 ''Was he in the service?'' |
2122 | ''What Kleist is that?'' 2122 ''What Luderitz is that?'' |
2122 | ''What Mitschepfal is that?'' 2122 ''What do you get for your butter in Berlin?'' |
2122 | ''What do you sow, then, where you used to have hemp?'' 2122 ''What do you sow, then, where you would have put Farbekraut?'' |
2122 | ''What is the name of this Colony?'' 2122 ''What is the village here before us?'' |
2122 | ''What kind of rye is that?'' 2122 ''What the Devil, these people will be wanting money from me, I suppose?'' |
2122 | ''What village is this before us?'' 2122 ''What was your father?'' |
2122 | ''What were YOU by birth?'' 2122 ''What''s the name of this village we are coming to?'' |
2122 | ''What''s your name?'' 2122 ''What''s your name?'' |
2122 | ''Where do you send your butter, capons and poults( PUTER) for sale?'' 2122 ''Where is the Beamte of Alt- Ruppin?'' |
2122 | ''Where? 2122 ''Who are you?'' |
2122 | ''Who had it before him?'' 2122 ''Who sowed them?'' |
2122 | ''Whose is it?'' 2122 ''Why did n''t the old one stay?'' |
2122 | ''Why did the man seek his discharge?'' 2122 ''Why not of your own?'' |
2122 | ''Why not to Ruppin?'' 2122 ''You may tell me, I have no view in asking: why did the man take his discharge?'' |
2122 | His Majesty now stept into his carriage again[ was Gortz sitting all the while, still in silence? 2122 ''Tell me now, what is that village over on the right yonder?'' 2122 ( p. 22);--but, surely, except as above, it has no sense? 2122 --[TO ME]''Tell me now, is the Elbe far from here?'' 2122 --[TO RATHENOW]''Have you children too, Rathenow?'' 2122 --[TO THE FORESTER]''But do you know how fir- cones( KIENAPFEL) should be sown?'' 2122 A daughter of General von Krocher''s?'' 2122 About how many, that is?'' 2122 Amtsrath? 2122 Are there jolly children?'' 2122 Are you married?'' 2122 As the DAMME,Dams or Raised Roads through the Peat- bog,"are too narrow hereabouts, I could not, ride beside him,"and so went before? |
2122 | Be a great help to you, wo n''t it; and many will be ruined by the job, especially the proprietors of the ground NICHT WAHR?'' |
2122 | But tell me, I see no wood here: where do the Colonists get their timber?'' |
2122 | But tell me, though, why did Kleist of Protzen take his discharge?'' |
2122 | But what other steeple is that?'' |
2122 | But why?'' |
2122 | Can I see Drammitz hereabouts?'' |
2122 | Can I see Pechlin?'' |
2122 | Can not I see Ruppin somewhere here?'' |
2122 | Corn brings no price: if one did not turn a penny with other things, how could one raise the rent at all?'' |
2122 | From east to west, or from north to south?'' |
2122 | Has this Kleist been in the service too?'' |
2122 | Have your tenants, too, more cattle than formerly?'' |
2122 | How call we the village here before us?'' |
2122 | How goes it with you 7 Are you whole and well?" |
2122 | How the Devil comes a Kanonicus to be a Beamte?'' |
2122 | I knew him very well.--But tell me now( SAGT MIR EINMAL) has the draining of the Luch been of much use to you here?'' |
2122 | I know nothing of Kriegsraths!--To whom does the Estate belong?'' |
2122 | Is he dead now?'' |
2122 | Is he still alive?'' |
2122 | Is that the manor- house( EDELHOF)?'' |
2122 | Kanonicus? |
2122 | Na, have you many cattle here on the Colonies?'' |
2122 | That is one of the Gorgases, then!--Are you still making experiments with the foreign kinds of corn?'' |
2122 | The murrain( VIEHSEUCHE) is not here in this quarter?'' |
2122 | Then stand by wheat!--Your tenants are in good case, I suppose?'' |
2122 | They are mere Latin names!--Why is that hedged in so high?'' |
2122 | To whom belongs that?'' |
2122 | What is the other Colony called?'' |
2122 | What kind of wood is there on it?'' |
2122 | What was he before?'' |
2122 | When once the ground is arable, I reckon upon 300 families for it, and 500 head of cows,--ha?'' |
2122 | When we came upon the patch of Sand- knolls which lie near Fehrbellin, his Majesty cried:--"''Forester, why are n''t these sand- knolls sown?'' |
2122 | Where are the four sons that are still in life?'' |
2122 | Where is the Beamte of Alt- Ruppin?'' |
2122 | [ Ha?] |
2122 | [ THEN CLOSE INTO MY EAR] Who is the fat man there with the white coat?'' |
2122 | [ TO ME]''What man is that to the right there?'' |
2122 | [ TO THE HERR AMTSRATH KLAUSIUS]''Where were you born?'' |
2122 | [ a frequent interjection of Friedrich''s and his Father''s], how are they sown, then? |
2122 | ["LEBT ER NOCH, is HE still alive?" |
2122 | ["VAN MORGEN GEGEN ABEND, ODER VAN ABEND GEGEN MORGEN?" |
2122 | ["WAS SIND SIE,"the respectful word,"FUR EINE GEBORNE?"] |
2122 | no Krapp?'' |
2122 | or BEHIND, with woodman before? |
2122 | where? |
2112 | And the Austrian Hapsburgs being out, do not the Spanish Hapsburgs come in? 2112 Are we to stand here like milestones, then, and be all shot without a stroke struck?" |
2112 | Battle lost,said Schwerin:"but what is the loss of a Battle to that of your Majesty''s own Person? |
2112 | Battle of Dettingen, Battle of Fontenay,--what, in the Devil''s name, were we ever doing there? |
2112 | But to hang it on Bavaria, which is a lean bare pole? 2112 He( ER) lives near Grunberg, then, Mein Herr von Hocke?" |
2112 | In which case, will not, must not, Austria help us? |
2112 | That man is mad, your Most Christian Majesty? |
2112 | To deliver such Key? 2112 Walpole and Company, aware of that fact, do take some trouble about it; and now, may not we say, PAULLO MAJORA CANAMUS? |
2112 | Well; if it could be done,--and quite without trouble? |
2112 | What news have you of the Enemy? |
2112 | Who the Irish Brothers Browne, the Fathers of these Marshals Browne, were? 2112 ''Batteries? 2112 ''Miracle? 2112 ''Sir, may I give that fellow a shot?'' 2112 ''The direct real method this,''thinks Walpole:''is there in reality any other?'' 2112 ''What good will you get of going into that? 2112 ''s Daughter,--Maria Theresa''s Cousin, and by an Elder Brother;--this, too, ought surely to be something in the Anti- Pragmatic line? 2112 --Tush, what signifies my poor silly soul compared with the honor of the family?" |
2112 | --Quick, your Plan of Battle, then? |
2112 | --what Pope or body of Popes can sanction such a procedure? |
2112 | 13; Liegnitz,? |
2112 | 14; Oppeln and Ratibor,? |
2112 | 16;--and that Ludwig had sent a Copy of this Argument[ weighty Performance altogether? |
2112 | A most sad Miscellany of Royalties, coming all to the point,"Will you eat your Covenant, Will you keep it?" |
2112 | Among the then extant Sons of Adam, where was he who could in the faintest degree surmise what issues lay in the Jenkins''s- Ear Question? |
2112 | And even leave ill alone:--are you the tradesman to tinker leaky vessels in England? |
2112 | And it was some beggarly Attorney- Devil that built this sublunary world and us? |
2112 | And now the response to them is--? |
2112 | And sarcastic quizzing( especially if it be truth too), on certain female topics, what Improper Female, Czarina of All the Russias, could stand it? |
2112 | And there rose great argument, which is not yet quite ended, as to the question,"Original falsified, or Copy falsified?" |
2112 | Are the Ten Commandments only a figure of speech, then? |
2112 | But how could she,--the high Imperial Lady, keystone of Europe, though by accident with only a few pounds of ready money at present? |
2112 | But how to obtain marriage? |
2112 | But if they were travail- throes that had no birth, who of mortals would remember them? |
2112 | Can nobody but you have business here, then, which is not displeasing to the gods? |
2112 | Carthagena Expedition is, at length, fairly in contact with its Problem,--the question rising,''Do you understand it, then?'' |
2112 | Colonial- Empire, whose is it to be? |
2112 | Due a little to the OLD Dessauer, may we not say, as well as to the Young? |
2112 | Especially what he, Roth, meant by firing on our first Trumpet on Wednesday last?'' |
2112 | Friedrich suppresses the glance that is rising to his eyes:"Ca n''t you give it to Saxony, then? |
2112 | General Browne is at present in the Southern parts; an able active man and soldier; but, with such a force what can he attempt to do? |
2112 | Golden Fleece, you?" |
2112 | Good Government in any kind is not known here: Possibly the Prussian will be better; who can say? |
2112 | Gotter has fulfilled his instructions in regard to this important little Document; and now the effect of it is--? |
2112 | Gotter''s Proposals,--would the reader wish to hear these Proposals, which were so intensely interesting at one time? |
2112 | How could"the times"continue talking of him? |
2112 | How she has got the funds is, to this day, a mystery;--unless George and Walpole, from their Secret- Service Moneys, have smuggled her somewhat? |
2112 | How the English Nation took it? |
2112 | I am considering what we shall make of that Moravia?" |
2112 | If Friedrich had not business there, what man ever had in an enterprise he ventured on? |
2112 | If we but knew where the Enemy is; on which side of us; what doing, what intending? |
2112 | Iron ramrods against wooden; five shots to two: what is there but falling back? |
2112 | Is not, this a curious case of testamentary right; human greed obliterating personal identity itself? |
2112 | May be important, that,--who knows? |
2112 | Might perhaps be used in that way, by the Examining Military Boards, in Prussia and elsewhere, if no other use lie in it? |
2112 | Nevertheless, what new thing is this? |
2112 | Not he, but another who will suit France better:"Kur- Sachsen perhaps, the so- called King of Poland? |
2112 | Not the least news from any quarter; Ohlau uncertain, too likely the wrong way: What is to be done? |
2112 | O Louis, O my King, is not this an outlook? |
2112 | O soul of honor, O first Nation of the Universe, was there ever such a subterfuge? |
2112 | Of the actual transit to high mass, transit very visible in the Great Gallery or OEil- de- Boeuf, why should a human being now say anything? |
2112 | Or did Friedrich exaggerate to himself his Uncle''s real share in the matter? |
2112 | Or say it were Karl Albert Kur- Baiern, the hereditary friend and dependent of France? |
2112 | Or shall it be Spain''s for arrogant- torpid sham- devotional purposes, contradictory to every Law? |
2112 | Other Coaches, more or less grandly escorted; Head Cup- bearers, Seneschals, Princes, Margraves:--but where is the King? |
2112 | Parliamentary criticism, argument and botheration? |
2112 | Perhaps an ominous thing? |
2112 | Perhaps this rumor sprang of its own accord;--or perhaps not quite? |
2112 | Possible? |
2112 | Schlesien-- will the reader learn to call it by that name, on occasion? |
2112 | Scholzke, floundering homewards with the outfit from Kriesewitz, flounders at this moment into Saldern''s sphere of vision:''Whence, whither?'' |
2112 | Shall there be a Yankee Nation, shall there not be; shall the New World be of Spanish type, shall it be of English? |
2112 | Shall we besiege Glogau, then? |
2112 | Slight stutter ensues on the part of the Four Grenadiers; but they give one another the hint, and dash forward:"Prisoners?" |
2112 | Surely question will rise, Whether distaff can, validly, hand it over to distaff''s husband, as they are about doing? |
2112 | Surely the Bishop himself, respectable Cardinal Graf von Sinzendorf, had better get out of these localities while time yet is?" |
2112 | The Jesuit- Priest kind are clear in their minds for Austria; but think, Perhaps Prussia itself will not prove very tyrannous? |
2112 | The King, and the few who had not yet broken down, arrive at the Gate of Oppeln, late, under cloud of night:"Who goes?" |
2112 | The first point to be noted is, Where did it originate? |
2112 | The question, How you buy? |
2112 | There are two claimants on the Milanese, then; the Spanish Termagant, and he? |
2112 | There is the Key lying: but to GIVE it-- You are not the Queen of Hungary''s Officer, I doubt?" |
2112 | These beautiful improvements, beautiful humanities,--were done by whom? |
2112 | These two, will they side with Prussia, will they side with Austria? |
2112 | Think, your Majesty: ought not that Bohemian Vote to be excluded, for one thing? |
2112 | This Paper, after the question, Burn or insert? |
2112 | This, then, is what the Pragmatic Sanction has come to? |
2112 | Together they may do some execution, if we judge by the old Bucanier and Queen- Elizabeth experiences? |
2112 | Treaty of Westphalia mended much of this, and set fair limits to Papist encroachment;--had said Treaty been kept: but how could it? |
2112 | Under mild pretexts:"Peaceable as lambs, do n''t you observe? |
2112 | Unfortunate Schulenburg did at last come up:--had he miscalculated the distances, then? |
2112 | WHO WAS TO BLAME FOR THE AUSTRIAN- SUCCESSION WAR? |
2112 | War at any rate inevitable, you object? |
2112 | We may be attacked, then, this very night, if they are diligent? |
2112 | What Friedrich''s own humor is, what Friedrich''s own inner man is saying to him, while all the world so babbles about his Silesian Adventure? |
2112 | What is to be done, then? |
2112 | What is truth, falsity, human Kingship, human Swindlership? |
2112 | What the issue will be? |
2112 | What to do with such a War; how extricate the Episode, and leave the War lying? |
2112 | Where does it issue? |
2112 | Whether, in fact, Kur- Bohmen is not in abeyance for this time?" |
2112 | Which doubtless he would have done, had it been in his power; but how, except by miracle, could it be? |
2112 | Which perhaps are symptomatic circumstances? |
2112 | Whither is the dusky Swan of Padua gone?] |
2112 | Whitherward; How; What? |
2112 | Who dared suspect our King''s indifference to Protestantism?''" |
2112 | Why not?'' |
2112 | Why spend money on couriers, and get into such a taking?" |
2112 | Would the reader care to look for a moment? |
2112 | Would you like to know my way of life? |
2112 | You all laughed at him as a fool: do you begin to see now who was wise, who fool? |
2112 | [ What is the business? |
2112 | and the pacific Fleury have been got into this sublimely adventurous mood? |
2112 | asks Saldern:''Dost thou know where the Austrians are?'' |
2112 | c. 3 handles the Prussian claims: Jagerndorf being? |
2112 | c. 3 of it, which would have had a better chance?] |
2112 | desirable to sound the Sardinian Majesty a little, who is Doorkeeper of the Alps, between France and Austria, and opens to the best bidder? |
2112 | had to do there? |
2112 | or not, here truly has a new Man and King come upon the scene: capable perhaps of doing something? |
2112 | shall it be told, then?" |
2114 | Accordingly he grumbles, threatens: he has been listening to France,''Bourbon, how much will you give me, then?'' 2114 Can not the Reich be roused for settlement of this Bavarian- Austrian quarrel?" |
2114 | Co- operation, M. le Marechal; attack on Budweis? |
2114 | Compensation for the past, Security for the future:Compensation? |
2114 | Compensation;"The Reich as good as mine:Whither is all this tending? |
2114 | EMILIE FAIT DE L''ALGEBRE,sneers he once, in an inadvertent moment, to some Lady- friend:"Emilie doing? |
2114 | First, he asked me, If it was true that the French Nation was so angered against him; if the King was, and if you were? 2114 Follow Noailles; transfer the seat of war to France itself? |
2114 | Headship of the Golden Fleece, Madam; YOU head of it? 2114 Hear ye?" |
2114 | How to do it, to make ready for doing it? 2114 Is not Germany, are not all the German Princes, interested to have Peace?" |
2114 | Off on this side? |
2114 | Oriflamme enterprises, private intentions of cutting Germany in Four; well, have not I smarted for them; as good as owned they were rather mad? 2114 Out of it?" |
2114 | Perhaps it will attract moneyed strangers to frequent our Capital? |
2114 | Relieve Braunau? 2114 Silesia being settled,"think many, thinks Friedrich for one,"what else of real and solid is there to settle?" |
2114 | The rest of my MEMOIRE[ Paper before given?] 2114 To Frankfurt, say you? |
2114 | To whom I suggested this and that( does your Lordship observe? |
2114 | We can not have a Reichs Mediation- Army, then? 2114 What they intended: or intend, by coming hither?" |
2114 | What this Pragmatic Army means to do? 2114 ''But have you seen a retreat better managed?'' 2114 ''Get into Lorraine?'' 2114 ''Liberty to march home, and equitable Peace- Negotiations in the rear?'' 2114 ''Plunge home upon Prince Karl and the Grand- Duke; beat them, with your Broglio to help in the rear?'' 2114 ''To Strasburg? 2114 ''We can besiege Dunkirk at any rate, can not we, your High Mightinesses? 2114 ''We? 2114 ''Well, he has plenty of cash:--is it my Cause, then, or his Majesty''s and Liberty''s?'' 2114 ( that contemptible Country, where their very beer is called MUM),--and no remedy within view? |
2114 | --''You recognize ME for your General?'' |
2114 | 162- 166;_ Campagnes,_ v. 170, 124,& c.& c.]''Army of Bavaria?'' |
2114 | After a little thought, he fixes,--does the reader know upon whom? |
2114 | After which are Mountain- passes; Bohemian Forest: and the Event--? |
2114 | Allow me, as LANDES- HERR, some trifle of overplus: how much, then? |
2114 | And Broglio has lost head, a mere whirlwind of flaming gases; and your ablest Comte de Saxe in such position, what can he do? |
2114 | And his cash paid Madam, and his Dettingen mouse- trap fought? |
2114 | And then the breakages, damages still chargeable; the probable afterclap? |
2114 | And you?" |
2114 | And, however potent you are, is an ally useless to you? |
2114 | Anti- English Armament; to be led by, whom thinks the reader? |
2114 | As it is, there play cannon across the River upon him:--Why not bend to right, and get out of range, asks the reader? |
2114 | But how?'' |
2114 | But to have my apology spit upon; but to be myself publicly cut in pieces for them?" |
2114 | But where are the divine Emilie and Voltaire, that morning, while the Brigadier is in such taking? |
2114 | But will they resist your power, joined to that of the House of Bourbon? |
2114 | Can not we, from these enormous Paper- masses, carefully riddled, afford the reader a glimpse or two, to quicken his imagination of these things? |
2114 | Deign to think, may not this too,--in the present state of my King, of my Two Kings, and of all Europe,--be itself a kind of spheral thing?" |
2114 | Do not you cover yourself with an immortal glory in declaring yourself, with effect, the protector of the Empire? |
2114 | Dunkirk, which, by all the Treaties in existence, ought to need no besieging; but which, in spite of treatyings innumerable, always does?'' |
2114 | Dunkirk-- or what is Dunkirk even? |
2114 | Eatables, street- lamps, do I say? |
2114 | Enough, the poor Kaiser, after doleful''Council of War held at Augsburg, June 25th,''does on the morrow make off for Frankfurt again:--whither else? |
2114 | For he holds the door of the Alps, Bully Bourbon on one side of it, Bully Hapsburg on the other; and inquires sharply,"You, what will you give me? |
2114 | Give"Kur- Baiern, Kaiser as they call him,"something in the Netherlands to live upon? |
2114 | Had not little George better have stayed at home out of these Pragmatic Wars? |
2114 | Has cost already, I should guess, some 80,000 French drilled Men, paid down, on the nail, to the inexorable Fates: and of coined Millions,--how many? |
2114 | Have you in that case, Sire, any ally but France? |
2114 | He wished to favor the Arts, yes; but did he reckon Opera- dancing a chief one among them? |
2114 | How can they, if Grammont do his duty? |
2114 | How did I never think of that myself?" |
2114 | How should it? |
2114 | If Prince Karl come upon us in this scattered posture, what are we to do?" |
2114 | If only the Dutch prove hoistable!--"And so, from May on to September, it noisily proceeds, at multiplex rates? |
2114 | If you were but to march a body of troops to Cleves, do not you awaken terror and respect, without apprehension that any one dare make war on you? |
2114 | In what station Commodore Trunnion did then serve in the British Navy? |
2114 | Is it not clear that France shows vigor and wisdom? |
2114 | Landgraf Wilhelm is proud to have saved his Kaiser,--who so glad as the Landgraf and his Kaiser? |
2114 | Nay, but where is YOUR commission to command in Prag, M. le Marechal?'' |
2114 | No law of the Reich had been violated against her Hungarian Majesty or Husband:"What law?" |
2114 | Nor a Swabian- Franconian Army, to defend their own frontier?" |
2114 | Old snuffling Seckendorf, born to ill success in his old days, strong only in caution, how is he to quench or stay this crackling of the posts? |
2114 | One wonders, Were Pipes and Hatchway perhaps there, in Martin''s squadron? |
2114 | Or to the Three Bishoprics''"( Metz, Toul, Verdun:--readers recollect that Siege of Metz, which broke the great heart of Karl V.? |
2114 | Or, give him the Kingdom of Naples,--if once we had conquered it again? |
2114 | Parties go out freely to investigate:--but as to forage? |
2114 | Prag may go to the-- What have I to do with Prag? |
2114 | Prag? |
2114 | Silesia, then, is not considered settled, by the high contracting parties? |
2114 | Six or eight times as useful to Prussia: and to the Inhabitants what multiple of usefulness shall we give? |
2114 | Success? |
2114 | Surely King Friedrich ought to admit that these are fine symptoms? |
2114 | Talent? |
2114 | The Dutch? |
2114 | The great Marlborough used to play such, and win; making the wide elements, the times and the spaces, hit with exactitude: but a Maillebois? |
2114 | The lynx- eyed animal,--anxiously asking itself,"Whitherward, then, out of such a mess?" |
2114 | The thing is not comfortable to Friedrich; but what help? |
2114 | Then again, what say you to Bavaria, in lieu of the Silesia lost? |
2114 | This Bassecour, or Backyard, seems to be the gentleman that has charge of fattening the capons and turkeys for their High Mightinesses? |
2114 | This same October, the Reich, after endless debatings on the question,"Help our Kaiser, or not help?" |
2114 | This was what you call sincere Panegyric in liberal measure; why be stingy with your measure? |
2114 | To Lorraine perhaps? |
2114 | To continue crossing the Abysses on bridges of French rainbow? |
2114 | To put my Son in Austrian hands? |
2114 | To the last, they say, if a Stranger, getting audience, were graciously asked,''From what Country, then?'' |
2114 | Victory indisputably lost:--but is it not Grammont''s blame altogether? |
2114 | Voltaire had his difficulties with Valori, too;"What interloping fellow is this?" |
2114 | We may ask, Are these things of a nature to create love of the Hierarchy in M. de Voltaire? |
2114 | Which settled, Broglio proceeded to the Saxon Court; who answered him:''Provender? |
2114 | Why should not we play Marlborongh again, and teach them a little what Invasion means? |
2114 | Wild bare mountains; good for what? |
2114 | You can not help it, say you; there is no shutting up of a Reverend Desfontaines, which would be so salutary to himself and to us all? |
2114 | [ Busching,_ Beitrage,_? |
2114 | [ unless, indeed, your Highness were driven into Financial or other straits?] |
2114 | _ On les y recevra, Biribi, A la facon de Barbari, Mon ami._ We will receive them, Twiddledee, In the mode of Barbary, Do n''t you see? |
2114 | asks the Public everywhere:"To go into the Donau Countries, and enclose Broglio between two fires?" |
2114 | exclaims all the world.--"Revoke such shamefully partial Dictature?" |
2114 | not an ounce of provender possible; how dare we?'' |
2114 | said she( the Improper Duchess, at sight of me),''will the King of Prussia be a tyrant, then? |
2114 | said the Captaincy[ said Stair, chiefly, it was thought]:''Shall the whole summer waste itself to no purpose?'' |
2114 | urges the Britannic Majesty:''Patience; may not there be compensation, if we hunt well?''" |
2114 | what does her Hungarian Majesty mean? |
2119 | A thousand times over, Schmettau must have asked himself,''Why was I in such a hurry? 2119 ACH KINDER, Alas, children, you are badly wounded, then?" |
2119 | And for me, what orders has Excellency? |
2119 | And now suddenly, on the Tuesday morning, What is this? 2119 And what is this one hears from Gohfeld in the evening? |
2119 | JA, your Majesty: but how goes the Battle? |
2119 | May not it be another Rossbach( if we are lucky)? |
2119 | N''Y A- T- IL DONC PAS UN BOUGRE DE BOULET QUI PUISSE M''ATTEINDREE( Is there no one b---- of a ball that can reach me, then)? |
2119 | Northeast? 2119 Not in Sommerfeld?" |
2119 | Schmettau had been over- hasty; what need had Schmettau of haste? 2119 The Caudine Forks;""Scene of Pirna over again, in reverse form;""Is not your King at last over with it?" |
2119 | The King does not see his way, then, after all? |
2119 | The King of Prussia? |
2119 | Think you there is any pleasure in leading this dog of a life[ CHIENNE, she- dog]? 2119 What rage animates you against Maupertuis? |
2119 | What, from Rothe Vorwerk to Big Hollow, no passage, say you; no crossing? |
2119 | Why not in Nanci here? |
2119 | Will not Excellency Soltikof, who disdains idleness, go himself upon Silesia, upon Glogau for instance, and grant me a few days? |
2119 | Would not Dantzig by ourselves be the advisable thing? |
2119 | ''Fatherly? |
2119 | ''May not some of them belong to Polish Majesty?'' |
2119 | ''You?'' |
2119 | ''Your obstinate Town can be bombarded, then,--cannot it?'' |
2119 | ( Answer, evasive on this point):"Are you bandaged, though? |
2119 | --To which Schmettau answers:''Can Durchlaucht think us ignorant of the common rules of behavior to Persons of that Rank? |
2119 | --not even the 800 wagons are ready for us;''Ca n''t your baggages go in boats, then?'' |
2119 | 537- 563; BERICHT VON DER UNTERNEHMUNG DES PRINZEN HEINRICH IN FRANKEN, IM JAHR, 1759;_ Helden- Geschichte,_ v. 1033- 1039; Tempelhof,??? |
2119 | 537- 563; BERICHT VON DER UNTERNEHMUNG DES PRINZEN HEINRICH IN FRANKEN, IM JAHR, 1759;_ Helden- Geschichte,_ v. 1033- 1039; Tempelhof,??? |
2119 | 537- 563; BERICHT VON DER UNTERNEHMUNG DES PRINZEN HEINRICH IN FRANKEN, IM JAHR, 1759;_ Helden- Geschichte,_ v. 1033- 1039; Tempelhof,??? |
2119 | ?, et seq.] |
2119 | A Siege of Colberg, however, there is actually to be: Second Siege,--if perhaps it will prove luckier than the First was, two years since? |
2119 | A very disappointing circumstance to Soltikof;"Austrian Junction still a problem, then; a thing in the air? |
2119 | ALDER Waste? |
2119 | About seven in the morning Maguire had his Messenger in Dresden,''Your Excellency''s Paper ready?'' |
2119 | After all, I am so used to treacheries and bad manoeuvres,"--what matters this insignificant one? |
2119 | And first of all, concerning the enigma"What is Luc?" |
2119 | And if not, what becomes of you? |
2119 | And who, in the interim, will watch Daun and his enterprises? |
2119 | And with regard to the requisition of proviant, they answered in a scornful angry key,''Proviant? |
2119 | At once thither;--and leave Glogau and the Russians to their luck,--which in such case, what is it like to be? |
2119 | Beautifully written too, says Retzow; but what, in the eyes of this King, is beautiful writing, to knowing your business well? |
2119 | But again, did not his Majesty expect, do not these words"a bout"still seem to expect, a bit of fighting with somebody or other? |
2119 | But can English readers consent to halt in this hot pinch of the Friedrich crisis; and read the briefest thing which is foreign to it? |
2119 | But in the northwest part, those Fincks and Wunsches, Excellenz?" |
2119 | But it must have been an interesting discovery to Daun, if he foreshadowed to himself what results it would have on him:"Taking the defensive, then? |
2119 | Continue that, and what becomes of Soltikof and me? |
2119 | Daun has a horror at weakening himself to that extent; but what can he do? |
2119 | Daun is off from Triebel Country to this dangerous scene; indignantly cashiers Deville,''Why did not you attack these Ziethen people? |
2119 | Did, all that Monday, his best to prepare himself; called in his outposts("Was not I ordered?" |
2119 | Does it depend on me? |
2119 | Et qu''auraient- ils a craindre en se revoltant?... |
2119 | Finck had not a gun or a man in it:"Had not I order?" |
2119 | Friedrich had observed his fiery ways on the day of Leuthen:"Hah, a new Winterfeld perhaps?" |
2119 | Friedrich takes the road for Guben; reaches Markersdorf( twenty miles''march, still seven or eight from Guben); falls upon-- What phenomenon is this? |
2119 | From Triebel he sends the news at gallop to Lieberose and Soltikof:"Rejoice with us, Excellenz: did not I predict it? |
2119 | Had not you 10,000, Sir?'' |
2119 | Has not Daun good reason now to be proud of the cunctatory method? |
2119 | Have you been let blood?" |
2119 | He has now no Winterfeld, Schwerin, no Keith, Retzow, Moritz:--whom has he? |
2119 | He makes charming verses, in times when another could not write a line of prose; he deserves to be happy: but will he be so? |
2119 | He was of that sad Zittau business of the late Prince of Prussia''s,--Goltz, Winterfeld, Ziethen, Schmettau and others? |
2119 | Hear the stiff Answer that comes:"''Conditions of Peace,''do you call them? |
2119 | How can Daun, if himself merely speculative, calculative, hope that Soltikof will continue acting? |
2119 | I grieve to resemble Cassandra with my prophecies; but how augur well of the desperate situation we are in, and which goes on growing worse? |
2119 | I will forget who took Peitz: perhaps Haddick, of whom we have lately heard so much? |
2119 | I, can I join myself to that set? |
2119 | IS HE STILL IN BERLIN; OR WHERE IN THE UNIVERSE IS HE? |
2119 | If he run to save Hanover from Broglio, he loses Westphalia: Osnabruck( his magazine)? |
2119 | If they will stand fight? |
2119 | In his place one might have, at least, shot out a spy or two? |
2119 | In the hope probably of finding something of human provender withal? |
2119 | Into the Night; men and goods, every item:--who shall say whitherward? |
2119 | Is it to be a mere fighting for meal? |
2119 | Maupertuis, say you? |
2119 | Meal? |
2119 | Monsieur, my ammunition is in Posen; my bread is fallen scarce; in Frankfurt can you find me one horse more?'' |
2119 | Or of what use was it anywhere? |
2119 | Or will not he perhaps go, of himself, when the rough weather comes?''" |
2119 | Or would readers care to glance into the very fact with their own eyes? |
2119 | Our Court will cheerfully furnish money, instead of meal."--"Money? |
2119 | Possibly a high career lying ahead;--a man that may be very valuable to Friedrich, who has now so few such left? |
2119 | Provisions of meal? |
2119 | QUESTION,"WHO WROTE Matinees du Roi de Prusse?" |
2119 | Reflect that even Kings make peace after long battling; can not you ever make it? |
2119 | Renounced thoughts of Italy:''Europe bleeding, and especially France and Prussia, how go idly touring?'' |
2119 | Serene Highness gets on horseback; but what can that help? |
2119 | Shall he manoeuvre himself out, and march away, bread- carts, baggages and all entire? |
2119 | Soltikof understands the congratulations very well; but as to that of trampling out, snorts an indignant negative:''Nay, you, why do n''t you try it? |
2119 | That is Retzow''s notion: who knows but there may be truth in it? |
2119 | The case is critical; especially this Haddick- Loudon part of it: add 30 or 36,000 Austrians to Soltikof, how is he then to be dealt with? |
2119 | The poor Fortress of Peitz was taken again;--do readers remember it,"on the day of Zorndorf,"last year? |
2119 | There is such a thing as being too cunctatory, is not there, your Excellency? |
2119 | They say Prince Henri took the liberty of counselling him, even of entreating him:"Leave well alone; why run risks?" |
2119 | To the disgust of Serene Highness:''Which of you did stand, then? |
2119 | Too close? |
2119 | Uncertain still what it is,--if not the Austrians altogether? |
2119 | Upon which there is a Surgeon instantly brought; reprimanded for neglect:"Desperate, say you? |
2119 | WHAT IS PERPETUAL PRESIDENT MAUPERTUIS DOING, ALL THIS WHILE? |
2119 | Was it their blame, led as they were?'' |
2119 | What finer example to follow than that of those heroes? |
2119 | What on earth can this be? |
2119 | What the LUC in Voltaire is? |
2119 | What, this beautiful, what, this grand genius, Whom I admired with transport, Soils himself with calumny, and is ferocious on the dead? |
2119 | Which indeed the soldier who would know his business--(and not knowing it, is not he of all solecisms in this world the most flagrant?) |
2119 | Why Schmettau did not shoot forth a spy or two, to ascertain for him What, or whether Nothing whatever, was passing outside Dresden? |
2119 | Why does n''t Ferdinand cross Weser, re- cross Weser; coerce Broglio back; and save Hanover? |
2119 | Will not Austria vindicate its claim? |
2119 | With his own eyes he sees Reichsfolk marching, in quantity, southeastward by the Elbe shore:"Intending towards Dohna, as is like?" |
2119 | Yes, to Glogau possibly enough,"thinks Daun:"Or may not he, cunning as he is and full of feints, intend a stroke on Bautzen, in my absence?" |
2119 | You too without it? |
2119 | ]): but both are of one mind; both are on one problem,"What is to be done with that impassable dike?" |
2119 | a Prag, a Kolin, Leuthen, Rossbach;--must there still be others, then, to the misery of poor mankind?" |
2119 | inquires he of Captain Sydow, who is on guard at the Prussian end;"How dared you make this change, without acquainting the Second in Command? |
2119 | not close enough?'' |
2119 | not far enough? |
2119 | thinks Contades( as Ferdinand wished him to do):''Is our skilful enemy, in this extreme embarrassment, losing head, then? |
2119 | thinks Daun:"You, Zweibruck, Haddick, Maguire and Company, you are 36,000 in Saxony; Finck has not 12,000 in the field: How is this?" |
2119 | thinks Wedell:"Can not we burst in on their flank, as they march yonder, those awkward fellows; and tumble them into heaps?" |
2113 | ''And pray, Monsieur, who are they?'' 2113 ''Have not I great reason to be dissatisfied with your Court? |
2113 | ''His Excellency Podewils has been taking notes; if I am to be bound by them, might I first see that he has mistaken nothing?'' 2113 ''Is that your Majesty''s deliberate answer?'' |
2113 | ''Let us see then( VOYONS), what is there more?'' 2113 ''MILORD, DE QUOI S''AGIT- IL A PRESENT( What is it now, then)?'' |
2113 | ''Retire out of Silesia? 2113 ''What do you mean? |
2113 | ''What was the sum of money then offered her Hungarian Majesty?'' 2113 ''With that Answer: is your Majesty serious?'' |
2113 | ''Would your Majesty consent now to stand by his Excellency Gotter''s original Offer at Vienna on your part? 2113 ''Would your Majesty consent to an Armistice?'' |
2113 | And you consent, if I take that in hand? |
2113 | Can not one still mend it; can not one still do something of the like? |
2113 | Clippings of Bohemia? 2113 Did not I give up my invaluable Silesia, the jewel of my crown, for you, cruel Britannic Majesty with the big purse, and no heart to speak of?" |
2113 | False? |
2113 | How a King''s Daughter and an Empress are to meet, was probably never settled by example: what number of steps down stairs does she come? 2113 In Heaven''s name, what are your intentions, then?" |
2113 | Is it conceivable that Friedrich could have beaten us, in that manner, except by buying Neipperg in the first place? 2113 Let the Silesian matter stand where it stood,"thinks Friedrich:"since Austria will not, will you? |
2113 | Mendacity,my friends? |
2113 | Shall I join with the English, in hope of some tolerable bargain from Austria? 2113 Surely you are a Sea- Power, ye valiant Dutch; the OTHER Sea- Power? |
2113 | The Austrians will not complete their bargain of Klein- Schnellendorf? |
2113 | Why not drive him out of Budweis,think the Two French Marshals,"him and whatever force can come? |
2113 | Wo n''t your Majesty co- operate? |
2113 | ''How is it possible, my Lord, to believe things so contradictory? |
2113 | ''Might I request a short Private Audience of your Majesty?'' |
2113 | ''Price?'' |
2113 | ''Take Prag: but how?'' |
2113 | ( We have no strong place, or footing in this Country: what are we to do? |
2113 | -- It is true they have no money, these blind dull people; but are not the Sea- Powers, England especially, there, created by Nature to supply money? |
2113 | --Can his Excellency Hyndford get Vienna, get Feldmarschall Reipperg with power from Vienna, to accept: Yes or No? |
2113 | --He concludes:"Have I need of Peace? |
2113 | ... That expression made him smile, and he began to look a little cooler....''Shall we apply to Vienna, your Majesty?'' |
2113 | 339(? |
2113 | 45, 193); and French Peerage- Books,? |
2113 | A very strong resolution, they and the Gazetteers think it; and ask themselves, Is it not likely to have some effect? |
2113 | Above all, if Neipperg''s Army were to disengage itself, and be let loose into those parts? |
2113 | Am not I fortifying Brieg and Glogau? |
2113 | And for money? |
2113 | And from England, in about a fortnight, gets for answer,"Do harm, think you? |
2113 | And go not into that dust- whirlwind of extinct stupidities, O reader:--what reader would, except for didactic objects? |
2113 | And in a prompt manner, if you please, Sir; why not prompt and abundant? |
2113 | And to me they can not spare a few trifling Principalities? |
2113 | Are we alarm- clocks, that need only to be wound up, and told at what hour, and for whom?] |
2113 | At all events, if asked: Where then is the specifical not"superstitious"WANT of"veracity"you ever found in Friedrich? |
2113 | Austria prefers your friendship; but if your Majesty disdain Austria''s advances, what is it to do? |
2113 | Being again urged, Why have not you performed? |
2113 | Besides, who would guarantee them?'' |
2113 | But how could she see to do it,--especially with little George at her back, and abundance of money? |
2113 | But now again, see, do not the dust- clouds pause? |
2113 | But what can sympathies avail? |
2113 | But will they? |
2113 | Certain enough, Peace with Friedrich is now on the way; and can not well linger:--what prospect has Austria otherwise? |
2113 | For if she is a Kaiser''s Daughter and Kaiser''s Spouse, am not I somewhat too? |
2113 | France will be contentable with something in the Netherlands; what else can she want of us? |
2113 | Friedrich, in astonishment and indignation, sends a messenger to Dresden:"Would the Polish Majesty BE''King of Moravia,''then, or not be?" |
2113 | Has not France guaranteed the Pragmatic Sanction; has not England? |
2113 | Have not they given whole Kingdoms to Spain? |
2113 | Have they ever got to his Majesty? |
2113 | Here is a successful young King; is not he? |
2113 | Here is the enormous jumbling of a World broken loose; boiling as in very chaos; asking of him, him more than any other,"How? |
2113 | How is it that you will not?" |
2113 | How keep our incognito, with all these people heaping civilities upon us? |
2113 | I asked, Where are those nine acres; what crop is now upon them? |
2113 | I have now joined with France; and to join against it in this manner? |
2113 | If the English would but get me a bargain--? |
2113 | If the Queen prosper, I shall-- perhaps I shall have no objection to join her by and by? |
2113 | In return for which his Prussian Majesty-- will do what? |
2113 | Interests of Kur- Sachsen''s in that Country?" |
2113 | Is it not the one thing needful? |
2113 | Is not this the bulwark of your Prag just now?" |
2113 | It is really difficult to say what: Be a true ally and second to France in its grand German Adventure? |
2113 | Kaiser Ferdinand, Karl V.''s brother, on a Progress to Prag, came to lodge at Czaslau, one afternoon:"What is that?" |
2113 | Limburg? |
2113 | Lobkowitz, surely not Lobkowitz? |
2113 | Might not the Enemy grow more tractable to Robinson''s seductions in such case? |
2113 | My first enterprise; and to be given up lightly?''" |
2113 | Neipperg and the generality of them, in that luckless Silesian Business? |
2113 | Neipperg be chased, say you? |
2113 | Old Uuddenbrock, surely, did not himself RIDE in the charge? |
2113 | Or suppose, we are beaten by him?'' |
2113 | Ought not Karl Albert to be upon the road again? |
2113 | Parings from that outskirt, what are these compared with Silesia, a horrid gash into the vital parts? |
2113 | Perhaps it is not true? |
2113 | Prince George of Hessen- Cassel, did readers ever hear of him before? |
2113 | QUOI, such a paltry scraping( BICOQUE) as that, for all my just claims in Silesia? |
2113 | Queen and Hofraths have been waiting in agony of suspense,"Will Friedrich bargain on those gentle terms, and help us with 100,000 men?" |
2113 | Retire out of Silesia, which has cost me so much treasure and blood in the conquest of it? |
2113 | Sends to Silesia, to Glatz and the Young Dessauer;--nay to Brandenburg and the Old Dessauer? |
2113 | Shall I be bought out of this country? |
2113 | Shall I have to join with the French, in despair of any?" |
2113 | So that he had soon quitted Mahren; made for Budweis and neighborhood:--dangerous to Broglio''s outposts there? |
2113 | Such Town Sovereign persecutes innocence, stops his ears to its cry; flourishes his sharp scourge;--no one shall complain: for is it not justice? |
2113 | Such is Robinson''s gloomy view: finished, he, and the game lost,--unless perhaps Hyndford could still do something? |
2113 | Support France, at least in its small Bavarian Anti- Austrian Adventure? |
2113 | Syndic Guzmar and the peccant Officials being summoned out to Strehlen, it had been asked of them,"Do you know this Letter?" |
2113 | The arm- chair( FAUTEUIL), is that to be denied me?" |
2113 | The rest-- the spiders are very welcome to it: who of mortals would read it, were it made never so lucid to him? |
2113 | The saving operation, Friedrich well sees, would be to get hold of Brunn: but, unluckily, How? |
2113 | To unravel cobwebs, and register laboriously and date and sort in the sorrow of your soul the oaths of crowned dicers,--what use is it to gods or men? |
2113 | Vehemently fought on both sides;--calculated, one may hope, to end this Silesian matter? |
2113 | Was there ever so contingent a Treaty before? |
2113 | What can the Town Major do; Prussian grenadiers, cannoneers, gravely environing him? |
2113 | What else is their purpose in Creation? |
2113 | What is his Britannic Majesty to do? |
2113 | What is the use to human creatures of recording all that melancholy stuff? |
2113 | What, How?" |
2113 | What?" |
2113 | Who minds or keeps guarantees in this age? |
2113 | Why do n''t you all fly to the Queen''s succor?''" |
2113 | Will even the King of Prussia himself be reserved to the last? |
2113 | Will he, like that DIVER of Schiller''s, have to try the feat a second time? |
2113 | With what face shall I meet my Ancestors, if I abandon my right, which they have transmitted to me? |
2113 | [ Can that be, O Spener or Speer? |
2113 | [ turning to Podewils]--QU''EST- CE QUE NOUS MANQUE DE TOUTE LA GUELDRE( How much of Guelderland is theirs, and not ours already)?'' |
2113 | a mere"Bavarian Army,"do n''t you see? |
2113 | do readers wonder to see him dance, being an Archbishop? |
2113 | reports Van Hoey always; and the Dutch answer his Britannic Majesty:"Hm, rise? |
2113 | to stir up allies against me? |
2115 | ''Well, and if they did, they? 2115 A few days before her death,--perhaps some attendant sorrowfully asking,''Can we do nothing, then?'' |
2115 | An invasion of Bohemia, will not that astonish Prince Karl; and bring him to his Rhine- Bridges again? 2115 Are the Saxons enemies; are they friends? |
2115 | But how, then,persists Valori;"but--?" |
2115 | By what points the Austrian- Saxon Armament will come through upon us? 2115 Insulting; how, your Excellency?" |
2115 | Intending to block us out from Schatzlar? 2115 King of Poland, thinks your Majesty?" |
2115 | Let the King of France crown his glories by the Siege of Freyburg, the conquest of Brisgau:--for behoof of the poor Kaiser, do n''t you observe? 2115 Rapidity is indispensable,--and yet how quit Tabor? |
2115 | Sire, will not you dispute the Passes, then? |
2115 | WAS THUTS? 2115 Well; but why not attack, then, with your ferocity?" |
2115 | ''And we can not pass through this moor skirt of Lausitz, say you, then?'' |
2115 | ''If now Stockstadt were suddenly snatched by us,''thinks Karl;--''if a few pontoons were nimbly swung in?'' |
2115 | ''Prisoner, are not you?'' |
2115 | ''Push to the left, over the Hochwald top, must not we?'' |
2115 | ''QUE VOULEZ- VOUS DONC?'' |
2115 | ''Seckendorf, increased in this munificent manner, can he still do nothing?'' |
2115 | ''What share?'' |
2115 | ''Who ever saw such positions, your Majesty?'' |
2115 | --''And us at the gates of Vienna,''answered I promptly,''with the same indifference?'' |
2115 | --On hearing of the Peace of Fussen, perhaps a day or so later, Friedrich again writes:--"APRIL[ no distinct date; Neisse still? |
2115 | --So that there is not the least prospect of peace here? |
2115 | --and even gets into FROIDES PLAISANTERIES:''Perhaps the Marechal did it himself? |
2115 | --and questions arise innumerable thereupon, Will France go into electioneering again? |
2115 | ... Peace of Fussen, Bavaria turned against me? |
2115 | 169("Your illustrious''Column,''at Fontenoy? |
2115 | 248 n.] What"that May Eleventh"is or was? |
2115 | A winter march of 150 miles;--but what, say the spies, is to hinder? |
2115 | A young Countess Flemming( daughter of old Feldmarschall Flemming) doubtless there might be, who presented him a flute; but as to HIS FIRST flute--? |
2115 | Aback, too indisputably, all!--"And Belleisle''s Accident?" |
2115 | After which fine feat, salvatory to the Cause of Liberty, and destructive to French influence, what is to prevent his election to the Kaisership? |
2115 | Alas, we are to stand a fourth siege, then? |
2115 | And little Bruhl''s late insolence; Bruhl''s evident belief that"we are finished( AUX ABOIS)"? |
2115 | And of the JENKINS''S- EAR question, generous England will say nothing? |
2115 | And that is the good we have got of the sublime Austrian Alliance; and that is the pass our grand scheme of Partitioning Prussia has come to? |
2115 | And we must now say, Silesia or Prag? |
2115 | Are not we conquering Hither Austria here, for the Kaiser''s behoof?" |
2115 | Are we never to have any good of our life, then( NE DOIS- JE DONC JAMAIS JOUIR)? |
2115 | At nine, Bruhl himself arrives, for Privy Council:''What is your Majesty pleased to think on these points of current business?'' |
2115 | At the first gleam of dawn, as they are shoving down their pontoon boats, there comes a"WER- DA, Who goes?" |
2115 | August the Strong, where is he; and his famous Three Hundred and Fifty- four, Enchantress Orzelska and the others, where are they? |
2115 | Better be vigilant, Prince Leopold!--Grune, lying at Gera yonder, is not intending for Prince Karl, then? |
2115 | Britannic George, though Purseholder, what is his success here? |
2115 | But what help? |
2115 | But what shall we say? |
2115 | But where are provisions to be had? |
2115 | But, after all, what could Seckendorf do? |
2115 | Coming to take us on the right flank here; to attack our Camp by surprise: will crush us northward through the defiles, and trample us down in detail? |
2115 | Consider farther: the Imperial dignity, is it compatible with the fatal deprivation of Silesia? |
2115 | Could not one, by good methods, make friends with his Polish Majesty?" |
2115 | Does not England love the Cause of Liberty? |
2115 | Duchy of Glogau; some small paring of Silesia, wo n''t your Majesty?'' |
2115 | For the rest, the Bavarian question; and very specially, Who the new Emperor is to be? |
2115 | Forward; steady: can I doubt but you will acquit yourselves like Prussian men?" |
2115 | French sitting well on Prince Karl''s skirts? |
2115 | Friedrich has still his hopes of Bavaria, so grandiloquent are the French in regard to it; who but would hope? |
2115 | Had the Saxons stood still, steadily handling arms, how, on such terms, could the Prussians ever have managed it? |
2115 | Had your Majesty forgotten the Joint- Stock Principle, then? |
2115 | Has not England money, then? |
2115 | His battle- lines torn in two in that manner, hovering in ragged clouds over the field, what hope is there in the Battle? |
2115 | His speech seemed very like that of an Irishman; very sly[ how did you know, my poor friend? |
2115 | How shall he make some impression on the Siege of Tournay? |
2115 | How to smooth the King of Prussia, and turn him to harmony again? |
2115 | How we are to maintain ourselves in this country? |
2115 | If old Marshal Wade, at the other end of the line, should chance to awaken and press home on Saxe, and his remnant of French, with right vigor? |
2115 | If we stay near Prag, what becomes of our communication with Silesia; what becomes of Silesia itself? |
2115 | Is he entitled to exchange by cartel, or not entitled?'' |
2115 | Is not this a bit of modern chivalry? |
2115 | Is not this the Kaiser''s Order? |
2115 | Kur- Sachsen, the Polish Majesty again? |
2115 | Meaning what? |
2115 | Means to cut us off from Prag, then, which is our fountain of life in these circumstances? |
2115 | On Thursday, 3d June: Do you notice that cloud of dust rising among the peaks over yonder? |
2115 | On the morrow, 5 A.M., what is this that is going on? |
2115 | Or perhaps the fatal alternative will not actually arrive? |
2115 | Or some- whither to find fat winter- quarters: who knows? |
2115 | Or will they perhaps make an attempt on Prag? |
2115 | Or will they retreat without attempting mischief? |
2115 | Or, better still, Would not perhaps the Saxons, in this humiliated state, accept Peace, and finish the matter? |
2115 | Peace with George the Purseholder, does not that mean Peace with all the others? |
2115 | Peace with Prussia, what good could it do at present?'' |
2115 | Perhaps nothing will follow; next to nothing? |
2115 | Poor old Wade, last year,--perhaps Wade did suffer, as he alleged, from"want of sufficient authority in that mixed Army"? |
2115 | Prince Karl, you would certainly say, has gone into winter- quarters; about Konigsgratz, and farther on? |
2115 | Question now is, How will it stand with the Old Dessauer and his part? |
2115 | Reinstated Chateauroux: but this time, poor creature, she continued only about a day:--"Sudden fever, from excitement,"said the Doctors:"Fever? |
2115 | Reverence, sacred Respect for Human Worth, sacred Abhorrence of Human Unworth, have you considered what it means? |
2115 | Robinson and the English seem not to be enthusiastic in that direction; as indeed how can they? |
2115 | SAME LETTER, OR ANOTHER? |
2115 | Saxons from the Lausitz, Austrians from Bohmen, enclosing us between two fires?" |
2115 | Silesia and no afterthought? |
2115 | Silesia, which was NOT yours nor ever shall be? |
2115 | So long as Pardubitz and Kolin hold; and we have the Elbe for barrier? |
2115 | Such is the rumor,--perhaps only a rumor, in mockery of the hebetated old gentleman fallen unlucky? |
2115 | Surely, Monseigneur, only a man ignorant of war, or with treasonous intention[ or ill- off for victuals],--could post troops in that way? |
2115 | Tallard, prisoner after Blenheim, made PEACE, you know, in England?'' |
2115 | That famed Middle- Rhine Army has gone to the-- what shall we say? |
2115 | That second plan would have been the wisest:--then why not, follow it? |
2115 | The Sazawa- Luschnitz tract of Country is quite lost, then; lost with damages: the question now is, Can we keep the Sazawa- Elbe tract? |
2115 | The question now is, Will Saxony assist Austria in invading Silesia, with or without Britannic subsidy? |
2115 | The traitor Seckendorf had made such a choice of posts,--left unaltered by Drum Thorring;--what could French valor do? |
2115 | Then perhaps towards Saxony, to reinforce the Saxons? |
2115 | This also is a thing to be amended, a thing you had to learn, your Majesty? |
2115 | This will do, wo n''t it?" |
2115 | Three Currents instinct with fire and destruction, but as yet quite opaque; which have been launched,--whitherward thinks the reader? |
2115 | To leave them to the Tolpaches? |
2115 | To winter in these towns between the Sazawa and the Luschnitz? |
2115 | To- morrow;--well, to- morrow? |
2115 | Together will it be, or separately? |
2115 | Valori sees the King; finds him, as expected, the fac- simile of Bruhl in this matter; Jesuit Guarini the like: how otherwise? |
2115 | Valori, horror- struck at such Peace, what shall he do to prevent it, to retard it? |
2115 | Valori, so seldom spoken to, is lodged in a suburb there:''Had not you better go into the town itself?'' |
2115 | Very dear to the hearts of these poor people;--and to their purses, interests and skins, has not he in another sense been dear? |
2115 | Was that our bargain?'' |
2115 | What are we, poor human atoms, to get up projects that cost so much blood? |
2115 | What can Valori expect, on this heroic occasion, from such a King? |
2115 | What had become of us pacific? |
2115 | What to do? |
2115 | What will France do with HIM; what he with France? |
2115 | What will become of poor pacific mortals hereabouts? |
2115 | White flag accordingly( Tuesday, 15th):"Free withdrawal, to the Wischerad; wo n''t you?" |
2115 | Whom can the French try as Candidate against the Grand- Duke? |
2115 | Why Populations suffer for their guilty Kings? |
2115 | Why not? |
2115 | With Austria, with Saxony, Britannic Majesty has been entirely unsuccessful:--"May not Sohr, perhaps, be a fresh persuasive?" |
2115 | With a Konigseck to dry- nurse him, may not Royal Highness, luck favoring, do very well? |
2115 | Would you have a Nation live forever that is content to be governed by Bruhls? |
2115 | You will let him keep his own henceforth, then, will you? |
2115 | [ MILITARY INSTRUCTIONS? |
2115 | asks Valori, amazed:"Not defend your Mountain rampart, then?" |
2115 | thinks Friedrich sadly to himself: but what is Prag and artillery, compared to Silesia? |
2115 | with that hill, that brook, that bit of bog?'' |
19714 | ''Is it not, Thirza?'' 19714 ''Well, what do you want me to do for the lad?'' |
19714 | ''You say that he speaks both French and German well? 19714 A Scotchman, I suppose?" |
19714 | And are they extensive? |
19714 | And how about yourself? 19714 And may I ask how the count is going on, sir?" |
19714 | And the French are gone, bag and baggage? |
19714 | And the place? |
19714 | And what think you of this matter, lad? |
19714 | Are the horses at the door? |
19714 | Are they here, then, count? |
19714 | Are you Lieutenant Drummond, sir? |
19714 | Are you all right? |
19714 | Are you hurt, sir? |
19714 | Are you joking, Ronsfeldt? |
19714 | Are you sure that he is not dead, sir? |
19714 | Are your horses still alive? |
19714 | At what time will you start? |
19714 | But I am not to lose your services, I hope? |
19714 | But the king is a Protestant, is he not, sir? |
19714 | But what grievance has France against the king? |
19714 | But what is it all about, Drummond? 19714 But who had you with you to help you?" |
19714 | By the way, are you not the officer who cut his way through the squadron of our regiment, and went on and joined your cavalry, who at once fell back? 19714 By the way, how did you come here?" |
19714 | Can anyone tell me where I can find the king? |
19714 | Can you give us the particulars? |
19714 | Can you swim? |
19714 | Could I, mother? |
19714 | Did Ferdinand send you back, or did you ask to come? |
19714 | Do we block the only line of retreat, sir? |
19714 | Do you hear from her often? |
19714 | Do you know what is going on to the right, sir? |
19714 | Do you know where we are bound for? |
19714 | Do you mean to kill him? |
19714 | Do you mean to say, Mr. Drummond, that with your own hand you slew the whole of the six villains? |
19714 | Do you mean, count,Fergus exclaimed eagerly,"that Thirza could go with me? |
19714 | Do you not think of settling here? |
19714 | Do you suppose that I am the emperor, in disguise? |
19714 | Do you think, then,Stauffen said,"that there is any chance of our making our escape?" |
19714 | Do you want a surgeon to see you? |
19714 | Dragged hither, count? |
19714 | From what you said in your letter to my mother, sir, you think it likely that we shall see service, before long? |
19714 | Has he completely recovered? |
19714 | Has the count opened his eyes yet? |
19714 | Have there been any exchanges of prisoners, of late? |
19714 | Have you any spirits? |
19714 | Have you been a prisoner before? |
19714 | Have you passed muster? |
19714 | How can you say so, father? |
19714 | How did they get the news of our coming? |
19714 | How do you manage coming back? |
19714 | How do you mean, count? |
19714 | How far are we from Erfurt, now? |
19714 | How have things gone, major? |
19714 | How is your master, Karl? |
19714 | How long do you think that we shall take? |
19714 | How long have you been on the road? |
19714 | How long have you been out here? |
19714 | How long shall I be before I am fit for duty again? |
19714 | How long will that be, Lindsay? |
19714 | I hope the horse came back safely, Lindsay? |
19714 | I should like nothing so much, count; but might I not get you into trouble, if it were known that you had one of the king''s officers at your house? |
19714 | I suppose you have not dined yet, Karl? |
19714 | I suppose you would not have recognized me? |
19714 | In what way, Karl? |
19714 | Is Mr. Drummond up? |
19714 | Is that the headquarters of the French general? |
19714 | Is the marshal in his room? |
19714 | Is the way we came this morning the shortest? |
19714 | Is there anything we can do, father? |
19714 | Is there much duelling here? |
19714 | Is there no news of Ziethen? |
19714 | Is there nothing that we can do for you? 19714 Is there still room left for me, do you think?" |
19714 | Karl, are you there? |
19714 | May I ask if, by the last news, Marshal Daun is still near Hochkirch? |
19714 | May I ask what is the news, sir? |
19714 | Now, commanding officer, what is to be our next tale? |
19714 | Now, sir, is there anything that I can do for you? |
19714 | Now, that has not been so dreadful, has it? |
19714 | Now, which of you is the captain? |
19714 | Now,Fergus went on,"what is the lowest price that one of you will take me and my horse down to Dresden for? |
19714 | Oh, sir,she said,"is it possible that you, who look so young, can be the one who came to our assistance, and killed those six evil men? |
19714 | Six months or six years; who can tell? |
19714 | That all seems possible enough, Drummond,Captain Ritzer said;"but what about our uniforms?" |
19714 | The only question is, when is the first visit to take place? 19714 Then shall we say five o''clock?" |
19714 | Then you have not the most remote idea where you will find your servant and horse? |
19714 | Then you never thought of such a thing? |
19714 | There is nothing I can do for you? |
19714 | To that I must reply,Fergus said with a smile,"''How long are you thinking of stopping here?'' |
19714 | Tomorrow? |
19714 | Was anyone else hurt? |
19714 | Was it really you who saved us, the other night? |
19714 | Well, Captain Drummond, so you have been playing the spy for us? |
19714 | Were these the only two men in the house? |
19714 | What about? |
19714 | What am I to do, your honour? |
19714 | What are you waiting here for? |
19714 | What disguise do you, yourself, fancy? |
19714 | What do you mean? |
19714 | What do you say, Thirza? |
19714 | What do you say, Thirza? |
19714 | What force is there opposed to us? |
19714 | What happened when you came in? |
19714 | What has become of Karl? 19714 What is it, Major Drummond?" |
19714 | What is its work, principally? |
19714 | What is the gentleman''s name? |
19714 | What is there for me to do, count, outside the army? 19714 What is your business, sir?" |
19714 | What is your name, sir? |
19714 | What next, I wonder? |
19714 | What o''clock is it? |
19714 | What, have you got another step, Drummond? |
19714 | Whence do you bring it? |
19714 | Where am I hit? |
19714 | Where are their rooms? |
19714 | Where can I get help from? |
19714 | Where have you been, Karl? |
19714 | Where is the colonel? |
19714 | Where is your messenger, Keith? |
19714 | Where is your new aide- de- camp, marshal? |
19714 | Which way did you travel? |
19714 | Which way is it, Major Drummond? 19714 Who is its commander?" |
19714 | Who is the young fellow, do you know him? |
19714 | Who is there? 19714 Who is we, Karl?" |
19714 | Why do you not bring it here? |
19714 | Why do you not salute, sir? |
19714 | Why so? |
19714 | Why, Fergus,he exclaimed,"have you been robbing the King of Poland''s stables? |
19714 | Why, I thought you lodged in the palace? |
19714 | Why, how was that, Karl? |
19714 | Will he live, sir? |
19714 | Will one of you ask the count to see me? 19714 Will the scars on your face always show as they do now?" |
19714 | Will they never stop? |
19714 | Will you come in, sir? |
19714 | Will you go this afternoon? |
19714 | Will you have the uniform complete, with belts, helmet, and all equipments? |
19714 | Would it not be possible, captain,Fergus asked,"to hire a boat?" |
19714 | You are not really in earnest, Drummond,Stauffen said,"in what you say about escaping?" |
19714 | You are the bearer of a letter to me, sir? |
19714 | You are with Stauffen and Ritzer, are you not, major? |
19714 | You brought your horse safe out of the battle, I hope? |
19714 | You did not see the countess, I suppose, Karl? |
19714 | You do n''t think there is any chance of escape, surely, major? |
19714 | You have Major Drummond in with you, have you not? |
19714 | You saw the fellows, then? 19714 You were in no danger, yourself?" |
19714 | You were not present, yourself? |
19714 | Your master is not killed? |
19714 | After that, who knows?" |
19714 | And what was the next occasion?" |
19714 | And where did you get your last step?" |
19714 | As Karl was helping Fergus into his uniform, he asked:"How long were you in coming here, count?" |
19714 | At any rate, if we do n''t mean to fight, what are we here for?" |
19714 | But how is he disfigured?" |
19714 | But tell us first, how were you captured?" |
19714 | Can I speak to you for a moment?" |
19714 | Can you tell us how matters have gone, up there?" |
19714 | Could you come at that hour?" |
19714 | Did he get safely back?" |
19714 | Did you learn anything more than what Marshal Keith has told me?" |
19714 | Do you see any difference between them?" |
19714 | Does my officer wish to take a full- dress suit with him?" |
19714 | Fergus exclaimed,"where do you spring from-- when did you arrive?" |
19714 | Fergus exclaimed,"where do you spring from-- when did you arrive?"] |
19714 | Fergus went up to him and said:"Can you tell me, sir, if Marshal Keith is among the killed? |
19714 | Had they left before you got there? |
19714 | Had you formed any plans as to what you would have done, had you found him absent?" |
19714 | Have you any news?" |
19714 | Have you heard the last news?" |
19714 | Have you not heard the news? |
19714 | How do you feel now, sir?" |
19714 | How do you get on with them?" |
19714 | How goes the battle?" |
19714 | How have you learnt it?" |
19714 | How much land goes with it?" |
19714 | How was it that they suffered you to escape with your life? |
19714 | How was it that you heard of the attack?" |
19714 | I myself have risen too; but what does it bring? |
19714 | I suppose you know nothing of this beastly language?" |
19714 | I wonder whether the rooms above and below this are tenanted?" |
19714 | Is he alone?" |
19714 | Lieutenant Lindsay, who was on duty, came forward, looked at him doubtfully for a moment, and then shouted joyfully:"Why, Drummond, is it you? |
19714 | Now, have you spare clothes on board?" |
19714 | Now, shall I go first, or will one of you?" |
19714 | One may be cold and wet and hungry, but who cares? |
19714 | Or an out- of- the- way thing that I should gladly give her to you?" |
19714 | Sackville looked at him as he shouted in English, with astonishment and rage:"And who the devil are you?" |
19714 | Shall I go over and inquire what is going on?" |
19714 | The question is, what is to be done with them? |
19714 | The servant went in, a moment later held the door open, and said:"Will you enter, sir?" |
19714 | There is still a spare room on your corridor, is there not? |
19714 | We have not ill treated you in any way, have we?" |
19714 | Well, which shall it be-- infantry or cavalry?'' |
19714 | What do you value them at?" |
19714 | What is it?" |
19714 | What must you have thought of me?" |
19714 | What relation was he to you?" |
19714 | What strength were they?" |
19714 | When do you think of starting for Scotland?" |
19714 | Which way do you intend to cross the passes into Saxony?" |
19714 | Who could possibly have believed that a young fellow, not yet twenty, I should say, could have so distinguished himself? |
19714 | Who is he related to?" |
19714 | Why should you not do the same?" |
19714 | Will you let us have a share of the fire?" |
19714 | Will you tell me how it happened?" |
19714 | Would it be such an out- of- the- way thing for you to come to me, and ask her hand? |
19714 | Would you object to each side being accompanied by a second friend? |
19714 | You are well enough to walk to the hotel?" |
19714 | You come from Vienna?" |
19714 | You have no more kinsmen coming at present, Keith?'' |
19714 | Your majesty has nothing more to say to him?" |
19714 | he exclaimed,"where do you spring from-- how did you know that I was here-- when did you arrive?" |
2118 | All bad as Poetry, those Verses? |
2118 | Attacked, you? |
2118 | Burn the Suburbs? |
2118 | Defend? 2118 Have not I reconquered Silesia?" |
2118 | How is this? |
2118 | I am sorry indeed to hear that!--Were there Generals too in your house? 2118 MY DEAREST SISTER,--What is the good of philosophy unless one employ it in the disagreeable moments of life? |
2118 | Neutrality to Hanover? |
2118 | No, you are an honest man:--probably a Protestant? |
2118 | On the Height beyond Neumarkt, that will be? |
2118 | Or else? |
2118 | Recapture of Silesia? |
2118 | Rest:--and Daun, coming on with 30,000 of reinforcement to them, might arrive this night? 2118 Send to Kur- Mainz say you? |
2118 | Shall not we reap, then, where there is such a harvest standing white to us? |
2118 | Shall we order that to cease, your Majesty? |
2118 | Should you have known me again? |
2118 | Swedes, what are they? |
2118 | To see the--what shall we call it: seat of honor, in fact,"of your enemy:"has it not an undeniable charm? |
2118 | Well, children, how think you it will be to- morrow? 2118 What IS all that?" |
2118 | What could I do? 2118 What does or can he mean, then?" |
2118 | What is Friedrich? 2118 What is to hinder you from starving them into surrender?" |
2118 | What made thee desert, then? |
2118 | What sound is that? |
2118 | When got you rid of your high guests? |
2118 | Who are you? |
2118 | Why not spare me a small English squadron, and blow these away? |
2118 | Why not unite with the Swedes and take Stettin( the finest harbor in the Baltic), which would bring Russia, by ships, to your very hand? |
2118 | Why not, if we do our duty at all, annihilate his trifle of an Army; take himself prisoner, and so end it? |
2118 | You are dead, sirrah,said Daun;"hoisted to the highest gallows: Are not you? |
2118 | ''Again nominated, why again?'' |
2118 | ''Do n''t I?'' |
2118 | ''Making for Hanover?'' |
2118 | ''SI UN ALLEMAND PEUT AVOIR DE L''ESPRIT( Can a German possibly have sharpness of wits)?'' |
2118 | ''What did he die of?'' |
2118 | ''What of that?'' |
2118 | ( Where the 103 pieces of my own are, and my 27 flags, and my Army- chest and sundries? |
2118 | --"GLAUBT ER DIES, Do you think so?" |
2118 | --"Well, and if he do? |
2118 | --''Why rage the Heathen; why do the people imagine a vain thing? |
2118 | --Heavy billeting; but what was that?... |
2118 | 167, 168,? |
2118 | 50);& c.& c.] and not leave Austria by itself to do the duel with Friedrich? |
2118 | A longish, almost straight row of young Prussian recruits stretched among the slain, what are these? |
2118 | Alas, my friends, what could Xavier probably avail, the foolish fellow, with only three regiments? |
2118 | An eye- sorrow, they, with their commerce, their weavings and industryings, to Austrian Papists, who can not weave or trade?" |
2118 | And did you ever see such horses, such splendor of equipment, regardless of expense? |
2118 | And where is it said, that Brutus and Cato should carry magnanimity farther than Princes and Kings? |
2118 | And, alas, withal, how is it possible, with that America hanging over us?" |
2118 | And, in fact, the second man of these poor fellows did die there? |
2118 | As I was on foot, and none of my people now near, he bade give me his led horse which he still had[ and sent me home for surgery? |
2118 | As when( June 9th) he personally visits Balbi''s parallels( top of the Tafelberg yonder); and inquires,''When do you calculate to get done, then?'' |
2118 | Attack to be in this point?" |
2118 | Be assaulted by an Army like his?" |
2118 | Better than two pitched battles gained: who shall say? |
2118 | Bring the war into our own borders? |
2118 | But does your Eminency take notice how high my connections are; what service a poor obscure creature might perhaps do the State some day?" |
2118 | But how help it? |
2118 | But if they are gone to St. Vitus, and fail in every point, what can one do? |
2118 | But is that the example for me to follow? |
2118 | But the answer was-- what could the answer be? |
2118 | But the noise grew louder, and came ever nearer; I turned my guns towards it[ southward, southeastward, or perhaps a gun each way?] |
2118 | But there is no crossing of the Mutzel, there is only drowning in the quagmires there:--death any way; what can be done but die? |
2118 | But with regiments jammed in this astonishing way, and got collectively into the lion''s throat, what can be done? |
2118 | But, indeed, what other shift has he,"considers Daun,"but to try rallying at Glogau yonder, safe under the guns?" |
2118 | Can this be the same Army that Royal Highness led to the Sea and the Parish Pound? |
2118 | Carteret, at this crisis, was again applied to,''Can not you? |
2118 | Continually southward, as if for Tamsel:--poor old Tamsel, do readers recollect it at all, does Friedrich at all? |
2118 | Dangerous, serving Citatio in that quarter: and by what art try to smuggle it into the hands of such a one? |
2118 | Daun ought to be far on with the conquest of that Country? |
2118 | Daun, that morning, in his reconnoitrings, had asked of a peasant,"What is that, then?" |
2118 | Dinner, up in the Schloss, is just being taken from the spit, and the swashing at its height, when--''Hah what is that, though?'' |
2118 | Double or quits, that is our game: can we yield for a little ill- luck? |
2118 | FOX to Pitt:''Will you join ME?'' |
2118 | Feasible perhaps:"but straightway?" |
2118 | Fermor, in the evening, said to his Artillery People:"Why have you ceased to fire grenadoes?" |
2118 | For you, when I reflect that you are Prussians, can I think that you will act unworthily? |
2118 | Friedrich sometimes remonstrates:"Can not you spare such phraseology, unseemly to Kings? |
2118 | Furious, and strenuous, it is not doubted, on this Friedrich''s part: but against such odds, what can he do? |
2118 | Half a mile behind Krzeczhorz( let us write it Kreczor, for the future: what can we do? |
2118 | He is down reconnoitring his end of the Bridge: sha''n''t I, then?" |
2118 | His Prussians at Zittau, at Moys, at Breslau in the new Malplaquet, were we beaten by them? |
2118 | His men have been on foot since midnight, and on forced marches for days past: were it not better to rest for this one day? |
2118 | How Prince Karl came to expose his Bakery, his staff of life so far ahead of him? |
2118 | How can a Prince survive his State, the glory of his Country, his own reputation? |
2118 | How could I know?" |
2118 | I fired off my cannons[ shall we say straight southward?] |
2118 | I struggled to my feet, as fast as, for weakness, I possibly could; and got up to our confused mass[ CONFUSEN KLUMPEN,--exact place, where? |
2118 | If outrage irritates even cowards, what will it do to hearts that have courage? |
2118 | If peradventure he can take Custrin without proper siege- artillery, in the Oczakow or Anti- Turk way? |
2118 | If the carrying of meal so far be difficult what will the carrying of siege- furniture be? |
2118 | If you learn that a misfortune happens to one of us, ask,''Did he die fighting?'' |
2118 | In behalf of an afflicted old King?'' |
2118 | In vain, or nearly so, is Friedrich''s tactic or manoeuvring talent; what now is there to manoeuvre? |
2118 | Is Liberty, that precious prerogative, to be less dear to a Sovereign in the eighteenth century than it was to Roman Patricians of old? |
2118 | Is it for you to bend under worn- out notions of justice, right? |
2118 | Is there new order come? |
2118 | Meanwhile, is it not remarkable that Friedrich wrote more Verses, this Autumn, than almost in any other three months of his life? |
2118 | Nay, before the passage was complete-- what light- horse squadrons are these? |
2118 | Nay, perhaps my Rhine- Bridge itself, and the small Party left there?'' |
2118 | No man is willing for the operation, most men shudder at it; but who can help them? |
2118 | Nobler fire, when did it burn in any Army? |
2118 | November 5th is a day unforgettable: but anterior to that, what can we do? |
2118 | One asks only: How is the business ever to be done, if you can not even settle what imbecile is to go and try it? |
2118 | One moment of practical happiness is worth a thousand years of imaginary in such Temple.--Is the lot of high people so very sweet, then? |
2118 | One of Four; to the Four most deserving: Schwerin( 1771), Winterfeld( 1777), Seidlitz( 1779, Keith( when? |
2118 | Or perhaps Friedrich now judged it immaterial, and a question only of hours? |
2118 | Or perhaps there never seriously was such a plan? |
2118 | Perhaps only cautious of getting into a general action for what was intrinsically nothing? |
2118 | Pitt sulkily looking on America, on Minorca; on things German, on things in general; warily set on returning, as is thought; but How? |
2118 | Prisoners?" |
2118 | Push home upon him, as united Posse Comitatus of Mankind; in a sacred cause of Polish Majesty and Public Justice, how can one malefactor resist? |
2118 | Quaggy Zaberngrund,--do readers remember it; one of those"Three continuous Leakages,"very important, to Fermor and us at present? |
2118 | Riding up the line, all now grown dusky, Friedrich asks,"Any battalion a mind to follow me to Lissa?" |
2118 | Ruler''s Work,--policy, administration, governance, guidance, performance in any kind,--where is it to be found? |
2118 | Runs to the Duke of Cumberland at Stade; thence to Richelieu at Zeven; back to the Duke, back to Zeven:''Wo n''t you; and wo n''t YOU?'' |
2118 | Shall I write to Collini on it? |
2118 | Shall we follow Moritz and Bevern?" |
2118 | Some of the more veteran sort asked, ruggedly confidential, as well as loyal:"What is thy news, then, so late?" |
2118 | Stiff dispute; and had the Austrians possessed the Prussian dexterity in manoeuvring, and a Friedrich been among them,--perhaps? |
2118 | Straight upon Zittau?" |
2118 | Such a Problem has this King: soluble within the time; or not soluble? |
2118 | The Anecdote- Books( perhaps not mythically) add this:"Where are all your guns, though?" |
2118 | The Russians, beaten to fragments, would not run: whither run? |
2118 | The poor Prince takes post on what Heights there are, on his own side of the Neisse; looks wistfully down upon Zittau, asking How? |
2118 | The quarrels of Kings have to be decided by the sword; what profit in unseemly language, Madam?" |
2118 | There were twirls of that kind in Friedrich; intricate weak places; knots in the sound straight- fibred mind he had( as in whose mind are they not? |
2118 | They have got the Eckart''s Hill, which commands Zittau:--and how to get into Zittau and our magazines, and how to subsist if we were in? |
2118 | They were talking of Shakspeare:''Genial, if you will,''said Gottsched,''but the Laws of Aristotle; Five Acts, unities strict!''--''Aristotle? |
2118 | They, and the force they still had in Lissa, could easily have taken him: but how could they know? |
2118 | This, it was afterwards surmised, had been a feint on Friedrich''s part; to give the Austrians pleasant thoughts:''Invading us, is he? |
2118 | To dictate peace from the walls of Vienna: that lay on the cards for him this morning; and at night--? |
2118 | To which Bevern replies,"Excellent, truly; but how?" |
2118 | Unhappily they did not arrive, or not in due quantity at the set time,--for what reason, by what strange mistake? |
2118 | Was it ever seen before, that three great Princes laid plot in concert to destroy a Fourth, who had done nothing against them? |
2118 | Was it here while waiting about Meissen, or where was it, that Daun got his Letter to Fermor answered in that singular way? |
2118 | We are not to have our Pandourade, then?" |
2118 | We are on the Breslau Great Road, that goes through Lissa, are n''t we?" |
2118 | What a sight for Friedrich:"Big game SHALL be played, then; death sure, this day, to thousands of men: and to me--? |
2118 | What can a Polish Majesty and Electoral Translucency do? |
2118 | What else?" |
2118 | What is to become of those poor people, if not even a Lord Loudon can get out?" |
2118 | What is to hinder a man from making his Tragedy in Ten acts, if it suit him better?'' |
2118 | What said they? |
2118 | When was there seen such a Bellona as Dauphiness before? |
2118 | Which was the idea in London, too:"Do n''t we, by Apocalyptic Newswriters and eyesight of our own, understand the man?" |
2118 | Who could express that in German with such melody?'' |
2118 | Whose IS that blood but thine? |
2118 | Why not; were the"Deliverance of Saxony"complete? |
2118 | Will readers take a touch more of the DRILL- SERGEANT? |
2118 | Will the reader consent to their Dialogue, which is dullish, but singular to have in an authentic form, with Nicolai as voucher? |
2118 | Winterfeld was by no means universally liked; as what brave man is or can be? |
2118 | Would the reader wish to see, in summary, what Pitt''s Offices have been, since he entered on this career about thirty years ago? |
2118 | Yes; and is there nothing to account of Pirna, and the later scores? |
2118 | [ Peerage Books,? |
2118 | [_ OEuvres de Frederic,_( in several places); see Hormayr,? |
2118 | and will Sovereigns, who maintain these tribunals and these laws in their States, give such example to their subjects?... |
2118 | answered they.--"But think only where they stand yonder, and how they have intrenched themselves?" |
2118 | asked he sharply of Retzow senior, who had broken through his order, one day, to avert great mischief:"How come you here, MON GENERAL?" |
2118 | asked somebody( might be Deblin the Shoemaker, for anything I know) of an Austrian sentry there:"That? |
2118 | coming round upon Bohemia from the east, then?" |
2118 | said he, with a gay tone, stepping in:"Is there still room left, think you?" |
2118 | say the Russians:"Russians what?" |
2118 | sighed Britannic Majesty:"Alas, am not I pledged by Treaty? |
2118 | that makes 100,000; say his Prussian Majesty has two- thirds of the number: can the Fabius Cunctator attempt nothing, before Prag utterly famish? |
2118 | the other,''Did n''t I tell you?''" |
2118 | thought Ferdinand:''Or perhaps meaning to attack my 12,000 English that are just landed? |
2118 | you would everybody sacrifice his life for the State, and you would not have your Brothers give the example? |
2120 | A glass of burgundy[ poisoned burgundy], your Highness? |
2120 | Among the thousand ill strokes of Fortune, does there at length come one pre- eminently good? 2120 And the Moral?" |
2120 | And you are again our Gracious King, then? |
2120 | Are you( ER) the Professor Gellert? |
2120 | At Schonbrunn, in the short hours, Kappel finds Frau Kappel in state of unappeasable curiosity:''What can it be? 2120 Austria willing for Treaty; is your Majesty willing?" |
2120 | Be swift enough, may not we cut through to Jauer, and get ahead of Daun? |
2120 | But why does n''t it change? 2120 Can it be good,"she might privately think withal,"to begin our reign by kindling a foolish War again?" |
2120 | Can the Reichshofrath say our junction is not complete? |
2120 | Can you repeat any of your Fables? |
2120 | Commissariat horses, drivers? 2120 Eight regiments, you said? |
2120 | Hanover not in real danger,argues he;"if the French had it, would not they, all Europe ordering them, have to give it up again?" |
2120 | Havana, what shall we do with it? |
2120 | Have not you a brother at Freyberg? |
2120 | Have you never been out of Saxony? |
2120 | How can I? 2120 How these things will end?" |
2120 | How, would you wish one Augustus, then, for all Germany? |
2120 | Inevitable, then? 2120 Intending to enclose us in this bad pot of a Seichau; no crossing of the Katzbach, or other retreat to be left us at all?" |
2120 | Meaning to try it then? |
2120 | Peace coming? |
2120 | Perhaps by Jauer, then, still? 2120 Push westward, nearer the King? |
2120 | So? 2120 The Sisyphus stone, which we had got dragged to the top, the chains all beautifully slack these three months past,--has it leapt away again? |
2120 | Their cash is out: except prayer to the Virgin, what but Peace can they attempt farther? 2120 Through, no: and were we through, is not there the Rohrgraben?" |
2120 | Well, this is one good Author among the Germans; but why have not we more? |
2120 | What do you think, is Homer or Virgil the finer as an Epic Poet? |
2120 | What is it, then? |
2120 | What is that you are cooking? |
2120 | What is your complaint? 2120 What to do with it?" |
2120 | Why all this dodging, and fidgeting to and fro? 2120 Why did not Friedrich stay altogether, and wait here?" |
2120 | ''And do you know where the Kallenberg lies?'' |
2120 | ''Are you a Protestant?'' |
2120 | ''Behind Strehlen, say you? |
2120 | ''Better surrender to Christian Austrians, had not you?'' |
2120 | ''How long have you been in prison?'' |
2120 | ''March? |
2120 | ''Sweep rapidly past Ferdinand,--cannot we? |
2120 | ''That is a Letter to me,''answers the Good- man:''What have you to do with it?'' |
2120 | ''The Lager- Haus, say you? |
2120 | ''Were you well treated?'' |
2120 | ''You shall go for soldiers, then;--possibly you will prefer that, you fine powdered velvet gentlemen? |
2120 | ),--are you able to prevent even that? |
2120 | --"''Five thalers bounty for artillery men"say you? |
2120 | --''Perhaps that is because you favored the Reichsfolk while here?'' |
2120 | --and ended by saying:"Succeed here, and all may yet be saved; be beaten here, I know the consequences: but what can I do? |
2120 | --and would try a spoonful of it, in such company; while the rough fellows would forbid smoking,"Do n''t you know he dislikes it?" |
2120 | --surely that is loyal, and not in the old cat''s- paw way? |
2120 | --to replace Czernichef, and the blank he has left there? |
2120 | 592 n."October 5th"( ACCEPTANCE of the resignation, I suppose?) |
2120 | A Gottsched inclined to the Socinian view? |
2120 | A mere adjunct, or auxiliary, we: and we are a Feldmarschall; and you, what is your rank and seniority?" |
2120 | A position not to be attacked on that southern front, nor on either of its flanks:--where can it be attacked? |
2120 | A sally into Brandenburg: oh, could not you? |
2120 | After two such Victories, and such almost miraculous recovery of himself, who shall say what resistance he will not yet make? |
2120 | Alas, is our Czar regardless of Holy Religion, then? |
2120 | All the more, as Division Three is likewise got across from Estremadura, invading Alemtejo: what is to keep these Two from falling on Lisbon together? |
2120 | Am I here to inquire which of you shows bravery, which poltroonery?"'' |
2120 | And does order forward, hither, thither, masses of force to support the De Ligne, the O''Kelly, among others,--but who can tell what to support? |
2120 | And then, on more reflection, Broglio afterwards:''Or not till the 15th, M. le Prince; till I reconnoitre ye and drive in his outposts?'' |
2120 | And where are these to come from; England and its help having also fallen into such dubiety? |
2120 | Are not all men equal?" |
2120 | Artillery recruits are scarce in the extreme; demand bounty: five thalers, shall we say?" |
2120 | Breslau road? |
2120 | Busy about many things;--"using the altar,"it seems,"by way of writing- table[ self or secretaries kneeling, shall we fancy, on those new terms? |
2120 | But a certain Sergeant, Fugleman, or chief Corporal, stept out, saluting reverentially:"Regiment Bernburg, IHRO MAJESTAT--?" |
2120 | But having solidly eaten out said Magazine, what could Hulsen do but again move rearward? |
2120 | But why weary you with such details of my labors and my sorrows? |
2120 | Butturlin and the Russians grumble to themselves:"And you to take all the credit, as you did at Kunersdorf? |
2120 | Can there by no method be some distant notion afforded of them to the general reader? |
2120 | Cautious Henri never would make the smallest attack on Soltikof, but merely keep observing him;--the end of which, what can the end of it be? |
2120 | Choiseul frankly admits that he has come to the worst: ready for concessions, but the question is, What? |
2120 | Consideration is:"To Holstein? |
2120 | Did not they cancel it, and flatly refuse?" |
2120 | Did you ever hear such a cannonade before? |
2120 | Do n''t speak to me of dangers; the last Action costs me only a Coat[ torn, useless, only one skirt left, by some rebounding cannon- ball?] |
2120 | Embarrassing? |
2120 | Engaged, yes, and alas with what? |
2120 | Ephraim and Itzig, mint- masters of that copper- coinage; rolling in foul wealth by the ruin of their neighbors; ought not these to bleed? |
2120 | Fancy Loudon''s astonishment, on the third day:"While we have sat consulting how to attack him, there is he,--unattackable, shall we say?" |
2120 | For which he severely suffered: and perhaps repented,--who knows? |
2120 | For which, after all, is not everybody thankful, less or more? |
2120 | Fouquet has obeyed to the letter:"Did not my King wrong me?" |
2120 | Fouquet lost, Glatz unrelieved-- Nay, just before marching off, what is this new phenomenon? |
2120 | Friedrich''s grief about Berlin we need not paint; though there were murmurs afterwards,"Why did not he start sooner?" |
2120 | Going upon Glogau; upon Breslau?" |
2120 | Goltz and Gudowitsh are engaged on Treaty of Peace; Czar frankly gives up East Preussen,"Yours again; what use has Russia for it, Royal Friend?" |
2120 | HENRI..."I confess I am in great apprehension for Colberg:"--shall one make thither; think you? |
2120 | Have not you heard, then? |
2120 | Have you read La Fontaine?" |
2120 | He asked me,"Do n''t you know the rules of war, then; that you fire after chamade is beaten?" |
2120 | He has an Anti- Danish Russian Army just now in that neighborhood; he will not be safe in Holstein;--where will he be safe?" |
2120 | He passionately entreats Czernichef to be helpful to him,--which Czernichef would fain be, only how can he? |
2120 | Heyde consults his people:''KAMERADEN, what think you should I do?'' |
2120 | How a Baron, hitherto of honor, could all at once become TURPISSIMUS, the Superlative of Scoundrels? |
2120 | How form in order of battle here, with Ziethen''s batteries shearing your columns longitudinally, as they march up? |
2120 | How get these masses of enemies lured away, so that you could try such a thing? |
2120 | How is this fire to be got under? |
2120 | Human talent, diligence, endeavor, is it but as lightning smiting the Serbonian Bog? |
2120 | I asked the Commandant, who was behind me, which way I should march; to the Crown- work or to the Envelope? |
2120 | I can not; how can I? |
2120 | I know not if you have arranged with Duke Ferdinand for a proportionate succor, in case his French also should try to penetrate into Saxony upon me? |
2120 | I suppose these are bad times, are not they?" |
2120 | I took arrangements with General Fouquet[ about that long fine- spun Chain of Posts, where we are to do such service?] |
2120 | If Most Christian Majesty and his Pompadour will continue this War, is it he, or is it you, that can furnish the Magazines? |
2120 | If even this day it be allowed us? |
2120 | If everybody will do miracles, can not we perhaps still manage it, in spite of Fate?''" |
2120 | Impregnable, under Prince Henri in far inferior force: how will you take it from Daun in decidedly superior? |
2120 | Intends to finish Silesia altogether;--cannot he, after such a beginning upon Glatz last Year? |
2120 | Is it DIE GELEHRTE KRANKHEIT( Disease of the Learned,"Dyspepsia so called)? |
2120 | Is not Tottleben gone? |
2120 | Let them fall off into Peace, like ripe pears, of themselves; we can then turn round and say,''Save you harmless? |
2120 | Liegnitz itself, was not that( as many opine) a disaster due to cunctation, not of Loudon''s? |
2120 | Loudon aiming for Neisse, do n''t you think? |
2120 | No getting across the Rohrgraben on them, says your Excellenz? |
2120 | No use marching thitherward farther:--whither now, therefore? |
2120 | Nobody knows better than Friedrich in what perilous crisis he now stands: beaten here, what army or resource has he left? |
2120 | Nobody seems to be able for his business; Lefebvre a blockhead( DUMMER TEUFEL), who knows nothing of mining: the Generals, too, where are they? |
2120 | Not far from the Lordship Casserey, where there is a Water- mill, the King asked me,''Have n''t you missed the Bridge here?'' |
2120 | One of the King''s first questions was:''But how have I offended Warkotsch?'' |
2120 | Or Destiny, perhaps, may have tried him sufficiently; and be satisfied? |
2120 | Or awkward Inadvertence only, practically meaning little or nothing?" |
2120 | Or perhaps it will be a second Maxen to his Majesty and us, who was so indignant with poor Finck?" |
2120 | Or, again, TO HENRI: Berlin? |
2120 | Perhaps a sudden clutch at Lacy, in the opposite direction, might be the method of recalling Daun, and reaching him? |
2120 | Perhaps by a Surprisal; by extreme despatch?'' |
2120 | Perhaps it will be some days yet before he do anything?'' |
2120 | Perhaps, at heart still Lutheran, and has no Religion?" |
2120 | Poor Paul, does not he father himself, were there nothing more? |
2120 | Readers recollect one Blucher"Prince of Wahlstatt,"so named from one of his Anti- Napoleon victories gained there? |
2120 | Saxony is all theirs; can not they maintain Saxony? |
2120 | Since September 18th, there had been three Cabinet- Councils held on this great Spanish question:"Mystery of treachery, meaning War from Spain? |
2120 | Six yards? |
2120 | So that, at Parchwitz, next morning( August 16th), the question,"To Glogau? |
2120 | Some of my Commissariat people have been misbehaving? |
2120 | Some stroke at the enemy on their south or southwestern side, where we have not molested them all day? |
2120 | That is the barbaric Russian notion:''who are you, ill- formed insolent persons, that give a loose to your tongue in that manner? |
2120 | The 4 or 5,000 good muskets lying on the field, shall not we take them also? |
2120 | The King is far away; what are Eugen''s 5,000 against these? |
2120 | The alloy this Year became as 3 to 1:--what other remedy? |
2120 | The outer world, especially the Vienna outer world, is naturally a little surprised:"How is this, Feldmarschall Daun? |
2120 | The sentries are in mutual view: each Camp could cannonade the other; but what good were it? |
2120 | The unspeakable Sovereign Woman, is she verily dead, then, and become peaceable to me forevermore?" |
2120 | Then the Turks; the Danes,--"Might not the Danes send us a trifle of Fleet to Colberg( since the English never will), and keep our Russians at bay?" |
2120 | There ensued about the banks of the Fulda, and the question, Shall we be driven across it sooner or not so soon? |
2120 | To Breslau?" |
2120 | To Friedrich the Russian movements are, and have been, full of enigma:"Going upon Colberg? |
2120 | To which of the gods, if not to Soltikof again, can he apply? |
2120 | Towards sunset of the 29th, exuberant joy- firing rises far and wide from the usually quiet Austrian lines,--"Meaning what, once more?" |
2120 | We are over with it, then?" |
2120 | We have bread only for eight days; our Magazines are at Schweidnitz and Breslau: what is to be done? |
2120 | We outnumber them,--but as to trying fight in any form? |
2120 | We spoke of the Choiseul Peace- Negotiation; of an offer indirectly from King Carlos,"Could not I mediate a little?" |
2120 | Well, have you one?" |
2120 | What can this be? |
2120 | What has it come to? |
2120 | What have you to do here? |
2120 | What is the use of such talk?'' |
2120 | What is to be done? |
2120 | What ought an Army- Chaplain to preach or advise? |
2120 | When Bamberg was ransomed, Spring gone a year,--Reich and Kaiser, did they respect our Bill we had on Bamberg? |
2120 | Where are our recruits, our magazines, our resources for a new Campaign? |
2120 | Where do you come from?" |
2120 | Where is the place to trample on it, before opening door or window, or saying a word to the King or anybody? |
2120 | Whether Austria''s and the world''s prophecy would have been fulfilled? |
2120 | Who the weakest- headed was( perhaps JOMINI, among the widely circulating kind? |
2120 | Why do n''t you close on him at once, if you mean it at all? |
2120 | Why does no one undertake a Translation of Tacitus?" |
2120 | Why have we no good Historians? |
2120 | Will this make no impression? |
2120 | Would modern Friends of Progress believe it? |
2120 | Yes: but if Broglio have 130,000, what will it come to? |
2120 | [ An uncommonly broad neckcloth on it, did you observe?] |
2120 | and perhaps from her Papa,"Shall SHE, think you, O my ditto?" |
2120 | answers Pitt, with a flash as if from the empyrean:"Who sent for Most Catholic Majesty?" |
2120 | as who had not? |
2120 | counted he:"What Alliance can there be with that ever- fluctuating People? |
2120 | interrupts My Lady, who was sitting there:''Herr Good- man, what is that?'' |
2120 | probably firing withal; and getting killed in consequence? |
2120 | where is the King?" |
2116 | ''But what am I to do now? 2116 ''Did you study BIBLICA diligently?'' |
2116 | ''Hm, Copy? 2116 ''Is Teutschland a Nation; is there in Teutschland still a Nation?'' |
2116 | ''That is he who had such quarrelling with Wolf?'' 2116 ''The grand May Review at Berlin just ahead, wo n''t you look in; it is straight on your road home?'' |
2116 | ''Thetics and Exegetics with Fortsch[ How the deuce did Fortsch teach these things? 2116 ''Under what Pro- rector were you inscribed?'' |
2116 | ''What form of Government do you reckon the best?'' 2116 ''What other useful Courses of Lectures( COLLEGIA) did you attend?'' |
2116 | ''What years?'' 2116 ''Where did you( ER) study?'' |
2116 | ''Who were your other Professors in the Theological Faculty?'' |
2116 | And why? |
2116 | Beaten my Jew, have n''t I? |
2116 | Did you ever hear of anything so shocking? |
2116 | Do you see the man in the garden yonder, sitting smoking his pipe?'' 2116 He made thousand protestations of his fidelity to your Majesty; became pretty weak[ like fainting, think you, Herr Resident? |
2116 | I must tell you a story of the King of Prussia''s regard for the Law of Nations,continues he to Walpole? |
2116 | Inn, Baireuth, say you? 2116 Meaning battle and wrestle again?" |
2116 | Not much above a million of you, say the French;"and surely there is room enough East of the Alleghanies? |
2116 | Ocean Highway to be free; for the English and others who have business on it? |
2116 | Saxe having eaten Bergen- op- Zoom before our eyes, what can withstand the teeth of Saxe? |
2116 | Something real this time? |
2116 | Sunset? |
2116 | Surely not ill, your Majesty; and much better in late years,answered Sulzer.--"In late years: why?" |
2116 | The King has held his Consistory; and it has there been discussed, Whether your case was a mortal sin or a venial? 2116 The King of France continues me as Gentleman of the Chamber, say you; but has taken away my Title of Historiographer? |
2116 | Their Captain WAS, first, to be Lacy, old Marshal Lacy; then, failing Lacy,''Why not General Keith?'' 2116 Well, Monsieur Sulzer, how are your Schools getting on?" |
2116 | What would your Majesty think to be elected Stadtholder of Holland? 2116 Which Discovery, then?" |
2116 | Who is this Voltaire? |
2116 | Why does n''t Voltaire come; as Quantz of the Flute has done? |
2116 | Yours? 2116 ''A L''ENFER?'' 2116 ''Austrian Officer?'' 2116 ''But how can one create Something out of Nothing?'' 2116 ''Did the King bid me wait? 2116 ''Hm, Steuer- Scheine, and the Jew Hirsch to be Court- Jeweller, you say?'' 2116 ''How is it, O flower of human thinkers, that I can not get on with his Majesty, or make the least way?'' 2116 ''Let us carry our own goods at least, Silesian linens, Memel timbers, stock- fish; what need of the Dutch to do it?'' 2116 ''MA CHERE COUSINE,''could I have believed it, at one time? |
2116 | ''Obscurities?'' |
2116 | ''One would like it, of all things,''answered the other:''but the King?'' |
2116 | ''Prize Courts? |
2116 | ''Was the like ever heard of?'' |
2116 | ''What will the handsome Compensation be, I wonder?'' |
2116 | ''What?'' |
2116 | ''Why not go on with your expenditures, ye Sea- Powers? |
2116 | ''Why starve our Italian Enterprises; heaping every resource upon the Netherlands and Saxe?'' |
2116 | ''s short statement; and made answer:"Monsieur, and is it you that will pick holes in the King''s Law? |
2116 | ( Are We a Hackney- Coachman, then?) |
2116 | --"Amiable young Nobleman, is not it one''s duty to salute, in passing such a one? |
2116 | --"But your written promise to Voltaire?" |
2116 | --"Inclination rather to good?" |
2116 | --''If it is still time to declare[ to announce in Saxony and demand payment for] Notes one holds on the Steuer? |
2116 | --''Very well,''answered he;''but where will you find Kings of that sort?'' |
2116 | --''Were you ever in Germany?'' |
2116 | --''Yes, Monsieur; and what should we do with that?'' |
2116 | --''You are in a circle,''said I;''how will you get out of it?'' |
2116 | --Voltaire can at once have: but to get it in the friendly shape, and as if for a time only? |
2116 | --but what farther can he do?'' |
2116 | --for what will a poor man not do in extreme stress of Fortune? |
2116 | 209,? |
2116 | 220 n.] Could there be a phenomenon more indisputably of bramble nature? |
2116 | ?^( p.212 Book XVI) VOILA!] |
2116 | A Bookseller Gosse[ read JORE, your Majesty? |
2116 | ACH, MEIN LIEBER SULZER, you do n''t know( do you, then?) |
2116 | Ah, could not one get to some Country Lodge near you,''the MARQUISAT''for instance? |
2116 | And Leibnitz discovered it, so far as true?" |
2116 | And Versailles, with its sulky Trajans, its Crebillon cabals, what charm is in Versailles? |
2116 | And gave rise to many conjectures among the idle of mankind,"What, on Earth, or under Earth, can be the meaning of it?" |
2116 | And is not England drowned too?" |
2116 | And now there will be peace in our garden of the gods, and perpetual azure will return? |
2116 | And now, Friedrich''s Ownership of Silesia recognized by all the Powers to be final and unquestionable, surely nothing more is wanted? |
2116 | And so poor Fred is ended;--and sulky people ask, in their cruel way,"Why not?" |
2116 | And then the Pompadour, could she, Head- Butterfly of the Universe, be an anchor that would hold, if gales rose? |
2116 | And this is the noble Lady''s way of thinking, up in her fine Schloss yonder? |
2116 | And why? |
2116 | And yet Phoebus Apollo going about as mere Cowherd of Admetus, and exposed to amuse the populace by his duels with dogs that have bitten him? |
2116 | And yet-- and yet--?" |
2116 | At the name Keith, a slight shadow( very slight, for how could Keith help himself?) |
2116 | At what date? |
2116 | Breeches- pocket MINUS most other requisites: alas, with such methods as you have, what can come of it? |
2116 | But are there no obscene details at all, then? |
2116 | But what then? |
2116 | By Henzi?'' |
2116 | Can money and life be spent better? |
2116 | Clever, but wrong, do you say? |
2116 | Could not Suspicion-- why can not she!--take her natural rest; and all these terrors vanish? |
2116 | Do not imagine you will make people believe that black is white; when one[ ON, meaning_ I_] does not see, the reason[ sic]? |
2116 | Do readers recall the circumstance? |
2116 | Does any reader know the Dollart? |
2116 | Enumerate, then, do me the pleasure of enumerating, What he contrived that the Heavens answered Yes to, and not No to? |
2116 | France, Spain, Sardinia, the Italian Petty Principalities and Anarchies: suppose they tug and tussle, and collapse there as they can? |
2116 | French Tragedies played at Berlin, I myself taking part; an Englishman Envoy of France there: strange circumstances these, are n''t they?" |
2116 | Friedrich does cast it out, more and more, henceforth,--"ACH, MEIN LIEBER SULZER, what was your knowledge, then, of that damned race?" |
2116 | Friedrich never would bite at this salutary scheme for strengthening the House of Austria:''A bad man, is not he?'' |
2116 | Friedrich, now that Voltaire has fallen widower, renews his pressings,"Why do n''t you come?" |
2116 | HAVE BEEN LAYING IT ON TOO THICK( No date; IN VERSE).--"Marcus Aurelius was wo nt to"--(Well, we know who that is: What of Marcus, then?) |
2116 | Had no hand, he, I hope, in that latter atrocity? |
2116 | Had not Britannic Majesty, for his dear Daughter''s sake, come to the rescue in this crisis, where had we been? |
2116 | Have not we gained Fontenoy, Roucoux, Lauffeld; and strong- places innumerable[ mostly in a state of dry- rot]? |
2116 | He has three"--what shall we call them? |
2116 | He is come''on pressing business,''--perhaps not of stage- diamonds alone? |
2116 | He looked fixedly at me, for a while; and then said, without farther preface,''Who are you, Monsieur?'' |
2116 | Heavens, what?" |
2116 | How am I to live, if you take my very money from me?'' |
2116 | How, in the name of wonder, it can be; and even, Whether it is at all? |
2116 | Is not that a gracious little touch? |
2116 | It is to the good Plougher, not ultimately to the good Cannonier, that those portions of Creation will belong? |
2116 | It is well known there have been, to the metaphysical head, difficulties almost insuperable as to How, in the System of Nature, Motion is? |
2116 | It will be very difficult, my friend;--why did not you yourself do it? |
2116 | Jew Ephraim( exaggerative and an enemy to this Hirsch House) answers,''Justly? |
2116 | Leave was at once granted him, almost huffingly; we hope not with too much readiness? |
2116 | Linsenbarth answers his own"And why?" |
2116 | Live silent there, and see your face sometimes?" |
2116 | Manoeuvred about; bewildering the mind of Royal Highness and the Stadtholder("Will he besiege Breda? |
2116 | My Discovery an Error? |
2116 | Nay, when the Judges, not hiding their surprise at the form of this Document, asked, Will you swear it is all genuine? |
2116 | Not much real money: except, indeed, the money were offered you gratis, from other parties interested? |
2116 | Nous sommes de mene metier; Faut- il de moi vous defier, Et cacher vos bonnes fortunes?" |
2116 | Oh, M. de Voltaire, and why not leave it to him, then? |
2116 | Oh, my President, that DIRA REGNANDI CUPIDO!--"Question is, however, What the Academy will do? |
2116 | On the other hand, Voltaire has been asking himself,''My 450 pounds worth of Jewels, were they justly valued, though?'' |
2116 | Our portfolios and CASSETTE( money- box) were thrown into an empty trunk[ what else could they be thrown into?] |
2116 | POTSDAM PALACE( No date): SIRE, NZAY I CHANGE MY ROOM?... |
2116 | Perhaps M. de Voltaire did say it:--why not, had it only been prudent? |
2116 | Perhaps all this will be more effective than Congresses of Breda? |
2116 | Practical"BLASPHEMY,"is it not, if you reflect? |
2116 | Quand pourrai- je d''une style honnete Dire:''Le cul de mon heros Va tout aussi bien que sa tete''?" |
2116 | Readers have heard of that"TRAJAN EST- IL CONTENT?" |
2116 | Rubrics, vanished Shadows, nearly all those high Dames and Gentlemen; LA PAUVRE Saint- Pierre,"eaten with gout,"who is she? |
2116 | Special Commission?'' |
2116 | That it is in my power to stick you into a hole underground for the rest of your life? |
2116 | That, think you?" |
2116 | The 60,000 Austrians are but 30,000; the-- In fact, you will have to make Peace, what else?" |
2116 | The Officers noticed this; came straight to me, and said,''What letters has He there, then?'' |
2116 | The Piece has nothing noisy, nothing untrue; but what has it of importance? |
2116 | The exact number of soldiers I can not learn:"a SCHILDWACHE of the Town- guard[ means one; surely does not mean Four?] |
2116 | The incalculable Yankee Nations, shall they be in effect YANGKEE("English"with a difference), or FRANGCEE("French"with a difference)? |
2116 | The meetings are occasionally of stormy character; Voltaire''s patience nearly out:"But did n''t I return you that Topaz Ring, value 75 pounds? |
2116 | Then as to''Dissecting the Brains of Patagonians;''what harm, if you can get them gross enough? |
2116 | Then too, in the Court- circle itself,"is Trajan pleased,"or are all things well? |
2116 | They tempt one to ask, What is the good of wit, then, if this be it? |
2116 | Think what a stab; crueler than daggers through one''s heart:"Crebillon?" |
2116 | Tie some tin- canister to your too- sensitive tail? |
2116 | To provide for your own paltry kindred in the State- employments; to palaver grandly with all comers; and publish melodious Despatches of Van Hoey? |
2116 | To which Friedrich answered,"Subsidies, your Excellency?" |
2116 | Twenty pounds a Year certain; let us guess it twenty, with glebe- land, piggeries, poultry- hutches: who is now to get all that? |
2116 | Was there ever seen such a Paper; one end of it contradicting the other? |
2116 | Was there ever seen such radiancy of valor? |
2116 | Was there ever such a Pluto varnished into Literary Rose- pink? |
2116 | What have we to do with them? |
2116 | What if it should even lose Italy? |
2116 | What is to be done with such an Ass of Balaam? |
2116 | What is to become of us; whose is America to be?" |
2116 | What say you?'' |
2116 | What? |
2116 | Who can have done it? |
2116 | Why he fell upon so ambitious a title for his Royal Cottage? |
2116 | Will he do this, will he do that?") |
2116 | Will perhaps be printed by some inquiring PITTSBURGHER, one day, after good study on the ground itself? |
2116 | Yes;--and how many Ploughed Fields bearing Crop have you? |
2116 | Your road lies that way, then? |
2116 | Yours, of all people''s?" |
2116 | [ L''ECHANGE, The Exchange, or WHEN SHALL I GET MARRIED? |
2116 | [ ONLY proof:^????? |
2116 | [ ONLY proof:^????? |
2116 | [ ONLY proof:^????? |
2116 | [ ONLY proof:^????? |
2116 | [ ONLY proof:^????? |
2116 | ], all or the best part of them, which I have here in pawn for Papa''s Bill: 650 pounds was it not? |
2116 | asked the King one day,--long after this, but nobody will tell me exactly when, though the fact is certain enough:"How goes our Education business?" |
2116 | can it be possible? |
2116 | cries he,( can not I be allowed to-- to vomit, then?''" |
2116 | crosses the mind:"Is this, by ill luck, the Feldmarschall Keith?" |
2116 | hysterically shrieks Voltaire:"in the wrong, were n''t you, then; and fined thirty shillings?" |
2116 | in the Garden?'' |
2116 | in the declaration?'' |
2116 | mere echo answering, What,--till a Signora Sister of Barberina the Dancer''s answered:''Try Berlin, and King FRIDERICO IL GRANDE there? |
2116 | says he, quite historically: Yes, Why? |
2116 | thinks Friedrich:"Sure enough, this is a strange Trismegistus, this of mine: star fire- work shall we call him, or terrestrial smoke- and- soot work? |
2116 | thought his cattle:--but, after all, how could he well help it, with such a set? |
2121 | ''A King of France, Sire, is always the Patriarch of Clever People( PATRIARCHE DES GENS D''ESPRIT:''You do not much mean this, Monsieur? 2121 ''A fire- work at my Wedding, was n''t that it, my dear Pinto?'' |
2121 | ''Ah, that is pretty!--On what system do you treat your patients?'' 2121 ''And your battery on the Windberg, which would have scourged my poor battalions, all the while, in your Ravine?'' |
2121 | ''Apropos of M. de Voghera, is your Majesty aware of a little thing he did before charging? 2121 ''But there are some Physicians whose methods you prefer to those of others?'' |
2121 | ''But, Sire, the night?'' 2121 ''Did you get my Letter?'' |
2121 | ''Did, you let them bind you before the operation?'' 2121 ''Do me the honor to say whether it was successful?'' |
2121 | ''Do you know who taught me the little I know? 2121 ''Do you know,''said the King, one day, to me,--''Do you know that the first soldiering I did was for the House of Austria? |
2121 | ''From what Town in the Canton of Bern are you originally?'' 2121 ''Have you ever,''said he,''seen such a rain as yesterday''s? |
2121 | ''How did you find[ LIKE] the English fare( LA CHERE ANGLAISE?'' 2121 ''How have you liked( AVEX- VOUS TROUVE) the French?'' |
2121 | ''How long is it since you were in England?'' 2121 ''How, then; disciplined? |
2121 | ''How, then? 2121 ''I have sometimes heard the Prince de Conti spoken of: what sort of man is he?'' |
2121 | ''Is it you who drew up the judgment in the Arnold case?'' 2121 ''Mademoiselle de l''Enclos wrote some good LETTERS?'' |
2121 | ''May I( OSERAIS- JE) ask you to whom?'' 2121 ''Tell me, pray, is there no citable Writer left in France?'' |
2121 | ''That I permit; and will repay you the ESTAFETTE moneys.--Tell me, How comes the decrease of population in these parts? 2121 ''Their language?'' |
2121 | ''Were you personally acquainted with Lord Bolingbroke?'' 2121 ''What has become of a brave Colonel who played the devil at Rossbach? |
2121 | ''What is M. Haller doing now?'' 2121 ''What is your opinion of the ELOISE''[ Rousseau''s immortal Work]? |
2121 | ''What says Zimmermann?'' 2121 ''What, a Massalska? |
2121 | ''Where did you pick up all these fine old Pieces? 2121 ''Where did you study?'' |
2121 | ''You have built a Church?'' 2121 ''You have stood a cruel operation: you must have suffered horribly?'' |
2121 | A crown a head on the import of fat cattle, Tax on butcher''s- meat? |
2121 | A messenger to him, to Karl Theodor and him,thinks Friedrich:"a messenger instantly; and who?" |
2121 | But can not we perhaps make it worth his while? |
2121 | Contumacies? |
2121 | Could n''t we, the few Faithful, go to Cleve in a body? |
2121 | Could not we persuade you to come to Petersburg, Madam Landgravine? |
2121 | Enemies at Court suggested,or the accident itself suggested without any enemy,"Has not he been playing false, using cheap bad materials?" |
2121 | How do YOU know, Herr? |
2121 | I have heard you are for Germany this season; some say you intend to become German altogether? |
2121 | In itself perhaps not,thought Kaunitz;"but the free consent of Karl Theodor the Heir, will not that be a Title in full? |
2121 | Is there no method, then, of allowing Russia to prosecute its Turk War in spite of Austria and its umbrages? |
2121 | It seems to me you have already been to see the King of Prussia? |
2121 | King told me, on one occasion,''Would you believe it? 2121 Must two great Courts quarrel, then, for the sake of a small one?" |
2121 | Not at any price? |
2121 | Papers all at Custrin, say you? 2121 Perhaps Prussia will quarrel about it?" |
2121 | Shall we never see the end of this, then? |
2121 | Suppose you had had to part with your Bavaria altogether? |
2121 | The carriage drew up; and the King said to his coachman[ the far- famed Pfund]:''Is this Dolgelin?'' 2121 What EDELLEUTE that are members of STANDE have you[ ER] got in your Circle?" |
2121 | What is your Circle most short of? |
2121 | What said he of the feet? |
2121 | Who are you? |
2121 | Who completely understands it? |
2121 | Why be in such heat? 2121 Why not leave it to Nature?" |
2121 | You will go, Herr von Nussler; be so kind, wo n''t you? |
2121 | Your Majesty, as co- mediator, will join us, should the Russians make War? |
2121 | ''Ah, how goes the Prince of Philosophers, then? |
2121 | ''And who commands my Russians?'' |
2121 | ''Galitzin? |
2121 | ''Go, then, sir; get you to the Governor himself; a clearance, and out of harbor this day: had n''t you better?'' |
2121 | ''Ought he to be King of Poland?'' |
2121 | ''Reverenced his Office,''says a simple reader? |
2121 | ''What then, is your hope?'' |
2121 | ''What,''said I to myself,''not a single epigram on us, or on our Master? |
2121 | ''Where do you think it comes from?'' |
2121 | ''Would you believe it?'' |
2121 | ( Bevern at REICHENBACH, for instance, do you reckon that his blame?) |
2121 | --"QUOI DONC--?" |
2121 | --''Is that the General?'' |
2121 | --Troops into Poland, Sire? |
2121 | 278(? |
2121 | 85);& c.& c.] Feather- beds, swine and ducats had their value in Brandenburg; but were marriageable girls such a scarcity there? |
2121 | AUSTRIA:"Can not two States of the Reich come to a mutual understanding, as Austria and Bavaria have done? |
2121 | Above six weeks before either of these NOTES, Friedrich, hearing of him from Lord Marischal, had answered:"An asylum? |
2121 | Accordingly, when God asked,''Who commands my Russians?'' |
2121 | Act of 1566, allowing Gersdorf to make his Pond? |
2121 | After talking a good while with the Merchants- Deputation from the Hill Country, he said,''Is there anything more, then, from anybody?'' |
2121 | All our little rubs, custom- house squabbles on the Frontier, and such like, why not settle them here, and now? |
2121 | An accidental merit, thinks the reader? |
2121 | And privately puts the question to himself,''Have these Giaours a real Admiral among them, or, like us, only a sham one?''" |
2121 | And sometimes, after this had been agreed to; he would say:''But can not you stay till Thursday, then? |
2121 | And that impartial Soldier- person, whom Friedrich sent to examine by the light of nature, and report? |
2121 | And these once got, or lost till next term,--what is there to hope or to fear? |
2121 | And what does the Custrin Court of Justice do? |
2121 | And what have third parties to say to it?" |
2121 | And what value can you put on such bellowing? |
2121 | And where, in these circumstances, are the means of raising such a sum? |
2121 | And"from whence does this money come, after a long expensive War? |
2121 | As the wall- clock above his head struck 11, he asked:"What o''clock?" |
2121 | At Vienna, to the Karl- Theodor Ambassador, the Kaunitz Officials were altogether loud- voiced, minatory:''What is this, Herr Excellenz? |
2121 | But are you quite recovered, though?'' |
2121 | But the same grand principle, in the later instance of partitioning Poland, has it not proved eminently triumphant, successful in all points? |
2121 | But"--And is there no remedy? |
2121 | By the by, she must detest you, that High Lady?'' |
2121 | Could Arnold grind, or not, as formerly? |
2121 | Could not it become a means of getting English husbandry[ TURNIPS in particular, whether short- horns or not, I do not know] introduced among us? |
2121 | Did you hear what he said to me about Liberty of the Press, and the Troubling of Consciences( LA GENE DES CONSCIENCES)? |
2121 | Dispensers of Right in God''s Name and mine? |
2121 | Do you know I was well pleased( BIEN CONTENT) with the Kaiser last night at supper? |
2121 | Do you know what her Grandmother did?'' |
2121 | Do you think us worthy to be originals ourselves?'' |
2121 | Electress( after ten days)...."Why should the Empress be so much against us? |
2121 | Filling a noble office ignobly; doing a celestial task in a quietly infernal manner? |
2121 | Foreign States do n''t seem to pay much attention,--indeed, what sane person would like to interfere, or hope to do it with profit? |
2121 | Great is the Electress''s persistence,--"My poor Husband being dead, can not our poor Boy, can not his uncle Prince Xavier try? |
2121 | Had it to sit, weeping unconsolably, or not? |
2121 | Has not he been Russia''s patient stepping- stone, all along; his anarchic Poland and he accordant in that, if in nothing else? |
2121 | Have not I tried to plant, sow, till, dig, with the GEORGICS in my hand? |
2121 | Have not we had enough of that old Friedrich, who stands perpetually upon STATUS QUO, and to both of us is a mere stoppage of the way?" |
2121 | Have you got a pencil( HAT ER CRAYON)? |
2121 | Have you got a pencil?'' |
2121 | He asked them What they wanted? |
2121 | He had gone first to Karl Theodor''s Minister:"Dead to it, I fear; has already signed?" |
2121 | His Netherlands revolted against him,"Can holy religion, and old use- and- wont be tumbled about at this rate?" |
2121 | His first Note to Zimmermann is of June 6th,"Would you consent to come for a fortnight, and try upon me?" |
2121 | His poor Highness, thunderstruck as may be imagined, asks:"But-- but-- What would your Excellency advise me?" |
2121 | Honor, indeed-- but what, to an old stager in the dilettante line, is honor? |
2121 | How have you been of late?'' |
2121 | How they got any business done at all, under such a Law? |
2121 | I often said to myself,''Shall I never get rid of that man, then?'' |
2121 | If Nobilities themselves become Washed Populaces in a manner, what are we to say?] |
2121 | If he answer, Dead; then ask his Heir, Have you no life to it?" |
2121 | In his young years, would not he have done so? |
2121 | In return for which, Bavaria ours in fee- simple, and so finish that?" |
2121 | In sight of Friedrich, who inquired,"What is this stir on the streets, then?" |
2121 | Is he gay; is he busy; did you see him often?'' |
2121 | Is it long since?'' |
2121 | Is the world becoming all a Mausoleum, then; nothing of divine in it but the Tombs of vanished loved ones? |
2121 | Is there no hope at all, then? |
2121 | Is there no possibility left in negotiation and mutual concession? |
2121 | It asks, as the Kaunitz Memorial will, though in another style,"Must there be war, then? |
2121 | It was your old Marshal Traun: that was a man, that one.--You spoke of the French: do they make progress?'' |
2121 | KING:_"Monsieur est- il parent de Mylord Chatham? |
2121 | Leaves a ruined Saxony lying round him; a ruined life mutely asking him,"Couldst thou have done no better, then?" |
2121 | My Christian friends, what could I or can I do?'' |
2121 | Nations who have lost this quality, or who never had it, what Friedrich can they hope to be possible among them? |
2121 | Never had the Holy Romish Reich such a shock before:"Meaning to partition us like Poland?" |
2121 | Nobody will say; or perhaps can? |
2121 | Not so fatally perhaps, had Schmettau looked beyond his epaulettes: was not the thing, by that slow method, got done? |
2121 | Of the Netherlands, which might be called geographically the head of Austria, alas, the long neck, Lorraine, was once ours; but whose is it? |
2121 | One of her women arranged the cushions, asked in a whisper,"Will your Majesty sleep, then?" |
2121 | Our interests are very visible: and the interests and wishes and claims of Poland,--are they nowhere worthy of one word from you, O King? |
2121 | Our obligation will be infinite.... Why should she be absolutely against us? |
2121 | Pinto, did n''t I send you yesterday some of my good Preussen honey?'' |
2121 | Readers ask rather:"And had Friedrich no feeling about Poland itself, then, and this atrocious Partitioning of the poor Country?" |
2121 | Say Two Centuries yet,--say even Ten of such a process: before the Old is completely burnt out, and the New in any state of sightliness? |
2121 | So that Prince Leopold himself, the King''s own Nephew, proves futile? |
2121 | So that Pulawski, it would appear, did Two Cloister Defences? |
2121 | So- and- so is to have your Pension, I am told; now, by all right, it should belong to me, do n''t you think so?''" |
2121 | Speech, my friend? |
2121 | THE KING:''Are you a relation of Lord Chatham''s?'' |
2121 | The Case is that of a murderer,--murder indisputable;"but may not insanity be suspected, your Majesty, such the absence of motive, such the--?" |
2121 | The King again writes:"No Nobles to be found, say you? |
2121 | The King answered me:''I, for my part, will do anything you wish; but what thinks the other Director, my comrade, the Elector of Cologne, about it?'' |
2121 | The Letters are without general interest: but, for Friedrich''s sake, perhaps readers will consent to a specimen? |
2121 | The Right of Confederation, too, is very curious: do readers know it? |
2121 | The poor Herr bethought him, what could he do? |
2121 | Then the King looked at the Clergyman, beckoned him near, and asked, Whose child it was? |
2121 | Think, might it not be useful both to your native Country and to your adopted?" |
2121 | This Promise must have been found among his Papers after his death[ still in the Archives? |
2121 | This Voltaire calls"THE INFAMOUS;"and this-- what name can any of us give it? |
2121 | Till at length came, in the tone of indignation,''Will your Majesty give me my ball, then?'' |
2121 | To follow wiggeries and forms with solemn attention, careless what became of the internal fact? |
2121 | To him the King said:''You have been presented to me before?'' |
2121 | To sit grieving or desponding is, at all times, far from him:"Why despond? |
2121 | To which the Mylord:''I? |
2121 | Two Winters in Bohemia? |
2121 | Was elected-- do readers still remember how? |
2121 | What can I do? |
2121 | What does Eleanor mean about my Congratulatory Letter to Lord Suffolk[ our Foreign Secretary, on his marriage lately]? |
2121 | What has she to fear from us? |
2121 | What is Act of 1566, or any or all Acts, in comparison? |
2121 | What is the meaning of your sitting there as Judges? |
2121 | What king or man had seen himself delivered from such strangling imbroglios of destruction, such devouring rages of a hostile world? |
2121 | When was I found to oppress a poor man for love of a rich? |
2121 | Which only Fate can compel you to believe, one day, if they are true words:--you think, probably, they are not? |
2121 | Who maintained a dignified demeanor?--Who is it that bawls and bellows now? |
2121 | Who was it that then made the noise? |
2121 | Who, from the remote distance, would venture to contradict? |
2121 | Why continue? |
2121 | Why should not she? |
2121 | Will you take a walk in my Garden? |
2121 | Wo n''t it be all done presently; is it of much moment while it lasts?" |
2121 | Would you believe it, Heaven, or the Sun, refuse me everything? |
2121 | You merely grin it from the teeth outward?) |
2121 | You will, give me that proof of the flattering sentiments I have been so proud of hitherto,"--won''t you, now? |
2121 | [ Carlyle''s_ Miscellanies_( Library Edition), v. 3- 96,? |
2121 | [ In Spaen''s Villa of Bellevue, shall we still suppose? |
2121 | its grace, or did they themselves acquire it from the many amiable persons they found there? |
2121 | said the King''s agent:"Can not the King take it from you for nothing, if he chose?" |
2121 | shortly]; may not he perhaps draw profit from it? |
2121 | the sound of which almost made Friedrich turn pale:"Have you spoken or hinted of this to the Prince?" |
2121 | thinks he at one time:"To Cleve; and there, as from a safe place, under the Philosopher King, shoot out our fiery artilleries with effect?" |
2121 | who could equal the Prince Eugen?'' |
4067 | A court ball is to take place? |
4067 | A prince of the blood who loves a little maid of honor, and wishes to marry her? |
4067 | Against which of us is the anger of the king directed? |
4067 | Ah, you are then an equal of the King of Prussia? 4067 Ah, you call these innocent studies?" |
4067 | Ah, you know, then, that a courier has at last crossed that fatal bridge, and you come for news of the prince royal? |
4067 | Ah, you pity them still, my son? |
4067 | Ah,he said, despairingly,"you will not allow me even to behold your heavenly countenance; do you wish to drive me to distraction? |
4067 | Ah,said he,"your majesty is thinking of a wedding?" |
4067 | Ah,said the king,"and what are the prerogatives of a vice- regent?" |
4067 | All? |
4067 | Am I again to be paid with cunning smiles and scornful words? 4067 Am I still dreaming?" |
4067 | An income of fifty thousand dollars is, therefore, not sufficient for a decent support? |
4067 | And I ask, how does that concern me? |
4067 | And Laura, have you obtained her consent? |
4067 | And Madame von Morien? |
4067 | And do you believe he would do that with the princess? 4067 And do you wish to belong to this order?" |
4067 | And has the baron brought no letter for me? |
4067 | And have you no compassion for the diamonds which long to repose upon your lovely bosom? |
4067 | And if, in order to live in a style befitting a nobleman, I should nevertheless need more, what am I to receive for every thousand? |
4067 | And is it impossible to have the wedding any sooner? |
4067 | And may I also be a partaker of that grace and be counted amongst the friends of the king? |
4067 | And may I also come, my noble sister? |
4067 | And now, what have you to say to me? |
4067 | And still you call this love an unfortunate one? |
4067 | And this lady''s name? |
4067 | And this letter was signed? |
4067 | And this young girl is not sent to a mad- house? |
4067 | And what of Madame von Morien? |
4067 | And why impossible? |
4067 | And why not? |
4067 | And why not? |
4067 | And why should I return to Berlin? |
4067 | And why these amiable pleasantries? |
4067 | And would that give you faith in my love? |
4067 | And you have disbursed the sum necessary? |
4067 | And you say that the letter is mine? |
4067 | And you, dear duke, are you made happy? 4067 And you, will you let me wait in vain?" |
4067 | And your name, Mademoiselle von Schwerin? |
4067 | Are we not also happy? |
4067 | Are you ignorant of the law by which all are forbidden to lend money to the princes of the royal house? |
4067 | Are you not here as the ambassador of the royal court? |
4067 | Are you so well acquainted with the queen that you know all the secrets of her heart? |
4067 | Are you then so hungry? |
4067 | Are you willing, Madame von Morien? 4067 As I do n''t know the way there, will your majesty allow me to return to Rheinsberg? |
4067 | But I, poor, humble, weak girl that I am, how can I make good the loss you will sustain for my sake? |
4067 | But how can we find a man so suddenly to whom this poor lamb can be sacrificed? |
4067 | But how, if I remain and attempt to defend myself? |
4067 | But if I tell you his royal highness is still asleep? |
4067 | But if the lady should not love you? |
4067 | But if you should fall? |
4067 | But what has Count Voss to do with Laura''s love? |
4067 | But what shall I receive for every thousand which I expend over and above that sum? |
4067 | But what shall we do? |
4067 | But who,said the boy, turning around,"will watch the shop?" |
4067 | But why does our father attach such importance to this small affair? |
4067 | But why pity her? 4067 But why should we seek for flowers in the garden,"said the king;"can there be lovelier blossoms than those now blooming on every side?" |
4067 | But with what does the king occupy himself the entire day? |
4067 | But you have your ministers? |
4067 | But, for example, what heroic act? |
4067 | But, my God,said Count von Goltz,"who will dare go forward?" |
4067 | By what name are you called? |
4067 | Can you believe this? |
4067 | Can you write? |
4067 | Child, child, what are you saying? |
4067 | Could we not have the wedding at an early day, and the festival later? 4067 Dearest,"he murmured,"why do you weep, how can this little mischance make you so wretched? |
4067 | Did I not tell you that the king was resolved to get rid of Boden? |
4067 | Did I say that? |
4067 | Did he really do that? 4067 Did you hear nothing? |
4067 | Did you say dead? 4067 Did your highness know that the Jew was listening?" |
4067 | Do I understand you to say that you expended two hundred thousand dollars in four years? |
4067 | Do they know why I have sent for them? |
4067 | Do they say that? 4067 Do you know, certainly, that this roaring woman is the daughter of our tailor?" |
4067 | Do you know,asked the queen suddenly,"that we have a pair of lovers at my court?" |
4067 | Do you not know, father? 4067 Do you not know, good man, that a thousand men stand below in the courtyard? |
4067 | Do you remember that you promised to meet me in the garden? |
4067 | Do you think I will be known? |
4067 | Do you think so? |
4067 | Does he not, then, love the princess royal? |
4067 | Does not the beautiful Blanche wear one? 4067 Does the prince royal still love this lady?" |
4067 | For whom are your flowers intended? |
4067 | Gentlemen, do you believe that? |
4067 | Has another ox or horse crossed the fatal bridge? |
4067 | Has he seen them? |
4067 | Has his majesty sent for you? |
4067 | Has the coat- of- arms been placed upon the house in Jager Street? |
4067 | Has the king sent you here with this message? |
4067 | Has your father made his will? 4067 Have you forgotten our agreement?" |
4067 | Have you not acted cruelly and unnaturally to me? |
4067 | Have you read it? |
4067 | Have you the courage to conceal a secret from your husband? |
4067 | How can I decide to whom the letter belongs, as it bears no name? |
4067 | How can a woman loved by the king be sad, or shed tears? |
4067 | How can that help me? 4067 How dare you arise contrary to my command, and thus set yourselves in opposition to my kingly power? |
4067 | How did I come here? |
4067 | How do you know it? |
4067 | How is the king? |
4067 | How, and you still sigh, count? |
4067 | How, my son, are you thinking of a divorce? |
4067 | How, what then, my dear friend? |
4067 | How? 4067 How?" |
4067 | I will not dare to touch you again,he said, humbly;"but will you not promise me to come again?" |
4067 | Impossible? 4067 Is he in a condition to hear some important news?" |
4067 | Is he still the prince royal? |
4067 | Is it bad news? 4067 Is it not the king? |
4067 | Is it possible to live in such a den? |
4067 | Is it then really true? |
4067 | Is not our love as ardent, as passionate, and as pure as theirs? |
4067 | Is not that the fate of all princes and princesses; are we not all born to be handled like a piece of goods, and knocked down to the highest bidder? 4067 Is the lady very rich?" |
4067 | Is this, then, so astonishing? |
4067 | Laura, my bride, my darling, when will the day come in which I can call you mine to all eternity? |
4067 | Laura, my darling, do you remember your oath? 4067 Leontine?" |
4067 | Listen, Fredersdorf,said he,"what meaning have all these mysterious words and looks; why are you all so grave? |
4067 | Louise,said she, in a low voice,"what does all this mean?" |
4067 | Madame,said he,"is it credible that we two have been married for seven long years, and still have never been as man and wife to each other? |
4067 | Majesty,she said,"what would you do? |
4067 | May I know the name of your fiancee? |
4067 | May I read it, your majesty? |
4067 | My creditors? |
4067 | My worthy friends, did you also come to see the king? |
4067 | No one? |
4067 | Not so,said Pollnitz;"why so much reverence and so many titles? |
4067 | Now,said he, slowly,"will you send me the wine which you promised from your cellar? |
4067 | On the word of a count? |
4067 | Pardon me for waking your majesty--"Majesty, why''your majesty?'' |
4067 | Perhaps at the wedding of one of your sisters? |
4067 | Pollnitz, why are you looking so grave? |
4067 | Preserve it? 4067 Prince royal?" |
4067 | Shall we meet here again? 4067 She has put on her jewels, then, has she? |
4067 | She is suffering,he murmured;"why should she suffer? |
4067 | Sire,he said, hesitatingly,"your majesty demands to know the name of this young man?" |
4067 | So my suspicions are correct, and it is against Austria that my king will make his first warlike movement? |
4067 | Speak, what do you wish? |
4067 | Suppose that he also refuses you? |
4067 | That is your mother, Madame Schommer? |
4067 | The empress is perfectly well, but her husband, the emperor--"Well, why do you not continue? |
4067 | Then I can break the seal? |
4067 | Then the letter does not belong to Louise? |
4067 | Then the palace of the dowager queen must not be placed here? |
4067 | Then you believe the prince royal will separate himself from his wife as soon as he obtains his freedom, that is, when he becomes king? |
4067 | Then your highness has really no money? |
4067 | There are, then, other evils which will harass you on your journey? |
4067 | This is really too much,cried Knobelsdorf,"you are shameless; do you dare to speak of pity for the prince royal? |
4067 | This love is then returned? |
4067 | To me? |
4067 | Unhappy child, do you not know that your father is present? |
4067 | Well, Knobelsdorf, is there room here to carry out our extensive plans? |
4067 | Well, and from what shall I protect you, little Louise? |
4067 | Well, and this condition? |
4067 | Well, and what think you of it? |
4067 | Well, and who says that Blanche will not be the wife of a celebrated man, and that you will not be proud of me? |
4067 | Well, and your name, my dear Madame Morien? |
4067 | Well, baron,whispered the nun,"will you fulfil your promise?" |
4067 | Well, father, do I please you? 4067 Well, have I not kept my promise?" |
4067 | Well, then, in what does he deal? |
4067 | Well, what is the costume of Madame von Brandt? |
4067 | Well, what more? |
4067 | Well, what says the king? 4067 Well,"repeated the young Von Cleist,"will you be gracious, and accept me for your husband?" |
4067 | Well,said Anna,"do you intend to obey these commands? |
4067 | Well,said he, laughing,"have you decided, mademoiselle? |
4067 | Well,said she,"have you forgotten your name, Madame Morien? |
4067 | Well,said the father exultingly,"what do you think of our fete? |
4067 | What am I? |
4067 | What amount will be required? |
4067 | What are those papers which you hold? |
4067 | What can the secret be? |
4067 | What cry was that? |
4067 | What did he say? 4067 What did your father tell you?" |
4067 | What do I wish? |
4067 | What do they mean by these ridiculous cries, and this waving of hats? 4067 What do you mean, count? |
4067 | What do you mean, madame? |
4067 | What do you mean, my king? |
4067 | What do you want with me? |
4067 | What does this mean? 4067 What game do you wish to play with me, mask?" |
4067 | What if he was not there? 4067 What is it that takes him from his friends and fills up all his time?" |
4067 | What is it? |
4067 | What is the matter with this king, he seems to have lost his memory? 4067 What is the matter? |
4067 | What is the name of this young man, for whom you show so lively an interest? |
4067 | What is this one thing which Mademoiselle Orguelin has, and on account of which you are compelled to marry her? |
4067 | What letter? |
4067 | What more did he tell you? |
4067 | What must I do to avert my ruin? |
4067 | What reply do you make to this proposition? |
4067 | What shall I do? 4067 What was written in this paper?" |
4067 | What, you refuse to work for me? |
4067 | Whence came he? |
4067 | Where are we? |
4067 | Where did you get these clothes, William? |
4067 | Where is he? |
4067 | Who are these pursuing enemies of yours? |
4067 | Who dares affirm that this letter, which has no address, is not intended for me? |
4067 | Who else would dare to adore me, or to send me flowers? |
4067 | Who is Blanche? |
4067 | Who spoke to you? 4067 Who will go now?" |
4067 | Who? |
4067 | Why are you so earnest and solemn to- day, my dear Pricker? |
4067 | Why did you shrug your shoulders? |
4067 | Why do these poor foolish people shout for joy? |
4067 | Why do you advise this? |
4067 | Why do you call me Dorris Ritter? |
4067 | Why do you congratulate me? |
4067 | Why do you not read on? |
4067 | Why do you weep, Fritz? |
4067 | Why does not the prince love me? |
4067 | Why does not their father take care of them; perhaps he is not living? |
4067 | Why have you arisen from your chairs? |
4067 | Why should I care? 4067 Why should our harmless pleasure and amusements be given up? |
4067 | Will not your majesty have the goodness to assist me, to reach me a helping hand and raise me from the abyss into which my creditors have cast me? |
4067 | Will the sun never set? |
4067 | Will you be a man or a woman dressmaker? |
4067 | Will you swear that? |
4067 | Will your majesty grant me a favor? |
4067 | Would you still wish to marry me, even if the king had not commanded it? |
4067 | Would your majesty not wish some restorative first? |
4067 | Yes, and why not? |
4067 | Yes, what more? 4067 Yes, you are right, who would dare?" |
4067 | Yes,cried they all eagerly,"what are you? |
4067 | You are content to serve me, provided I do not diminish my army, and do not impose new taxes upon the people? |
4067 | You are poor, perhaps in want? |
4067 | You are willing to remain Queen of Prussia, and nominally the wife of the king? 4067 You are, then, willing to be my wife before the world?" |
4067 | You ask why I am thinking of divorces? 4067 You demand that I shall create no new debts; and how is it possible to avoid that, when I have not even the money to pay the old ones? |
4067 | You desire your dresses made after the latest French style? |
4067 | You do not approve of this plan? |
4067 | You do not think I am justified in demanding this Silesia, which was dishonestly torn from my ancestors by the Hapsburger? |
4067 | You do not? |
4067 | You had not the letter, however, and could not receive the money? |
4067 | You have children? |
4067 | You have, then, nothing to ask of me? |
4067 | You must? 4067 You say that I know nothing of love?" |
4067 | You swear that you will marry no other than the one I name? 4067 You then advise me to go at once, without taking leave of the king?" |
4067 | You then doubt my right to Silesia? |
4067 | You then think that we could not live on the interest of six hundred thousand dollars? |
4067 | You will already leave me, my son? |
4067 | You will not, then, insist upon your resignation? |
4067 | You would like to become a general, in order to marry the daughter of a count? |
4067 | You would not be so cruel as to betray them to the king? |
4067 | Your highness confesses that I have demanded nothing superfluous or exaggerated? |
4067 | Your highness is to pay me upon the spot the interest upon the four thousand in ready money? 4067 Your majesty insists on knowing?" |
4067 | Your majesty intends marching to Breslau? |
4067 | Your majesty will not receive him, then? |
4067 | Your money? |
4067 | Ah, Fredersdorf,"said he, interrupting himself, as his valet approached him in a dusty travelling- suit,"have you just arrived from Berlin?" |
4067 | All around her was movement, life, and merry- making; who would observe her? |
4067 | Am I dreaming? |
4067 | Am I not destined to reunite with my weak but beautiful hands two hearts which God himself has joined together? |
4067 | Am I not surrounded by spies, who watch all my movements, listen to every word I utter, and then pour their poison into the ear of the king? |
4067 | An indescribable anxiety overpowered her; had she lost the letter? |
4067 | And now, Fredersdorf, tell me quickly how goes it in Berlin? |
4067 | And what would the great painters have been without women-- without their lovely, their bewitching sweethearts, whom they changed into holy maidens? |
4067 | And why was that fat man, who was seated on the sidewalk, sketching this sandy place with its poor little houses? |
4067 | And you, Madame,"turning to Elizabeth,"how can you allow this angel to throw herself in the dust before you? |
4067 | And you, my dear son, what do you say to all this? |
4067 | Answer me, Pollnitz, did you not know the law of the Tobacco Club, forbidding you to arise from your seat?" |
4067 | Are they enjoying themselves? |
4067 | Are we not to act Voltaire''s''Death of Caesar?'' |
4067 | Are you all determined to make me cold- hearted and distrustful? |
4067 | Are you minister of State or minister of Church affairs?" |
4067 | Are you satisfied, my poor Fredersdorf?" |
4067 | Are you satisfied?" |
4067 | Are you so offended because I entreated you to accept a gift from me? |
4067 | Are you willing?" |
4067 | But for whom, then? |
4067 | But how? |
4067 | But what is that?" |
4067 | But what is the meaning of that crowd over there?" |
4067 | But what noise is this?" |
4067 | But what was that? |
4067 | But what would you? |
4067 | But who was called to assist in organizing this new movement? |
4067 | But who was she? |
4067 | But who was this Leontine? |
4067 | But who, then? |
4067 | But why should I pity her? |
4067 | But you, Count Manteuffel, why are you not like the flute? |
4067 | But you, dear Jordan, what important position have you received? |
4067 | But, when I have fulfilled my word, when you have sung in the royal palace before the queen and the court, then will YOU fulfil your promise? |
4067 | Can this be the throne of a king who receives for the first time the homage of his subjects?" |
4067 | Could it be as the queen had said? |
4067 | Could it be this one? |
4067 | Could we not erect our Acropolis here, and our temples to Jupiter and Minerva?" |
4067 | Could we not, as is now customary in high circles, be married quietly, and have the festival at a later day? |
4067 | Dear friend, what has love made of you? |
4067 | Did he say that?" |
4067 | Did not his majesty think it best to close these schools? |
4067 | Did the king recognize this woman? |
4067 | Did they not hear a carriage driving into the inner court, and the guard presenting arms amid the rolling of drums? |
4067 | Did we not expect to die when we were separated? |
4067 | Did we not wring our hands, and pray for death as a relief? |
4067 | Did you ever stand upon a battle- field as a conqueror, surrounded by corpses, all your living enemies having fled before you?" |
4067 | Did you give Manteuffel the plan of the campaign and the number of the troops?" |
4067 | Do I love her? |
4067 | Do I not marry her for your sake alone?" |
4067 | Do we not love each other? |
4067 | Do you at last know what it is to be afraid, you who never experienced the feeling on the field of battle?" |
4067 | Do you fly from me because of this star upon my breast-- because I am called a royal prince? |
4067 | Do you know his name?" |
4067 | Do you no longer know the laws of the Tobacco Club? |
4067 | Do you not find the music very beautiful and enticing? |
4067 | Do you not hear faint tones of distant music? |
4067 | Do you not know that these laws positively forbid you to arise from your seats to greet any one? |
4067 | Do you not know that you are called Leontine?" |
4067 | Do you not know that your wife worships, loves, adores you; that you are her salvation, her god? |
4067 | Do you not remember my description of such a house? |
4067 | Do you not think, Jordan, that this is a most suitable place on which to realize all those beautiful ideals of which we used to dream at Rheinsberg? |
4067 | Does Mademoiselle von Schwerin know your hand?" |
4067 | Does this programme meet with your approbation?" |
4067 | Does your highness understand? |
4067 | Does your majesty know that I have abolished the torture?" |
4067 | Does your son speak French?" |
4067 | Frederick came nearer to Ephraim, and eyeing him sternly, he said:"Are you mocking me? |
4067 | Had the king discovered their plan? |
4067 | Has he forgiven us? |
4067 | Has the girl who is rich enough to pay the debts of a Pollnitz no guardian?" |
4067 | Has the splendor of our mother bewildered you? |
4067 | Have I the right to complain? |
4067 | Have you lost your speech, or are you thinking whom you will command to dance with you at the ball this evening?" |
4067 | Have you no compassion for the noble, heartfelt love of two children, who are as pure and innocent as the stars in heaven?" |
4067 | Have you no recollection of the days of our ardent and passionate love? |
4067 | Have you not heard that the Austrian empress intends to establish a new order-- an order of virtue and modesty?" |
4067 | Have you not noticed how contemptuously he treats him-- never speaks to him or notices him, while he loves to chat with his other ministers? |
4067 | Have you not sworn that you love me, and that you ask no greater happiness than to be united to me?" |
4067 | Have you received my instructions?" |
4067 | He seated himself, and said,"You agree to my proposal, mother?" |
4067 | He turned to Pollnitz, and said:"What is the name of this woman who roars so horribly?" |
4067 | Hear me, Dorris; you will not go to him? |
4067 | Here is the letter; will you have the kindness to read the address?" |
4067 | How and why did you come?" |
4067 | How can I deceive him? |
4067 | How can I understand that?" |
4067 | How could a woman weep who could call that happiness her own-- to possess which Elizabeth would cheerfully give years of her life? |
4067 | How could she love a man who had been only a tyrant and a despot to her and to her children? |
4067 | How dare you treat me in this manner? |
4067 | How dare you wound her? |
4067 | How do I know that you do not entertain dangerous designs? |
4067 | How is the king?" |
4067 | How is this remedy called?" |
4067 | How much could still be hoped for? |
4067 | How? |
4067 | How? |
4067 | I implore you, tell me, is it so? |
4067 | I lent to Knobelsdorf, for the prince royal, upon his mere word, my honest gold, and what have I received? |
4067 | I promise you to receive this new baked countess if you will promise me to receive the Count Neal at your court?" |
4067 | I see before you a glorious future; it may be I shall have passed away-- but where will my spirit be? |
4067 | I suppose you would obtain the letter at any sacrifice?" |
4067 | If so, why give our hearts to men? |
4067 | If you compare me to the sun, how can you describe him?" |
4067 | In the first place, what of the young queen?" |
4067 | In what can I assist you?" |
4067 | In what can I serve you?" |
4067 | Is a physician with her?" |
4067 | Is he convinced that we are his true, humble, and obedient servants?" |
4067 | Is it not terrible to have a sweetheart, and never to have refused him a kiss, because he has never had the opportunity to demand one? |
4067 | Is it possible that he suffers like other men? |
4067 | Is it, Laura, because you deem me unworthy of your love? |
4067 | Is not her lot mine, and that of all princes? |
4067 | Is not the wife of the young king the deeply- loved niece of the Austrian empress?" |
4067 | Is one of my dogs dead? |
4067 | Is the assemblage a handsome one? |
4067 | Is the queen gay? |
4067 | Is there a woman on God''s earth whose heart is not half melted away with hot and unavailing tears?" |
4067 | Is there no way to prevent this?" |
4067 | Is this my son, my Karl, who loved me so dearly-- my boy, who was the only comfort in my misery, the confidant of my tears and wretchedness? |
4067 | It is true that my father left me a fortune of about two hundred thousand dollars, but what is such a trifle to a nobleman? |
4067 | It will be perfectly magnificent, will it not? |
4067 | Kaiserling''s wit and Chazot''s merry humor, where are they? |
4067 | Madame von Brandt laughed:"Two are needed for a gossip,"said she;"and how do you know that I am in the humor for that? |
4067 | My cook obtained the receipt immediately; but what do you think? |
4067 | No one else, did you say? |
4067 | Now, Laura, do I know nothing of love? |
4067 | Now, dear friends, am I not enviable?" |
4067 | Or has your heart never been touched by love? |
4067 | Or were you only a little annoyed at not having heard of this love affair?" |
4067 | Poor Fredersdorf, do you think it such happiness to be a king? |
4067 | Pray, who has inspired her with this unfortunate love? |
4067 | Shall I lay aside my respectable dress, to replace it with a monkey- jacket, and become a laughing- stock to all honest men? |
4067 | Shall I so far forget my God, my forefathers, and my native land, as to call French workmen into my German work- room? |
4067 | She placed her hand lightly on his shoulder, and whispered, half tenderly, half reproachfully,"Dreamer, where are your thoughts?" |
4067 | Speak, Laura, is it so? |
4067 | Tell me, Pollnitz, how are matters progressing over there? |
4067 | Tell us also what are you?" |
4067 | The evening before I will be in the conservatory and await you; will I wait in vain?" |
4067 | The king returned this salutation, and said:"You have really come to take leave, marquis?" |
4067 | The king said nothing; sinking in the chair, and grasping the arms convulsively, he leaned his head back, and in a low voice asked,"Is it Suhm?" |
4067 | The princess raised her arms imploringly on high, and her trembling lips whispered,"Pygmalion, why come you not to awaken thy Galatea? |
4067 | The queen should become the woman, the obedient wife; had not the Bible said, and"he shall rule over thee"? |
4067 | The question arises, is your aversion to me so great that you insist on a separation?" |
4067 | This neglige? |
4067 | To whom, then, does it belong?" |
4067 | Was he speaking to these strangers, and that, too, in French? |
4067 | Was it he who held Laura back, or had she herself forgotten her promise? |
4067 | Was it our fault that others saw and pointed out this love without words, and which eyes of innocence only expressed? |
4067 | Was it sealed?" |
4067 | Was not England proud of her Elizabeth, Sweden of her Christina, Spain of Isabella, Russia of Catharine? |
4067 | Was she unfaithful to her oath? |
4067 | Was this young man really the son and heir of Mr. Pricker? |
4067 | Well, what do you think of my story?" |
4067 | Well, what is it? |
4067 | Were there not examples in all lands of noble women who governed their people well and honorably? |
4067 | What advantage was it to him to be the acknowledged tailor of two queens? |
4067 | What cared they for a few lost pennies, now that their prince had become king? |
4067 | What cares the world that I suffer? |
4067 | What did all this mean? |
4067 | What did he, their king, demand of them? |
4067 | What did she die of? |
4067 | What did you say to bring anguish to her heart and flood her face with tears? |
4067 | What do you here, Dorris Ritter?" |
4067 | What do you require of me? |
4067 | What do you think, Knobelsdorf, will this place answer?" |
4067 | What has become of it? |
4067 | What have I done to deserve this new torture? |
4067 | What have politics to do with love? |
4067 | What if this was a plot, a snare laid for her feet? |
4067 | What is the rank of this bride?" |
4067 | What is the reason? |
4067 | What is your fiancee''s name?" |
4067 | What is your given name, Madame von Katsch?" |
4067 | What more did he say?" |
4067 | What name do you give the duty which I must take upon myself?" |
4067 | What of the Emperor of Austria?" |
4067 | What of the marriage of the Prince Augustus William?" |
4067 | What orders do you bring us from his majesty?" |
4067 | What shall I become? |
4067 | What shall I do? |
4067 | What shall I do?" |
4067 | What sum would you consider necessary to enable you to live in a style befitting a nobleman?" |
4067 | What use has Prussia for such a sovereign? |
4067 | What, then, what have I done to deserve so much shame and sorrow? |
4067 | When I ceased singing, why did you not applaud?" |
4067 | When was it? |
4067 | When, where did I see this cold, devilish smile, this face so cold and heartless, so full of iron egotism?" |
4067 | Where is your judgment and your coquetry? |
4067 | Where must the new opera- house be built?" |
4067 | Where, then, are your friends? |
4067 | Where? |
4067 | Who but the poor gardener will die for you if you say no? |
4067 | Who gave you the right to enter this house? |
4067 | Who had so often and so heavily oppressed the prince as Colonel Derchau? |
4067 | Who has taken it away from me? |
4067 | Who is he? |
4067 | Who knows but that the king himself will set the people a good example?" |
4067 | Who made it for you?" |
4067 | Who pitied, who saved me? |
4067 | Who told you to speak until you were questioned?" |
4067 | Who was it? |
4067 | Who was that speaking with the young girl, who smilingly leant forward from the carriage and was laughing and jesting with him? |
4067 | Who was that standing by the first carriage which had halted in front of Mr. Pricker''s house? |
4067 | Who was the happy one to whom the prince had given his love? |
4067 | Who will be favored, who receive the first rays of the rising sun? |
4067 | Who, then, would win the love of this impassioned young monarch? |
4067 | Whom had the king chosen from amongst his friends and servants? |
4067 | Why could not Sophia Dorothea accomplish as much or even more than her predecessor? |
4067 | Why did Count Voss press the king''s hand, which was that moment graciously extended to him, to his lips? |
4067 | Why did our parents give us modern educations if they wished us to conform to old- fashioned prejudice?" |
4067 | Why do you keep me? |
4067 | Why do you not compose such a work?" |
4067 | Why do you not hear me?--why have not my sighs, my tears the power to bring you to my side?" |
4067 | Why have you spies and eavesdroppers at all places? |
4067 | Why impossible?" |
4067 | Why is Bielfeld''s ringing laugh and the flute of Quantz silenced? |
4067 | Why is the king so furious? |
4067 | Why might not this poem have been intended for the princess as well as for Madame von Morien? |
4067 | Why should not Sophia Dorothea reign? |
4067 | Why was Elizabeth now so much rejoiced at the beauty of which she had never before seemed conscious? |
4067 | Why was his beloved so splendidly attired? |
4067 | Why was the queen kissing even now his beautiful Laura, and handing her this splendid diamond diadem? |
4067 | Why was the royal family gathered around her? |
4067 | Why were you in that position? |
4067 | Why were you weeping, Laura? |
4067 | Why will you not change this marble statue into a woman of flesh and blood, with heart and soul? |
4067 | Why, notwithstanding all this, will he condemn us to be and to continue to be the children of a tailor? |
4067 | Will I not then compel him sometimes to think of me with pride?" |
4067 | Will he take us into his favor again? |
4067 | Will my mother''s threats and commands find you strong and brave? |
4067 | Will the king remember the oath of the captain? |
4067 | Will the king remember these things, now that he has the power to punish and revenge his wrongs? |
4067 | Will you be less kind and humane than this tender, modest Laura? |
4067 | Will you be true and firm? |
4067 | Will you do this for me, my son?" |
4067 | Will you give me as interest a few costly pearls-- pearls which lie hidden in that flute, and which appear at your magical touch? |
4067 | Will you help me; will you stand by me in this work with your experience and your advice?" |
4067 | Will you not place them in the bouquet which you arrange every morning for the princess?" |
4067 | Will you wear the queue and the narrow, coarse frock coat?" |
4067 | Would not Dorris Ritter now rise to power and influence, be prayed to as a lovely saint, her shame being covered with a martyr''s crown? |
4067 | Would the king, now that he was free to act, remember poor Dorris and what she had suffered for him; her sorrow, her shame, and her despair? |
4067 | Would you make of the prince royal a travelling musician, who must play before the Jew, in order to soften his heart?--would you--? |
4067 | You desire it-- you who profess to love me?" |
4067 | You knew this; then why were you not satisfied to wait until I sent for you?" |
4067 | You positively refuse to excite the envy of all the ladies at court by possessing the most costly cashmere? |
4067 | You say she loves another, and still desire that I should compel her to marry Count Voss?" |
4067 | You swear that you will overcome all obstacles, and be withheld by no prayers or reproaches?" |
4067 | You were speaking, I think, of the marriage of one of the princes?" |
4067 | You will let no earthly power tear you from me? |
4067 | You will not accept the hand of Count Voss? |
4067 | You will not falter? |
4067 | You will withhold my gold from me? |
4067 | Your majesty will not accept my resignation?" |
4067 | although she is no flute, do you believe he would cast her aside?" |
4067 | am I the only one who suffers from the closeness of the king? |
4067 | and have not all the court ladies adopted them? |
4067 | and the princesses, are they dancing merrily?" |
4067 | are not the people of Berlin crying for bread, whilst the royal larder is filled to overflowing? |
4067 | are you laboring to turn my heart to stone-- to cut off my soul from faith and love? |
4067 | are you not afraid that your ancestors will rise from their graves to punish you?" |
4067 | are you not still my best beloved, my beautiful, my adored Anna? |
4067 | asked the old man;"have you not tortured me? |
4067 | because your heart feels no emotion for me? |
4067 | can I bear this and live?" |
4067 | can not, when I your king and lord command it?" |
4067 | cried Laura;"can you demand this of me? |
4067 | cried M. Pricker, rising from his chair and looking threateningly at Anna,"who is Blanche?" |
4067 | did he hear again the dying melodies of his early youth? |
4067 | did not Sophia Amelia''s portrait hang in the library of the crown prince? |
4067 | did not the English princess wear his picture constantly near her heart? |
4067 | do I not understand the greatness of the sacrifice which I demand of you?" |
4067 | do we not all suffer? |
4067 | do you dare to boast of having lent him money, while you only did it knowing he could and would repay you with interest?" |
4067 | do you not hear their shouts and rejoicings? |
4067 | exclaimed the count,"you will compel me?" |
4067 | exclaimed the marquis,"your majesty intends making a descent on the lands of my exalted sovereign?" |
4067 | exclaimed the princess,"and came to greet me as your queen?" |
4067 | exclaimed the queen, impatiently;"it is then not Count Voss? |
4067 | exclaimed the queen, sympathizingly,"but are there no heiresses among the nobility, whose fortunes might save you?" |
4067 | had it been stolen from her? |
4067 | had not King George, although too late, declared his willingness for the betrothal? |
4067 | had she not been the choice of his heart? |
4067 | had she not sworn never to be the wife of another man? |
4067 | had they not loved each other with the enthusiasm of youth, although they had never met? |
4067 | has he declared you his heiress?" |
4067 | have not I suffered? |
4067 | have you not murdered me, with a smile upon your lips, as you did your poor mother, who died of grief? |
4067 | he cried, beside himself with delight;"you admit that it is not I alone who love?" |
4067 | he exclaimed, interrupting himself,"why is the lord marshal approaching his majesty with such an eager, joyful air? |
4067 | how dare we poor Jews complain when the heir to a throne is harassed for money, and must endure privations?" |
4067 | how did they deal with me? |
4067 | how do I know but you are an enemy, corrupted by Austria, and wish to lead the king to his destruction?" |
4067 | is it not fearful, intolerable, to wait so long for a declaration of love? |
4067 | is it ugly to look upon? |
4067 | is not that laughable?" |
4067 | is not this attire worthy of a nobleman? |
4067 | might not her husband cast her off and take this English princess for his wife? |
4067 | murmured she,"am I then already mad? |
4067 | murmured she;"with what other tales did he amuse my child?" |
4067 | no, why should we listen? |
4067 | or are you only peevish because this abominable fever has cheated you of the rehearsal?" |
4067 | our love?" |
4067 | said Count Manteuffel;"no compassion for the charming villa which you could purchase? |
4067 | said Laura, mournfully;"you are affianced to the Princess of Brunswick?" |
4067 | said Louise,"and why have you hidden the most beautiful ones? |
4067 | said his father, approaching him slowly;"who gave you the money to pay for them? |
4067 | said the king,"and what signifies this strange movement among the singers?" |
4067 | said the king,"is the empress, our noble aunt, suffering?" |
4067 | said the mother anxiously;"did I not, before I went out, give you the money to buy bread for you and your little sister?" |
4067 | said the queen angrily;"why did you not make known to me the name of Laura''s lover?" |
4067 | shall I open this letter?" |
4067 | shall I really suffer the fate of Petrarch, and pass my life in an eternal dirge? |
4067 | she murmured, passing her hand across her brow, and pushing aside her long dark hair--"am I still dreaming?" |
4067 | she said;"what does the king desire in this den of poverty and misery?" |
4067 | she was then magnificently attired?" |
4067 | that is the king''s voice; to whom is he speaking?" |
4067 | that you have no love for your sovereign, only envy and hatred, only malice and cunning? |
4067 | then you have a special princess for whom you gather flowers?" |
4067 | upon whom would he revenge himself? |
4067 | was he listening to their sweet, but melancholy tones? |
4067 | was it only in fearful dreams, or was it a frightful reality? |
4067 | was the king really coming to his wife? |
4067 | what brings you here?" |
4067 | what have I betrayed?" |
4067 | what is it that causes my beloved to sigh?" |
4067 | what is that noise? |
4067 | what then? |
4067 | what woman can boast that she ever closed that abyss and always retained the keys?" |
4067 | where are you? |
4067 | where is your father?" |
4067 | which of the ladies bore that name? |
4067 | who had broken their wills, cut off their hopes, and trodden under foot, not only the queen, but the mother? |
4067 | who had carried out the harsh commands of the king against him so unrelentingly? |
4067 | who had mocked at him and persecuted him so bitterly? |
4067 | whom had he set aside? |
4067 | why can I not please my husband?--why will he never look upon me with admiration?" |
4067 | why do they call you by thy name? |
4067 | why do you condemn me to such torture; why has your heart no pity with me, no pity with my love? |
4067 | why do you fly from me? |
4067 | why do you torture me? |
4067 | why is there not a war?" |
4067 | will you let me enjoy here another hour of your dear presence? |
4067 | you defend her?" |
4067 | you do not know, then, that his majesty is dying?" |
4067 | you mean to lead a wretched life with your wife; to quarrel with her every now and then, do you?" |