Questions

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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723Would you take it?
723Could anything be superfluous that had given me so much pleasure as I read?
723How does he comport himself in the face of all the changes and modifications that have taken place and that still impend?
723Will he find his account in the unflagging interest of their development?
37300And yet what can one do?
37300And yet what, in this particular case, did all that matter?
32649De Sade?
32649I crawled to Hanover Square-- or was it Cavendish?
32649It was doubtless even excessive in proportion to its cause-- yet in what else but that consisted the force and the use of vibrations?
32649Was it that I had preconceived him in that light as pale and penetrating, as emphasising in every aspect the fact that he was fastidious?
32649was it in fine that style of a particular kind, when so highly developed, seemed logically to leave no room for other quite contradictious kinds?
32649was it that I had supposed him more fastidious than really_ could_ have been-- at the best for that effect?
32649was it that the grace of the man_ could n''t_, by my measure, but march somehow with the grace of the poet, given a perfection of this grace?
26115Did you notice the relation-- how charming it was?
26115Tuscany?--are you sure it''s Tuscany?
26115What church do you go to?
26115All boys, I rather found, were difficult to play with-- unless it was that they rather found_ me_; but who would have been so difficult as these?
26115Did n''t he always when within my view light them up and justify them by renewed and enlarged vividness?
26115Did we at any rate really vibrate to one social tone after another, or are these adventures for me now but fond imaginations?
26115Europe had surprises, none the less, and who knows to what extent it may after half a century have had shocks?
26115How came it then that for the most part so simple we yet were n''t more inane?
26115How without that complacency of conscience could every felt impression so live again?
26115How_ could_ quality of talent consort with so dire an absence of quality in the material offered it?
26115Is it a foolish fallacy that these matters may have been on occasion, at that time, worth speaking of?
26115May n''t we accordingly have been, the rest of us, all wrong, and the dim little gentleman the only one among us who was right?
26115Of no such uncanny engine had Mr. Thompson, luckily, known a need-- luckily since to what arsenal could he possibly have resorted for it?
26115The lower Broadway-- I allude to the whole Fourth Street and Bond Street( where now_ is_ the Bond Street of that antiquity?)
26115The"scene of something"I had vaguely then felt it?
26115They happened to be amiable, to be delightful; but-- I think I have already put the question-- what would have become of us all if they had n''t been?
26115They were, as forms, adjusted and settled things; from what finer civilisation therefore had they come down to him?
26115They''re_ beating_ them, I''m sure they are; ca n''t it be stopped?"
26115Was n''t I myself for that matter even at that time all acutely and yet resignedly, even quite fatalistically, aware of what to think of this?
26115What could these things then have been in the various native climes of the petits pays chauds?
26115Where is that fruitage now, where in particular are the peaches_ d''antan_?
26115Why should Madame Judith''s name have stuck to me through all the years, since I was never to see her and she is as forgotten as Rachel is remembered?
26115Why should it have affected me so that my choice, so difficult in such a dazzle, could only be for a trinity?
26115_ His_ competitions were with others-- in which how was n''t he, how could he not be, successful?
26115where could such lapses lead but to dust and desolation and what happy instinct not be smothered in an air so dismally non- conducting?
26115where the mounds of Isabella grapes and Seckel pears in the sticky sweetness of which our childhood seems to have been steeped?
38035But,you will say,"why did n''t you send the promised volume for E. M. from_ London_ then?
38035That''s all very well; but why then did n''t you write and explain why it was that you were keeping us unserved and uninformed?
38035Then why the hell did n''t you?
38035Why then could n''t you write home and have one of the books in question sent you?--or have it sent to Hastings directly from your house?
38035( My subject-- unless I grip it tight-- melts away-- Rye, Sussex, is so little like it; and then where am I?
38035), for there are still things I want to_ do_, and I ask myself, at such a rate, How?
38035*/ I have for a long time had it at heart to write to you-- as to which I hear you comment: Why the hell then did n''t you?
38035--and who shall blame you?
3803512th._ I wrote you last from Rome, I think-- didn''t I?
38035A play appears to me of necessity to involve a struggle, a question( of whether, and how, will it or wo n''t it happen?
38035After the generosity of your letters of last month how can I ask you to labour again in my too thankless cause?
38035Ah, Walter, Walter, why do you do these things?
38035And now, coming to Kipps, what am I to say about Kipps but that I am ready, that I am compelled, utterly to_ drivel_ about him?
38035Are they presented in some procurable volume that would be possible to send me?
38035As they must now have children enough for them to take care of_ each other_( have n''t they?)
38035But how do I know, after all, even yet?
38035But we must all wait, must n''t we?
38035But what am I ridiculously remarking to_ you_?
38035But what memories are these not to you, and how can one speak to you at all without stirring up the deeps?
38035But what need of that have_ you_, lady of the full programme and the rich performance?
38035But why do I make these restrictive and invidious observations?
38035But why do I speak to you of this as if I needed to and it were n''t with you all the while far more than it can be even with me?
38035Could you see-- ask-- if Fanny Morse has kept any?
38035Could you, would you?
38035Does this at any rate-- the best I can do for you-- throw any sufficient light?
38035How can we be sufficiently thankful for these charming breaks in the sinister perspective?
38035How can what is going on not be to one as a huge horror of blackness?
38035How is Gross, dear woman, and how are Mitou and Nicette-- whom I missed so at Monte Cassino?
38035How on the other hand_ not_ represent it either-- without putting into play mere fiddlesticks?
38035How shall I tell you in return what an interest I am going to take in you-- and how I want you to multiply for me the occasions of showing it?
38035How shall I tell you, at any rate, today, how your letter touches and even, as it were, relieves me?
38035I ca n''t remount-- but can only drift on with the thicker and darker tide: wherefore pray for me, as who knows what may be at the end?
38035I come up again and quite well up-- as how can I not in order again to re- taste the bitter cup?
38035I do n''t know, and how should I?
38035If it had n''t been for this I think I should have two or three times quite said to you:"Wo n''t you let_ me_ have a try?"
38035Is Margaret on better ground again?
38035Is it thinkable to you that you might come over at this ungenial season, for a night-- some time before Xmas?
38035It is indeed beautiful of you to think of these little deeds of kindness, little words of love( or is it the other way round?)
38035Or shall you pass through this place-- homeward-- before May 1st?
38035Or would a big development of inspiration and form have come?
38035Reality is a world that was to be capable of_ this_--and how represent that horrific capability,_ historically_ latent, historically ahead of it?
38035Save in the fantastic and the romantic( Copperfield, Jane Eyre, that charming thing of Stevenson''s with the bad title--"Kidnapped"?)
38035Seulement alors je compterais bâtir a great many( a great many, entendezvous?)
38035Still, what those we so love have done_ for_ us does n''t wholly fail us with their presence-- isn''t that true?
38035The elderly( or almost?)
38035We feel, do n''t we?
38035What does that sadly mean?
38035What is a poor man to do, mon prince, mon bon prince, mon grand prince, when so prodigiously practised upon?
38035What is one to say or do in presence of an expression so generous and so penetrating?
38035What is the rent of a house-- unfurnished of course( a little good_ inside_ one)--in your Terrace?--and are there any with 2 or 3 servants''bedrooms?
38035What matter to us where it came from so long as it came?"
38035Who is D. H. Lawrence, who, you think, would interest me?
38035Will you consider at your leisure the plea thus put?
38035Will you give me the great pleasure of being one of them?--signing a paper to that effect?
38035Will you give my tender love there when you next go?
38035Will you kindly keep a little in the dark for the present my fond chatter about my poor Edition?
38035You can see, ca n''t you?
38035You will have finished your new fiction, I"presume"--if it is n''t presumptuous-- before embarking?
38035You''ll say doubtless:"Damn you, why report_ at all_--if you are so crassly superstitious?
38035why_ did_ they?"