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.
| identifier | question |
|---|---|
| 45599 | And what does it all matter, anyway? |
| 45599 | Unusual punctuation and original spelling have been retained, receipe( recipe?) |
| 37607 | But how are we to have our lawns in"broad expanse"if we build a high wall near the house to cut off even the possibility of a lawn? |
| 37607 | Can the gentleman''s garden then, too, be a picture? |
| 37607 | How is a man to make gardens wisely if he does not know what has to be grown in them? |
| 37607 | Is the aim of the flower- garden to show the"modest foliage"of English trees when almost every country house is surrounded by our native woods? |
| 37607 | Old English house with trees in their natural form_] What, then, is the kind of"Formal Gardening"that is bad? |
| 37607 | Or are we to treat the house and garden as inseparable factors in one homogeneous whole, which are to co- operate for one premeditated result? |
| 37607 | Perhaps Mr. Blomfield would accept a plumb line? |
| 37607 | What right have we to deform things given us so perfect and lovely in form? |
| 39929 | But how is it possible for a Man to throw away his Money without doing some Service in the World? |
| 39929 | Do n''t you think this Building too is a very genteel one, and is extremely well situated? |
| 39929 | Do not you think that Haycock contrasts extremely well with this Temple? |
| 39929 | Hard by a Cottage Chimney smokes, From betwixt two aged Oaks.__ Calloph._ Can you repeat no more? |
| 39929 | If there be Force in Virtue, or in Song._ Does not your Pulse beat high, while you thus stand before such an awful Assembly? |
| 39929 | Is any Man the better for it? |
| 39929 | Is it not Money most vilely squandered away? |
| 39929 | It is finely painted in the Inside: Will you look into it? |
| 39929 | Now Land, now Sea, and Shores with Forest crown''d, Rocks, Dens, and Caves._---- But what have we got here? |
| 39929 | Pray what Titles are those Gentry distinguished by? |
| 39929 | Pray, Sir, do you know the Stories? |
| 39929 | What do you think of these two Pavilions? |
| 39929 | What do you think of this Scene? |
| 39929 | What is that Painting upon the Cieling? |
| 39929 | What signifies all this ostentatious Work? |
| 39929 | What wretched Scrawler has been at work upon these Walls? |
| 39929 | Why are they not always considered as having a natural Tendency to Luxury, to Riot, and Licentiousness? |
| 39929 | _ Are These Things So?_( 1740), and_ The Great Man''s Answer to Are These Things So?_( 1740). |
| 39929 | _ Are These Things So?_( 1740), and_ The Great Man''s Answer to Are These Things So?_( 1740). |
| 39929 | _ Calloph._ Did you never experience in a Concert vast Pleasure when the whole Band for a few Moments made a full Pause? |
| 39929 | _ Calloph._ Do n''t you think that serpentine River, as it is called, is a great Addition to the Beauty of the Place? |
| 39929 | _ Calloph._ Have you observed how the Statue is decorated? |
| 39929 | _ Calloph._ How? |
| 39929 | _ Calloph._ Is it so late? |
| 39929 | _ Calloph._ Pray what is your Opinion of checquered Marble''s being made use of in Busts? |
| 39929 | _ Calloph._ Yes: but can not you make a distinction between natural and moral Beauties? |
| 39929 | _ Callophilus_ seemed surprized, and could not forbear asking him, By what means his Opinions became so suddenly changed? |
| 39929 | _ Polypth._ I think it is.----But what have we got there? |
| 39929 | _ Polypth._ Is that Building the Temple of Friendship? |
| 39929 | _ Polypth._ Pray, Sir, what kind of a Building have we yonder, that struck our Sight as we crossed that Alley? |
| 39929 | _ Polypth._ Pray, what Building is that before us? |
| 39929 | _ Polypth._ What the D----l have we got here? |
| 39929 | _ Polypth._ Yonder likewise seems to be a Monument[19] rising: Pray who is it intended to do Honour to? |
| 36279 | If the others could do all these things to perfection,she argued,"why could not he do them?" |
| 36279 | Again I ask myself, What is this for? |
| 36279 | Again he said,"What is this but bedding? |
| 36279 | And the test question I put to myself at any show is this, Does this really help the best interests of horticulture? |
| 36279 | And what is meant by coral- red? |
| 36279 | And why eat doubtful_ Boletus_ when one can have the delicious Chantarelle(_ Cantharellus cibarius_), also now at its best? |
| 36279 | Could anything be more tedious or more stupid? |
| 36279 | For an immense hardy flower of beautiful colouring what can equal the salmon- rose Moutan Reine Elizabeth? |
| 36279 | For have we not a brilliantly- gifted dignitary whose loving praise of the Queen of flowers has become a classic? |
| 36279 | For instance, what has become of the"_ great gray Hulo_"which he describes as a plant of the largest and strongest habit? |
| 36279 | For some time I did not see him, and when I asked another old countryman,"What''s gone o''Master Trussler?" |
| 36279 | Friends often ask me vaguely about Pæonies, and when I say,"What kind of Pæonies?" |
| 36279 | Has any tree so graceful a way of throwing up its stems as the birch? |
| 36279 | He was pounced upon by another, who asked,"What is this but bedding?" |
| 36279 | How is it that this fine native plant is almost invariably sold in nurseries as an American bramble? |
| 36279 | I ask him, Does he think it pretty, or is it any use? |
| 36279 | I ask myself, What is it for? |
| 36279 | Is it not Ruskin who says of Velasquez, that there is more colour in his black than in many another painter''s whole palette? |
| 36279 | Is not this some indication of what is wanted in gardens? |
| 36279 | The pretty little Woodruff is in flower; what scent is so delicate as that of its leaves? |
| 36279 | What does it teach? |
| 36279 | What should we do in winter without its vigorous masses of grand foliage in garden and shrubbery, to say nothing of its use indoors? |
| 36279 | Why amethystine? |
| 36279 | Why is the orchard put out of the way, as it generally is, in some remote region beyond the kitchen garden and stables? |
| 36279 | and what on earth are you going to do with that great heap of sand? |
| 36279 | and would it really nod him a glad good- morning when he opened his window to greet it? |
| 36279 | are you quarrying stone, or is it for the cellar of a building? |
| 39049 | Oh, far away in some serener air, The eyes that loved them see a heavenly dawn: How can they bloom without her tender care? 39049 What is this jolly smell all around here? |
| 39049 | Who is he? |
| 39049 | A friend says:"Do you think they will speak to you?" |
| 39049 | An old Narragansett coach driver called out to me,"Ye set such store on flowers, do n''t ye want to pick that Blue- pipe in Pender Zeke''s garden?" |
| 39049 | CHAPTER XXII ROSES OF YESTERDAY"Each morn a thousand Roses brings, you say; Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?" |
| 39049 | Can you not believe that we love them still? |
| 39049 | Did you ever see a ghost in a garden? |
| 39049 | Do they not"smell sweet to the ear"? |
| 39049 | Do you care for color when you have such beauty of outline? |
| 39049 | Do you like its touch as well as its perfume? |
| 39049 | Do you like to bury your face in a bunch of Roses? |
| 39049 | Do you love to feel a Lilac spray brush your cheek in the cool of the evening? |
| 39049 | Do you suppose it can be natural? |
| 39049 | Edward Fitzgerald writes to Fanny Kemble:"Do n''t you love the Oleander? |
| 39049 | Have you ever smelt civet? |
| 39049 | Have you pleasure in the contact of a flower? |
| 39049 | Having this list of the names of these sturdy old annuals and perennials, what do you perceive besides the printed words? |
| 39049 | How many garden pictures have Hollyhocks? |
| 39049 | In answer to the question, What is the bluest flower in the garden or field? |
| 39049 | Is heliotrope a pale bluish purple? |
| 39049 | Is this because it is an herb instead of a purely decorative flower? |
| 39049 | Its readoption is advised with handsome dwellings in England, where ground- space is limited,--and why not in America, too? |
| 39049 | My contemplative girl lives in the city, how can she know that spring is here? |
| 39049 | No? |
| 39049 | S. was to indicate Black or Sable, and what letter was Scarlet to have? |
| 39049 | See the white Peony on page 44; is it not a seemly, comely thing, as well as a beautiful one? |
| 39049 | Some kind of a flower?" |
| 39049 | Sow Thistle| 5 A.M.| 11- 12 P.M. Yellow Goat- beard| 3- 5 A.M.| 9- 10(?) |
| 39049 | Still, who could write of sun- dials without choosing to transcribe these words of Lamb''s? |
| 39049 | The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table says:"Did you ever hear a poet who did not talk flowers? |
| 39049 | Then he said to his Mother,_ What Diet has Matthew of late fed upon_? |
| 39049 | Thus in the leaves of plants every shade of green is pleasing; then why is there no charm in a green flower? |
| 39049 | Was she of real life, or fiction? |
| 39049 | What could we send to the blind? |
| 39049 | What shall I say? |
| 39049 | When I visit the garden I always ask"Where is Job?" |
| 39049 | Where in all English verse are fairer flower hues? |
| 39049 | Who plants the seeds of Lupines in the barren soil? |
| 39049 | Who watereth the Lupines in the field?" |
| 39049 | Why are all the old appliances for raising water so pleasing? |
| 39049 | Why is it almost everywhere banished? |
| 39049 | Why should they live when her sweet life is gone?" |
| 39049 | You remember how commonplace their clothes were? |
| 39049 | You''ve read_ Lavengro_? |
| 39049 | all pink flowers near each other? |
| 39049 | all red flowers side by side? |
| 39049 | and what place has the Violet? |
| 39049 | is n''t this Crown- imperial a glorious plant? |
| 39049 | or shall we plant severely by colors-- all yellow flowers in a border together? |
| 39049 | the Flower de Luce? |
| 39049 | whence came thy dazzling hue? |
| 39049 | with Abundance and Variety? |
| 19408 | ''Step lively''? |
| 19408 | Can you tell me what shrub this is? |
| 19408 | Well,demanded one brave urchin,"what made''em go and plant a lot of bushes right on first base?" |
| 19408 | Where are you going? |
| 19408 | Why should I? |
| 19408 | Why? |
| 19408 | Also, how much will your purse allow? |
| 19408 | And if so, do you love only those parts of it which you never see and the appearance of which you have no power to modify? |
| 19408 | And if you are young and a lover of your country, do you not love its physical aspects,"its rocks and rills, its woods and templed hills"? |
| 19408 | And where did_ civitas_ get its name, when city and state were one, but from citizen? |
| 19408 | Because a garden should not, any more than my lady''s face, have all its features-- nose, eyes, ears, lips-- of one size? |
| 19408 | Because they belong to you? |
| 19408 | But of the really good sorts are there shrubs enough, you ask, to afford new lists year after year? |
| 19408 | But our home gardens, our home gardeners, either professional or amateur, where are they? |
| 19408 | But to have no garden is a distinct poverty in a householder''s life, whether he knows it or not, and-- suppose he very much wants a garden? |
| 19408 | Can you imagine a young man or woman without it? |
| 19408 | Do n''t they do it?" |
| 19408 | Does this seem hardly fair to the first garden? |
| 19408 | For what says the brave old song- couplet of New England''s mothers? |
| 19408 | For who was there to tell them or him that he was not one? |
| 19408 | How could they without tools? |
| 19408 | How much subserviency of nature to art and utility is really necessary to my own and my friends''and neighbors''best delight? |
| 19408 | How much, then, of nature''s subserviency does the range of your tastes demand? |
| 19408 | I lately heard a lady ask an amateur gardener,"What is the garden''s foundation principle?" |
| 19408 | If I describe it I must preface with all the disclaimers of a self- conscious amateur whose most venturesome argument goes no farther than"Why not?" |
| 19408 | If I should, where were my climax?" |
| 19408 | Is the term merely comparative? |
| 19408 | Is the world already artificial enough? |
| 19408 | May I repeat it? |
| 19408 | No? |
| 19408 | Oh, say, can you_ see_--? |
| 19408 | Or do you love the land only and not the people, the nation, the government? |
| 19408 | Or shall we make our plea to an"art impulse"? |
| 19408 | Or, loving these, have you no love for the nearest public fraction of it, your own town and neighbors? |
| 19408 | Otherwise, why do you let us call them yours? |
| 19408 | Shall we summarize? |
| 19408 | To say nothing of prizes, was not the garden itself its own reward?" |
| 19408 | Was he not right? |
| 19408 | Was it not Ruskin himself who wanted to butt the railway- train off the track and paw up the rails-- something like that? |
| 19408 | What makes a man rich? |
| 19408 | What maxim is? |
| 19408 | What shall we do about it? |
| 19408 | Whence comes civilization but from_ civitas_, the city? |
| 19408 | Where to Plant What? |
| 19408 | Whereupon he shrewdly pleads not for the sward but for the flowers,"You have those there to show off at their best?" |
| 19408 | Why is it so often right that a rich college, for example, should, in its money- chest, feel poor? |
| 19408 | Why should New Orleans so exceptionally choose to garden, and garden with such exceptional grace? |
| 19408 | Why should it? |
| 19408 | Will he know the smallest fact about it or yield any echo of your interest in it? |
| 19408 | Would n''t you?" |
| 19408 | You see the difference? |
| 19408 | [ Illustration:"''Where are you going?'' |