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3215517 is fixed for September( 16th?)
32155_ Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn._ Written July 6(?
34413Are we ever to meet again?
34413Are you very busy?
34413But I must not dwell on this subject.--Will you not endeavour to cherish all the affection you can for me?
34413Do not tell me, that you are happier without us-- Will you not come to us in Switzerland?
34413Do you think that the creature goes regularly to sleep?
34413For, feeling that I am happier than I ever was, do you wonder at my sometimes dreading that fate has not done persecuting me?
34413Have I any thing more to say to you?
34413How are your affairs going on?
34413How can you love to fly about continually-- dropping down, as it were, in a new world-- cold and strange!--every other day?
34413How do you do?"
34413I have the sincerest esteem and affection for you-- but the desire of regaining peace,( do you understand me?)
34413I have too many debts, the rent is so enormous, and where to go, without money or friends, who can point out?"
34413I hope this will be the last letter I shall write from England to you-- are you not tired of this lingering adieu?
34413Now I am going towards the North in search of sunbeams!--Will any ever warm this desolated heart?
34413The wind does not appear inclined to change, so I am still forced to linger-- When do you think that you shall be able to set out for France?
34413These are attentions, more grateful to the heart than offers of service-- But why do I foolishly continue to look for them?
34413This is my third letter; when am I to hear from you?
34413This morning I am better; will you not be glad to hear it?
34413Well, this you will say is trifling-- shall I talk about alum or soap?
34413What are you about?
34413What have I to do here?
34413Will you not grant you have forgotten yourself?
34413Will you not then be a good boy, and come back quickly to play with your girls?
34413With these assurances, is it extraordinary that I should believe what I wished?
34413Would it not now be possible to arrange your business in such a manner as to avoid the inquietudes, of which I have had my share since your departure?
34413and will you endeavour to render that meeting happier than the last?
34413but how can I expect that she will be shielded, when my naked bosom has had to brave continually the pitiless storm?
34413can any thing?
34413is our life then only to be made up of separations?
34413or, to write very considerately, when will business permit you?
34413when do you think of coming home?
34413you will ask, what is the result of all this reasoning?
41368But why should n''t I let her know it, if I_ am_ mortified?
41368Am I a funny old man?
41368And dost thou remember what is to happen within those ten days?
41368And how art thou, belovedest?
41368And how does our belovedest little Una?
41368And how is that cough of thine, my belovedest?
41368And if thou art sick, why did she come at all?
41368And is not thy husband perfectly safe?
41368And what adequate motive can there be for exposing thyself to all this misconception?
41368And what delusion can be more lamentable and mischievous, than to mistake the physical and material for the spiritual?
41368And will it be necessary to wait so long?
41368Art thou ill at ease in any mode whatever?
41368Art thou likewise well?
41368Art thou magnificent?
41368Art thou magnificently well?
41368Art thou quite well now?
41368Art thou quite well?
41368Art thou sure that He made thee for me?
41368Art thou well to- day very dearest?
41368Belovedest, didst thou sleep well, last night?
41368Belovedest, when dost thou mean to come home?
41368But how are we to get home?
41368But how is he to accomplish it?
41368Can it be that little redheaded personage?
41368Can this be so?
41368Canst thou devote so much of thy precious day to my unworthiness?
41368Canst thou not use warm water?
41368Canst thou paint the tolling of the old South bell?
41368Canst thou say as much?
41368Canst thou tell me whether the"Miss Peabody"here mentioned, is Miss Mary or Miss Elizabeth Peabody?
41368Couldst thou send me ten dollars?)
41368Dear little wife, didst thou ever behold such an awful scribble as thy husband writes, since he became a farmer?
41368Dearest, I do not express myself clearly on this matter; but what need?--wilt not thou know better what I mean than words could tell thee?
41368Dearest, dost thou know that there are but ten days more in this blessed month of June?
41368Dearest, is thy absence so nearly over that we can now see light glimmering at the end of it?
41368Did Julian have a tooth?--or what was the matter?
41368Did Una remember me, when she waked up?--and has little Bundlebreech wanted me?--and dost thou thyself think of me with moderate kindness?
41368Did we not entirely agree in thinking"John"an undue and undesirable familiarity?
41368Did you pay a bill( of between one or two pounds) of Frisbie, Dyke& Co.?
41368Didst thou ever read any of her books?
41368Didst thou weary thy poor little self to death, yesterday?
41368Do not people offer to take thee to ride?
41368Does Bundlebreech walk yet?
41368Does Rosebud still remember me?
41368Does thy heart thrill at the thought?
41368Dost thou even think of me?
41368Dost thou ever feel, at one and the same moment, the impossibility of doing without me, and also the impossibility of having me?
41368Dost thou know that we are going to have a war?
41368Dost thou like this prospect?
41368Dost thou love me after all?
41368Dost thou love me at all?
41368Dost thou love me at all?
41368Dost thou love me at all?
41368Dost thou love me?
41368Dost thou love me?
41368Dost thou love me?
41368Dost thou love me?
41368Dost thou not believe me?
41368Dost thou not think it really the most hateful place in all the world?
41368Dost thou perceive how love widens my heart?
41368Dost thou rejoice that thou hast saved me from such a fate?
41368Dost thou remember that, the day after tomorrow, thou art to meet thy husband?
41368Dost thou think it a praiseworthy matter, that I have spent five golden months in providing food for cows and horses?
41368Hast thou made it of such immortal stuff as the robes of Bunyan''s Pilgrim were made of?
41368Hast thou thought of me, in my perils and wanderings?
41368How canst thou hope for any warmth of conception and execution, when thou art working with material as cold as ice?
41368How couldst thou be so imprudent?
41368How dost thou do?
41368How is it possible to wait so long?
41368How much must I reserve to pay Rebecca''s wages?
41368How would I have borne it, if thy visit to Ida Russel were to commence before my return to thine arms?
41368If he insists upon living by highway robbery, dost thou not think it would be well to make him share his booty with us?
41368Is it half over?
41368Is not this consummate discretion?
41368Naughtiest wife, hast thou been unwell for two months?
41368Now dost thou not blush to have formed so much lower an opinion of my business talents, than is entertained by other discerning people?
41368Now that the days are so long, would it not do to leave Boston, on our return, at ½ past 4?
41368Ownest, would there be anything amiss in exchanging that copy of Southey''s Poems for some other book?
41368Shall I know little Una, dost thou think?
41368Shall the whole sky be the dome of her cathedral?--or must she compress the Deity into a narrow space, for the purpose of getting at him more readily?
41368Should not she be of the party?
41368Shouldst thou not walk out, every day, round the common, at least, if not further?
41368Sweetest, what became of that letter?
41368TO MRS. HAWTHORNE_ Concord_, June 6th, 1844 Mine ownest, ownest love, dost thou not want to hear from thy husband?
41368TO MRS. HAWTHORNE_ Salem_, March 12th( Saturday), 1843 Own wifie, how dost thou do?
41368Then why does my Dove put herself into a fever?
41368Thou hast our home and all our interests about thee, and away from thee there is only emptiness-- so what have I to write about?
41368Was it a pleasant season likewise to thee?
41368What carest thou for any other?
41368What is the matter?--anything except her mouth?
41368What shall I do?
41368What shall I do?
41368What so miserable as to lose the soul''s true, though hidden, knowledge and consciousness of heaven, in the mist of an earth- born vision?
41368What wilt thou do in a rain- storm?
41368When am I to see thee again?
41368Where art thou?
41368Where dost thou think I was on Saturday afternoon?
41368Whom do I mean by this brilliant simile?
41368Whose fault was it, that it was left behind?
41368Why art thou not magnificent?
41368Why could not she have put the letter on my table, so that I might have been greeted by it immediately on entering my room?
41368Why did I ever leave thee, my own dearest wife?
41368Why did all the children have fever- fits?
41368Why dost thou-- being one and the same person with thy husband-- unjustly keep those delicate little instruments( thy fingers, to wit) all to thyself?
41368Why has not Dr. Wesselhoeft cured thy thumb?
41368Why was Horace jumped in a wet sheet?
41368Why was this world created?
41368Will not this satisfy thee?
41368Will thy father have the goodness to leave the letter for Colonel Hall at the Post Office?
41368Wilt thou consent?
41368Wilt thou not?
41368Wilt thou represent them as just landing on the wharf?--or as presenting themselves before Governor Shirley, seated in the great chair?
41368Wilt thou think it best to go back to Lisbon?
41368Wouldst thou like to have her follow Aunt Lou and Miss Rodgers into that musty old Church of England?
41368Wouldst thou not like to stay just one little fortnight longer in Boston, where the sidewalks afford dry passage to thy little feet?
41368Yet what can be done?
4130929th, 1839--6 or 7 P.M._ Blessedest wife_, Does our head ache this evening?--and has it ached all or any of the time to- day?
41309All the time?--Or not at all?
41309Am I not very bold to say this?
41309Am I requiring you to work a miracle within yourself?
41309Am I writing nonsense?
41309And can she not do this?
41309And hast thou been very good, my beloved?
41309And how are your eyes, my blessedest?
41309And how do you do this morning?
41309And how many pages canst thou read, without falling asleep?
41309And is his heart indeed heavy?
41309And now have I anything to say to my little Dove?
41309And now if my Dove were here, she and that naughty Sophie Hawthorne, how happy we all three-- two-- one--(how many are there of us?)
41309And what wilt thou do to- day, persecuted little Dove, when thy abiding- place will be a Babel of talkers?
41309And why was my dearest wounded by that silly sentence of mine about"indifference"?
41309And will my Dove, or naughty Sophie Hawthorne, choose to take advantage of the law, and declare our marriage null and void?
41309And will not you rebel?
41309Are not these details very interesting?
41309Are there any east- winds there?
41309Are they not your own, as well as mine?
41309Are we not married?
41309Are we singular or plural, dearest?
41309Are you conscious of my invitation?
41309Are you quite sure that her own husband is the companion of her walk?
41309Art thou an old woman?
41309Art thou much changed by the flight of years, my poor little wife?
41309Art thou much changed in this intervening time?
41309Art thou not astonished?
41309Art thou not glad, belovedest, that thou wast ordained to be a heavenly light to thy husband, amid the dreary twilight of age?
41309Art thou very beautiful now?
41309Art thou very happy?
41309At length thou wilt pause, and say--"But what has_ thy_ life been?"
41309Beloved, have not I been gone a great while?
41309Belovedest, didst thou not bless this shower?
41309Belovedest, how dost thou do this morning?
41309Belovedest, how dost thou do?
41309Belovedest, if thou findest it good to be there, why wilt thou not stay even a little longer than this week?
41309Belovedest, is thy head quite well?
41309But why didst thou look up in my face, as we walked, and ask why I was so grave?
41309Can Sophie Hawthorne be prevailed upon to let me try it?
41309Canst thou remotely imagine how glad I was?
41309Dearest, art thou sure that thy delicatest brain has suffered no material harm?
41309Dearest, have I brought the tears into your eyes?
41309Dearest, how camest thou by the headache?
41309Dearest, is your heart at peace now?
41309Did we walk together in any such cold weather, last winter?
41309Did you dream what an angelic guardianship was entrusted to you?
41309Did you ever read such a foolish letter as this?
41309Did you lead the vessel astray, my Dove?
41309Did you not feel it?
41309Did you not know, beloved, that I dreamed of you, as it seemed to me, all night long, after that last blissful meeting?
41309Did you yield to my conjurations, and sleep well last night?
41309Didst thou expect me sooner?
41309Do know yourself by that name, dearest, and think of yourself as Sophie Hawthorne?
41309Do not you long to see me?
41309Do not you yearn to see me?
41309Do you not fear, my wife, to trust me to live in such a way any longer?
41309Do you not feel, dearest, that we live above time and apart from time, even while we seem to be in the midst of time?
41309Do you remember how we were employed, or what our state of feeling was, at this time last year?
41309Do you think the perverse little damsel would have vanished beneath my kiss?
41309Do you wish to know how your husband will spend the day?
41309Does Sophie Hawthorne keep up my Dove''s spirits?
41309Does it not appear at least seven years to my Dove, since we parted?
41309Does it seem a great while since I left you, dearest?
41309Does not"I,"whether spoken by Sophie Hawthorne''s lips or mine, express the one spirit of myself and that darlingest Sophie Hawthorne?
41309Does she still refuse my Dove''s proffer to kiss her cheek?
41309Does the joy compensate for the pain?
41309Does thine aunt say that thou lookest in magnificent health?--and that thou art very beautiful?
41309Dost thou dwell in the past and in the future, so that the gloomy present is quite swallowed up in sunshine?
41309Dost thou hoard it up, as misers do their treasure?
41309Dost thou love him?
41309Dost thou love me infinitely?
41309Dost thou love me?
41309Dost thou love me?
41309Dost thou love pigeons in a pie?
41309Dost thou not think she might be persuaded to withdraw herself, quietly, and take up her residence somewhere else?
41309Dost thou not think that there is always some especial blessing granted us, when we are to be divided for any length of time?
41309Dost thou not wonder at finding me scribbling between seven and eight o''clock in the morning?
41309Dost thou sleep well now- a- nights, belovedest?
41309Dost thou still love me, in all thy wanderings?
41309Dost thou sympathise from the bottom of thy heart?
41309Dost thou think it would?
41309Dost thou wear a day- cap, as well as a night cap?
41309For would not that imply that thou wouldst always hereafter be close to his bosom?
41309Has my Dove contributed anything?
41309Has my Dove flown abroad, this cold, bright day?
41309Has not each of us a right to use the first person singular, when speaking in behalf of our united being?
41309Hast thou also been gladdened by an uncouth scribbling, which thy husband dispatched to thee on Monday?
41309Have there not, to say nothing of shorter visits, been two eternities of more than a week each, which were full of blessings for us?
41309Have you been able to flit abroad on today''s east wind, and go to Marblehead, as you designed?
41309How could you disappoint me so?
41309How did you contrive to write it?
41309How do I know it?
41309How does Sophie Hawthorne do?
41309How have you borne it, my poor dear little Dove?
41309How is it that thou hast had no spiritual intelligence of my advent?
41309How is it with thine, mine ownest?
41309How long since didst thou begin to use spectacles?
41309How many times have you thought of me today?
41309How should I, save by my own heart?
41309How was it, dearest?
41309How would my Dove like to have her husband continually with her, twelve or fourteen months out of the next twenty?
41309I kiss you, dearest-- did you feel it?
41309I know not what else to say;--but even that is saying something-- is it not, dearest?
41309I wish there was something in the intellectual world analogous to the Daguerrotype( is that the name of it?)
41309Is it so with you?
41309Is not that queer to think of?
41309Is that impossible, my sweetest Dove?--is it impossible, my naughtiest Sophie Hawthorne?
41309Is the wind east?
41309Is there not a volume in many of our glances?--even in a pressure of the hand?
41309Is thy hair grown gray?
41309Is thy hair turned gray?
41309Is thy weariness quite gone?
41309Knowest thou any such art?
41309Little Dove, why did you shed tears the other day, when you supposed that your husband thought you to blame for regretting the irrevocable past?
41309May I go to sleep, belovedest?
41309Might it not be so?
41309Mine own Dove, need I fear it now?
41309Mine own wife, art thou very well?
41309Mine unspeakably ownest, dost thou love me a million of times as much as thou didst a week ago?
41309Mr. Gannet delivered a lecture at the Lyceum here, the other evening, in which he introduced an enormous eulogium on whom dost thou think?
41309My beloved, why should we be silent to one another-- why should our lips be silent-- any longer on this subject?
41309My dearest, how canst thou say that I have ever written anything beautiful, being thyself so potent to reproduce whatever is loveliest?
41309My dearest, was not that a sweet time-- that Sabbath afternoon and eve?
41309My dearest, why didst thou not write to me, yesterday?
41309My sweetest, dearest, purest, holiest, noblest, faithfullest wife, dost thou know what a loving husband thou hast?
41309Naughtiest, why do you say that you have scarcely seen your husband, this winter?
41309Naughty Sophie Hawthorne-- silly Dove-- will you let that foolish question bring tears into your eyes?
41309Now, dearest, dost thou comprehend what thou hast done for me?
41309October 11th-- ½ past 4 P.M. Did my Dove fly in with me in my chamber when I entered just now?
41309Of what sort, then?
41309Of whom dost thou dream?
41309Oh, dearest, have[ not] the moments of our oneness been those in which we were most silent?
41309Oh, naughtiest, why are you not here to welcome your husband when he comes in at eventide, chilled with his wintry day''s toil?
41309Or is it merely the defect in my own eyes, which can not behold the spiritual?
41309Or would his wife-- most preposterous idea!--deem it a sin against decorum to pay a visit to her husband?
41309Ownest wife, what dost thou think I received, just before I re- commenced this scribble?
41309Ownest, dost thou not long very earnestly to see thy husband?
41309Shall I tell thee?
41309Shall Sophie Hawthorne be there too?
41309Should we be the more ethereal, if we did not eat?
41309TO MISS PEABODY_ Boston_, February 7th, 1840--½ past 3 P.M._ Ownest Dove_, Can you reckon the ages that have elapsed since our last embrace?
41309The Spring is not acquainted with my Dove and me, as the Winter was;--how then can we expect her to be kindly to us?
41309Then is it not our home?
41309Then which of us has gained the most?
41309There are two pictures there by our friend( thy friend-- and is it not the same thing?)
41309To what use canst thou put so much love as thou continually receivest from me?
41309Was it Sophie Hawthorne or the Dove that called it so?
41309Was it Thursday that I told my Dove would be the day of my next appearance?--or Friday?
41309Was not this a sin against etiquette?
41309Was such a rhapsody as the foregoing ever written in the Custom House before?
41309Well, dearest, were ever such words as these written in a Custom- House before?
41309Were you not my wife in some past eternity?
41309Wert thou abroad in the sky and air?
41309What beautiful white doves those were, on the border of the vase; are they of mine own Dove''s kindred?
41309What do you think, Dearest, of the expediency of my making a caucus speech?
41309What is signified[ by] my nap of a whole year?
41309What is to be done?
41309What is to be done?
41309What or who could it have been that I so missed?
41309What possible good can it do for me to thrust my coal- begrimed visage and salt- befrosted locks into good society?
41309What thinks my Dove of this?
41309When a beam of heavenly sunshine incorporates itself with a dark cloud, is not the cloud benefitted more than the sunshine?
41309Which do I love the best, I wonder-- my Dove, or my little Wild- Flower?
41309Which wouldst thou prefer?
41309Why didst thou not scold me?
41309Why dost thou not frown at my nonsensical complaints, and utterly refuse thy sympathy?
41309Why has my Dove made me waste so much of my letter in this talk about nothing?
41309Why will not people let your poor persecuted husband alone?
41309Will kisses have any efficacy?
41309Will my Dove expect a letter from me so soon?
41309Will not my Dove confess that there is a little_ nonsense_ in this epistle?
41309Will not this be right, and for the best?
41309Will not you be glad when I come home to spend three whole days, that I was kept away from you for a few brief hours on Christmas eve?
41309Will she abide it?
41309Will she forgive me?
41309Will she pardon the neglect?
41309Will that satisfy her, do you think?
41309Will you have the kindness to see that these valuable consignments arrive at their destination?
41309Wilt thou again forgive him?
41309Wilt thou know thy husband''s face, when we meet again?
41309Wilt thou never be satisfied with making me love thee?
41309Wilt thou promise not to be troubled, should thy husband be unable to appreciate the excellence of Father Taylor?
41309Would not Sophie Hawthorne fight against it?--would not the Dove fold her wings, not in the quietude of bliss, but of despair?
41309Wouldst thou not have been ashamed of him?
41309Wouldst thou take it upon thyself, if possible?
41309You love me dearly-- don''t you?
41309and go with me wherever I went?
41309½ past 7 A.M.--Belovedest, art thou not going to be very happy to- day?
41309½ past 7 P.M._ Ownest Dove_; Did you get home safe and sound, and with a quiet and happy heart?
12544But, sister,says he,"would you have him love her?"
12544Do you doubt it?
12544King Charles, and who''ll do him right now? 12544 ''Tis strange that you tell me of my Lords Shandoys[ Chandos] and Arundel; but what becomes of young Compton''s estate? 12544 All this considered, what have I to say for myself when people shall ask, what''tis I expect? 12544 Am not I beholding to him, think you? 12544 And if it be, what is become of the £ 2500 lady? 12544 And let me ask you whether it be possible that Mr. Grey makes love, they say he does, to my Lady Jane Seymour? 12544 And, besides, there was a time when we ourselves were indifferent to one another;--did I do so then, or have I learned it since? 12544 Are a thousand women, or ten thousand worlds, worth it? 12544 Are mine so to you? 12544 Are you not in some fear what will become on me? 12544 But are you not afraid of giving me a strong vanity with telling me I write better than the most extraordinary person in the world? 12544 But by your own rules, then, may I not expect the same from you? 12544 But did not you tell me you should not stay above a day or two? 12544 But did you drink them immediately from the well? 12544 But did you not say in your last that you took something very ill from me? 12544 But do you think it was altogether without design she spoke it to you? 12544 But for God''s sake whither is it that you go? 12544 But had you reason to be displeased that I said a change in you would be much more pardonable than in him? 12544 But the truth is, I had been inquiring for some( as''tis a commodity scarce enough in this country), and he hearing it, told the baily[ bailiff?] 12544 But what should she do with beauty now? 12544 But while I remember it, let me ask you if you did not send my letter and_ Cléopâtre_ where I directed you for my lady? 12544 But, Lord, when shall I see you? 12544 But, bless me, what will become of us all now? 12544 By the way( this puts me in mind on''t), have you read the story of China written by a Portuguese, Fernando Mendez Pinto, I think his name is? 12544 Can I discern that it has made the trouble of your life, and cast a cloud upon mine, that will help to cover me in my grave? 12544 Can there be a romancer story than ours would make if the conclusion prove happy? 12544 Can there be anything vainer than such a hope upon such grounds? 12544 Can you believe that I do willingly defer my journey? 12544 Can you believe that you are dearer to me than the whole world beside, and yet neglect yourself? 12544 Can you doubt that anything can make your letters cheap? 12544 Can you imagine that he that demands £ 5000 besides the reversion of an estate will like bare £ 4000? 12544 Can you tell where that is? 12544 Can you think it necessary to me, or believe that your letters can be so long as to make them unpleasing to me? 12544 Chambers, as to remember me with kindness? 12544 Could George Eliot herself have done more for us in like space? 12544 Could you not stay till they are all gone to Roehampton? 12544 Did ever anybody forget themselves to that degree that was not melancholy in extremity? 12544 Did not you say once you knew where good French tweezers were to be had? 12544 Did you not intend to write to me when you writ to Jane? 12544 Did you send the last part of_ Cyrus_ to Mr. Hollingsworth? 12544 Do you know him? 12544 Do you know his son, my cousin Harry? 12544 Do you remember Arme and the little house there? 12544 Do you think, in earnest, I could be satisfied the world should think me a dissembler, full of avarice or ambition? 12544 Does not my cousin at Moor Park mistrust us a little? 12544 Does she not answer this question for us when she writes that he wasthe greatest nobleman in England"?
12544Does she not need all her faith in her lover, in herself, ay, and in God, to uphold her in this new affliction?
12544Farewell; can you endure that word?
12544For to what purpose should I have strived against it?
12544From what hid stock does thy strange nature spring?
12544Has she been recently reading this passage?
12544Have I done anything since that deserves he should alter his intentions towards us?
12544Have I not reason then to desire this from you; and may not my friendship have deserved it?
12544Have not you forgot my Lady''s book?
12544Have we not here some local squires hit off to the life?
12544Have you deserved to be otherwise; that is, am I no more in yours?
12544Have you read_ Cléopâtre_?
12544He does not preach so always, sure?
12544He is so famed that I expected rare things of him, and seriously I listened to him as if he had been St. Paul; and what do you think he told us?
12544How could you hear me talk so senselessly, though''twere but in your sleep, and not be ready to beat me?
12544How do you after your journey; are you not weary; do you not repent that you took it to so little purpose?
12544How do you like that?
12544I am sorry my new carrier makes you rise so early,''tis not good for your cold; how might we do that you might lie a- bed and yet I have your letter?
12544I do not doubt but I shall be better able to resist his importunity than his tutor was; but what do you think it is that gives him his encouragement?
12544I have made a general confession to you; will you give me absolution?
12544I have missed a letter this Monday: What is the reason?
12544If her niece has so much wit, will you not be persuaded to like her; or say she has not quite so much, may not her fortune make it up?
12544If it were expected that one should give a reason for their passions, what could he say for himself?
12544If you are come back from Epsom, I may ask you how you like drinking water?
12544If you stay there you will write back by him, will you not, a long letter?
12544Is it in earnest that you say your being there keeps me from the town?
12544Is it not my good Lord of Monmouth, or some such honourable personage, that presents her to the English ladies?
12544Is it possible that all I have said can not oblige you to a care of yourself?
12544Is it possible that he saw me?
12544Is it possible that she can be indifferent to anybody?
12544Is it possible you came so near me as Bedford and would not see me?
12544Is it true that Algernon Sydney was so unwilling to leave the House, that the General was fain to take the pains to turn him out himself?
12544Is it true that my Lord Whitlocke goes Ambassador where my Lord Lisle should have gone?
12544Is it true?
12544Is it true?
12544Is not this a great deal of news for me that never stir abroad?
12544Is not this a strange turn?
12544Is not this very comfortable?
12544Is there any such thing towards?
12544Is there anything thought so indiscreet, or that makes one more contemptible?
12544Is this not very like preaching?
12544Is your father returned yet, and do you think of coming over immediately?
12544King Charles, and who''s ripe for fight now?
12544Leave them behind you?
12544May not I ask it?
12544My dearest, will you pardon me that I am forced to leave you so soon?
12544No, I long to be rid of you, am afraid you will not go soon enough: do not you believe this?
12544No, you are mistaken certainly; what should she do amongst all that company, unless she be towards a wedding?
12544Now what think you, shall I ever hear of him more?
12544Now, in very good earnest, do you think''tis time for me to come or no?
12544One can picture Dorothy reading and musing over lines like these with sympathy and admiration: What art thou, love, thou great mysterious thing?
12544Or has any accident lessened his power?
12544Or shall I send him to you to know?
12544Pray what is meant by_ wellness_ and_ unwellness_; and why is_ to some extreme_ better than_ to some extremity_?
12544Pray, tell me how you like her, and what fault you find in my Lady Carlisle''s letter?
12544Pray, where is your lodging?
12544SIR,--They say you gave order for this waste- paper; how do you think I could ever fill it, or with what?
12544SIR,--Who would be kind to one that reproaches one so cruelly?
12544SIR,--Why are you so sullen, and why am I the cause?
12544See how kind I grow at parting; who would not go into Ireland to have such another?
12544Shall I speak a good word for you?
12544Shall we go thither?
12544Sure this will at least defer your journey?
12544Sure you took somebody else for my cousin Peters?
12544Tell me what I must think on''t; whether it be better or worse, or whether you are at all concern''d in''t?
12544Tell me, my dearest, am I?
12544That vile wench lets you see all my scribbles, I believe; how do you know I took care your hair should not be spoiled?
12544The shepherd that bragged to the traveller, who asked him,"What weather it was like to be?"
12544Therefore, if I forgive you this, you may justly forgive me t''other; and upon these terms we are friends again, are we not?
12544Think on''t, and let me know what you resolve?
12544This was written when I expected a letter from you, how came I to miss it?
12544To the joy or sorrow of the neighbourhood,--who knows now?
12544Was Dorothy in London to purchase her_ trousseau_?
12544Was this the spark that loneliness and absence fanned into flame?
12544Well, who can help these things?
12544Were you at Althorp when you saw my Lady Sunderland and Mr. Smith, or are they in town?
12544What a dismal story this is you sent me; but who could expect better from a love begun upon such grounds?
12544What can excuse me if I should entertain any person that is known to pretend to me, when I can have no hope of ever marrying him?
12544What do you mean to be so melancholy?
12544What do you mean to do with all my letters?
12544What does my Lord Lisle?
12544What has it brought my poor Lady Anne Blunt to?
12544What is it that has kept you longer?
12544What is it your father ails, and how long has he been ill?
12544What say you?
12544What shall I tell him?
12544What think you, have I not done fair for once, would you wish a longer letter?
12544What think you, might not I preach with Mr. Marshall for a wager?
12544What think you, were it not a good way of preferment as the times are?
12544What would I give I could avoid it when people speak of you?
12544What would you give that I had but the wit to know when to make an end of my letters?
12544What( besides your consideration) could oblige me to live and lose all the rest of my friends thus one after another?
12544When do you think of coming back again?
12544Where did she and Jane spend their days, if that was the case, when Regent Street was green fields?
12544Where were my eyes that I did not see him, for I believe I should have guessed at least that''twas he if I had?
12544Who knows what a year may produce?
12544Who told you I go to bed late?
12544Who was that, Mr. Dr. told you I should marry?
12544Why did you get such a cold?
12544Why did you not send me that news and a garland?
12544Why do I enter into this wrangling discourse?
12544Why do you dissemble so abominably; you can not think these things?
12544Why do you say I failed you?
12544Why should not you be as just to me?
12544Why should you be less kind?
12544Why should you give yourself over so unreasonably to it?
12544Why should you make an impossibility where there is none?
12544Why should you think me so careless of anything that you were concerned in, as to doubt that I had writ?
12544Why would not your own resolution work as much upon you as necessity and time does infallibly upon people?
12544Why, then, did the accomplished Lady Anne Clifford unite herself to so worthless a person?
12544Why, then, should my absence now be less supportable to you than heretofore?
12544Will it be ever thus?
12544Will it not stay your father''s journey too?
12544Will my cousin F. come, think you?
12544Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness on''t?
12544Will you be so good- natured?
12544Will you pardon this strange scribbled letter, and the disorderliness on''t?
12544Would he look on me, think you, that had pretty Mrs. Fretcheville?
12544Would you be very glad to see me there, and could you do it in less disorder, and with less surprise, than you did at Chicksands?
12544Would you believe that I had the grace to go hear a sermon upon a week day?
12544Would you think it, that I have an ambassador from the Emperor Justinian, that comes to renew the treaty?
12544Would you think that upon examination it is found that you are not an indifferent person to me?
12544Yet I could beat you for writing this last strange letter; was there ever anything said like?
12544You are a very pretty gentleman and a modest; were there ever such stories as these you tell?
12544You have no such ladies in Ireland?
12544You hear the noise my Lady Anne Blunt has made with her marrying?
12544You little think I have been with Lilly, and, in earnest, I was, the day before I came out of town; and what do you think I went for?
12544You would see me, you say?
12544_ Letter 37._ SIR,--You say I abuse you; and Jane says you abuse me when you say you are not melancholy: which is to be believed?
12544_ Letter 48._ SIR,--''Tis but an hour since you went, and I am writing to you already; is not this kind?
12544how can you talk of defying fortune; nobody lives without it, and therefore why should you imagine you could?
12544how do those that live with them always?
12544how you are altered; and what is it that has done it?
12544now I am speaking of religion, let me ask you is not his name Bagshawe that you say rails on love and women?
12544poor Dorothy, who will now forbear to pity you?
12544shall we ever be so happy, think you?
12544whilst I think on''t, let me ask you one question seriously, and pray resolve me truly;--do I look so stately as people apprehend?
12544who knows not what mischances and how great changes have often happened in a little time?
12544who shall now say what are the inmost thoughts of our Dorothy?
12544who would have been other?
2049Ca n''t you be friends with me as of old?
2049Do they then require concealing?
2049Do you allow anyone else to do so?
2049H. Could you not come and live with me as a friend? 2049 Had she any tie?"
2049How could she accuse me of a want of regard to her? 2049 If there was any one else who had been so fortunate as to gain her favourable opinion?"
2049She defied anyone to read her thoughts?
2049Was the man waiting?
2049What is this world? 2049 What was it then?
2049Where does your grandmother live now?
2049Where is she gone?
2049Why can you not go on as we have done, and say nothing about the word, FOREVER?
2049Would she go and leave me so? 2049 Would she live with me in her own house-- to be with me all day as dear friends, if nothing more, to sit and read and talk with me?"
2049Would she make her own terms?
2049You are not going to be married soon?
2049''Why should I go?''
2049*** What had I better do in these circumstances?
2049--"And the figure?"
2049--"Would she go to the play with me sometimes, and let it be understood that I was paying my addresses to her?"
2049----?"
2049--Now what am I to think of all this?
2049.What do you think of all this?
2049After all, what is there in her but a pretty figure, and that you ca n''t get a word out of her?
2049Am I mad or a fool?
2049Am I not hated, repulsed, derided by her whom alone I love or ever did love?
2049Am I to believe her or you?
2049And another time, when you were in the same posture, and I reproached you with indifference, you replied in these words,"Do I SEEM INDIFFERENT?"
2049And did you not say since I came back,''YOUR FEELINGS TO ME WERE THE SAME AS EVER?''
2049And what do you guess was her answer--"Do you think it would be prudent?"
2049And why am I thus treated?
2049And why?
2049But can not you forgive the agony of the moment?
2049But did not you boast you were"very persevering in your resistance to gay young men,"and had been"several times obliged to ring the bell?"
2049But do I love her the less dearly for it?
2049But tell me, there was not a likeness between me and your old lover that struck you at first sight?
2049C----?"
2049C----?"
2049Ca n''t you bring up your own to shew me?
2049Can I live without her?
2049Can I witness such perfection, and bear to think I have lost you for ever?
2049Can you account for it, except on the admission of my worst doubts concerning her?
2049Can you not forget and forgive the past, and judge of me by my conduct in future?
2049Can you not take all my follies in the lump, and say like a good, generous girl,"Well, I''ll think no more of them?"
2049Can you turn it to any thing but good-- comparative good?
2049Could I have thought I should ever live to believe them an inhuman mockery of one who had the sincerest regard for you?
2049Could I see that which you have?
2049Did I not adore her every grace?
2049Did I not live on her smile?
2049Did M---- know of the intimacy that had subsisted between us?
2049Did she think it right and becoming to be free with strangers, and strange to old friends?"
2049Did you always ring it?
2049Did you not love another?
2049Do I not adore you-- and have I merited this return?
2049Do I not love thee, when I can feel such an interest in thy love for another?
2049Do n''t you thank me for that?
2049Do n''t you think it worth that to be made happy?
2049Do you know I think I should like this?
2049Do you know I''m going to write to that sweet rogue presently, having a whole evening to myself in advance of my work?
2049Do you know any one it''s like?
2049Do you know, you would have been delighted with the effect of the Northern twilight on this romantic country as I rode along last night?
2049Do you think if she knew how I love her, my depressions and my altitudes, my wanderings and my constancy, it would not move her?
2049Do you think they will not now turn to rank poison in my veins, and kill me, soul and body?
2049Does not my heart yearn to be with her; and shall I not follow its bidding?
2049Does she bend less enchantingly, because she has turned from me to another?
2049For this picture, this ecstatic vision, what have I of late instead as the image of the reality?
2049H. And can you return them?
2049H. And did he never attempt to persuade you to any other step?
2049H. And did he return your regard?
2049H. And did your mother and family know of it?
2049H. And do you correspond?
2049H. And do you think the impression will never wear out?
2049H. And has time made no alteration?
2049H. And nothing more?
2049H. And was his figure the same?
2049H. And yet you have no hope of ever being his?
2049H. Did I not overhear the conversation down- stairs last night, to which you were a party?
2049H. Do n''t you think it like yourself?
2049H. Do you mean on account of its liberty?
2049H. Have you not told me your spirits grow worse every year?
2049H. Higher than of the maiden state?
2049H. Is that what you thought I meant by SACRIFICES last night?
2049H. Or had it been your old friend, what do you think he would have said in my case?
2049H. Or what am I to think of this story of the footman?
2049H. Tell me, my angel, how was it?
2049H. To whom?
2049H. Was he a young man of rank, then?
2049H. What then broke off your intimacy?
2049H. What, do you mean to Buonaparte?
2049H. Why did he go at last?
2049H. Will you go and leave me so?
2049H."That was all forgiven when we last parted, and your last words were,''I should find you the same as ever''when I came home?
2049Has Mr. P---- called?
2049Has any one called?
2049Has she not murdered me under the mask of the tenderest friendship?
2049Have you read Sardanapalus?
2049How can I thank you for your condescension in letting me know your sweet sentiments?
2049How could I doubt it, looking in her face, and hearing her words, like sighs breathed from the gentlest of all bosoms?
2049How different was the idea I once had of her?
2049How ought I to behave when I go back?
2049How then do I console myself for the loss of her?
2049How?
2049I am to hear from him again in a day or two.--Well, what do you say to all this?
2049I ask you what you yourself would have felt or done, if loving her as I did, you had heard what I did, time after time?
2049I asked her if she would do so at once-- the very next day?
2049I asked what it could mean?
2049I asked, to what?
2049I can settle to nothing: what is the use of all I have done?
2049I gave Betsey a twenty- shilling note which I happened to have in my hand, and on her asking"What''s this for, Sir?"
2049I grant all you say about my self- tormenting folly: but has it been without cause?
2049I have always some horrid dream about her, and wake wondering what is the matter that"she is no longer the same to me as ever?"
2049I however found that C---- was gone, and no one else had been there, of whom I had cause to be jealous.--"Should I see her on the morrow?"
2049I however sprang down stairs, and as they called out to me,"What is it?--What has she done to you?"
2049I know all this; but what do I gain by it, unless I could find some one with her shape and air, to supply the place of the lovely apparition?
2049I never could tire of her sweetness; I feel that I could grow to her, body and soul?
2049I replied,"Why do you treat me thus?
2049I said,"Are you sure of that?"
2049I said,"Do you mean Buonaparte?"
2049I said,"Yes, may I not speak to you?
2049I shall perhaps see thee no more, but I shall still think of thee the same as ever-- I shall say to myself,"Where is she now?--what is she doing?"
2049I went out to roam the desert streets, when, turning a corner, whom should I meet but her very lover?
2049I will not go back there: yet how can I breathe away from her?
2049If she could get THE LITTLE IMAGE mended?
2049If she made a fool of me, what did she make of her lover?
2049If she should be in misfortune, who will comfort her?
2049If that was all, I did not care: but tell me true, is there not a new attachment that is the real cause of your estrangement?
2049In a word, may I come back, and try to behave better?
2049Is it a joke upon me that I make free with you?
2049Is it less sweet because it is withdrawn from me?
2049Is it long ago then?
2049Is it not too true?
2049Is my love then in the power of fortune, or of her caprice?
2049Is she offended at my letting you know she wrote to me, or is it some new affair?
2049Is there not a prior attachment in the case?
2049It is not that you prefer flirting with"gay young men"to becoming a mere dull domestic wife?
2049Not one five minutes''conversation, for the sake of old acquaintance?
2049Or did you get into these dilemmas that made it necessary, merely by the demureness of your looks and ways?
2049Or did you hint at it?
2049Or do you deceive them as well as me?
2049Or do you still see him sometimes?
2049Or had I displeased her by letting Mr. P---- know she wrote to me?"
2049Or had nothing else passed?
2049Or is not the joke against HER sister, unless you make my courtship of you a jest to the whole house?
2049Or shall I turn to the far- off Pentland Hills, with Craig- Crook nestling beneath them, where lives the prince of critics and the king of men?
2049Or was it the fineness of his manners?
2049Or what can I think?
2049Or where have I been?]
2049Or why do I not go and find out the truth at once?
2049S. As you please.-- THE INVITATION H. But I am afraid I tire you with this prosing description of the French character and abuse of the English?
2049S. Do you like the French women better than the English?
2049S. Do you think there is no pleasure in a single life?
2049S. Have I not reason?
2049S."And how did you behave when you returned?"
2049S."Is it nothing, your exposing me to the whole house in the way you did the other evening?"
2049Shall I make a drawing of it, altering the dress a little, to shew you how like it is?
2049Shall I not love her for herself alone, in spite of fickleness and folly?
2049Shall I repeat it?
2049Shall I tell you my opinion?
2049Shall I tell you, but you will not mention it again?
2049She has robbed me of herself: shall she also rob me of my love of her?
2049She said,"Did you wish to speak to me, Sir?"
2049Should I ever behold her again?
2049Slighted by her, on whom my heart by its last fibre hung, where shall I turn?
2049THE FLAGEOLET H. Where have you been, my love?
2049THE QUARREL H. You are angry with me?
2049THE RECONCILIATION H. I have then lost your friendship?
2049Tell me why you have deceived me, and singled me out as your victim?
2049Tell me, love, is there not, besides your attachment to him, a repugnance to me?
2049That was one of the things for which I loved her-- shall I live to hate her for it?
2049That was the question--"Would she have me, or would she not?"
2049Then how can I bear to part with her?
2049There was no abatement of my regard to her; why was she so changed?
2049To what a state am I reduced, and for what?
2049Was I to blame after this to indulge my passion for the loveliest of her sex?
2049Was I to blame in taking you at your word, when every hope I had depended on your sincerity?
2049Was he so very handsome?
2049Was it any thing in my letters?
2049Was it not plain from this that she even then meditated an escape from me to some less sentimental lover?
2049Was it so or not?
2049Was that all?
2049Was there any one else that you did like?
2049Was there?
2049Were she dead, should I not wish to gaze once more upon her pallid features?
2049Were you only afraid of being TAKEN for a light character?
2049What am I?
2049What art thou to me?
2049What can be the reason?
2049What could she find in me?
2049What do you suppose she said the night before I left her?
2049What do you think the little imp made answer?
2049What do you think?
2049What had I done in her absence to have incurred her displeasure?
2049What has her character to rest upon but her attachment to me, which she now denies, not modestly, but impudently?
2049What have I done to become thus hateful to you?"
2049What idle sounds the common phrases, adorable creature, angel, divinity, are?
2049What is to be done?
2049What will you bet me that it was n''t all a trick?
2049When I am dead, who will love her as I have done?
2049When found out, she seemed to say,"Well, what if I am?
2049Where go to live and die far from her?
2049Where shall I be?
2049Where shall I be?
2049Who could ever feel that peace from the touch of her dear hand that I have done; and is it not torn from me for ever?
2049Who is there so low as me?
2049Why do you seem to avoid me as you do?
2049Why had she not written to me?
2049Why should he stay?"
2049Why then is your behaviour so different?"
2049Will you look in and see, about eight o''clock?
2049Will you yourself say that if she had all along no particular regard for me, she will not do as much or more with other more likely men?
2049You do not consider yourself OBLIGED to everyone who asks you for a kiss?
2049can I bear after all to think of her so, or that I am scorned and made a sport of by the creature to whom I had given my whole heart?
2049if such is thy sweetness where thou dost not love, what must thy love have been?
2049is it even possible that she is chaste, and that she has bestowed her loved"endearments"on me( her own sweet word) out of true regard?
2049is it you?
2049ought I not to think myself the happiest of men?
2049when I had followed you into the other room?
2049when I look up?
2049when she is old, who will look in her face, and bless her?
2049you said,''Why could we not go on the same as we had done, and say nothing about the word FOREVER?''"
35977( this is the last time I shall use that expression) shall I never see you again?
35977**_ Qua conjugata, que virgo non concupiscebat absentem,& non exardescebat in presentem?
35977After this can I hope God should open to me the treasures of his mercy?
35977Ah?
35977All who are about me admired my virtue, but could their eyes penetrate into my heart, what would they not discover?
35977And do you question either?
35977And love th''offender, yet detest th''offence?
35977And must I use any other prayers than my own to prevail upon you?
35977And what a happiness is it, not to be in a capacity of sinning?
35977And what time shall I find for those prayers you speak of?
35977And yet we can be saved by nothing but the Cross, why then do we refuse to bear it?
35977And, can you believe it,_ Philintus_?
35977Are not interest and policy their only rules?
35977Are these the wishes of my inmost soul?
35977Are we not already sufficiently miserable?
35977But can you be sure marriage will not be the tomb of her love?
35977But do you owe nothing more to us than to that friend, be the friendship between you ever so intimate?
35977But do you,_ Abelard_, never see_ Heloise_ in your sleep?
35977But how barbarous was your punishment?
35977But how difficult is this in the trouble which surrounds me?
35977But how much did my curiosity cost me?
35977But if you do not continue your concern for me, If I lose your affection, what have I gained by my imprisonment?
35977But to what purpose dost thou still arm thyself against me?
35977But what could resist you?
35977But what do I say?
35977But what excuses could I not find in you, if the crime were excusable?
35977But what have I gained by this?
35977But what is there for you to fear?
35977But what secret trouble rises in my soul, what unthought- of motion opposes the resolution I formed of sighing no more for_ Abelard_?
35977But when love has once been sincere, how difficult it is to determine to love no more?
35977But whence, arose that pray''r?
35977But whither am I transported?
35977But whither does my vain imagination carry me?
35977But why should I intreat you in the name of your children?
35977But why should I on others''prayers depend?
35977But why should I rave at your assassins?
35977But, in this article of consolation, how comes it to pass that he makes no mention of_ Heloise_?
35977But, tell me, whence proceeds your neglect of me since my being professed?
35977Can any one sin who is persuaded of this?
35977Can it be criminal for you to imitate St. Jerome, and discourse with me concerning the Scripture?
35977Can not this habit of penitence which I wear interest Heaven to treat me more favourably?
35977Can so heavy a misfortune leave me a moment''s quiet?
35977Can you think that the traces you have drawn in my heart can ever be worn out?
35977Canst thou behold those lovely eyes without recollecting those amorous glances which have been so fatal to thee?
35977Canst thou forget that sad, that solemn day, When victims at yon altar''s foot we lay?
35977Canst thou forget what tears that moment fell, When, warm in youth, I bade the world farewell?
35977Could I not more easily comfort myself in my afflictions?
35977Could an outrageous husband make a villain suffer more that had dishonoured his bed?
35977Could you ever retire but you drew the eyes and hearts of all after you?
35977Could you imagine it possible for any mortal to blot you from my heart?
35977Could you think me guilty of sacrificing the virtuous and learned_ Abelard_ to any other but to God?
35977Did not every one rejoice in having seen you?
35977Did not the apprehension of causing my present death make the pen drop from your hand?
35977Did you write thus to me before Fortune had ruined my happiness?
35977Do fathers consult the inclinations of their children when they settle them?
35977Do n''t you know, that there is no action of life which draws after it so sure and long a repentance, and to so little purpose?
35977Do you now,_ Heloise_, applaud my design of making you walk in the steps of the saints?
35977Do you think learning ought to make_ Heloise_ more amiable?
35977Does thy grace or my own despair draw these words from me?
35977Does_ Abelard_ then, said I, suspect he shall see renewed in me the example of Lot''s wife, who could not forbear looking back when she left Sodom?
35977Dost thou still nourish this destructive flame?
35977For if my conversion was sincere, how could I take a pleasure to relate my past follies?
35977Fulbert surprised me with_ Heloise_, and what man that had a soul in him would not have borne any ignominy on the same conditions?
35977Has Vice such charms to well- born souls?
35977Hath not our Saviour borne it before us, and died for us, to the end that we might also bear it and desire to die also?
35977Have I not tired out his forgiveness?
35977Have not the gentle rules of Peace and Heav''n, From thy soft soul this fatal passion driv''n?
35977Have you purchased your vocation at so slight a rate, as that you should not turn it to the best advantage?
35977How can I do that when you frighten me with apprehensions that continually possess my mind day and night?
35977How can I separate from the person I love the passion I must detest?
35977How did I deceive myself with the hopes that you would be wholly mine when I took the veil, and engaged myself to live for ever under your laws?
35977How difficult is it to fight always for duty against inclination?
35977How happy is the blameless Vestal''s lot?
35977How happy should I be could I wash out with my tears the memory of those pleasures which yet I think of with delight?
35977How little is that?
35977How many ladies laid claim to them?
35977How much better were it entirely to forget the object of it, than to preserve the memory of it, so fatal to the quiet of my life and salvation?
35977How much did I wrong you, and what weakness did I impute to you?
35977How the dear object from the crime remove, Or how distinguish penitence from love?
35977How unhappy am I?
35977How void of reason are men, said Seneca, to make distant evils present by reflection, and to take pains before death to lose all the comforts of life?
35977How weak are we in ourselves, if we do not support ourselves on the cross of Christ?
35977How would my enemies, Champeaux and Anselm, have triumphed, had they seen the redoubted philosopher in such a wretched condition?
35977I could meet him at all his assignations, and would I decline following him to the feats of holiness?
35977I dote on the danger which threatens me, how then can I avoid falling?
35977I have armed my own hands against myself?
35977I have made them in the presence of God; whither shall I fly from his wrath if I violate them?
35977I reproach myself for my own faults, I accuse you for yours, and to what purpose?
35977I said to myself, there was a time when he could rely upon my bare word, and does he now want vows to secure himself of me?
35977I tear myself from all that pleases me?
35977I thought you disengaged and free; And can you still, still sigh and weep for me?
35977I was young;--could she show an infallibility to those vows which my heart never formed for any but herself?
35977I who have not refused to be a victim of pleasure to gratify him, can he think I would refuse to be a sacrifice of honour to obey him?
35977If I had loved pleasures, could I not yet have found means to have gratified myself?
35977If a picture, which is but a mute representation of an object, can give such pleasure, what can not letters inspire?
35977If the memory of him has caused thee so much trouble,_ Heloise_, what will not his presence do?
35977Is it not your part to prepare me, by your powerful exhortations against that great crisis, which shakes the most resolute and confirmed minds?
35977Is it not your part to receive my last sighs; take care of my funeral, and give an account of my manners and faith?
35977Is it possible I should fear obtaining any thing of you, when I ask it in my own name?
35977Is it possible a genius so great as yours should never get above his past misfortunes?
35977Is it possible that_ Abelard_ should in earnest think of marrying_ Heloise_?
35977Is it possible to renounce one''s self entirely at the age of two and twenty?
35977Is it so hard for one who loves to write?
35977Is not your soul ravished at so saving a command?
35977Is this a state of reprobation?
35977Is this discourse directed to my dear_ Abelard_?
35977It is for you for_ Abelard_, that I have resolved to live; if you are ravished from me, what use can I make of my miserable days?
35977Lucille( for that was her name) taking me aside one day, said, What do you intend, brother?
35977Marriage has made such a correspondence lawful; and since you can, without giving the least scandal, satisfy me, why will you not?
35977Might not a small temptation have changed you?
35977Might not a young woman, at the noise of the flames, and the fall of Sodom, look back, and pity some one person?
35977Must I renounce my vows?
35977Must a weak mind fortify one that is so much superior?
35977Must a wife draw on you that punishment which ought not to fall on any but an adulterous lover?
35977My reputation had spread itself every where; and could a virtuous lady resist a man that had confounded all the learned of the age?
35977Nor foes nor fortune take this pow''r away; And is my_ Abelard_ less kind than they?
35977Or did you believe yourself a greater master to teach vice than virtue, or did you think it was more easy to persuade me to the first than the latter?
35977Ought this to seem strange to you, who know how monasteries are filled now- a- days?
35977Our life here is but a languishing death?
35977Our present disgraces are sufficient to employ our thoughts continually, and shall we seek new arguments of grief in futurities?
35977Remember what St._ Paul_ says,_ Art thou loosed from a wife?
35977Shall the laws and customs which the gross and carnal world has invented hold us together more surely than the bonds of mutual affection?
35977Shall this be the fruit of my meditations?
35977Shall we have so little courage, and shall that uncertainty your heart labours with, of serving two masters, affect mine too?
35977Sprung it from piety, or from despair?
35977The wounds I have already received leave no room for new ones; why can not I urge thee to kill me?
35977Then too, when Fate shall thy fair frame destroy?
35977These tender names, can not they move you?
35977Thou dost not give me any respite?
35977Thus those songs will be sung in honour of other women which you designed only for me?
35977Transform''d like these pale swarms that round me move, Of blest insensibles-- who know no love?
35977Was it not the sole view of pleasure which engaged you to me?
35977Was not your Treatise of Divinity condemned to be burnt?
35977Were you not threatened with perpetual imprisonment?
35977What a fool am I to tell you my dreams, who are sensible of these pleasures?
35977What a haven of rest is this to a jealous mind?
35977What a prodigy am I?
35977What a storm was raised against you by the treacherous monks, when you did them the honour to be called their Brother?
35977What abhorrence can I be said to have of my sins, if the objects of them are always amiable to me?
35977What an injury shall I do the Church?
35977What an odd fight will it be to see maids and scholars, desks and cradles, books and distaffs, pens and spindles, one among another?
35977What answer can you make?
35977What can not you induce a heart to, whose weakness you so perfectly know?
35977What country, what city, has not desired your presence?
35977What curse may I not justly fear, should I rob the world of so eminent a person as you are?
35977What did I not say to stop your tears?
35977What did not those two false prophets** accuse you of, who declaimed so severely against you before the Council of Sens?
35977What doth thou say, wretched_ Heloise_?
35977What efforts, what relapses, what agitations, do we undergo?
35977What great advantages would philosophy give us over other men, if by studying it we could learn to govern our passions?
35977What have I not suffered,_ Abelard_, while I kept alive in my retirement those fires which ruined me in the world?
35977What have I to hope for after this loss of you?
35977What means have I not used?
35977What occasion had you to praise me?
35977What occasion have I given him in the whole course of my life to admit the least suspicion?
35977What powerful Deity, what hallow''d Shrine, Can save me from a love, a faith like thine?
35977What progress might one make in the ways of virtue, who is not obliged to fight an enemy for every foot of ground?
35977What recompense can I hope for?
35977What right had a cruel uncle over us?
35977What rivals did your gallantries of this kind occasion me?
35977What scandals were vented on occasion of the name Paraclete given to your chapel?
35977What would the world say should they read your letters as I do?
35977When I am in this condition, why dost not thou, O Lord, pity my weakness, and strengthen me by thy grace?
35977When I but think of this last separation; I feel all the pangs of death; what shall I be then, if I should see this dreadful hour?
35977When I had settled her here, can you believe it,_ Philintus_?
35977When love is liberty, and nature law, All then is full possessing and possess''d, No craving void left akeing in the breast?
35977Where heav''nly- pensive Contemplation dwells, And ever- musing Melancholy reigns; What means this tumult in a Vestal''s veins?
35977Where was I?
35977Where was your_ Heloise_ then?
35977Where, where was_ Eloisa_?
35977Who does not know that it is for the glory of God to find no other foundation in man for his mercy than man''s very weakness?
35977Why did you not deceive me for a while, rather than immediately abandon me?
35977Why do you not deal after this manner with me?
35977Why feels my heart its long- forgotten beat?
35977Why provoke a jealous God by a blasphemy?
35977Why rove my thoughts beyond this last retreat?
35977Why should I conceal from you the secret of my call?
35977Why should I only reap no advantage from your learning?
35977Why should you use eloquence to reproach me for my flight, and for my silence?
35977Why was I born to be the occasion of so tragical an accident?
35977Will it not be more agreeable to me, said she, to see myself your mistress than your wife?
35977Will she not be a woman?
35977Will the tears I shed be sufficient to render it odious to me?
35977Will you have the cruelty to abandon me?
35977Will you marry her then?
35977With what ease did you compose verses?
35977Would I its soft, its tend''rest sense controul?
35977Would I, thus touch''d, this glowing heart refine, To the cold substance of this marble shrine?
35977Would you destroy my piety in its infant- state?
35977Would you have me forsake the convent into which I am but newly entered?
35977Would you have me stifle the inspirations of the Holy Ghost?
35977Ye holy mansions, ye impenetrable retreats, from what numberless apprehensions have you freed me?
35977You are no longer of the world; you have renounced it; I am a Religious, devoted to solitude; shall we make no advantage of our condition?
35977You can not but remember,( for what do not lovers remember?)
35977You have quitted the world, and what object was worthy to detain you there?
35977You may adore all this if you please; but not to flatter you, what is beauty but a flower, which may be blasted by the least fit of sickness?
35977You tell me, that it is for me you live under that veil which covers you; why do you profane your vocation with such words?
35977_ Job_ had no enemy more cruel than his wife: what temptations did he not bear?
35977and do you not wish you could like Magdalen, wash our Saviour''s feet with your tears?
35977and has not my tenderness, by leaving you nothing to wish for, extinguished your desires?
35977and how could you describe them to me?
35977and how long are we tossed in this confusion, unable to exert our reason, to possess our souls, or to rule our affections?
35977and how was I surprised to find the whole letter filled with a particular and melancholy account of our misfortunes?
35977and what a shame and disparagement will it be to you, whom Nature has fitted for the public good, to devote yourself entirely to a wife?
35977and why?
35977and will not love have more power than marriage to keep our hearts firmly united?
35977and, when we have once drank of the cup of sinners, is it with such difficulty that we take the chalice of saints?
35977are you deaf to his voice?
35977are you insensible to words so full of kindness?
35977art thou still the same?
35977at an age which claims the most absolute liberty, could you think the world no longer worthy of your regard?
35977but how humbled ought we to be when we can not master them?
35977can I never free myself from those chains which bind me to him?
35977can my feeble reason resist such powerful assaults?
35977can we dare to offend thee?
35977canst thou view that majestic air of_ Abelard_ without entertaining a jealousy of every one that sees so charming a man?
35977do my words give you any relish for penitence?
35977do you acquaint me with a thing so certain to afflict me?
35977do you doubt?
35977do you entertain her with the same language as formerly when Fulbert committed her to your care?
35977does not the love of_ Heloise_ still burn in my heart_?_ I have not yet triumphed over that happy passion.
35977dost thou know what thou desirest?
35977for what hast thou to dread?
35977hast thou not persecuted me enough?
35977have I not yet triumphed over my love?
35977have you not remorse for your wanderings?
35977how does she appear to you?
35977how far are we from such a happy temper?
35977how much shall I disoblige the learned?
35977how was it possible I should not be certain of your merit?
35977how will it be possible for thee to keep thy reason at the sight of so amiable a man?
35977in what temper did you conceive these mournful ideas?
35977must we aggravate our sorrows?
35977my memory is perpetually filled with bitter remembrances of past evils, and are there more to be feared still?
35977one that practices all those virtues he teaches?
35977or St. Austin, and explain to me the nature of grace?
35977or Tertullian, and preach mortification?
35977or are these the consequences of a long drunkenness in profane love?
35977or dost thou fear, amidst the numerous torments thou heapest on me, dost thou fear that such a stroke would deliver me from all?
35977or how bear up against my grief?
35977or that any length of time can obliterate the memory we have here of your benefits?
35977pursued I, dost thou not almost despair for having rioted in such false pleasure?
35977shall I never have the pleasure of embracing you before death?
35977shall I, to soothe you dry up those tears which the evil spirit makes you shed?
35977shall my_ Abelard_ be never mentioned without tears?
35977shall thy dear name be never spoken but with sighs?
35977shall_ Abelard_ always possess my thoughts?
35977that mouth, which can not be looked upon without desire?
35977what are you to love?
35977what can I then hope for?
35977what can confine me to earth when Death shall have taken away from me all that was dear upon it?
35977what desires will it not excite in thy soul?
35977what disturbance did it occasion?
35977what folly is it to talk at this rate?
35977what lamentations should I make, if Heaven, by a cruel pity, should preserve me till that moment?
35977what means this most cruel and unjust distinction?
35977what other rival could take me from you?
35977when you awake are you pleased or sorry?
35977where is that happy time fled?
35977whither does the excess of passion hurry me?
35977why did you place the name of_ Heloise_ before that of_ Abelard_?
35977will you hasten it?