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33348But would n''t it have given your mind more pleasure if he had written an improving book?
33348What does that mean?
33348how much money has he?
33348what does he do?
33348After my first day''s lesson, a circle of boys had got around me in a playing field and asked me questions,"who''s your father?"
33348Conversation with him was always argument, and for an obstinate opponent he had such phrases as,"have you your head in a bag, sir?"
33348He said,"have you tried sail on her?"
33348How could it be with a clergyman for head- master?"
33348I have heard the head- master say,"how has so- and- so done in his Greek?"
33348I said,"did he refuse to listen to you?"
33348I said,"will they ever come again, do you think?"
33348I saw that our people did not read, but that they listened patiently( how many long political speeches have they listened to?)
33348Then, spitefully:"what''s the good of poetry?"
33348was it a part of myself-- something always to be a danger perhaps; or had it come from without, as it seemed?
12090Why, sir, said I, I hope you do n''t imagine I will go into a bad course of life?
12090--Try what repentance can, what can it not?
12090As I gained reputation in the forementioned character, is there any crime in acknowledging my obligation to Mr. Thomson?
12090But then is the English a translation of the Latin?
12090By this time the reader may be ready to cry out,''to what purpose is all this?''
12090Can a man who thinks so, justify a change, even if he thought both equally good?
12090Come Rosalind, O come, for without thee What pleasure can the country have for me?
12090If a divine should begin his sermon with a solemn prayer to Bacchus or Apollo, to Mars or Venus, what would the people think of their preacher?
12090In this case, who would not spurn such mean Beings?
12090Is chance a guilt, that my disast''rous heart, For mischief never meant, must ever smart?
12090Is there a treachery like this in baseness, Recorded any where?
12090Shall I tell you a secret?
12090To whom it may reasonable be asked, has Virgil been most obliged?
12090What frenzy in my bosom rag''d, And by what cure to be asswag''d?
12090What gentle youth I would allure, Whom in my artful toils secure?
12090Whether the Spleen is necessary or useful to the animal possessed of it?
12090Yet what can it, when one_ can not repent._ Who does not see at once, the heaviest foot that ever trod can not wear out the everlasting flint?
12090and was it his fault that Mr. Addison( for the first book of Homer was undoubtedly his) could not translate to please the public?
12090could he be blamed for exerting all his abilities in so arduous a province?
12090how ill I bore thy pleasing pain?
12090may not gratitude, as well as vanity, be concerned in this relation?
12090or rather does not think it sounds far better without it?
12090or that he who does not think has no thoughts in him?
12090or that repentance can avail nothing when a man has not repentance?
12090or, am I unpardonable, though I should pride myself on his good opinion and friendship?
12090what can it be?
6865Did you ever hear him say''Marquess of Dimmesdale''?
6865Have you quite determined to do it?
6865''But,''said the dull man,''would you not have given us time to read it?''
6865''Does not Milton make pictures?''
6865''Has your alchemical research had any success?''
6865''How often do you go to the office?''
6865''Is there a spirit in it?''
6865''Well my children,''was the answer,''what is the good of giving lemons to those who want oranges?''
6865''What explanation did you give her?''
6865''What is the difference?''
6865''Why do you put the plates on the coal- scuttle?
6865''Why not?''
6865But if he had changed every''has''into''hath''I would have let him, for had not we sunned ourselves in his generosity?
6865Conversation constantly dwindled into''Do you like so and so''s last book?''
6865Did they dread heresy after the death of Madame Blavatsky, or had they no purpose but the greatest possible immediate effort?
6865Had not Europe shared one mind and heart, until both mind and heart began to break into fragments a little before Shakespeare''s birth?
6865Has it not been made by the sunlight and the sap?''
6865Have not all races had their first unity from a polytheism that marries them to rock and hill?
6865He was always''supposing:''''Suppose you had two millions what would you do with it?''
6865I can remember him at supper praising wine:''Why do people say it is prosaic to be inspired by wine?
6865I had been talking some time when Mrs. Ellis came into the room and said:''Why are you sitting in the dark?''
6865I said to the man who cut him down,''What did you say to one another?''
6865I said,''Have you ever seen an apparition?''
6865Nettleship did not mind its rejection, saying,''Who cares for such things now?
6865The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy,''I said,''Why do you change"sad"to"melancholy?"''
6865Then passing from bedroom door to door he tried on the boots, and just as he got a pair to fit a voice cried from the room''Who is that?''
6865Though to be compared to Homer passed the time pleasantly, I had not been greatly perturbed had he stopped me with''Is it a long story?''
6865Was she for one night, in every week, a trance medium, or in some similar state?''
6865What are the chairs meant for?''
6865What is"King Lear"but poor life staggering in the fog?''
6865When I returned to my seat, Madame Blavatsky said,''What did you see?''
6865Would I think it a wise thing if he bolted with Mrs. B...?
6865XIV Nettleship said to me:''Has Edwin Ellis ever said anything about the effect of drink upon my genius?''
6865Yet Henley never wholly lost that first admiration, for after Wilde''s downfall he said to me:''Why did he do it?
6865and his dispraising houses decorated by himself:''Do you suppose I like that kind of house?
6865and''Suppose you were in Spain and in love how would you propose?''
10622''Diogenes Lærtius, Book I.----Thales, being asked how a man might most easily brook misfortunes?
10622And can I, can I any longer stay?
10622And must they all be faithless who are Kings?
10622Are crowns and falsehoods then consistent things?
10622Being asked one day, why he appeared so warm against the King, who had created his daughter a Countess?
10622But say thou dearest, thou unwearied friend; Say should''st thou grieve to see my sorrows end?
10622Could art have saved her, she had still been mine, Both art and care together did combine: But what is proof against the will divine?
10622Had not the nation an instance of this, during the short reign of the very Popish Prince, against whom Settle contended?
10622Have they attained the sublime height of Shakespear, the tenderness of Otway, or the pomp of Rowe?
10622I did but lately part: And must there still be new occasions found To try my patience, and my soul to wound?
10622If they on emperors will rudely seize, What makes us value all such things as these, But folly, and dark ignorance of happiness?
10622Invade, and so it might, that''s clear; But what did it invade?
10622Mountford asked what woman?
10622Must my lov''d daughter too be snatch''d away, Must she so soon the call of fate obey?
10622O would it not be best, To chase the fatal poison from our breast?
10622Perhaps the very words of Shakespear will better let you into my meaning: Must I give way, and room, to your rash choler?
10622Pleasing at first sight: Has this piece the least title even to that?
10622Shall I be frighted when a madman flares?
10622Shall I go a little farther?
10622Swell''d with thy tears, why does the neighbouring brook Bear to the ocean, what she never took?
10622Than in coarse rags?
10622Thou hast a brain, such as it is indeed; On what else mould thy worm of fancy feed?
10622To pass our tedious hours away, We throw a merry main; Or else at serious Ombre play; But why should we in vain Each other''s ruin thus pursue?
10622Well, she replied, what if I should be there?
10622What means this change?
10622What stars do rule the great?
10622Who does not see the absurdity of winning a coat from a naked man?
10622Will your ladyship be at the play to night?
10622and a desire to know what a spirit so seemingly distress, might wish or enjoin a sorrowful son to execute towards his future quiet in the grave?
10622and what news from the other world?
10622are the players gone to dinner?
10622or rather shall I in some measure excuse them?
10622replies the king?
10622says Crowne, is the Playhouse on fire?
10622since all this is so far out of the reach of description, how shall I shew you Betterton?
10622to which his lordship replied, by asking if he had not heard the affair of the woman?
10622what can the ingenious Dr. mean, or at what time could he write these verses?
10622what ill- starr''d rage Divides a friendship long confirm''d by age?
10622whether that may yet draw him nearer to you?
10598All gold; no earthly dross, why look''st thou pale?
10598All soul, no earthly flesh, why dost thou fade?
10598Among the prisoners there was one laden with Withies, who being asked, what he intended to have done with them?
10598And think''st thou so?
10598Art thou Heywood, that apply''s mirth more than thrift?
10598Art thou Heywood, that hast made many mad plays?
10598Art thou Heywood, that hath made men merry long?
10598Art thou Heywood, that would''st be made merry now?
10598Art thou Heywood, with thy mad merry wit?
10598Art thou so- like a fool, and wittol led, To think he doth the bus''ness of thy wife?
10598Deserv''dst thou ill?
10598His lordship asked the merchant whether he knew him?
10598How is he young, that tamed old Phoebus youth?
10598If he be blind, how hitteth he so right?
10598Is he a god, that ever flyes the light?
10598Is not usurping Richard buried here, That King of hate, and therefore slave of fear?
10598Law Tricks, or Who Would Have Thought It?
10598Must all the little blesses then be left, And what was once love''s gift become our theft?
10598My friend, what means this silent lamentation?
10598Not free a sigh, a sigh that''s there for you, Dear must I love you, and not love you too?
10598Or naked he, disguis''d in all untruth?
10598Shall the prosperity of a pardon still Secure thy railing rhymes, infamous Gill, At libelling?
10598Sickness how darest thou one so fair invade?
10598Sir Edward, after a little wonder, asked his Majesty, whether he knew him?
10598Sliding his ring still up and down her finger?
10598Ten in the hundred lyes here engraved,''Tis a hundred to ten his soul is not saved: If any man asketh who lies in this tomb?
10598The Day is past, but landlord where''s your rent?
10598The matter nature''s, and the workman''s frame; His purse''s cost: where then is Osmond''s name?
10598There was also a distich directed by some poet of that age to Ben Johnson, Pray tell me, Ben, where does the mystery lurk?
10598These are, as some infamous baud or whore, Should praise a matron: What could hurt her more?
10598This surgeon notwithstanding, out of love to his master, returning one day to dress his wound, the count cheerfully asked him how Sir Philip did?
10598Those Tyrants, Business, Honour, and Necessity, what have they to do with with you, and me?
10598What, says More in a pleasant manner, do you charge any of us with felony?
10598Where the devil, Signior Ludovico, did you pick up all these damned lies?
10598Why Should we not do Love''s Commands before theirs, whose Sovereignty is but usurped upon us?
10598Why is''t damnation to despair and die, When life is my true happiness disease?
10598Why on this field of mirth, this realm of smiles Doth the fierce war of grief make such invasion?
10598Why should I not come myself?
10598Wilt thou engross thy store Of wheat, and pour no more, Because their bacon brains have such a taste As more delight in mast?
10598Wilt thou forgive that in which I have won, Others to sin, and made my sin their door?
10598Wilt thou forgive that sin through which I run, And do run still, tho''still I do deplore?
10598Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun, Which was my sin, tho''it were done before?
10598Wilt thou forgive that sin, which I did shun, A year or two, but wallowed in a score?
10598Yet whil''st with sorrow here we live opprest, What life is best?
10598[ Footnote 3: May not this be owing to envy?
10598are not most wits jealous of their cotemporaries?
10598had he nought whereby he might be knowne But costly pilements of some curious stone?
10598he answered no: Cromwell then related the circumstance of the merchant''s relieving a certain Englishman; and asked if he remembered it?
10598how readily do we pay adoration to the dead?
10598how slowly do we give even faint praise to the living?
10598is it a wonder Beaumont and Fletcher were more praised and versified than Shakespear?
10598no more favours, not a ribbon more, Not fan, nor muff, to hold as heretofore?
10598were not inferior wits opposed, nay preferred, to Dryden while living?
10598why should I write then?
16469And thy unbounded sacrilege commit On th''inward holiest holy of her wit?
16469And where''s the mighty prospect after all, A chaplainship serv''d up, and seven years thrall?
16469Between these difficulties what way shall be found?
16469But Charles, what could thy policy be, To run so many sad disasters; To join thy fleet with false d''Estrees To make the French of Holland masters?
16469But do the brotherhood then play their prizes?
16469But still how came they to put their interest at such a stretch, in favour of a man so notoriously obnoxious?
16469Did not Demas leave Paul?
16469Did not Onesimus run from his master Philemon?
16469For what authority is there in wit?
16469From this account of the riches of his mind, who would not imagine that they had been displayed in large volumes, and numerous performances?
16469He took occasion one day to ask his lordship what he could do for him, as he had his interest much at heart?
16469How?
16469In some other kinds of writing his genius seems to have wanted fire to attain the point of perfection: but who can attain it?''
16469Is it therefore my fault if the cheat, by his wit and endeavours, makes himself so like me, that consequently I can not avoid resembling him?
16469Is reason or testimony to be rejected?
16469Like murmurs in religion with disguises?
16469Now after all was it not hard, That he should meet with no reward, That fitted out the knight and squire, This monarch did so much admire?
16469Our Black- Heath host, without dispute,( Rais''d, put on board, why?
16469Say from what golden quivers of the sky, Do all thy winged arrows fly?
16469Shall we charge it to want of taste in the town, or want of discernment in the managers?
16469Syriack?
16469Tell me, why good Heaven Thou mad''st me what I am, with all the spirit, Aspiring thoughts, and elegant desires That fill the happiest man?
16469Up all the brick- layers that Babel built?
16469Was''t Carewell, brother James, or Teague, That made thee break the Triple League?
16469Was''t not enough thus rudely to defile, But thou must quite destroy the goodly pile?
16469What can there be in Kings divine?
16469Who can consider the fate of this gentleman, without being moved to pity?
16469Who knows what blessings Phæbus may bestow, And future ages to your labours owe?
16469Why a man remembers less his own face, which he sees often in a glass, than the face of a friend he has not seen a great time?
16469Why should it be so strange, they being not concerned in the King''s blood?
16469Yet to those sorrows under which I groan, Can you still think it fit to add your own?
16469You have a study, books wherein to look, How comes it then the Doctor turn''d a cook?
16469a jester may have it; a man in drink may have it, and be fluent over night, and wise and dry in the morning: What is it?
16469ah, could it not suffice, Thy old and constant spite to exercise Against the gentlest and the fairest sex, Which still thy depredations most do vex?
16469and who can tell whether it be better to have it or no?
16469or Arabick?
16469or Welsh?
16469or are our present actors conscious that they may be unequal to some of the parts in it?
16469the goblin makes me start, I''th''name of Rabbi- Abraham, what art?
16469to thy abundant store, What could advancing age have added more?
16469what power unknown, By magic thus transforms me to a statue, Senseless of all the faculties of life?
16469what skilt?
16469who holds my conquering hand?
16469why sleep''st thou?
12014''If therefore the scandalous treatment I have received is just on me, for abusing others, I must ask such, who is the man?
12014--In rush''d Eusden, and cry''d, who shall have it, But I the true Laureat to whom the king gave it?
12014After having represented the natural and artificial calamities to which man is doomed, he proceeds, But why do I delay my flight?
12014Agreed: what then?
12014An ELEGY,& c. In what soft language shall my thoughts get free, My dear Alexis, when I talk of thee?
12014Are these the threaten''d terrors of your reign?
12014As some fair flowers, who all their bloom disclose, The Spanish Jas''min, or the British Rose?
12014Ask you why Wharton broke thro''ev''ry rule?
12014But what, beyond them?
12014But why should I implore your moving art?
12014Dear Welsted, mark in dirty hole That painful animal a Mole: Above ground never born to go, What mighty stir it keeps below?
12014Do murtherers then, preach morality?
12014Dost thou recall to mind, with joy or grief, Great Marlbro''s actions?
12014He was happy too in having very powerful patrons, but what could be done for a man, who declared war against all the world?
12014How soon the willing heart, her empire feels?
12014How would it please, should me in English speak, And could Hippolitus reply in Greek?
12014I have to say for''t; pray why did you give me so much as you have done, unless you resolve to give as fast as I call for it?
12014If things of sight such heavens be, What heavens are those we can not see?
12014In naked majesty Oldmixon stands, And, Milo- like, surveys his arms and hands, Then sighing thus:''And am I now threescore?
12014In what particular was she guilty?
12014In what respect was Mrs. Manley to blame?
12014Or can I live?
12014Or is with him all inspiration fled, And lye the muses with their patron dead?
12014Or on such gloomy objects gaze?
12014Or stratagems of war, or schemes of state?
12014Or why has Heav''n dissolved the tye so soon?
12014Or why was all my soul so turn''d for love?
12014Say, Cobham, what amuses thy retreat?
12014Shall parts so various aim at nothing new?
12014She then asked what that work might be?
12014Sir, does a beggar know his dish?
12014So lov''d and prais''d whom all admire, Why, why should you from courts and camps retire?
12014Some may, perhaps, be startled, and cry, how comes this sudden change?
12014Tell me, my soul, can this be death?
12014The general asked her, how she should like to be confined in Newgate?
12014They asked who he was?
12014This explanation was too satisfactory; Who does not see the meanness of such an ungenerous conduct?
12014This poem begins thus, And shall great Hallifax resign to fate, And not one bard upon his ashes wait?
12014Thus endowed by nature to charm and persuade, what expectations might not have been formed on him?
12014Upon this occasion Stepney wrote some good verses, in answer to this question;----Sed quid Turba Remi?
12014Wer''t not for price who''d value gold?
12014What art thou?
12014What can be added more to mortal bliss?
12014What can he want that stands possest of this?
12014What can the fondest wishing mother more, Of heav''n attentive, for her son implore?
12014What friends, if to my self untrue?
12014What is this absorbs me quite, Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?
12014What shall we do for ships then?
12014What slaves, unless I captive you?
12014What''s life?
12014Where dwells this peace, this freedom of the mind?
12014Where is the character I have given that is not just?
12014Where''s the monarch now?
12014Who can thy god- like Gideon view[A], And not thy muse pursue, Or wish, at least, such miracles to do?
12014Why Granville is thy life to shades confin''d, Thou whom the Gods design''d In public to do credit to mankind?
12014Why did not he keep out of the way, as I did?"]
12014Why has my heart this fond engagement known?
12014Why low''r the thunder of thy brow, Why livid angers glow, Mistaken phantom, say?
12014Why parting throes this lab''ring frame distend, Why dire convulsions rend, And teeming horrors wreck th''astonish''d sight?
12014Why shrinks the trembling soul, Why with amazement full Pines at thy rule, and sickens at thy sway?
12014Why was the charming youth so form''d to move?
12014Wilt thou all the glory have That war or peace commend?
12014With this artful contrition he endeavoured to sooth his injured wife: But what soothing could heal the wounds she had received?
12014all our sex in one sad hour undone?
12014and think of death!--was it not so?
12014are described, asked him, whether King William''s actions are to be seen in his palace?
12014can life attone For all the monstrous crimes by which''tis bought?
12014d''ye question it?
12014sadly say, Why fates are so unkind To snatch thy giant sons away, Whilst pigmies stay behind?
12014should two and two make''four?
12014what ill- starr''d rage Divides a friendship long confirm''d by age?
12014where is thy sting?
12014where is thy victory?
12014who will draw that veil?
10459And what does that mean?
10459Are any of you ever born into mortal life?
10459Did you ever hear how he made my brother emigrate? 10459 Did you see a deer pass this way?"
10459Do I know any who were among your people before birth?
10459Do you know,she said,"what the curse of the Four Fathers is?
10459Do you see anything, X-----?
10459Do you see that rod over the fire?
10459Father in Heaven, what have I done to deserve this?
10459Good Christians,cried the pretender,"is it possible that any man would mock the poor dark man like that?"
10459Have you no sowl to be saved, you mocker of heaven?
10459How are you to- day, mother?
10459Is it the influence of some living person who thinks of us, and whose thoughts appear to us in that symbolic form?
10459Is that right for a princess to be tied to a tree?
10459It was my grandmother''s,said the child;"would you have her going about yonder with her petticoat up to her knees, and she dead but four days?"
10459No,said I;"what is it?"
10459Saints and angels, is there no protection against this? 10459 Sur,"said he,"did you ever hear tell of the sea captain''s prayer?"
10459What are those?
10459What is that?
10459What will I do with my horse and my hound?
10459Where are they to be found?
10459Where do you live, good- wyf, and how is the minister?
10459Where is it?
10459Where will I try the sword?
10459Where''s that?
10459Who are they?
10459Who''s that? 10459 ''Do n''t you think you had better be going?'' 10459 ''Is it an angel she is, or a faery woman, or what?'' 10459 ''What is she at all, mother?'' 10459 ''When ye''re spending the night, may n''t ye as well sit by the table and eat with the rest of us?'' 10459 ''Yes, sur,''says he; and says I,''Arn''t you paid to go down?'' 10459 After a while Moran protested again with:Is it possible that none of yez can know me?
10459After he had been sitting there for a while, the woman said,"In the name of God, who are you?"
10459And are there not moods which need heaven, hell, purgatory, and faeryland for their expression, no less than this dilapidated earth?
10459And he said to me one time,''What month of the year is the worst?''
10459And her own son, that we will call Bill, said,"Do not send him away, are we not brothers?"
10459And it called out,"Here is the hunt, where is the huntsman and the hound?"
10459And the chief adviser said,"Is every one here that belongs to the house?"
10459And then he went on till he came to a king''s house, and he sent in at the door to ask,"Did he want a servant?"
10459Any blackguard heretic around me?"
10459Are you bringing them to any other grass?"
10459Boys, am I standin''in puddle?
10459Christian people, in your charity wo n''t you beat this man away?
10459Did not a herd- boy, no long while since, see the White Lady?
10459Did not the wise Porphyry think that all souls come to be born because of water, and that"even the generation of images in the mind is from water"?
10459Do n''t yez see it''s myself; and that''s some one else?"
10459Do n''t you fear the light of heaven being struck from your eyes for mocking the poor dark man?"
10459Everybody, indeed, will tell you that he was very wise, for was he not only blind but a poet?
10459Finding explanation of no avail, she asked had they ever heard of Christ?
10459He had had his day, had said his prayers and made his confession, and why should they not give him a hearty send- off?
10459Heardst thou not that those who die Awake in a world of ecstasy?
10459How may she doubt these things, even though the priest shakes his head at her?
10459I asked him had he ever seen the faeries, and got the reply,"Am I not annoyed with them?"
10459I said to the more powerful of the two sorcerers--"What would happen if one of your spirits had overpowered me?"
10459I then asked whether she and her people were not"dramatizations of our moods"?
10459I thought for a moment that she might be the beloved of Aengus, but how could that hunted, alluring, happy, immortal wretch have a face like this?
10459Is it the ladies?
10459My friend asked,"How wee was she?"
10459O, was ever such wickedness known?"
10459One day the beast comes up to him, and says,''What are you after?''
10459Says I,''Did n''t you know when you joined that a certain percentage go down every year?''
10459Says one to the other, putting the corpse on the spit,''Who''ll turn the spit?
10459She tuk it up, and said with accents mild,"''Tare- and- agers, girls, which av yez owns the child?"
10459She was happy, she said, and had the best of good eating, and would he not eat?
10459So when one of the men came after me and touched me on the shoulder, with a''Michael H----, can you tell a story now?''
10459That night the king said to Jack,"Why is it the cows are giving so much milk these days?
10459The host is rushing''twixt night and day; And where is there hope or deed as fair?
10459They had not gone far when one of them burst out with"It''s cruel cowld, is n''t it?"
10459What else can death be but the beginning of wisdom and power and beauty?
10459What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?
10459What is the worth of greatness till you have the light Of the flower of the branch that is by your side?
10459When all is said and done, how do we not know but that our own unreason may be better than another''s truth?
10459When the race was over,"What can I do for you now?"
10459Who knows to what far country she went, or to see whom dying?
10459am I standin''in wet?"
10459cried Moran, Put completely beside himself by this last injury--"Would you rob the poor as well as desave the world?
10459how shall I go?
10459or did they come from the banks of the river by the trees where the first light had shone for a moment?
33505Am I a good man according to the commandments?
33505Are you working here?
33505Art is art because it is not nature,I kept repeating to myself, but how could I take the same side with critic and washerwoman?
33505But,said the dull man,"would you not have given us time to read it?"
33505Did you ever hear him say''Marquess of Dimmesdale''?
33505Does not Milton make pictures?
33505Ellis,he had said,"how old are you?"
33505Has your alchemical research had any success?
33505Have my experiments and observations excluded the personal factor with sufficient rigour?
33505How often do you go to the office?
33505Is there a spirit in it?
33505Lord, I was a leper and You healed me, what else can I do?
33505O, what are the winds? 33505 Well, my children,"was the answer,"what is the good of giving lemons to those who want oranges?"
33505What explanation did you give her?
33505What is the difference?
33505What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair? 33505 What work is it?"
33505What, already?
33505Why not?
33505''Have you quite determined to do it?''
33505***** Is our Foundation Stone still unlaid when the more important streets are decorated for Queen Victoria''s Jubilee?
33505***** Seek with thine eyes to pierce this crystal sphere: Canst read a fate there, prosperous and clear?
33505A little further through the town he saw a young man following a harlot, and said,"Why do you dissolve your soul in debauchery?"
33505And there is an old story still current in Dublin of Lady Wilde saying to a servant,"Why do you put the plates on the coal- scuttle?
33505And what are the waters?
33505Browning his psychological curiosity, Tennyson, as before him Shelley and Wordsworth, moral values that were not aesthetic values?
33505But if he had changed every"has"into"hath"I would have let him, for had not we sunned ourselves in his generosity?
33505But what could have deceived her in that final marvel?
33505But what happens to the individual man whose moon has come to that fourth quarter, and what to the civilization...?
33505But, if so, what part of the mind?
33505Conversation constantly dwindled into"Do you like so and so''s last book?"
33505Did he deceive us deliberately?
33505Did he himself already foresee the moment when he would write_ The Dark Angel_?
33505Did modern enlightenment think with Coste that Locke had the better logic, because it was not free to think otherwise?
33505Did not Leonardo da Vinci warn the imaginative man against pre- occupation with arts that can not survive his death?
33505Did they dread heresy, or had they no purpose but the greatest possible immediate effect?
33505Does Minnaloushe know that her pupils Will pass from change to change, And that from round to crescent From crescent to round they range?
33505Even when no facts of experience were denied, might not what had seemed logical proof be but a mechanism of change, an automatic impulse?
33505Had he not been in Egypt?
33505Had not Europe shared one mind and heart, until both mind and heart began to break into fragments a little before Shakespeare''s birth?
33505Had not Matthew Arnold his faith in what he described as the best thought of his generation?
33505Has it not been made by the sunlight and the sap?"
33505Have not all races had their first unity from a polytheism, that marries them to rock and hill?
33505He took the bundle of letters in his hand, but said,"Do these letters urge him to run away?
33505He was always"supposing";"Suppose you had two millions what would you do with it?"
33505His art is happy, but who knows his mind?
33505How can you be a character actor, you who hate all our life, you who belong to a life that is a vision?"
33505How could I tell, how can I tell even now?
33505How many of these children will carry bomb or rifle when a little under or a little over thirty?
33505How should he fail to know the Holy Land?
33505How, too, could one separate the dogs of the country tale from those my uncle heard bay in his pillow?
33505I can remember him at supper praising wine:"Why do people say it is prosaic to be inspired by wine?
33505I formed with her an enduring friendship that was an enduring exasperation--"why do you play the part with a bent back and a squeak in the voice?
33505I had been talking some time when Mrs Ellis came into the room and said,"Why are you sitting in the dark?"
33505I said to the man who cut him down,"What did you say to each other?"
33505I said upon meeting him later,"Would you have made the same rule in the case of Hogarth?"
33505I said,"Have you ever seen an apparition?"
33505I was on my way to Forest Hill; might it not come from some spirit Mathers had called up?
33505In what month was it that I received a note inviting me to"coffee and cigarettes plentifully,"and signed"Yours quite cheerfully, Paul Verlaine?"
33505Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell?
33505Love on: who cares?
33505Nettleship did not mind its rejection, saying,"Who cares for such things now?
33505Nettleship said to me:"Has Edwin Ellis ever said anything about the effect of drink upon my genius?"
33505Perhaps fifty years ago I had been in less trouble, but what can one do when the age itself has come to_ Hodos Camelionis_?
33505Should there not be some flutter of the nerve or stopping of the heart like that Macgregor experienced at the first meeting with a phantom?
33505The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy,"I said,"Why do you change''sad''to''melancholy''?"
33505Then passing from bedroom door to door he tried on the boots, and just as he got a pair to fit, a voice cried from the room:"Who is that?"
33505Then she pauses, and after that her voice rises to a cry,"Must the graves of our dead go undecorated because Victoria has her Jubilee?"
33505Then, too, from whence come the images of the dream?
33505Though to be compared to Homer passed the time pleasantly, I had not been greatly perturbed had he stopped me with:"Is it a long story?"
33505Was it that we lived in what is called"an age of transition"and so lacked coherence, or did we but pursue antithesis?
33505Was it the mind of one of the visionaries?
33505Was modern civilisation a conspiracy of the sub- conscious?
33505Was she a trance medium, or in some similar state, one night in every week?"
33505Was there an impassable barrier between those scratches and the trampled fields of rice?
33505What are the chairs meant for?"
33505What else had they ignored and distorted?
33505What fixed law would our experiments leave to our imagination?
33505What had Parnell, a landowner and a haughty man, to do with the peasant or the peasant''s grievance?
33505What in comparison to that is your little, beggarly nationality?"
33505What is_ King Lear_ but poor life staggering in the fog?"
33505What will not people do for notoriety?"
33505When I returned to my seat, Madame Blavatsky said,"What did you see?"
33505When Mary Battle brought in the breakfast next morning, I said,"Well, Mary, did you dream anything last night?"
33505When he stood up to go he said,"What is that?"
33505Whence came that fine thought of music- making swords, that image of the garden, and many like images and thoughts?
33505Who cares?
33505Who made the story?
33505Why are these strange souls born everywhere to- day?
33505Why should we believe that religion can never bring round its antithesis?
33505Wilde?''
33505Willie Wilde received me with,"Who are you; what do you want?"
33505Would I think it a wise thing if he bolted with Mrs B----?
33505Yet Henley never wholly lost that first admiration, for after Wilde''s downfall he said to me:"Why did he do it?
33505and his dispraising houses decorated by himself:"Do you suppose I like that kind of house?
33505and the young man answered,"Lord, I was blind, and You healed me, what else can I do?"
33505and"Suppose you were in Spain and in love how would you propose?"
33505hath no cold wind swept your heart at all, In my sad company?
33505or,"Do I realise my own nothingness before God?"