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3911	And in Emilius?
3911	I?
3911	Are they nothing more than vain; is my insensibility purely ingratitude?
3911	Do friendship, love and virtue reign in this capital more than elsewhere?
3911	Is it their fault or mine?
3911	What could I do?
3911	citizen, this is a part of a work now printing in Paris?"
3907	Besides, where was I to find a person to write the words, and one who would give himself the trouble of turning the poetry to my liking?
3907	Have you nothing to confess, somebody will ask me, upon this subject?
3907	What means can I take to introduce it to the world?
3907	What?
3907	Who would guess the cause of my tears, and what, at this moment, passed within me?
3907	said I to myself, with disdain, shall Jean Jacques thus suffer himself to be subdued by interest and curiosity?
3907	said I, taking one of them up,"this is a patchbox of a new construction: may I ask what is its use?
3905	As I began to read music tolerably well, the question was, how I should learn composition?
3905	But is it possible for man to taste, in their utmost extent, the delights of love?
3905	He said,"How many parts will you take?
3905	How could I see the moment advancing with more pain than pleasure?
3905	How is it possible to fall into such a state in the flower of one''s age, without any inward decay, or without having done anything to destroy health?
3905	How was it that this delightful crisis did not secure our mutual felicity for the remainder of her life and mine?
3905	The other, having satisfied Grossi in these particulars, asked him if there was anything he could serve him in?
3905	Was I happy?
3905	What passions?
3905	Why, instead of transports that should have intoxicated me with their deliciousness, did I experience only fears and repugnance?
3902	Why not?
3902	After several questions relative to my faith, situation, and family, he asked me bluntly if my mother was damned?
3902	Can we avoid feeling an anxious wish at least to know whether our affection is returned?
3902	Is it possible to possess love, I will not say without desires, for I certainly had them, but without inquietude, without jealousy?
3902	The difficulty still remained how I was to gain a subsistence?
3902	They were just beginning to speak of his journey, when casting his eye on the small table he asked in a sharp tone, what lad that was?
3902	What interest had M. de Pontverre in entertaining, treating with respect, and endeavoring to convince me?
3902	Who would believe, that a childish fault should be productive of such melancholy consequences?
3902	Why did I not experience a moment of embarrassment, timidity or restraint?
3902	Why should I now disguise my thoughts?
3901	But he was frenzied,-wherefore, who may know?
3901	Could I love thee thus wert thou only my son?"
3901	How could I become cruel or vicious, when I had before my eyes only examples of mildness, and was surrounded by some of the best people in the world?
3901	I love good wine, but where shall I get it?
3901	I wish to be universally respected; how shall I compass my design?
3901	It will be asked, how did this mischief happen?
3901	Who could be suspected of this mischief?
3901	Why am I not permitted to recount all the little anecdotes of that thrice happy age, at the recollection of whose joys I ever tremble with delight?
3901	said my father smiling,"does not your heart inform you?
3901	why should I anticipate the miseries I have endured?
3903	--"What part would he chose?"
3903	At the age I then was, does the fear of perishing with hunger give such alarms?
3903	Have you never seen an opera in Italy?
3903	Her brother asked me, giddily, why I trembled thus?
3903	I was attentive and thoughtful; what could I do?
3903	She looked on my fortune as already made, if not destroyed by my own negligence; what then would she say on my arrival?
3903	Was it fear of not obtaining that succor I stood in need of, which agitated me to this degree?
3903	What in the world was so curious as a heron fountain?
3903	Who can read this without supposing me on the brink of the grave?
3903	Would it be believed, that when near nineteen, any one could be so stupid as to build his hopes of future subsistence on an empty phial?
3903	forever a footman?"
3903	said she, in an affectionate tone,"art thou here again?
3908	What,said I,"will become of me in this moment, and before the whole court, if, in my confusion, any of my stupid expressions should escape me?"
3908	Besides, how was it possible to reconcile the severe principles I had just adopted to a situation with which they had so little relation?
3908	How should I afterwards have dared to speak of disinterestedness and independence?
3908	People think I am ridiculous, nay, even absurd; but what signifies this to me?
3908	Should not I, the cash- keeper of a receiver- general of finances, have preached poverty and disinterestedness with a very ill grace?
3908	Was it the same Madam de Warrens, formerly so gay and lively, to whom the vicar of Pontverre had given me recommendations?
3908	What remained to her of primitive virtue?
3908	Who, in the situation in which the world has placed me, has a right to require more at my hands?
3908	Will it be believed that the night of so brilliant a day was for me a night of anguish and perplexity?
3908	whether or not I was properly dressed?
3904	--"But, mademoiselle,"continued I,"I have not the honor to be acquainted with your mother; what will she say on my arrival?"
3904	Besides, did I carry pens, paper and ink with me?
3904	Having called myself a Parisian, as such, I was under the jurisdiction of his excellency: he therefore asked me who I was?
3904	Having found so many good people in my youth, why do I find so few in my age?
3904	He asked me, If I had ever copied music?
3904	I had not all this time forgotten my dear Madam de Warrens, but how was I to find her?
3904	I had read, too, that Marshal Schomberg was remarkably shortsighted, and why might not Marshal Rousseau be the same?
3904	Is their race extinct?
3904	It was necessary to pass through Nion: could I do this without seeing my good father?
3904	On her laughing, I said to myself,"Why are not my lips cherries?
3904	Quio, tu Clarice Trahiriot tes feux?
3904	Ten volumes a day would not suffice barely to enumerate my thoughts; how then should I find time to write them?
3904	Where should I seek her in Paris?
3904	Where should I seek her?
3904	While we can enjoy, at so small an expense, such pure, such true delights, why should we be solicitous for others?
3904	Who would have thought that I should never see them more; and that here our ephemeral amours must end?
3904	Why deprive myself of the actual charm of my enjoyments to inform others what I enjoyed?
3904	had those of my early youth been seen, those made during my travels, composed, but never written!--Why did I not write them?
3904	or how bear the expense of such a journey?
3904	will be asked; and why should I have written them?
3910	How cruel is your goodness? 3910 But by what means had this manuscript fallen into his hands? 3910 How I do hate all your titles, and pity you on account of your being obliged to bear them? 3910 How, without presence of mind, am I to act? 3910 I have not been able to form any in the ranks to which I was equal; is it in yours that I ought to seek for them? 3910 Is it in these places Jean Jacques ought to be seen? 3910 Was it possible for me to expect in a lady of such high rank, a constancy proof against my want of address to support it? 3910 What is to be done? 3910 What say I? 3910 What would the subjects of the extracts I should have had to make from books, or even the books themselves, have signified to me? 3910 Whence comes it that even a child can intimidate a man, whom the power of kings has never inspired with fear? 3910 Why do not you reside at Clarens? 3906 Have you had a good journey?
3906	And what motive could have united the labors of so many millions of men, in a place that no one inhabited?
3906	But how could I bear to be a secondary person with her to whom I had been everything, and who could never cease being such to me?
3906	But why expose myself to this danger?
3906	Have you so many times preserved my life, for the sole purpose of taking from me all that could render it desirable?
3906	How could I live an alien in that house where I had been the child?
3906	How do you do?"
3906	How shall I continue to relate the same occurrences, without wearying my readers with the repetition, any more than I was satiated with the enjoyment?
3906	How shall I prolong, according to my inclination, this recital at once so pleasing and simple?
3906	I asked myself,"What state am I in?
3906	I then asked, whether she had received my letter?
3906	Is this the reward of an attachment like mine?
3906	One can not help exclaiming, what strength could have transported these enormous stones so far from any quarry?
3906	Should I die at this instant, must I be damned?"
3906	To sow dissension, dishonor, scandal, and hell itself, in her family?
3906	Was I going, in return for the mother''s kindness, to seek the ruin of the daughter?
3906	said I, my heart bursting with the most poignant grief,"what do you dare to inform me of?
3906	why is not all this real?
3912	But to what place was I to go?
3912	But what of this?
3912	By whom and for what purpose?
3912	Did the doctors wish to know to a certainty that I was not a Catholic?
3912	For what could I hope, feeling as I did, my want of aptitude to express myself with ease?
3912	Had any person laid their hands upon my papers whilst they remained in the Hotel de Luxembourg?
3912	How is my heart still moved when I think of your goodness?
3912	How was it possible anybody could doubt of the choice I should make in such an alternative?
3912	Of what consequence was this to them?
3912	They who suffer me to remain may in a moment drive me away, and can I hope my persecutors, seeing me happy, will leave me here to continue to be so?
3912	To what use were they to be put?
3912	To whom were these letters of consequence?
3912	Were they desirous of proving I was not a good Calvinist?
3912	What could the Sorbonne have to do in the matter?
3912	What therefore could I think of the visit of Barthes and the tender concern he showed for my welfare?
3912	What was become of them?
3912	What was to become of me at the beginning of the winter, without object, preparation, guide or carriage?
3912	What, therefore, did they want with me?
3912	Why came they to see me with such an equipage?
3912	Why did I not go to Neuchatel?
3912	Why have I not had reason to shed them more frequently?
3912	Why repeat their visit?
3912	Why were they so desirous of having me for their host?
3912	how deeply did they wound me when they deprived me of your friendship?
3912	what then should I have been had I published the''Treatise de l''Esprit'', or any similar work?
3909	Do you know that your letter frightens me? 3909 How is it possible,"said she to her,"you can not perceive there is a criminal intercourse between them?
3909	Why, my dear friend, do I not see you? 3909 Am I then a young man of whom Madam d''Houdetot ought to be afraid? 3909 But do you know in what manner I will make amends for my faults during the short space of time I have to remain near to you? 3909 By whom? 3909 Completely overcome, I was at all risks obliged to submit, and to resolve to brave the What will the world say of it? 3909 Could I avoid receiving her? 3909 Did not she come in search of me? 3909 Do you ever expect another opportunity like the present one, of giving her proofs of your gratitude? 3909 Do you find the weight of the obligations you are under to her uneasy to you? 3909 Do you imagine that anything coming from you can be forgotten in such a manner? 3909 Do you think me dupe enough to believe you have not comprehended what it meant? 3909 For how was I to get through it without exposing either Madam d''Houdetot or Theresa? 3909 Had I first sought after his mistress? 3909 Had not he himself sent her to me? 3909 Had you reason to be dissatisfied with him, do you think your friend capable of advising you to do a mean thing?
3909	Have you no fears lest your conduct should be misinterpreted?
3909	Hence, what is the law?
3909	How can the continued overflowings of a susceptible heart suffer it to be incessantly employed in so many little cares relative to the person?
3909	How could she, for whom I had never had a secret, have one from me?
3909	How could this agree with defects which are peculiar to little minds?
3909	How, therefore, was he my Mecaenas?
3909	I have been injured, but what does this signify?
3909	If these be the effects of friendship, what are those of enmity?
3909	In what light, therefore, could I consider her false and mysterious conduct?
3909	In what manner was I protected by him?
3909	Is it possible to dissimulate with persons whom we love?
3909	Is it with me or for me that you are angry?
3909	Is this, my dear friend, what we agreed upon?
3909	My God, what is the matter with you?
3909	She said her son and M. de Linant; and afterwards carelessly added,"And you, dear, will not you go also?"
3909	Should I, who never do ill to any person, be the innocent means of doing it to my friends?
3909	This he was delighted to discover; but how was he to take advantage of it without exposing himself?
3909	To suffer them to remain unemployed?
3909	To what end was I born with exquisite faculties?
3909	Was the conversation of that old woman agreeable enough to take her into favor, and of sufficient importance to make of it so great a secret?
3909	Was this manner of acting consistent with honor and uprightness?
3909	What could I do?
3909	What could I think of the sentiments with which she endeavored to inspire her daughter?
3909	What could she have to conceal from me whose happiness she knew principally consisted in that of herself and her daughter?
3909	What does it mean?
3909	What is to be done?
3909	What monstrous ingratitude was hers, to endeavor to instil it into her from whom I expected my greatest consolation?
3909	What powerful motives did I not call to my mind to stifle it?
3909	What scruple, thought I, ought I to make of a folly prejudicial to nobody but myself?
3909	What step did I take upon this occasion?
3909	What then is become of that friendship and confidence, and by what means have I lost them?
3909	What therefore did he mean by these precautions, delays, and mysteries?
3909	What was the subject of these singular conversations?
3909	What would I not have given to be the child of her mother?
3909	Why such a profound mystery?
3909	Will you three months hence be in a situation to perform the journey more at your ease than at present?
3909	With this I was as well acquainted as himself; the question was, by what means he had obtained it?
3909	Would not it be said by my presumptive remorse that, by my gallantry, manner and dress, I was going to seduce her?
3909	after these, what resentment can remain in the heart?
3909	by exalting himself, or endeavoring to abase me?
3909	was this a moment to harden it when it was overflowed by the tears which penetrated it in every part?
3909	was this ever possible?
3909	whether it was by merit or address?
14052	But on what base is it best to make the laws of an empire repose?
14052	But what is a God,cried one impetuous disputant,"who gets angry and is appeased again?"
14052	Have I a single friend left, man or woman? 14052 How is it,"Rousseau cried, many years after this,"that having found so many good people in my youth, I find so few in my advanced life?
14052	Is the safety of a citizen,he cries,"less the common cause than the safety of the state?
14052	Just so; but when you wish to give laws to a people, what are the rules which indicate most surely such laws as are most suitable?
14052	Sir,said the Czarina,"could you point out to me the best means for the good government of a state?"
14052	To what, then, do you reduce the science of government?
14052	What am I to say?
14052	What could I do with four pullets?
14052	Why, my lord, have I anything to say to you? 14052 You know my situation; I gained my bread from day to day painfully enough; how then should I feed a family as well?
14052	''You are surprised at that,''his wife answered;''do you not know him?
14052	Ah, who is the man that should think himself capable of dictating laws for beings that he does not know, or knows so ill?
14052	And above all, if we do find it, who of us can be sure that he will make good use of it?
14052	And after all, what is this philosophy, what are these lessons of wisdom, to which we give the prize of enduring fame?
14052	And by what marks are we to know truth, when we think that we have found it?
14052	And by what right can he impose laws on beings whom God has never placed in his hands?"
14052	And how many of them perished in the attempt to rescue clothes or papers or money?
14052	And how preach disinterestedness and frugality from amid the cashboxes of a receiver- general?
14052	And is it worse to be killed swiftly than to await death in prolonged anguish?
14052	And what is there between me and you?"
14052	And whence?
14052	As for winter, are you worse now than you were a month back, or than you will be at the opening of the spring?
14052	As soon as he saw Diderot, he cried in a voice of thunder and with his eyes all aflame:"What have you come here for?"
14052	Besides, how is a woman who has no habits of reflection to bring up her children?
14052	But are they comparable to those of the enemies who persecuted me, supposing them even to have done no more than published our private quarrels?
14052	But how are we to teach him the significance of a thing being one''s own?
14052	But who believes in vampires, and shall we all be damned for not believing?
14052	But who can tell how he is to find out whether sovereignty has been usurped, and the social compact broken?
14052	But why is it necessary between God and me?
14052	But why take the trouble to argue in favour of one side of an avowedly insoluble question?
14052	By commending irrational retrogression from active use of the understanding back to dreamy contemplation?
14052	Can anything be more mad?
14052	Can you dare to die without having been the greatest of men?
14052	Didst thou not expect quite a different picture, and figure to thyself an eccentric creature, always grave and sometimes even abrupt?
14052	Do you call this chimerical?
14052	Do you say this equality is a mere chimera?
14052	Do you think that the opening of a theatre, he asks, will bring them back to their mother city?
14052	Has Jean Jacques turned a father of the church?
14052	Has he not bestowed on me conscience to love what is good, reason to ascertain it, freedom to choose it?
14052	He said to some,"The price is so much,"and received the money; to others,"How soon must I return my copy?"
14052	How are we to understand one another?
14052	How can I be sure that the man to whom I give alms is not an honest soul, whom I may save from perishing?
14052	How could the isolated state of nature endure for a year in face of them?
14052	How is a man born free?
14052	How many errors do we pass through on our road to truth, errors a thousandfold more dangerous than truth is useful?
14052	How many generations of men between him and the historians who have preserved the memory of these events?"
14052	How reason, asks the Savoyard Vicar, about that which we can not conceive?
14052	If so, why is Lisbon in ashes, while Paris dances?
14052	If the great number of beggars is burdensome to the state, of how many other professions that people encourage, may you not say the same?
14052	If you look at mendicancy merely as a trade, what is the harm of a calling whose end is to nourish feelings of humanity and brotherly love?
14052	If you may appeal to the voice of the heart and the dictate of the inner sentiment in one case, why not in the other also?
14052	Is it inequality of material possession or inequality of political right?
14052	Is it not true that the person of a man is now, thanks to civilisation, the least part of himself, and is hardly worth saving after loss of the rest?
14052	Is it possible that you can have suspected me of wronging you with her, and of turning perfidious in consequence of an unseasonably rigorous virtue?
14052	Is it simple or natural that God should have gone in search of Moses to speak to Jean Jacques Rousseau?
14052	Is not the French stage, he asks, as much the triumph of great villains, like Catilina, Mahomet, Atreus, as of illustrious heroes?
14052	Is probity the child of ignorance, and can science and virtue be really inconsistent with one another?
14052	Is the universe in its present ordering on the whole good relatively either to men, or to all sentient creatures?
14052	Is their stock exhausted?
14052	Is there here the tone of an enthusiast or an ambitious sectary?
14052	Next was evil an inevitable element in that ordering?
14052	No, madame, it were better for them to be orphans than to have a scoundrel for their father.... Why have I not married, you will ask?
14052	Nor do I ask of him the power of doing righteousness; why ask for what he has given me?
14052	One of the waiters of a tavern perceiving Jean Jacques, rushed to him full of joy, exclaiming,"What, is it you,_ mon bonhomme_?
14052	Or is it to go no further than to condemn such a law as that which in England gives unwilled lands to the eldest son?
14052	Quid quod libelli Stoici inter sericos Jacere pulvillos amant?
14052	Rare game, or fish from the sea, or dainties from abroad?
14052	Remembering the scenes in moon- lighted groves and elsewhere, we read this:--"Whence comes her coldness to me?
14052	Shall we say that the history of the gospels is invented at pleasure?
14052	Such epochs are ever pressing with the question, how is the future to be shaped?
14052	Support myself, my children, and their mother on the blood of wretches?
14052	Supposing a law to be passed in an assembly of the sovereign people by a majority; what binds a member of the minority to obedience?
14052	That for me he should change the course of things, and in my favour work miracles?
14052	Was it nature who collected the twenty thousand houses, all seven stories high?
14052	Was not he admittedly the wisest of the Greeks, who made of his own apology a plea for ignorance, and a denunciation of poets, orators, and artists?
14052	Was not this positive proof of a consciousness of perfidy?
14052	Was the disaster retributive?
14052	Was there a usurpation of sovereignty in France not many years ago, when the assumption of power by the prince was ratified by many millions of votes?
14052	Was this eminent benefit more than counterbalanced by the eminent disadvantage of giving a reactionary intellectual direction?
14052	What are we to do in the midst of all these contradictions?
14052	What bounds?
14052	What broke up the happy uniformity of the first times?
14052	What common tongue can we use?
14052	What degree?
14052	What do you suppose these delicacies are?
14052	What do you want me to do in the midst of your society?
14052	What government by its nature keeps closest to the law?
14052	What is it that one enjoys in a situation like this?
14052	What is the government, he had kept asking himself, which is most proper to form a sage and virtuous nation?
14052	What is this law?
14052	What is to be the attitude of the state in respect of religion?
14052	What should I ask of him?
14052	What sort of control?
14052	What, are my burning lips never again to lay my very soul on thy heart along with my kisses?
14052	What, are thy tender eyes never again to be lowered with a delicious modesty, intoxicating me with pleasure?
14052	What, then, are the intermediary facts between the state of nature and the state of civil society, the nursery of inequality?
14052	Whence spring all these abuses, if not from the disastrous inequality introduced among men by the distinction of talents and the cheapening of virtue?
14052	Where are peace, freedom, equity?
14052	Where is pure joy and true mirth?
14052	Where is the concord of the townsmen, where the public brotherhood?
14052	Where is the lover who does not wax the more tender as he talks to his friend of her whom he loves?
14052	Why are the effects of conduct upon the actor''s own physical well- being to be the only effects honoured with the title of being natural?
14052	Why can that life not come back to me again?
14052	Why had he been created with faculties so exquisite, to be left thus unused and unfruitful?
14052	Why is this?
14052	Why sacrifice the peace and charm of the little fragment of days left to him, to the bondage of an office for which he felt nothing but disgust?
14052	Why should the gradual formation of the master habit of using the mind be any exception?
14052	Will the divine justice hurl me into hell for missing the exact point at which a proof becomes irresistible?
14052	Yet who does not feel that it is a divinity for fair weather?
14052	You have made her a promise of marriage?
14052	You have signed it with your blood?
14052	You wish to give me bread; is there none of your own subjects in want of it?
14052	[ 182] What of the old Roman use permitting a father to sell his son three times?
14052	[ 201] How came Rousseau of all men, the great humanitarian of his time, to rise to the height of these unlovely rigours?
14052	[ 253] What then is to be done?
14052	[ 325] But why try to state the influence of Emilius on France in this way?
14052	am I a scoundrel?
14052	can a man of intelligence like you accept the prejudice of_ meum_ and_ tuum_?
8503	Do you know that Lessing will probably marry Reiske''s widow and come to Dresden in place of Hagedorn? 8503 Does one write, then, for the sake of being always in the right?
8503	In Life''s small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscles trained: know''st thou when Fate Thy measure takes? 8503 Is that your own hare, or a wig?"
8503	Must not one often act thoughtlessly, if one would provoke Fortune to do something for him?
8503	What care I to live in plenty,he asks gayly,"if I only live?"
8503	What do you apprehend, then, from me? 8503 What does your Lordship think of the words drudg''d, disturb''d, rebuk''d, fledg''d, and a thousand others?"
8503	[ 149] If the age was what Herr Stahr represents it to have been, where is the great merit of Lessing? 8503 ''And, prithee, what has Mogusius done to deserve so great a favor?'' 8503 And does not Sophocles make Ajax in his despair quibble upon his own name quite in the Shakespearian fashion, under similar circumstances? 8503 And how did the Demon, a mere spiritual essence, contrive himself a body? 8503 And many other things which in Ribley[ Ripley?] 8503 And what is simpler than this way? 8503 And what is the source of this sensibility, if it be not an instinctive perception of the incongruous and disproportionate? 8503 And where the players printed from manuscript, is it likely to have been that of the author? 8503 And why not? 8503 And why_ temple- haunting_, unless because it suggests sanctuary? 8503 And yet what do we not owe it? 8503 And yet who has so succeeded in imitating him as to remind us of him by even so much as the gait of a single verse? 8503 Are ghosts, then, as incapable of invention as dramatic authors? 8503 Because continuity is a merit in some kinds of writing, shall we refuse ourselves to the authentic charm of Montaigne''s want of it? 8503 But if we acquit Parris, what shall we say of the demoniacal girls? 8503 But intolerant of what? 8503 But is there the least filament of truth in it? 8503 But was it possible for a man to change not only his skin but his nature? 8503 But what are they doing now? 8503 But what is the fate of a poet who owns the quarry, but can not build the poem? 8503 But what is the good of complaining?
8503	But what need of words?
8503	But who can say precisely where consciousness ceases and a kind of automatic movement begins, the result of over- excitement?
8503	But who has ever read the_ Achilleis_, correct in all_ un_essential particulars as it probably is?
8503	Can anything be more absurd than flames born to order?
8503	Can this be said of any other modern?
8503	Could any of his oracles have foretold this?
8503	Could children be born of these devilish amours?
8503	Could the same experiment have been tried with these verses upon Dryden, can any one doubt that his counsel would have been the same?
8503	Could the sinful heart of man always suppress the wish that a Gustavus might arise to do judgment on the Bores of Rhode Island?
8503	Could we tolerate tragedy in rhymed alexandrines, instead of blank verse?
8503	Did Goethe wish to work up a Greek theme?
8503	Did Rousseau, then, lead a life of this quality?
8503	Did a man''s cow die suddenly, or his horse fall lame?
8503	Did one of those writers of controversial quartos, heavy as the stone of Diomed, feel a pain in the small of his back?
8503	Did you ever yet measure your everlasting self, the length of your life, the breadth of your love, the depth of your wisdom& the height of your light?
8503	Does Burns drink?
8503	Does any one still doubt that men may be changed into beasts?
8503	Does not a whole book of criticism lie in these nine words?"
8503	For it was perfectly well known that there were witches,( does not God''s law say expressly,"Suffer not a_ witch_ to live?")
8503	Has his influence on our literature, but especially on our poetry, been on the whole for good or evil?
8503	Have we forgotten Montaigne''s votive offerings at the shrine of Loreto?
8503	Have we not, in these days, heard of"Sherman''s boys"?
8503	Have you an illustrated Bible of the last century?
8503	He doubts Ophelia, and asks her,"Are you honest?"
8503	His"leviathans afloat"he_ lifted_ from the"Annus Mirabilis"; but in what court could Dryden sue?
8503	How could he save his credit more cheaply than by pronouncing it witchcraft, and turning it over to the parson to be exorcised?
8503	How could sane men have been deceived by such nursery- tales?
8503	How did Dryden, who says nearly the same thing, succeed in his attempt at the French manner?
8503	I answered with a smile,''My dear sir, you do n''t call Rousseau bad company; do you really think_ him_ a bad man?''
8503	If Hagedorn were pleased, what mattered it to Horace?
8503	If he had little Latin and less Greek, might he not have had enough of both for every practical purpose on this side pedantry?
8503	If not, how explain the charm with which he dominates in all tongues, even under the disenchantment of translation?
8503	If sounding words are not of our growth and manufacture, who shall hinder me to import them from a foreign country?
8503	If youth and good spirits could put such life into a dead stick once, why not age and evil spirits now?
8503	In the judgment of a liberal like Mr. Moore, were not the errors of a lord excusable?
8503	Irai me je noier ou pendre?
8503	Is Death no more?
8503	Is French reality precisely our reality?
8503	Is it not curious, that there should have been a_ balneum Mariae_ at New London two hundred years ago?
8503	Is it not enough, then, to be a great prose- writer?
8503	Is this Dryden, or Sternhold, or Shadwell, those Toms who made him say that"dulness was fatal to the name of Tom"?
8503	Is what he proposes reasonable and comprehensible?
8503	La Bruyère, no doubt, expresses the average of opinion:"Que penser de la magie et du sortilége?
8503	Leser, wie gefall ich dir?
8503	Leser, wie gefällst du mir?
8503	Must all these aged sires in one funeral Expire?
8503	Nay, may we not say that great character is as rare a thing as great genius, if it be not even a nobler form of it?
8503	Nowhere, then?
8503	Of course they could, said one party; are there not plenty of cases in authentic history?
8503	One is tempted to ask, Were there no attorneys, then, in the place he came from, of whom he might have taken advice beforehand?
8503	Productive criticism is a great deal more difficult; it asks, What did the author propose to himself?
8503	Que si un cuerpo noble, vivo, Con potencias y razon Y con alma no se tema, ¿ Quien cuerpos muertos temió?"
8503	Shakespeare, Goethe, Burns,--what have their biographies to do with us?
8503	Shall this subtract from the debt we owe him?
8503	She was asked if she ever had any pleasure in his company?
8503	Suppose we should tax the Elgin marbles with being too Greek?
8503	Take this( from"Oedipus") as a proof of it:--"The gods are just, But how can finite measure infinite?
8503	The genius of the poet will tell him what word to use( else what use in his being poet at all?
8503	Was Parris equally sincere?
8503	Was a doctor at a loss about a case?
8503	Was he an inspired idiot,_ vôtre bizarre Shakespeare_?
8503	Was he the unconscious agent of his own superstition, or did he take advantage of the superstition of others for purposes of his own?
8503	Was he, then, a great poet?
8503	Was not even mighty Caesar''s last thought of his drapery?
8503	Was there no harvest of the ear for him whose eye had stocked its garners so full as wellnigh to forestall all after- comers?
8503	We can not help asking what business have paper money and political economy and geognosy here?
8503	Were they too earnest in the strife to save their souls alive?
8503	What English reader would know what"You are intriguing me"means, on page 228?
8503	What English- speaking man, except Boswell, could have arrived at Weimar, as Goethe did, in that absurd_ Werthermontirung_?
8503	What gave and secures for him this singular eminence?
8503	What has he told us of himself?
8503	What is that which some call_ land_, but a fine coat faced with green?
8503	What wonder that Dryden should have been substituted for Davenant as the butt of the"Rehearsal,"and that the parody should have had such a run?
8503	What, then, is the value of the first folio as an authority?
8503	Who has never felt an almost irresistible temptation, and seemingly not self- originated, to let himself go?
8503	Who was the father of Romulus and Remus?
8503	Woul''t drink up eysil?
8503	Woul''t weep?
8503	Yet were they not volumes, after all, and able to stand on their own edges beside the immortals, if nothing more?
8503	a simple rustic, warbling his_ native_ wood- notes wild, in other words, insensible to the benefits of culture?
8503	a vast, irregular genius?
8503	all die in one so young, so small?"
8503	and how far has he succeeded in carrying it out?"
8503	eat a crocodile?"
8503	in short, as we Yankees say,"to speak out in meeting"?
8503	nay, not so very long ago, of Merlin?
8503	of Calderon even, with his tropical warmth and vigor of production?
8503	of robust Corneille?
8503	of tender Racine?
8503	or the_ sea_, but a waistcoat of water- tabby?
8503	or when she''ll say to thee,''I find thee worthy, do this thing for me''?"
8503	to let his mind gallop and kick and curvet and roll like a horse turned loose?
8503	will the aspiring blood of Lancaster Sink in the ground?
8503	woul''t fast?
8503	woul''t fight?
8503	woul''t tear thyself?