Questions

This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

identifier	question
44367	''Lose it, Miss Ashton?'' 44367 ''What keeps you here?''
44367	''Why do you not follow?
44367	Must your hour call you twice?
42289	He paused, and I said:"Shall I send for Sophia and Anne?"
42289	who can promise that?
16715	1826?
16715	2 vols., London, 187?
16715	In his"Reply to Blackwood''s Edinburgh Magazine,"Byron wrote:"What have we got instead[ of following Pope]?
16715	In the seventeenth stanza he changes,"A better rose will never spring Than him I''ve lost on Yarrow?"
16715	In the sixth stanza Scott changes the lines,"O ir ye come to drink the wine As we hae done before, O?"
16715	Paris, 1840?
16715	Scott wrote to Lockhart, May 30, 1826,"What do you about Shakspeare?
16715	Shakspeare[ edited by Scott and Lockhart?
16715	Was it because Scott''s genius clung to Scotland and Lamb''s to London, that the two seemed so little to notice each other?
16715	to"O come ye here to part your land, The bonnie forest thorough?"
29624	As for Richard, no doubt, he is not the Richard of history, but what does that matter?
29624	But if Scott had quoted, would he have altered the spelling?
29624	But who can_ read_ a dozen versions, say, of''The Queen''s Marie''with any pleasure?
29624	For as Quentin wins Isabelle at last, what more success need we want?
29624	Nor can we proceed better than by the old way of inquiry-- first, What were the peculiar characteristics of his thought?
29624	Ten years earlier_ The Fortunes of Nigel_ would have been a miracle, and one might have said,''If a man begins like this, what will he do later?''
29624	and why should not Le Balafré, that loyal Leslie, be the instrument of his nephew''s good fortune?
29624	and, secondly, What distinguished his expression of this thought?
21250	''And for this grazing, which may be worth about five shillings a- year, you are willing to throw away a hundred pound or two?''
21250	''And what difference does it make, friend?''
21250	''How many sheep will it feed?''
21250	''I am Dandie Dinmont, sir, of the Charlies- hope-- the Liddesdale lad-- ye''ll mind me?
21250	''No memorial, man?''
21250	''What plea, you loggerhead?''
21250	After all, is this not what was meant by Horace when he said that the subject rightly chosen will provide what is wanted in art and style?
21250	And why?
21250	Are not the best judges those who think of his whole achievement altogether-- the whole amazing world of his creation--_La Comédie Humaine_?
21250	But is this anything of a reproach to the author of the story?
21250	Do we at home in Scotland make too much of Scott''s life and associations when we think of his poetry and his novels?
21250	His story sets him travelling, and may we not admire the skill of the author who uses the old device of a wandering hero with such good effect?
21250	Is Balzac often judged accurately and coldly, piece by piece, here a line and there a line?
21250	Might not Falstaff himself be taken into comparison too?
21250	The_ Lay_, a rhyming romance;_ Waverley_ an historical novel; what, it may be asked, is so very remarkable about their origins?
21250	Was it not open to any one to write romances in verse or prose?
21250	said the lawyer;''d''ye think I can remember all the fools that come to plague me?''
54980	Why, what''s the matter now? 54980 ''A bed?
54980	''And who art thou,''they cried,''Who hast this battle fought and won?''
54980	''But who was Jeanie Deans and how did she save her sister?''
54980	''Did you ever hear of Sir Walter Scott?''
54980	''Do you know who that man is?''
54980	''What is that you say?''
54980	''Where did you hear that story?''
54980	''Why did she do that?''
54980	Alone, in indigence and age, To linger out his pilgrimage?
54980	And did he wander forth alone?
54980	Are there not beds and rooms enough in the house?
54980	Does the picture I have painted compare well with the pattern given?''
54980	His lecture to his daughters on the evil of dancing is taken from Patrick Walker''s Life of Cameron:-- Dance?--dance, said ye?
54980	How say you, cavaliers?--is your wager won or lost?''
54980	In a letter to his friend Morritt in 1811 Scott inquires,''Do you know anything of a striking ancient castle... called Coningsburgh?
54980	Was it not an ancient_ hospitium_{ 154} in which, I am warranted to say, beds were nightly made down for a score of pilgrims?"''
54980	What checks the fiery soul of James?
54980	Who in that dim- wood glen hath strayed, Yet longed for Roslin''s magic glade?
54980	Why sits that champion of the dames Inactive on his steed?
54980	Would you dare to compare to_ them_ in value the richest ore that ever was dug out of the mine?
54980	on thy airy brow, Since England gains the pass the while, And struggles through the deep defile?
54980	what d''ye lack?''
18124	Dear Walter,says Aunt Jenny,"what is a_ virtuoso_?"
18124	Do n''t ye know? 18124 Sir,"replied the inscrutable stranger,"can you say anything clever about''_ bend- leather_''?
18124	''Johnny, my man,''said Constable,''what the mischief puts drawing at sight into_ your_ head?''
18124	''No place to lie down at all?''
18124	''Well,''said he,''did the person die of any contagious disorder?''
18124	''What,''said Mary,''wilt thou not help us so far?
18124	And it is to Erskine that Scott replies,--"For me, thus nurtured, dost thou ask The classic poet''s well- conn''d task?
18124	Can London give such a dinner?
18124	He paused, and I said,''Shall I send for Sophia and Anne?''
18124	I think care has troubled my memory-- yet something of it I should remember, canst thou not aid me?
18124	Is it fit, think ye, that Baby Charles should let his thoughts be publicly seen?
18124	Nay, if the Douglas and the Hepburn hatch the complot together, the bird when it breaks the shell will scare Scotland, will it not, my Fleming?''
18124	Or than the striking autobiographical study of his own infancy which I have before extracted from the introduction to the third?
18124	Scott, watching the retreat, repeated with mock pathos the first verse of an old pastoral song:--"What will I do gin my hoggie die?
18124	Take this description, for instance, of the Scotch tents near Edinburgh:--"A thousand did I say?
18124	The word reached the ear of the unhappy princess who caught it up, speaking with great rapidity,''Husband!--what husband?
18124	What more is wanted, then?
18124	Who could read that scene and say for a moment that Dalgetty is painted"from the skin inwards"?
18124	Would you object to my trying the old barrel with a_ few de joy_?''
18124	and is it not heart- rending to think that I must be their ruin?''
18124	closeted with Morton?
18124	or do we not rather look back with a sort of wonder upon our former selves as beings separate and distinct from what we now are?
37631	''I like Bolton,''thus continued Sir Walter;''he is a brave man,--and who can dislike the brave? 37631 ''Well, Allan,''he said, when he saw me at this last sitting,''were you at the coronation?
37631	It may be asked, why we should take for granted that the writer of these novels is not himself a member of the military profession? 37631 Our pleasant follies are made the whips to scourge us,"as Lear says; for otherwise, what could possibly stand in the way of his nomination?
37631	What have we to offer him?
37631	''Well,''I said,''upon the whole, how did you like it?''
37631	''What does thou drawn among these heartless hinds?''
37631	--_S._''How was that?
37631	--_S._''Out upon thee, Allan-- dost thou call that begging?
37631	Besides, what sort of defence is this of intemperance?
37631	But what remedy?
37631	But why recur to things so painful?
37631	Did you ever read Savage''s beautiful poem of The Wanderer?
37631	Do you ever see Lockhart?
37631	Do you not wish you had been on the outside with your gun?
37631	How do the goodwife and bairns?
37631	I yet recollect the cause-- can I ever forget it?
37631	Is it necessary to justify such a compliment by examples?
37631	Is there any remembrance of this upon the spot?
37631	No word of your horses yet?
37631	On hearing the lad''s Christian name, he exclaimed with emphasis,"Why, whom is he called after?"
37631	Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this fashion is?
37631	Sir Walter Scott?
37631	The people here are like to smother me with kindness, so why should I be in a great hurry to leave them?
37631	Wesley you alone can touch; but will you not have the hive about you?
37631	Will you make these inquiries for me_ sotto voce_?
37631	Will you, if your time serves, undertake two little commissions for me?
37631	William, were you ever in this place before?''
37631	he added, cocking his eye like a bird,"I wonder if Shakespeare and Bacon ever met to screw ilk other up?"
37631	how did he make his living?--by telling tales, or singing ballads?''
37631	how giddily she turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five- and- thirty?
37631	is it thus that I visit the scenery of The Lay of the Last Minstrel?"
37631	where am I to get cake?"
42062	Send me_ Rokeby_,Byron writes to Murray on seeing it advertised,--"Who the devil is he?
42062	Weber,said he,"what''s the matter with you?"
42062	Well, my friend,said he,"what more would you have?
42062	Would you believe it?
42062	''But, John, do you never happen to_ kill_ any of your patients?''--''Kill?
42062	''Do n''t you think he was like his honor, Tom?''
42062	''Was he frae the Indies?''
42062	--''And what may their names be?
42062	--''Well, but let us hear; you were a_ horse_-doctor before; now, it seems, you are a_ man_-doctor; how do you get on?''
42062	Alas, who can promise that?
42062	And direct me to send it-- by sea or by mail?
42062	And when the worn- out drudge old ocean leaves, What comfort greets him, and what hut receives?
42062	But who can reckon upon a State where claims are kept out of view until they are in the hands of a_ writer_?
42062	But who ever dreamed-- most assuredly not Scott-- of holding up the Dean of St. Patrick''s as on the whole an"exemplary character"?
42062	But, why did not the author allow me to be his Gaelic Dragoman?
42062	Dost thou long for the gales of Arabia?
42062	For who that remembers the circumstances of his first visit to the vale of St. John, but must see throughout the impress of his own real romance?
42062	How could you have hoped that I should not discover you?
42062	I appeal to your Grace if she is not a very bad lady that?
42062	I ought to blush, if I had grace enough left, at my long and ungenerous silence: but what shall I say?
42062	If so, let it pass as an exclamation.--Is it possible that Mr. Erskine can have written it?
42062	Is there a true Scotsman who, being aware of this anecdote, would be disposed to yawn over the romance of Ferumbras?
42062	Is there any chance of our getting him in?
42062	Is there no getting rid of that iniquitous modus, and requiring the_ butt_ in kind?
42062	It is a great good fortune to him to be in your neighborhood, as he is an idolater of genius, and where could he offer up his worship so justly?
42062	Or would you be pleased but to fancy a whale?
42062	Perhaps it is a secret?''
42062	The arrival of your long- dated bills decided my giving in, for what could James or I do with them?
42062	What can be expected from such a distribution?
42062	What is Canning about?
42062	What is his situation?
42062	What would a Londoner say if, instead of his roll and muffins, this black bread, relishing of tar and turpentine, were presented for his breakfast?
42062	When your Lordship sees Rogers, will you remember me kindly to him?
42062	Who is Mr. Brunton?
42062	Why of the horrors of the Sumburgh Rost?
42062	Why should I talk of Mousa''s castled coast?
42062	Will you forgive me, my dear friend, if I own I had you in my recollection?
42062	Yet what can surpass Flora, and her gallant brother?
42062	_ MY DEAR SIR_,--Law, then, is your profession-- I mean a profession you give your mind and time to-- but how"fag as a_ clerk_"?
42062	_ Quære_--Might not the grate revolve?
42062	_ Res nolunt diu male administrari._ Why can we not meet to talk over these matters over a glass of claret?
42062	_ Us!_ What effect must it have upon those under the influence of the superstitions of the Highlands?...
42062	and how is the necessary restriction to take place, without the greatest immediate distress and hardship to these poor creatures?
22656	And all that happened here, in our Galloway?
22656	And did she not see,demanded the taller man,"by the white wand at the door, that gentlemans had taken up the public house on their ain business?"
22656	And do you not blush to own it?
22656	And if Diana married Frank, or went to the convent?
22656	And is this,said the soldier,"all the information you are disposed to give me?"
22656	And lived happy ever after?
22656	And now,he added,"what have you to say about this robbery?"
22656	And what is that?
22656	And what,Edward suggested,"would become of pretty Alice then?"
22656	And what,said Edward,"are the other Highland chiefs going to do?"
22656	And who dared buy the estate, when the bonny knave- bairn that heirs it may any day come back to claim his ain?
22656	And who may this be?
22656	And who, for Heaven''s sake, is Rashleigh?
22656	And who, then, are you?
22656	And why should I not?
22656	And would you destroy this fine old ruin?
22656	Are the passes open?
22656	Are you here, in God''s name?
22656	Are you in the dark?
22656	Are you sure of that?
22656	Ay,said Edie,"and where do ye think my pike- staff would be a''the time?"
22656	But what is blackmail?
22656	But what,asked Maid Margaret,"shall we do for the cattle and sheep that were hanging by the heels, when Edward went into Donald Bean Lean''s cave?"
22656	But what?
22656	But why did the Highland people want to rebel, anyway?
22656	Call Miss Neville,she continued;"what do you mean by Lady Geraldin?
22656	Can this poor fellow deliver a letter?
22656	Can you do this?
22656	Come, come,exclaimed Oldbuck,"what is the meaning of this?
22656	Dark? 22656 Did Frank_ really_ take the man''s bag with the money and things?"
22656	Did I not tell you neither to mix nor mingle?
22656	Did gipsies really steal children?
22656	Did the Prince tell you that I was engaged to Miss Rose Bradwardine?
22656	Did you ever hear of a door being barred when a man was in the death- agony?
22656	Did you ever hear of the Unwearied Hand?
22656	Did you ever see such a tup- headed old ass?
22656	Dinna ye hear?
22656	Do any people smuggle nowadays?
22656	Do your letters,he asked,"confirm this unpleasant news?"
22656	Eh-- what?
22656	Fat''s tat? 22656 Go on-- go on,"they cried;"where was the house and what happened?"
22656	Good Heavens,cried Frank,"then Father Vaughan was Miss Vernon''s father?"
22656	Have you read Markham?
22656	Here, beldam-- deyvil''s kind,cried Hatteraick in his harshest voice,"have you brought me the brandy and news of my people?"
22656	How can you,he said,"you who have seen the world, believe such child''s nonsense as that?"
22656	How dare you, or Jenny either, presume to meddle with my private affairs? 22656 In Sir Walter Scott''s time,"I resumed gravely,"novels were not written for little girls--""Then why did you give us Miss Edgeworth to read?"
22656	Indeed,said Oldbuck,"and what means of discovery did you employ?"
22656	Is he dead, then?
22656	Is not Miss Vernon, then, married?
22656	Is the gentleman with that curious name,said Edward,"a local robber or a thief- taker?"
22656	It sounds a nice title,said Sir Toady;"had he only one?"
22656	Miss Vernon,said Frank, trying to gain what information he could,"does she still bear that name?"
22656	Morris has been robbed?
22656	No, of course not,shouted Hugh John,"it was the Scotch drover, Campbell,--for how else could he know so well about it?
22656	Not so fast-- not so fast,her enemy went on;"will three shillings take me to Queensferry according to your deceitful programme?
22656	Oh, I ken just this about it, Monkbarns,he answered,"and what profit have I in telling ye a lie?
22656	Oh, then,replied the other,"that will doubtless be the young English duinhà ©-wassel who is to be married to the Lady Flora?"
22656	Oh, will I?
22656	On what suspicion? 22656 Out upon you,"cried Fergus, with pretended ill- humour,"can you think of nothing but ladies at such a time?
22656	Please, is rolling in the snow permitted?
22656	Scott writes such a lot before you get at the story,she objected, knitting her brows;"why could n''t he just have begun right away?"
22656	So ho, friend, whither so late?
22656	Such a journey ill becomes my place,said the Bailie, doubtfully,"but if I did come, would you really and soothfully pay me the siller?"
22656	Tell me,said Frank, somewhat impatiently,"where does this Squire Inglewood live?
22656	The soldiers had the worst of it, had they not?
22656	Then I fear you are equally a stranger to the more modern names of Gibson and Bartlett?
22656	Then Sir Hildebrand believes it?
22656	Then in the name of Heaven, Mr. Frank Osbaldistone, what_ can_ you do?
22656	Think ye the spirit could win away through all these bolts and bars?
22656	To prison,cried Frank,"and by what warrant-- for what offence?
22656	Was he called after the pens?
22656	Was little Harry really stolen by gipsies, or was he killed over the cliff?
22656	Was that an echo? 22656 Well, I''m not saying it did n''t, am I?"
22656	Wha''s Mr. Robert Campbell? 22656 What are you doing with my bairn?"
22656	What are you doing? 22656 What are you standing chattering there for, Mac- Guffog?"
22656	What does it matter where it all happened?
22656	What is that ye say, Edie?
22656	What is that you say, witch? 22656 What is the matter with you, you fool?"
22656	What seek ye here?
22656	What was your father thinking of? 22656 What,"said the stranger,"on an unarmed man and your friend?"
22656	Where are you, Mother Deyvilson?
22656	Where is it?
22656	Where is the English stranger?
22656	Which book shall we have next?
22656	Whisht, man, whisht,he cried,"are ye weary of your life?
22656	Why did he work so hard?
22656	Why did you not turn back when I waved to you?
22656	Why does a cat not eat butter for breakfast every morning? 22656 Why, Hatteraick,"said Glossin,"have you turned driveller?
22656	Why, I am not afraid,said the poor baronet,"that is, if-- do any mishaps ever happen on such occasions?"
22656	Why-- didn''t they all live?
22656	Will you ask forgiveness for the sake of God, King James, and auld friendship?
22656	Will you not add Rashleigh to the family gallery?
22656	Yes,repeated the young Englishman,"I mean who and what is he?"
22656	You are, I suppose,said Mannering, calmly,"the master of that vessel in the bay?"
22656	You-- you-- you,stammered the Antiquary, between confusion and anger,"you strolling old vagabond, what ken ye about it?"
22656	_ Must_ we read the chapters?
22656	''Why did you not turn back when I waved to you?''"]
22656	And now,"concluded Elspeth, abruptly,"can you forgive me?"
22656	And what are you doing there?"
22656	And what of Glossin?"
22656	And what the deil want ye at this hour o''the e''en?
22656	And what, pray, is the meaning of this-- strangers in the jail after lock- up time?
22656	And when are ye gaun yonder again?
22656	And who and what are you?"
22656	Anxious at the last to leave a good impression, he stammered out as he passed one of the older men,"And your son, Gabriel Baillie, is he well?"
22656	Are you come from the wars abroad to stir up strife in a peaceful land?"
22656	At any rate, Red Cap succeeded in one case-- why should he not in another?
22656	At this Hatteraick cried out suddenly,"Der deyvil, how could there be footmarks at all on the ground when it was as hard as the heart of a Memel log?"
22656	Bairn-- what should she do wi''a bairn?
22656	Be''st du?"
22656	Besides, had he not good old Joseph Train, the Castle Douglas exciseman, to tell him everything-- than whom no man knew Galloway better?"
22656	Besides, how was one so delicate as Miss Wardour to stand out such a night?
22656	Besides, what would the country do for its gossip-- the blithe clatter at e''en about the fire?
22656	Besides, why come to me in such a matter?
22656	But as soon as he was assured that it really was his master who stood beside him, he moaned out,"Oh, why did you leave us, Squire?"
22656	But maybe ye''ll hae heard o''Derncleugh, about a mile frae Ellangowan?"
22656	But what brings you to Cub Hall?
22656	But what can the woman want with me?
22656	But what had become of the child, Harry Bertram?
22656	But what is that?"
22656	But what news of our mining adventure in Glen Withershins?"
22656	But what''s this?"
22656	But where''s Rashleigh?
22656	But why crush every hope-- if Sir Arthur''s objections could be removed?"
22656	But you must have seen old Sir Frederick Vernon at the hall, when he played the part of Father Vaughan?"
22656	But, Captain Hatteraick, will you kindly tell me where you were on the day which you remember so exactly?"
22656	But, among other things, where is the good thousand pound Scots that I lent you, and when am I to be seeing it?"
22656	Can this be you?"
22656	Can we have another snow fight?"
22656	Did I nurse you for this, coward dogs-- that you should see your father prisoner, and come back to tell it?"
22656	Do the folk think I have a spare windpipe in my pocket, after John Highlandman has slit this one with his jocteleg?
22656	Do you understand?"
22656	Even Dominie Sampson longed to be at his books, and going repeatedly to the windows demanded,"Why tarry the wheels of their chariot?"
22656	Frank?"
22656	He thrust his hand into his pocket as if to draw out a hidden weapon, exclaiming:"What cheer, brother?
22656	I suppose you could have stayed away if you had liked?"
22656	I trust it was in the skirmish that he was killed?"
22656	INTERLUDE OF LOCALITY"And all this happened here?"
22656	Is she dead or living?"
22656	Mr. Owen, Mr. Owen, how''s all with you, man?"
22656	Or are there others present in this place?"
22656	Or that I can dive down at one side of a Highland loch and come up at the other like a sheldrake?
22656	Or will it pay my charges there, if, by your fault, I should be compelled to tarry there a day for want of tide?
22656	Sir Arthur, will you permit me to speak to Dousterswivel?
22656	The last words in the letter were,"_ Is she not as handsome and accomplished as I described her to be?_"Edward was exceedingly perplexed.
22656	Then I suppose you can neither give a ball, nor a mash, nor a horn?"
22656	Think there would be all that, if he got killed right at the beginning, eh?"
22656	This day ye have quenched seven smoking hearths-- see if the fire in your own parlour burns the brighter for that?
22656	Was not I the man?"
22656	Waverley?"
22656	Were not you engaged in it?"
22656	Wha''s Mr. Robert Campbell, quo''he?"
22656	Wha''s that, I wad say?
22656	What for are ye stopping, man?"
22656	What say you, Lovel?
22656	What should I do in Scotland, Miss Vernon?"
22656	What would happen to ye if the bailies should come to get witting of it?"
22656	Where did_ you_ meet Mr. Robert Campbell, as you call him yourself?"
22656	Which shall it be first?"
22656	Why can not the man do his work without making others uncomfortable?''
22656	Why does n''t he go out and fight, like Fergus Mac- Ivor?
22656	Why then had he need to be afraid?
22656	Why, because she is dressed in silk and gauze, should you think that you are compelled to unload your stale compliments on every unfortunate girl?
22656	Will it even hire me a pinnace, for which the regular price is five shillings?"
22656	Will you look at them?"
22656	Would Captain Waverley care to see them go through part of their exercise?"
22656	You seem on the outlook, eh?"
22656	_ In conspectu classis_,--''in sight of the fleet,''--and where will you find a finer bay than that on your right hand?
22656	_ Rob Roy was taken!_"Taken,"repeated Helen Mac- Gregor,"taken!--And do you live to say so?
22656	continued Fergus, in a low voice,"were you so long about Glennaquoich and yet never heard of the Bodach Glas?
22656	cried Frank,"whose name should create so deep a terror?"
22656	cried the Mac- Gregor,"what d''ye say?
22656	cried the leader, no other than Hatteraick himself,"what is that?
22656	hae ye forgotten_ Ha nun Gregarach?_"Instantly there was a bustle inside.
22656	he cried,"abandon the expedition on which we have all embarked?"
22656	he cried;"and had you the heart?"
22656	he demanded,"some reiver ye hae listed, Rob?
22656	he muttered rapidly between his teeth,"how fell this?
22656	retorted Hatteraick,"where should I get a glim?
22656	said Hugh John, truculently,"is n''t what I say true, Toady Lion?"
22656	said Sweetheart, a little ruefully,"but are you sure?"
22656	said the Bailie,"answer me that-- why should I not?"
22656	said the Baron, without rising, and speaking in the manner of a prince receiving an embassy;"what news from Fergus Mac- Ivor Vich Ian Vohr?"
22656	she cried,"dinna ye hear?
22656	summed up Hugh John, nodding his head in grave approval of Sir Walter,"but why ca n''t he always write like that?"