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40442So runs my dream; but what am I? 40442 When can their glory fade?
40442*****"Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams?
40442Was there a man dismay''d?
36093I( I suppose) said,''What is there in old Dante''s face that is missing in Goethe''s?''
36093What can be more poetical?"
1243Do I want to live? 1243 Do you know this place?
1243Jane, do you hear that nightingale singing in the wood?
1243Was this feeling dead? 1243 Ah, can we measure by years the time between that day and this? 1243 And one instance occurs in that masterly and most beautiful poem, theElegy on an Unfortunate Lady": Is there no bright reversion in the sky?
1243And this is Pope''s improvement: What beckoning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?
1243And what nights did the heads of the critics undergo after the meeting?
1243Are we the better artists for our preference of the waiting- woman?
1243Did he think his faith to be worthy of no more than a fictitious sign and a false proof?
1243Finally, is there any need to cite the passage of_ Jane Eyre_ that contains the avowal, the vigil in the garden?
1243Here is Ben Jonson: What beckoning ghost, besprent with April dew, Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew?
1243How can I?''
1243How shall we venture to complain?
1243Is this indeed true, and are men so divided and so sure?
1243Is, then, the wisdom of the maxim confounded?
1243It occurs in something customary about Italy: Hearest thou, Italia?
1243Lewes, whose own romances are all condoned, all forgiven by time and oblivion, who gave her lessons, who told her to study Jane Austen?
1243Nay, who makes Micawber finally to prosper?
1243Or have they not rather already turned, in numbers, back to the parting, or meeting, of eternal roads?
1243Or is Swinburne''s a"single and excepted case"?
1243Shall the reader indeed"note"such a matter?
1243She seems to have undergone the inevitable dream of mourners-- the human dream of the Labyrinth, shall I call it?
1243Since when has caricature ceased to be an art good for man-- an honest game between him and nature?
1243The hand that made its Pecksniff in pure wit, has it not the right to belabour him in earnest-- albeit a kind of earnest that disappoints us?
1243The others, whose reviews doubtless did their proportionate part in still further hunting and harrying the tired English of their day?
1243The streams turned loose all over the unfortunate country?
1243Was ever thought so pouched, so produced, so surely a handful of loot, as the last thought of this verse?
1243We are tempted to ask whether Wordsworth himself believed in a sympathy he asks us-- on such grounds!--to believe in?
1243What castle walls have stood in such a light of old romance, where in all poetry is there a sound wilder than that of those faint"horns of elfland"?
1243What kind of living will it be when you-- Oh God, would you like to live with your soul in the grave?"
1243What would he have?
1243What, finally, is his influence upon the language he has ransacked?
1243Where are there more divinely poetic lines than those, which will never be wearied with quotation, beginning,"A splendour falls"?
1243Who, it has been well asked by a citizen of a modern free country, is thoroughly free except a fish?
1243Why?
1243but why that bleeding bosom gored, Why dimly gleams the visionary sword?
1243cried the tourist at Niagara, and the Irishman said,"Why would n''t it?"
1243or was it the author of the passages here to follow?--and therefore one for whom the national tongue was much the better?
8777Can_ you_ tell us?
8777How about Matthew Arnold?
8777How did he look?
8777Let me see,he replied;"is not he the man who was at the same university with Matthew Arnold, and who could tell us nothing of him?"
8777Longfellow amused me by making two epigrams:--''What is autobiography?
8777Longfellow, will you turn down my coat collar?
8777Now,said the professor,"you do n''t mean to tell me that I have got to that yet?
8777When I came home from my pleasant visit to your house last week( or was it a day or two before last week? 8777 Why ca n''t you stay?"
8777Why, who did, then?
8777Why,he exclaimed, with a most astonished air,"is that you?
8777You did n''t?
8777''But, Martin, are n''t you very tired?''
8777''Why, how old is he?''
8777----?''
8777A few days afterward some one was heard to say,"Mr. Emerson, how did you like Professor----?"
8777After a brief visit Longfellow was about to withdraw, when Janin detained him, saying:''What can I do for you in Paris?
8777Again:"Will it be too late for a few paragraphs about Forcey the Willson?
8777Am I right or wrong?"
8777And again:"Have thee seen and heard the Hindoo Mohini?
8777And again:-- How do you suppose that unskillful scholars are to live, if Fields should one day die?
8777And can you tell me anything?
8777And when?"
8777And why?
8777Any smell of violets in the distance?
8777At each turn he regarded Longfellow, and at length came up, and taking his hand said:"''Is this Professor Longfellow?
8777But how about this''Faust''?
8777But the mystery of decadence, the long sunsetting, the loss of power-- what do they mean?
8777Can you not burn down the Boston Athenaeum to- night?
8777Could you contrive to print it on a fly- leaf, if I get it ready, and put a little sort of dedicatory poem at the end of it?
8777Did artists ever before find such an eye and such an ear?
8777Do you know anything about this pestilent manuscript she raves about?
8777Do you?"
8777Ever read his history of the''Ten Great Religions?''
8777Genius?
8777Has the French book on Spiritualism come yet?
8777He felt a certain brotherhood with Robert Burns, and early loved his genius; but where were two more unlike?
8777He wrote in 1877:--"When are you coming back from your Cottage on the Cliffs?
8777Her daughter was told that when the President heard her name he seized her hand, saying,"Is this the little woman who made this great war?"
8777How could he render again the knowledge of divine goodness and divine love which were revealed to him?
8777How could it be otherwise, with such guests as he entertained, and with his own unflagging vivacity and his admirable social gifts?
8777How could it know so much?"
8777How did it seem to elbow thy way to the polls through throngs of men folk?"
8777How did they draw their sweet, refreshing tint from the brown earth, or the limpid air, or the white light?
8777How do you stand it?
8777How is Pope?''
8777How long he waited, or what thoughts were stirred by this first glimpse at the ceaseless procession of humanity, who can say?
8777I smell spring afar off--sniff-- do you?
8777If not, in what paper?
8777In one of Longfellow''s notes he alludes humorously to the autograph nuisance:--"Do you know how to apply properly for autographs?
8777Is it better?...
8777Isaacs''?"
8777It seems to me that is a little too early for Boston, is n''t it?
8777MY DEAR MR. FIELDS,--_Can_ you tell me anything that will get this horrible old woman of the C---- California off from my shoulders?
8777My dear, you are engaged and pledged in a year or two to encounter a similar fate, and do you wish to know how you shall feel?
8777Of his grace of manner, what could be more expressive than the following notes of compliment and acknowledgment?
8777One day the child looked earnestly at the long rows of books in the library, and at length said:--"Have you got''Jack the Giant- Killer''?"
8777Shall you want it?
8777She was one of those ladies of Edinburgh, he said,"who could turn to me, as she did, and say,''Whom would you like to meet?''
8777Speaking of one of the young women who grew up under her eye, she often said:"What could I do in this world without Mine Burntssen?
8777Talking of Victor Hugo and Lamartine,''Take them for all in all, which do you prefer?''
8777Tea came, and the sun went down, and still he talked and questioned, and then, after a long silence, he said suddenly:"What''s he doing now?
8777Was it Lucy Larcom?
8777Was the fault mine?
8777We ourselves are but poor slaves still in Italy: you feel for us; will you keep this gem as a slight recognition of what you have done?"
8777What did he mean?
8777What did the old Pilgrims mean by coming here?"
8777What is the dear Doctor doing?
8777What shall I do?
8777What think you of the enclosed instead of the sad ending of''The Ship''?
8777Whence came their color?
8777Who besides the writer should comprehend every shade of meaning which made the cloud or sunshine of his poem?
8777Who wrote''A Loyal Woman''s No?''
8777Whom would you like to see?''
8777Why could n''t we have been satisfied with the thing without making such a cackling over it?
8777Why deny, then, that some men have it more directly and more visibly than others?"
8777Why do n''t you make a book as big as Allibone''s out of your store of unparalleled personal recollections?
8777Why had I found no words to express or even indicate the feeling that had choked me?
8777Why should we not always do it when we write letters?
8777Will there be anybody in town then?
8777Will you do it yourself?"
8777_ Are you quite as quick of hearing?_ Please to say that once again.
8777_ Do n''t I use plain words, your Reverence?_ Yes, I often use a cane."
8777_ How_ is she?
8777_ What_ is she?
8777_ Where_ is she?
8777was asked immediately in the first pause, and"What did he say?"
8777who is this?
35598''But the quest,''the king went on,''have you seen the cup that Joseph brought long ago to Glastonbury?'' 35598 ''My Lancelot,''said the king,''our Strongest, has the quest availed for you?''
35598''Yes, yes,''said he,''are you so bold when you did n''t see the Grail? 35598 A pale fairy queen come to take Arthur to fairy land?"
35598Ah, my lord Arthur,cried Sir Bedivere,"where shall I go now?
35598And are you the renowned Geraint?
35598And suppose that I dreamed that you love this greatest knight?
35598And what music have I broken?
35598And why do n''t you go on skipping, Sir Fool?
35598Are n''t you the king?
35598Are n''t you the knight they call''Light- of- love?''
35598Armorer,cried Geraint,"what is going on?
35598But the arms, the arms, where can I get arms for myself? 35598 Damsel, is this the knight you''ve brought me?"
35598Did you do as I said?
35598Do n''t you know me?
35598Do you recognize it, child?
35598Do you suppose I will ask a favor of you?
35598Fair host and Earl,he said after his refreshing supper,"who is this sparrow- hawk that everybody in the town is talking about?
35598Fair sirs,cried Arthur,"why are you sitting here?"
35598Fie, Churl, is that an answer for a noble knight? 35598 Girl,"shouted he,"why wail over a man who shames your beauty so, by dressing it in that rag?
35598Great Master, do you love me?
35598Has n''t he conquered the Romans and driven off the heathen and made all the people free? 35598 Have you no pity for me?"
35598He could scarcely speak, but he gasped out,''Where are you from and who are you?'' 35598 Heaven knows I do n''t know much, but what is that, the phantom of a cup that comes and goes?"
35598How can I be happy over anything,replied she,"until my lord is well again?"
35598Is all really well?
35598Just as you wish,cried the King,"but why do n''t you wear the diamonds that I found for you in the tarn, which Lancelot won for you at the jousts?"
35598May I have your leave, my lord,cried Earl Limours,"to cross the room and speak a word with your lady who seems so lonely?"
35598Merlin do you love me?
35598My poor Churl,cried the king, full of indignant pity,"what beast or fiend has been after you?
35598No, no,said Percival,"what phantom do you mean?
35598O, wild man of the woods,she cried,"do n''t you understand our language, or has heaven given you a beautiful face and no tongue?"
35598People say that you have the strength of ten men; ca n''t you trust to it without depending on these toggeries and tricks?
35598Speak out; what have you seen or heard?
35598Tell me your names,demanded Arthur,"and why do you sit there by the fountain?"
35598That knight does n''t belong to the Round Table, does he?
35598The great Lancelot?
35598Three horses and three suits of armor, and all in charge of-- whom? 35598 Well, if he is n''t dead, why should you cry for him so?
35598What did you see or what did you hear?
35598What did you see?
35598What do I know?
35598What do I owe you, friends?
35598What do you mean, Vivien, with these pretty tricks of yours?
35598What do you want me to give you?
35598What does all this hubbub mean?
35598What is it?
35598What is this?
35598What knight is not overthrown sometimes? 35598 What news from Camelot?"
35598What would you like to bear on your shield?
35598What, is he dead?
35598When has Lancelot ever worn a lady''s token?
35598Where are you going, son?
35598Where do you come from, my guest, and what is your name?
35598Who are you?
35598Who is it then?
35598Who is this?
35598Who will go hunt this demon of the woods for me?
35598Why did n''t the king send me a knight that fights for love and glory?
35598Why do you laugh?
35598Why do you mock me so?
35598Why do you wear the crown royal on your shield?
35598Why do you wear the royal crown?
35598Why is your town so noisy and busy to- night, good old fellow?
35598Would some of your kind people take him up and bear him off somewhere out of this cruel sun? 35598 Yes?
35598Yes? 35598 You read the book, my pretty Vivien?"
35598''Have you seen him?
35598''Where is the crowd who called out to me?''
35598And again,"O, Merlin, do you love me?"
35598And it is a sweet surprise, is n''t it?
35598And_ then_ if I tried it on you who would blame me?"
35598Are n''t you old?"
35598Are you all Galahads or all Percivals?
35598Arms, did you say?
35598But are you going to Caerleon?
35598But, if not, all is well?"
35598Ca n''t you see by this lad''s broad fair forehead and fine hands that he is nobly born?
35598Do n''t you hate him?
35598Do n''t you see, dear love, how this strange mood of yours must make me feel it more than ever?
35598Do n''t you want to go home?
35598Do you see how weak I seem, leaning on these men?
35598Fast?
35598For why should you anyway care to go in again yourself, when you''ve already won the nine diamonds for the queen?"
35598How can you keep me tethered here, Mother?
35598How could I dare to obey him and let him be harmed?
35598I do n''t suppose that you know the old rhyme,''Trust not at all or all in all?''"
35598Is n''t that simple?
35598Is n''t your lord lucky, for were I dead who is there in all the world who would mourn for me?
35598Leodogran rejoined,"but when did you see Arthur first?"
35598Only one?
35598Or was it a man who hurt you so?"
35598Shall I lead you to the king?"
35598Shall I stop to fight them as we go by and send them back to you?"
35598She said that?"
35598So she waited until the prince approached when she said with a timid firmness,"Have I your leave to speak?"
35598So tell me now, what will you have?"
35598Then Merlin locked her hand in his and said,"Vivien, have you never seen a wave as it was coming up the beach ready to break?
35598To the right?
35598Was Bedivere right, he thought to himself, or were the barons right?
35598What do I care about it?
35598What do you say, Enid, shall we strip the earl and pay for a dinner or shall we fast?
35598What do you wish with me?"
35598What is it?"
35598Where''s the rider?
35598Who first saw the vision of the Holy Grail to- day?"
35598Who has a right to be king if not the man who has done that?
35598Why is there such a din?"
35598Why should I follow the deer when I can follow the king?
35598Why was I born a man if I can not do a man''s work?"
35598Why wo n''t you ask me for another boon?"
35598Will you fight for me and win me the crown, Pelleas, so that I may love you?"
35598Will you wear a token of me at the tournament today?"
35598You did n''t see farther than the cloud, and what can you expect to see now if you go out into the wilderness?''
35598[ Illustration: CUNNING MODRED BESIDE THE DOOR TO LISTEN]"What should I know about it?
35598backward?
35598cried Elaine as soon as she saw him,"What about the knight with the red sleeve?"
35598forward?
35598he bellowed,"the king that keeps us all with such strict vows that we ca n''t have any pleasures, a milky- hearted king?
35598he cried,"and will you love me if I win?"
35598one of them asked,"Is n''t it Lancelot?"
35598said Vivien, smiling saucily,"have you found your tongue at last?
35598she cried,"how is it with my lord Sir Lancelot?"
35598straight on?
35598to the left?
35598which is it?