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42856Children? 42856 No,"says H."What for?"
42856Then,said I,"he has not drunk much strong liquor?"
42856Well,says Mary,"why ca n''t I be his mamma?
42856What is the difference between mothers and mammas?
42856Where are you going?
42856Why have you not a pension?
42856Wo n''t you? 42856 Ca n''t he have more mammas than one?
42856I joined in,"Have you any children?"
42856I then said,"Wo n''t they take care of you?"
42856I turned back, and said,"You are begging?"
42856Mary said to Hartley,"Shall I take Derwent with me?"
42856Query: Are the male and female flowers on separate trees?
42856Query: What trees are they?
42856We could not conjecture what this building was; it appeared as if it had been built strong to defend it from storms; but for what purpose?
42856We said,"What, does he do nothing for his relations?
42856When we asked her about the Trossachs she could give us no information, but on our saying,"Do you know Loch Ketterine?"
42856Why did the plough stop there?
42856Why might not they as well have carried it twice as far?
42856William accosted him with,"Sir, do you speak English?"
42856William said to him, after we had asked him what his business was,"You are a very old man?"
42856William, judging from his appearance, joined in,"I suppose you were a sailor?"
42856have you Shakespeare?"
8747A deep distress hath humanized my soul,--what lover of poetry does not know the pathetic lines in which he bears witness to the teaching of sorrow?
8747A thousand times have I asked myself, as your tender sympathy led me to do,''Why was he taken away?'' 8747 And what hath Nature,"he plaintively asked,-- And what hath Nature but the blank void sky And the thronged river toiling to the main?
8747Lord, what is man that Thou art mindful of him?
8747What other distinction from prose,he asks,"would we have?"
8747''Tis a note of enchantment; what ails her?
8747And my dear William, why is he not here also?
8747And where is it to exist?"
8747But enough, he is my brother; why should I describe him?
8747Happiness with honour was the ideal of Solon; is it also ours?
8747How came he here?
8747If all the insipid verses which they wrote were poetry, what was the use of writing poetry at all?
8747Often, indeed, there is something most winning in a touch of humorous blindness:"Well, Miss Sophia, and how do_ you_ like the_ Lady of the Lake_?"
8747Or is nothing to be expected from Nature but a series of dissolving views?
8747Or who should wish to learn?
8747That it was to the poet''s honour I do not doubt; but who ever learned such secrets rightly?
8747The walls were hung round with family pictures, and I said to my brother,''Dare you strike your whip through that old lady''s petticoat?''
8747Was there then any man, by land or sea, who might serve as the poet''s type of the ideal hero?
8747What can grow out of it but selfishness?"
8747What have they to do( to say all at once) with a life without love?
8747What is brought forward?
8747What other distinction would we hare?
8747What touch has given to these lines their impress of an unfathomable peace?
8747What_ is_ he to study?
8747Whence is it to come?
8747Where had been his experience?
8747Why are you not seated with me?
8747Why have we a choice, and a will, and a notion of justice and injustice, enabling us to be moral agents?
8747Why should it not be so I since there is no limit to the soul''s possible elevation, why should her purifying trials have any assignable end?
8747Would not this be pretty much like the child''s cutting up his drum to learn where the sound came from?"
8747thought I, or what can he be doing?
41506I told of hills, and far- off towns, And long, long vales to travel through,-- He listens, puzzled, sore perplexed, But he submits; what can he do? 41506 What hand but would a garland cull For thee, who art so beautiful?
41506What more changeful than the sea? 41506 What way does the Wind come?
41506A lady, who was going on a visit to the poet, put out her head to speak to him, whereupon he said to her:"How d''ye do?
41506And I still take opium?
41506But enough, he is my brother; why should I describe him?
41506Can the nobleness of beauty not raise him to like nobleness?
41506Dorothy''s first question was,''Where is my doll?''
41506Has the earth no hymn in all its living murmur?
41506Have the clouds no lesson of strength in their softness?
41506In short, how do I do?
41506In short, what class or description of men do I belong to?
41506In spots like these it is we prize Our Memory, feel that she hath eyes; Then, why should I be loth to stir?
41506Is there no Divine voice for him in the absolute stillness?
41506No loving hand guiding through the pathless wilds?
41506No tenderness for man in the lavishness of Nature?
41506Oh, if such silence be not thanks to God For what hath been bestowed, then where, where then Shall gratitude find rest?
41506On Saturday nights.... And how do I find my health after all this opium- eating?
41506Sometimes he''ll hide in the cave of a rock, Then whistle as shrill as the buzzard cock;--Yet seek him,--and what shall you find in the place?
41506The following is a description given by him of his own life in 1812:--"And what am I doing among the mountains?
41506To this I replied,''Why not settle there, for the time, at least, that this engagement lasts?
41506We have nobody about us that cares for poetry; and who will rear grapes when he shall be the sole eater?
41506What way does he go?
41506Why are you not seated with me?
41506Why should they be continually spending their time in taking long and apparently purposeless rambles, engaged in earnest conversation?
41506Will the stately solitude not calm him?
41506Would any man in his senses take all that trouble to look at a parcel of water?
41506Yes; but what else?
41506and my dear William, why is he not here also?
41506and when we are there, He may work his own will, and what shall we care?
41506the air no shaping in its clearness?
41506the sun no cheering in its glory?
41506the wind no healing in its power?
41506you are stepping westward?"
42857For why? 42857 What know we of the Blest above But that they sing and that they love?"
42857What''s Yarrow but a river bare, That glides the dark hills under? 42857 A traveller who was riding by our side called out,Can that be the Castle?"
42857Can merry- making enter here?
42857Deaf, drooping, such is now his doom; His world is in that single room-- Is this a place for mirthful cheer?
42857Does then the bard sleep here indeed?
42857For were the bold man living now, How might he flourish in his pride With buds on every bough?
42857From the foot of these mountains whither might not a little barque carry one away?
42857He spoke English tolerably; but seldom understood what was said to him without a"What''s your wull?"
42857In spots like these it is we prize Our memory, feel that she hath eyes: Then why should I be loth to stir?
42857It is impossible even to remember( therefore, how should I enable any one to imagine?)
42857It is impossible to look at the stone without asking, How came it hither?
42857It was a very wild object, that could not but be noticed; and_ when_ noticed the question must follow-- how came it there?
42857On seeing a smoke, I exclaimed,"Is it possible any people can live there?"
42857Or did there belong to it some inheritance of superstition from old times?
42857Or have they now on those who continue to frequent it?
42857Or is it but a groundless creed?
42857Or shall we say an age too soon?
42857Said generous Rob,"What need of books?
42857There''s pleasant Teviot Dale, a land Made blithe with plough and harrow, Why throw away a needful day, To go in search of Yarrow?
42857Those people carried each a large burthen, which we supposed to be of hay; but where was hay to be procured on these precipices?
42857Was it merely from being a central situation and a conspicuous object?
42857We left these famous virgins( though our own countrywomen), unvisited, and many other strange sights; and what wonder?
42857What hand but would a garland cull For thee, who art so beautiful?
42857What matters it?
42857What shall I say of Calais?
42857Why then had it been selected for such a purpose?
42857Will no one tell me what she sings?
42857and for what purpose?
42857eagerly asking"where?"
42857for they are not merely_ summer_ tenants of the village:--and who, that could find another hold in the land, would dwell there the year through?
42857said she,"what would not I give to see anybody that came from within four or five miles of Leadhills?"
42857why should we undo it?
42857you are stepping westward?"
42857you are stepping westward?"
12001Clouds obscure-- But for which obscuration all were bright? 12001 Have you any offer of a paper or papers from my friend John Austin?
12001I grant,said Lessing,"that there is also a beauty in drapery, but can it be compared with that of the human form?
12001What is a classic?
12001What is celebrity? 12001 What want we?
12001And how could he deceive himself into thinking that he could retire to write a history?
12001And shall he who can attain to the greater, rest content with the less?
12001And what has oratory to do with it?
12001And why is it worth your while, at least to dip in a serious spirit into its pages?
12001And why?
12001Apart from the curious compulsion of the reasoning, what is the actual state of the case?
12001Are Englishmen becoming less like Romans, and more like disputatious Greeks?
12001Are not most of us just as blind to the thousand lights and shades in the men and women around us?
12001Burke said,"What is the education of the generality of the world?
12001But is it credible that poets can permanently live by systems?
12001But is it true that First Chambers assume an air of divinity?
12001But this shape is not beautiful, and the end of art is beauty?
12001But what share had legislative innovation in producing these great changes?
12001But what sort of science?
12001But where will Europe''s latter hour Again find Wordsworth''s healing power?
12001But will wise guidance be endured?
12001Did Gambetta consider First Chambers divine?
12001Do you continue in the old belief?
12001Even in his own field of the simple and the pastoral has he touched so sweet and spontaneous a note as Burns''s_ Daisy_, or the_ Mouse_?
12001He may be wrong, but where is the acquiescence, whether sombre or serene?
12001How choose?
12001How could a society whose spiritual life had been nourished in the solemn mysticism of the Middle Ages suddenly turn to embrace a gaudy paganism?
12001How have I described Rousseau''s_ Social Contract_?
12001How long will it last?
12001If so, what becomes of the moral?
12001Is anything gained by pressing us further than that?
12001Is it likely, asks the critic, that Duke Silva would have done this, that Fedalma would have done that?
12001Is it so certain, not another cell O''the myriad that make up the catacomb, Contains some saint a second flash would show?
12001Is it the English or Scottish Crowd that is charged with a wanton desire to recast the Union?
12001Is not that enough?
12001Is that the gay lively labour in which some people would have you believe?
12001Is the best literature produced by the writer who does nothing else but write, or by the man who tempers literature by affairs?
12001Is there a fluidity of character in modern democratic societies which contrasts not altogether favourably with the strong solid types of old?
12001May we browse at large in a library, as Johnson said, or is it forbidden to open a book without a definite aim and fixed expectations?
12001Nunquamne reponam, Vexatus toties rauci Theseide Codri?
12001Of the minor vexations who can tell?
12001Of what avail is intimidation?
12001Or is not system, whether ethical, theological, or philosophical, the heavy lead of poetry?
12001Or is such an expression a"burlesque of the real argument?"
12001Reading a parcel of books?
12001Since when has the disorder been the fault of the physician?
12001Speaking now of the particular kind of knowledge of which I am going to say a few words-- how does literature fare in these important operations?
12001Then are not propositions about democracy being against science very idle and a little untrue?
12001Then is it the Irish Crowd?
12001Then why inspire fright?
12001Then, does the excitement of democracy weaken the stability of national temperament?
12001These have we, and a thousand nooks of earth Have also these, but nowhere else is found, Nowhere( or is it fancy?)
12001They recall the French wit to whom a friend showed a distich:"Excellent,"he said;"but is n''t it rather spun out?"
12001Was that the thing to be done?
12001Was there ever in the world such prodigious nonsense?
12001What French sources, what French models?
12001What are the different recommendations of the rival systems of anonymity and signature?
12001What are the qualities of a good contributor?
12001What but the weakness in a faith supplies The incentive to humanity, no strength Absolute, irresistible, comports?
12001What do the promoters aim at?
12001What do we seek?
12001What does the body that lives through helpfulness To women for Christ''s sake?
12001What is it that makes Plutarch''s Lives"the pasture of great souls,"as they were called by one who was herself a great soul?
12001What is literature?
12001What is the object of the movement?
12001What is to become of us, thus placed between the devil of mob ignorance and corruption, and the deep sea of genteel listlessness and superficiality?
12001What is wisdom?
12001What kind of change, if any, has passed over periodical literature since those two great periodicals, the_ Edinburgh_ and the_ Quarterly_, held sway?
12001What makes a good Review?
12001What tumour that has to be cut out does not involve loss of blood?...
12001What?
12001What?
12001Where blackness bides unbroke, must devils be?
12001Where is the effrontery, the search for methods in the Reign of Terror, the applause for revolutionary models?
12001Which of these two gulfs was duty?"
12001Who has ever advanced such a doctrine?
12001Who shall suppose it possible that Caponsacchi acted thus, that Count Guido was possessed by devils so?
12001Who was it dared lay hand upon the ark His betters saw fall nor put finger forth?''"
12001Who would deny that in Great Britain they are closely connected with the greater or less prosperity of our commerce and manufactures?
12001Why conclude that this style constitutes the one access to the same impression?
12001Why give them an aspect of alarm?
12001Why is this?
12001Why not?
12001Why was it worth while for Mr. Jowett, the other day, to give us a new translation of Thucydides''history of the Peloponnesian War?
12001Why, then, was I bound to take a false view because Lord Holland''s family have inherited his hatred of a great rival?"
12001Why?
12001Would any mercy have been shown to Canning''s character and memory by any of the Whig party, either in society or in Reviews?
12001Would the line have been drawn of only attacking Canning''s executors, who published the papers, and leaving Canning himself untouched?
12001You suffer?
12001[ 1] Then where is the literary Jacobin?
8509But say, what was it? 8509 Is this then the glorious return of Dante Alighieri to his country after nearly three lustres of suffering and exile?
8509Now when Aldebaran was mounted high Above the starry Cassiopeia''s chair; or this?
8509What more felicity can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with liberty, And to be lord of all the works of nature? 8509 [ 114] Did Dante believe himself to be one of these?
8509[ 190] Who are they? 8509 [ 319] Is there any passage in any poet that so ripples and sparkles with simple delight as this?
8509213, 214):"And the angel answered and said,''Wherefore dost thou weep?
8509And doth not he depart from the use of reason who doth not reason out the object of his life?"
8509And here is a passage which Milton had read and remembered:--"And is there care in Heaven?
8509And of such a one some might say, how is he dead and yet goes about?
8509And what proof does Mr. Masson bring to confirm his theory?
8509And why is even_ hug''st_ worse than Shakespeare''s"_ Young''st_ follower of thy drum"?
8509And why?
8509Anselmuccio''s_ Tu guardi si, padre, che hai_?
8509But does the dislike of the double sibilant account for the dropping of the_ s_ in these cases?
8509But how if it bore us, which after all is the fatal question?
8509But how is it about Milton himself?
8509But is not the_ riliero_ precisely the bridge by which the one art passes over into the territory of the other?
8509But undervalued by whom?
8509But what Scripture?
8509But what does Mr. Masson mean by"continuous"?
8509But what gives motion to the crystalline heaven( moral philosophy) itself?
8509But who can doubt that he read with a bitter exultation, and applied to himself passages like these which follow?
8509Can I not everywhere behold the mirrors of the sun and stars?
8509Can these dry bones live?
8509Could not the Muse defend her son?
8509Did Milton write_ shoals_?
8509Did an innocence, patent to all, merit this?--this, the perpetual sweat and toil of study?
8509For example, does Hall profess to have traced Milton from the University to a"suburb sink"of London?
8509For example, what profits a discussion of Milton''s[ Greek: hapax legomena], a matter in which accident is far more influential than choice?
8509For us Occidentals he has a kindly prophetic word:--"And who in time knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue?
8509Has Mr. Masson made him alive to us again?
8509How could one do that for a tomb or the framework over it?
8509How do such words differ from_ hilltop, townend, candlelight, rushlight, cityman_, and the like, where no double_ s_ can be made the scapegoat?
8509If he ever wished to we d the real Beatrice Portinari, and was disappointed, might not this be the time when his thoughts took that direction?
8509If so, did she live near Oxford?"
8509Is an adjective, then, at the base of_ growth_,_ earth_,_ birth_,_ truth_, and other words of this kind?
8509Is it a world that ever was, or shall be, or can be, or but a delusion?
8509Is it because they feel themselves incapable of the one and not of the other?
8509Is it his feeling?
8509Is it his thought?
8509Is the first half of these words a possessive?
8509Is there another life?
8509It is but another way of spelling_ sheen_, and if Mr. Masson never heard a shoeblack in the street say,"Shall I give you a shine, sir?"
8509It is the tradition that he said in setting forth:"If I go, who remains?
8509Know''st thou not that my rising is thy fall, And my promotion thy destruction?"
8509Lord Burleigh was of this way of thinking, undoubtedly, but how could poor Clarion help it?
8509Might he, too, deserve from posterity the love and reverence which he paid to those antique glories?
8509Mr. Masson forthwith breaks forth in a paroxysm of what we suppose to be picturesqueness in this wise:"What have we here?
8509My dear Brown, what am I to do?
8509O, think ye not my heart was sair When my love dropt down and spake na mair?"
8509Or is it Mr. Masson who has scotched Time''s wheels?
8509Or is it not rather a noun impressed into the service as an adjective?
8509Or stubborn spirit doomed to yell, In solitary ward or cell, Ten thousand miles from all his brethren?"
8509Perhaps we should read"lost"?
8509Shall I awake and find all this a dream?
8509Spenser, in one of his letters to Harvey, had said,"Why, a God''s name, may not we, as else the Greeks, have the kingdom of our own language?"
8509Suppose that even in the latter she signified Theology, or at least some influence that turned his thoughts to God?
8509Surely he does not mean to imply that these are peculiar to Milton?
8509Swiftly the politic goes: is it dark?
8509The City Artillery Ground was near.... Did Milton among others make a habit of going there of mornings?
8509The one unto the other did say, Where shall we gang dine to- day?
8509The very greatest poets( and is there, after all, more than one of them?)
8509The walls were hung round with family pictures, and I said to my brother,''Dare you strike your whip through that old lady''s petticoat?''
8509There is, then, some hope for the man born on the bank of Indus who has never heard of Christ?
8509To reign in the air from earth to highest sky, To feed on flowers and weeds of glorious feature, To take whatever thing doth please the eye?
8509Was there already any young maiden in whose bosom, had such an advertisement come in her way, it would have raised a conscious flutter?
8509Were I in health it would make me ill, and how can I bear it in my state?
8509What practical man ever left such an heirloom to his countrymen as the"Faery Queen"?
8509What worlds in the yet unformed Occident May come refined with accents that are ours?"
8509When did his soul catch a glimpse of that certainty in which"the mind that museth upon many things"can find assured rest?
8509Where can I look for consolation or ease?
8509Who can help it?
8509Who else could have written such English as many passages in this Epistle?
8509Who would prefer the plain time of day to this?
8509Why did he not say at once, after the good old fashion, that she"set her ten commandments in his face"?
8509Why hath he me abhorred?
8509Why more unusual than"As being the contrary to his high will"?
8509Why_ curly_?
8509Worse than all, does not his brush linger more lovingly along the rosy contours of his sirens than on the modest wimples of the Wise Virgins?
8509Would he have us feel the brightness of an angel?
8509Would it not rather have been surprising that they should not?
8509[ 182] But how to put this theory of his into a poetic form which might charm while it was teaching?
8509[ 244] But were they altogether without hope?
8509[ 259] For example, Cavalcanti''s_ Come dicesti egli ebbe_?
8509[ 301] Was not this picture painted by Paul Veronese, for example?
8509[ 37] If these be not the words of Dante, what is internal evidence worth?
8509[ 383] Should we refuse to say_ obleeged_ with Pope because the fashion has changed?
8509and did baptism mean an immersion of the body or a purification of the soul?
8509and if I stay, who goes?"
8509and is there love In heavenly spirits to these creatures base, That may compassion of their evils move?
8509art thou more merciful than God?''
8509speculate on sweetest truths under any sky without first giving myself up inglorious, nay, ignominious, to the populace and city of Florence?
8509to what strange shores The gain of our best glory may be sent To enrich unknowing nations with our stores?
12933And did Mr. Gladstone go?
12933And did Oliver Goldsmith really play his harp in this very room?
12933And do you never admit visitors, even to the grounds?
12933And so you are an alien?
12933And what did you tell him?
12933Ay, mon, but ai n''t ut a big un?
12933Aye, you are a gentleman-- and about burying folks in churches?
12933But did Shakespeare run away?
12933But visitors do come?
12933Can you tell me how far it is to Brantwood?
12933Can you tell me where Mr. Whitman lives?
12933Did George Eliot live here?
12933Did you visit Carlyle''s''ouse?
12933Do we use them? 12933 Do you believe in cremation, sir?"
12933Have ye a penny, I do n''t know?
12933He might know all about one woman, and if he should regard her as a sample of all womankind, would he not make a great mistake?
12933Heart of my heart, is this well done?
12933How can any adversity come to him who hath a wife?
12933Never mind wot I am, sir--''oo are you?
12933Question, What is justice in Pigdom? 12933 Rheumatism?
12933The Anxworks package-- I will not deceive you, Sweet; why should I?
12933Together, I s''pose?
12933Was what sarcasm?
12933Well,said Hawkins,"what did he say to you?"
12933What are you reading?
12933What did I say-- really I have forgotten?
12933What is your favorite book?
12933Which boat do you want?
12933Who?
12933Would you like to become a telegraph- operator?
12933You are twenty- five now? 12933 You mean Walt Whitman?"
12933You speak of death as a matter of course-- you are not afraid to die?
12933A policeman passed us running and called back,"I say, Hawkins, is that you?
12933Alone?
12933And did I want to buy a bull calf?
12933And is n''t that so?
12933And to whom do we owe it that he did leave-- Justice Shallow or Ann Hathaway, or both?
12933Are these remains of stately forests symbols of a race of men that, too, have passed away?
12933Assertive?
12933Besides, who was there to take up his pen?
12933Brown?"
12933But it is all good-- I accept it all and give thanks-- you have not forgotten my chant to death?"
12933But still, should not England have a fitting monument to Shakespeare?
12933But who inspired Dorothy?
12933But why should I tell about it here?
12933Ca n''t you go with me?"
12933Cawn''t ye hadmire''i m on that side of the wall as well as this?"
12933Could it be possible that these rustics were poets?
12933Dark Mother, always gliding near with soft feet, Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest welcome?
12933Did Mademoiselle Mars use it?
12933Did you ever hear of him?"
12933Do you know the scene?"
12933Do you not know what books are to a child hungry for truth, that has no books?
12933Does she protest, and find fault?
12933Edison?"
12933Edison?"
12933Genius has its times of straying off into the infinite-- and then what is the good wife to do for companionship?
12933Had Gavroche ever seen them?
12933Have n''t you noticed that men of sixty have no clearer vision than men of forty?
12933He answered back,"What t''ell is the matter with you fellows?"
12933He brings to bear an energy on every subject he touches( and what subject has he not touched?)
12933He evidently was acquainted with five different languages, and the range of his intellect was worldwide; but where did he get this vast erudition?
12933Honeydew: Ay, Jarvis; but what will fill their mouths in the meantime?
12933How can I get in?"
12933How did she acquire this knowledge?
12933How is any education acquired if not through effort prompted by desire?
12933How?
12933I did likewise, and was greeted with a resounding smack which surprised me a bit, but I managed to ask,"Did you run away?"
12933I heard Old Walt chuckle behind me, talking incoherently to himself, and then he said,"You are wondering why I live in such a place as this?"
12933I touched my hat and said,"Ah, excuse me, Mr. Falstaff, you are the bouncer?"
12933In a voice full of defense the County Down watchman said:"Ah, now, and how did I know but that it was a forgery?
12933Is it not too bad?
12933Is not the child nearer to God than the man?
12933Is not this enough?
12933Is this much or little?
12933Is this to his credit?
12933Just below was the Stone pier and there stood Mrs. Gamp, and I heard her ask:"And which of all them smoking monsters is the Anxworks boat, I wonder?
12933More than a thousand years before Christ, an Arab chief asked,"If a man die shall he live again?"
12933Need I say that the girl who made the remark just quoted had drunk of life''s cup to the very lees?
12933Next the public wanted to know about this thing--"What are you folks doing out there in that buckwheat town?"
12933Of course, these girls are aware that we admire them-- how could they help it?
12933Once they urged him to go with them to an exhibition at Kensington, but he smiled feebly as he lit his pipe and said,"An Art Exhibition?
12933Philip asked the eunuch a needless question when he inquired,"Understandest thou what thou readest?"
12933Proud?
12933Say, did you know him?"
12933So I put the question to him direct:"Did you see Buffalo Bill?"
12933Stubborn?
12933Then the preacher spoke and his voice was sorrowful:"Oh, but I made a botch of it-- was it sarcasm or was it not?"
12933Then what have I done concerning which the public wishes to know?
12933Then what?
12933Then why a monument to Shakespeare?
12933These things being true, and all the sentiments quoted coming from"good"but blindly zealous men, is it a wonder that the Artist is not understood?
12933Tomorrow we go-- where?
12933Victor Hugo has said something on this subject which runs about like this: Why a monument to Shakespeare?
12933WILLIAM M. THACKERAY TO MR. BROOKFIELD September 16, 1849 Have you read Dickens?
12933Was ever a Jones so honored before?
12933Was ever woman more honestly and better praised than Dorothy?
12933Were the waters troubled in order that they might heal the people?
12933What architect has the skill to build a tower so high as the name of Shakespeare?
12933What bronze can equal the bronze of"Hamlet"?
12933What can bronze or marble do for him?
12933What capital, were it even in London, could rumble around it as tumultuously as Macbeth''s perturbed soul?
12933What do you mean by equity?
12933What edifice can equal thought?
12933What framework of cedar or oak will last as long as"Othello"?
12933What is Pig Poetry?
12933What is as indestructible as these:"The Tempest,""The Winter''s Tale,""Julius CÃ ¦ sar,""Coriolanus"?
12933What is meant by''your share''?"
12933What is the Whole Duty of Pigs?
12933What monument sublimer than"Lear,"sterner than"The Merchant of Venice,"more dazzling than"Romeo and Juliet,"more amazing than"Richard III"?
12933What moon could shed about the pile a light more mystic than that of"A Midsummer Night''s Dream"?
12933When trouble, adversity or bewilderment comes to the homesick traveler in an American hotel, to whom can he turn for consolation?
12933Where, one asks in amazement, did this remarkable man find the inspiration for carrying forward his great work?
12933Who can recount the innumerable biographies that begin thus:"In his youth, our subject had for his constant reading, Plutarch''s Lives, etc."?
12933Who can tell?
12933Who could harm the kind vagrant harper?
12933Who made the Pig?
12933Who wrote it?
12933Whom did he ever hurt?
12933Why did he not learn at the feet of Sir Thomas Lucy and write his own epitaph?
12933Why, do n''t you know?
12933Will this convey the thought?
12933Would the author be so kind as to change it?
12933Would they have been so great had they not suffered?
12933Yet love is life and hate is death, so how can spite benefit?
12933now, wot you want?"
12933where the mob surges, cursed with idle curiosity to see the graves of kings and nobodies?
36773''A thousand pound, Hal?
36773''But, even so,''it may be said,''why should the poet trouble himself about figures, events, and actions?
36773''Thou hast seen a farmer''s dog bark at a beggar, and the creature run from the cur?
36773''Why four kisses, you will say, why four?
36773( 2) How does a series of successive experiences form_ one_ poem?
36773), or, again, when he portrayed the love of Antony for Cleopatra, was he using his personal experience?
36773Again, if we turn to the drama and ask why the numerous tragedies of the nineteenth century poets so rarely satisfy, what is the answer?
36773And again, with this native genius and his long laborious life, did he produce anything like as many great poems as might have been expected?
36773And compare the enchantment of the question,_ What, are you stepping westward_?
36773And how are we to say that the greatness of most sublime objects is apprehended as incomparable or immeasurable?
36773And how can it have been equally the duty of Orestes to kill his mother and not to kill her?''
36773And if any one objected, we should answer with Sir Toby Belch,''Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?''
36773And if not, why do they take it for granted that the others were?
36773And is any one of Browning''s dramas a great play?
36773And now, when all is said, the question will still recur, though now in quite another sense, What does poetry mean?
36773And what does our feeling imply as to the characters of Falstaff and the new King?
36773And what is its subject?
36773And what was the result of this shock?
36773And what, I answer, could be made of a man poking his stick into a pond to find leeches?
36773And when, in the second place, we look at Falstaff''s actions, what do we find?
36773And, if not, why not?
36773And, if there can, is greatness of some other sort always present in such cases, and essential to the sublime effect?
36773Antiquarians may naturally wish to know more; but what more is needed for intelligent enjoyment of the plays?
36773But is there nothing missing?
36773But what can we set?
36773But what of that?
36773But why should it not have its usual meaning?
36773Can there be sublimity when such greatness is absent?
36773Can this possibly be meant for an act of private vengeance on the part of the Chief Justice, unknown to the King?
36773Can we feel sure that she would not have sacrificed him if she could have saved herself by doing so?
36773Can we imagine any one of those four either inspired or imprisoned as Shelley was by the doctrines of Godwin?
36773Could any of them have seen in the French Revolution no more significance than Scott appears to have detected?
36773Could anything be more_ borné_ than Coleridge''s professed reason for not translating_ Faust_?
36773Could he really have supposed that metre is no more than a''convenience,''which contributes nothing of any account to the influence of poetry?
36773Could that well be the world of what we call emphatically a''great poem''?
36773Death-- and who could in such a case bear with death?
36773Did they ever''spell ruin to managers''if they were, through the whole cast, satisfactorily acted?
36773Do not we ourselves adopt this point of view to some extent when we go to the theatre now?
36773Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a Soul?
36773Does Shakespeare put them all in with no purpose at all, or in defiance of his own intentions?
36773For what do they evidently imply?
36773Granted that in the sublime there is always some exceeding and overwhelming greatness, is that_ all_ there is?
36773Have you your wits?
36773He might easily be''reserved,''but is it not surprising to find him described as haughty, prouder than Lucifer, inhumanly arrogant?
36773How but by the medium of a world like this?
36773How does it differ from the language of the_ Hymn to Intellectual Beauty_?
36773How long would they have continued to relish this''perpetual feast of nectared sweets''if their eyes had been feasted too?
36773How shall we reconcile with these facts the idea that in his day the female parts were, on the whole, much less adequately played than the male?
36773How then are souls to be made?
36773How then are these sparks which are God to have identity given them-- so as ever to possess a bliss peculiar to each one''s individual existence?
36773How, again, remembering him and others, should I venture to praise my predecessors?
36773I can imagine such happiness carried to an extreme, but what must it end in?
36773If the poet already knew exactly what he meant to say, why should he write the poem?
36773If this, then, is the nature of Poetry in the widest sense, how does the poet, in the special sense, differ from other unusually creative souls?
36773If we go below consciousness, what is it that happens in us?
36773If we omit all reference to ethical or substantial powers and interests, what have we left?
36773In fact( how could he fail to take the warning?)
36773In his early poem_ Sleep and Poetry_ Keats asks himself the question, And can I ever bid these joys farewell?
36773In the first place, are there no negative instances?
36773In the first three Acts of our play what is there resembling this?
36773Is all this insignificant?
36773Is it impossible to find anything sublime which does_ not_ show this greatness?
36773Is it not an astonishing proof of Shelley''s powers that the_ Cenci_ was ever written?
36773Is it not pathetic?
36773Is it not strange, let me add, to think that Keats and his friends were probably unconscious of the extraordinary merit of this poem?
36773Is it surprising that the whole value should then be found in the form?
36773Is it true that Keats was untroubled by that sense of contrast between ideal and real which haunted Shelley and was so characteristic of the time?
36773Is not this a quotation from the_ Hymn_: Spirit of BEAUTY that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon?
36773Is not this the condition of the child in_ We are Seven_?
36773Is not_ Hamlet_, if you choose so to regard it, the best melodrama in the world?
36773Is the fact really as it has just been stated?
36773Is the_ Ring and the Book_, however fine in parts, a great whole, or comparable as a whole with_ Andrea del Sarto_ or_ Rabbi ben Ezra_?
36773Is there any standard of the''usual''here?
36773Is there not in every case some further characteristic?
36773Is there not such good in Macbeth?
36773It is great, we say to ourselves, but why is it not greater still?
36773It shows a wonderful abundance of genius: why does it not show an equal accomplishment?
36773Know you what''tis you speak?
36773NOTE G This new question has''quite another sense''than that of the question, What is the meaning or content expressed by the form of a poem?
36773No more can man be happy in spite[?
36773Now why did Shakespeare end his drama with a scene which, though undoubtedly striking, leaves an impression so unpleasant?
36773Or is it likely that, once habituated to spectacular stimulants, they would have welcomed''the crystal clearness of the Muses''spring''?
36773Others will teach us how to dare, And against fear our breast to steel; Others will strengthen us to bear-- But who, ah who, will make us feel?
36773Otherwise how can you ask the question, In which of them does the value lie?
36773See, for instance,_ Prelude_, xiii.,''Who doth not love to follow with his eye The windings of a public way?''
36773Should we expect him to make an''idol''of Milton, or to show a''strong predilection for such geniuses as Dante and Michael Angelo''?
36773The bugles that so joyfully were blown?
36773The cloud of mortal destiny, Others will front it fearlessly-- But who, like him, will put it by?
36773The danger is in the lines, And five times to the child I said, Why, Edward, tell me why?
36773The lordship of the world, we ask ourselves, what is it worth, and in what spirit do these''world- sharers''contend for it?
36773The new question asks, What is it that the_ poem_, the unity of this content and form, is trying to express?
36773These are his own words( from_ A Poet''s Epitaph_): But who is he, with modest looks, And clad in homely russet brown?
36773These statements may appeal to us, but are they consistent with Shelley''s main views of poetry?
36773This last, it will be agreed, is a startling statement; but is it a whit more extraordinary than the others?
36773To what results might not this combination have led if his life had been as long as Wordsworth''s or even as Byron''s?
36773Was he compelled then to use whatever he found?
36773Was it his practice to do so?
36773Were_ any_ produced except by Goethe?
36773What are our feelings during this scene?
36773What do these facts mean?
36773What do we feel, and what are we meant to feel, as we witness this rejection?
36773What does it matter whether the thing is a woman, or a kingdom, or a tattered cloak?
36773What has become here of the substance of_ Paradise Lost_--the story, scenery, characters, sentiments, as they are in the poem?
36773What have the gods in heaven to say against it?
36773What is the conflict here?
36773What is to be said, on Shelley''s theory, of his own melancholy lyrics, those''sweetest songs''that''tell of saddest thought''?
36773What of satire, of the epic of conflict and war, or of tragic exhibitions of violent and destructive passion?
36773What subject, then, in the measureless field of choice, is the poet to select and fashion into a body?
36773What then does the formula''Poetry for poetry''s sake''tell us about this experience?
36773What then is it?
36773What, again, is the subject of_ Epipsychidion_?
36773What, then, are the points where, in spite of its evident resemblance to Shelley''s, we feel a marked difference?
36773What, then, makes it so?
36773What, then, were the passions or the''affections of the blood''most dangerous to himself?
36773Where is the throng, the tumult of the race?
36773Which of them is great as a whole?
36773Why has it fled?
36773Why should we concern ourselves with Shakespeare''s theatre and audience?
36773Why then should not the conflict of anything else that has sufficient value affect us tragically?
36773Why, let us begin by asking, is_ Antony and Cleopatra_, though so wonderful an achievement, a play rarely acted?
36773Why, then, are they sublime in the sparrow?
36773Why, then, did Homer make them so?
36773Why, when this painful incident seems to be over, should the Chief Justice return and send Falstaff to prison?
36773Why?
36773Wilt thou lift up Olympus?''
36773Would a mountain, a river, or a building be sublime to us if we did not read their masses and lines as symbols of force?
36773Would such magnitude, however prodigious, seem to us sublime unless we insensibly construed it as the sign of power?
36773Yes; but what do we mean by''_ its_ love and courage''?
36773[ 11] If now we look towards the rear of this stage, what do we find?
36773[ 15] What, again, is the psychical machinery employed when we attempt to measure the shoreless sea, or time, and find them immeasurable?
36773[ 22] Did Shakespeare as he wrote them remember, I wonder, the dark lady to whose music he had listened( Sonnet 128)?
36773[ 5] What, then, are the_ grounds_ of this position?
36773[ 8] The reader will remember that in one sense of the question, Is there no more in the sublime than overwhelming greatness?
36773_ Why_ are we tragically moved by the conflict of family and state?
36773or,''How is it that you live, and what is it you do?''
36773xiii., where, to Cleopatra''s question after Actium,''What shall we do, Enobarbus?''
12632''What do you do there?'' 12632 ''You know something about Falstaff, eh?''
12632A wot, sir?
12632And so,he said,"you read Charles Lamb in America?"
12632Did the epigram still live in his memory?
12632Did you read the article on your friend De Quincey in the last Westminster? 12632 Do you hear that, Mary?"
12632Have I space to say that I am very truly yours? 12632 Have you any idea of any such person to whom you could recommend me?
12632Have you ever read these novels?
12632How did Guizot bear himself? 12632 How is that, sir?"
12632How''s missis, sir?
12632I am not a hard man, am I, Procter?
12632Is not Whipple coming here soon?
12632Miss me? 12632 Not a bad one, is it?"
12632P.S.--Can you contrive to send Mr. Willis a copy of the prose book? 12632 Think of reading in America?
12632Was it not yesterday we spoke together?
12632Was n''t it good of him,said the old man, in his tremulous voice,"to think of_ me_ before he had been in town twenty- four hours?"
12632Well, my son,says the fond mother, looking up from her knitting- work,"what have you got for us to- night?
12632What are you doing in America? 12632 Who is your fat friend?"
12632Who would risk publishing a book for_ me_, the most unpopular writer in America?
12632_ Who_ is going to elope?
12632''What ages?''
12632( Is that her real name?)
12632After all,--unless one could be Shakespeare, which( clearly) is not an easy matter,--of what value is a little puff of smoke from a review?
12632Ah, dear me, I suspect that both William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson will survive him; do n''t you?
12632Ah, my very dear friend, how can I ever thank you?
12632Am I to return Dr. Parsons''s?
12632And do you think it would be worth while?
12632And how do you like the undertaker?
12632And if I should be gone, will you let poor K---- have one?
12632And is he of any profession?
12632And will you also give him the time and place for Gad''s?
12632Are all people of black blood cruel, cowardly, and treacherous?
12632Are you acquainted with him?''
12632Are you equal to two nights running of good time?"
12632As I do n''t know Mr. Eytinge''s number in Guildford Street, will you kindly undertake to let him know that we are going out with the great Detective?
12632As I rose to take leave he said,--"Have I ever given you one of Lamb''s letters to carry home to America?"
12632B., how many?''
12632But what did he die of?"
12632But what have I to do with politics, or you?
12632But when did the Times do justice to any one?
12632But you will come this spring, will you not?
12632By the by, are they on foolscap?
12632By the way, are you not charmed at the Emperor''s marriage?
12632By the way, when_ will_ you finish the bridge?
12632Ca n''t you arrange it so that two or three or more sheets may be sent at once, on stated days, and so my journeys to the village be fewer?
12632Ca n''t you bring Whipple with you?"
12632Ca n''t you do it in the Transcript, and send her a copy?
12632Can you contrive to send a copy of your edition of"Atherton"to Mr. Hawthorne?
12632Could this be done with the Wonder- Book?
12632Did I ever tell you a pretty story of him, when he was in England after Strasburg and before Boulogne, and which I know to be true?
12632Did I tell you that I had been reading Louis Napoleon''s most charming three volumes full?
12632Did I tell you that they are going to engrave a portrait of me by Haydon, now belonging to Mr. Bennoch, for the Dramatic Works?
12632Did Mr. Whittier send his works, or do I owe them wholly to your kindness?
12632Did ever mortal preside with such felicitous success as did Mr. Quincy?
12632Did not he also like Dr. Holmes?
12632Did you ever spend a winter in England?
12632Did you get my last unworthy letter?
12632Do it, or not?"
12632Do they commit suicide in despair, or wrench open tight drawers and cupboards and hermetically sealed bottles for practice?
12632Do they live in the house where we breakfasted?....
12632Do they sell crabs, shrimps, winkles, herrings?
12632Do you ever reprint French books, or ever get them translated?
12632Do you know him?
12632Do you know one General G.?
12632Do you remember his name?
12632Do you think Mr. Hector Bossange could help me to that, or to any others not printed in the Memories?
12632Does he depend altogether upon literature, as too many writers do here?
12632For a title how would this do:''A Wonder- Book for Girls and Boys''; or,''The Wonder- Book of Old Stories''?
12632Had I noticed George Lafayette especially?"
12632Had he gone down in the drift, utterly exhausted, and was the snow burying him out of sight?
12632Has Mrs. Craig written to you to tell you of her marriage?
12632Has he not invited the world to enjoy the loveliness of its solitudes with him, and peopled its haunts for us again and again?
12632Have they ever been tried in America?
12632Have you happened to see Bulwer''s King Arthur?
12632Have you republished"Alton Locke"in America?
12632Have you seen Alexander Smith''s book, which is all the rage just now?
12632Have you seen Matthew Arnold''s poems?
12632Have you seen"Alton Locke"?
12632Have you seen_ Esmond_?
12632Have you such fancies in America?
12632He looked dismally perplexed, and turning to me said imploringly in a whisper,"For pity''s sake, what shall I write?
12632How can I thank you enough for all these enjoyments?
12632How could he help it?
12632I am writing on the 8th of May, but where is the May of the poets?
12632I asked Mrs. K----, the famous actress, who was at the experiment:"What do_ you_ say?
12632I asked him if he was sure it was n''t''cricketing''state of health?
12632I have rather a distaste to a double title?
12632I hope you may have met with the little touch of Radicalism I gave them at Birmingham in the words of Buckle?
12632I like all that, do n''t you?
12632I noticed that he gazed at them anxiously with fork upraised; then he whispered to me, with a look of anguish,"How shall I do it?"
12632I said,"is he dead?"
12632I suppose Mr. Ticknor tells you the book- news?
12632I trust, my dear Eugenius, that you have recognized yourself in a certain Uncommercial, and also some small reference to a name rather dear to you?
12632I wonder if you ever received a list of people to whom to send one or other of my works?
12632If you can not, will you defer our Boston dinner until the following Sunday?
12632If''The Scarlet Letter''is to be the title, would it not be well to print it on the title- page in red ink?
12632In one of his letters he says to me:--"Did not I suggest to you, last summer, the publication of the Bible in ten or twelve 12mo volumes?
12632In the mean while will you take the trouble to send the enclosed and my answer, if it be fit and proper and properly addressed?
12632Is American literature rich in native biography?
12632Is he a widower, or a bachelor, or a married man?
12632Is he young?
12632Is it Jones, or Smith, or----?
12632Is it any matter under which title it is announced?
12632Is it in woman''s heart not to love such a man?
12632Is it safe, then, to stake the fate of the book entirely on this one chance?
12632Is it so?
12632Is not Louis Napoleon the most graceful of our European chiefs?
12632Is not that delightful?
12632Is not this curious in your republic?
12632Is pickled salmon vended there?
12632Is there any complete edition of his Lectures and Essays?
12632Is this the end of all things?
12632Johnson, how many?''
12632Little Emily R---- read from her book with a chirping lisp:--"O, what''s the matter?
12632M----''s little dog too, Mrs. Bouncer, barked in the greatest agitation on being called down and asked by M----,"Who is this?"
12632Mary B---- began:--"Oft I had heard of Lucy Grey"; Nancy C---- piped up:--"''How many are you, then,''said I,''If there are two in heaven?''
12632May I ask you to give the enclosed to dear Dr. Parsons?
12632May I ask you to transmit the accompanying letter to Mrs. H----?
12632May I have a few copies of that engraving when you come to England?
12632May I inquire the name of the writer?
12632May I put in the story of Washington''s ghost?
12632My youth?
12632Need I say that I like him_ very_ much?
12632Now do n''t you in your own heart and soul quarrel with me for this long silence?
12632Now we have the book, do you remember through whom you sent the notices?
12632Now will you and Fields come and pass Sunday with us there?
12632Or of any such agent here?
12632Seven miles out are the Goodwin Sands,( you''ve heard of the Goodwin Sands?)
12632Shall I go on?''
12632Shall you republish his wife''s new edition?
12632So what is to be done?
12632Soon he burst out with,"Is my nose so d----y sharp as that?"
12632Sweet mother, is it so?
12632Tell me, too, what is become of Mr. Cooper, that other great novelist?
12632That would be an affliction; for what nations should be friends if ours should not?
12632The men taking their stand in exact line at the starting- post, the first tree aforesaid, received from The Gasper the warning,"Are you ready?"
12632The other President goes on nobly, does he not?
12632The oyster- cellars,--what do they do when oysters are not in season?
12632The oyster- openers,--what do_ they_ do?
12632Then quickly stepping into the entry with a roll of manuscript in his hands, he said:"How in Heaven''s name did you know this thing was there?
12632There are very interesting men in this place,--highly interesting, of course,--but it''s not a comfortable place; is it?
12632There was something hideous in the way this woman kept repeating,"Ye''ll pay up according, deary, wo n''t ye?"
12632This can never be the case, surely?
12632Turning to me, Wordsworth asked,"Do you know the meaning of this figure?"
12632Was it because of its fancied resemblance to St. Paul''s or the Abbey?
12632Was there ever such a night before in our staid city?
12632Were ever heard such cheers before?
12632Were not you charmed with the bits of sentiment and feeling that come out all through our hero''s Southern progress?
12632What becomes of all the riches of the soul, the piles and pyramids of precious thoughts which men heap together?
12632What blunder cauthed by chill delay( thee Doctor Johnthon''th noble verthe) Thuth kept my longing thoul away, from all that motht I love on earth?
12632What do you say to my_ acting_ at the Montreal Theatre?
12632What do you say to that profound reflection?
12632What do you say to_ that_?
12632What do you think of Mrs. Gamp?
12632What do you think of a"Fowl de poulet"?
12632What do you think of this incendiary card being left at my door last night?
12632What had become of him?
12632What has occurred since?
12632What if you insert the following?
12632What images do I associate with the Christmas music as I see them set forth on the Christmas tree?
12632What is it called?
12632What is the American opinion of that great experiment; or, rather, what is yours?
12632What is''t that ails young Harry Gill?"
12632What part was De Tocqueville taking in the fray?
12632What place can we fancy for such a reptile, and what do we learn from such a career?
12632What will they administer in such a case?
12632What, for instance, could be more heart- moving than these passages of his on the death of little children?
12632When he pronounced the lines:--"My name on earth was ever in thy prayer, And must thou never utter it in heaven?"
12632When shall you begin that_ bridge_?
12632When will you want it back?
12632Where are Shakespeare''s imagination, Bacon''s learning, Galileo''s dream?
12632Where is the sweet fancy of Sidney, the airy spirit of Fletcher, and Milton''s thought severe?
12632Where would I like to sit?
12632Who does not know Cobham Park?
12632Who knows but that I shall have to add Vienna and Rome to my whereabouts?
12632Who knows?
12632Who was it that thus summoned all this witchery, making such a tumult in young Hawthorne''s bosom?
12632Who was the Mr. Blackstone mentioned in"The Scarlet Letter"as riding like a myth in New England History, and what his arms?
12632Who was this mysterious young person that had crossed his boyhood''s path and made him hers forever?
12632Whose daughter was she that could thus enthrall the ardent young man in Salem, who knew as yet so little of the world and its sirens?
12632Why ca n''t you come and stay a day or two with us, and drink some spruce beer?"
12632Why do n''t you?
12632Why should n''t she have her paper, and I my pleasure, without your wicked, wicked sneers and imperence?
12632Will she succeed?
12632Will you call upon him sometimes?
12632Will you remember me cordially to Sumner, and say I thank him for his welcome letter?
12632Will you remember me to him most gratefully and respectfully?
12632Will you say everything for me to my many kind friends, too many to name?
12632Will you take care that it is duly honored?
12632Will you tell Fields, with my love,( I suppose he has n''t used_ all_ the pens yet?)
12632Will you write to me there, to the care of the Earl of Mulgrave, and tell me what you have done?
12632Would not dear Dr. Holmes have a sympathy with Mr. Dillon?
12632Would not you have been sorry if that pony had died?
12632You are enjoying your holiday?
12632You are not angry, are you?
12632You do n''t happen to have in Boston-- have you?--a copy of"Les MÃ © moires de Lally Tollendal"?
12632You know that his second wife( an excellent one) presented him lately with a little boy?
12632You remember what Mr. Hawthorne says of the appearance of his drowned heroine,--which is right?
12632You''ll excuse east- winds, wo n''t you, if they shake the flowers roughly when you first set foot on the lawn?
12632Your spear- grass is showing its points, your succulent grass its richness, even your little plant[?]
12632[ Is it lawful-- would that woman in the black gaiters, green veil, and spectacles, hold it so-- to send my love to the pretty M----?]
12632and are maturing schemes for coming here next summer?
12632and are still thinking sometimes of our Boston days, as I do?
12632and who is the author?
12632and will you see that those lodging- house people do not neglect him?
12632and will you, above all, do for him what he will not do for himself, draw upon me for what may be wanting for his needs or for his comforts?"
12632brimstone or brandy?
12632from a cousin; shall I secure this prize?
12632or a"Paettie de Shay"?
12632or shall I keep it till you come to fetch it?
12632or"Celary"?
12632or"Murange with cream"?
12632said I to the very queer small boy,''where do you live?''
12632what do I see?
12632what does this mean?
12632what''s the matter?
12632who shall lift that wand of magic power, And the lost clew regain?