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 |
|---|---|
| 3393 | I wonder who lives here-- what little boy?" |
| 3393 | If I do not keep myself quite out of the picture, what painter ever did? |
| 3393 | Why not silver? |
| 31814 | And old Hugh Gaine, turning slowly about at the sound of a name he knew so well, stared at the enemy he had never seen:"Is your name Freneau?" |
| 31814 | Anything but that, for was he not a poet? |
| 31814 | More than this, was he not the only poet in the colony? |
| 377 | If, in a bird- heart happy sunbeams shine, Why not in mine? |
| 377 | If, in a flower- face, beat down by rain, The hope of clear skies be in spite of pain-- If, in a flower- face a great hope shine, Why not in mine?" |
| 377 | Mrs. Mary A. Cornelius, while a resident of Topeka, wrote four books,"Little Wolf,""Uncle Nathan''s Farm,""The White Flame,"and"Why? |
| 377 | grow old before our time, Yet-- would we stray to Morning Hills again? |
| 3397 | Whose hand is this, Lorry? |
| 3397 | Graham feigned not to hear, and Booth asked again,"whose hand is this?" |
| 3397 | Was I not already richly successful? |
| 3397 | Would not he bid his parting guest good- bye? |
| 406 | ''I say, men,''said Davis,''do you know when the next train leaves?'' 406 That hit you?" |
| 406 | Breakfast over, there was no dawdling and putting off of the day''s work( else how, at eleven sharp, could tennis be played with a free conscience?). |
| 406 | Have I said that he had no habits? |
| 406 | In what one salient thing did R. H. D. differ from other men-- differ in his personal character and in the character of his work? |
| 3396 | He did not recognize me, but he gave me at once a greeting of great impersonal cordiality, with"How do you do? |
| 3396 | Then he seized my hand and wrung it all over again, and repeated his friendly demands with an intonation that was now"Why, how are you; how are you?" |
| 3396 | We asked him, How could he feel gay when he was no longer paying us our salaries, and how could he justify it to his conscience? |
| 3396 | When did you come?" |
| 3392 | What cargo? |
| 3392 | Why do you use bias for opinion? |
| 3392 | A moment of hesitation elapses, and then the questioner pursues,"Here and there a horn?" |
| 3392 | He came to her beaming one day, and demanded,"You know I have always held such and such an opinion about a certain group of fossil fishes?" |
| 3392 | The final demand comes through the trumpet,"What cargo?" |
| 3392 | Willson was accustomed to apparitions, and so he said simply,"Wo n''t you sit down, father?" |
| 726 | A man who formed one of its bricks was still alive, and was waving his arm.... What is happening there? |
| 726 | Has a spy been caught? |
| 726 | One can not blame him for that; what would one be one''s self? |
| 726 | Will it do anything for the Anglo- Saxon peoples? |
| 3395 | Did I like that chair I was sitting in? |
| 3395 | He added, to the company generally,"Do you know what I think are the two lines of mine that go as deep as any others, in a certain direction?" |
| 3395 | The poet''s chanting voice rose with a triumphant swell in the climax, and"There,"he said,"is n''t it so? |
| 2512 | three cycle? |
| 2512 | two prongs? |
| 38132 | And shall I be less brave, Than you sweet lyric thing? |
| 38132 | But the life of which men say,"The world has given him bread, And what gives he to the world as pay For the loaf on which he fed?" |
| 38132 | I went to the throne with a quivering soul,-- The old year was done,"Dear Father, hast thou a new leaf for me? |
| 38132 | One learns to love the child who asks,"Can people who see, see''round corners?" |
| 38132 | The Atlantic Monthly published the Pedigree of Pegasus; Cornhill Magazine, Browning Out West and Did Browning Whistle or Sing? |
| 38132 | What other state can boast of charms so varied? |
| 37300 | And yet what can one do? |
| 37300 | And yet what, in this particular case, did all that matter? |
| 25908 | Did he marry a wife, and was she good enough for him? |
| 25908 | Did he walk, eat, sleep, like other men? |
| 25908 | On the other hand this ready writer is often conventional; a set phrase contents him, why should he labor to escape the usual formula? |
| 25908 | One can not be always building castles in the air; why not try a pyramid, if only a little one? |
| 25908 | Was he as strong, as human, as lovable as one would think? |
| 25908 | What sort of boy was he? |
| 3394 | And now,he demanded,"what do you say to that?" |
| 3394 | Is it possible? |
| 3394 | At a funeral a mourner wished to open conversation, and by way of suggesting a theme of common interest, began,"You''ve buried, I believe?" |
| 3394 | At the last of them, Lowell had asked him, with fond regret in his jest,"Longfellow, why do n''t you do that Indian poem in forty thousand verses?" |
| 3394 | Does it kick?" |
| 3394 | He calmly asked,"Why?" |
| 3394 | I must keep my engagement, but how could I bear to miss meeting Salvini at Longfellow''s table on terms like these? |
| 3394 | Longfellow?" |
| 3394 | The old friend of the cavernous arm- chair was perhaps not wide enough awake to repress an"Ah?" |
| 8587 | Alas, the gallant ship and crew, Can nothing help them more?" |
| 8587 | And spin? |
| 8587 | And where are they now? |
| 8587 | I cried in fright"Oh, is there no retreat?" |
| 8587 | Independent? |
| 8587 | Is it not so? |
| 8587 | Oh where was her true love-- and why, why did he not come and save her? |
| 8587 | What could he ben eating? |
| 8587 | Where will you find another like it in the Western hemisphere? |
| 8587 | Why did n''t the Irishman fall on the dog? |
| 38889 | Are they conscious of our reverent tread on the turf above them, of our low words of remembrance and affection? |
| 38889 | Do they care that we have come from far to bend over them here? |
| 38889 | Do they no longer love this once beloved spot? |
| 38889 | Do they not rejoice in the beauty of this summer day and the sunshine that falls upon their windowless palace? |
| 38889 | Or have they ceased from all ken or care for earthly things? |
| 38889 | The book was published anonymously, and Sanborn says that when inquiry was made,"Who is the author of''Nature?''" |
| 3398 | Whose criticisms? |
| 3398 | He looked up with an unkindling eye, and asked, Ah, how was the Doctor? |
| 3398 | He said that there were fifteen dollars coming to me for that sketch, and might he send the money to me? |
| 3398 | If I knew that there were shoe- shops in Salem, ought not I to go and inspect their processes? |
| 3398 | Yea, that made it worth while, I consented; but was he sure of the other world? |
| 3390 | How many? |
| 3390 | Oh, but he does n''t like that sort of thing, does he? |
| 3390 | Reporters? |
| 3390 | What would you do? |
| 3390 | Who- who in the world is that? |
| 3390 | A hand frailly waved a handkerchief; Clemens ran over the lawn toward it, calling tenderly:"What? |
| 3390 | He had done so, and how many mentions of him did I reckon he had found in three months? |
| 3390 | What a pang it was then not to have told her, but how could we have told her? |
| 3390 | What profanity? |
| 3390 | What?" |
| 8478 | ''Cover it? |
| 8478 | ''How many cards?'' |
| 8478 | ''Oh, it DID, did it? |
| 8478 | ''Oh, that''s your little game, is it? |
| 8478 | ''What have you got?'' |
| 8478 | As they left the table, Cincinnati said--''But you have to have custom- house marks, do n''t you? |
| 8478 | Had he yielded at last? |
| 8478 | How do you manage that?'' |
| 8478 | Tell''m apart? |
| 8478 | There now-- what do you say? |
| 8478 | What had he gone below for?--His bag of coin? |
| 8478 | Would n''t their eyes bug out, to see''em handled like that?--wouldn''t they, though?'' |
| 8478 | You ai n''t a- going out to Californy for fun, nuther am I-- it''s business, ai n''t that so? |
| 8478 | you mean to say you''re going to cover it?'' |
| 8583 | What do you mean? |
| 8583 | And so is"wherefore"--though why"wherefore"? |
| 8583 | And what else would they be likely to consist of? |
| 8583 | Boy, or girl?" |
| 8583 | But what was a man to do? |
| 8583 | Could you abide an Angel in an unclean shirt and no suspenders? |
| 8583 | Could you respect an Angel with a horse- laugh and a swagger like a buccaneer? |
| 8583 | Do not these relics suggest something of an idea of the fearful suffering and privation the early emigrants to California endured? |
| 8583 | He was murderous enough, possibly, to fill the bill of a Destroyer, but would you have any kind of an Angel devoid of dignity? |
| 8583 | If I were to suggest what ought to be done to him, I should be called extravagant-- but what does the sixteenth chapter of Daniel say? |
| 8583 | Then he said to them:"''You signed these contracts and assumed these obligations of your own free will and accord?'' |
| 8583 | To which the driver, who was looking over the precipice where he had disappeared, replied, with an injured air:"Think I''m a dam fool?" |
| 8583 | What has brought me to this? |
| 8583 | must I die? |
| 8476 | ''Now, do you know what boat that was?'' |
| 8476 | ''Was she going fast?'' |
| 8476 | ''Yes, you did-- DIDN''T you?'' |
| 8476 | 13 say? |
| 8476 | Are they going to peg all the banks? |
| 8476 | But what does the river care for a stone wall? |
| 8476 | GOING TO BE A YEAR GETTING THAT HOGSHEAD ASHORE?'' |
| 8476 | Is dat so? |
| 8476 | Presently someone asked--''Any boat gone up?'' |
| 8476 | Says enough to knock THEIR little game galley- west, do n''t it? |
| 8476 | What do you reckon that is for? |
| 8476 | Where did you go when you went to see that battle?'' |
| 15984 | ''But how am I to do it?'' 15984 ''Fear not,''said the student,''I have in my eye the very priest and damsel you describe; but how am I to regain admission to this tower?'' |
| 15984 | And what will they do with him? |
| 15984 | Sir,cried Mr. Irving, in a burst of indignation that overcame his habitual shyness,"do you seize upon such a disaster only for a sneer? |
| 15984 | Why, my dear, do n''t you know? |
| 15984 | Dost thou desire fortune?'' |
| 15984 | May I ask what corps you belong to?'' |
| 15984 | The daughter said,"Mother, who was Washington?" |
| 15984 | What can compare with the vase of yon alabaster fountain filled with crystal water? |
| 15984 | Who can do justice to a moonlight night in such a climate and such a place? |
| 15984 | Why should I come back to Dresden? |
| 15984 | Yet how much superior is our comedy of to- day? |
| 15984 | said he, good humoredly;''how can Campbell mistake the matter so much? |
| 16931 | If I see nothing to admire in a unit, shall I admire a million units? |
| 16931 | 5,"Have you lately heard how any present rich man, here or elsewhere, got his estate?" |
| 16931 | 6,"Do you know of a fellow- citizen... who has lately committed an error proper for us to be warned against and avoid?" |
| 16931 | But have not all prophets and ethical teachers had something of this aspect to their conservative contemporaries? |
| 16931 | How is it people manage to live on, so aimless as they are? |
| 16931 | If he were alive to- day, would he not be bewildered by much of our talk about the rights of men and animals? |
| 16931 | Shall we face them with Washington''s courage, wisdom, and success? |
| 16931 | To this ancient pessimism Emerson makes answer with a hard question--"We grant that human life is mean, but how did we find out that it was mean?" |
| 16931 | Whence came this social wisdom? |
| 16931 | Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses and places of amusement? |
| 16931 | Why needs any man be rich? |
| 16931 | and again,"Do you love truth for truth''s sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find it, receive it yourself, and communicate it to others?" |
| 8480 | Are you happy? |
| 8480 | Do all the good people go to your place? |
| 8480 | How do you amuse yourself? |
| 8480 | How long have you been in the spirit land? |
| 8480 | Is not this true? |
| 8480 | Then this one has actually forgotten the date of its translation to the spirit land? |
| 8480 | Very well, then, when did you pass away? |
| 8480 | Well, then, what year was it? |
| 8480 | What do you drink? |
| 8480 | What do you eat there? |
| 8480 | What do you read? |
| 8480 | What do you smoke? |
| 8480 | What do you talk about? |
| 8480 | What else? |
| 8480 | When did you die? |
| 8480 | When your friends in the earth all get to the spirit land, what shall you have to talk about then?--nothing but about how happy you all are? |
| 8480 | Where are you? |
| 8480 | Would you like to come back? |
| 8480 | Would you say that under oath? |
| 8481 | ''A dark and dreadful one?'' |
| 8481 | ''Account for it? |
| 8481 | ''How do you account for it?'' |
| 8481 | ''Is that so?'' |
| 8481 | ''Which one?'' |
| 8481 | ''Why did n''t you see them Roman soldiers that stood back there in a rank, and sometimes marched in procession around the stage?'' |
| 8481 | And what did the husband do? |
| 8481 | At last he said in a low voice--''My little friend, can you keep a secret?'' |
| 8481 | Do all whom you send from Hartford serve their Master as well? |
| 8481 | I asked him various questions; first about a mate of mine in Sunday school-- what became of him? |
| 8481 | I met him on the street the next morning, and before I could speak, he asked--''Did you see me?'' |
| 8481 | Some talk followed--''Why-- what should make you suspect that it is n''t genuine?'' |
| 8481 | Well, when you come to look at it all around, and chew at it and think it over, do n''t it just bang anything you ever heard of?'' |
| 8475 | ''An alligator boat? |
| 8475 | ''Are they so thick as to be troublesome?'' |
| 8475 | ''Ca n''t you drink it?'' |
| 8475 | ''Did they actually impede navigation?'' |
| 8475 | ''Do you ever get aground on the alligators now?'' |
| 8475 | ''First time you have ever been West?'' |
| 8475 | ''Has she got any of her trip?'' |
| 8475 | ''Is this the first time you were ever in a pilot- house?'' |
| 8475 | ''Well, then, why do they still keep the alligator boats in service?'' |
| 8475 | ''What for?'' |
| 8475 | ''Where are you from?'' |
| 8475 | For instance--''Do you see that little boulder sticking out of the water yonder? |
| 8475 | Going to be all day? |
| 8475 | He paid first- class wages; but said I, What''s wages when your reputation''s in danger? |
| 8475 | He said--''What is a person to do here when he wants a drink of water?--drink this slush?'' |
| 8475 | How do criminals manage to keep a brand- new ALIAS in mind? |
| 8475 | Reputation''s worth everything, ai n''t it? |
| 8475 | So I was thinking, when the pilot asked--''Do you know what this rope is for?'' |
| 8475 | Well, I let you, did n''t I? |
| 8475 | What''s it for?'' |
| 8475 | When I had gone about twenty- three miles, and made four horribly crooked crossings--''''Without any rudder?'' |
| 8475 | Where now is the once wood- yard man? |
| 8473 | ''How much water is there in it?'' |
| 8473 | ''Is n''t it easier in toward shore than it is out here in the middle?'' |
| 8473 | ''Know how to RUN it? |
| 8473 | ''Who IS I? |
| 8473 | ''Who wants you to get it? |
| 8473 | ''You think so, do you?'' |
| 8473 | And who was it that had the dashing presumption to do that? |
| 8473 | Are you acting under a law of the concern?'' |
| 8473 | Bixby?'' |
| 8473 | By and by the watchman came back and said--''Did n''t that lunatic tell you he was asleep, when he first came up here?'' |
| 8473 | Did n''t you KNOW there was no bottom in that crossing?'' |
| 8473 | Do you mean to say that you do n''t know as much as they do?'' |
| 8473 | Do you think there is any danger?'' |
| 8473 | Finally one of the managers bustled up to him and said--''Who IS you, any way? |
| 8473 | How much will it be?'' |
| 8473 | I laid in the lead, set the boat in her marks, came ahead on the engines, and said--''It was a fine trick to play on an orphan, WASN''T it? |
| 8473 | I suppose you know the next crossing?'' |
| 8473 | Just then the night watchman happened in, and was about to happen out again, when he noticed Ealer and exclaimed--''Who is at the wheel, sir?'' |
| 8473 | Presently he ventured to remark, with deference--''Pretty good stage of the river now, ai n''t it, sir?'' |
| 8473 | So they stepped into the association rooms, and the secretary soon satisfied the captain, who said--''Well, what am I to do? |
| 8473 | W----, do n''t that chute cut off a good deal of distance?'' |
| 8473 | Well, is n''t there water enough in it now to go through?'' |
| 8473 | Who IS I? |
| 8473 | Who is you? |
| 8473 | Who is your other pilot?'' |
| 8473 | Why?'' |
| 8473 | is there no way to save him?'' |
| 8089 | Did you hit it? |
| 8089 | Is that a burden of sunshine on Apollo''s back? |
| 8089 | What did you fire at? |
| 8089 | Where''s the man- mountain of these Liliputs? |
| 8089 | And what becomes of the birds in such a soaking rain as this? |
| 8089 | And what delusion can be more lamentable and mischievous, than to mistake the physical and material for the spiritual? |
| 8089 | And what is there to write about? |
| 8089 | But how is he to accomplish it? |
| 8089 | By the by, was there ever any rain in Paradise? |
| 8089 | Can the tolling of the Old South bell be painted? |
| 8089 | Did you ever behold such a vile scribble as I write since I became a farmer? |
| 8089 | Did you know what treasures of wild grapes there are in this land? |
| 8089 | How came these little birds out of their nests at night? |
| 8089 | I am not quite so strict as I should be in keeping him out of the house; but I commiserate him and myself, for are we not both of us bereaved? |
| 8089 | Is hope and an instinctive faith so mixed up with their nature that they can be cheered by the thought that the sunshine will return? |
| 8089 | Is it a praiseworthy matter that I have spent five golden months in providing food for cows and horses? |
| 8089 | Is not this consummate discretion? |
| 8089 | Is truth a fantasy which we are to pursue forever and never grasp? |
| 8089 | What could the little bird mean by pouring it forth at midnight? |
| 8089 | What had I done, that it should bemaul me so? |
| 8089 | What is the price of a day''s labor in Lapland, where the sun never sets for six months? |
| 8089 | What should we do without fire and death? |
| 8089 | When shall we be able to walk again to the far hills, and plunge into the deep woods, and gather more cardinals along the river''s margin? |
| 8089 | Why should they meet destruction from the radiance that proves the salvation of other beings? |
| 8089 | and am I not perfectly safe? |
| 8089 | or do they think, as I almost do, that there is to be no sunshine any more? |
| 8089 | what so miserable as to lose the soul''s true, though hidden knowledge and consciousness of heaven in the mist of an earth- born vision? |
| 8088 | Friend,says one man,"how is the tide now?" |
| 8088 | He said, sir,` What does he send me this damned stuff for?'' 8088 Is it an affectionate greeting?" |
| 8088 | What may I call your name? |
| 8088 | A friend asked him,"How doth your lordship?" |
| 8088 | At parting, Eliza said to the girl,"What do you think I heard somebody say about you? |
| 8088 | But who must be the giver of the feast, and what his claims to preside? |
| 8088 | For the writing, perhaps; but would it be so for the reading? |
| 8088 | For their friends to condole with them when they attained riches and honor, as only so much care added? |
| 8088 | Have you seen Boston Light this morning?" |
| 8088 | He asked the most direct questions of another young man; for instance,"Are you married?" |
| 8088 | How many different scenes it sheds light on? |
| 8088 | Is not this a beautiful morning? |
| 8088 | Meditations about the main gas- pipe of a great city,--if the supply were to be stopped, what would happen? |
| 8088 | One asked,--"Is she your daughter?" |
| 8088 | Speaking of the widow, he said:"My wife has been dead these seven years, and why should not I enjoy myself a little?" |
| 8088 | The black fellow asked,--"Do you want to see her?" |
| 8088 | The dying exclamation of the Emperor Augustus,"Has it not been well acted?" |
| 8088 | To put on bridal garments at funerals, and mourning at weddings? |
| 8088 | Was this the Virginian Smith? |
| 8088 | What moral could be drawn from this? |
| 8088 | What were the contents of the burden of Christian in the Pilgrim''s Progress? |
| 8088 | What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude? |
| 8088 | What would be its effect? |
| 8088 | Who would buy, if the price were to be paid down? |
| 8088 | Would it not be wiser for people to rejoice at all that they now sorrow for, and vice versa? |
| 8088 | did you ever hear anything like that?" |
| 8088 | do you suppose I''d give you good money?" |
| 8584 | Has he any other-- er-- advantages? |
| 8584 | Here-- what do you mean? 8584 Nothing? |
| 8584 | So you think the prospect is pretty poor? |
| 8584 | Well, have n''t you formed any sort of opinion? |
| 8584 | Well, we''d better go back, had n''t we? |
| 8584 | What did you find? |
| 8584 | What, a railroad over the Sierra Nevada Mountains? |
| 8584 | And the streak of silver? |
| 8584 | At last, to a peculiarly urgent inquiry of"How far eastward?" |
| 8584 | But was the imperial beast subjugated? |
| 8584 | But what is the mining history of Humboldt? |
| 8584 | Did we go back to bed then? |
| 8584 | I said:"Where have you all been?" |
| 8584 | I shall not garble the extract, but put it in just as it appeared in the Daily Territorial Enterprise: But what about our mines? |
| 8584 | Is there some mystery behind all this?" |
| 8584 | See it? |
| 8584 | See the specks of gold? |
| 8584 | So, where was the flood to come from? |
| 8584 | Starchy?--proud? |
| 8584 | The Indians were true prophets, but how did they get their information? |
| 8584 | Then old Ballou said:"Think of it? |
| 8584 | What are you coming at? |
| 8584 | What do you think of the country?" |
| 8584 | What has become of our sinewy and athletic fellow- citizens? |
| 8584 | Why? |
| 45610 | ''What time did you break in here?'' 45610 ''Wo n''t you aid these little folk?'' |
| 45610 | And your favorite poem? |
| 45610 | Indeed,the visitor is said to have remarked;"and who may he be?" |
| 45610 | Perhaps the most interesting thing about''The Lady or the Tiger?'' |
| 45610 | What do you consider the sublimest poetry in the world? |
| 45610 | What is your favorite novel? |
| 45610 | Who is your favorite novelist? |
| 45610 | Who, in your judgment, are the three greatest warriors the world has produced? |
| 45610 | Who, in your opinion, were the greatest American statesmen? |
| 45610 | Would a duck swim? |
| 45610 | ''Oh,''he said,''I''d like to send you each month a story like The Lady or the Tiger?''" |
| 45610 | Adam, what were you made for?'' |
| 45610 | And how do you suppose Mr. Churchill prepared for the big task of writing a historical novel? |
| 45610 | And was not the pilot''s a great and attractive post for a young man? |
| 45610 | And who is this Winston Churchill? |
| 45610 | And who on a boom shall rise To the height of an honest name? |
| 45610 | As I passed through the door I heard him call:"''Then you have positively decided to kill that baby?'' |
| 45610 | At this point naturally comes in the question, What was Bret Harte''s first book? |
| 45610 | But did Garland take any part in such experiences? |
| 45610 | But, I say, how came you by that name?'' |
| 45610 | Even more sensational than the luck of"Rudder Grange"was the luck of"The Lady or the Tiger?" |
| 45610 | Hovey would not answer the question:"Who is the greatest poet born on Canadian soil?" |
| 45610 | It seemed that people all over the world were asking, Who is he? |
| 45610 | That''s a gay sight, ai n''t it now? |
| 45610 | That''s great, is n''t it? |
| 45610 | Was the attention justly merited? |
| 45610 | Well,''he laughed and shook his head,''I''ll be back there some day, wo n''t I,''he said, wistfully,''and hear it for myself?''" |
| 45610 | Will you? |
| 45610 | Would he take the position? |
| 45523 | ''What time did you break in here?'' 45523 ''Wo n''t you aid these little folk?'' |
| 45523 | And your favorite poem? |
| 45523 | Indeed,the visitor is said to have remarked;"and who may he be?" |
| 45523 | What do you consider the sublimest poetry in the world? |
| 45523 | What is your favorite novel? |
| 45523 | Who is your favorite novelist? |
| 45523 | Who, in your judgment, are the three greatest warriors the world has produced? |
| 45523 | Who, in your opinion, were the greatest American statesmen? |
| 45523 | Would a duck swim? |
| 45523 | ''Oh,''he said,''I''d like to send you each month a story like"The Lady or the Tiger?"''" |
| 45523 | Adam, what were you made for?'' |
| 45523 | And how do you suppose Mr. Churchill prepared for the big task of writing a historical novel? |
| 45523 | And was not the pilot''s a great and attractive post for a young man? |
| 45523 | And who is this Winston Churchill? |
| 45523 | And who on a boom shall rise To the height of an honest name? |
| 45523 | At this point naturally comes in the question, What was Bret Harte''s first book? |
| 45523 | But did Garland take any part in such experiences? |
| 45523 | But, I say, how came you by that name?'' |
| 45523 | Even more remarkable than the success of"Rudder Grange"was the success of"The Lady or the Tiger?" |
| 45523 | Hovey would not answer the question:"Who is the greatest poet born on Canadian soil?" |
| 45523 | It seemed that people all over the world were asking, Who is he? |
| 45523 | That''s a gay sight, ai n''t it now? |
| 45523 | That''s great, is n''t it? |
| 45523 | Was the attention justly merited? |
| 45523 | Well,''he laughed and shook his head,''I''ll be back there some day, wo n''t I,''he said, wistfully,''and hear it for myself?''" |
| 45523 | Will you? |
| 45523 | Would he take the position? |
| 16622 | A pity? |
| 16622 | All the way from Pike? |
| 16622 | Are you never tired of knitting? |
| 16622 | Is it to be sold? |
| 16622 | THE POET OF THE PINESPAUL HAMILTON HAYNE"Why are not your countrymen all poets, surrounded as they are by beautiful things to inspire them?" |
| 16622 | Well,said little George,"have n''t we earned it listening to Uncle Remus?" |
| 16622 | A sample of the Young America of that early day asked an old gentleman,"Why are you always reading that old Montaigne?" |
| 16622 | And those varying types of human nature and beast nature-- do they not all appear again upon the printed page? |
| 16622 | And yet unflattered by the store Of these supremer revelations, Who bowed more reverently before The lowliest of earth''s fair creations? |
| 16622 | But a touch of prophecy adds the thought: And yet who knows? |
| 16622 | Does not this look like suicide?" |
| 16622 | Had this harvest been reaped by the author in those early days, who can estimate the gain to the field of literature? |
| 16622 | Is there not patriotism enough in our land to keep that shrine sacred to historic memory? |
| 16622 | Just now he knew it as the home of the Only Girl in the world, so-- what was the use? |
| 16622 | Of how many of the so- called favorites of Fortune could that be said? |
| 16622 | Or, would the vision have faded away with youth? |
| 16622 | What do you say to a sherry and soda?" |
| 16622 | What sage of all the ages past, Ambered in Plutarch''s limpid story, Upon the age he served, has cast A radiance touched with worthier glory? |
| 16622 | Whose was the victory? |
| 16622 | Why does your poetry sound like a sigh? |
| 8471 | ''Did it have its hair parted?'' |
| 8471 | ''Edward, did the child look like it was choked?'' |
| 8471 | ''Have you got the papers for them statistics, Edmund?'' |
| 8471 | ''Him? |
| 8471 | ''How did you get dry so quick?'' |
| 8471 | ''Say, Edward, do n''t you reckon you''d better take a pill? |
| 8471 | ''Say-- what did they do with the bar''l?'' |
| 8471 | ''WHO was shedding tears?'' |
| 8471 | ''Well, Aleck, where did you come from, here?'' |
| 8471 | ''Well, never mind how it could cry-- how could it KEEP all that time?'' |
| 8471 | ''What are you after here? |
| 8471 | ''What was the brand on that bar''l, Eddy?'' |
| 8471 | ''Who are you?'' |
| 8471 | Been dead three years-- how could it cry?'' |
| 8471 | But what did you hide for?'' |
| 8471 | Crippled them how, says you? |
| 8471 | Going to heave it clear astern? |
| 8471 | Honest, now, do you live in a scow, or is it a lie?'' |
| 8471 | How can you tell it''s an empty bar''l?" |
| 8471 | How long have you been aboard here?'' |
| 8471 | I says--''"What''s that?" |
| 8471 | Looky- here; if we let you off this time, will you keep out of these kind of scrapes hereafter?'' |
| 8471 | Naturally the question suggests itself, Why did these people want the river now when nobody had wanted it in the five preceding generations? |
| 8471 | To steal?'' |
| 8471 | What IS your name?'' |
| 8471 | What did you come aboard here, for? |
| 8471 | What was it to me that he was soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin? |
| 8471 | What''s your name?'' |
| 8471 | You look bad-- do n''t you feel pale?'' |
| 8471 | says Bob;''was it Allbright or the baby?'' |
| 33930 | Am I right, dearest Helen, in the impression that you are ambitious? 33930 But about his death?" |
| 33930 | DEAR S----: Have n''t you got anything for me yet? 33930 Then he died from dissipation, after all?" |
| 33930 | Then you knew something of the poet, Doctor? |
| 33930 | What are these for? |
| 33930 | What though that light through storm and night Still trembles from afar? 33930 ''And whose linked sweetness long drawn out is that?'' 33930 After this, who shall undertake to defend Poe from the charge of insincerity and dissimulation? 33930 And Mrs. Clemm? 33930 And who could have imposed upon the dying woman a task such as this, instead of themselves taking the responsibility? 33930 Certainly an extraordinary avowal to be made to the lady''s husband; and we ask ourselves to how many women had he made a similar declaration? 33930 Does this throw any light upon Poe''s pitiful appeal,Urge me to do what is right"? |
| 33930 | Had I not myself often noted the incongruity of representing the poet as pondering over_ many_ a volume instead of a single one? |
| 33930 | Had he no premonition that even then a darker shadow than that of the_ Raven_ was hovering over him? |
| 33930 | How even provide a wedding repast against their arrival? |
| 33930 | How many could resist the temptation?" |
| 33930 | How was she to accommodate the fastidious bride of her most inconsiderate son- in- law? |
| 33930 | I had so often heard this impossible"lining"criticised that when he inquired,"Shall I omit or retain the stanza?" |
| 33930 | The only question is, Who wrote those letters, and how is it that they were never made public or again heard of? |
| 33930 | The question now was, what was to be done with the children? |
| 33930 | Was this the melancholy, morbid,"weird and wholly incomprehensible being"that the world has pictured the author of_ The Raven_? |
| 33930 | Was this why the marriage was kept secret-- to give time for a proper breaking off of the match with Elizabeth White? |
| 33930 | What could there be more purely bright Than truth''s day- star?" |
| 33930 | When one said,''What is the use of carrying around a dying man?'' |
| 33930 | what did he eat? |
| 8474 | ''Are you aware that this boat was plowing down the river fully five minutes with no one at the wheel?'' |
| 8474 | ''Did it knock him down?'' |
| 8474 | ''Did n''t YOU hear him?'' |
| 8474 | ''Did you follow it up? |
| 8474 | ''Did you pound him much?--that is, severely?'' |
| 8474 | ''Did you strike him first?'' |
| 8474 | ''Do you know that that is a very serious matter?'' |
| 8474 | ''Hard?'' |
| 8474 | ''Pounded him?'' |
| 8474 | ''What did you do?'' |
| 8474 | ''What with?'' |
| 8474 | ''What you standing there for? |
| 8474 | ''Where was you born?'' |
| 8474 | AIN''T it now? |
| 8474 | After a pause--''Where''d you get them shoes?'' |
| 8474 | Brown?'' |
| 8474 | Did n''t Henry tell you to land here?'' |
| 8474 | Did you do anything further?'' |
| 8474 | Do n''t you hear me? |
| 8474 | Give him a good sound thrashing, do you hear? |
| 8474 | Going to run over that snag?'' |
| 8474 | I said,"It''s my nature; how can I change it?" |
| 8474 | Now came this shriek--''Here!--You going to set there all day?'' |
| 8474 | ORDERS, is it? |
| 8474 | Then--''What''s your name?'' |
| 8474 | Two minutes later--''WHERE in the nation you going to? |
| 8474 | What was you doing down there all this time?'' |
| 8474 | When the leads had been laid in, he resumed--''How long you been on the river?'' |
| 8474 | Where you going NOW? |
| 8474 | You going to hold her all day? |
| 8474 | going to be all DAY getting that hatful of freight out?'' |
| 8474 | why did n''t you tell me we''d got to land at that plantation?'' |
| 8582 | Bemis, is all that true, just as you have stated it? |
| 8582 | Did I bring back my horse? |
| 8582 | Did you ever see the bull again? |
| 8582 | Forty years? 8582 He ca n''t, ca n''t he? |
| 8582 | Moses who? |
| 8582 | Of course-- who else? |
| 8582 | Take it up in the tree with me? 8582 Well, then, what is the use of your talking that way, then? |
| 8582 | Well, then, what more do you want? 8582 What did I understand you to say, madam?" |
| 8582 | And so the first question we asked the conductor whenever we got to where we were to exchange drivers, was always,"Which is him?" |
| 8582 | As we jogged along, said he:"Now, do you know where the fault lies? |
| 8582 | Bascom said:"There-- what did I tell you? |
| 8582 | Because you never saw a thing done, is that any reason why it ca n''t be done?" |
| 8582 | But do n''t you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens? |
| 8582 | Did I bring back my lariat?" |
| 8582 | Did you take your saddle up in the tree with you?" |
| 8582 | How did it happen?" |
| 8582 | I cautiously unwound the lariat from the pommel of my saddle----""Your saddle? |
| 8582 | Leg, maybe-- and yet how could he break his leg waltzing along such a road as this? |
| 8582 | Now, what can be the thoroughbrace of a horse, I wonder? |
| 8582 | Only three hundred miles? |
| 8582 | Since you know so much about it, did you ever see a bull try?" |
| 8582 | Sure enough, it was just as I had dreaded, he started in to climb the tree----""What, the bull?" |
| 8582 | What did you do?" |
| 8582 | Wher''d ye come from?" |
| 8582 | Will no man lend me a pistol?" |
| 8582 | and the Use Providence Made of Him-- Sad Fate of Wheeler-- Devotion of His Wife-- A Model Monument-- What About the Ram? |
| 8582 | our sweet- scented, appetite- compelling air of the prairies? |
| 8582 | what does he know of the feast of fat things?) |
| 8588 | And yet, was this joy rounded and complete? 8588 Certain of it? |
| 8588 | I was a stranger to Mr. Greeley, but what of that? 8588 Major General in the household troops, no doubt? |
| 8588 | No? 8588 Then the high priest, Hewahewa, inquired of the chiefs,''Where shall be the residence of King Liholiho?'' |
| 8588 | ( The Sandwich Islanders always squat on their hams, and who knows but they may be the old original"ham sandwiches?" |
| 8588 | Am I certain of it? |
| 8588 | Boston, botany, cakes, folony undertakes, but who shall allay? |
| 8588 | But Admiral, why overlook the Willis and Morgan case in South Carolina? |
| 8588 | Could n''t you ever cure him of it?" |
| 8588 | Do you think I''ve been lying about it? |
| 8588 | First Gentleman of the Bed- chamber? |
| 8588 | He faced about in his chair and said:"Circumstance? |
| 8588 | How much oil"--"Oil? |
| 8588 | It is a large world, too, for a thing to travel so far in-- now is n''t it? |
| 8588 | Minister of the Interior, likely? |
| 8588 | Preach in the stone church yonder, no doubt?" |
| 8588 | Sagacity? |
| 8588 | Secretary of war? |
| 8588 | Then Kamehameha inquired,''What do you say?'' |
| 8588 | Then, observing an enemy approaching,--a hairy tarantula on stilts-- why not set the spittoon on him? |
| 8588 | Then, who the mischief are you? |
| 8588 | They replied,''Where, indeed? |
| 8588 | This traits is characteristic of horse jockeys, the world over, is it not? |
| 8588 | Was there no secret alloy of unhappiness in it? |
| 8588 | What circumstance? |
| 8588 | What do you take me for? |
| 8588 | What do you take me for? |
| 8588 | Who, indeed, were the two Massachusetts ministers? |
| 8588 | and how the mischief did you get here, and where in thunder did you come from?" |
| 8588 | and who were the two Southern women they burned? |
| 8588 | what the mischief are you? |
| 11249 | ''Where are you going?'' 11249 ''You are well acquainted with the place, I presume?'' |
| 11249 | Have you any sour apples, Deacon? |
| 11249 | Have you any sweet apples, Deacon? |
| 11249 | Who can do justice to a moonlight night in such a climate and in such a place? 11249 You say,"he writes,"''Can you hint to me what was the terrible evil which caused the irregularities so profoundly lamented?'' |
| 11249 | ''Sir,''said Mr. Irving, glad of an escape to his swelling indignation,''do you seize on such a disaster only for a sneer? |
| 11249 | And driven the Hamadryad from the wood To seek a shelter in some happier star? |
| 11249 | And the splendor of the Pashas there: What''s their pomp and riches? |
| 11249 | Can anything be more important and interesting than to know how the mind thinks, how it is inspired with terror or love or a sense of beauty? |
| 11249 | EDGAR ALLAN POE CHAPTER I THE ARTIST IN WORDS Who has not felt the weird fascination of Poe''s strangely beautiful poem"The Raven"? |
| 11249 | Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car? |
| 11249 | Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood, The Elfin from the green grass, and from me The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree? |
| 11249 | Have you ever known it, my friend? |
| 11249 | Have you ever learned to scan poetry? |
| 11249 | How should he love thee? |
| 11249 | Irving? |
| 11249 | Is, then, this petty strife The end and aim of life, All that is worth the living for below? |
| 11249 | Not long afterward he writes to his friend Loring,"I have written about a hundred lines of my poem(? |
| 11249 | Twenty- five cents only had been expended thus far-- and was I now to dine for half a dollar? |
| 11249 | Up spoke our own little Mabel, Saying,"Father, who makes it snow?" |
| 11249 | We ca n''t never choose him o''course-- thet''s flat; Guess we shall hev to come round,( do n''t you?) |
| 11249 | We knew you child and youth and man, A wonderful fellow to dream and plan, With a great thing always to come,--who knows? |
| 11249 | What Biglow calls our"English sarse,"Is not_ all_ tarts and bitters, is it? |
| 11249 | What can compare with the vase of yon alabaster fountain filled with crystal water? |
| 11249 | What matters the ashes that cover those? |
| 11249 | Who would employ a_ poet_ to defend his business in a court room? |
| 11249 | Why is this permitted? |
| 11249 | Why preyest thou upon the poet''s heart, Vulture, whose wings are dull realities? |
| 11249 | Wut shall we du? |
| 11249 | ai nt it terrible? |
| 11249 | or how deem thee wise, Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering To seek for treasure in the jeweled skies, Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing? |
| 11249 | said one to another,''he is merry, however, in all his trouble,''"''And what will they do with him?'' |
| 8589 | And did you deem it a fit thing to publish? |
| 8589 | And do YOU claim the right to make ME come out and deny anything you may choose to write and print? |
| 8589 | And do you then retract it or not? |
| 8589 | Did you not see it before it was printed? |
| 8589 | Do n''t you know that I know they are false? |
| 8589 | Do you know them to be true? |
| 8589 | If you are not the author, then I do demand to know who is? |
| 8589 | Is your laugh hung on a hair- trigger?--that is, is it critical, or can you get it off easy? |
| 8589 | Why then did you print them? |
| 8589 | Ah- ah-- again? |
| 8589 | And did you s''pose the tree could last for- ever, con- found it? |
| 8589 | Answer me, did n''t I? |
| 8589 | Are you going to hand out your money or not? |
| 8589 | But what are either of them compared to the vacant stomach of Haleakala? |
| 8589 | Come, now, what do you say?" |
| 8589 | Did n''t I say I wished you could have seen it when I first saw it? |
| 8589 | Do you want to take any chances with these bloody savages?" |
| 8589 | Do you want your head blown off? |
| 8589 | Does any one smile at these last counts? |
| 8589 | He said:"The time''s up, now, ai nt it?" |
| 8589 | He then pointed to some numbered paragraphs in a TRIBUNE article, headed"What''s the Matter with Yellow Jacket?" |
| 8589 | How did they transport and how raise them? |
| 8589 | I could not sleep-- who could, under such circumstances? |
| 8589 | I want your final answer-- did you write that article or not?" |
| 8589 | I''ll put the thing in another shape( and then pointing to the paper); do n''t you know those charges to be false?" |
| 8589 | Of course the tree was reduced that way, but did n''t I explain it? |
| 8589 | Then:"Are you going to hand out your money or not?" |
| 8589 | What could she gain by it, even if she succeeded? |
| 8589 | Where did these isolated pagans get this idea of a City of Refuge-- this ancient Oriental custom? |
| 8589 | Why did not Captain Cook have taste enough to call his great discovery the Rainbow Islands? |
| 8589 | Will you sign or not?" |
| 8589 | [ He sees doom impending:] WHEN WILL THE CIRCLE JOIN? |
| 8589 | [ Who received the erroneous telegrams?] |
| 8589 | do you still refuse?" |
| 8482 | ''And the boy knew it?'' |
| 8482 | ''Brothers,''said the leader,''has never any one of you, when fasting, dreamed of some friendly spirit who would aid you as a guardian?'' |
| 8482 | ''Dashed who in pieces-- her parents?'' |
| 8482 | ''Do you still travel with it?'' |
| 8482 | ''Everything about what?'' |
| 8482 | ''Have n''t you the least idea?'' |
| 8482 | ''Is that so?'' |
| 8482 | ''No, indeed,''said one of the others,''do you not know we were all killed, and that it is our sister who has brought us to life?'' |
| 8482 | ''Very drunk?'' |
| 8482 | ''Who is a great manito?'' |
| 8482 | ''Wish you may die in your tracks if you have?'' |
| 8482 | A citizen asked,''Do you remember when Jimmy Finn, the town drunkard, was burned to death in the calaboose?'' |
| 8482 | And above Winona you''ll have lovely prairies; and then come the Thousand Islands, too beautiful for anything; green? |
| 8482 | And what will become of you? |
| 8482 | But what can you do? |
| 8482 | Do you know how the man came to be burned up in the calaboose?'' |
| 8482 | How can I give what I would have done with so much pleasure? |
| 8482 | I do n''t mean HIS act, I mean yours: would you be a murderer for letting him have that pistol?'' |
| 8482 | I said, with admiration--''Why, how in the world did you ever guess it?'' |
| 8482 | I said--''What is the matter?'' |
| 8482 | Is she the maiden of the rock?--and are the two connected by legend?'' |
| 8482 | Now, is that boy a murderer, do you think?'' |
| 8482 | Presently he asked--''Are you going to give him up to the law?'' |
| 8482 | Quick-- out with it-- what did I say?'' |
| 8482 | The burden of my thought was, How much did I divulge? |
| 8482 | The chief, looking around, and observing the woman, after some time said to the man who came with her:''Who have you got there? |
| 8482 | The man was drunk?'' |
| 8482 | Well, would it be murder?'' |
| 8482 | What became of Winona?'' |
| 8482 | What was to be done''? |
| 8482 | Why? |
| 8482 | in this town?'' |
| 8482 | profit? |
| 8482 | who can this be he is leading us to?'' |
| 8482 | who is a manito? |
| 8477 | ''Ah-- stabbed, do you mean?'' |
| 8477 | ''Brandy? |
| 8477 | ''Carried the WHOLE town away?-banks, churches, jails, newspaper- offices, court- house, theater, fire department, livery stable EVERYTHING?'' |
| 8477 | ''Dead?'' |
| 8477 | ''Failed to escape?--caught in the act and shot?'' |
| 8477 | ''Go ashore where?'' |
| 8477 | ''How, then?'' |
| 8477 | ''Napoleon?'' |
| 8477 | ''No? |
| 8477 | ''Serious? |
| 8477 | ''Well, by---?'' |
| 8477 | ''Why does he mix such elaborate and picturesque drinks for the nigger hands on the boat?'' |
| 8477 | ''Why, hang it, do n''t you know? |
| 8477 | And where so many are saying their say, shall not the barkeeper testify? |
| 8477 | But if he wait? |
| 8477 | Ca n''t a man go ashore at Napoleon if he wants to?'' |
| 8477 | Can you divine what my first thought was? |
| 8477 | Could you have endured an hour of it, do you think? |
| 8477 | Did I appeal to the law-- I? |
| 8477 | Does it quench the pauper''s thirst if the King drink for him? |
| 8477 | From them might not almost anybody reproduce for himself the life of that time in Vicksburg? |
| 8477 | Good liquors? |
| 8477 | How accomplish this, do you say? |
| 8477 | How strangely things repeat themselves, after long years; for MY hands were tied, that night, you remember? |
| 8477 | I said--''Come, what is all this about? |
| 8477 | I said--''What, then-- didn''t he escape?'' |
| 8477 | If he make ten voyages in succession-- what then? |
| 8477 | On the other boats? |
| 8477 | Presently the poet inquired--''Are you going to send it to him right away?'' |
| 8477 | Rogers said--''Who would have had ANY if it had n''t been for me? |
| 8477 | So I inquired about this thing; asked what resulted usually? |
| 8477 | Take a look behind you-- up- stream-- now you begin to recognize this country, do n''t you?'' |
| 8477 | The captain laughed; but seeing that I was not in a jovial mood, stopped that and said--''But are you serious?'' |
| 8477 | This man had kept a diary during-- six weeks? |
| 8477 | Three hours--? |
| 8477 | What happened, then?'' |
| 8477 | What was my idea in this nonsense? |
| 8477 | What, you can not? |
| 8477 | You give a nigger a plain gill of half- a- dollar brandy for five cents-- will he touch it? |
| 8477 | Your teeth chatter-- then why can not you shout? |
| 8477 | profit?'' |
| 8472 | ''Do n''t KNOW?'' |
| 8472 | ''Do you give it as an order?'' |
| 8472 | ''How on earth am I ever going to learn it, then?'' |
| 8472 | ''Indeed? |
| 8472 | ''Learn a new set, then, every year?'' |
| 8472 | ''Now do n''t you see the difference? |
| 8472 | ''Pretty square crossing, an''t it?'' |
| 8472 | ''What DO you know?'' |
| 8472 | ''What''s the name of the NEXT point?'' |
| 8472 | ''Why?'' |
| 8472 | ''Why?'' |
| 8472 | ''Yes, but suppose the leads lie? |
| 8472 | ''You did n''t? |
| 8472 | ''You-- you-- don''t know?'' |
| 8472 | And does n''t he sometimes wonder whether he has gained most or lost most by learning his trade? |
| 8472 | Are not all her visible charms sown thick with what are to him the signs and symbols of hidden decay? |
| 8472 | Are there many of them?'' |
| 8472 | Did n''t I tell you that a man''s got to know the river in the night the same as he''d know his own front hall?'' |
| 8472 | Did you ever know of a boat following a bend up- stream at this stage of the river?'' |
| 8472 | Do you see that stump on the false point?'' |
| 8472 | Do you see where the line fringes out at the upper end and begins to fade away?'' |
| 8472 | Does he ever see her beauty at all, or does n''t he simply view her professionally, and comment upon her unwholesome condition all to himself? |
| 8472 | Have I got to learn the shape of the river according to all these five hundred thousand different ways? |
| 8472 | He opened on me after this fashion--''How much water did we have in the middle crossing at Hole- in- the- Wall, trip before last?'' |
| 8472 | How am I ever going to tell them apart?'' |
| 8472 | How do you reckon I can remember such a mess as that?'' |
| 8472 | How high was the bank along here last trip?'' |
| 8472 | Is the river rising or falling?'' |
| 8472 | Meet any boats?'' |
| 8472 | Mr. Bixby said to the mate:--''Upper end of the plantation, or the lower?'' |
| 8472 | One day he said--''What is the height of that bank yonder, at Burgess''s?'' |
| 8472 | One day he turned on me suddenly with this settler--''What is the shape of Walnut Bend?'' |
| 8472 | One visitor said to another--''Jim, how did you run Plum Point, coming up?'' |
| 8472 | Presently he turned on me and said:--''What''s the name of the first point above New Orleans?'' |
| 8472 | So he began--''Do you see that long slanting line on the face of the water? |
| 8472 | The voice of the invisible watchman called up from the hurricane deck--''What''s this, sir?'' |
| 8472 | We are drawing-- how much?'' |
| 8472 | What are you standing up through the middle of the river for?'' |
| 8472 | What did you suppose he wanted to know for?'' |
| 8472 | What do you start out from, above Twelve- Mile Point, to cross over?'' |
| 8472 | What do you suppose I told you the names of those points for?'' |
| 8472 | What does that signify?'' |
| 8472 | Why, what could you want over here in the bend, then? |
| 8472 | Will it keep the same form and not go fooling around?'' |
| 8472 | an''t the new cub turned out yet? |
| 40898 | Ah, pensive scholar, what is fame? 40898 Must I die alone?" |
| 40898 | Shall I never see you more? 40898 What is the trouble?" |
| 40898 | World, art thou''ware of a storm? 40898 And what are we, That hear the question of that voice sublime? 40898 And who-- alas for the question!--was Samuel G. Goodrich? 40898 Are the following lines from a letter of Elizabeth to Joel Barlow, written at Hartford, February 19, 1779, references to this affair? 40898 Can we find sustained poetic inspiration that compares with Lowell''sCommemoration Ode"? |
| 40898 | Can you imagine Miss Amy Lowell reading Hudibras? |
| 40898 | Did he, we wonder, ever read a novel? |
| 40898 | Have we as yet anything in American verse about the Great War that we can place beside the best war poetry of Holmes and Whittier? |
| 40898 | Is it possible that he knew the secret of the final mystery? |
| 40898 | It is inevitable that the reader of these letters should ask himself: Was there anything more than friendship between Barlow and Elizabeth? |
| 40898 | Judge Ellsworth, Doctor Grant, Mr. Clair[ Clerc?] |
| 40898 | Might not this principle be adopted to advantage by many a modern clergyman? |
| 40898 | Of what long- gone springs was he dreaming? |
| 40898 | Oh, what are all the notes that ever rung From war''s vain trumpet by thy thundering side? |
| 40898 | On that incomplete data how can a verdict of condemnation be fairly based? |
| 40898 | P. M. Judge Williams, Mr. Smith[ Alfred? |
| 40898 | She said, however, that she came from Westfield[ Wethersfield? |
| 40898 | Was Patrick well-- was he happy? |
| 40898 | Was his belief in the final triumph of the fraternity of mankind shaken by that sinister monotone? |
| 40898 | Was it possibly the inheritance of a New England ancestry? |
| 40898 | What has become of the goddess who for so long dedicated to peacefulness this abode of a benign old age? |
| 40898 | What was the meaning of that instant sense of doubt as to whether it would be well to walk over to the window? |
| 40898 | Whereas to this recent conflict is the lyric power of the"The Battle Hymn of the Republic"? |
| 40898 | Who other than Mrs. Sigourney could have transformed an ordinary stone wall into a"mural parapet"? |
| 40898 | Who reads nowadays the political diatribes of Swift, the tracts of Defoe, or the letters of Junius? |
| 40898 | Who was he? |
| 40898 | Why are you gloomy? |
| 40898 | Why did you leave me in so much distress? |
| 40898 | Would her free and eager spirit find satisfaction in a lifetime of parochial routine? |
| 40898 | Yea, what is all the riot man can make, In his short life, to thy unceasing roar? |
| 40898 | Yet Barlow''s ancestral background was the same-- but who can fathom the depths of personality, or solve the complexity of motive and aspiration? |
| 8585 | But what kind? |
| 8585 | Cal., what kind of a house are you going to build? |
| 8585 | Cal., when are you going to Europe? |
| 8585 | Did n''t say nothing but that? |
| 8585 | Going to be gone all summer? |
| 8585 | Mr. Arkansas, if you''d only let me--"Who''s a henderin''you? 8585 No-- but are you in earnest?" |
| 8585 | Steamer of the 10th? |
| 8585 | Too much climbing? 8585 Was that all that you said?" |
| 8585 | Well then why d''n''t you say it? 8585 Well, do you know that you have got one of the most expensive and arduous undertakings before you that was ever conceived by man?" |
| 8585 | What is? |
| 8585 | What part of Europe shall you go to? |
| 8585 | Where are you going to live? |
| 8585 | Why no-- how is that? |
| 8585 | Why? 8585 Ai n''t it so, Smith? 8585 Ai n''t it? 8585 Ai n''t this company agreeable to you? 8585 Are you? 8585 But what is the use? 8585 Did n''t I say, no longer ago than last night, that for a man that was a gentleman all the time and every way you took him, give me Arkansas? 8585 Do you hear him talk about bloodshed? 8585 How did they get there? 8585 How much did I want? 8585 I''m the man, am I? 8585 If there''s got to be bloodshed--"Do you hear that, gentlemen? 8585 Is that it? 8585 Is that what you''re coming at? |
| 8585 | Is that your idea? |
| 8585 | It''s me you''re goin''to murder, is it? |
| 8585 | Now you know that I ai n''t the man to--""Are you a threatenin''me? |
| 8585 | Once Higbie said:"When are you going home-- to the States?" |
| 8585 | Said he:"Wha- what do you know a-- about Pennsylvania? |
| 8585 | Sha n''t you keep a carriage?" |
| 8585 | Then came a white upheaval at my side, and a voice said, with bitterness:"Will some gentleman be so good as to kick me behind?" |
| 8585 | Then he said to the men:"So you have taken a contract to run a tunnel into this hill two hundred and fifty feet to strike this ledge?" |
| 8585 | Wha-- what do you know''bout Pennsylvania?" |
| 8585 | What did you come swellin''around that way for, and tryin''to raise trouble?" |
| 8585 | What do you say?" |
| 8585 | What is your idea?" |
| 8585 | What''s the matter with you this mornin'', anyway? |
| 8585 | When are you?" |
| 8585 | You want us to leave do you? |
| 8585 | You was only goin''to say-- what was you goin''to say? |
| 405 | Breakfast over, there was no dawdling and putting off of the day''s work( else how, at eleven sharp, could tennis be played with a free conscience?). 405 Then, what do_ I_ eat in Servia?" |
| 405 | What was it that made him so early a marked man? 405 Where are you going?" |
| 405 | And WHO do you think she was? |
| 405 | And she sits up now? |
| 405 | And when after the war, you do revisit France, if your debt is unpaid, can you without embarrassment sink into debt still deeper? |
| 405 | But was n''t it dramatic of me to remember her after twenty two years? |
| 405 | But what did it all matter, even then? |
| 405 | Can you beat that? |
| 405 | Can you imagine it? |
| 405 | Can you write any children''s stories for me?" |
| 405 | DEAR BOY: What has become of The Current? |
| 405 | DO THEY LOVE HOPE? |
| 405 | Daly?" |
| 405 | Do you know what I mean? |
| 405 | Have you done anything on Gallagher? |
| 405 | How is it possible that any living thing is so beautiful as my child? |
| 405 | How sorry are you?'' |
| 405 | How would she like Yvette for a sister- in- law? |
| 405 | I am seldom melancholy And to bone I think is folly, What''s the use? |
| 405 | I suppose you will wonder why I am moved to say all this? |
| 405 | I thought it was the Marble Arch, and hence-- In Jermyn Street I saw two lamps burning dimly and a voice said, hearing my footsteps"where am I? |
| 405 | IS THE CAT SAD? |
| 405 | If he could not see the divine, human spark in that-- a flash from Calvary, what is the use of considering him? |
| 405 | Is there any other place as incongruous as this, as old and as new? |
| 405 | It''s all very well to say you are doing more by writing, but are you? |
| 405 | Now, let me mark your card for you?" |
| 405 | Of course, she knows"mamma"is YOU; and to look at you when they ask,"Where''s mother?" |
| 405 | So I grabbed Mrs. De Koven and told her to present me and Guilbert said in English--"It is not comfortable on the floor is it?" |
| 405 | So you are in a third edition are you? |
| 405 | Then I said again,"This is the third time, will one of your men fight this fair? |
| 405 | There is mud and mud and mud-- in cans, in the gardens of the Mexicans and snow around the palms and palmettos-- Does the sun shine anywhere? |
| 405 | Under sudden showers I thrive; To be bad and bold I strive, But they ask--''Is it alive?'' |
| 405 | WHY IS THE CAT AND THE DAD SAD? |
| 405 | Was ever there anything so lovable? |
| 405 | Was it to your husband? |
| 405 | What did Dad think of the Inauguration article? |
| 405 | What do YOU think? |
| 405 | What do you think I should like to see best now? |
| 405 | What do you think Sir Henry sent me? |
| 405 | What has Dad to say to that for economy? |
| 405 | Who was the chap who wrote about the bottle of Malvoisie? |
| 405 | Will you take charge of my New York end?" |
| 405 | YES IS THE DAD SAD? |
| 405 | yelled the Umpire,"do n''t you know you and your horse are shot to pieces?" |
| 2293 | Is not such a pure one''s life? 2293 Oh, what is it the wall of?" |
| 2293 | What? 2293 After the person who made the inquiry had gone, I exclaimed, with horrified wonder,How could you?" |
| 2293 | And having an infinite outlook, how can progress ever cease? |
| 2293 | And how delighted we were with Mrs. Kirkland''s"A New Home: Who''ll Follow?" |
| 2293 | And what was the millennium? |
| 2293 | And what would be done with the bad ones, if there were any left? |
| 2293 | And who can tell whether the fragrance of that day''s atmosphere may not enter into the freshness of some new childhood in the life which is to come? |
| 2293 | And will not thy courage fail?" |
| 2293 | But I pondered the matter of death; what did it mean? |
| 2293 | But how can there be any hopeful going on without outlook? |
| 2293 | For does not the whole world, seen and unseen go to the making up of every human being? |
| 2293 | For how can a life be beautified more than by its beautiful years? |
| 2293 | For what were we? |
| 2293 | Have we indeed a fireside any longer in the old sense? |
| 2293 | How should children be wiser than to look for every beautiful thing they have heard of, on home ground? |
| 2293 | I hummed over one of my best loved hymns,--"Who are these in bright array?" |
| 2293 | I knew all about the books and the play; but the work,--how should I ever learn to do it? |
| 2293 | I listened out at the window, and asked,--"But when will he begin to crow?" |
| 2293 | I ran home feeling like the heroine of an elopement, asking myself meanwhile,"What would my brother John say if he knew I had been playing with boys?" |
| 2293 | It begins,-- And must I die? |
| 2293 | It is indeed a sunrise text, for is not He the Light of the World? |
| 2293 | Knowest thou not''t is full of danger? |
| 2293 | Marry on railroad, too?" |
| 2293 | Must I submit to be carried along with the current, and do just what everybody else did? |
| 2293 | Must I think of Myself as a heathen, then, until I should be old enough to be a Christian? |
| 2293 | O death, where is thy sting?" |
| 2293 | Should I ever let it slip from me, and lose the way to the"many mansions"that now seemed so open and so near? |
| 2293 | The paymaster asked, when I left,"Going where on can earn more money?" |
| 2293 | We blew the fuzz off their gray beads, and made them answer our question,"Does my mother want me to come home?" |
| 2293 | Were people going to be made good in spite of themselves, whether they wanted to or not? |
| 2293 | Were they not already as alive as they could be? |
| 2293 | What could I make of myself? |
| 2293 | What if I should wake some morning, and find myself there? |
| 2293 | What need had we of luxurious upholstery, when we could step out into such splendor, from the humblest door? |
| 2293 | What sort of creature could a"pampered menial"be? |
| 2293 | What was I here for? |
| 2293 | What was it they were saying? |
| 2293 | What was there to be afraid of anywhere? |
| 2293 | When the minister read,"Cut it down: why cumbereth it the ground?"? |
| 2293 | When the minister read,"Cut it down: why cumbereth it the ground?"? |
| 2293 | Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? |
| 2293 | Who made you glorious as the gates of heaven Beneath the keen full moon? |
| 2293 | Who with lovely flowers Of living blue spread garlands at your feet?" |
| 2293 | Why could not I be a martyr, too? |
| 2293 | Will you go to glory with me? |
| 2293 | Would I not? |
| 2293 | Yet I was sure that I loved my father and mother, even when I was naughty, Was He harder to please than they? |
| 2293 | and why could not I understand it? |
| 2293 | hast thou none To guard thine outraged brow?" |
| 2293 | what shall we do In eighteen hundred and forty- two? |
| 2293 | where shall we be In eighteen hundred and forty- three? |
| 8641 | Did not Hawthorne,I said,"predict something like this in an article in the''Atlantic Monthly''?" |
| 8641 | Do I? |
| 8641 | We know those who have reached the goal, but who can tell how many have fallen by the way? |
| 8641 | What do I think of Wasson? |
| 8641 | What hope is there for him,they said,"in such a profession? |
| 8641 | And in what way could he deliver this message? |
| 8641 | And who is that plainly dressed girl with the meekly determined look who goes back and forth so quietly and regularly? |
| 8641 | And why is it? |
| 8641 | Are the Rocky Mountains her monument; and shall the Falls of Niagara chant forever her requiem?" |
| 8641 | At another time he came to me and said,"What deep problems of government are you thinking over there all by yourself?" |
| 8641 | At the time of the Dred Scott decision, he exclaimed:"Is Liberty dead? |
| 8641 | But did he contribute one great thought or one grand and salutary imagination to the world''s stock? |
| 8641 | But how is he to persuade others to take an interest in these subjects? |
| 8641 | But is not this effort a virtue in itself? |
| 8641 | But why multiply these unpleasant examples of misrepresentation? |
| 8641 | Can the descendant of five generations of New England clergymen have the same blood in his veins that warmed the hearts of Marshal Ney and Mirabeau? |
| 8641 | Could a chief justice have decided the case better? |
| 8641 | Did he lay a noble emphasis upon any great truth or order of truths and so recommend it effectually to the attention and consideration of mankind? |
| 8641 | Did he realize the magnitude of the work before him-- one which thousands of patriotic men have since attempted and signally failed to accomplish? |
| 8641 | Did this man of heroic nature lack the courage to face tragedy?] |
| 8641 | Does he mean the spirit of the age? |
| 8641 | Does he partially expose here a peculiarity in his literary procedure? |
| 8641 | Does it so much as breathe upon them a salubrious air? |
| 8641 | Had Judge Story already discovered a centrifugal and uncontrollable element in the man? |
| 8641 | He walked out into the streets, and somebody said to him,''What think you of Athenian liberty?'' |
| 8641 | How could he make known to others what was in his full heart, except from the pulpit? |
| 8641 | How could it be otherwise? |
| 8641 | How could it happen that Hawthorne deceived himself? |
| 8641 | How did these bare, bleak and barren rocks come to be inhabited? |
| 8641 | How did they get there?" |
| 8641 | How should this be, unless, indeed, the century as a whole is inferior, and prominence in it is no token of greatness? |
| 8641 | If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, what should be said of unripe and superficial thinking? |
| 8641 | If his friends did not agree with him he would reply with a mildly interrogative"Yes?" |
| 8641 | In fine, does his work serve to enlarge the souls, enlighten the minds, direct the wills or quicken and inspire the better powers of man? |
| 8641 | Is it not better for us to look at the matter in this way? |
| 8641 | Is it possible that he was in the right, and men like Emerson, Ripley, and James Freeman Clarke in the wrong? |
| 8641 | Is not all progress in this world accomplished as the frog escaped from the well, by jumping up three feet and falling back two? |
| 8641 | Is not the very crown of character that which we derive from failure, penitence, and self- reproach? |
| 8641 | Is the valley of the Mississippi her grave? |
| 8641 | It is not likely the boy is a genius, and who is going to purchase his pictures?" |
| 8641 | May not the career of any great man be compared to the course of a river? |
| 8641 | My wife seized me by the arm, half terrified, and said,''Wendell, what are you going to do?'' |
| 8641 | Or did he even write a single sentence which one treasures up as an imperishable jewel? |
| 8641 | Perpetual constraint and self- denial may strengthen character, but will human nature be better for it in the end? |
| 8641 | Surely enough true civilization is and always has been an immediate necessity: a necessity like the feast of Tantalus: but how is it to be realized? |
| 8641 | Then she wrote on the paper:"Where is my father?" |
| 8641 | Was it an inherited public tendency from the spirit of intolerance which formerly persecuted the Quakers? |
| 8641 | Was there a strange fatality in the name, so that Patrick Henry might say with added force,"Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace"? |
| 8641 | Was this the summary and net result of their stroll in Walden woods? |
| 8641 | Wasson''s direct influence during his life was limited to a very small circle; but who can tell how far it extended indirectly beyond this? |
| 8641 | What answer can be made to such accusations? |
| 8641 | What but a future candidate for the senate of the United States, or even for the presidency? |
| 8641 | What does Emerson intend by trusting the time? |
| 8641 | What else can we expect of them? |
| 8641 | What good would a Webster''s dictionary have been at Harper''s Ferry? |
| 8641 | When it is a question of motive, of moral consciousness, how are such charges to be refuted? |
| 8641 | Who can doubt that this was a personal experience with him, as it has been with some others? |
| 8641 | Who can remember the like of it? |
| 8641 | Who indeed can explain it? |
| 8641 | Who, looking on these things, does not acknowledge that man is indeed fearfully as well as wonderfully made? |
| 8641 | Why does he consider Miss Fuller to have had a strong, coarse nature, and to have been morally unsound? |
| 8641 | Will you come?" |
| 8641 | With such an achievement at the age of twenty- six, what might not have been expected of his maturer years,--of the full fruition of his genius? |
| 8641 | and that Alcott answered,"Waldo, why are you not here? |
| 37878 | And how did the Lady receive these valuable and useful things? 37878 How could I ever judge Margaret fairly,"he exclaims,"after such a crushing discovery of her superiority?" |
| 37878 | How is medical science to be advanced? 37878 Shall we try,"he says,"the medicines advertised with the certificates of justices of the peace, of clergymen, or even members of Congress? |
| 37878 | What business have young scribblers to send me their verses and ask my opinion of the stuff? |
| 37878 | What is the honest truth,he says at another time,"about the medical art? |
| 37878 | What will it be like? 37878 A feast it was that none might scorn to share; Cambridge and Concord demigods were there-- And who were they? 37878 Ah, pensive scholar, what is fame? 37878 Am I your creditor? 37878 And how could money be spent more economically than to promote the further enlightenment of the medical profession? 37878 And the pale sweetSchoolmistress"in her modest mourning dress? |
| 37878 | And where the leaves, the flowers, the fruits, Without your watering at the roots To fill each branching vein? |
| 37878 | And where will you find a more pathetic picture than that of the old musician in_ The Silent Melody_? |
| 37878 | And who are more likely to have their wants supplied? |
| 37878 | But is there nothing that may well employ Life''s winter months-- no sunny hour of joy? |
| 37878 | Could it be the roar of the thousand wheels and the ten thousand footsteps jarring and trampling along the stones of the neighboring city? |
| 37878 | Do you know whom we send you, Hidalgos of Spain? |
| 37878 | Do you know your old friends when you see them again? |
| 37878 | How can I tell you, O my loving friends, What light, what warmth, your joyous welcome lends To life''s late hour? |
| 37878 | How can one dare to sit down inactive with such examples before him? |
| 37878 | How could Doctor Holmes on this great occasion pass it by? |
| 37878 | How could he have treated the offence and the offender with a more fitting combination of wit and scorn? |
| 37878 | How did he do this? |
| 37878 | I always feel that people must be saying,''Are you not rash at eighty years of age to write for young people who think a man old at forty?''" |
| 37878 | I naturally said,''What do you mean? |
| 37878 | I suppose all of you have had the pocket- book fever when you were little? |
| 37878 | Is this the mighty ocean?--is this all? |
| 37878 | King''s Chapel?" |
| 37878 | Men and devils both contrive Traps for catching girls alive; Eve was duped, and Helen kissed, How, O how can you resist? |
| 37878 | Shall I bless you, Dorothy, or forgive, For the tender whisper that bade me live? |
| 37878 | That is a most remarkable trio, is n''t it? |
| 37878 | The toast to"The Bar"-- Why might that not be the skull Of a lawyer? |
| 37878 | Though many a cloud your struggling morn obscures, What sunset brings a brighter sky than yours? |
| 37878 | What better legacy can we leave our children, and our children''s children, than an illumined medical faculty?" |
| 37878 | What do I mean? |
| 37878 | What does he leave when life is well- nigh spent To lap its evening in a calm content? |
| 37878 | What is it to him that you can localize and name by some uncouth term, the disease which you could not prevent and which you can not cure? |
| 37878 | What keeps the doctor''s trade alive? |
| 37878 | When your kind summons reached my calm retreat, Who are the friends, I questioned, I shall meet? |
| 37878 | Where be his quidet''s now? |
| 37878 | Where did you ever see it before?'' |
| 37878 | Where in the whole range of the English language, or indeed, of any language, will you find such an overflow of spontaneous wit and humor? |
| 37878 | Where is the patriarch you are kindly greeting? |
| 37878 | Who''s goin''to run,''n''wher''''s''t goin''to be?'' |
| 37878 | Why should I enumerate them? |
| 37878 | Without any prefatory remarks, he then read the following poem: Have I deserved your kindness? |
| 37878 | we remember that angels have wings-- What story is this of the day of his birth? |
| 14658 | All of us? |
| 14658 | Are you hungry? |
| 14658 | Boys,he said,"when did you eat last?" |
| 14658 | But where are you going to? |
| 14658 | But why ungrateful? |
| 14658 | D''ye remember Buffalo? |
| 14658 | Did you get shore- leave? |
| 14658 | Do you remember Billy Harper, at Shanghai? |
| 14658 | Do you remember Jim Wan? |
| 14658 | Do you remember the temple? |
| 14658 | He is dead? |
| 14658 | How''s that? |
| 14658 | I beg your pardon,said she;"but what... what was it you said?" |
| 14658 | It was at a little town in Ohio on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern,a kid would start; and another,"Ever ride the Cannonball on the Wabash? |
| 14658 | Like you? |
| 14658 | Never again what? |
| 14658 | Not that I know of,she gurgled between gasps;"but what does it mean?" |
| 14658 | Out of an engine- cab,he answered;"and where did you?" |
| 14658 | Say, Bo, can you let us have a little tobacco? |
| 14658 | Say, Bo,he said,"you see that freight side- tracked over there to let us go by?" |
| 14658 | That was in--? |
| 14658 | Think you can make it? |
| 14658 | Two- bits,said I;"is there anything wrong about it?" |
| 14658 | What do you mean? |
| 14658 | What hotel are you stopping at? |
| 14658 | What in the dickens did he give me to be ungrateful about? |
| 14658 | What? |
| 14658 | Where''d ye glahm''em? |
| 14658 | Which temple? |
| 14658 | Which way, Bo? |
| 14658 | Why did you quit your job? |
| 14658 | Wo n''t you repeat it? |
| 14658 | You called in at Rangoon? |
| 14658 | You remember the custom- house at Bombay? |
| 14658 | You want some, eh? |
| 14658 | Your Honor,he began confusedly,"is n''t that a funny question to ask?" |
| 14658 | After a couple of minutes he looked up with an I- thought- you- were- gone expression on his face, and demanded:--"Well?" |
| 14658 | And did n''t I have my"nerve"with me? |
| 14658 | And furthermore, was I not a tramp- royal? |
| 14658 | And what crime was there in that? |
| 14658 | And who knows but some day I may meet him? |
| 14658 | And why not? |
| 14658 | And you remember that little island on the right- hand side coming into the harbor?" |
| 14658 | As he dealt the first card to me, he paused and said:--"Say, Bo, ai n''t I done seen you befo''?" |
| 14658 | Besides, had n''t I been thrown off of an east- bound train right at that very spot not five minutes before? |
| 14658 | But am I? |
| 14658 | But did I betray my desperate plight to those lynx- eyed guardians of the public welfare of Winnipeg? |
| 14658 | But have they? |
| 14658 | But how lively? |
| 14658 | But what did we care? |
| 14658 | But what does that matter? |
| 14658 | But why was I in the middle of Canada going west, when my grandparents lived in England? |
| 14658 | Did you ever see a circus rider, standing on two running horses, with one foot on the back of each horse? |
| 14658 | Did you ever see a tourniquet? |
| 14658 | Habeas corpus was all right, but of what good was it to me when I could communicate with no one outside the jail? |
| 14658 | Has the crew abandoned the fight? |
| 14658 | He took French Kid and me aside and gave us advice something like this:"We''re goin''to try an''ditch your bunch, see? |
| 14658 | Her mouth was twitching as she again said,"What?" |
| 14658 | How could naked men smuggle anything past an inspection? |
| 14658 | I scraped my feet to advertise my intention of going, and queried:--"And I do n''t get anything to eat?" |
| 14658 | In fact, his first words were:"Where did you come from?" |
| 14658 | Instead, his next question was:--"And how is Rangoon?" |
| 14658 | It answers Dr. Jordan''s test of truth:"Will it work? |
| 14658 | Of what use to the woman, or to me, would be my being beaten to death by five men there on the bank of the Susquehanna? |
| 14658 | Oh, I know, it was like taking candy from a baby, but what would you? |
| 14658 | Or was I to fail? |
| 14658 | Our fronts were decidedly against us; but what did we care? |
| 14658 | PICTURES"What do it matter where or''ow we die, So long as we''ve our''ealth to watch it all?" |
| 14658 | They were landlubbers, in the heart of the continent, and what better story for them than a sea story? |
| 14658 | Understand? |
| 14658 | Was I not blessed with strength, agility, and youth? |
| 14658 | Was not he guarding the one door, and had he not himself latched the opposite door but a few minutes before? |
| 14658 | Well, and what of it? |
| 14658 | Well, well, and what of it? |
| 14658 | Were not these other tramps mere dubs and"gay- cats"and amateurs alongside of me? |
| 14658 | Were we not to be together always? |
| 14658 | What crime had I committed against the good citizens of Niagara Falls that all this vengeance should be wreaked upon me? |
| 14658 | What does this little spray amount to? |
| 14658 | What had I done? |
| 14658 | What if these three men are about to man- handle me? |
| 14658 | What time had I to eat when it took all my time to prepare the many cups of coffee for drinking? |
| 14658 | What was a man with a fit, anyway? |
| 14658 | What was he? |
| 14658 | What''s that? |
| 14658 | Who was he? |
| 14658 | Will you trust your life to it?" |
| 14658 | Worse pages of life than what I have described? |
| 14658 | Would that matron ever look away? |
| 36661 | A Dryad with her leaf- light trip? |
| 36661 | A Dryad''s lips, who slumbers in the shade? |
| 36661 | A Faun, who lets the heavy ivy- wreath Slip to his thigh as, reaching up, he pulls The chestnut blossoms in whole bosomfuls? |
| 36661 | A cricket dirging days that soon must die? |
| 36661 | A heart- sick bird that sang of happier hours? |
| 36661 | A sylvan Spirit, whose sweet mouth doth breathe Her viewless presence near us, unafraid? |
| 36661 | An Oread who hesitates Before the Satyr form that waits, Crouching to leap, that there she sees? |
| 36661 | And is''t her body glimmers on yon rise? |
| 36661 | And is''t her footfalls lure me? |
| 36661 | And, wildly clad, around the camp- fires''glow, The Shawnee chieftains with their painted braves, Each grasping his war- bow? |
| 36661 | Between the summons and the sacrifice One hour of love, th''eternity of an hour? |
| 36661 | Could I find it-- did I seek-- The old mill? |
| 36661 | Could I find the pond that lay Where vermilion blossoms showered Fragrance down the daisied way? |
| 36661 | Could I find the sedgy angle, Where the dragon- flies would turn Slender flittings into spangle On the sunlight? |
| 36661 | Do not the flow''rs, so reticent, confess With conscious looks the contact of a god? |
| 36661 | Does not the very water garrulously Boast the indulgence of a deity? |
| 36661 | Dost Thou not see our tears? |
| 36661 | Epics heard on the stars''lips? |
| 36661 | Flowers are not sweeter than your face is sweet-- What need I more to make my world complete? |
| 36661 | GENIUS LOCI I What wood- god, on this water''s mossy curb, Lost in reflections of earth''s loveliness, Did I, just now, unconsciously disturb? |
| 36661 | Have we not known Thee, God As Thy stars know Heaven? |
| 36661 | Have we not striven? |
| 36661 | II Does not the moss retain some slight impress, Green- dented down, of where he lay or trod? |
| 36661 | II The children of what fathers sleep Beneath these melancholy pines? |
| 36661 | INTIMATIONS I Is it uneasy moonlight On the restless field, that stirs? |
| 36661 | Is a door Opened in my soul? |
| 36661 | Is it a wash of the yellow moss, Or drift of the autumn''s gold, The mountain torrent foams across For the dead pine''s roots to hold? |
| 36661 | Is it the bark of the sycamore, Or peel of the white birch- tree, The mountaineer on the other shore Hath followed and still can see? |
| 36661 | Is it the dolorous water, That sobs in the woods and sighs? |
| 36661 | Its weather- beaten Wheel and gable by the creek? |
| 36661 | Moonrays or the splintered slip Of a star? |
| 36661 | O woman nature, love that still endures, What strength has ours that is not born of yours? |
| 36661 | Or Limnad, with her lilied face, More lovely than the misty lace That haunts a star and gives it grace? |
| 36661 | Or did the ghost of Summer wander by? |
| 36661 | Or dogwood blossoms snowing on the lawn? |
| 36661 | Or heart of an ancient oak- tree, That breaks and, sighing, dies? |
| 36661 | Or in the valley''s vistaed glow, Past rocks of terraced trumpet- vines, Shall I behold her coming slow, Sweet May, among the columbines? |
| 36661 | Or is it some Leimoniad In wildwood flowers dimly clad? |
| 36661 | Or just a wild- bird voluble with thanks? |
| 36661 | Or restless sunlight on the moss and weeds? |
| 36661 | Or troops of ghosts of blooms, that whitely wade The brook? |
| 36661 | Or under boughs, reclining cool, A Hamadryad, like a pool Of moonlight, palely beautiful? |
| 36661 | Or wild white meadow- blossoms The night- wind bends and blurs? |
| 36661 | Over the meadow and the wood What was the voice that filled her ears? |
| 36661 | Palenque? |
| 36661 | Perfume that leads me on from dream to dream-- An Oread''s footprints fragrant with her flight? |
| 36661 | Stars are not truer than your soul is true-- What need I more of heaven then than you? |
| 36661 | Sweetheart I called her.--When did she repeat Sweet to one hope or heart to one despair? |
| 36661 | Sweetheart? |
| 36661 | That made each bank, meseemed, and every bush Start into eagle- plumes? |
| 36661 | That sent into pale cheeks the blood, Until each seemed a wild- brier bud Mown down by mowing harvesters?... |
| 36661 | That the sassafras embowered With the spice of early May? |
| 36661 | The broad Ohio glitters to the stars; And many murmurs whisper in its woods-- Is it the sorrow of dead warriors For their lost solitudes? |
| 36661 | The stealthy whisper and the drip? |
| 36661 | To see the glimmering wigwams by the waves? |
| 36661 | UNREQUITED Passion? |
| 36661 | Uxmal? |
| 36661 | WILL O''THE WISPS Beyond the barley meads and hay, What was the light that beckoned there? |
| 36661 | Was it a voice lamenting for the flowers? |
| 36661 | Was it the boat, the solitude and hush, That with dead Indians peopled all the glooms? |
| 36661 | What is it in the vistaed ways That leans and springs, and stoops and sways?-- The naked limbs of one who flees? |
| 36661 | What is the murmur in the dell? |
| 36661 | What is the spice that haunts each glen and glade? |
| 36661 | What is this thing you tell me In tongues of a twilight race, Of death, with the vanished features, Mantled, of my own face? |
| 36661 | What spell dost bear from listening plant to plant, Like some white witch, some ghostly ministrant, Some spectre of some perished flower of phlox? |
| 36661 | Who waits for me, where, note for note, The birds make glad the forest trees? |
| 36661 | With a broken syrinx there, With bignonia overgrown, Is it Pan in hoof and hair, Or his image carved from stone? |
| 36661 | Yet my dreaming-- is it more Than mere dreaming? |
| 36661 | a curtain Raised? |
| 36661 | or Copan? |
| 36661 | or the sound Of airs that stir the crisp leaf on the ground? |
| 36661 | to let me see for certain I have lived that life before? |
| 36661 | what thing could save You then? |
| 8586 | A what? |
| 8586 | Am I the-- pardon me, I believe I do not understand? |
| 8586 | And can I take him up the shore and hang him as soon as you are done? |
| 8586 | Are you comfortable? |
| 8586 | Certainly he did; but you are not thinking of hanging him without a trial? |
| 8586 | Could you wait a little? |
| 8586 | Dead before? 8586 Did n''t I say I was going to hang him? |
| 8586 | Have you formed or expressed opinions about it? |
| 8586 | Have you held conversations upon the subject? |
| 8586 | Have you read the newspaper accounts of it? |
| 8586 | How? 8586 How? |
| 8586 | How? |
| 8586 | Never shook his mother? |
| 8586 | Not people of any repute? |
| 8586 | Oh, you do? 8586 On it? |
| 8586 | Scooped him? |
| 8586 | The which? |
| 8586 | Thrown up the sponge? |
| 8586 | Well, but why should he shake her? |
| 8586 | What did I understand you to say? |
| 8586 | What do you want aboard this ship? |
| 8586 | What''s this for? |
| 8586 | Why? 8586 A good man, says you? 8586 And ai n''t they cool about it, too? 8586 Are there no hay wagons in from the Truckee? 8586 Are you going to hang him any how-- and try him afterward? |
| 8586 | Assist at the obsequies?" |
| 8586 | Begin again?" |
| 8586 | But did n''t he kill the nigger?" |
| 8586 | But why go on? |
| 8586 | Can not you simplify them in some way? |
| 8586 | Could you say it over once more, and say it slow?" |
| 8586 | Did n''t he kill the nigger?" |
| 8586 | Do you reckon a man has got as many lives as a cat? |
| 8586 | Great Neptune, ai n''t he guilty? |
| 8586 | Had deceased any religious convictions? |
| 8586 | He said:"Do you see that ship there at the dock?" |
| 8586 | How long will it take?" |
| 8586 | I had been a private secretary, a silver miner and a silver mill operative, and amounted to less than nothing in each, and now-- What to do next? |
| 8586 | I said:"Higbie, what-- what is it?" |
| 8586 | If an unknown individual arrived, they did not inquire if he was capable, honest, industrious, but-- had he killed his man? |
| 8586 | If his Sunday- school class progressed faster than the other classes, was it matter for wonder? |
| 8586 | It''s a kind of a hard world, after all, ai n''t it? |
| 8586 | Ned said:"Who goes there?" |
| 8586 | Now if we can get you to help plant him--""Preach the funeral discourse? |
| 8586 | On what?" |
| 8586 | Presently a head appeared in the circle of daylight away aloft, and a voice came down:"Are you all set?" |
| 8586 | Said Col. Jack:"Ai n''t it gay, though? |
| 8586 | See?" |
| 8586 | That is to say, did he feel a dependence upon, or acknowledge allegiance to a higher power?" |
| 8586 | Then he talked an earnest, persuasive sermon to him, and ended by repeating the question:"Did you kill the nigger?" |
| 8586 | Then in a whisper to Col. Jim:"But ai n''t these New Yorkers friendly? |
| 8586 | Then to Col. Jim, with a sounding slap on his thigh:"Ai n''t it style, though? |
| 8586 | What I was a drivin''at, was, that he never throwed off on his mother--don''t you see? |
| 8586 | What could the world do without juries? |
| 8586 | What did I understand you to say?" |
| 8586 | What do I want to try him for, if he killed the nigger?" |
| 8586 | What else could one expect? |
| 8586 | What to do next? |
| 8586 | What would the boys say if they could see us cutting a swell like this in New York? |
| 8586 | What''ll you take-- the old thing?" |
| 8586 | What''s the difference? |
| 8586 | Where are you going?" |
| 8586 | Why could not the jury law be so altered as to give men of brains and honesty and equal chance with fools and miscreants? |
| 8586 | Why did you not say so before? |
| 8586 | Why, has he ever been dead before?" |
| 8586 | Why? |
| 8586 | Yes, you see he''s dead again--""Again? |
| 8586 | You killed the nigger?" |
| 8586 | You see, one of the boys has gone up the flume--""Gone where?" |
| 3463 | Are you Horace Bigsby''s cub? |
| 3463 | Can I have it-- can Clara and I have it all for our own? |
| 3463 | Did I ever tell you the plot of it? 3463 Did it knock him down?" |
| 3463 | Did n''t Henry tell you to land here? |
| 3463 | Did n''t you hear him? |
| 3463 | Did you do that? |
| 3463 | Did you ever do any steering? |
| 3463 | Did you follow it up? 3463 Did you pound him much-- that is, severely?" |
| 3463 | Do n''t you know I have only talked as yet, but proved nothing? 3463 Do n''t you understand, Youth?" |
| 3463 | Do n''t you understand? 3463 Do you chew?" |
| 3463 | Do you drink? |
| 3463 | Do you gamble? |
| 3463 | Do you know the Bowen boys? |
| 3463 | Do you swear? |
| 3463 | George,he said,"what pictures are these that gentleman left?" |
| 3463 | Hard? |
| 3463 | Have n''t you any other friend that you could suggest? |
| 3463 | How do you follow a hall at home in the dark? 3463 How much do you think it ought to be, Mark?" |
| 3463 | How on earth am I going to learn it, then? |
| 3463 | How would you like a young man to learn the river? |
| 3463 | If they want letters from here-- who''ll run from morning till night collecting material cheaper? 3463 Oh Youth, have you done anything?" |
| 3463 | Pounded him? |
| 3463 | Some one you know? |
| 3463 | Was it Grady that killed himself trying to do all the dining and speeching? 3463 What are you reading, Sam?" |
| 3463 | What did you do? |
| 3463 | What do they mean by that? |
| 3463 | What do you know? |
| 3463 | What in the nation you steerin''at, anyway? 3463 What is your name?" |
| 3463 | What makes you pull your words that way? |
| 3463 | What will you have, Sam? |
| 3463 | What with? |
| 3463 | What''s the name of the next point? |
| 3463 | What-- do you-- charge? |
| 3463 | Who was it? |
| 3463 | Whose name was that we were just applauding? |
| 3463 | Why do n''t you light it yourself? |
| 3463 | Why,he said, holding out his hand,"you did not tell us you were coming?" |
| 3463 | You''re Secesh, ai n''t you? |
| 3463 | A man with him asked:"Who''s Mark Twain?" |
| 3463 | And the final heartsick line,"Do n''t you suppose they have pretty much quit writing at home?" |
| 3463 | Are you?" |
| 3463 | As we turned into the lane that led to Stormfield he said:"Can we see where you have built your billiard- room?" |
| 3463 | At a party one night, being urged to make a conundrum, he said:"Well, why am I like the Pacific Ocean?" |
| 3463 | Brown said, fiercely,"Here, why did n''t you tell me we had got to land at that plantation?" |
| 3463 | Clemens asked,"You''ve heard from those gentlemen out there?" |
| 3463 | Clemens, just then coming to say good- night, saw a little group gathered about her bed, and heard Clara ask:"Katy, is it true? |
| 3463 | Did you do anything further?" |
| 3463 | Did you have any bets on us?" |
| 3463 | Do n''t you know I have never held in my hands a gold or silver bar that belonged to me? |
| 3463 | Do you hear me? |
| 3463 | Do you realize, Mark, what a symposium it is to be? |
| 3463 | Favored by fortune, beloved by millions, honored now even in the highest places, what more had life to give? |
| 3463 | Give him a good, sound thrashing, do you hear? |
| 3463 | He wrote, too, now and then, and finished the little book called"Is Shakespeare Dead?" |
| 3463 | Helen Keller wrote:"And you are seventy years old? |
| 3463 | How do you run Plum Point?" |
| 3463 | I think he added one or two other remarks, then all at once, turning upon me those piercing agate- blue eyes, he said:"When would you like to begin?" |
| 3463 | It only costs them$ 1 apiece, and, if they ca n''t stand it, what do they stay here for?" |
| 3463 | Livy, what can I do?" |
| 3463 | Mark Twain, in the"Mississippi"boot remembers them as follows:"Did you strike him first?" |
| 3463 | Oh, Katy, is it true?" |
| 3463 | Once, when his lecture was over, an old man came up to him and said:"Be them your natural tones of eloquence?" |
| 3463 | Or is the report exaggerated, like that of your death? |
| 3463 | Summoned to go at last, he chided himself for staying so long; but she said there was no harm and kissed him, saying,"you will come back?" |
| 3463 | Tell us, Mark, why are you like the Pacific Ocean?" |
| 3463 | That morning when the dictation ended he said:"Have you any special place to lunch, to- day?" |
| 3463 | Then Mr. Goodman said:"Of course, Artemus, it''s all right, but why did you give us Upper Canada?" |
| 3463 | Then he would be likely to say:"Why did n''t you stop me? |
| 3463 | Then:"Look here, what do you suppose I told you the names of those points for?" |
| 3463 | Waiting his turn at the booking- desk, he heard a newspaper man inquire:"What notables are going?" |
| 3463 | Was it fate or Providence that suddenly placed it in his hands? |
| 3463 | Was it swept out of a bank, or caught up by the wind from some counting- room table? |
| 3463 | What do you start from, above Twelve Mile Point, to cross over?" |
| 3463 | What name do you want to use Josh?" |
| 3463 | What was its origin? |
| 3463 | Where are you going now? |
| 3463 | Where is it Orion''s going to? |
| 3463 | Where you headin''for now?" |
| 3463 | Who knows? |
| 3463 | Why did you let me go on making a donkey of myself when you could have saved me?" |
| 3463 | Would you like a series of papers to run through three months, or six, or nine-- or about four months, say?" |
| 3463 | he asked,"pilots in the St. Louis and New Orleans trade?" |
| 34940 | ''Any political news from below, Bill?'' 34940 ''Have you had a cruise in the yacht?'' |
| 34940 | ''How sick?'' 34940 ''Not to that big chap over from Ten Mile Mills?'' |
| 34940 | ''What are you going to do about it?'' 34940 ''Why, wot''s up, old fellow?'' |
| 34940 | A star? 34940 And what is this part of the country called? |
| 34940 | Can you wonder, Nan, that I have kept this from you? 34940 Is that United States law?" |
| 34940 | My friend, if the trees are so close together, how does the elk get through the woods with his wide- branching horns? |
| 34940 | No sight? 34940 People would lounge into the shop, turn over the leaves of other volumes, say carelessly''Got a new book of California poetry out, have n''t you?'' |
| 34940 | What is your partner''s last name? |
| 34940 | When a man has been running free all day, what''s the natural thing for him to do? 34940 Which God?" |
| 34940 | Why do n''t you kiss me, Bessie? |
| 34940 | [ 30][ Illustration: THE FIRST HOTEL AT SAN FRANCISCO Copyright, Century Co.]Have you a letter of introduction?" |
| 34940 | ''Do you often have such lively times in Virginia City?'' |
| 34940 | ''How''s your arm, Jack?'' |
| 34940 | ''Were you not,''he asked eagerly,''Senior Wrangler in''43?'' |
| 34940 | ''What in the name of common sense has that got to do with you?'' |
| 34940 | ''What you mean by pigeon milk, homepatty soup, and de brick? |
| 34940 | ''Where did you hear about that battle?'' |
| 34940 | ''Why, my dear fellow,''he said,''do n''t you see? |
| 34940 | ''Ye did n''t expect her to marry a nobleman, did ye?'' |
| 34940 | After a careful survey of the magistrate and a pinch of the flesh to make sure that he was not dreaming, he exclaimed:--"Ned McGowan, is that you?" |
| 34940 | After a pause he said with a half- pitying, half- humorous smile:--"''Pike-- aren''t you?'' |
| 34940 | Are you and she any blood relation that you know of?'' |
| 34940 | But did it fail? |
| 34940 | But the Reader may ask, why were the laws not enforced? |
| 34940 | But was he not rather consciously depicting the bad points of what would seem to have been his favorite character? |
| 34940 | But who was this unfortunate Catharine Brett? |
| 34940 | Ca n''t a man drop''S glass in yer shop But you must r''ar? |
| 34940 | Can a woman be a widow and untidy in her dress, and still retain her preëminence as heroine? |
| 34940 | Comprehend me? |
| 34940 | Does n''t this exceed any English story of the precocity of American children? |
| 34940 | For you see the dern cuss had struck--"Water?" |
| 34940 | Harte, are n''t you afraid to go about in the cars so recklessly when there is this scare about small- pox?'' |
| 34940 | Has it any particular name?" |
| 34940 | How came it that this orthodox Jew, this pillar of the synagogue, married a Christian woman? |
| 34940 | How did this come about? |
| 34940 | How far is that place-- anyway? |
| 34940 | How passed the night through thy long waking?" |
| 34940 | How you cooking, gentlemen?'' |
| 34940 | If Mrs.---- talked with me, and found me uninteresting as a man, how could she expect to find me interesting because I was an author?" |
| 34940 | In 1851 the"Alta California"exclaimed,"Who will devise a plan to bring out a few cargoes of respectable women to California?" |
| 34940 | Is there no drier sport to be had in all Great Britain? |
| 34940 | On the scaffold he turned to one of the by- standers, and said,"Did you ever know anything bad of me before this affair occurred?" |
| 34940 | Or was it possible that it was only a weakness of the sex which no Republican nativity or education could eliminate?" |
| 34940 | She sat quietly down again, folded her hands in her lap, and said calmly,--"''And why should you not?'' |
| 34940 | That''s curous, too, ai n''t it?" |
| 34940 | The following dialogue is an authentic illustration:--"Mr. Small, do not you believe in the overruling Providence of God?" |
| 34940 | The gospel must n''t keep us from that, must it, Charley? |
| 34940 | The thing is so simple that it seems easy, and yet where shall we find its counterpart? |
| 34940 | Then, after a pause of reflection, he looked up and said:"Will your Honor_ lend_ me fifty dollars so that I can pay this last fine?" |
| 34940 | This, unfortunately, being repeated to Bret Harte, he exclaimed,"Now, why ca n''t a woman realize that this sort of thing is insulting?... |
| 34940 | Was she? |
| 34940 | What are the positive virtues of Bret Harte''s style? |
| 34940 | What governs the dialect of any time and place? |
| 34940 | What makes you star'', You over thar? |
| 34940 | What said Juliet of the anonymous young man whom she had known something less than an hour? |
| 34940 | What say they? |
| 34940 | What type of woman is most valuable to the world? |
| 34940 | Who but Bret Harte has really described the light which love kindles upon the face of a woman? |
| 34940 | Who can say that the influence of Dickens, coming at the early, plastic period of his life, may not have turned the scale? |
| 34940 | Who, more than he, has warmed the heart and suffused the eyes of his readers with pity for the unfortunate, with admiration for the heroic? |
| 34940 | Why is John Bull always represented as an irascible animal? |
| 34940 | You ai n''t goin''to turn in agin, are ye?'' |
| 34940 | You think it ai n''t true about Ilsey? |
| 34940 | _ Who was my Quiet Friend?_ 338_ n._ Widows in Bret Harte''s stories, 248. |
| 34940 | e._ harness) the horse,"cavortin''round here in the dew,"and"What yer yawpin''at ther''?" |
| 34940 | no sound?" |
| 34940 | or''Did you ever see a more glorious country?'' |
| 34940 | or''Is n''t it a glorious country?'' |
| 38035 | But,you will say,"why did n''t you send the promised volume for E. M. from_ London_ then? |
| 38035 | That''s all very well; but why then did n''t you write and explain why it was that you were keeping us unserved and uninformed? |
| 38035 | Then why the hell did n''t you? |
| 38035 | Why then could n''t you write home and have one of the books in question sent you?--or have it sent to Hastings directly from your house? |
| 38035 | ( My subject-- unless I grip it tight-- melts away-- Rye, Sussex, is so little like it; and then where am I? |
| 38035 | ), for there are still things I want to_ do_, and I ask myself, at such a rate, How? |
| 38035 | */ I have for a long time had it at heart to write to you-- as to which I hear you comment: Why the hell then did n''t you? |
| 38035 | --and who shall blame you? |
| 38035 | 12th._ I wrote you last from Rome, I think-- didn''t I? |
| 38035 | A play appears to me of necessity to involve a struggle, a question( of whether, and how, will it or wo n''t it happen? |
| 38035 | After the generosity of your letters of last month how can I ask you to labour again in my too thankless cause? |
| 38035 | Ah, Walter, Walter, why do you do these things? |
| 38035 | And now, coming to Kipps, what am I to say about Kipps but that I am ready, that I am compelled, utterly to_ drivel_ about him? |
| 38035 | Are they presented in some procurable volume that would be possible to send me? |
| 38035 | As they must now have children enough for them to take care of_ each other_( have n''t they?) |
| 38035 | But how do I know, after all, even yet? |
| 38035 | But we must all wait, must n''t we? |
| 38035 | But what am I ridiculously remarking to_ you_? |
| 38035 | But what memories are these not to you, and how can one speak to you at all without stirring up the deeps? |
| 38035 | But what need of that have_ you_, lady of the full programme and the rich performance? |
| 38035 | But why do I make these restrictive and invidious observations? |
| 38035 | But why do I speak to you of this as if I needed to and it were n''t with you all the while far more than it can be even with me? |
| 38035 | Could you see-- ask-- if Fanny Morse has kept any? |
| 38035 | Could you, would you? |
| 38035 | Does this at any rate-- the best I can do for you-- throw any sufficient light? |
| 38035 | How can we be sufficiently thankful for these charming breaks in the sinister perspective? |
| 38035 | How can what is going on not be to one as a huge horror of blackness? |
| 38035 | How is Gross, dear woman, and how are Mitou and Nicette-- whom I missed so at Monte Cassino? |
| 38035 | How on the other hand_ not_ represent it either-- without putting into play mere fiddlesticks? |
| 38035 | How shall I tell you in return what an interest I am going to take in you-- and how I want you to multiply for me the occasions of showing it? |
| 38035 | How shall I tell you, at any rate, today, how your letter touches and even, as it were, relieves me? |
| 38035 | I ca n''t remount-- but can only drift on with the thicker and darker tide: wherefore pray for me, as who knows what may be at the end? |
| 38035 | I come up again and quite well up-- as how can I not in order again to re- taste the bitter cup? |
| 38035 | I do n''t know, and how should I? |
| 38035 | If it had n''t been for this I think I should have two or three times quite said to you:"Wo n''t you let_ me_ have a try?" |
| 38035 | Is Margaret on better ground again? |
| 38035 | Is it thinkable to you that you might come over at this ungenial season, for a night-- some time before Xmas? |
| 38035 | It is indeed beautiful of you to think of these little deeds of kindness, little words of love( or is it the other way round?) |
| 38035 | Or shall you pass through this place-- homeward-- before May 1st? |
| 38035 | Or would a big development of inspiration and form have come? |
| 38035 | Reality is a world that was to be capable of_ this_--and how represent that horrific capability,_ historically_ latent, historically ahead of it? |
| 38035 | Save in the fantastic and the romantic( Copperfield, Jane Eyre, that charming thing of Stevenson''s with the bad title--"Kidnapped"?) |
| 38035 | Seulement alors je compterais bâtir a great many( a great many, entendezvous?) |
| 38035 | Still, what those we so love have done_ for_ us does n''t wholly fail us with their presence-- isn''t that true? |
| 38035 | The elderly( or almost?) |
| 38035 | We feel, do n''t we? |
| 38035 | What does that sadly mean? |
| 38035 | What is a poor man to do, mon prince, mon bon prince, mon grand prince, when so prodigiously practised upon? |
| 38035 | What is one to say or do in presence of an expression so generous and so penetrating? |
| 38035 | What is the rent of a house-- unfurnished of course( a little good_ inside_ one)--in your Terrace?--and are there any with 2 or 3 servants''bedrooms? |
| 38035 | What matter to us where it came from so long as it came?" |
| 38035 | Who is D. H. Lawrence, who, you think, would interest me? |
| 38035 | Will you consider at your leisure the plea thus put? |
| 38035 | Will you give me the great pleasure of being one of them?--signing a paper to that effect? |
| 38035 | Will you give my tender love there when you next go? |
| 38035 | Will you kindly keep a little in the dark for the present my fond chatter about my poor Edition? |
| 38035 | You can see, ca n''t you? |
| 38035 | You will have finished your new fiction, I"presume"--if it is n''t presumptuous-- before embarking? |
| 38035 | You''ll say doubtless:"Damn you, why report_ at all_--if you are so crassly superstitious? |
| 38035 | why_ did_ they?" |
| 6561 | ''Silence''? 6561 ''That''s the book, is it?'' |
| 6561 | And yet, is it not best so? 6561 Are there any bee- trees around here?" |
| 6561 | Are these rocks very old? |
| 6561 | But why must you be tied to the calendar? 6561 But you wo n''t be crusty to him, will you?" |
| 6561 | How does this compare with Esopus Valley, Johnnie? |
| 6561 | How much is this? |
| 6561 | Is n''t it time to get out now, Curtis? |
| 6561 | Is_ that_ the best dish- cloth you have? |
| 6561 | Mr. Burroughs, why do n''t you PAINT things? |
| 6561 | Muir, are n''t you surprised to find me with two women in my wake? |
| 6561 | Of course,I replied;"where is your dish- cloth?" |
| 6561 | The thing which a man''s nature calls him to do-- what else so well worth doing? |
| 6561 | Well, and did it sound any different from what it did last year, and the year before, and the year before that? |
| 6561 | Well, then, why ca n''t you have it some other day? |
| 6561 | What is an algebra? |
| 6561 | Where are_ my_ knife and fork? |
| 6561 | Why should I go gadding about to see the strange and the extraordinary? |
| 6561 | You are going to help, are you? |
| 6561 | _ You_ sulk, and own up to it, too? |
| 6561 | After the exercises were over he said to the professor,"Why do n''t you teach your girls to spin a plain yarn?" |
| 6561 | And what graces a dish- pan better than a clean, whole, self- respecting dish- cloth? |
| 6561 | As the train stopped near the little inn, a voice called out in the darkness,"Hello, Johnnie, is that you?" |
| 6561 | At El Tovar he asked,"What boy brought up my bags?" |
| 6561 | But I have not yet solved my equation-- what sent me to nature? |
| 6561 | But do we find such sermonizing irksome? |
| 6561 | But why continue? |
| 6561 | Ca n''t you celebrate Johnnie''s birthday a few days later just as well? |
| 6561 | Can the old farm ever mean to future boys what it meant to me, and enter so deeply into their lives? |
| 6561 | Can you understand this? |
| 6561 | Can you work and wait long enough? |
| 6561 | Do n''t you?" |
| 6561 | Do we not turn to writers of the first class with eagerness, slaking our thirst, refreshing our minds at perennial springs? |
| 6561 | Do we outgrow him?--or do we fall away from him? |
| 6561 | Do you really like them? |
| 6561 | Do you see why men do not, as a rule, care for me, and why women do? |
| 6561 | Do you, then, know John Burroughs?" |
| 6561 | Does not the grass grow above graves? |
| 6561 | Have you the requisite patience and persistency? |
| 6561 | He would sweep the assembly with that searching glance, as much as to say,''What is all this buzzing and chirping about?'' |
| 6561 | How can transformation be more perfect? |
| 6561 | How does he do this? |
| 6561 | I can remember the teacher saying to him;''And you ca n''t tell that? |
| 6561 | I stay my haste, I make delays, For what avails this eager pace? |
| 6561 | Is it the spring near his father''s sugar bush that we see? |
| 6561 | Is not this the alchemy that turns into gold the commonest substances? |
| 6561 | Is that why I shrink from the wear and tear of the world? |
| 6561 | Oh, yes; silence is very well-- some kinds of it; but_ why make such a noise about silence_?" |
| 6561 | On my expressing keen disappointment he teasingly said:--"Why, you will have Johnnie, and Mr. Browne, and the mountains-- what more do you want?" |
| 6561 | Or he would say,"How is that for a piece of glacial work, Johnnie?" |
| 6561 | Prosaic, if you will, but does not his own Emerson say something about giving--"to barrows, trays, and pans, Grace and glimmer of romance"? |
| 6561 | So we are not to gather wild honey, I find; but what of that?--am I not actually walking in the woods with John Burroughs? |
| 6561 | The first three paragraphs of"Deep"give a fair sample of the essay:-- Deep authors? |
| 6561 | The mystery of personality-- how shall one fathom it? |
| 6561 | What are the books, and notably the later philosophical essays, of Mr. Burroughs but the"harvest of a quiet eye"? |
| 6561 | What day can compare with a Sunday to go to the waterfalls, or to"Piney Ridge,"or to"Columbine Ledge,"or to stroll along"Snake Lane"? |
| 6561 | What is it in his recitals that quickens our senses and perceptions and makes our own youth alive and real? |
| 6561 | What made me take an intellectual interest in outdoor things? |
| 6561 | What matter if I stand alone? |
| 6561 | What quality is it, though, that so moves and stirs us when Mr. Burroughs recounts some of the simple happenings of his youth? |
| 6561 | What were his feelings about all these things he has been at such pains to record? |
| 6561 | When I was presented, Emerson said in a slow, questioning way,''Burroughs-- Burroughs?'' |
| 6561 | When we would come in at dinner- or supper- time and see wheat bread on the table we would ask:"Who''s in the other room?" |
| 6561 | Who cares about the anatomy of the frog? |
| 6561 | Who, indeed, except those prosaic beings who are blind and deaf to the most precious things in life? |
| 6561 | Why not? |
| 6561 | Why should these lovely scenes always be a cemetery to me? |
| 6561 | Will you? |
| 6561 | With a mingling of anxiety and curiosity he inquired:"Are you sure it''s all right? |
| 6561 | Would one be lonesome here? |
| 6561 | what vegetarian ever found it in his heart, or his palate either, to repudiate butter? |
| 8479 | ''A dark and dreadful one?'' |
| 8479 | ''Account for it? |
| 8479 | ''And the boy knew it?'' |
| 8479 | ''And what''s the other?'' |
| 8479 | ''Brothers,''said the leader,''has never any one of you, when fasting, dreamed of some friendly spirit who would aid you as a guardian?'' |
| 8479 | ''Dashed who in pieces-- her parents?'' |
| 8479 | ''Do you still travel with it?'' |
| 8479 | ''Everything about what?'' |
| 8479 | ''Have n''t you the least idea?'' |
| 8479 | ''How do you account for it?'' |
| 8479 | ''How is that?'' |
| 8479 | ''Is that so?'' |
| 8479 | ''Is that so?'' |
| 8479 | ''No, indeed,''said one of the others,''do you not know we were all killed, and that it is our sister who has brought us to life?'' |
| 8479 | ''Very drunk?'' |
| 8479 | ''Well, what are they?'' |
| 8479 | ''Well,''said I,''if you are so light- hearted and jolly in ordinary times, what must you be in an epidemic?'' |
| 8479 | ''Which one?'' |
| 8479 | ''Who is a great manito?'' |
| 8479 | ''Why did n''t you see them Roman soldiers that stood back there in a rank, and sometimes marched in procession around the stage?'' |
| 8479 | ''Wish you may die in your tracks if you have?'' |
| 8479 | A citizen asked,''Do you remember when Jimmy Finn, the town drunkard, was burned to death in the calaboose?'' |
| 8479 | And above Winona you''ll have lovely prairies; and then come the Thousand Islands, too beautiful for anything; green? |
| 8479 | And what did the husband do? |
| 8479 | And what will become of you? |
| 8479 | Are you happy? |
| 8479 | At last he said in a low voice--''My little friend, can you keep a secret?'' |
| 8479 | But what can you do? |
| 8479 | Do all the good people go to your place? |
| 8479 | Do all whom you send from Hartford serve their Master as well? |
| 8479 | Do n''t it occur to you, why?'' |
| 8479 | Do you know how the man came to be burned up in the calaboose?'' |
| 8479 | How can I give what I would have done with so much pleasure? |
| 8479 | How do you amuse yourself? |
| 8479 | How is that? |
| 8479 | How long have you been in the spirit land? |
| 8479 | I asked him various questions; first about a mate of mine in Sunday school-- what became of him? |
| 8479 | I do n''t mean HIS act, I mean yours: would you be a murderer for letting him have that pistol?'' |
| 8479 | I met him on the street the next morning, and before I could speak, he asked--''Did you see me?'' |
| 8479 | I said, with admiration--''Why, how in the world did you ever guess it?'' |
| 8479 | I said--''What is the matter?'' |
| 8479 | Is n''t that a good deal of a triumph? |
| 8479 | Is not this true? |
| 8479 | Is she the maiden of the rock?--and are the two connected by legend?'' |
| 8479 | Is there much profit on a coffin?'' |
| 8479 | Now, is that boy a murderer, do you think?'' |
| 8479 | Presently he asked--''Are you going to give him up to the law?'' |
| 8479 | Quick-- out with it-- what did I say?'' |
| 8479 | Some talk followed--''Why-- what should make you suspect that it is n''t genuine?'' |
| 8479 | The burden of my thought was, How much did I divulge? |
| 8479 | The chief, looking around, and observing the woman, after some time said to the man who came with her:''Who have you got there? |
| 8479 | The man was drunk?'' |
| 8479 | Then this one has actually forgotten the date of its translation to the spirit land? |
| 8479 | To- day I heard a schoolmistress ask,''Where is John gone?'' |
| 8479 | Unhandkerchiefs one eye, bats it around tearfully over the stock; says--''"And fhat might ye ask for that wan?" |
| 8479 | Very well, then, when did you pass away? |
| 8479 | Well, then, what year was it? |
| 8479 | Well, when you come to look at it all around, and chew at it and think it over, do n''t it just bang anything you ever heard of?'' |
| 8479 | Well, would it be murder?'' |
| 8479 | What became of Winona?'' |
| 8479 | What do you drink? |
| 8479 | What do you eat there? |
| 8479 | What do you read? |
| 8479 | What do you smoke? |
| 8479 | What do you talk about? |
| 8479 | What else? |
| 8479 | What is it?'' |
| 8479 | What was to be done''? |
| 8479 | When did the r disappear from Southern speech, and how did it come to disappear? |
| 8479 | When did you die? |
| 8479 | When your friends in the earth all get to the spirit land, what shall you have to talk about then?--nothing but about how happy you all are? |
| 8479 | Where are you? |
| 8479 | Where did you get all this youth and bubbling cheerfulness? |
| 8479 | Why? |
| 8479 | Would you like to come back? |
| 8479 | Would you say that under oath? |
| 8479 | You hear gentlemen say,''Where have you been at?'' |
| 8479 | in this town?'' |
| 8479 | profit? |
| 8479 | who can this be he is leading us to?'' |
| 8479 | who is a manito? |
| 29314 | A good horse, two or three hundred dollars; an extra- good one, four hundred; a fancy one, who knows? |
| 29314 | Ah,she answers smilingly,"how do I know? |
| 29314 | But what can you expect under this rotten Turkish government? |
| 29314 | Did it look like the real house? |
| 29314 | George,said I to the Bethlehemite, as he sat meditating on the edge of the dry pool,"what do you think of this valley?" |
| 29314 | I want to know,piped a lady in a green shirt- waist from Andover, Mass.,"is there really and truly any danger?" |
| 29314 | Is everything ready for the journey, George? |
| 29314 | Is this our affair with robbers, at last? |
| 29314 | Was he one of the robbers,I ask,"or one of the robbed?" |
| 29314 | ( What is the word for a young camel, I wonder; is it camelet or camelot?) |
| 29314 | A beautiful dark- eyed girl, in a dreadful department- store dress, smiles at us from an open door and says:"Take my picture? |
| 29314 | And now, in the cool of the evening at Cæsarea Philippi, we ask ourselves whether our desire has been granted, our hope fulfilled? |
| 29314 | Are the colonists happy, contented? |
| 29314 | But was Eleazar glad, I wonder, or sorry, that his long vigil was ended? |
| 29314 | But what do I care? |
| 29314 | But where is Es Salt? |
| 29314 | Can you see no shadowy figures sitting there, hear no light whisper of ghostly laughter, no thin ripple of clapping hands? |
| 29314 | City, did I say? |
| 29314 | Could any Christian of whatever creed, could any son of woman with a heart to feel the trouble and longing of humanity, turn his back upon that altar? |
| 29314 | Do the bones of the prophet rest here or at Ramah? |
| 29314 | Do they not all come to humble themselves, to pray, to seek the light? |
| 29314 | Do you agree with this? |
| 29314 | Do you believe it? |
| 29314 | Do you say"To what purpose is this waste?" |
| 29314 | Does any one suppose that this is intended to teach us that the sun moves and that on this day his course was arrested? |
| 29314 | Does it seem at all real or possible to you? |
| 29314 | Does not the advent of a higher manhood always wait for the hope and longing of a nobler womanhood? |
| 29314 | Earthquake, pestilence, conflagration, pillage, devastation-- who knows? |
| 29314 | For what is it that weaves the charm of ruins? |
| 29314 | Good harvests? |
| 29314 | Have the hundreds of unknown elements upon which our combination depended been working secretly together for its success? |
| 29314 | Have the letters, the cablegrams that were sent to them been safely delivered? |
| 29314 | Have we missed the trail? |
| 29314 | How else could this sacred shrine of the out- of- doors be preserved? |
| 29314 | How shall we understand it unless we carry it under the free sky and interpret it in the companionship of nature? |
| 29314 | How should I write of them all without being tedious? |
| 29314 | How you do?" |
| 29314 | How, indeed, should I hope to make them visible or significant in the bare words of description? |
| 29314 | III RENDEZVOUS Will my friends be here to meet me, I wonder? |
| 29314 | Is Bryan elected yet? |
| 29314 | Is he going to settle down there for life? |
| 29314 | Is the colony prospering? |
| 29314 | Is this the brook beside which a man once met God? |
| 29314 | May he keep company with us and make the perilous transit under our august protection? |
| 29314 | Must we believe that the whole solar system was dislocated for the sake of this battle? |
| 29314 | The Arabs have a story which runs thus:"What did Allah say when He had finished making the camel? |
| 29314 | Then what happened? |
| 29314 | Was it not perfectly shocking?" |
| 29314 | Was it the promise of reconciliation with his brother that made him say at dawn,"I have seen God face to face, and my life is saved"? |
| 29314 | Was it the prospect of this dreaded meeting that brought upon Jacob the night of lonely struggle by the Brook Jabbok? |
| 29314 | Was it the voice of turbulent centuries and the lapsing tides of men? |
| 29314 | Was there ever a river that began so fair and ended in such waste and desolation? |
| 29314 | What are they raising? |
| 29314 | What do we ask of them to make their magic complete and satisfying? |
| 29314 | What flash of wit amuses them, what nobly tragic word or action stirs them to applause? |
| 29314 | What is it that makes the wreck of an inn more lonely and forbidding than any other ruin? |
| 29314 | What kind of fish are they? |
| 29314 | What must the three mighty men have thought when they saw that for which they had risked their lives poured out upon the ground?" |
| 29314 | What problem of their own life, what reflection of their own heart, does the stage reveal to them? |
| 29314 | What sound? |
| 29314 | What was its ancient name? |
| 29314 | What''s the news there? |
| 29314 | What, then, is the difference? |
| 29314 | Whence came the tradition of the Samaritans that Jacob gave them this well, although the Old Testament says nothing about it? |
| 29314 | Where was the camp? |
| 29314 | Who can solve these mysteries? |
| 29314 | Who can tell how this city came here, hidden in this hollow place almost three thousand feet above the sea? |
| 29314 | Who can tell? |
| 29314 | Who was its founder? |
| 29314 | Who was this"man"with whom the patriarch contended at midnight, and to whom he cried,"I will not let thee go except thou bless me"? |
| 29314 | Why did they laugh? |
| 29314 | Why did we come into this heat- trap? |
| 29314 | Why do they fight and curse one another? |
| 29314 | Why do they not understand one another? |
| 29314 | Why should I not speak of it as simply and candidly? |
| 29314 | Why was it dug here, a hundred feet deep, although there are springs and streams of living water flowing down the valley, close at hand? |
| 29314 | Will the boats come out to meet us in this storm, or must we go on to Haifâ, fifty miles beyond? |
| 29314 | You fellows come from America? |
| 2984 | And the children-- Miss Susie and little Clara? |
| 2984 | Cable,he said,"do you know anything about this book, the Arthurian legends of Sir Thomas Malory, Morte Arthure?" |
| 2984 | Did you ever hear of Mark Twain? |
| 2984 | Do you expect to pay extra fare? |
| 2984 | Do you mean to say that you''re not going to vote for him? |
| 2984 | George,he said,"what pictures are those that gentleman left?" |
| 2984 | Hain''t we all the fools in town on our side? 2984 I said,''Who the h-- l are you? |
| 2984 | M.--What does it mean? 2984 MAMA-- What did you say? |
| 2984 | Oh, Youth, have you done anything? |
| 2984 | Well,he said,"who told you you could go in this car?" |
| 2984 | What are you doing here? |
| 2984 | What would you give for a copy? |
| 2984 | Which way did he go, Youth? |
| 2984 | Who is he, George? |
| 2984 | Who-- who in the world is that? |
| 2984 | And what the flavor can surpass Of sugar, spirit, lemons? |
| 2984 | As Annie was about to kiss it he suddenly withdrew his hand and said,"And will you, a little Protestant, kiss the Pope''s ring?" |
| 2984 | At one meal-- or, if you prefer, during one day-- how many men will he eat if fresh?" |
| 2984 | By and by this investor, returning from Europe, dropped in and said:"Well, did anything happen?" |
| 2984 | By the way, third''s a lucky number for length of days, is n''t it? |
| 2984 | Can Clara and I have it all for our own?" |
| 2984 | Can you conceive of a man''s getting himself into a sweat over so diminutive a provocation? |
| 2984 | Clemens?" |
| 2984 | Clemens?" |
| 2984 | Curious, but did n''t Florence want a Cromwell? |
| 2984 | Did I ever tell you the plot of it? |
| 2984 | Do n''t you feel well?" |
| 2984 | Do n''t you know it''s Mark Twain and that he''ll talk all night?" |
| 2984 | Do n''t you know they are calling for you?" |
| 2984 | Have you been secreted in the closet or lurking on the shed roof? |
| 2984 | He had never had a lesson, she said; if he could only have lessons what might he not accomplish? |
| 2984 | He said to himself:"Why did n''t I go now? |
| 2984 | He said:"''You thought you were playing a nice joke on me, did n''t you? |
| 2984 | He seemed surprised and said:"Oh, but he does n''t like that sort of thing, does he?" |
| 2984 | He went in with his best,"Well, what can I do for you?" |
| 2984 | He wrote, asking Howells: Will the proposed treaty protect us( and effectually) against Canadian piracy? |
| 2984 | Here he paused a moment:"Mr. Clemens, will you tell me where Mr. Charles Dudley Warner lives?" |
| 2984 | How can a body help it? |
| 2984 | How do I account for this change of view? |
| 2984 | How do you explain this?" |
| 2984 | How do you run Plum Point?" |
| 2984 | How many Bibles would he eat at a meal?" |
| 2984 | How should he?" |
| 2984 | I naturally said,"What do you mean? |
| 2984 | If base music gives me wings, why should I want any other? |
| 2984 | If we made this colonel a grand fellow, and gave him a wife to suit-- hey? |
| 2984 | In February he addressed the Monday Evening Club on"What is Happiness?" |
| 2984 | In the accompanying note he said: Say, Boss, do you want this to lighten up your old freight- train with? |
| 2984 | Land sakes, Livy, what can I do?" |
| 2984 | Livy screamed, then said,"Who is it? |
| 2984 | Mama said,"Why do n''t you try''mind cure''?" |
| 2984 | Mrs. Clemens looked at him gravely:"George,"she said,"did n''t I discharge you yesterday?" |
| 2984 | Next day he asked,"Katie, did you see my pipe- cleaner? |
| 2984 | Now what is it? |
| 2984 | Now, young men, if any of you were in command of such a fortress, how would you proceed?'' |
| 2984 | On another: Have you seen any portion of the second volume? |
| 2984 | One day Clemens sand to him:"Cable, why do you sit in here? |
| 2984 | Rose Terry Cooke wrote: Horrid man, how did you know the way I behave in a thunderstorm? |
| 2984 | Shall we think this over, or drop it as being nonsense? |
| 2984 | She ran breathlessly to her aunt:"Can I have it? |
| 2984 | She said,"Are you hunting for it with a club?" |
| 2984 | She said,"Why, Jean, what''s the matter? |
| 2984 | The inspector asks:"Now what does this elephant eat, and how much?" |
| 2984 | The other letter mentioned was written to the''Christian Union'', inspired by a tale entitled,"What Ought We to Have Done?" |
| 2984 | Then he asked solemnly:"And is he never serious?" |
| 2984 | Then he says: Why do I offer him the play at all? |
| 2984 | They shook hands; there was a pause of a moment, then Grant said, looking at him gravely:"Mr. Clemens, I am not embarrassed, are you?" |
| 2984 | This is my work, and I know that I do very wrong when I feel chafed by it, but how can I be right about it? |
| 2984 | Thomas Hardy said to Howells one night at dinner:"Why do n''t people understand that Mark Twain is not merely a great humorist? |
| 2984 | To a woman who wrote, asking for his opinion on dogs, he said, in part: By what right has the dog come to be regarded as a"noble"animal? |
| 2984 | Twain expect the public to credit this narrative to his clever brain? |
| 2984 | Was hast du gesagt?" |
| 2984 | What did you do with him?" |
| 2984 | What do you think the General wanted to require of me?'' |
| 2984 | What does it mean, Susy? |
| 2984 | What is the matter?" |
| 2984 | What nationalities would he prefer?" |
| 2984 | When we entered, and Mrs. Clemens read on Shakespeare''s grave,''Good friend, for Jesus''sake, forbear,''she started back, exclaiming,''where am I?'' |
| 2984 | Where did you ever see it before?" |
| 2984 | Who knows? |
| 2984 | Why did n''t I go with her now?" |
| 2984 | Why do n''t you come here and take a foretaste of Heaven?" |
| 2984 | Why should Darwin have gone to them for rest and refreshment at midnight, when spent with scientific research? |
| 2984 | Why, in fine, should an English chief- justice keep Mark Twain''s books always at hand? |
| 2984 | Will you return those proofs or revises to me, so that I can use the same on some future occasion? |
| 2984 | You hold her, will you, till I come back?'' |
| 2984 | You note that position? |
| 2984 | and ai n''t that a big enough majority in any town?" |
| 2984 | do you realize, Mark, what a symposium it is to be? |
| 2984 | presenting a theory which in later years he developed as a part of his"gospel,"and promulgated in a privately printed volume,''What is Man''? |
| 2984 | where is he? |
| 38049 | Abby Alcott, what does this mean? |
| 38049 | Do you think I shall ever forget that bandbox? |
| 38049 | Hospital Sketchesis not cared for now, and is filled up with other tales you know.... Can that plan be carried out? |
| 38049 | So I am dead, am I? |
| 38049 | What vices less of? |
| 38049 | Where did Mr. Alcott get the means to build this great concern? |
| 38049 | 1.--MY DEAR LITTLE GIRL,--Will you accept this doll from me on your seventh birthday? |
| 38049 | After it was over some one said to him,"Well, what do you think of it?" |
| 38049 | Ai nt I grateful? |
| 38049 | Also to demand,"Where is my niece, Louisa Caroline?" |
| 38049 | Are his clothes getting shiny? |
| 38049 | Are these friends or enemies?" |
| 38049 | As Mrs. Alcott did not readily think of any who would fill the place, the impulsive Louisa suggested,"Why could n''t I go, Mother?" |
| 38049 | As her representative on earth, may I send you, with my love, the little book to come out in November? |
| 38049 | Beauty or Duty,-- which loves Anna best? |
| 38049 | But Emerson said:"Give it up? |
| 38049 | By resolving, and then trying_ hard._ What then do you mean to do? |
| 38049 | By the way, madam,''he continued, addressing Miss Alcott,''will you tell me what is your definition of a philosopher?'' |
| 38049 | Can not you do a small edition for her? |
| 38049 | Can you send me the right number to go on with in chapter seventeen? |
| 38049 | Could you do it? |
| 38049 | Dear B. beamed upon me from the depths of his funny little cloak and said,"We are getting on well, ai n''t we?" |
| 38049 | Did the author of"My Wife''s Sister"write it? |
| 38049 | Do n''t he want new socks? |
| 38049 | Has she seen you about it? |
| 38049 | Have you sent her"Is That All?" |
| 38049 | He seemed to catch my naughty thought, and asked, with a twinkle in his eye, looking up as if I were a steeple,"And all as tall as you?" |
| 38049 | How can I keep a sunny soul To shine along life''s way? |
| 38049 | How can I learn to rule myself, To be the child I should, Honest and brave, nor ever tire Of trying to be good? |
| 38049 | How can I tune my little heart To sweetly sing all day? |
| 38049 | How can you get what you need? |
| 38049 | How did you like"Mark Field''s Mistake"? |
| 38049 | How do you all get along,--Marmee, Father, the laddies, my lass, and dear old John? |
| 38049 | How do you try? |
| 38049 | How gain love? |
| 38049 | How is self- denial of temper known? |
| 38049 | How shall we learn this self- denial? |
| 38049 | How would a boy I know like that,--a boy who likes to have"trommin"on his nighties? |
| 38049 | How would it do to ask her to illustrate the fairy book? |
| 38049 | I said,"Shall I stay, Mother?" |
| 38049 | I sat in my usual corner, but Mr. P. came up and said, in that cordial way of his,"Well, child, how goes it?" |
| 38049 | I used to dream of being famous, and it has partly become true; so why not Pa''s college blossom, and he get young and happy with his disciples? |
| 38049 | I wonder what? |
| 38049 | If He clothes these And the leafy trees, Will He not cherish thee? |
| 38049 | If I do begin a new story, how would"An Old- Fashioned Boy"and his life do? |
| 38049 | In the evening Mr. Lane asked us,"What is man?" |
| 38049 | Is n''t it hard to sit serenely in one''s soul when one''s body is in a dilapidated state? |
| 38049 | Is not another to come before this? |
| 38049 | Louisa loves-- What? |
| 38049 | Mother''s eyes followed mine, and when I said,"What did you see?" |
| 38049 | Oh, why these tears, And these idle fears For what may come to- morrow? |
| 38049 | Rather like Sumner''s end, was n''t it? |
| 38049 | Sha''n''t we be glad when it is done? |
| 38049 | Shall I ever know why such things happen? |
| 38049 | Shall I ever see that dear old face again? |
| 38049 | She could not have portrayed such men: but who could? |
| 38049 | She herself asked,"Is it not meningitis?" |
| 38049 | She is overcome and melted with emotion at the passion and pathos of the story; and when Helwyze asks,"Shall I burn it?" |
| 38049 | Slipped behind a door, but Dr. Holmes found me out, and affably asked,"How many of you children are there?" |
| 38049 | Some Americans said,"Who was Goethe, to fuss about?" |
| 38049 | The dear baby may comfort E., but what can comfort us? |
| 38049 | Then why be sad When all are glad, And the world is full of flowers? |
| 38049 | Was n''t that nice? |
| 38049 | What are the elements in_ wish_? |
| 38049 | What are the elements of_ hope_? |
| 38049 | What are the most valuable kinds of self- denial? |
| 38049 | What are we coming to in our old age? |
| 38049 | What had they to conceal? |
| 38049 | What had they to exhibit? |
| 38049 | What is gentleness? |
| 38049 | What is her address, please? |
| 38049 | What is the difference between faith and hope? |
| 38049 | What is the result of this self- denial? |
| 38049 | What next? |
| 38049 | What say you?... |
| 38049 | What will next Christmas bring forth? |
| 38049 | When shall I have mine? |
| 38049 | Where did you get your metaphysics?" |
| 38049 | Who has it? |
| 38049 | Who means to have it? |
| 38049 | Who_ can_ lead it, and not go mad? |
| 38049 | Why discuss the"unknowable"till our poor are fed and the wicked saved? |
| 38049 | Why do n''t rich people who enjoy his talk pay for it? |
| 38049 | Why have any illustrations? |
| 38049 | Why might it not have been a true wedding or a harvest feast? |
| 38049 | Why use self- denial? |
| 38049 | Will you come?" |
| 38049 | Will you look at the manuscripts by and by, or do you scorn the whole thing? |
| 38049 | Would I cut the book down about half? |
| 38049 | Would it go with new ones added and good illustrations? |
| 38049 | Would that do? |
| 38049 | Would that do? |
| 38049 | Yet, as the book is funny, people will say,"Did n''t you enjoy doing it?" |
| 38049 | Yours in haste, L. M. A. P. S.--Do you want more fairy tales? |
| 38049 | _ A Sample of our Lessons._"What virtues do you wish more of?" |
| 51426 | Dost thou still haunt the brink Of yonder river''s tide? 51426 In your intercourse with the dwellers in the great city, have you alighted on Mr. Edward Palmer, who studies with Dr. Beach, the Herbalist? |
| 51426 | Is thy brow clear again, As in thy youthful years? 51426 Nor king, nor duke? |
| 51426 | Then how does he come by his English? |
| 51426 | What bird wilt thou employ To bring me word of thee? 51426 What season didst thou find? |
| 51426 | Where chiefly shall I look To feel thy presence near? 51426 Where is the finch, the thrush I used to hear? |
| 51426 | Who is the speaker? |
| 51426 | Who sings the praise of woman in our clime? 51426 ''Ca n''t we study up something?'' 51426 ''Why should I? 51426 *****Is''t then too late the damage to repair? |
| 51426 | A fellow- sufferer from the same affliction, who lived in Cohasset, was asked, the other day, what in the world he took for it? |
| 51426 | Along the neighboring brook May I thy voice still hear? |
| 51426 | And is fear the foundation of that worship? |
| 51426 | And may I ever think That thou art by my side? |
| 51426 | And was that ugly pain The summit of thy fears? |
| 51426 | Are not the Fates more kind Than they appear? |
| 51426 | But as I am, equally with you, an admirer of Cowper, why should I not prove a sort of unnecessary addition to your neighborhood possibly? |
| 51426 | But as I did not, will you allow me to seek you out, when next I come to Concord? |
| 51426 | But is not their whole process marred by leaving out common sense, by which mankind are generally governed? |
| 51426 | But what do I, or does any friend of mine in America care for a journal? |
| 51426 | Ca n''t you ask her to write it for me? |
| 51426 | Ca n''t you cut it into three or four, and omit all that relates to time? |
| 51426 | Did they wait for his Counsell?" |
| 51426 | Do I exercise the faith in the divine care and protection which I ought to do? |
| 51426 | Do I not withhold more than is meet from pious and charitable uses? |
| 51426 | Do you wish to swap any of your''wood- notes wild''for dollars? |
| 51426 | Does a man deserve to be rewarded for refraining from murder? |
| 51426 | Does anybody still think of coming to Concord to live? |
| 51426 | Does that execrable compound of sawdust and stagnation L. still prose about nothing? |
| 51426 | Dost thou, indeed, fare well, As we wished here below? |
| 51426 | Have I done well to get me a shay? |
| 51426 | Have I not been proud or too fond of this convenience? |
| 51426 | He at once recognized his Concord friend, greeted him cordially with"How do you do, my little rebel?" |
| 51426 | He can keep them as a literary_ curio_, and in his old age amuse himself with thinking,''How could ever I have liked these?''" |
| 51426 | He has a vast many Talents,--is it an easy thing for so Wise a man to become a Fool for Christ? |
| 51426 | His deeds may never be forgotten; but is this greatness? |
| 51426 | How camest thou there? |
| 51426 | How old should you think he was? |
| 51426 | I mean new people? |
| 51426 | I vow-- you-- what noise was that? |
| 51426 | Indeed, what Greek would not be proud to claim this fragment as his own? |
| 51426 | Is anything going on about it now? |
| 51426 | Is fear the ruling principle of our religion? |
| 51426 | Is hope a less powerful incentive to action than fear? |
| 51426 | Is it a bargain? |
| 51426 | Is it not rather the mother of superstition? |
| 51426 | Is the greatest virtue merely negative? |
| 51426 | May he not have a prospect of doubling his Wealth and Honours, if crowned with Success? |
| 51426 | May we depend on you? |
| 51426 | Should I not be more in my study, and less fond of diversion? |
| 51426 | Should we not be likely to find the truth, in all moral subjects, were we to make more use of plain reason and common sense? |
| 51426 | Some have asked,''Can not reward be substituted for punishment? |
| 51426 | Thoreau?'' |
| 51426 | Was I not present to thee, likewise?" |
| 51426 | Was the Lord first consulted in the affair? |
| 51426 | What Demonstration has he given of being so entirely devoted to the Lord? |
| 51426 | What about your book( the''Week'')? |
| 51426 | What do you think of following out your thought in an essay on''The Literary Life?'' |
| 51426 | What images can be more natural, what sentiments of greater weight and at the same time more noble and exalted than those with which they abound? |
| 51426 | What sun shines for thee now? |
| 51426 | When a political pharmacopoeia has the command of both ingredients, wherefore employ the bitter instead of the sweet?'' |
| 51426 | When asked why he did not stop the trespasser, he replied,"Could not the poor man have a tree?" |
| 51426 | Where was George Minott? |
| 51426 | Who can predict his comings and goings? |
| 51426 | Who wonders that the flesh declines to grow Along his sallow pits? |
| 51426 | Why did not Emerson try it in England? |
| 51426 | Will you finish the poem in your own way, and send it for the''Dial''? |
| 51426 | Will you not send me some other records of the_ good week_?" |
| 51426 | Wo n''t you send them again? |
| 51426 | Would it be no advantage to his Estate to win the place? |
| 51426 | Yet what could a companion do at present, unless to tame the guardian of the Alps too early? |
| 51426 | You will see that they apply to himself:"--"Brother, where dost thou dwell? |
| 51426 | and I wonder-- you-- if Henry''s been to see George Jones yet? |
| 51426 | and that nutmeg- grater of a Z. yet shriek about nothing? |
| 51426 | do you make the Lord your Guide and Counselor in ye affair? |
| 51426 | or does it rather consist in the performance of a thousand every- day duties, hidden from the eye of the world?" |
| 51426 | or that his life, To social pleasure careless, pines away In dry seclusion and unfruitful shade? |
| 51426 | so great a man to become a Little Child? |
| 51426 | so rich a man to crowd in at the Strait Gate of Conversion, and make so little noise?... |
| 51426 | the reply was,"Why are you_ not_ here?" |
| 51426 | you-- does he look as if he were two years younger than I?''" |
| 8777 | Can_ you_ tell us? |
| 8777 | How about Matthew Arnold? |
| 8777 | How did he look? |
| 8777 | Let 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?" |
| 8777 | Longfellow amused me by making two epigrams:--''What is autobiography? |
| 8777 | Longfellow, will you turn down my coat collar? |
| 8777 | Now,said the professor,"you do n''t mean to tell me that I have got to that yet? |
| 8777 | When 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?" |
| 8777 | Why, who did, then? |
| 8777 | Why,he exclaimed, with a most astonished air,"is that you? |
| 8777 | You did n''t? |
| 8777 | ''But, Martin, are n''t you very tired?'' |
| 8777 | ''Why, how old is he?'' |
| 8777 | ----?'' |
| 8777 | A few days afterward some one was heard to say,"Mr. Emerson, how did you like Professor----?" |
| 8777 | After a brief visit Longfellow was about to withdraw, when Janin detained him, saying:''What can I do for you in Paris? |
| 8777 | Again:"Will it be too late for a few paragraphs about Forcey the Willson? |
| 8777 | Am I right or wrong?" |
| 8777 | And again:"Have thee seen and heard the Hindoo Mohini? |
| 8777 | And again:-- How do you suppose that unskillful scholars are to live, if Fields should one day die? |
| 8777 | And can you tell me anything? |
| 8777 | And when?" |
| 8777 | And why? |
| 8777 | Any smell of violets in the distance? |
| 8777 | At each turn he regarded Longfellow, and at length came up, and taking his hand said:"''Is this Professor Longfellow? |
| 8777 | But how about this''Faust''? |
| 8777 | But the mystery of decadence, the long sunsetting, the loss of power-- what do they mean? |
| 8777 | Can you not burn down the Boston Athenaeum to- night? |
| 8777 | Could 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? |
| 8777 | Did artists ever before find such an eye and such an ear? |
| 8777 | Do you know anything about this pestilent manuscript she raves about? |
| 8777 | Do you?" |
| 8777 | Ever read his history of the''Ten Great Religions?'' |
| 8777 | Genius? |
| 8777 | Has the French book on Spiritualism come yet? |
| 8777 | He felt a certain brotherhood with Robert Burns, and early loved his genius; but where were two more unlike? |
| 8777 | He wrote in 1877:--"When are you coming back from your Cottage on the Cliffs? |
| 8777 | Her 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?" |
| 8777 | How could he render again the knowledge of divine goodness and divine love which were revealed to him? |
| 8777 | How could it be otherwise, with such guests as he entertained, and with his own unflagging vivacity and his admirable social gifts? |
| 8777 | How could it know so much?" |
| 8777 | How did it seem to elbow thy way to the polls through throngs of men folk?" |
| 8777 | How did they draw their sweet, refreshing tint from the brown earth, or the limpid air, or the white light? |
| 8777 | How do you stand it? |
| 8777 | How is Pope?'' |
| 8777 | How long he waited, or what thoughts were stirred by this first glimpse at the ceaseless procession of humanity, who can say? |
| 8777 | I smell spring afar off--sniff-- do you? |
| 8777 | If not, in what paper? |
| 8777 | In one of Longfellow''s notes he alludes humorously to the autograph nuisance:--"Do you know how to apply properly for autographs? |
| 8777 | Is it better?... |
| 8777 | Isaacs''?" |
| 8777 | It seems to me that is a little too early for Boston, is n''t it? |
| 8777 | MY DEAR MR. FIELDS,--_Can_ you tell me anything that will get this horrible old woman of the C---- California off from my shoulders? |
| 8777 | My 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? |
| 8777 | Of his grace of manner, what could be more expressive than the following notes of compliment and acknowledgment? |
| 8777 | One 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''?" |
| 8777 | Shall you want it? |
| 8777 | She 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?'' |
| 8777 | Speaking 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? |
| 8777 | Talking of Victor Hugo and Lamartine,''Take them for all in all, which do you prefer?'' |
| 8777 | Tea 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? |
| 8777 | Was it Lucy Larcom? |
| 8777 | Was the fault mine? |
| 8777 | We 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?" |
| 8777 | What did he mean? |
| 8777 | What did the old Pilgrims mean by coming here?" |
| 8777 | What is the dear Doctor doing? |
| 8777 | What shall I do? |
| 8777 | What think you of the enclosed instead of the sad ending of''The Ship''? |
| 8777 | Whence came their color? |
| 8777 | Who besides the writer should comprehend every shade of meaning which made the cloud or sunshine of his poem? |
| 8777 | Who wrote''A Loyal Woman''s No?'' |
| 8777 | Whom would you like to see?'' |
| 8777 | Why could n''t we have been satisfied with the thing without making such a cackling over it? |
| 8777 | Why deny, then, that some men have it more directly and more visibly than others?" |
| 8777 | Why do n''t you make a book as big as Allibone''s out of your store of unparalleled personal recollections? |
| 8777 | Why had I found no words to express or even indicate the feeling that had choked me? |
| 8777 | Why should we not always do it when we write letters? |
| 8777 | Will there be anybody in town then? |
| 8777 | Will 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? |
| 8777 | was asked immediately in the first pause, and"What did he say?" |
| 8777 | who is this? |
| 3195 | ( How does that make you feel? |
| 3195 | And did you question the propriety of it? |
| 3195 | And it seemed to me that now that the fourth act is so successfully written, why not go ahead and write the 3 preceding acts? |
| 3195 | And why not write Howard? |
| 3195 | And why should n''t it be? |
| 3195 | Are you in the new house? |
| 3195 | But what I am coming at, is this: wo n''t you and Mrs. Howells come down Saturday the 22nd and remain to the Club on Monday night? |
| 3195 | Ca n''t you let him fall in the canal occasionally? |
| 3195 | Ca n''t you let him feed the doves? |
| 3195 | Ca n''t you let him find peace and rest and fellowship under Pere Jacopo''s kindly wing? |
| 3195 | Ca n''t you let his good- natured purse be a daily prey to guides and beggar- boys? |
| 3195 | Can you and Hay go? |
| 3195 | Can you conceive of a man''s getting himself into a sweat over so diminutive a provocation? |
| 3195 | Clemens said that when he took the Jumping Frog book to Carlton, in 1867, the latter, pointing to his stock, said, rather scornfully: “ Books? |
| 3195 | Could n''t you come now and mull over the alterations which you are going to make in your MS, and make them after you go back? |
| 3195 | Could you? |
| 3195 | Did I ever tell you the plot of it? |
| 3195 | Did that break up the enterprise? |
| 3195 | Did the report go, nevertheless? |
| 3195 | Did you ever see the grotesquely absurd and the heart- breakingly pathetic more closely joined together? |
| 3195 | Did you? |
| 3195 | Do n''t you see, the book( 1800 MS pages,) may really be finished before I ever get to Switzerland? |
| 3195 | Do not you believe that if Mr. Edmunds would consent to run for President, on the Independent ticket-- even at this late day-- he might be elected? |
| 3195 | Drop me an immediate line about this, wo n''t you? |
| 3195 | Earl of Onston-- is that it? |
| 3195 | Fred Grant? ” “ Yes. |
| 3195 | Good excitable, inflammable material? |
| 3195 | Has n''t he had any lessons? ” No. |
| 3195 | Have I got the dates and things right? |
| 3195 | How does Washington promise as to that? |
| 3195 | If this is so, suppose you meet Osgood and me in New Orleans early in May-- say somewhere between the 1st and 6th? |
| 3195 | If you have n''t used Orion or Old Wakeman, do n''t you think you and I can get together and grind out a play with one of those fellows in it? |
| 3195 | Is n''t human nature the most consummate sham and lie that was ever invented? |
| 3195 | Is n''t man a creature to be ashamed of in pretty much all his aspects? |
| 3195 | Livy screamed, then said, “ Who is that? |
| 3195 | MY DEAR HOWELLS,--.... Who taught you to read? |
| 3195 | MY DEAR HOWELLS,--I shall reach Boston on Monday the 8th, either at 4:30 p.m. or 6 p.m.( Which is best?) |
| 3195 | MY DEAR HOWELLS,--When and where? |
| 3195 | Maybe you think I am not happy? |
| 3195 | Mrs. Clemens says, “ Maybe the Howellses could come Monday if they can not come Saturday; ask them; it is worth trying. ” Well, how''s that? |
| 3195 | Now what is it? |
| 3195 | Now wo n''t you put Orion in a story? |
| 3195 | Our Susie is still “ Megalops. ” He gave her that name: Can you spare a photograph of your father? |
| 3195 | Poor old Methusaleh, how did he manage to stand it so long? |
| 3195 | Pray offer my most sincere and respectful approval to the President-- is approval the proper word? |
| 3195 | Should the language be altered?--or the hyphens taken out? |
| 3195 | Suppose you do n''t need him there? |
| 3195 | That is-- is he your father? ” “ No, he is my husband. ” So this child was married, you see. |
| 3195 | Then why do you try to get to Heaven? |
| 3195 | To nominate Edmunds the 1st of November, would be soon enough, would n''t it? |
| 3195 | Was it that it was too personal? |
| 3195 | Was n''t it a good audience to get up an excitement before? |
| 3195 | We can do that ca n''t we? |
| 3195 | Weekly with my apprentice sketches? |
| 3195 | What do you think? |
| 3195 | What does possess strangers to write so many letters? |
| 3195 | What of that? |
| 3195 | What would you have done? |
| 3195 | When and where shall we meet? |
| 3195 | Why how could they? |
| 3195 | Why should we assist our fellowman for mere love of God? |
| 3195 | Will you return those proofs or revises to me, so that I can use the same on some future occasion? |
| 3195 | Will you? |
| 3195 | Wo n''t you please fix it the way it ought to be, altering the language as you choose, only making it bitter and contemptuous? |
| 3195 | Would it mar the flow of the thing too much to insert that devil? |
| 3195 | Would you and Mrs. Howells like to invite Mr. and Mrs. Aldrich? |
| 3195 | do you realize, Mark, what a symposium it is to be? |
| 3195 | where is he? |
| 33345 | ''But you did not bring your American friend''s picture?... 33345 ''Was it in the Western country?'' |
| 33345 | All to what end? |
| 33345 | And the emotion itself-- what is it? 33345 Do you think well enough of me to try to get me employment at a regular salary, somewhere in the United States?"... |
| 33345 | I asked myself:''If it was I?'' 33345 Is it possible you do not know?" |
| 33345 | Of course we shall never see each other again in this world, and what is the use of being unkind after all?... 33345 So you read my translation of''Sylvestre Bonnard?''" |
| 33345 | Surely you are joking? |
| 33345 | That set me thinking,Hearn adds,"if Kazuo feels like his father about pretty girls,--what shall I do with him? |
| 33345 | The fairy was altogether Japanese-- don''t you think so? 33345 Well, young man, what ambition do you nourish?" |
| 33345 | What had I known of strangers''hands all through my childhood? 33345 What will you do with your little man when he grows up? |
| 33345 | Why such beauty, to be blighted, By the swarm of foul destruction? 33345 ''I am certainly stronger than you,''she said;''now shall we wrestle?'' 33345 --Will I ever see you? 33345 Above all, where was the photograph of theLady of a Myriad Souls,"and the one of Mitchell McDonald that he mentioned as hanging on the ceiling? |
| 33345 | Absurd?... |
| 33345 | After a while, Amenomori goes on, he held up his head,"and what did I see? |
| 33345 | Am I right or wrong? |
| 33345 | And do n''t you feel just a little bit ashamed?''" |
| 33345 | And do n''t you think that one gets all the benefit of travel only by keeping away from fashion- resorts and places consecrated by conventionalism? |
| 33345 | And is there not something of the serpent in the beauty of all graceful women? |
| 33345 | And will he be like you? |
| 33345 | And will he ever see the little cousin who has just entered the world? |
| 33345 | Army, or Civil Service? |
| 33345 | But is it not pleasant to observe that the members of the broken circle have been mounting higher and higher to the Supreme Hope? |
| 33345 | But what_ were_ you,--long ago? |
| 33345 | But who is not bewildered by the gods? |
| 33345 | But who made his eyes blue and his hair brown? |
| 33345 | But who was she? |
| 33345 | But--"_ Must I believe that I really exist?..._"Out of this idea he weaves a chapter of thrilling possibilities, and ends,"I am awake, fully awake!... |
| 33345 | Can you not tell me some of yours when you are feeling very, very well, and do n''t know what to do? |
| 33345 | Can you run?'' |
| 33345 | Do n''t you know that you are very happy to be able to live in England? |
| 33345 | Do you hear the voices of the frogs and the Uguisu singing?" |
| 33345 | Do you know that terribly pathetic poem of Robert Bridges'':''Pater Filio''?" |
| 33345 | Do you remember that splendid Creole who used to be your city editor-- John----?--is it not a sin that I have forgotten his name? |
| 33345 | Does a portrait of an ugly man make one desirous to read his books? |
| 33345 | Forgot to put it into the valise?... |
| 33345 | Have you tried Southern Italy? |
| 33345 | How about the Continent? |
| 33345 | How about the real compound race- soul, though? |
| 33345 | How can we pity the folly of Urashima after he had lived so long alone with visible gods? |
| 33345 | How could the little woman guess that his busy brain was weaving the fine Essay on"Ants,"published under the heading of"Insect Studies"in"Kwaidan"? |
| 33345 | How could you think that I have got even half way to the bottom? |
| 33345 | I am sorry not to see you-- but since you live in Hell what can I do?" |
| 33345 | I wish one would come-- and stay: the one I saw that night when we were looking at... what was it? |
| 33345 | If it is beautiful in art, why should it not be beautiful in nature? |
| 33345 | Illusion? |
| 33345 | Is not the serpent a symbol of grace? |
| 33345 | Is not the so- called''line of beauty''serpentine? |
| 33345 | Marry him at seventeen or nineteen? |
| 33345 | Newspapers, forsooth!--why not collect and store the other things that wise men throw away, cigar- ends and orange- peelings? |
| 33345 | No was said to everything, softly; but if he had accepted, how could he exist, breathe, even have time to think, much less write books? |
| 33345 | Or send him to grim and ferocious Puritans that he may be taught the Way of the Lord? |
| 33345 | Or that the universe exists for us solely as the reflection of our own souls? |
| 33345 | Or the old Chinese teaching that we must seek the Buddha only in our hearts?" |
| 33345 | She would ask him,"Did you finish your last story?" |
| 33345 | Symbolising what? |
| 33345 | They were of use in the world, but of what use was he?... |
| 33345 | Thus did Lafcadio Hearn lose his inheritance, but if he had inherited it would he ever have been the artist he ultimately became? |
| 33345 | To her he turned for advice and guidance, for"did she not represent to his imagination all the Sibyls? |
| 33345 | What can you think of me? |
| 33345 | What had I known of other men''s voices? |
| 33345 | What is Life itself but a bewilderment? |
| 33345 | What matter a heavy heart and an empty stomach, when you are stuffing your brain to repletion with new impressions and artistic material? |
| 33345 | What memories most haunt you of places and people you liked? |
| 33345 | What wild Arabic blood may he not, therefore, have inherited on his mother''s side? |
| 33345 | What would you do if you were me? |
| 33345 | When he was dying he had said to her:''Sally, you know what to do with the property?'' |
| 33345 | When she saw the picture, she clasped her hands in delight, but how was she ever to repay the master? |
| 33345 | Why such innocence delighted, When sin stalks to thy seduction? |
| 33345 | Will they be preserved in vain? |
| 33345 | Would n''t this be the best advice? |
| 33345 | Would that be very, very naughty? |
| 33345 | Yet, is it not most probable that this aloofness and seclusion from the world invested his Tokyo work with its unique and original quality? |
| 33345 | and was not her wisdom as the worth of things precious from the uttermost coasts?" |
| 33345 | something of Lilith and Lamia?" |
| 33345 | something of undulating shapeliness, something of silent fascination? |
| 33345 | what have you dared to say? |
| 2985 | And you''ve filled that order, have you? |
| 2985 | Come, do you mean to say that you do n''t know who the hero of that sketch is? |
| 2985 | Great guns, what is the matter with it? |
| 2985 | Promise what? |
| 2985 | Shall you take your tomahawk with you? |
| 2985 | The placard that says''Furnished rooms to let''? 2985 Was he always really tranquil within,"he says,"or was he only externally so-- for effect? |
| 2985 | Was this rebuke studied and intentional? 2985 Well, what does he have that sign up for?" |
| 2985 | What makes you think so? |
| 2985 | What will it cost? |
| 2985 | What will you give? |
| 2985 | Why not leave them all to me? |
| 2985 | Why, yes,said Tufts;"are n''t you?" |
| 2985 | Why,he said,"have we met before?" |
| 2985 | Why? |
| 2985 | With pleasure-- where is she? |
| 2985 | Wo n''t you please say something funny? |
| 2985 | Yes, Mark, what is it? |
| 2985 | --[Clemens himself had attempted to make a play out of his story"Is He Dead?" |
| 2985 | America? |
| 2985 | And could we now? |
| 2985 | And do you think that you have added just the right smear of polish to the closing clause of the sentence? |
| 2985 | And shall we see Susy? |
| 2985 | And why should n''t I be? |
| 2985 | And will Mark Twain never write such another? |
| 2985 | At forty what do you do? |
| 2985 | B.--Look here, are you charging storage? |
| 2985 | But ca n''t I get it in anywhere? |
| 2985 | But in the mean time what do you do? |
| 2985 | But what is the use of remembering all these bitter details? |
| 2985 | But what were you doing on the inside? |
| 2985 | Clemens answered,"Mr. Rogers, do you think there is anything I could do for you that I would n''t do?" |
| 2985 | Clemens looked at the egg portion and asked:"Boy, what was my order?" |
| 2985 | DEAR PAMELA,--Will you take this$ 15& buy some candy or other trifle for yourself& Sam& his wife to remind you that we remember you? |
| 2985 | Did n''t you know that? |
| 2985 | Do n''t you realize that you ought not to intrude your help in a delicate art like that with your limitations? |
| 2985 | Do n''t you see it''s Herr Mark Twain?" |
| 2985 | Do they live in----""In this street? |
| 2985 | Do you know any one who does know him?" |
| 2985 | Do you know that shock? |
| 2985 | Do you know that shock? |
| 2985 | Do you see the big, plain house over there with the placard in the third floor window? |
| 2985 | Do you think you know how to behave?" |
| 2985 | Does he keep boarders?" |
| 2985 | Dreaming of what? |
| 2985 | Familiar? |
| 2985 | Have n''t you read anything at all about Joan of Arc? |
| 2985 | Have you developed any novelties of conduct since you left Mr. Murray''s,& have they been of a character to move the concern of your friends? |
| 2985 | Have you ever been like that? |
| 2985 | He said:"What will you complete the machine for?" |
| 2985 | How do you reckon he accomplished that miracle? |
| 2985 | How in the world did you ever come to locate there?" |
| 2985 | I sha''n''t say a word against it, but she will find it a difficult& disheartening job,& meanwhile what is to become of that miraculous girl? |
| 2985 | I wonder if it is? |
| 2985 | If you should be passing this way to- morrow will you look in and change hats? |
| 2985 | Introducing him, President Frank Lawrence said:"What name is there in literature that can be likened to his? |
| 2985 | Is n''t that valuable? |
| 2985 | Is there some way, honest or otherwise, by which you can get a copy of Mayo''s play,"Pudd''nhead Wilson,"for me? |
| 2985 | It would be jolly good if some one should succeed in making a play out of"Is He Dead?" |
| 2985 | Italy? |
| 2985 | Later he wrote:"Put''Is He Dead?'' |
| 2985 | My business brothers? |
| 2985 | Now the old Duke of Backofenhofenschwartz not the present Duke, but the last but one, he----""Does he live over the sausage- shop in the cellar?" |
| 2985 | Now, do n''t you see what a world of confidence that must necessarily breed? |
| 2985 | One of them said, hesitatingly:"Are you Mr. Mark Twain?" |
| 2985 | Or at least why was n''t something creditable created in place of it? |
| 2985 | Semi- acquaintances said,"Ah, yes, Kornerstrasse"; acquaintances said,"Dear me, do you like it?" |
| 2985 | Shrunk how? |
| 2985 | Since I wrote my Bible--[The"Gospel,"What is Man?] |
| 2985 | That they are in London, the metropolis of the world, Post- office District, N. W.? |
| 2985 | The coachman sent in for him at 9, but he said,"Oh, nonsense!--leave glories& grandeurs like these? |
| 2985 | The door was ajar and he heard Mrs. Clemens say:"Youth, do n''t you think it will be a little embarrassing for him, your being in bed?" |
| 2985 | To Twichell Clemens wrote: Joe, do you know the Irish gentleman& the Irish lady, the Scotch gentleman& the Scotch lady? |
| 2985 | To her sister she wrote: Do you think we can live through the first going into the house in Hartford? |
| 2985 | Venice? |
| 2985 | Was n''t it a rattling good comedy situation? |
| 2985 | Well, then, what is he to do? |
| 2985 | What is biography? |
| 2985 | What is it that we want in a novel? |
| 2985 | What is romance? |
| 2985 | What night will you come down& smoke? |
| 2985 | What other humorist could have refrained from hinting, at least, the inference suggested by the obvious"Gas Works"? |
| 2985 | What should we do and how should we feel if we had no bright prospects before us, and yet how many people are situated in that way? |
| 2985 | What they want----""The nobility? |
| 2985 | When the Duke first moved in here he----""Does he live in this street?" |
| 2985 | When you get an exasperating letter what happens? |
| 2985 | Where was your remedy? |
| 2985 | Who is his nearest friend?" |
| 2985 | Who is it?" |
| 2985 | Who is it?" |
| 2985 | Who might this late comer be? |
| 2985 | Whose heart is broken by this murder? |
| 2985 | Why was the human race created? |
| 2985 | Why, Tufts, do n''t you know that the soldiers in the theater are the same old soldiers marching around and around? |
| 2985 | Will anybody contend that a man can say to such masterful anger as that, Go, and be obeyed? |
| 2985 | Will healing ever come, or life have value again? |
| 2985 | Will that answer? |
| 2985 | With a rent- roll of twelve hundred thousand marks a year? |
| 2985 | Wo n''t you talk awhile? |
| 2985 | Yes, he is here; and the question is not-- as it has been heretofore during a thousand ages-- What shall we do with him? |
| 2985 | Yes, you know that, and confess it-- but what were you to do? |
| 2985 | have you noticed that? |
| 2985 | how have you written this miracle? |
| 2985 | or shall I send it to the hotel? |
| 2985 | the tropics? |
| 2982 | Ah,said Clemens, as he mopped his face,"do you know that little devil waded all the way across?" |
| 2982 | Are you Horace Bigsby''s cub? |
| 2982 | But do you realize, ma''am, how tired and hungry we are? 2982 Can he do it again?" |
| 2982 | Did it knock him down? |
| 2982 | Did you do that? |
| 2982 | Did you ever do any steering? |
| 2982 | Did you follow it up? 2982 Did you pound him much-- that is, severely?" |
| 2982 | Do n''t I deserve one yet? |
| 2982 | Do you chew? |
| 2982 | Do you drink? |
| 2982 | Do you gamble? |
| 2982 | Do you know the Bowen boys? |
| 2982 | Do you swear? |
| 2982 | Do you use terbacker? |
| 2982 | Does it? |
| 2982 | Hard? |
| 2982 | Here, where are you heading for now? |
| 2982 | Here, why did n''t you tell me we had got to land at that plantation? |
| 2982 | Here,he would shout,"where are you going now? |
| 2982 | How big was it, Uncle Ned? |
| 2982 | How do you follow a hall at home in the dark? 2982 How far off was it?" |
| 2982 | How much do you think it ought to be, Mark? |
| 2982 | How on earth am I ever going to learn it, then? |
| 2982 | How would you like a young man to learn the river? |
| 2982 | Is n''t that a guitar over there? |
| 2982 | Nobody could have done it better; and did you see how those cats got out of there? 2982 Pounded him?" |
| 2982 | Sam said,''Dan, did you know, when you invited me to make that speech, that those fellows were going to give me a bogus pipe?'' 2982 Steve, what is that d-- d noise?" |
| 2982 | Tell us, Mark, why are you like the Pacific Ocean? |
| 2982 | Very well, I''ll try it; but, after I have learned it, can I depend on it? 2982 Well,"he sand,"why am I like the Pacific Ocean?" |
| 2982 | What are you reading, Sam? |
| 2982 | What did you do? |
| 2982 | What do you charge? |
| 2982 | What in nation are you steerin''at, anyway? 2982 What is your name?" |
| 2982 | What makes you pull your words that way? |
| 2982 | What will you have, Sam? |
| 2982 | What with? |
| 2982 | What''s the matter, Sam? 2982 Who did that?" |
| 2982 | Why did n''t you mention it before? 2982 Why do n''t you get up and light it yourself?" |
| 2982 | Why, Sammy, what in the world has happened? |
| 2982 | Yes, sir, it is; what of it? |
| 2982 | 23--and a lawyer? |
| 2982 | A gentleman standing on the pavement said to my wife,"Miss, do you go by this stage?" |
| 2982 | A tall, bony woman came to the door:"You''re secesh, ai n''t you?" |
| 2982 | And what is a man without energy? |
| 2982 | At first he looked at the culprit thoughtfully, then he made some inquiries:"Did you strike him first?" |
| 2982 | Can not the''Californian''afford to keep Mark all to itself? |
| 2982 | Did you do anything further?" |
| 2982 | Do n''t you hear me? |
| 2982 | Do n''t you know that I have expended money in this country but have made none myself? |
| 2982 | Do n''t you know that I have never held in my hands a gold or silver bar that belonged to me? |
| 2982 | Do n''t you know that I have only talked, as yet, but proved nothing? |
| 2982 | Do n''t you know that it''s all talk and no cider so far? |
| 2982 | Do n''t you know that undemonstrated human calculations wo n''t do to bet on? |
| 2982 | Do you hear?" |
| 2982 | Give him a good sound thrashing; do you hear? |
| 2982 | Have I got to learn the shape of the river according to all these five hundred thousand different ways? |
| 2982 | Have n''t you got a bite for us to eat?" |
| 2982 | He opened on me after this fashion:"How much water did we have in the middle crossing at Hole- in- The- Wall, trip before last?" |
| 2982 | His chief was a constant menace at such moments: One day he turned on me suddenly with this settler:"What is the shape of Walnut Bend?" |
| 2982 | His mother said:"What''s the matter, Sammy; are you sick?" |
| 2982 | How could he, with a fortune so plainly in view? |
| 2982 | How did you ever think of it?" |
| 2982 | How do you reckon I can remember such a mess as that?" |
| 2982 | I gave her a conundrum, thus:"My dear madam, why ought your hand to retain its present grace and beauty always? |
| 2982 | If they want letters from here-- who''ll run from morning till night collecting material cheaper? |
| 2982 | It always snows here, I expect"; and the final heart- sick line,"Do n''t you suppose they have pretty much quit writing at home?" |
| 2982 | It may have materialized out of the unseen-- who knows? |
| 2982 | Klinefelter turned to Sam:"Did n''t you hear him?" |
| 2982 | L. C.''Which was? |
| 2982 | Maguire, why Will you thus skyugle? |
| 2982 | Now is n''t she the devil? |
| 2982 | One day, soon after, he said to me:"''Steve, do you know that I think that that bogus pipe smokes about as well as the good one?''" |
| 2982 | Sam said:"What''s that, Steve?" |
| 2982 | Sam;"he said,"what do they mean by that?" |
| 2982 | That is to say, is n''t she a right smart little woman? |
| 2982 | The company rose, drank the toast in serious silence; then Goodman said:"Of course, Artemus, it''s all right, but why did you give us Upper Canada?" |
| 2982 | W- h- a- r- r''s my g- o- l- den arm?" |
| 2982 | W- h- a- r- r''s my golden arm? |
| 2982 | What a child he always was-- always, to the very end? |
| 2982 | What are you going to do?" |
| 2982 | What did it matter to him? |
| 2982 | What name do you want to use''Josh''?" |
| 2982 | What noise? |
| 2982 | What the devil does a man want with any more feet when he owns in the invincible bomb- proof"Monitor"? |
| 2982 | What was the greatest feature in Napoleon''s character? |
| 2982 | When the children came for eggs he would say:"Your hens wo n''t lay, eh? |
| 2982 | Where is it Orion''s going to? |
| 2982 | Why curse and swear, And rip and tear The innocent McDougal? |
| 2982 | Will it keep the same form, and not go fooling around?" |
| 2982 | Wo n''t you please stop it? |
| 2982 | You could n''t possibly teach music with a company of raw recruits drilling overhead-- now, could you? |
| 2982 | You think that picture looks old? |
| 2982 | You will continue upon the water for some time yet; you will not retire finally until ten years from now.... What is your brother''s age? |
| 2982 | and in pursuit of an office? |
| 2982 | he asked--"pilots in the St. Louis and New Orleans trade?" |
| 2982 | he said, triumphantly;"you know dose vord?" |
| 318 | And pray what is a vital lie but a lie? |
| 318 | Booze? 318 But what of it?" |
| 318 | Do you think so? |
| 318 | Have another? |
| 318 | How did you vote on the suffrage amendment? |
| 318 | How much you got down against me? |
| 318 | Is this flesh of yours you? 318 Now just why did you vote for it?" |
| 318 | Say, Jerry, how about the Tarwater road? 318 Then your ideal of happiness is a jelly- like organism floating in a tideless, tepid twilight sea, eh?" |
| 318 | What d''ye say, you and me? |
| 318 | What of it? 318 What''s your hurry?" |
| 318 | When shall I come to work? |
| 318 | When shall I come to work? |
| 318 | Where''d he get it? |
| 318 | Where''d you get it? |
| 318 | Where? |
| 318 | Why not write all this up for the sake of the men and women coming? |
| 318 | Why not write it so as to help the wives and sisters and mothers to the way they should vote? |
| 318 | Would you then shut the books and exchange places with this thing that is only an appetite and a desire, a marionette of the belly and the loins? |
| 318 | You remember him? |
| 318 | ( And who has not seen the weeping drunk, the melancholic drunk? |
| 318 | And Spider sang:"Oh, it''s Lulu, black Lulu, my darling, Oh, it''s where have you been so long? |
| 318 | And as for trees, have I not planted a hundred thousand? |
| 318 | And by the same token, how was I to guess that her brother Pat''s offishness with me was anything else than temperamental gloominess of spirit? |
| 318 | And if she did expect me, and I did n''t what would she think of me? |
| 318 | And is there a greater maker of madness of all sorts than John Barleycorn? |
| 318 | And what had John Barleycorn to do with such strenuous, Stoic toil of a lad just turned fifteen? |
| 318 | And what of that? |
| 318 | Be robbed of my hero''s death? |
| 318 | But from the standpoint of the whole human race, is not all madness objectionable? |
| 318 | But how to become an electrician? |
| 318 | But how to get a girl? |
| 318 | But how to plan? |
| 318 | But was I to stay away from it for such reason? |
| 318 | But what of it? |
| 318 | But what of it? |
| 318 | But what of it? |
| 318 | But what of that? |
| 318 | But what weary human will look so far ahead? |
| 318 | But where was the salmon boat? |
| 318 | But who was I to lead the way outside when great Nelson chose to lean against the bar? |
| 318 | Can I ever forget the afternoon I met"Old Scratch,"Nelson''s father? |
| 318 | Could I decline to drink with these two chesty shipmates? |
| 318 | Could we drink with one, and not the other? |
| 318 | Did I possess too much vitality? |
| 318 | Did I want to become like them? |
| 318 | Did she expect me to try? |
| 318 | Do you know that we weigh every pound of coal we burn? |
| 318 | Else why was I never permitted to drink of it in the house? |
| 318 | Gone? |
| 318 | Had I, a non- alcoholic, by long practice become an alcoholic? |
| 318 | Had all my pinching and saving brought me the equivalent of one of the many thrills which had been mine since I came among the oyster pirates? |
| 318 | He and I drank, which seemed just; but why should Johnny Heinhold, who owned the saloon and waited behind the bar, be invited to drink? |
| 318 | How can I explain? |
| 318 | How could it possibly enter my boy''s head that a grizzled man of fifty should be jealous of me? |
| 318 | How to face the social intercourse game with the glamour gone? |
| 318 | I asked myself if this were the meaning of life-- to be a work- beast? |
| 318 | I never let on that I''d heard, but PROUD? |
| 318 | Money-- I could sleep in only one bed at a time, and of what worth was an income of a hundred porterhouses a day when I could eat only one? |
| 318 | Now why did I do this? |
| 318 | Now, are you prepared to begin?" |
| 318 | Or dared I even sit closer? |
| 318 | Or is it an extraneous something possessed by you? |
| 318 | Pretty rotten, eh? |
| 318 | Savve?" |
| 318 | Should I dare to kiss her there and then, or slip my arm around her waist? |
| 318 | Should I imprison in my hand that little hand with the dangling, scented gloves which had just tapped my lips? |
| 318 | So there arose before me a problem, a clear and simple problem: THIS IS SO EASY, WHY NOT KEEP IT UP WHEN YOU GET BACK ON LAND? |
| 318 | Then what was worth while-- money or thrills? |
| 318 | They were the mysterious, the unknown, and who was I, a seven- year- old, to analyse them and know their prankishness? |
| 318 | WHY DID I DRINK? |
| 318 | WOULD SHE? |
| 318 | Was I a milk- and- water sop? |
| 318 | Was I any the less strong, any the less valiant, than the harpooner and the sailor? |
| 318 | Was I expected to kiss her? |
| 318 | Was it because I was too happy? |
| 318 | Was it because I was too strong? |
| 318 | We''d paraded and earned it, had n''t we? |
| 318 | Well, it was the way of men, and who was I, just turned seventeen, that I should decline the way of life of these fine, chesty, man- grown men? |
| 318 | What could I do but steal that every second drink, or else deny myself the kick equivalent to what he got out of half the number? |
| 318 | What could I do, here in this company of big men, all drinking whisky? |
| 318 | What could I do? |
| 318 | What did girls expect of boys, sitting on a bench and tentatively striving to find out what love was? |
| 318 | What did it matter what lay on the other side of the world? |
| 318 | What did she expect me to do? |
| 318 | What if their notions of happiness included the strange one of seeing me drink? |
| 318 | What more would John Barleycorn ask in order to have his will with men? |
| 318 | What need was there for it? |
| 318 | What of it? |
| 318 | What was this life for, I demanded, if this were all? |
| 318 | What? |
| 318 | Whence came Peter O''Connor, and whither vanished, after writing his little name of a day on the woodland that was to become a vineyard? |
| 318 | Where was this steady drinking leading? |
| 318 | Which was it to be? |
| 318 | Who was this James King of William, so curiously named? |
| 318 | Why not? |
| 318 | Why waste it? |
| 318 | Will you miss all I can give you, only to have a bug jump on you and drag you down? |
| 318 | Would I take Scotty, the runaway sailor, to visit the harpooner, on the opium- smuggler Idler? |
| 318 | Would I take him, Scotty, over in my skiff to call upon the harpooner? |
| 318 | Would she lend her"white child"the money? |
| 318 | Your body-- what is it? |
| 37834 | And would you like, then, always to live retired at home? |
| 37834 | And would you never care to make acquaintances, then-- to make and receive calls? |
| 37834 | Are you not afraid? |
| 37834 | Can you not tell me? |
| 37834 | Do n''t all grown- up people do wonderful things? |
| 37834 | Do you not see that these are no questions for you? 37834 Do you think we can do that?" |
| 37834 | For such a thing as this? |
| 37834 | Have you chosen the part of men or of traitors? |
| 37834 | Have you made your decision, gentlemen? |
| 37834 | Is she? 37834 Madam,"said he,"can you tell me where the scene of this picture is laid? |
| 37834 | Miss Kershaw, would you mind just kissing me_ once_? |
| 37834 | Of course,said Harry,"do n''t angels know When God has told them which way to go? |
| 37834 | Our fathers, where are they? |
| 37834 | Thankful Blossom? |
| 37834 | Then? |
| 37834 | Was it not the poor and sick that He visited, mamma, chiefly? |
| 37834 | Well, dear? |
| 37834 | Well, what is it now? |
| 37834 | What greater cause could there be? 37834 Why child, what ails you?" |
| 37834 | Why is it not better to keep out of it entirely? |
| 37834 | Will you keep the door open so I can hear voices? |
| 37834 | You mean going anywhere out of your own family? |
| 37834 | ''Men, can you bear it?'' |
| 37834 | A passing stranger, has He skill To charm the multitude at will? |
| 37834 | And Death-- Who stays to think of him, till age Comes stealing on with sure and silent tread? |
| 37834 | At last he called out:"Well, what have I caught?" |
| 37834 | Baedeker says-- ELDERLY TOURIST(_ eagerly_)--Is it really so, guide? |
| 37834 | Behind the mask-- who knows the care That grim and silent rests, And all the burdens each may bear Within the secret breast? |
| 37834 | Behind the mask-- who knows the strain That each life may endure, And all its grief and countless pain That wealth can never cure? |
| 37834 | Behind the mask-- who knows the tears That from the heart arise, And in the weary flight of years How many pass with sighs? |
| 37834 | Behold the change? |
| 37834 | But again, who would n''t like it If they every night could hear,"Yes she did it, Katy did it", Sounding for them loud and clear? |
| 37834 | But can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice?" |
| 37834 | But how can I especially serve you?" |
| 37834 | But where is the suggestion of those garments all tattered and torn? |
| 37834 | Can it be wondered at that, like St. Peter''s at Rome, it had an atmosphere of its own, and defied the outer changes of the temperature? |
| 37834 | Can we mothers have a better teacher or a wiser example than this little bird, whose lessons in motherhood have come to her direct from her Creator? |
| 37834 | Can you fancy the scene? |
| 37834 | Can you keep still if I go up the road and watch for''em? |
| 37834 | Did dear old England give thee birth? |
| 37834 | Did ever anything stir the pulse Like a glimmering moonlight skate? |
| 37834 | Did n''t do what? |
| 37834 | Did n''t set her stitches nicely? |
| 37834 | Did not the mysterious author resemble Veronica? |
| 37834 | Did they not belong together? |
| 37834 | Do n''t they sing in the sky, where we ca n''t see And listen up there to Harry and me? |
| 37834 | Do you think it is_ my duty_ to go into company? |
| 37834 | Do you think, guide, I would have time to go back and get my wife? |
| 37834 | Does n''t Katy wish she had? |
| 37834 | GUIDE-- You enjoy ze ferocity? |
| 37834 | Has God led us so far to desert us now? |
| 37834 | How old is the cathedral, guide? |
| 37834 | How under the sun can they ketch him? |
| 37834 | If robes and sacques the damsels wore, And sweeping skirts in days of yore? |
| 37834 | In 1885, she published a very clever booklet entitled Who Was Old Mother Hubbard? |
| 37834 | Is not her trial sore enough now without overloading it with an imaginary trial? |
| 37834 | Katy didn''t-- lazy Katy, Did n''t do her lessons well? |
| 37834 | Leave me, for such a thing as this?" |
| 37834 | Little brook, where wild flowers drink, Rushing past me, swift and clear-- Thoughtful stand I on the brink--"Where''s thy home? |
| 37834 | Look, do n''t you see? |
| 37834 | Most prominent among the volumes are"The Lady or The Tiger? |
| 37834 | Now which way? |
| 37834 | Now who gave that weeping mother permission to use that word"if"? |
| 37834 | Of what Nellie found by her Christmas tree? |
| 37834 | Or merry France, the land of mirth? |
| 37834 | Shall I tell you a story of Christmas time? |
| 37834 | The name of the little woman figured on no heroic roll, but was she the less a heroine? |
| 37834 | Then I looked up at Nye, And he gazed upon me; And he rose with a sigh, And said,"Can this be? |
| 37834 | Then she inquired simply:"But what if we should live, after all?" |
| 37834 | Thus, in the poem alluded to, could the thoughts contained in it, have been expressed as beautifully and tenderly in the mother tongue? |
| 37834 | To this they all agreed, and another kindly asked:"Ca n''t we do something to help her to know people?" |
| 37834 | Voices in accents hushed reply"Jesus of Nazareth passeth by?" |
| 37834 | We quote from WHAT DOES THE CAUSE OF HUMAN FREEDOM OWE TO THE HUGUENOT? |
| 37834 | What do you mean by''going into company?'' |
| 37834 | What is"tone"? |
| 37834 | What mean these cannon standing here, These staring, muzzled dogs of war? |
| 37834 | What means this eager, anxious throng, Pressing our busy streets along, These wondrous gatherings day by day, What means this strange commotion, pray? |
| 37834 | What sort of"tone"do they give? |
| 37834 | When nearly here, after traveling long in the forest, he inquired of his guides:"Where is Rockciticus?" |
| 37834 | Whence com''st thou here?" |
| 37834 | Where_ is_''there''?" |
| 37834 | Who can tell? |
| 37834 | Who is this Jesus? |
| 37834 | Who shall say how far this fragile woman aided to stay the wave of desolation which was spreading over the land? |
| 37834 | Who, indeed, can compute or measure the power of the press at the present day? |
| 37834 | Whom do you mean by the"best people"? |
| 37834 | Why is it then that men become drunkards? |
| 37834 | Why should He The city move so mightily? |
| 37834 | Will He, who led our fathers across the stormy winter sea, forsake their children who have put their trust in Him? |
| 37834 | With you and papa and Nelly and our pet Lucy, and the boys coming home Sundays, what could one wish for more? |
| 37834 | You do n''t want to deceive the man, do you?" |
| 32603 | Addonde esta Lucia? |
| 32603 | Addonde esta Maud? |
| 32603 | And here the question will recur to you( for I doubt not it has occurred a dozen times already), Can nothing be done to disinter this human soul? 32603 Dexter, is that you?" |
| 32603 | Did she call him''darling''? |
| 32603 | Do n''t you see what large lumps of sugar he puts in the sugar bowl? |
| 32603 | How could the work of the disciples be greater than that of the Master? 32603 How could this be?" |
| 32603 | How d''ye do, Tom Steele? |
| 32603 | Is it? 32603 The social what?" |
| 32603 | Was an agreement, so solemnly entered into, so vital in its obligations, to be so lightly canceled? |
| 32603 | What are we to say to all this? |
| 32603 | What do you call them there? |
| 32603 | What is Julia Howe trying to find at Parker''s meeting? |
| 32603 | Who is that? |
| 32603 | Whose are those? |
| 32603 | Whose books do I take to bed with me, night after night? 32603 Why did he not do this, or that, or the other? |
| 32603 | Why do they cry so? |
| 32603 | Why do you say so? |
| 32603 | Why is it endured? |
| 32603 | Why not? |
| 32603 | Your brother? |
| 32603 | ''How is this, my dear friend?'' |
| 32603 | ''What are these?'' |
| 32603 | ( Where are the girls?) |
| 32603 | A certain essay in the"Wandsbecker Bote"of Matthias Claudius ends thus:"And is he not also the God of the Japanese?" |
| 32603 | A climb from obscurity to public notice? |
| 32603 | A friend once spoke to him of matrimony, of which he said in reply,"Marriage? |
| 32603 | A wardrobe that newspaper correspondents may report? |
| 32603 | Among the topics therein treated was the vexed problem,"Does expensive living enrich the community?" |
| 32603 | An abiding place on the stage of fashionable life? |
| 32603 | At a party devoted to classical performances, he turned to me:"Mrs. Howe, are you going to give us something from the symphony in P?" |
| 32603 | At the breakfast of which I speak, he cut the loaf with his own hands, saying to each guest,"Will you have a slice or a hunch?" |
| 32603 | But let us ask what are social successes? |
| 32603 | Comte replied,"Que voulez- vous, monsieur? |
| 32603 | Do n''t you know that we have had a dreadful reverse?" |
| 32603 | Do n''t you see how well she had suited matters to my taste?" |
| 32603 | Do you have routs in America?" |
| 32603 | Dr. Howe used sometimes to come to my study and ask,"Are you comfortable?" |
| 32603 | English words derived from Greek?" |
| 32603 | Fine equipages, furniture, and entertainments? |
| 32603 | Forgetful of the card, I asked"Where?" |
| 32603 | Friends would sometimes ask us,"How are you getting on at Green Beans-- is that the name?" |
| 32603 | Had I lived to come within sight of the great city, Mistress of the World? |
| 32603 | Hampton?" |
| 32603 | He said,"Why should I do this? |
| 32603 | Her question, Do horses sit up late?" |
| 32603 | How, otherwise, could she be entrusted with the awful and inevitable responsibilities of maternity? |
| 32603 | Howe?" |
| 32603 | I almost ask to- day,"By what miracle was the great structure overthrown?" |
| 32603 | I heard a lady say to him,"Are you worthy of music?" |
| 32603 | I innocently inquired; and he said,"Do you not know? |
| 32603 | I may ask fifty years later,"Who is?" |
| 32603 | I still remember the insolent sneer with which this gentleman said,"By the bye, have you sold the Bank of the United States yet?" |
| 32603 | IS POLITE SOCIETY POLITE? |
| 32603 | In this letter he mentioned Laura''s childish question,"Do horses sit up late?" |
| 32603 | Many said,"If North and South agree to set aside their bonds of union, and to become two republics, why should they not do it?" |
| 32603 | Meeting a friend, I asked,"Why are these people here? |
| 32603 | Meeting a lady of his acquaintance at her door, and seeing a basket on her arm, he asked,"Where are you going, Mrs.----, so early, with that basket?" |
| 32603 | Mr. Clarke said,"Mrs. Howe, why do you not write some good words for that stirring tune?" |
| 32603 | Mr. Gladstone said very abruptly,"How? |
| 32603 | Mrs. Grey thanked me for my speech, but said,"Oh, dear Mrs. Howe, why did you speak of the women ministers?" |
| 32603 | Of such an one I asked,"Why did Pio Nono so suddenly forsake his liberal policy?" |
| 32603 | Phillips Brooks one day in my sunset outing, I said to him,"Do you ever, in writing a sermon, lose sight of your subject? |
| 32603 | Should I ever meet again the exquisite little creature who had been taken from my arms? |
| 32603 | Should I give or withhold it? |
| 32603 | Should the white woman be less considered than he? |
| 32603 | Should they not be counted among the citizens of the great Republic? |
| 32603 | The following conversation ensued:--"Eliza, what book is that you are reading?" |
| 32603 | The lecturer recited the poem with such effect that those present began to inquire,"Who wrote this Battle Hymn?" |
| 32603 | The little boy presently said to the little girl:--"I say, sis, is n''t this a bully piaz?" |
| 32603 | The quasi- adoration that true lovers feel, was it an illusion partly of sense, partly of imagination? |
| 32603 | The theme was already suggested, but of its wild and terrible development who could have had any foreknowledge? |
| 32603 | These friends all accosted us with eager questions:--"Addonde estan las muchachas?" |
| 32603 | Thou going eastward, and I to the west?" |
| 32603 | Tom Appleton disposed of the water- cure theory in the following fashion:"Water- cure? |
| 32603 | Upon this principle, which of the great discoverers or inventors would have become a benefactor to the human race? |
| 32603 | Was it possible? |
| 32603 | Was this door to be shut in their face? |
| 32603 | We waited long for him, and I at last said to Mrs. Longfellow,"What can it be that detains your brother so late?" |
| 32603 | What are they waiting for, and why do they look as they do?" |
| 32603 | What can I say of it that has not already been said? |
| 32603 | What may I chronicle as its successes? |
| 32603 | What was Maria Mitchell? |
| 32603 | What? |
| 32603 | When I made my appearance, standing erect, and in my right clothes and mind, people did not recognize me, and asked,"Where did that lady come from?" |
| 32603 | When I repeated this to Horace Mann, it so vexed his gentle spirit as to cause him to exclaim,"House of Lords? |
| 32603 | Where should freedom come from? |
| 32603 | Who can say what joy there is in the rehabilitation of human nature, which is one essential condition of the liberal Christian faith? |
| 32603 | Who was Maria Mitchell? |
| 32603 | Why do n''t you ask him about them?" |
| 32603 | Why do you ask?" |
| 32603 | is this all? |
| 32603 | or did it symbolize a sacred truth? |
| 32603 | to which Mrs. Combe replied,"Who could help improving when living with perfection?" |
| 8222 | Do you remember her in Brook Farm days? |
| 8222 | ( how can you think of them as parents?) |
| 8222 | 23, 1844._ Shall we not see you on the day of the cattle- show? |
| 8222 | And are you still at home in the Farm? |
| 8222 | And as each Phalanx will be a centre of innumerable railroads in the age of harmony, why not its paper of paper railroads now? |
| 8222 | And yet, hitherto, have not the sublime fragments he culled from the Bible served as expositors of the Oratorio? |
| 8222 | And yet, in the"Elective Affinities,"does he not show all that one could wish? |
| 8222 | But who of all heard? |
| 8222 | But why should he be haunted by the thought that he does not have it and think of particular things to prove it, except that he does not have it? |
| 8222 | C. Lamb and Lloyd( was not Coleridge one?) |
| 8222 | Can I come? |
| 8222 | Can we not make our friendship so fine that it shall be only a sympathy of thought, and let the expression differ, and court it to differ? |
| 8222 | Cheever? |
| 8222 | Dear friend, why should I send you this chip of ore out of the mine of regard which is yours in my heart? |
| 8222 | Did not the singular beauty of the man unite with his performance to make the completest musical festival you have had? |
| 8222 | Do you conceive? |
| 8222 | Does it not savor something of Devildom, and a too great familiarity with that lower Torrid Zone, to entertain such a proposition cool- ly? |
| 8222 | Does she not lack passion? |
| 8222 | EARLY LETTERS TO JOHN S. DWIGHT I PROVIDENCE,_ August 18, 1843._ Are you quite recovered from those divine enchantments which held us bound so long? |
| 8222 | For what so universal an Interpreter as music? |
| 8222 | Has he not found his place? |
| 8222 | Have these men, with all their faith and love, not yet full confidence in love? |
| 8222 | Have we indeed heard the Siren song-- are we unscathed? |
| 8222 | Hawthorne?'' |
| 8222 | How are you, and how prospers the_ Journal_? |
| 8222 | How have I earned the privilege of such enchantment, and is there not some condition of fairy which I do not yet see, but which some day must be paid? |
| 8222 | How shall I fitly speak to you of him, how can I now, while the new vision of beauty that he caused to sweep by still lingers? |
| 8222 | I am always a little angry that my friends do n''t do something better on such occasions; but why cast pearls before swine? |
| 8222 | I feel as if my letter might not find you there; but what can you be doing anywhere else? |
| 8222 | IX N.Y.,_ Sunday evening, Feb. 25,''44._ Do you remember ever to have read a novel called"The Collegians?" |
| 8222 | If they see the soul of things, do they see the form of nature without the soul, as we do now? |
| 8222 | If you loved some one ardently who wonderfully resembled personally some one you hated ardently what would you do? |
| 8222 | In closing his letter he wrote:"When do you come to New York? |
| 8222 | In the Louvre or the Vatican will not the traveller see his home? |
| 8222 | Indeed, I owe more to him than one can know, except as he feels the same debt; are you not that one? |
| 8222 | Is it human to resist such an offer? |
| 8222 | Is it not because when named as Precision, the depth which necessarily means a graceful form is absent? |
| 8222 | Is it not like the going out of a star? |
| 8222 | Is it not so always? |
| 8222 | Is it not the deeper insight you constantly gain into music which explains the social economy you adopt, and not the economy the music? |
| 8222 | Is it not the tendency of a decided institution of reform to be unjust to the Barbarians? |
| 8222 | Is not that because, as Fanny Kemble says, and so many have thought, he was a Heathen? |
| 8222 | Is not that what these symphonies express? |
| 8222 | Is not the influence of fine character, which is only genius for virtue, like the brooding of God over chaos? |
| 8222 | Is not this fact also recognized in other arts? |
| 8222 | Is not true leisure One with true toil? |
| 8222 | Is that from pride or because you can not endure to see men go wrong, if you can help them? |
| 8222 | Is that not strong enough to sway all institutions that are, and cause to overflow with life? |
| 8222 | Is there any law at last? |
| 8222 | Is this sum right? |
| 8222 | It begins with a drum, a bugle- call follows; a march-- and what march do you think? |
| 8222 | It reminded me to send you a most rapid criticism(?) |
| 8222 | May I also add the satiety of writing, which a man who has just published a book may be supposed to be experiencing? |
| 8222 | Must not this be always a complaint of genius? |
| 8222 | My musical appetite has been well appeased; can it ever be satisfied? |
| 8222 | Remember that he who criticises Handel and Mozart, as the"Democratic"witnesseth, owes something to the art-- shall I say_ his life_? |
| 8222 | Sands and who? |
| 8222 | Shall I direct to Brook Farm or Boston? |
| 8222 | Shall you not send Knoop hither? |
| 8222 | She has the grand- piano which Miss Gserty(?) |
| 8222 | Story, who is happy and busy in Rome-- who would n''t be? |
| 8222 | The notes he may transcribe for others, but the charm of the musical artist lies not therein; it is a personal effluence; how shall we measure it? |
| 8222 | The only hope lies in a circle of ladies who know her and would take pains to help her; but who are they, and how can they care for her? |
| 8222 | V_ Saturday night, November 25,''43._ Why do I love music enough to be only a lover, and can not offer it a life- devoted service? |
| 8222 | Was it not as if he walked above the earth, and of his sublime conversation you heard now and then the notes? |
| 8222 | Was it not prophetic that on Sunday afternoon the following lines came to me while thinking of that poet? |
| 8222 | What can mere men do? |
| 8222 | What could she do? |
| 8222 | What disembodied comforter of Job suggests such things? |
| 8222 | What do you read, or do n''t you read? |
| 8222 | What do you think? |
| 8222 | What literary work are you about, or have you still the same reluctance to assume the pen that you had? |
| 8222 | What think you of Vieuxtemps, who, I see, is in Boston? |
| 8222 | When I write you again, I hope to be able to say that I am well at work again; but how?--on what? |
| 8222 | When shall I see you? |
| 8222 | When shall we see it? |
| 8222 | While this may be done, why should we retire from the field behind the walls which you offer? |
| 8222 | Why are we so troubled or moved at death, elated or depressed? |
| 8222 | Why did we not hear Mali- bran? |
| 8222 | Why do n''t you oftener bring us reports of your interviews with Egeria? |
| 8222 | Why does not some ingenious Yankee improve such times for the purchase, at a ruinous discount, of all thick clothes? |
| 8222 | Why not send your papers to the publisher of some Saturday paper to distribute with his? |
| 8222 | Why will you not think of it, if you have not done so? |
| 8222 | Will you accept so city- like a letter? |
| 8222 | Will you give my love and say good- bye to Mr. and Mrs. Ripley and my other friends with you? |
| 8222 | Will you now send my copy of the_ Harbinger_ to Almira? |
| 8222 | Will you say no youthful lover would have inspired such a gush of the tenderest and profoundest girlishness? |
| 8222 | Will you say to Charles Newcomb that Burrill has destroyed all"the churchmen"? |
| 8222 | Will you send me the number of the"Mondschein,"and the"Tempest"sonata? |
| 8222 | Will you speak to him and say that Mrs. Brown will like them by the first opportunity? |
| 8222 | Will you write me the numbers of the"Tempest"sonata, and some others that I liked particularly? |
| 8222 | Would it be an expensive thing to import? |
| 8222 | Would not the steady massiveness of Goethe''s nature have been splendidly adorned by the arabesques and intricately graceful woof of Bettine''s? |
| 8222 | Wouldst behold beauty Near thee, all round? |
| 8222 | XIX My dear Friend,--If I should come to Brook Farm on Thursday evening will it be convenient, and shall you be at home? |
| 8222 | XXII CONCORD,_ April 22d, 1845._ Will you forgive me if I flood you with letters now while the mood of writing lasts? |
| 8222 | You know we have nothing similar in American literature, no book of artistic criticism, have we? |
| 8222 | You will soon let me know of your movements, will you not? |
| 8222 | and, after making out the one I meant, he laughed and said,"Dragoons? |
| 8222 | can it be crystallized? |
| 8222 | does that ask houses and lands to express its power? |
| 8222 | or do you remain? |
| 8222 | take those lips away,"be as immortal as Hamlet? |
| 8222 | when such a word grows suddenly obsolete in such seasons? |
| 12700 | But when we come to inquire Whence is matter? 12700 Can he answer these questions? |
| 12700 | Canst thou by searching find out God? 12700 How can the man who has learned but one art procure all the conveniences of life honestly? |
| 12700 | Oh, what is Heaven but the fellowship Of minds that each can stand against the world By its own meek and incorruptible will? |
| 12700 | Physician art thou, one all eyes; Philosopher, a fingering slave, One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother''s grave? |
| 12700 | Scorn triflescomes from Aunt Mary Moody Emerson, and reappears in her nephew, Ralph Waldo.--"What right have you, Sir, to your virtue? |
| 12700 | Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? 12700 Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? |
| 12700 | What is the remedy? 12700 What?" |
| 12700 | Who has a part with**** at this next exhibition? |
| 12700 | Why call him_ the Post_? |
| 12700 | Why then goest thou as some Boswell or literary worshipper to this saint or to that? 12700 ''How long?'' 12700 ''What is this truth you seek? 12700 ''What will you do, then?'' 12700 ***** What was the errand on which he visited our earth,--the message with which he came commissioned from the Infinite source of all life? 12700 *****Let us then ponder his words:--''Wilt thou not ope thy heart to know What rainbows teach and sunsets show? |
| 12700 | --Of these three questions, What is matter? |
| 12700 | A hundred and forty?" |
| 12700 | A little while afterwards he asked of his fellow- traveller, Professor Thayer,"How much did I weigh? |
| 12700 | After reading what Emerson says about"the masses,"one is tempted to ask whether a philosopher can ever have"a constituency"and be elected to Congress? |
| 12700 | And how could prose go on all- fours more unmetrically than this? |
| 12700 | And what shall we do with Pope''s"Essay on Man,"which has furnished more familiar lines than"Paradise Lost"and"Paradise Regained"both together? |
| 12700 | And will you stop in England, and bring home the author of"Counterparts"with you? |
| 12700 | Are my friends bent on killing me with kindness? |
| 12700 | But what is the gift of a mourning ring to the bequest of a perpetual annuity? |
| 12700 | But what shall we say to the"Ars Poetica"of Horace? |
| 12700 | But what would youth be without its extravagances,--its preterpluperfect in the shape of adjectives, its unmeasured and unstinted admiration? |
| 12700 | Can any ear reconcile itself to the last of these three lines of Emerson''s? |
| 12700 | Can he dispose of them? |
| 12700 | Can we find any trace of this idea elsewhere? |
| 12700 | Can you help any soul_? |
| 12700 | Can you obtain what you wish? |
| 12700 | Can you see tendency in your life? |
| 12700 | Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?" |
| 12700 | Do all the women have bad noses and bad mouths? |
| 12700 | Does this sound wild and extravagant? |
| 12700 | Genius has given you the freedom of the universe, why then come within any walls? |
| 12700 | Have you eyes to find the five Which five hundred did survive?" |
| 12700 | Have you read Sampson Reed''s"Growth of the Mind"? |
| 12700 | How could the man in whose thought such a meteoric expression suddenly announced itself fail to recognize it as divine? |
| 12700 | How could they have got on together? |
| 12700 | How d''ye do? |
| 12700 | How d''ye do? |
| 12700 | Is it too late now? |
| 12700 | Is not the inaudible, inward laughter of Emerson more refreshing than the explosions of our noisiest humorists? |
| 12700 | Is not this to make vain the gift of God? |
| 12700 | Is not this to turn back the hand on the dial?" |
| 12700 | Is there method in your consciousness? |
| 12700 | Is virtue piecemeal? |
| 12700 | Is''t not like That devil- spider that devours her mate Scarce freed from her embraces?" |
| 12700 | One was tempted to ask:"What forlorn hope have you led? |
| 12700 | Or did----write the novels and send them to London, as I fancied when I read them? |
| 12700 | Shall we not bid him come, and be Poet and Teacher of a most scattered flock wanting a shepherd? |
| 12700 | Shall we rank Emerson among the great poets or not? |
| 12700 | The breeze says to us in its own language, How d''ye do? |
| 12700 | The clouds are rich and dark, the air serene,_ So like the soul of me, what if''t were me_?" |
| 12700 | The eye does not bring landscapes into the world on its retina,--why should the brain bring thoughts? |
| 12700 | The translations excited me much, and who can estimate the value of a good thought? |
| 12700 | The"Rhodora,"another brief poem, finds itself foreshadowed in the inquiry,"What is Beauty?" |
| 12700 | They seemed to me to betray the richest invention, so rich as almost to say, why draw any line since you can draw all? |
| 12700 | Transcendentalism has its occasional vagaries( what school has not? |
| 12700 | Was he thinking of his relations with Carlyle? |
| 12700 | We do not want his fragments to be made wholes,--if we did, what hand could be found equal to the task? |
| 12700 | What am I? |
| 12700 | What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being? |
| 12700 | What can promise more than an Essay by Emerson on"Immortality"? |
| 12700 | What do you? |
| 12700 | What does Rome know of rat and lizard? |
| 12700 | What great discovery have you made? |
| 12700 | What harm doth it?" |
| 12700 | What has Emerson to tell us of"Inspiration?" |
| 12700 | What heroic task of any kind have you performed?" |
| 12700 | What immortal book have you written? |
| 12700 | What is Beauty? |
| 12700 | What is a farm but a mute gospel?" |
| 12700 | What is the definite belief of Emerson as expressed in this discourse,--what does it mean? |
| 12700 | What is the use of going about and setting up a flag of negation?''" |
| 12700 | What is this beauty?'' |
| 12700 | What is this"genial atmosphere"but the very spirit of Christianity? |
| 12700 | What man could speak more fitly, with more authority of"Character,"than Emerson? |
| 12700 | What man was he who would lay his hand familiarly upon his shoulder and call him Waldo? |
| 12700 | What would it avail to tell you anecdotes of a sweet and wonderful boy, such as we solace and sadden ourselves with at home every morning and evening? |
| 12700 | When we come to the application, in the same Essay, almost on the same page, what can we make of such discourse as this? |
| 12700 | Whence is it? |
| 12700 | Where then did Goethe find his lovers? |
| 12700 | Where to? |
| 12700 | Who can give better counsels on"Culture"than Emerson? |
| 12700 | Who is the owner? |
| 12700 | Why have you not told me that we thought alike? |
| 12700 | Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? |
| 12700 | Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? |
| 12700 | Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" |
| 12700 | Why should you renounce your right to traverse the starlit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? |
| 12700 | Will no_ Angel_ body himself out of that; no stalwart Yankee_ man_, with color in the cheeks of him and a coat on his back?" |
| 12700 | Wordsworth''s"Ode"is a noble and beautiful dream; is it anything more? |
| 12700 | You are quite welcome to the lines"To the Rhodora;"but I think they need the superscription["Lines on being asked''Whence is the Flower?''"]. |
| 12700 | _ New England Reformers_.--Would any one venture to guess how Emerson would treat this subject? |
| 12700 | and Whereto? |
| 12700 | and we have already taken our hats off and are answering it with our own How d''ye do? |
| 12700 | has my stove and pepper- pot a false bottom? |
| 12700 | or"Out of what great picture have these pieces been cut?" |
| 12700 | the old mystery remains, If I am I; thou, thou, or thou art I?" |
| 13106 | Could ye not watch one hour? |
| 13106 | Do the people here,said I,"value Mr. Wordsworth most because he is a celebrated writer?" |
| 13106 | I am homesick,she had written years before,"but where is that HOME?" |
| 13106 | What, ca n''t you read? 13106 ''But how shall I express my meaning? 13106 ''How long will the Signora stay?'' 13106 ''How shall I apologize for feelings which I now recognize as having been so cold, so bitter and unjust? 13106 ''In the temple of Love and the Graces, one Grace bore a rose, a second a branch of myrtle, a third dice;--who can read that riddle? 13106 ''Is this protest undiscriminating? 13106 ''Might not this be made into a true poem, if written out merely as history of the plant, and no observer introduced? 13106 ''She is beautiful enough, is not she, for that higher moment? 13106 ''When will the Signora come again?'' 13106 ''Why is it that the religion of my nature is so much hidden from my peers? 13106 ***''What did you mean by saying I had imbibed much of his way of thought? 13106 ***** Was this, then, thy welcome home? 13106 ***** What shall I say of my child? 13106 *****''Do you believe our prayers avail for one another? 13106 *****''I woke thinking of the monks of La Trappe;--how could they bear their silence? 13106 *****''Might not we women do something in regard to this Texas Annexation project? 13106 *****''What signifies it that Thou dost always give me to drink more deeply of the inner fountains? 13106 *****''Who can expect to utter an absolutely pure and clear tone on these high subjects? 13106 *****''Why bind oneself to a central or any doctrine? 13106 *****''_ June, 1842._--Why must children be with perfect people, any more than people wait to be perfect to be friends? 13106 --answered,What difference can it make, except that I shall love you more, now that we can sympathize as mothers?" |
| 13106 | 19, 1841._--Have I never yet seen so much as_ one_ of my spiritual family? |
| 13106 | About public events, why remain ignorant? |
| 13106 | And on what act of his life dares any one found such an insinuation? |
| 13106 | Are there not sweet flowers of affection in life, glorious moments, great thoughts?--why must they be so dearly paid for? |
| 13106 | As I went along, it seemed as if all I did was for God''s sake; but if it had been, could I now thus fear? |
| 13106 | At length, as Margaret rose to go, she said:''Is there not anything I can do''for you?'' |
| 13106 | But dare I say, that political ambition is not as darkly sullied as in other countries? |
| 13106 | But how many sons have we to make one father? |
| 13106 | But how to gain it? |
| 13106 | But what else to do? |
| 13106 | But who knows how long this interval of peace will last? |
| 13106 | But why is not this love steadily directed to the Central Spirit, since in no form, however suggestive in beauty, can God be fully revealed? |
| 13106 | But will you have patience with my democracy,--my revolutionary spirit? |
| 13106 | But, truly, why has such a thing never been? |
| 13106 | Can I not?'' |
| 13106 | Can I say, our social laws are generally better, or show a nobler insight into the wants of man and woman? |
| 13106 | Can families worship together till it does end? |
| 13106 | Can no soul know me wholly? |
| 13106 | Can none wake the spark that will melt them, till they take beautiful forms? |
| 13106 | Can we not people the banks of some such affectionate little stream? |
| 13106 | Can you learn particulars from Milan? |
| 13106 | Che luce è questa, e qual nuova beltate? |
| 13106 | Dare I say, that men of most influence in political life are those who represent most virtue, or even intellectual power? |
| 13106 | Do we not constantly see the child, born in the flesh to one father, choose in the spirit another? |
| 13106 | Do you not see the truth and happiness of this waiting tenderness? |
| 13106 | Does any man wound thee? |
| 13106 | God is patient for us; why should not we be for them? |
| 13106 | Has not---- vied, in her deeds of love, with"my Cid,"and the holy Ottilia? |
| 13106 | Have I something to do here? |
| 13106 | He ascended to heaven; surely, how could it be otherwise? |
| 13106 | How can I expect them to bear the ceaseless eloquence of my nature?'' |
| 13106 | How dare I speak of these things here? |
| 13106 | How does it seem to you? |
| 13106 | How will it end? |
| 13106 | How would I pile up the votive offerings, and crowd the fires with incense? |
| 13106 | I am deeply homesick, yet where is that home? |
| 13106 | I had, afterward, some talk with Mrs. C., whom hitherto I had only_ seen_, for who can speak while her husband is there? |
| 13106 | I pass whole days abroad; sometimes I take a book, but seldom read it:--why should I, when every stone talks? |
| 13106 | I thought I should not survive: but if I did, and my child did, was I not cruel to bring another into this terrible world? |
| 13106 | I would be gone; but whither? |
| 13106 | If Britomart finds Artegall bound in the enchanter''s spell, can she doubt therefore him whom she has seen in the magic glass? |
| 13106 | If not on earth, why should we look to heaven? |
| 13106 | If they thought so before, will they not far more now? |
| 13106 | In that calm, summer sunset funeral, what eye foresaw the morning of horror, of which it was the sad forerunner? |
| 13106 | Is it not cruel that I can not earn six hundred dollars a year, living here? |
| 13106 | Is it not the object of all philosophy, as well as of religion and poetry, to prevent its prevalence? |
| 13106 | Is it not too long? |
| 13106 | Is it such as the public should know?'' |
| 13106 | Is not that the very time for me to love most tenderly, when I must see his life in despite of seeming? |
| 13106 | It was sad; yet who would have seen sadness in me? |
| 13106 | Long has been my consecration; may I not meet those I hold dear at the altar? |
| 13106 | Margaret requested to be left alone with her; and to her question,''Are you''willing to die?'' |
| 13106 | May not thine own soul have been made morbid, by retiring too much within? |
| 13106 | May there not be a mediation, rather than a conflict, between piety and genius? |
| 13106 | Meantime Ossoli writes:--"Why do you not send me tidings of yourself, every post- day? |
| 13106 | Must not those who see most truly be ever making statements of the truth to combat this sluggishness, or worldliness? |
| 13106 | My numerous friendly acquaintances are troubled if they see me ill, and who so affectionate and kind as Mr. and Mrs. S.? |
| 13106 | Shall I never be able to act and live with persons of views high as my own? |
| 13106 | She never asked how this would sound, nor whether that would do, nor what would be the effect of saying anything; but simply,''Is it the truth? |
| 13106 | Should I venture to complain? |
| 13106 | Speaking of the republic, you say, do not I wish Italy had a great man? |
| 13106 | Surprised and moved, I said,''Why?'' |
| 13106 | This is rather an odd affair; will it make any difference in our relations?" |
| 13106 | Was it not a sin to exchange friendly greeting as we parted, and yet tell him no word of what was in my mind? |
| 13106 | Was not this because spiritual imagination makes light of results, and needs only a germ whence to unfold Olympic splendors?'' |
| 13106 | Were ye the persons who should stab thus? |
| 13106 | What else are sages, poets, preachers, born to do? |
| 13106 | When there is anything really lovely and tranquil, he often says,"Would not''_ La Madre_''like that?" |
| 13106 | Where can I hide till I am given to myself? |
| 13106 | Where was he? |
| 13106 | Who would have believed, a year ago, that the people would assail his palace? |
| 13106 | Why am I to love my friend the less for any obstruction in his life? |
| 13106 | Why did you not try to be in Paris at the opening of the Assembly? |
| 13106 | Why should not a spirit, so consecrate and intent, develop new laws, and make matter plastic? |
| 13106 | Why should not---- and I enjoy this fantastic luxury of_ incognito_ also, when we can so much more easily? |
| 13106 | Why shouldst thou judge of the consciousness of others by thine own? |
| 13106 | Will you, dear E----, do the same? |
| 13106 | Would it not suit little---- to go to school to the cardinal flowers in her boat, beneath the great oak- tree? |
| 13106 | Would not genius be common as light, if men trusted their higher selves?'' |
| 13106 | Yet who could paint a Dante,--and Dante in heaven? |
| 13106 | [ A] Do you like, also, the ode to Autumn, and--"Sigh on, sad heart, for love''s eclipse"? |
| 13106 | and that happiness is good for the soul? |
| 13106 | are these opinions crude? |
| 13106 | do these proceedings threaten to sap the bulwarks on which men at present depend? |
| 13106 | e la cara Signora in casa_?" |
| 13106 | or am I only to cheer on the warriors, and after write the history of their deeds? |
| 13106 | or, at least, with some steadiness of feeling for me to calculate upon? |
| 13106 | shall I never know the deep delight of gratitude to any but the All- Knowing? |
| 13106 | why do they question me, who never question them? |
| 13106 | why persist to regard as a meteor an orb of assured hope? |
| 10592 | Are n''t you the man who has taken the old Rucker farm? |
| 10592 | Are you cold? |
| 10592 | But you never do? |
| 10592 | By the Word? |
| 10592 | Can you hitch up your horse and come with me-- right away? |
| 10592 | Can you mend it? |
| 10592 | David,Harriet whispered,"did you see the baby?" |
| 10592 | David,he said,"did you ever know anything about the homesickness of the foreigner?" |
| 10592 | David,she exclaimed,"how did you know what I was thinking about?" |
| 10592 | Did n''t you? |
| 10592 | Did you see the baby? |
| 10592 | Do you always paint the same sign? |
| 10592 | Do you do all this without payment? |
| 10592 | Do you know a family named Williams living on the north road beyond the three corners? |
| 10592 | Farming is rather lonely work sometimes, is n''t it? |
| 10592 | Fine? |
| 10592 | Free? |
| 10592 | Good afternoon, sir,I responded,"wo n''t you come up?" |
| 10592 | Have you ever seen a finer afternoon? |
| 10592 | Have you seen Anna Williams? |
| 10592 | Have you? |
| 10592 | How are you, neighbour? |
| 10592 | How long,I inquired,"have you been at this sort of work?" |
| 10592 | How''s the boy, Anna? |
| 10592 | Hungry, Dick? |
| 10592 | Is it homesickness, or is he just old and tired? |
| 10592 | Is it homesickness, or just old age? |
| 10592 | Is n''t human nature doing what it ought to? |
| 10592 | It''s strange, is n''t it? |
| 10592 | More chicken, Dick? |
| 10592 | Mrs. Heney, who is now Mrs.''Penny''Daniels? 10592 So you think we might possibly aspire to the position?" |
| 10592 | They''re rich, are n''t they? |
| 10592 | Well, Carlstrom, when are we to say good- by? |
| 10592 | Well,I said,"when I was in town a man who wanted to sell me a corn- planter asked me if I was a Mason----""Did he ask you that, too?" |
| 10592 | Were n''t you telling me the other day how many people who were really suffering were too proud to let anyone know about it? 10592 Were you?" |
| 10592 | What Society did you think I belonged to? |
| 10592 | What do you think,said he,"I should paint here?" |
| 10592 | What happened next? |
| 10592 | What is friendship, anyway? |
| 10592 | What is this I hear,I said,"about your going back to Sweden?" |
| 10592 | What should the wife of a drunkard think? |
| 10592 | What would you have it? |
| 10592 | What''s that? |
| 10592 | What''s the matter, Brother? |
| 10592 | What_ is_ the matter with you this morning? |
| 10592 | Who''d pay me? |
| 10592 | Who? |
| 10592 | Why should n''t a rule that is good for poor people be equally as good for rich people? 10592 Why, now, what''s the matter?" |
| 10592 | With cream on it-- rich yellow cream-- and plenty of sugar? |
| 10592 | You have come for your job? |
| 10592 | You''ve been there yourself, have n''t you? |
| 10592 | You? |
| 10592 | Am I better for keeping my roads open than my neighbour is who travels with contentment the paths of ancient habit? |
| 10592 | And are n''t we to have the Scotch Preacher and his wife?" |
| 10592 | And there was in it, too, as I have thought since, a something I have seen in the faces of old, wise men: a light( how shall I explain it?) |
| 10592 | Are n''t they proud?" |
| 10592 | As I drove away I could not help chuckling when I heard his wife ask suspiciously:"What society is that?" |
| 10592 | As he passed, I leaned out and said:"Friend, will you do me a favour? |
| 10592 | As he passed, giving me half the road, I glanced up at him and called out cheerfully:"How are you, Brother?" |
| 10592 | At his age what is there to say that has not already been said? |
| 10592 | At parting he hesitated a moment, and with a serious face inquired:"Is it by any chance a goose?" |
| 10592 | Beauty? |
| 10592 | Because your feet are not somewhere firm planted upon the soil of reality? |
| 10592 | Democracy-- is it after all better than monarchy? |
| 10592 | Do n''t I think of other things? |
| 10592 | For how can a man know God without yielding himself fully to the processes of God? |
| 10592 | For is not friendliness the thing of all things that is most pleasant in this world? |
| 10592 | For was he not a drunkard? |
| 10592 | For what is beauty but completeness? |
| 10592 | Grayson?" |
| 10592 | Grayson?" |
| 10592 | He paused; I watched him gradually evolve his reply:"How did you know I was a Mason?" |
| 10592 | Heney?" |
| 10592 | How a man has come to be what he is-- is there any discovery better worth making? |
| 10592 | How is it that you have got ahead so rapidly?" |
| 10592 | How is the man ever to overcome his habits?" |
| 10592 | I am gnawed by the tooth of unrest-- to what end? |
| 10592 | I asked her:''Why did you do it, Anna?'' |
| 10592 | I could think of nothing whatever to say, so I said it:"Are you fond of hot corn- meal mush?" |
| 10592 | I leave it to you, David, what can anyone do with a woman like that? |
| 10592 | I saw, indeed, at the time that I had not said the right thing; but how could I know then that Carlstrom never let any broken thing escape him? |
| 10592 | I talked with her about it and what do you think she said? |
| 10592 | I think of bees-- and that leads me to honey, does n''t it? |
| 10592 | Is it believable? |
| 10592 | Is it not just this at- one- moment with life which sweetens and saves us all? |
| 10592 | Is it not marvellous how far afield some of us are willing to travel in pursuit of that beauty which we leave behind us at home? |
| 10592 | Is it not the prime struggle of life to keep the mind plastic? |
| 10592 | It bore at the top this sentence in large type:"Is not my word like fire, saith the Lord: and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?" |
| 10592 | It struck me suddenly,"What will Harriet say?" |
| 10592 | McAlway stepped forward and said:"Well-- Anna?" |
| 10592 | My friend, did it ever occur to you that you are unhappy because you have lost connection with life? |
| 10592 | Often and often I pause when I see an interesting man or woman and ask myself:"How, after all, does this person live?" |
| 10592 | Seeing two men struggling shall I not assist the better? |
| 10592 | Shall I let the sober one be despoiled by him who is riotous? |
| 10592 | Something inside of me argues: Why should you be sorry? |
| 10592 | That''s logical, is n''t it?" |
| 10592 | The Scotch Preacher had said,"Well-- Anna?" |
| 10592 | The material progress which we deify: is it real progress? |
| 10592 | The"equality of men"which we worship: is there not a higher inequality? |
| 10592 | To accept nothing as settled; to defend the eternal right of the questioner? |
| 10592 | To have come out of a long life with a spirit still sunny, is not that an heroic accomplishment? |
| 10592 | To reject every conclusion of yesterday before the surer observations of to- day?--is not that the best life we know? |
| 10592 | To see and feel and hear things newly? |
| 10592 | Was it the deep virtue, the high ideals in our souls, or was it the compulsion of the Society around us? |
| 10592 | We have Faith that there is a Reason: and is there not a present Joy in following the Open Road? |
| 10592 | Were you not free for a whole afternoon?" |
| 10592 | What do I travel for? |
| 10592 | What indeed can any man_ say_ to another under such circumstances? |
| 10592 | What is it but a new way of approach? |
| 10592 | What is it that I go forth to find? |
| 10592 | What is more satisfactory to the human heart than to be needed and to know we are needed? |
| 10592 | What more than that is the accomplishment of the great inventor, poet, painter? |
| 10592 | What strangers were in town who would wish to drive this way? |
| 10592 | What would_ you_ paint?" |
| 10592 | Who can tell? |
| 10592 | Who knows when he looks at you or at me that there is anything in us beyond the humdrummery of this day? |
| 10592 | Who knows? |
| 10592 | Who knows? |
| 10592 | Who''s going to keep us mended up?" |
| 10592 | Who''s got a better right to the baby than you, I''d like to know?" |
| 10592 | Why all this excitement and eagerness of inquiry? |
| 10592 | Why was he what he was? |
| 10592 | Will the mood change: will the day? |
| 10592 | Would you call and see whether anything has been left for me in the box since the carrier started?''" |
| 10592 | You thought of highways, did n''t you? |
| 26910 | ''When did you write your first fiction?'' 26910 A handsome, olive- cheeked young man, a Greek from Manchester, educated and living in England, said,''How do you like this?'' |
| 26910 | Ach, Himmel, what would she do if she was woundt? |
| 26910 | Are you studying your lesson? |
| 26910 | Est ce Monsieur Cooper que j''ai l''honneur de voir? |
| 26910 | Have you ever stood in Dresden to watch that matchless picture of Raphael''s, the''Madonna di San Siste''? 26910 Od''s, my life, man, what d''ye mean?" |
| 26910 | They then said,''Wilt not marry us?'' 26910 What place was that?" |
| 26910 | Whose criticisms? |
| 26910 | Why do n''t you write your memoirs? |
| 26910 | Why should they be denied such sweeteners of their existence? |
| 26910 | ''An''what may_ he_ be?'' |
| 26910 | ''But is it true?'' |
| 26910 | ''But, my dear boy, why did you come to- day? |
| 26910 | ''Do you ken who you had wi''you t''other night?'' |
| 26910 | ''I am not sure but you are right, Hartley, is it your father''s?'' |
| 26910 | ''Is that Mr. Macaulay? |
| 26910 | ''It''s very hard, is n''t it?'' |
| 26910 | ''Well,''he said,''what am I to do with this little bit of paper?'' |
| 26910 | ''Who would risk publishing a book for me, the most unpopular writer in America?'' |
| 26910 | ''Will you take this as a record of what I hope is only the first of many meetings?'' |
| 26910 | A few brave girls still sang: Shall we gather at the river, There to walk and worship ever? |
| 26910 | After he had left an inn in the island of Skye, the landlord was asked,''Did he know who had been staying in his house? |
| 26910 | Amidst all the troubled waters of European society, does such a vast, strong, selfish old leviathan now roll ponderous? |
| 26910 | And I said''Why is this thus?--what is the reason of this thusness?'' |
| 26910 | And do you sit here all day, and never see the green woods and the trees and flowers and the charming country?'' |
| 26910 | And if the boy of eighteen had not been in a fine frenzy about Anne Hathaway, could he have known how Juliet and Romeo, Othello and Desdemona, loved? |
| 26910 | And what of the wives at Casa Magni awaiting the return of their husbands? |
| 26910 | As soon as he had done he asked,''What do you think of that?'' |
| 26910 | But where should he get the money to pay his passage? |
| 26910 | But who can trust to praise that is poured into his own ear? |
| 26910 | Can I see it some day? |
| 26910 | Could a soul so sensitive as Shakspere''s live in such an atmosphere and not be influenced by it? |
| 26910 | Did Dickens receive anything for his_ Pickwick_? |
| 26910 | Did it wonder if it could get out? |
| 26910 | Did you put it in a bottle? |
| 26910 | Do you know there are 500,000 people in Philadelphia? |
| 26910 | Does that fact blacken the youth''s character? |
| 26910 | Garland?'' |
| 26910 | Had she loitered in the public room of the village tavern? |
| 26910 | Had the vituperative pen of Poe ever thrown off more stinging criticism than that? |
| 26910 | Have you not brought some of your poems to show me?'' |
| 26910 | Hawthorne stopped and said in wonder,--"Do you really feel it so much? |
| 26910 | Hawthorne?'' |
| 26910 | He just looked up boldly straight at me, as much as to say,''What do_ you_ mean by ordering me about?'' |
| 26910 | He might spend the money for gin or tobacco, but what of that? |
| 26910 | How can I be just at once to Stephen and to Kemble?" |
| 26910 | How could I tread my hall with such a diminished crest? |
| 26910 | How did George Eliot hear them? |
| 26910 | How did he arrive at it? |
| 26910 | How live a poor indebted man where I was once the wealthy, and honored? |
| 26910 | How many of us, not professed students, can show a record as good, or half as good? |
| 26910 | How should I be, with youth passed, sisters lost, a resident in a moorland parish where there is not a single resident family? |
| 26910 | I answered like a courtier; yet what am I to say to him? |
| 26910 | I once, to try him, omitted the alcohol; he then said,"Tre, have you not forgotten the creature comfort?" |
| 26910 | I settled that we should drive to Casa Lanfranchi, that I should get out and ask the fearful question of Hunt,''Do you know anything of Shelley?'' |
| 26910 | I staggered upstairs; the Guicciola came to meet me smiling, while I could hardly say,''Where is he-- Sapete alcuna cosa di Shelley?'' |
| 26910 | I was walking with Wolf at the time, and, on hearing this, he stopped, squared round, and said,''He told you that, did he?'' |
| 26910 | If Cooper had observed only one or two more of the rules of literary art, where would he stand? |
| 26910 | If Shakspere had been a distinguished university man, would he have told us of a catch that could"draw three souls out of one weaver?" |
| 26910 | In writing to Coleridge for advice on smoking, Lamb asks:"What do you think of smoking? |
| 26910 | It is almost needless to add that Cooper won the race, else why should the story have been preserved?" |
| 26910 | Its influence in teaching patriotism can not be estimated, nor can its value as an effective retort to the sneer"Who reads an American book?" |
| 26910 | Jack my Dear,--... what do you do that you never write a line to me? |
| 26910 | Jeannie had what she had bargained for and yet she was unhappy,--why? |
| 26910 | Shelley said it made little difference whether Italian or German literature were the more worthy, for all literature, what was it but vain trifling? |
| 26910 | So he wrote to his grandfather: Dear Grandpater, have you seen a water baby? |
| 26910 | The test of a great piece of literature is, In a hundred years can it be bought in a new edition for ten cents? |
| 26910 | Then he sat and thought awhile, then came across to me and said,''Do you know that I was nearly fifty before I made any money out of my writings? |
| 26910 | Then in tones of remonstrance he demanded,''Are you contented with such a life?'' |
| 26910 | Then quickly stepping into the entry with a roll of MS. in his hands, he said:''How in heaven''s name did you know this thing was there? |
| 26910 | There was a lilac- tree in bloom close at hand, and he said,''What is that you are wearing? |
| 26910 | There were the poems lying in his table- drawer-- might they not be published and money be raised by the sale? |
| 26910 | They knocked at the door and some one called out,''Chi e?'' |
| 26910 | They said--''Doth not like us?'' |
| 26910 | Upon Landor''s saying that he had never seen the famous Lake poet, Hazlitt asked,"But you have seen a horse, I suppose?" |
| 26910 | Was Bacon an angel? |
| 26910 | Was it because he feared lest what he might write would be unworthy of the reputation he had been so fortunate to acquire? |
| 26910 | Was it because he had put an humble estimate on what he had written, and therefore resolved to write no more? |
| 26910 | Was it, then, indifference to fame? |
| 26910 | Were they happy or were they miserable? |
| 26910 | Were they safe or had they gone down? |
| 26910 | What boy would want a finer opportunity to indulge all the wild propensities that lurk in the untamed heart of every healthy youngster? |
| 26910 | What do we know about the life of Shakspere? |
| 26910 | What if the beggar did look like a thief or drunkard? |
| 26910 | What is the study of language but the study of words, of phrases, of the names of things? |
| 26910 | What manner of man is this brilliant guest? |
| 26910 | What might he have done? |
| 26910 | When can you come, and when will you? |
| 26910 | When his friend, the philosophic Emerson, peered into the prison cell and said,--"Henry, why are you here?" |
| 26910 | Whittier?'' |
| 26910 | Who could this_ George Eliot_ be? |
| 26910 | Who has ever written more expressively of that ecstasy that lays hold of the sensuous soul of the lover of fine music? |
| 26910 | Who shall say to what cause his subsequent literary inaction was owing? |
| 26910 | Why do you never come to Berlin? |
| 26910 | Why not live the simple life before Wagner wrote about it? |
| 26910 | Why not write about American scenes and events? |
| 26910 | Why should Cooper write of American life when all Americans seemed to consider American life dull and prosaic? |
| 26910 | Why should he not lecture? |
| 26910 | Why should not Thoreau make an experiment of his own? |
| 26910 | Wo n''t you own, dear, just between us, That this living with a genius Is n''t, after all, so pleasant,--is it, Jeannie Welsh Carlyle? |
| 26910 | Would my sculptor friend help me to meet the poet, whose teaching had been my only dogma? |
| 26910 | and Quiller- Couch in his anthology gives three pages to Longfellow and seven to Wilfred Scawen Blunt-- but who is Blunt? |
| 26910 | said Lord Byron,''is it true?'' |
| 26910 | the quick retort was,--"Why are you not here?" |
| 28635 | But what is all this to me? |
| 28635 | Come, come,said I,"where is your philosophy? |
| 28635 | Do you think me capable of such base treachery? |
| 28635 | Greenhorn,said Jack, with an air of angry reproach, as he laid his hand upon my shoulder--"why do you so continually avoid me? |
| 28635 | I say, old fellow,I gravely remarked--"are you not laying it on a_ little too thick_?" |
| 28635 | If he has given you any cause of offence, Jack, why do n''t you pitch into him? |
| 28635 | Oh, is_ that_ all? |
| 28635 | Well, Doctor,exclaimed Mr. Arlington, breathlessly,"what is the matter with my child? |
| 28635 | What do you mean, sir? |
| 28635 | What do you say to_ my_ meeting her at the appointed time and place? 28635 What name, sir?" |
| 28635 | What the devil shall I do? |
| 28635 | What, and becoming an actress? |
| 28635 | What, what did you say? |
| 28635 | Who can he be? |
| 28635 | Who is he? 28635 Who is that magnificent woman accompanying him?" |
| 28635 | Will you be kind enough to tell me what place this is? |
| 28635 | You young rascal,said he"who employed you to play the part of a spy? |
| 28635 | Your face seems strongly familiar to me; have we not met before? |
| 28635 | And why do n''t you take my advice and earn money as other women do? |
| 28635 | Are they not true philosophers? |
| 28635 | Are you ready?" |
| 28635 | Are you really as weak- minded, and as devoid of courage and spirit, as your language would seem to indicate? |
| 28635 | As I entered he looked up from his case and inquired, with an air of benevolence--"Well, my lad, what can I do for_ you_ this morning?" |
| 28635 | But give an account of yourself-- how old are you, and who are you?" |
| 28635 | But how was Brother Porkley engaged when I intruded upon him? |
| 28635 | But where are you going? |
| 28635 | But, doctor, am I seriously injured-- am I likely to kick the bucket?" |
| 28635 | Ca n''t I borrow a trifle from some of my friends? |
| 28635 | Can I disbelieve the evidence of my own eyes? |
| 28635 | Did Mr. Romaine direct you to watch us? |
| 28635 | Do n''t you hear the sound of artillery, and of music? |
| 28635 | Do you agree to this?" |
| 28635 | Do you think that I am going to remain the object of an unfounded and ridiculous prejudice? |
| 28635 | Do you think that I will suffer myself to be made an object of scorn, and allow myself to be pointed at and ridiculed by a sneering community?" |
| 28635 | Do you think that I will tamely submit to be_ cut_ in a manner so disgraceful? |
| 28635 | Do you think that I will tamely wear the horns which you and your paramour have planted upon my brow? |
| 28635 | Do you wish to consult me on any matter of law? |
| 28635 | Does he go to meeting on Sundays? |
| 28635 | Does he smoke-- does he drink-- does he chew? |
| 28635 | Does he use profane language? |
| 28635 | Have I deserved this infamous treatment? |
| 28635 | Have I entirely mistaken your character? |
| 28635 | Have I ever injured you in any way? |
| 28635 | Have I ever used you unkindly, or spoken a harsh word to you? |
| 28635 | Have I not made a change for the better? |
| 28635 | Have you any money left?" |
| 28635 | Have you got any tin?" |
| 28635 | Have you not passed through trials as great as this? |
| 28635 | Have you the time and patience to listen to my melancholy story?" |
| 28635 | He glanced at us carelessly, and said--"Well, young gentlemen, what can I do for you to- day? |
| 28635 | He took the instrument and examined it carefully,"Vat is dish?" |
| 28635 | How could I persist in refusing to drink with a young gentleman of such wealth, and( as a necessary consequence) such distinction? |
| 28635 | How dare you make such a proposition? |
| 28635 | How shall I manage that?" |
| 28635 | How the devil could you come here, without knowing anything about it? |
| 28635 | How will_ that_ do, my boy? |
| 28635 | I communicated my fears to Mr. Anderson, but he laughed at them saying--"Nonsense, my dear boy-- why should Romaine suspect anything of the kind? |
| 28635 | I exclaimed--"is it possible? |
| 28635 | I rushed by him into the hall, dashed my hat recklessly upon the table, and shouted--"Where''s Brother Porkley? |
| 28635 | I, of course, indignantly repelled the horrible proposals-- but, would you believe it? |
| 28635 | If our intentions were criminal, would we have courted the presence of a third party?" |
| 28635 | Is he a temperance man? |
| 28635 | Is he lurking outside, in the garden? |
| 28635 | Is he married, or single? |
| 28635 | Is not truth stranger than fiction? |
| 28635 | It was rude and ungallant, I confess; but how could I help it? |
| 28635 | Look here-- what do you think of_ that_?" |
| 28635 | May I come in?" |
| 28635 | My good young man, what will satisfy you?" |
| 28635 | Now do you understand me, my dear_ greenhorn_?" |
| 28635 | Now, is not all this very dreadful-- to be persecuted by a big, unrelenting Dutch girl in this manner?" |
| 28635 | Now, what do you mean to do? |
| 28635 | Peter Brigham at length mounted a chair, and said--"Gentlemen, will you hear me? |
| 28635 | Rube Meer, is n''t this too bad?" |
| 28635 | Say does he not deserve to_ die_?" |
| 28635 | Shall I attempt to describe that breakfast? |
| 28635 | Shall I_ show up_ my satin waistcoat? |
| 28635 | She will recover soon, will she not? |
| 28635 | Some one softly opened the door, and a female voice said--"My dear, are you particularly engaged? |
| 28635 | Sweet relatives? |
| 28635 | That was a very foolish determination, I admit; for how could my remaining with her, do her any good? |
| 28635 | The man laughed loudly, as he replied--"Why, do n''t you know? |
| 28635 | The public, however, firmly believed in his guilt; and the question arises--"If Dick Robinson did not kill Ellen Jewett,_ who did_?" |
| 28635 | This pretty and interesting lad approached me, and tapping me playfully upon the cheek, said--"My dear fellow, how do you like me now? |
| 28635 | This was at last broken by one of the male servants, who demanded--"Who has done this?" |
| 28635 | This was done; and from the depths of that gloomy dungeon rolled forth the words, in tones of thunder--"Did they tell thee I was false, Katy Darling?" |
| 28635 | Vat do you want for it?" |
| 28635 | Was he writing a sermon, or attentively perusing some good theological work? |
| 28635 | What are his habits? |
| 28635 | What are his politics? |
| 28635 | What are you afraid of? |
| 28635 | What in the devil''s name have I ever done to deserve this treatment? |
| 28635 | What is he? |
| 28635 | What matters it how a man dies? |
| 28635 | What religious denomination does he belong to? |
| 28635 | What the devil became of them? |
| 28635 | What time does he go to bed-- and what time does he get up? |
| 28635 | What wonder is it that I became a reckless, dissipated individual, careless of myself, my interests, my fame and fortune? |
| 28635 | What''s his business? |
| 28635 | When our mirth had somewhat subsided, I inquired--"Well, are you going to keep an appointment with the Dutch Venus?" |
| 28635 | When that young ruffian mutilated you in Philadelphia, did n''t you consider that you acted perfectly right? |
| 28635 | Where did he come from? |
| 28635 | Where did you get the money? |
| 28635 | Where shall I sleep to- night? |
| 28635 | Where was I? |
| 28635 | Who are you, and what want you with me?" |
| 28635 | Who can explain this mystery? |
| 28635 | Who that ever heard his famous imitations, as Jeremiah Clip, will hesitate to admit that he is a young man of the most extraordinary talent? |
| 28635 | Why did n''t you pay it to_ me_? |
| 28635 | Why should I wander in the realms of romance, when there are more startling facts at my command than I can possibly make use of? |
| 28635 | Why the devil do n''t you sell that humstrum of yours, that harp, I mean, and raise the wind? |
| 28635 | Will you faithfully promise to do this?" |
| 28635 | Woman, why have you used me thus? |
| 28635 | Wonder what he had for dinner to- day?" |
| 28635 | You are quite sure that you have given Romaine no hint of the affair?" |
| 28635 | _ Has he got any money?_( Great emphasis is laid on this question.) |
| 28635 | demanded the reverend Falstaff, as he vainly strove to extricate his hand from my affectionate grasp,"who are you and what do you want?" |
| 28635 | said P. Jones--"how can a man shut up when he thinks of the good_ budge_( rum) he loses by being shut up here? |
| 28635 | said he,"a harp? |
| 28635 | what am I saying? |
| 45165 | ''And what may be his name?'' 45165 ''I hope you bear it with submission?'' |
| 45165 | ''I try tu; but oh, doctor, I sometimes feel in my heart-- Goosy, goosy gander, where shall I wander?'' |
| 45165 | ''Stha- a- t? |
| 45165 | And did n''t you tell us that Joshua commanded the sun and moon to stand still? |
| 45165 | And have you been there? |
| 45165 | And how was that? |
| 45165 | And what then? |
| 45165 | At a dollar a- day: that makes thirty dollars, I think? |
| 45165 | C."Sna- a- a- t? |
| 45165 | Did you really write that book about Africa? |
| 45165 | Done: now I''ll just put it under the fore- stick? |
| 45165 | How do you know that? |
| 45165 | Mother,said the child, in a voice of silver,"is father at home?" |
| 45165 | Never in Africa? |
| 45165 | No: that person beyond, and to the left? 45165 No? |
| 45165 | Oh, is it you? |
| 45165 | Oh, that small, red- faced, freckled man? 45165 Ought I not to consult my parents?" |
| 45165 | Salamander? |
| 45165 | Sna- a- a- t? |
| 45165 | So you do n''t believe this? |
| 45165 | That is near the old Bay State? |
| 45165 | That large, noble- looking person, with a gown and wig? 45165 This is rather a new theory, is it not?" |
| 45165 | To Massachusetts? 45165 Well, and what is it?" |
| 45165 | Well, and what then? |
| 45165 | Well, then, why did you say you had been there? |
| 45165 | Well: did n''t you preach last Sunday out of the 10th chapter of Joshua? |
| 45165 | Well: what was the use of telling the sun to stand still if it never moved? |
| 45165 | What is that, sir, in comparison with the earth, which Kepler, the greatest philosopher that ever lived, conceived to be a huge beast? |
| 45165 | What''s that? |
| 45165 | What, the real, salt sea-- the ocean-- with the ships upon it? |
| 45165 | What, then,said he, ruminating deeply,"is a noun? |
| 45165 | Where are you from? |
| 45165 | Who is that gentleman? |
| 45165 | Why did n''t you ask that afore? 45165 Yes, but the meeting- house?" |
| 45165 | Yes, but where is the centre of the place? |
| 45165 | Yes; but did he prove it? |
| 45165 | You regard the creature as a huge shell- fish, then? |
| 45165 | Again, a third time, she said,"What''s that?" |
| 45165 | And children know His A B C, As bees where flowers are set; Wouldst thou a skilful teacher be? |
| 45165 | And is God here in the field, all around me-- in every blade of grass, in every leaf, and stem, and flower? |
| 45165 | And the rest-- where are they? |
| 45165 | And what are we That hear the question of that voice sublime? |
| 45165 | And what is that life? |
| 45165 | And why so?'' |
| 45165 | And yet, bold babbler, what art thou to Him Who drown''d a world, and heap''d the waters far Above its loftiest mountains? |
| 45165 | Are you not ashamed to say such things? |
| 45165 | As he left the throng he came near me, and I said, inquiringly,"Down with Louis Philippe?" |
| 45165 | At a dollar a time, that makes twenty- five dollars-- don''t it?" |
| 45165 | Brought up under such influences, how could I give up my heart to trade? |
| 45165 | But can it be compared-- I appeal to all unprejudiced infants-- with that first chapter of our Second Expedition? |
| 45165 | Can it be? |
| 45165 | Canning''s wit got the better of his reverence, and so he profanely suggested that, if his majesty was a Dog of Dogs, what must the queen be? |
| 45165 | Cur-- r- r- r- r- r? |
| 45165 | Did not children love truth? |
| 45165 | Did you ever see it, stranger?" |
| 45165 | Do n''t you like that, mother? |
| 45165 | Do n''t you think it pretty good? |
| 45165 | Do you not love to read these rhymes, even though they are silly? |
| 45165 | Do you remember that picture which served as the frontispiece of the_ Tales of the Stars_? |
| 45165 | Do you talk to me of dramatic effect, Aristarchus, in those tomes you are always maudling over? |
| 45165 | Dr. B----, sir? |
| 45165 | For myself, I felt rather serious, and asked a certain anxious feeling in my stomach,--"What''s to be done?" |
| 45165 | From leaf, from page to page, Guide thou thy pupil''s look; And when he says, with aspect sage,"Who made this wondrous book?" |
| 45165 | Has it life? |
| 45165 | How''ll you take it, Mr. Kellogg? |
| 45165 | I asked if Mr. H---- was in? |
| 45165 | I replied:"Why do n''t you tell me what it is? |
| 45165 | If so, was it necessary to feed them on fiction? |
| 45165 | If the child knew his letters, the"what''s that?" |
| 45165 | If you turn a thing that''s got water in it bottom up, the water''ll run out, wo n''t it?" |
| 45165 | In cash, or in my way-- say in''taters, pork, and other things?" |
| 45165 | Is it not Jenkins that I see in Asia, defending himself stoutly, in the midst of an arid plain, against a mounted Arab? |
| 45165 | Is not that a grand_ denouement_? |
| 45165 | Is there not a gulf as wide as eternity, between the human soul and animal instinct? |
| 45165 | It can not think; it can not walk; who makes it grow then? |
| 45165 | It was something different from the frank, familiar,"How are you, stranger?" |
| 45165 | It was the precise point at which Sydney Smith had uttered that bitter taunt in the Edinburgh Review--"Who reads an American book?" |
| 45165 | Kellogg?" |
| 45165 | Listen to what I say? |
| 45165 | Ought I to be ashamed to say any thing that I find in a pretty book you have given me? |
| 45165 | Placing herself directly in front of the speaker, she exclaimed,"Ward, what do you mean?" |
| 45165 | Pray who made it?" |
| 45165 | Shall I not be accused of penning truisms? |
| 45165 | The particular scene of the act which the delightful artist( what was_ his_ name? |
| 45165 | These are high titles; but what were they to the author of Waverley? |
| 45165 | Three men in a tub-- And how do you think they got there? |
| 45165 | Was ever a mortal in so dire an extremity? |
| 45165 | Was it not curious to see the most renowned personage in the three kingdoms sitting at the very feet of these men: they the court, and he the clerk? |
| 45165 | What can be the matter? |
| 45165 | What is the matter with you?'' |
| 45165 | What makes it grow? |
| 45165 | What shall I du?" |
| 45165 | What will Deacon Benedict say? |
| 45165 | What will come next? |
| 45165 | What''s the matter with my eyes? |
| 45165 | Which of Peter Parley''s numerous writings did you give the preference to, my reader? |
| 45165 | Who is that sailor I see crouching on that bank? |
| 45165 | Who made this blade of grass? |
| 45165 | Who told you how to make poetry? |
| 45165 | Who, then, will be our helper? |
| 45165 | Why should I be? |
| 45165 | Why, then, do you give me such things to read? |
| 45165 | Would you like to know him?" |
| 45165 | Yea, what is all the riot man can make, In his short life, to thy unceasing roar? |
| 45165 | You say, Parson Goodrich, that the sun is fixed, and do n''t move?" |
| 45165 | _ Grows!_ What does that mean? |
| 45165 | _ M._[_ Aside._] Dear, dear, what shall I do? |
| 45165 | _ Mother._ Your poetry, my son? |
| 45165 | _ T._ Absurd? |
| 45165 | _ T._ And"Doodledy, doodledy, dan"--mayn''t I say that? |
| 45165 | _ T._ Ashamed? |
| 45165 | _ T._ But, mother, what''s the use of understanding you? |
| 45165 | _ T._ Dear me, what shall I do? |
| 45165 | _ T._ Do you call them sensible things? |
| 45165 | _ T._ Ma''am? |
| 45165 | _ T._ Nor"Hey, diddle, diddle?" |
| 45165 | _ T._ Such as what? |
| 45165 | _ T.__ Sense?_ Who ever thought of_ sense_, in poetry? |
| 45165 | _ T.__ Sense?_ Who ever thought of_ sense_, in poetry? |
| 45165 | very soon ran on thus:--"What''s that?" |
| 45165 | what are all the notes that ever rung From war''s vain trumpet by thy thundering side? |
| 45165 | which are his pictures in the National Gallery?) |
| 45165 | who goes there?" |
| 36720 | ''But why?'' 36720 ''Not invited? |
| 36720 | ''The harem? 36720 And the rest of you gentlemen sided with the North?" |
| 36720 | Are you a man responsible for his words? |
| 36720 | Are you ready to apologize to me? |
| 36720 | But really, how many? |
| 36720 | But what can one do in such a case? |
| 36720 | But what sense is there in men dressing in that way? 36720 But why do you ask?" |
| 36720 | Comfortable? |
| 36720 | Do they? |
| 36720 | Do you mean that-- seriously? |
| 36720 | How many Society friends have you, Miss Browneyes? |
| 36720 | I hear, Mr. Miller,I said,"that you are my compatriot-- that you are a Hoosier by birth, as I am-- is it true?" |
| 36720 | If I want to go to Indianapolis, what road do I take? |
| 36720 | If I want to go to Madison? |
| 36720 | Is it signed? |
| 36720 | Is n''t it? |
| 36720 | It''s stuff and nonsense,I interposed,"but what yarns did they tell?" |
| 36720 | Lies? 36720 No, did I? |
| 36720 | On terms? |
| 36720 | Quite a new attitude of mind to you, is n''t it, Doctor? 36720 Say,"he broke out, interrupting some formal question of mine,"Say, do you know anything in fact? |
| 36720 | Still again what harm would have been done if he had succeeded in selling the article? 36720 Suppose your book were published, how many of your Society friends could you confidently reckon upon as probable purchasers? |
| 36720 | The American publishers of your father''s poem,he said,"have paid him all they could afford to pay in the present state of the law, I believe?" |
| 36720 | Then what were you doing there? |
| 36720 | To what book do you refer? |
| 36720 | Well, what do you think? 36720 What about their literary quality?" |
| 36720 | What am I to do with that? |
| 36720 | What battery is that over there? |
| 36720 | What did you say to him by way of reply? |
| 36720 | What do you think of servants? |
| 36720 | What is its theme? 36720 What is the Federal work that lies in front of it?" |
| 36720 | What was it? |
| 36720 | What was your special objection to me? |
| 36720 | What? 36720 Whence comes the color of the rose or the violet or the dandelion? |
| 36720 | Whence comes the inspiration? |
| 36720 | Why not submit the question to Mr. Bryant himself? |
| 36720 | Why, Mr. Briggs,I protested,"it was only a paragraph----""What of that?" |
| 36720 | Why, sir, do you presume to tell me what is and what is n''t in an article that I''ve read for myself? 36720 Why, what do you call these chairs if they are not comfortable? |
| 36720 | Would you mind reciting to me so much of it as you''ve written? 36720 Yes,"I answered in astonishment,"but how do you happen to know anything about it?" |
| 36720 | Yes-- but what is it? 36720 You are thinking of''Elsie Venner''?" |
| 36720 | You think human liberty is involved? |
| 36720 | You''ve found it so since, have n''t you? |
| 36720 | ''With a pit- cher of but- termilk un- der her arm''--don''t it sing? |
| 36720 | Almost forgetting to say"good- morning,"he eagerly asked:"Are you sure of your facts in that Amour story-- can they be proved?" |
| 36720 | And how much of it have you written?" |
| 36720 | And now that I have read the reminiscences in print, why am I unable to recall the fact that I wrote them? |
| 36720 | Are we helplessly provincial or hopelessly snobbish? |
| 36720 | Are we, after all, provincial? |
| 36720 | Are you a rainbow chaser?" |
| 36720 | Are you entirely certain that the manuscript was mine?" |
| 36720 | Are you going to write on this affair in the Senate, or shall I take it up?" |
| 36720 | As the evening of the dinner day approached, I asked my host:''When shall we dress for the dinner?'' |
| 36720 | As they turned their backs on the humorist and moved away, the Bishop asked:"What did you say the name of that mountebank is?" |
| 36720 | At last the man asked in despair:"Well now, stranger, suppose I wanted to go to Hell?" |
| 36720 | At that point he grasped my hand warmly and said:"Tell me, how is Joe? |
| 36720 | Booth?" |
| 36720 | Bryant?" |
| 36720 | But as a people, have we outgrown our provincialism? |
| 36720 | But could he learn it within six months? |
| 36720 | But did you ever hear an English_ grande dame_ crush the life out of a sweet and innocent young girl by calling her''that young person''? |
| 36720 | But is it gain? |
| 36720 | But is the world richer or poorer for the change? |
| 36720 | But what should it be about? |
| 36720 | By the way, did you ever hear that I once committed arson?" |
| 36720 | Do n''t you see how it sort o''sings? |
| 36720 | Do you know Arithmetic an''Algebra an''Geometry and can you really teach me? |
| 36720 | Do you know that is the worst tomfoolery this idiotic world ever gave birth to? |
| 36720 | Harper?" |
| 36720 | Have we achieved our intellectual independence? |
| 36720 | Have we learned to value our own judgments, our own thinking, our own convictions independently of English approval or disapproval? |
| 36720 | Have we not yet achieved our intellectual and social independence? |
| 36720 | He was a genuine poet-- as who can doubt who has read him? |
| 36720 | His creative ability failing him, what can he do but use his critical ability in its stead? |
| 36720 | How are you? |
| 36720 | How long would a bookkeeper in a bank hold his place after making a similar blunder? |
| 36720 | How was that?" |
| 36720 | I observed the stress he laid upon the word''you''and asked:''Is n''t it time for you, also?'' |
| 36720 | I think Mr. Eggleston and Mr. McCabe were in active service on the Southern side during the war?" |
| 36720 | If Fitz Lee had been educated at Yale or Harvard, what place would he have occupied in the world? |
| 36720 | In its first month? |
| 36720 | In reply he said:"Lent him money? |
| 36720 | Is n''t that about the way the mysticists make up their''facts''for the misleading of half- baked brains?" |
| 36720 | Louis?" |
| 36720 | Of that book? |
| 36720 | Or is it that our English literary visitors make more skilful use of the press agent''s peculiar gifts? |
| 36720 | Or is it, perhaps, that we are more generous and hospitable than the English? |
| 36720 | Presently he asked:"Did n''t you command a mortar fort at Petersburg?" |
| 36720 | Quoth Charles:''Old Hetman, wherefore so, Since thou hast learned the art so well?''" |
| 36720 | Still cool, self- possessed, and sarcastic, Tilton asked:"Do I correctly understand you to mean, Dr. Fulton, that you shrink from sensationalism?" |
| 36720 | Suddenly he interrupted in his impetuous way, asking:"Are you the man I took on my crupper that day down there by Dranesville?" |
| 36720 | That''s tautological, of course, for prejudice is always ill- informed, is n''t it? |
| 36720 | Then a moment later he asked:"Did you ever read one of them?" |
| 36720 | Then adopting something of his own manner I asked:"What is it you want me to do, Charley? |
| 36720 | Was that a bit of theatrical"business"? |
| 36720 | What chance has an American novel, published at a dollar or more, in competition with English fiction even of an inferior sort published at ten cents? |
| 36720 | What could I do? |
| 36720 | What is more reasonable, then, than that he should select marketable things that other people have written and sell them? |
| 36720 | What should be its plot and who its personages? |
| 36720 | What''s in a Name? |
| 36720 | What''s the use of drudging when a fellow has got it in him to write poetry like that? |
| 36720 | What''s your guess?" |
| 36720 | When I scourged myself for neglecting the task, why did n''t my memory remind me that I had actually discharged the duty? |
| 36720 | Where should its scene be laid? |
| 36720 | Why bother, then, to make a journey for the settlement of a matter of business which could wait as well as not for next court day to come round? |
| 36720 | Why should anybody who invites us both to dinner, expect that we shall wear the same sort of clothes? |
| 36720 | Why should n''t we have a"Watch Night"after our own fashion? |
| 36720 | Why, otherwise, were the German speaking people of Pennsylvania and the mountain regions south universally known as"Pennsylvania Dutch?" |
| 36720 | Why, what can you mean?'' |
| 36720 | Will you come?" |
| 36720 | Would even Mr. Howells be made to feel that he was appreciated there as much as many far inferior English writers have been in New York? |
| 36720 | Would he have become a Virginian lawyer and perhaps a judge? |
| 36720 | Would n''t I, for a consideration, secure the acceptance of her novel by some reputable house? |
| 36720 | XVIII[ Sidenote: What''s in a Name?] |
| 36720 | You remember Thackeray''s Roundabout paper with that headline? |
| 36720 | You were a Federal officer, were you not?" |
| 36720 | [ Sidenote: A Challenge to the Ghosts]"Did he have the same experience the rest had had?" |
| 36720 | or are you just pretending, like the rest?" |
| 36720 | or what else? |
| 13105 | Dreams he of life? 13105 How?" |
| 13105 | Let the pale glimmering distance pass away; Why in the twilight art thou slumbering there? 13105 What are you reading?" |
| 13105 | What is that child about that she do n''t hear a word that''s said to her? |
| 13105 | ''"How,"you will say,"can I believe that my indolent, fanciful, pleasure- loving pupil, perseveres in such a course?" |
| 13105 | ''And what have you thought of the discussion touching graves and monuments? |
| 13105 | ''But here( in the_ Lettres d''un Voyageur_) what do I see? |
| 13105 | ''But where to find fit, though few, representatives for all we value in humanity? |
| 13105 | ''Could a circle be assembled in earnest, desirous to answer the questions,--What were we born to do? |
| 13105 | ''Did I describe to you my feelings on hearing Mr. Everett''s eulogy on Lafayette? |
| 13105 | ''Did you ever read the letters and reflections of Prince de Ligne, the most agreeable man of his day? |
| 13105 | ''Do you really believe there is anything"all- comprehending"but religion? |
| 13105 | ''I think so; but what is there_ all- comprehending_; eternally- conscious, about that?'' |
| 13105 | ''Is---- there? |
| 13105 | ''My only friend,''How shall I thank thee for once more breaking the chains of my sorrowful slumber? |
| 13105 | ''Of Ottilia''s, that the afflicted, and ill- educated, are oftentimes singled out by fate to instruct others, and her beautiful reasons why? |
| 13105 | ''Yet what could I tell my father of such feelings? |
| 13105 | ''_ Jamaica Plains, July, 1840_.--Do you remember my telling you, at Cohasset, of a Mr.---- staying with us, when I was fifteen, and all that passed? |
| 13105 | **''How am I to get the information I want, unless I go to Europe? |
| 13105 | *****"What hath not man sought out and found, But his dear God? |
| 13105 | *****"_ March 22, 1841_.--The question of the day was, What is life? |
| 13105 | *****''How can I ever write with this impatience of detail? |
| 13105 | *****''You need not have delayed your answer so long; why not at once answer the question I asked? |
| 13105 | *****''_ Sept.,_ 1832.--"Not see the use of metaphysics?" |
| 13105 | 1838.--Which of us has not felt the questionings expressed in this bold fragment? |
| 13105 | All this I did not understand as I do now; but this destiny of the thinker, and( shall I dare to say it?) |
| 13105 | Am I wise enough to hear such things? |
| 13105 | Am I, can I make myself, fit to write an account of half a century of the existence of one of the master- spirits of this world? |
| 13105 | Am not I, too, one of the band who know not where to lay their heads? |
| 13105 | Are not these distinctions imaginary? |
| 13105 | Are the facts very interesting? |
| 13105 | Are you vexed by my keeping the six volumes of your Goethe? |
| 13105 | But all occasional poems must be moods, and can a mood have a form fixed and perfect, more than a wave of the sea?'' |
| 13105 | But particular topics were such as these:--"Is the ideal first or last; divination or experience?" |
| 13105 | But shall I be fit for anything till I have absolutely re- educated myself? |
| 13105 | But to laugh a whole evening at vulgar nondescripts,--is that an employment for one who was born passionately to love, to admire, to sustain truth? |
| 13105 | But to what_ aim_ were these powers directed? |
| 13105 | But two or three things I would ask:--''What do you think of Charlotte''s proposition, that the accomplished pedagogue must be tiresome in society? |
| 13105 | But what business had he to talk about time? |
| 13105 | By the way, do you know his"Happy Warrior"? |
| 13105 | C----, what is life?'' |
| 13105 | Can I ever forget that to your treatment in that crisis of youth I owe the true life,--the love of Truth and Honor?'' |
| 13105 | Can he escape from himself? |
| 13105 | Can it be that this peace will be mine for five whole months? |
| 13105 | Can you forgive the past?" |
| 13105 | Come, what is life? |
| 13105 | Could we not at least have reserved"godlike"for him? |
| 13105 | Do you know whether I could get Matthieu, or de Thou, or the Memoirs of the House of Nevers? |
| 13105 | Do you not admire Lord Herbert''s two poems on life, and the conjectures concerning celestial life? |
| 13105 | Do you remember what he says of the want of brilliancy in Priestley''s moral sentiments? |
| 13105 | Does it not seem, were we gods, or could steal their fire, we would make men not only happier, but free,--glorious? |
| 13105 | Does water meet water?--no need of wine, sugar, spice, or even a_ soupçon_ of lemon to remind of a tropical climate? |
| 13105 | Emerson_ ARCANA DÆMONOLOGY TEMPERAMENT SELF- ESTEEM BOOKS CRITICISM NATURE ART LETTERS FRIENDSHIP PROBLEMS OF LIFE WOMAN, OR ARTIST? |
| 13105 | For are you not leaving all our old ground, and do you not apologize to me for all your letters? |
| 13105 | For''tis not always true what Lessing says, and I, myself, once thought,--"F.--Von was fur Tugenden spricht er denn? |
| 13105 | Had she any clear view of the demands and opportunities of life, any definite plan, any high, pure purpose? |
| 13105 | Have you looked through it, and do you remember his intercourse with the Wertherian Plessing? |
| 13105 | He says:--"How do you think I offered myself? |
| 13105 | He seems to remind of Mr. E.''s view, and ask,"Why did you not question whether there was not aught else? |
| 13105 | How is it that I seem to be this Margaret Fuller? |
| 13105 | How would you provide for the poet_ bon homme_ De Vigny?--from a joint- stock company Poet''s Fund, or how? |
| 13105 | I had stopped myself one day on the stairs, and asked, how came I here? |
| 13105 | If I should go, you will be with mother the while, will not you? |
| 13105 | In future I may sorrow, but can I ever despair? |
| 13105 | Is it because of the superficial mind, or the believing heart, that I can say this?'' |
| 13105 | Is it because, as a woman, I am bound by a physical- law, which prevents the soul from manifesting itself? |
| 13105 | Is it then my fault that the palsy of my affections benumbs my whole life? |
| 13105 | Is not Thy paternal benevolence impatient till such films be dissipated?" |
| 13105 | Is there any tinge of love in this? |
| 13105 | Life is worth living, is it not? |
| 13105 | Meanwhile, I have no fetter on me, no engagement, and, as I look on others,--almost every other,--can I fail to feel this a great privilege? |
| 13105 | Never? |
| 13105 | Now what do you say?'' |
| 13105 | Or of E----, her companion, beautiful too, but in a calmer, purer style,--with eye from which looked forth self- possession, truth and fortitude? |
| 13105 | Pantheism, Polytheism, Greek god of Beauty, Apollo Musagetes,--what need of life beyond the divine work? |
| 13105 | SCHILLER What wert thou then? |
| 13105 | Shall I be ashamed to owe anything to friendship? |
| 13105 | Shall I then despair? |
| 13105 | Shall it be woman, or shall it be artist? |
| 13105 | Shall not we?'' |
| 13105 | Shall we multiply our connections, and thus make them still more superficial? |
| 13105 | The violent antipathies,--the result of an exaggerated love for, shall I call it by so big a name as the"poetry of being?" |
| 13105 | There is an only guide, the voice in the heart, that asks,"Was thy wish sincere? |
| 13105 | These grub- like lives, undignified even by passion,--these life- long quenchings of the spark divine.--why dost Thou suffer them? |
| 13105 | This was the thought which stung her so:--"What, not one, not a single one, in the hour of trial, to take my part? |
| 13105 | Thou, whom we are told art all Power, and also all Love, how canst Thou suffer such even transient specks on the transparence of Thy creation? |
| 13105 | To whom shall I write to choose my materials? |
| 13105 | WOMAN, OR ARTIST? |
| 13105 | We know not yet, have not made ourselves known to a single soul, and shall we address those still more unknown? |
| 13105 | What can I bring? |
| 13105 | What crowns the ascent? |
| 13105 | What does it mean? |
| 13105 | What had they to do with the sweet playful child? |
| 13105 | What shall I do about it? |
| 13105 | What shall I do, dear friend? |
| 13105 | What shall I do? |
| 13105 | What will he do when he has recruited his strength in this night''s slumber? |
| 13105 | What wilt thou sing of it, wild- haired child of the lyre? |
| 13105 | What wonder if my present conduct should be mottled by selfishness and incertitude? |
| 13105 | Where obtain those golden keys to the secret treasure- chambers of the soul? |
| 13105 | Who else could have so animated such forms, that they are imposing, but never heavy? |
| 13105 | Who else is so happy? |
| 13105 | Who knows but some proper and attainable object of pursuit may present itself to the cleared eye? |
| 13105 | Who, that has a soul for beauty, does not feel the need of creating, and that the power of creation alone can satisfy the spirit? |
| 13105 | Who, that has lived with those men, but admires the plain force of fact, of thought passed into action? |
| 13105 | Why can not I lay more to heart the text,"God is never in a hurry: let man be patient and confident"? |
| 13105 | Why did Körner love Schneider? |
| 13105 | Why did Socrates love Alcibiades? |
| 13105 | Why do I write thus to one who must ever regard the deepest tones of my nature as those of childish fancy or worldly discontent?'' |
| 13105 | Why do n''t I feel that regeneration they talk of? |
| 13105 | Why do ye thus hold back?" |
| 13105 | Why do you apologize? |
| 13105 | Why is it not thus with me? |
| 13105 | Will the variations be faithful to the theme? |
| 13105 | Will there never be a being to combine a mail''s mind and woman''s heart, and who yet finds life too rich to weep over? |
| 13105 | Will they sound purely through her experiences? |
| 13105 | Will this satisfy you? |
| 13105 | Would he be unlike all other mortals? |
| 13105 | Would you know how the sublime coëxists with the beautiful, or the beautiful with the sublime? |
| 13105 | Would you read the Bible aright? |
| 13105 | You can speak freely to me of all your circumstances and feelings, can you not? |
| 13105 | You might have borne your testimony as decidedly as you pleased; but why leaven the whole book with it? |
| 13105 | has that light dawned on_ your_ soul?'' |
| 13105 | is this the dame, who, I heard, was sneering and critical? |
| 13105 | look at Michel; the Greek Mythology? |
| 13105 | not one who refused to take part against me?" |
| 13105 | shall the life never be sweet?'' |
| 13105 | this the blue- stocking, of whom I stood in terror and dislike? |
| 13105 | where, where, amid these morasses and pine barrens, shall we make thee a temple? |
| 13105 | why an''t I one of the elect?'' |
| 13105 | why did you unlock the floodgates of the mind to such tides of emotion?" |
| 13105 | why not reserve some inaccessible stronghold for me? |
| 19987 | Afraid I would n''t live? |
| 19987 | And the next greatest? |
| 19987 | Are you going down to see what it is he wants now? |
| 19987 | Are you going down to see? |
| 19987 | But where do you place yourself, then? |
| 19987 | Did n''t you fall overboard? |
| 19987 | How do you mean? |
| 19987 | How many? |
| 19987 | I? 19987 If you forgot the watch, mamma, would that be a little thing?" |
| 19987 | Is he? 19987 Mamma, what is it all for?" |
| 19987 | Mamma, what is''_ little_ things''? |
| 19987 | The fourth what? |
| 19987 | Then why did you sell him? |
| 19987 | Very well, then you''ve told it, we''ll say, seventy or eighty times since it happened? |
| 19987 | Was it a burglar, do you think? |
| 19987 | Was n''t there a new patent machine aboard, and did n''t they throw it over to save you? |
| 19987 | Wellmamma said"what now, I wonder?" |
| 19987 | Well, what of it? 19987 What man?" |
| 19987 | What shall we do then then? |
| 19987 | Who were the others? |
| 19987 | Why? |
| 19987 | Ai n''t it best to say nothing, and let on that we did n''t think?" |
| 19987 | Ai n''t that the one that bilked the house, last week, out of ten cents?" |
| 19987 | Anything peculiar about it?" |
| 19987 | Apparently you have not heard of him?" |
| 19987 | Are you a professional buccaneer? |
| 19987 | Are you always cheerful? |
| 19987 | Are_ you_? |
| 19987 | As Susy said,"What is it all for?" |
| 19987 | At last X''s friend remarked,"X, does it occur to you that we are_ outside the diocese_?" |
| 19987 | Carleton rose and said brusquely and aggressively,"Well, what can I do for you?" |
| 19987 | Could the fault have been with me? |
| 19987 | Did I forget that I was a Lambton? |
| 19987 | Did I lose courage when I saw those great men up there whom I was going to describe in such a strange fashion? |
| 19987 | Did n''t that attract any attention?" |
| 19987 | Did you suppose it was a Sunday- school superintendent?" |
| 19987 | Do I want any more? |
| 19987 | Do n''t you like Uncle Theodore Crane?" |
| 19987 | Do you remember Charles the First?--and his broad slouch with the plume in it? |
| 19987 | Dr. Burton swung his leonine head around, focussed me with his eye, and said:"When was it that this happened?" |
| 19987 | Finally, in the summing up, the mother named over the list and asked:"Which one do you think it ought to be, Susy?" |
| 19987 | For instance, if the magician asked,"What do you see?" |
| 19987 | Have you told it several times since?" |
| 19987 | He brought the cup to me and asked impressively,"Mr. Clemens, how far is it from the front door to the upper gate?" |
| 19987 | He did n''t what?" |
| 19987 | He had inquired of the shopman--"Who is this Davis?" |
| 19987 | He mused a moment or two and then said,"I wonder we did n''t meet in Washington in 1867; you were there at that time, were n''t you?" |
| 19987 | He paused, glanced up at me and said, with his eyes,"Are you friendly?" |
| 19987 | He said,"Three dollars? |
| 19987 | He said,"Were n''t you a midshipman once, sir, in the old''Lancaster''?" |
| 19987 | He said:"Mr. Clemens, what are we going to do? |
| 19987 | He said:"Who did that?" |
| 19987 | He seemed very much surprised, and said,"Take him again? |
| 19987 | Her mother asked:"Is she crying hard?" |
| 19987 | Her mother was surprised, and also disappointed, and said:"Why, Susy, does n''t it please you? |
| 19987 | His face was sad, before, and troubled; but it lit up gladly now, and he answered,"Yes-- have you seen him?" |
| 19987 | How do you come to know about it?" |
| 19987 | How do you explain it? |
| 19987 | How do you explain this kind of conduct?" |
| 19987 | How do you justify it?" |
| 19987 | How far off was that bird?" |
| 19987 | How is the size of calamities measured? |
| 19987 | How many can you run with an outlay like that?" |
| 19987 | How many caroms do you think you can make out of that layout?" |
| 19987 | How many times a year do you think you have told it?" |
| 19987 | How much of this tale of yours is embroidery?" |
| 19987 | How often can he do that?" |
| 19987 | I asked my mother about this, in her old age-- she was in her 88th year-- and said:"I suppose that during all that time you were uneasy about me?" |
| 19987 | I asked,"How did you know, you little rascals?" |
| 19987 | I have to have him back again because the man wants him; do n''t you see that I have n''t any choice in the matter? |
| 19987 | I was waiting for her to ask"Who did that?" |
| 19987 | I wonder how he felt? |
| 19987 | If their superiors had carved each other well, the public would have asked, Where were the police? |
| 19987 | Is it?'' |
| 19987 | Is n''t it fine?" |
| 19987 | It is plain that the author of the second one stole the first one, is n''t it?" |
| 19987 | It is too late to telephone-- we could n''t get any cigars out from town-- what can we do? |
| 19987 | Mrs. Clemens opened the debate:"What was it?" |
| 19987 | My wife said,"What do you suppose he is after now?" |
| 19987 | Now what do you reckon it was? |
| 19987 | Only three dollars? |
| 19987 | Really always cheerful?" |
| 19987 | She said, a little restively,"Well, what is the use of a burglar- alarm for us?" |
| 19987 | She said,"You wore it in church with that red Scotch plaid outside and glaring? |
| 19987 | She said:"He did n''t? |
| 19987 | She was awed and impressed, and said:"Wild ones, mamma?" |
| 19987 | She would say,"Now, Marse Steve, Marse Steve, ca n''t you behave yourself?" |
| 19987 | Stevenson had begun the matter with this question:"Can you name the American author whose fame and acceptance stretch widest in the States?" |
| 19987 | Susy studied, shrank from her duty, and asked:"Which do you think, mamma?" |
| 19987 | That question was,"With whom originated the idea of the march to the sea? |
| 19987 | That was the old man''s chance, and he said with fervency"Why good land, are n''t you going to stop to breakfast?" |
| 19987 | The General said,"What do you ask for him?" |
| 19987 | The crux of the matter is that you did n''t own the dog-- can''t you see that? |
| 19987 | The truth is they will know that I acted innocently, because they are rational people; but what of that? |
| 19987 | Then he came back, and said,"What is the prize for the ten- strike?" |
| 19987 | There must be some way to tell the great ones from the small ones; what is the law of these proportions? |
| 19987 | There was a moment''s silence, then Sandy spoke up with excited interest and said--"Marse Sam, has you ever seen a smoked herring?" |
| 19987 | There-- don''t you see something? |
| 19987 | This look was usually followed with"Clara"or"Susy what do you mean by this? |
| 19987 | Was it Grant''s, or was it Sherman''s idea?" |
| 19987 | Were you of our crew?" |
| 19987 | What could have been the matter with that house? |
| 19987 | What do you suppose he wants?" |
| 19987 | What is ambition? |
| 19987 | What is that?" |
| 19987 | What is the bill?" |
| 19987 | What is the rule? |
| 19987 | What is the special peculiarity of smoked herrings?" |
| 19987 | What is your name?" |
| 19987 | What should he cable in reply? |
| 19987 | What, are you going? |
| 19987 | When I was seven or eight, or ten, or twelve years old-- along there-- a neighbor said to her,"Do you ever believe anything that that boy says?" |
| 19987 | When people asked me,"How_ can_ you tell what he is willing you to do?" |
| 19987 | When the article"What ought he to have done?" |
| 19987 | Where now is Billy Rice? |
| 19987 | Who is it that didn''t?--and what is it that he did n''t?" |
| 19987 | Who was the other girl?" |
| 19987 | Who''s doubting it?" |
| 19987 | Why is it that I have intruded into this turmoil and manifested a desire to get our orthography purged of its asininities? |
| 19987 | Why, how could I talk when he was talking? |
| 19987 | Why? |
| 19987 | Why?" |
| 19987 | Wo n''t you please sign your name?" |
| 19987 | Wo n''t you take me out of my distress and sign your name to it? |
| 19987 | You understand? |
| 19987 | [ 19] Can this be correct? |
| 19987 | _ Was hast du gesagt?_"But she said the same words over again, and in the same decided way. |
| 19987 | and his body clothed in velvet doublet with lace sleeves, and his legs in leather, with long rapier at his side and his spurs on his heels? |
| 19987 | and his slender, tall figure? |
| 19987 | do you want to come to the bath- room with me?" |
| 19987 | impostors, were they? |
| 10593 | Ai n''t ye? |
| 10593 | And do you find things any different now from what they would be later in the day? |
| 10593 | And no longer thinks there is any God? |
| 10593 | And these books prove the same thing? |
| 10593 | And who,I asked,"is Henry Moore?" |
| 10593 | And you''ve made your selections? |
| 10593 | Are you sure you own it? |
| 10593 | Been in the brook? |
| 10593 | Been up to see Mary''s new house? |
| 10593 | Bill,I said,"what does this mean?" |
| 10593 | But, David Grayson,she said,"is n''t it_ simple_?" |
| 10593 | David,said he,"what ye doin''here?" |
| 10593 | Did you see the sign down there? 10593 Do I hear any bids?" |
| 10593 | Do n''t I own it? |
| 10593 | Does this prove that God is really in the world? |
| 10593 | Harriet,I said,"why should any one take a beaten road when there are new and adventurous ways to travel?" |
| 10593 | Harvestin''yer crops? |
| 10593 | Have you deserted the cottage entirely? |
| 10593 | Have you? |
| 10593 | Hm- m,said Horace, eloquently, and when I did not reply, he continued,"Often git out in the morning as early as this?" |
| 10593 | Horace, what are you going to do with that thirty thousand dollars? |
| 10593 | Horace, what are you working for, anyhow? |
| 10593 | How are you, David Grayson? |
| 10593 | How are you, David? |
| 10593 | How are you? |
| 10593 | How are_ you_? |
| 10593 | How do ye make that out? |
| 10593 | How do you know that you are ever going to be old? |
| 10593 | How long ago was it? |
| 10593 | How many wires are you putting up? |
| 10593 | How''ll you do it? |
| 10593 | How''s that, now? |
| 10593 | How''s that? |
| 10593 | How''s that? |
| 10593 | I have drunk,remarks the Clown in Arcady,"what are roses to me?" |
| 10593 | Is it really yours? |
| 10593 | Is n''t it_ like_ me? |
| 10593 | It ai n''t the new trolley line, is it? |
| 10593 | It''s a wonder is n''t it? |
| 10593 | No, did you? |
| 10593 | Oh, waal---"The fact is, you are working for a dream, and living on dreams-- isn''t that true? |
| 10593 | Or Bob Fitzsimmons? |
| 10593 | Say, Mister, have you ever been to the Northwest? |
| 10593 | Say, mister,he asked,"are you one of the electric company men? |
| 10593 | Shall I eat it? |
| 10593 | Takin''the air, David? |
| 10593 | Well, now,said I,"are you the guilty rascal?" |
| 10593 | Well, sir,said he,"if I can prove to you that you are a slave, will you believe it?" |
| 10593 | What am I offered for this heirloom of the Templeton family? 10593 What crops?" |
| 10593 | What do you mean? 10593 What happened, Bill?" |
| 10593 | What is it I have here? |
| 10593 | What is it, then? |
| 10593 | What now can_ that_ be? |
| 10593 | What ye find down there? |
| 10593 | Where? |
| 10593 | Who is this speaker who says there is no God? |
| 10593 | Who is this speaker? |
| 10593 | Why should n''t a man be happy? |
| 10593 | Why_ should_ he be? 10593 Will ye have a Good Apple?" |
| 10593 | Will you read it? |
| 10593 | Wo n''t you come in? 10593 You have what?" |
| 10593 | You know Julia Templeton----Know her? |
| 10593 | _ What!_ No one wants n married life like this? 10593 _ What?_"Horace scratched his head, as he is accustomed to do when puzzled, with one finger just under the rim of his hat. |
| 10593 | ..."What am I offered now for this precious antique? |
| 10593 | A carpenter you say? |
| 10593 | A hard pull of a job, with a strong man doing it joyfully, what could be finer to see? |
| 10593 | Absurd place, is n''t it, this world? |
| 10593 | And have you observed the wind in the grass-- and those shadows along the southern wall? |
| 10593 | And if I am so richly rewarded by mere glimpses, can I not increase my pleasure with longer looks?" |
| 10593 | And if it is beauty, why is it beautiful? |
| 10593 | And we ask ourselves: Have I been tried as this man has? |
| 10593 | Are n''t they valuable?" |
| 10593 | As I followed her up the walk she said earnestly:"Will you do me a favour? |
| 10593 | But how could I help him? |
| 10593 | But if the old stone mason has built walls to keep enemies apart how many more walls has he built to keep friends together? |
| 10593 | But let me ask you: If I were not here would you own this land any more than you do now? |
| 10593 | But where is there not drudgery when men are poor-- where life is at its worst? |
| 10593 | CHAPTER XIV ON LIVING IN THE COUNTRY"Why risk with men your hard won gold*? |
| 10593 | Do I hear a bid?" |
| 10593 | Do you enjoy life? |
| 10593 | Do you enjoy the winter? |
| 10593 | Do you know the scent of the blackberry? |
| 10593 | Do you know what made me speak of them?" |
| 10593 | Do you remember young Joe Templeton? |
| 10593 | Finally, in the midst of one of his loftiest flights, he demanded, hotly:"Are you not, every one of you, a slave of the capitalist class?" |
| 10593 | Gentlemen, what am I offered for this interesting antique, this rare work of art?" |
| 10593 | Gradually as I looked about me I began to ask myself,"Why is it that the sight of these common hills and fields gives me such exquisite delight? |
| 10593 | Grayson?" |
| 10593 | Have I been wrung with sorrow, worn down by ill- health, buffeted with injustice as this man has? |
| 10593 | He paused and, to my surprise, responded:"Are you happy?" |
| 10593 | Horace, what are you working for? |
| 10593 | Is a belief for forty years in the complete wisdom of the Book the final solution? |
| 10593 | Is n''t that worth working for?" |
| 10593 | Is that high- tension line comin''across here?" |
| 10593 | Is there no God? |
| 10593 | It had not occurred to me for some time whether I was happy or not, so I replied:"I do n''t know; why do you ask?" |
| 10593 | It is as though one should come and ask:"Is love worth trying?" |
| 10593 | It would be wonderful to possess such a faith; but what had I to offer that Shadowy Auctioneer? |
| 10593 | Oh, my friend, is it the settled rule of life that we are to accept nothing not expensive? |
| 10593 | Should we do less in acquiring grace for the spirit? |
| 10593 | So I came home to the country, thinking of what I had seen and heard, asking myself,"What is the truth, after all? |
| 10593 | So I remarked, as casually as I could:"Why not? |
| 10593 | Speak up now, Ike, we know you''ve come here to- day to make your fortune-- do I hear thirty?" |
| 10593 | Sullivan?" |
| 10593 | Templeton?" |
| 10593 | Ten? |
| 10593 | This hand- made spread? |
| 10593 | Was I, then, all wrong about the world? |
| 10593 | Was there really anything in this world but cows and calves, and great solid barns, and oatcrops, and cash in the bank? |
| 10593 | We accept flashing pictures of life for life itself; we rush here and rush there and, having arrived, rush away again-- to what sensible purpose? |
| 10593 | What am I offered for this durable antique, this characteristic product of New England? |
| 10593 | What coin that would redeem past times and departed beliefs? |
| 10593 | What do you think of the value of the fleabane, and the daisies, and the yellow five- finger in that field?" |
| 10593 | What else can there be? |
| 10593 | What is it?" |
| 10593 | What is there to offer one who can not respond gladly to the beauty of the fields, or opens his heart widely to the beckoning of friends? |
| 10593 | What will you give for such a religious faith as that of John Templeton? |
| 10593 | What''s the matter with this here generation? |
| 10593 | What_ is_ real?" |
| 10593 | When he spoke, who could listen to Mr. Harpworth? |
| 10593 | When you come in will you tell me the first impression my living- room gives you? |
| 10593 | Where will you find such depth of colour in any modern piece? |
| 10593 | Who was I that I should interrupt his breakfast? |
| 10593 | Why not be happy now? |
| 10593 | Why not be rich now?" |
| 10593 | Why not he peaceful now? |
| 10593 | Why should n''t Mary Starkweather live in the barn if she wants to? |
| 10593 | Will woman suffrage or socialism cure all the evils of this mad world which, ill as it is, we would not be without? |
| 10593 | Would I be happy then? |
| 10593 | Would I be happy then? |
| 10593 | Would it yield you any better crops?" |
| 10593 | You do not accept it? |
| 10593 | You think I''m a kind of impractical dreamer, now, do n''t you, Horace? |
| 10593 | he responded,"Why should he be? |
| 10593 | or,"How about religion?" |
| 2986 | A vocabulary, then, is sometimes a handicap? |
| 2986 | But what in hell is an oesophagus? 2986 Do you believe the things you say?" |
| 2986 | How long did you keep your pilot- memory? |
| 2986 | How many? |
| 2986 | I suppose you still remember some of the river? |
| 2986 | Man adapted to the earth? |
| 2986 | Oh yes, that is it, I thought it was--(naming a name which has escaped me) wo n''t you write it down for me? |
| 2986 | Reporters? |
| 2986 | Still you-- are going to publish it, are you not? |
| 2986 | Was n''t that the courteous thing to do? |
| 2986 | What is the one- third extra-- the odd melon-- the same? |
| 2986 | What would you do? |
| 2986 | What''s an oesophagus, a bird? |
| 2986 | What''s it all mean, anyway? |
| 2986 | Why in nation did you offer him your cue? |
| 2986 | A critic with a sense of humor asked:"Please excuse seeming impertinence, but were you ever adjudged insane? |
| 2986 | Am I right? |
| 2986 | And ignorantly& unthinkingly? |
| 2986 | And what is the appendix for? |
| 2986 | Are our morals so inadequate that we have to borrow of niggers?" |
| 2986 | Are the Blue and the Gray one to- day? |
| 2986 | Are there in Sir Walter''s novels passages done in good English--English which is neither slovenly nor involved? |
| 2986 | Are there passages which burn with real fire-- not punk, fox- fire, make- believe? |
| 2986 | Are there passages whose English is not poor& thin& commonplace, but is of a quality above that? |
| 2986 | Are you sure it was clams? |
| 2986 | As concerns the man who has gone unpunished eleven million years, is it your belief that in life he did his duty by his microbes? |
| 2986 | Better lo''ed ye canna be, Will ye no come back again? |
| 2986 | Blasphemy? |
| 2986 | But what of that? |
| 2986 | By searching? |
| 2986 | CCXLVIII"WHAT IS MAN?" |
| 2986 | CCXXVI"WAS IT HEAVEN? |
| 2986 | Can you read him and keep your respect for him? |
| 2986 | Clara, dear, after the luncheon-- I hate to put this on you-- but could you do two or three little shopping- errands for me? |
| 2986 | Could she feel the wrinkles in my hand through her hair? |
| 2986 | Could you lend an admirer$ 1.50 to buy a hymn- book with? |
| 2986 | Did he know how to write English,& did n''t do it because he did n''t want to? |
| 2986 | Did you get wet? |
| 2986 | Did you want to saddle that disaster upon us for life?" |
| 2986 | Do n''t you care more about the wretchedness of others than anything that happens to you?'' |
| 2986 | Do serenity and peace brood over you after you have done such a thing? |
| 2986 | Does he ever chain the reader''s interest& make him reluctant to lay the book down? |
| 2986 | Does he keep him in mind years and years and go on contriving miseries for him? |
| 2986 | Does man regard the difference? |
| 2986 | Does one build a boarding- house for the sake of the boarding- house itself or for the sake of the boarders? |
| 2986 | For 6 days now my story in the Christmas Harper''s"Was it Heaven? |
| 2986 | Goodness, who is there I have n''t known? |
| 2986 | Has he funny characters that are funny, and humorous passages that are humorous? |
| 2986 | Has he heroes& heroines who are not cads and cadesses? |
| 2986 | Has he heroes& heroines whom the reader admires-- admires and knows why? |
| 2986 | Has he paused& taken thought? |
| 2986 | Has he personages whose acts& talk correspond with their characters as described by him? |
| 2986 | He asked:"Have you heard the news about San Francisco?" |
| 2986 | He did not suspect what had happened until he heard one of the daughters ask:"Katie, is it true? |
| 2986 | He probably referred to the Monday Evening Club essay,"What Is Happiness?" |
| 2986 | He said:"Is it your idea, then, that man is perfectly adapted to the conditions of this planet?" |
| 2986 | He wished to receive the full value( who does not?) |
| 2986 | Helen Keller wrote: And you are seventy years old? |
| 2986 | Hereafter if you must write such things wo n''t you please be so kind as to label them? |
| 2986 | How could that impress Adam? |
| 2986 | How could you do it? |
| 2986 | How much money does the devil give you for arraigning Christianity and missionary causes?" |
| 2986 | Howells, startled for a moment, whispered:"What in the world did he wear that white suit for?" |
| 2986 | I was greatly pleased and asked:"Who gets the extra one?" |
| 2986 | II L. Is it true the human race thinks the universe was created for its convenience? |
| 2986 | If he ca n''t get renewals of his bric- a- brac in the next world what will he look like? |
| 2986 | If we are going to be gay in spirit, why be clad in funeral garments? |
| 2986 | If you can play that way left- handed what could you do right- handed?'' |
| 2986 | Interest? |
| 2986 | Is it a joke or am I an ignoramus?" |
| 2986 | Is it one prayer? |
| 2986 | Is the Rebellion ended and forgotten? |
| 2986 | L. Am I not, to a man, as is a billion solar systems to a grain of sand? |
| 2986 | L. And the air? |
| 2986 | L. Do you know what a microbe is? |
| 2986 | L. Does he forget him? |
| 2986 | L. Employs himself with more important matters? |
| 2986 | L. Has she been out to- day? |
| 2986 | L. He commits depredations upon your blood? |
| 2986 | L. How many men are there? |
| 2986 | L. In ten days the aggregate reaches what? |
| 2986 | L. In that costume? |
| 2986 | L. Now then, according to man''s own reasoning, what is man for? |
| 2986 | L. Then what? |
| 2986 | L. Then why punish him? |
| 2986 | L. To what intent are these uncountable microbes introduced into the human race? |
| 2986 | L. What am I to man? |
| 2986 | L. What is he for? |
| 2986 | L. What is the sea for? |
| 2986 | L. When was this? |
| 2986 | L. Who is it? |
| 2986 | L. Why? |
| 2986 | L. Why? |
| 2986 | L. You took a cab both ways? |
| 2986 | Man kills the microbes when he can? |
| 2986 | May I send you the constitution& laws of the club? |
| 2986 | Now then, with this common- sense light to aid your perceptions, what are the air, the land, and the ocean for? |
| 2986 | Now, will that do you?" |
| 2986 | OR HELL?" |
| 2986 | Oh, Katie, is it true?" |
| 2986 | Once, writing to Jean, he asked: What is your favorite piece of music, dear? |
| 2986 | One paper celebrated him in verse: Who killed Croker? |
| 2986 | Opening one of the papers, a telegram, he read:"In which one of your works can we find the definition of a gentleman?" |
| 2986 | Or a gullet? |
| 2986 | Or is it a gull? |
| 2986 | Or is the report exaggerated, like that of your death? |
| 2986 | Out of this grew the story,"Was it Heaven? |
| 2986 | Put a trap like that into the midst of a tragical story? |
| 2986 | Reverence for what-- for whom? |
| 2986 | Said Clemens: Do you notice? |
| 2986 | Shall we ever laugh again? |
| 2986 | She kept her contract to the letter; but when she rose to go she said, in a voice of deepest reverence:"May I kiss your hand?" |
| 2986 | She said,"What is the name of your sweet sister?" |
| 2986 | She was determined to go out again, but---- L. How did you know she was out? |
| 2986 | Speaking as a member of it, what do you think the other animals are for? |
| 2986 | The Christmas number of Harper''s Magazine for 1902 contained the story,"Was it Heaven? |
| 2986 | The two sums aggregate- what? |
| 2986 | Then he broke out:"Why ca n''t a man die when he''s had his tragedy? |
| 2986 | Then he was likely to say:"Why did n''t you stop me? |
| 2986 | Then if Satan should come, he would slap him on the shoulder and say,''Why, Satan, how do you do? |
| 2986 | Then who is it, what is it, that they worship? |
| 2986 | Then:"What does he call it?" |
| 2986 | To Twichell he wrote, playfully but sincerely: Am I honest? |
| 2986 | Was it Grady who killed himself trying to do all the dining and speeching? |
| 2986 | What are deciduous flowers, and do they always"bloom in the fall, tra la"? |
| 2986 | What are his tonsils for? |
| 2986 | What are you going to do, you poor soul? |
| 2986 | What are your plans for getting left, or shall you trust to inspiration? |
| 2986 | What is Jean doing? |
| 2986 | What is his beard for? |
| 2986 | What is it? |
| 2986 | What is there to say? |
| 2986 | What more could be said of any one? |
| 2986 | What would it be for the whole human population? |
| 2986 | When I brought him the prints, a few days later, he expressed pleasure and asked,"Why did n''t you make more?" |
| 2986 | When did larches begin to flame, and who set out the pomegranates in that canyon? |
| 2986 | When shall I come? |
| 2986 | When the dictation ended he said:"Have you any special place to lunch to- day?" |
| 2986 | When we reached the entrance of the dining- room he said:"Is n''t there another entrance to this place?" |
| 2986 | Who is to decide what ought to command my reverence-- my neighbor or I? |
| 2986 | Who lit the lilacs, and which end up do they hang? |
| 2986 | Who so poor in his ambitions as to consent to be God on those terms? |
| 2986 | Why did n''t you take thirteen?" |
| 2986 | Why did you let me go on making a jackass of myself when you could have saved me?" |
| 2986 | Why does he affront me with the fancy that I interest Myself in trivialities-- like men and microbes? |
| 2986 | Why should not China be free from the foreigners, who are only making trouble on her soil? |
| 2986 | Why, Clara, are n''t you going to your lesson? |
| 2986 | Will Kanawha be sailing after that& can I go as Sunday- school superintendent at half rate? |
| 2986 | Will ye no come back again? |
| 2986 | Wo n''t you come back and do that again?" |
| 2986 | Would you like me to come out there and cry? |
| 2986 | Writing to MacAlister, Clemens said: Florentine sunshine? |
| 2986 | You say,"Is this it?--this? |
| 2986 | after all this talk and fuss of a thousand generations of travelers who have crossed this frontier& looked about them& told what they saw& felt? |
| 2986 | can a body do it to- day? |
| 2986 | or Hell?" |
| 2986 | or Hell?" |
| 2986 | or Hell?" |
| 28791 | All this time? |
| 28791 | Can_ you_ shingle? |
| 28791 | Did n''t I warn you? |
| 28791 | Do we really_ see_ the ocean? |
| 28791 | Do you need another hand? |
| 28791 | Do you want some skilled help? |
| 28791 | Have I been wrong? |
| 28791 | Have times changed? 28791 Have you got it yet?" |
| 28791 | How can I go east? 28791 How can so many people find a living in one place?" |
| 28791 | How can we share our good fortune with her and with sister Jessie? |
| 28791 | How could I do that? 28791 How do I look?" |
| 28791 | How long did you_ think_ you''d slept-- two days? |
| 28791 | How will he receive me? 28791 I hope to be able to work into a professorship in literature some day.--What do you intend to do?" |
| 28791 | If the city is miles across, how am I to get from the railway station to my hotel without being assaulted? |
| 28791 | Is n''t it the next day? |
| 28791 | Is that thee, friend Richard? |
| 28791 | Is the workman in America, as in the old world, coming to be a man despised? |
| 28791 | Richard, is that you? |
| 28791 | Shall I give up my career at this point? 28791 So you are Dick''s boy? |
| 28791 | Well, Dick,Grandad began,"so ye''re plannin''to go west, air ye?" |
| 28791 | Well, Garland,said he,"what are you going to do after you graduate this June?" |
| 28791 | What am I to do? |
| 28791 | What are you going to do with it? |
| 28791 | What are you going to do? |
| 28791 | What did you gain by this disagreeable habit of early rising? |
| 28791 | What do you mean by such a performance? |
| 28791 | What does it all mean? |
| 28791 | What is it, mother? |
| 28791 | What is it, my boy? |
| 28791 | What is that? |
| 28791 | What is the matter? |
| 28791 | What is the use of laying up a store of goods against the early destruction of the world? |
| 28791 | What is there for me to do out here? |
| 28791 | What is this about? |
| 28791 | What would he do there? 28791 What''s that? |
| 28791 | What''s the matter? |
| 28791 | What''s the meaning of all this? |
| 28791 | When can you move? |
| 28791 | Where did you get all that fruit? |
| 28791 | Where have you been? |
| 28791 | Where will we stay? |
| 28791 | Why, mother!--what is the matter? |
| 28791 | Wo n''t you be seated? |
| 28791 | Wo n''t you come and see your poor old father when he comes home from the war? |
| 28791 | Yes, but where are your tools? |
| 28791 | You think it not quite like me? 28791 You will write to me, wo n''t you?" |
| 28791 | Your father is suffering sharply, is he? |
| 28791 | _ It''s the next day!_"We''ve slept twenty- four hours!--What will the landlady think of us? |
| 28791 | ***** As I was leaving next day for Chicago, I said,"Mother, what shall I bring you from the city?" |
| 28791 | Addison wants you to spend the winter with him, and mother wants to see David once more-- why not go? |
| 28791 | At last on the door- step she turned and said,"Wo n''t you come in again?" |
| 28791 | At the end of a long talk he said,"Why do n''t you come to Boston and take a special course at the University? |
| 28791 | At this point David came in, and everybody shouted,"Did you stop them?" |
| 28791 | Beckie, where are you going to put these children?" |
| 28791 | Ca n''t you borrow a little?" |
| 28791 | Can any other country on earth surpass the United States in the ruthless broadcast dispersion of its families? |
| 28791 | Can you keep me all night?" |
| 28791 | Can you wonder therefore that I trembled with joyous excitement as I paced the platform next morning waiting for the chariot of my romance? |
| 28791 | Could any other land furnish a more incredible momentary re- assembling of scattered units? |
| 28791 | Cross?" |
| 28791 | David, looking toward the kitchen, said,"Is n''t there some way to keep her from working?" |
| 28791 | Do you wonder that when I left Boston a week or two later, I did so with elation-- with a sense of conquest? |
| 28791 | Does n''t the whole migration of the Garlands and McClintocks seem a madness?" |
| 28791 | Father was inclined to ask,"What''s the good of it?" |
| 28791 | For the glance of eyes undimmed of tears, for the hair untouched with gray? |
| 28791 | For thirty years you''ve carried mother on a ceaseless journey-- to what end? |
| 28791 | Grandmother was cheerful in the midst of her toil and discomfort, for what other mother had such a family of noble boys and handsome girls? |
| 28791 | Grandmother was waiting for us and our places were ready, so what did it matter? |
| 28791 | Has a spirit of unrest and complaining developed in the American farmer?" |
| 28791 | Have you spoken to the Librarian about it?" |
| 28791 | He honors bright colors, for has he not set the rainbow in the heavens and made water to reflect the moon? |
| 28791 | He never failed to ask of a morning,"Well, when are you going back to shingling?" |
| 28791 | He performed each habitual act with most minute care, till I, impatient of his silence, his seeming indifference, repeated,"Do n''t you understand? |
| 28791 | His big shoulders began to shake and a chuckle preceded his irritating joke--"Going back to shingling?" |
| 28791 | How can I best serve my mother?" |
| 28791 | How can I carry out such a plan?" |
| 28791 | How could I help it? |
| 28791 | How could I sneak back with empty pockets?" |
| 28791 | How could I? |
| 28791 | How could he? |
| 28791 | How could people stay all their lives in one place? |
| 28791 | How is Dick getting along?" |
| 28791 | How will he look? |
| 28791 | How''s Belle?" |
| 28791 | I asked myself,"Why have these stern facts never been put into our literature as they have been used in Russia and in England? |
| 28791 | I knew that I was physically on the down- grade, but what could I do? |
| 28791 | I passed on to bay Kittie whose bright eyes seemed to inquire,"What is the matter?" |
| 28791 | In a meek, husky voice I asked,"Is Mr. Howells in?" |
| 28791 | Is there not something wrong in our social scheme when the unremitting toiler remains poor?" |
| 28791 | Is this the''fairy land''in which we were all to''reign like kings''? |
| 28791 | It''s in a rich and sheltered valley and is filled with associations of your youth.--Haven''t you had enough of pioneering? |
| 28791 | It''s perfectly legitimate material for a novel, as picturesque in its way as_ The Rise of the Vendà © e_--Can''t you make use of it?" |
| 28791 | Kirkland had read some of my western sketches and in the midst of his praise of them suddenly asked,"Why do n''t you write fiction?" |
| 28791 | Like Millet, I asked,"Why should all of a man''s waking hours be spent in an effort to feed and clothe his family? |
| 28791 | Lonely like a withered tree, What is all the world to me? |
| 28791 | Made his pile, I s''pose?" |
| 28791 | Nevertheless I hoped, and in that hope I repeated,"You will write to me, wo n''t you?" |
| 28791 | Not knowing precisely how to retreat, I faltered out,"Have you a bed for us?" |
| 28791 | Of what avail this constant quest of gold, beneath the far horizon''s rim? |
| 28791 | One day, early in''91, as I was calling upon him in his office, he suddenly said,"Garland, why ca n''t you write a serial story for us? |
| 28791 | One that shall deal with this revolt of the farmers? |
| 28791 | Should we wear white ties and white vests, or white ties and black vests? |
| 28791 | Sometimes he would ask,"Do n''t you think the horses ought to have a rest as well as yourselves?" |
| 28791 | The Doctor understood this feeling and asked,"How much are you paying now?" |
| 28791 | The scene became too painful for me at last, and I fled away from it-- out into the fields, bitterly asking,"Why should this suffering be? |
| 28791 | Then there was the famous passage,"Did ye not hear it?" |
| 28791 | Then, bending down, he asked of me,"What is your name and occupation?" |
| 28791 | They were at once familiar and mysterious-- mysterious with my new question,"Is this life worth living?" |
| 28791 | This pleased him greatly, but he asked,"Do you think you can stand it?" |
| 28791 | Timid souls began to inquire,"Are all Dakota summers like this?" |
| 28791 | Two hours passed swiftly in this way and as the interview was about to end he asked,"Where do you live?" |
| 28791 | W''at ye doin''down there?" |
| 28791 | Want it? |
| 28791 | Was it only a useless obsession on the part of my pioneer dad? |
| 28791 | Was she never to enjoy a roomy and comfortable dwelling? |
| 28791 | Well, what are you doing on the road a night like this? |
| 28791 | What is it all about, anyhow, this life of ours? |
| 28791 | What right had I to share in this splendor? |
| 28791 | What shall I say to him?" |
| 28791 | What were we to do when our schooling ended? |
| 28791 | What would you think of such a plot?" |
| 28791 | What''s the matter?" |
| 28791 | Where are the''woods and prairie lands''of our song? |
| 28791 | Who is the writer of it?" |
| 28791 | Who was she? |
| 28791 | Why Concord, do you ask? |
| 28791 | Why could n''t we have slept till six, or even seven? |
| 28791 | Why do n''t you board with me? |
| 28791 | Why do n''t you come and stay with me? |
| 28791 | Why has this land no story- tellers like those who have made Massachusetts and New Hampshire illustrious?" |
| 28791 | Why not go back and be sheltered by the hills and trees for the rest of your lives? |
| 28791 | Why rise before the sun? |
| 28791 | Why should children cry for food in our cities whilst fruits rotted on the vines and wheat had no value to the harvester? |
| 28791 | Why should mother be wrenched from all her dearest friends and forced to move away to a strange land?" |
| 28791 | Why should our great new land fall into this slough of discouragement? |
| 28791 | Why was she there? |
| 13660 | Dost know me, friend? 13660 Has not Mr. Carey paid you?" |
| 13660 | Old Fogeyand"Amiable Kuss"? |
| 13660 | Then has he not paid Carlyle directly? |
| 13660 | * A small hatchet- faced, gray- eyed, good- humored Inspector, who came with a Translated Lafontaine; and took his survey not without satisfaction? |
| 13660 | ** Cromwell-- Cromwell? |
| 13660 | --------- And how many were"printed,"thinks Mr. Phillips? |
| 13660 | --------- Did you receive a Dumfries Newspaper with a criticism in it? |
| 13660 | ---------- And poor Miss Fuller, was there any_ Life_ ever published of her? |
| 13660 | All people are in a sort of joy- dom over the new French Republic, which has descended suddenly( or shall we say,_ ascended_ alas?) |
| 13660 | And if so, I should say, Why not come at once, even as the Editor surmises? |
| 13660 | And who knows but I may come one day? |
| 13660 | And you ought to come and look at it, beyond doubt; and say to this land,"Old Mother, how are you getting on at all?" |
| 13660 | Are English of this day incapable of a great sentiment? |
| 13660 | Are you a physician, and will you come? |
| 13660 | Are you bound by your Arabian bounty to a largess whenever you think of your friend? |
| 13660 | But I hope you are to be at home tomorrow, for if I prosper, I shall come and beg a dinner with you,--is it not at five o''clock? |
| 13660 | But he is a good man, and, do you know it? |
| 13660 | But since you are all bounty and care for me, where are the new volumes of the Library Edition of Carlyle? |
| 13660 | But there is no more time in this late night-- and what need? |
| 13660 | But what can I? |
| 13660 | But what can be said? |
| 13660 | But what do I read in our Boston Newspapers twice in the last three days? |
| 13660 | But what had I, dear wise man, to tell you? |
| 13660 | By some refraction which new lenses or else steamships shall operate, shall I not yet one day see again the disk of benign Phosphorus? |
| 13660 | By the bye, do you know a"Massachusetts Historical Society,"and a James Bowdoin, seemingly of Boston? |
| 13660 | Can I ever forget, or think otherwise than lovingly of the man Emerson? |
| 13660 | Can you remember and tell me? |
| 13660 | Carlyle to Emerson Chelsea, 8 July, 1851 Dear Emerson,--Don''t you still remember very well that there is such a man? |
| 13660 | Clark( is not that the name?) |
| 13660 | Did you find kings and priests? |
| 13660 | Did you mean to show us that you could not be old, but immortally young? |
| 13660 | Do not I very well understand all that you say about"apathized moods,"& c.? |
| 13660 | Do you bethink you of Craigenputtock, and the still evening there? |
| 13660 | Do you know Beriah Green? |
| 13660 | Do you know Browning at all? |
| 13660 | Emerson to Carlyle* Concord, May[? |
| 13660 | Enough, enough; there will be all Eternity to rest in, as Arnauld said:"Why in such a fuss, little sir?" |
| 13660 | Ever yours, T. Carlyle We returned from Hampshire exactly a week ago; never passed six so totally idle weeks in our lives.--Better in health a little? |
| 13660 | For example, you must tell Mr. Thoreau( is that the exact name? |
| 13660 | For the years that remain, I suppose we must continue to grumble out some occasional utterance of that kind: what can we do, at this late stage? |
| 13660 | From Mr. Everett I learn that your Boston Lectures have been attended with renown enough: when are the Lectures themselves to get to print? |
| 13660 | Had I kept silence so very long? |
| 13660 | Hammond l''Estrange says,"Who ever heard of a stammering man that was a fool?" |
| 13660 | Has your head grown grayish? |
| 13660 | Have I not a Friend, and Friends, though they too are in sorrow? |
| 13660 | Have you a physician that can? |
| 13660 | Have you got proper_ spectacles_ for your eyes? |
| 13660 | He is abstruse, but worth knowing.--And what of the_ Discourse on England_ by a certain man? |
| 13660 | He was even a little stern on his nearest relatives when they came to him: Do I need your help to die? |
| 13660 | How can you explain men to Apes by the Dead Sea? |
| 13660 | How shall Queen Victoria read this? |
| 13660 | I fear you wo n''t see Brigham Young, however? |
| 13660 | I know not what your engagements are; but I say to myself, Why not come at once, and rest a little from your sea- changes, before going farther? |
| 13660 | I shall think there, a fortnight might bring you from London to Walden Pond.--Life wears on, and do you say the gray hairs appear? |
| 13660 | In fact I felt punished;--and who knows, if the case were seen into, whether I deserve it? |
| 13660 | In short, I am willing, I am willing; and so let us not waste another drop of ink on it at present!--On the whole, are not you a strange fellow? |
| 13660 | Is Frederic recreated? |
| 13660 | Is Frederic the Great? |
| 13660 | Is it likely we shall meet in"Oregon,"think you? |
| 13660 | Is not Henry James in London? |
| 13660 | Is not this the most illustrious of all"ages"; making progress of the species at a grand rate indeed? |
| 13660 | It is said: here, that you work upon Frederick the Great?? |
| 13660 | It is said: here, that you work upon Frederick the Great?? |
| 13660 | Macaulay''s_ History_ is also out, running through the fourth edition: did I tell you last time that I had read it,--with wonder and amazement? |
| 13660 | Meanwhile, patience; for us there is nothing else appointed.--Tell me, however, what has become of your Book on England? |
| 13660 | Never dream of such a thing nay, whom_ did_ you send? |
| 13660 | Now please to read these things to the wise and kind ears of Jane Carlyle, and ask her if I have done wrong in giving my friend a letter to her? |
| 13660 | Or is the case already irremediable? |
| 13660 | Or possibly I do the poor man wrong by misremembrance? |
| 13660 | Regrets for old days.--Not left town.--A new top story.--Miss Bacon, her Quixotic enterprise.--Clough.--Thackeray.--To Concord? |
| 13660 | Shall I believe you, this time? |
| 13660 | Tell me what is become of_ Frederic,_ for whose appearance I have watched every week for months? |
| 13660 | The common impious vulgar of this earth, what has it to do with my life or me? |
| 13660 | The man looks brilliant and noble to me; but how_ love_ him, or the sad wreck he lived and worked in? |
| 13660 | This is the fact: what more can I say? |
| 13660 | This war has been conducted over the heads of all the actors in it; and the foolish terrors,"What shall we do with the negro?" |
| 13660 | To which the Mother will answer,"Thankee, young son, and you?" |
| 13660 | Very well: could I help it? |
| 13660 | Was I not once promised a visit? |
| 13660 | Watchman, what sayest thou, then? |
| 13660 | What are you doing? |
| 13660 | What can I tell you better? |
| 13660 | What do I care for his fame? |
| 13660 | What have we to do with old age? |
| 13660 | What news of Naseby and Worcester? |
| 13660 | What to tell you of my coop and byre? |
| 13660 | What would I not give for a head of Shakespeare by the same artist? |
| 13660 | What, you scorn all this? |
| 13660 | When shall I show him to you? |
| 13660 | Where all writing is such a caricature of the subject, what signifies whether the form is a little more or less ornate and luxurious? |
| 13660 | Who can say what he yet is and will be to me? |
| 13660 | Who is he that can trust himself in the fray? |
| 13660 | Who knows but I may have adventures-- I who had never one, as I have just had occasion to write to Mrs. Howitt, who inquired what mine were? |
| 13660 | Why should I plague poor Clark with them, if it be any plague to him? |
| 13660 | Why should I regret that I see you not, when you are forced thus intimately to discover yourself beyond the intimacy of conversation? |
| 13660 | Will this do? |
| 13660 | Will you come in Winter then, next Winter,--or when? |
| 13660 | Will your next Letter tell us the_ when?_ O my Friend! |
| 13660 | You are sending me a book, and Chapman''s Homer it is? |
| 13660 | You promise us a new Book soon? |
| 13660 | You remember Charles Buller, to whom I brought you over that night at the Barings''in Stanhope Street? |
| 13660 | You say not a word of your own affairs: I have vaguely been taught to look for some Book shortly;--what of it? |
| 13660 | _ Ach Gott!_ Is not Anarchy, and parliamentary eloquence instead of work, continued for half a century everywhere, a beautiful piece of business? |
| 13660 | _ Altum Silentium,_ what else can I reply to it at present? |
| 13660 | and having kept us all murmuring at your satires and sharp homilies, will now melt us with this manly and heart- warming embrace? |
| 13660 | and how the poor? |
| 13660 | how the Colleges? |
| 13660 | how the Lords? |
| 13660 | how the Primate and Bishops of England? |
| 13660 | how the rich? |
| 13660 | of Demosthenes? |
| 13660 | of Plato? |
| 13660 | or is any competent hand engaged on it? |
| 13660 | this with the announcement of the Title as given above? |
| 13660 | why he does not_ give_ us that little Book on England he has promised so long? |
| 39406 | And a clear mark, Tom?--no mistake in it? |
| 39406 | And his mark, that you were talking of in such mysterious terms,--what is that? |
| 39406 | And the next thing I remember, you were sitting_ there_, and I-- Doctor-- did you hear a footstep? 39406 And who, if you please, is Nick of the Woods?" |
| 39406 | Any kin to the governor what was? |
| 39406 | Are we going? |
| 39406 | Can you tell us where Charles Wolfe is buried? |
| 39406 | Doctor Austin!--what_ day_ is this? |
| 39406 | Doctor, have I been away? |
| 39406 | Doctor, what has been the matter? |
| 39406 | IS NOT THIS THE CARPENTER''S SON? |
| 39406 | Is it clear? |
| 39406 | Is it possible,said Roland,"that any one can believe such an absurd story?" |
| 39406 | Sir, what would you do if you were one? |
| 39406 | Whar? |
| 39406 | What were you looking at so intently the whole time? |
| 39406 | What would you do, madam, if you were a gentleman? |
| 39406 | What, dear-- what, dear? |
| 39406 | What,she asked,"if I walk forward and backward and turn and bow_ without_ music, is that dancing? |
| 39406 | Who is the Jibbenainosay? |
| 39406 | Who? |
| 39406 | Why not? |
| 39406 | Will you accept the proposition? |
| 39406 | Would you,said he,"if you were very hungry, and had killed a deer, send your squaw to town to tell the news, and wait her return before you eat?" |
| 39406 | Yes; but you certainly can repeat some portion of it to me? |
| 39406 | You are from Rockford,''Lena tells me? |
| 39406 | ''But the great Tower?'' |
| 39406 | ''Sides, dem names''s got er cur''us soun''-- You says I''s hard to please? |
| 39406 | (_ Knocks again and looks round._)_ Alonzo._ Who can this be-- so late at night? |
| 39406 | Ah, what avails the vain expense of tears? |
| 39406 | Ai n''t thet what you preached?" |
| 39406 | And Von Kluyden? |
| 39406 | And can he now, to manhood grown, Tell why those notes, simple and lone, As on the ravished ear they fell, Bind every sense in magic spell? |
| 39406 | And how was this to be enumerated among the high crimes which caused the colonies to sever their connection with the mother country? |
| 39406 | And if I do the same when there_ is_ music, does that make it dancing?" |
| 39406 | And now, how is the knowledge of this vast surrounding universe revealed to the mind of man? |
| 39406 | And thar''s his marks, captain,--what do you make of_ that_? |
| 39406 | And why, if he was a peace- messenger, he had not sent a runner? |
| 39406 | Are the stars brighter than they are? |
| 39406 | Are they indeed to us no more than the dull clods we tread upon? |
| 39406 | Are you lonesome, my own sweetheart? |
| 39406 | But does anybody pretend to tell me that man is always the lucky recipient of this devotion? |
| 39406 | But is this really so? |
| 39406 | But tears? |
| 39406 | But where was Duluth? |
| 39406 | But with such an admission, what is the cloud of reflections, which throng and startle the mind? |
| 39406 | But, sir, permit me to inquire from whom these charges of bribery, of corruption, and of robbery, come? |
| 39406 | By promise Vain of Universal Sway Lur''d you from Greece the beauteous Queen away? |
| 39406 | By what race of beings was the vast undertaking accomplished? |
| 39406 | By whiskey grog he lost his breath-- Who would not die so sweet a death? |
| 39406 | Call me''Cousin Camilla''or''Aunt Camilla,''whichever you prefer; which shall it be, Quintil?" |
| 39406 | Conrad kill''d Alonzo? |
| 39406 | Could they be agreed, and could they walk together? |
| 39406 | Did n''t you say thet God''retaineth not His anger forever, because He delighteth in mercy?'' |
| 39406 | Did they remain untouched and incapable of harm? |
| 39406 | Did those first drops of sorrow fall To move God''s pity for us all? |
| 39406 | Did you see How brief your beauty, and how brief, Therefore, the love of it must be, In that first garden, that first grief? |
| 39406 | Do n''t you think it would sound better if you were to add a handle to my name, as common folks say? |
| 39406 | Do you feel no fear When day is gone and the night is here? |
| 39406 | Do you hear? |
| 39406 | Editors, to publish a note in your valuable paper, offering the"Poets''Corner,"and save what you can of the fragments of"Olden Times?"... |
| 39406 | For what have I to do with you? |
| 39406 | Had the Declaration announced that the negroes were free and equal, how was the Prince to be arraigned for raising up insurrection among them? |
| 39406 | Have you friends there?" |
| 39406 | He called, endeavoring to throw his voice through the key- hole,"Aloysius, ai n''t you up yit? |
| 39406 | He was immediately asked what news? |
| 39406 | Her lord was lord of all the earth, Wherein no child had wailed its birth), Tears to a bride? |
| 39406 | How can I discriminate? |
| 39406 | How long ago? |
| 39406 | I merely shouted to him across the stream--"the angle- worm once more, Piscator?" |
| 39406 | In Eden? |
| 39406 | In water or wine, In blood or in brine, What matter the sign? |
| 39406 | Is it not white as pearl-- as snow? |
| 39406 | Is there no hallowing interest associated with these aged relics-- these tombs, and temples, and towers''of another race, to elicit emotion? |
| 39406 | Is there no place at all, where a knock from the poor, Will bring a kind angel to open the door? |
| 39406 | Is this brat a humorist? |
| 39406 | It is shocking to think of such competition, but how can we help it if young ladies give themselves up to dog worship? |
| 39406 | It says,"Does the day seem long-- The scented and sunny day Because you must sit apart? |
| 39406 | LOVE AMONG THE ROSES[19][ From_ Verses and Sonnets_( New York, 1910)]"What, dear-- what dear?" |
| 39406 | Lacrymas at fundere inanes Quid juvat? |
| 39406 | NICK OF THE WOODS[ From_ Nick of the Woods_( New York, 1853, revised edition)]"What''s the matter, Tom Bruce?" |
| 39406 | No braver dames had Sparta-- No nobler matrons Rome-- Yet who or lauds or honors them, Ev''n in their own green home? |
| 39406 | Or does the slayer of oxen yet sleep, supinely stertorous, heavy with the lingering fumes of the mighty Bourbon? |
| 39406 | Our efficiency? |
| 39406 | Remorseless Time!-- Fierce spirit of the glass and scythe!--what power Can stay him in his silent course, or melt His iron heart to pity? |
| 39406 | Shall I to the_ abattoir_ and ask the slayer of oxen for a steak? |
| 39406 | Such were their daily deeds: Their monument-- where does it stand? |
| 39406 | That legion hath marched past the setting of sun: Beaten? |
| 39406 | The bluegrass waves the bluest In Kentucky; Yet, bluebloods are the fewest(?) |
| 39406 | The watchmen and citizens take her into an adjoining room, bearing her husband with her-- asking,"Who could have kill''d him? |
| 39406 | Their epitaph-- who reads? |
| 39406 | Then do you think that I will kneel Where such as you have trod? |
| 39406 | Then why not have a heaven below, And let fair Hymen hence be sent? |
| 39406 | Though much of sorrow mark its strain, Yet are its notes to sorrow dear; What though they wake fond memory''s tear? |
| 39406 | Was ever such a pair? |
| 39406 | Was he from the Long Knife? |
| 39406 | Was not my love- seal on your brow For death, and not for days to break? |
| 39406 | We hunted for them until ten o''clock, when two Spaniards came, and asked us what we would give them if they would find our mules? |
| 39406 | Were they really any better than these? |
| 39406 | What is the use of wasting so much sweetness when there are thousands of good, honest fellows actually pining away from unrequited affection? |
| 39406 | What matter if you bid me now To go my way for others''sake? |
| 39406 | What then ought we to think of them, when all this glorious intelligence is merely tributary to our salvation? |
| 39406 | What was to be done? |
| 39406 | What will become of me? |
| 39406 | What_ time_ is it, Doctor Austin?" |
| 39406 | When were these enormous earth heaps reared up from the plain? |
| 39406 | Where are the doctrines of the Union and the Constitution so incessantly inculcated as here? |
| 39406 | Where are those doctrines so enthusiastically adopted as here? |
| 39406 | Where bosoms in mercy and kindness will heave, When the poor and the wretched shall ask and receive? |
| 39406 | While every amorous rival billow Strives her buoyant breast to pillow? |
| 39406 | Who can describe the surprises, the quaintness of song, the drolleries of action of the Offenbach school? |
| 39406 | Who knows but one of them contains the lovely Caroline? |
| 39406 | Who, in phrenzy''s flight of mind Such touch and tinctures bright may find To match her form and golden hair And naked paint the heavenly fair? |
| 39406 | Why linger fondly around them, and meditate upon the power which reared them, and is departed? |
| 39406 | Why should one wish to have known Goldsmith, or grudge him his place by the side of the great old Doctor, and Burke, and Reynolds, and Garrick? |
| 39406 | Why then does the wanderer from the far land gaze upon them with wonder and veneration? |
| 39406 | Wilt then make merry-- as of old? |
| 39406 | Would you bless your fellow- men? |
| 39406 | Would you crush the tyrant wrong, In the world''s free fight? |
| 39406 | Would you wrest the wreath of fame From the hand of fate? |
| 39406 | Would you write a deathless name With the good and great? |
| 39406 | _ Alonzo._ What does he say? |
| 39406 | _ Alonzo._ Who''s there? |
| 39406 | _ Citizens._ Who, under God''s heaven, could have done this deed? |
| 39406 | _ Conrad._ Where is my wife? |
| 39406 | _ Doctor._ Did you see his face? |
| 39406 | _ Lover._ But come, you saucy, pert romancer, Who is as fair as Phoebe? |
| 39406 | _ Lover._ Has Phoebe not a heavenly brow? |
| 39406 | _ Massachusetts!_ Which of her multitude of virtues shall I commend? |
| 39406 | _ Watchmen._ Who did it? |
| 39406 | cried the senior, eagerly,--"not in our limits?" |
| 39406 | how did you know that?" |
| 39406 | or a chop from the loin of sheep, a bell- wether of Kentucky''s finest flock-- Kentucky, state renowned for dainty mutton? |
| 39406 | or was Secession a Constitutional Right Previous to the War of 1861?_( Baltimore, 1866). |
| 39406 | so charming, uncontrolled, Guest and companion of my clay, Into what places wilt thou stray, When thou art naked, pale, and cold? |
| 39406 | what a scene!_"But the majesty of the sight, and the interest of the moment, how depict them? |
| 39406 | what_ do_ she''spec''dese chillum gwine o''be? |
| 34313 | ''What do you mean?'' 34313 And have you such a thing as a favorite author?" |
| 34313 | And just why should the exploitation of filth assume to monopolize the word''realism''? 34313 And was n''t that one of the things for which you condemned our hypothetical writer of Western tales?" |
| 34313 | And what changed woman? |
| 34313 | And what effect are the moving pictures going to have on fiction? |
| 34313 | And what effect can it have on our literature? 34313 And what is it that makes a man an artist, in pigments or in words?" |
| 34313 | And what of Boccaccio? 34313 And where does genius come in?" |
| 34313 | And you,I said, determined to make the conversation more personal,"prefer the romantic method?" |
| 34313 | But do n''t you think,I asked,"that the permanence of a book''s appeal is a proof of its greatness?" |
| 34313 | But do not these conditions in many instances seriously hinder individual artists? |
| 34313 | But do you think,I asked,"that the fault is entirely that of the public? |
| 34313 | But have there not been writers,I asked,"who seem to prove that there is some truth in the inspiration theory? |
| 34313 | But is not that what you yourself did? |
| 34313 | But the American Civil War produced literature, did it not? |
| 34313 | But was n''t that because his negro folk- tales were a sort of''glorified reporting''rather than creative work? |
| 34313 | But what are the manifestations of this new democratic spirit? |
| 34313 | But what do you think of Flaubert''s method, as a method? |
| 34313 | But what has this to do,I asked,"with making poetry more democratic?" |
| 34313 | But what,I asked,"about materialism-- not specifically commercialism, but materialism? |
| 34313 | But why is it,I asked,"that a great poet so often is without honor in his own generation, where mediocrity is immediately famous?" |
| 34313 | But you do not believe,I said,"that American literature in general is better than it used to be, do you? |
| 34313 | But you yourself write serial stories, do you not? |
| 34313 | Can you possibly have, at any time or anywhere, great art without a great faith? 34313 Did he say that the Civil War had produced no literature worthy of preservation?" |
| 34313 | Did you ever think,said Mrs. Marks, suddenly,"that the truest exuberance of life always expresses itself rhythmically? |
| 34313 | Do n''t you think that the snobs were always very much apart from our civilization and national ideals? 34313 Do you believe in the old saying that the poet-- the creative artist-- is born and not made?" |
| 34313 | Do you believe,I asked,"that being in the city has had a good effect on literary activity among Columbia students?" |
| 34313 | Do you think that Ibsen expressed the modern feminine unrest in_ The Doll''s House_? |
| 34313 | Do you think that a writer who works with such laborious care is right? |
| 34313 | Do you think that the American novel will always be inferior to the English novel? |
| 34313 | Do you think that the Russian novelists have influenced your work? |
| 34313 | Do you think that this harms their work? |
| 34313 | Do you think, then,I asked,"that our writers are producing work as likely to endure as that which is being produced in England?" |
| 34313 | Do you think,I asked,"that romanticism has lost its hold on the novelists?" |
| 34313 | Do you think,I asked,"that the great social problems of the day, the feminine unrest, for instance, are finding their expression in literature?" |
| 34313 | Do you think,I asked,"that the poetry that is written in America to- day is better than that written a generation ago?" |
| 34313 | Do you think,I asked,"that this is a good thing for civilization, this increased activity of women in business?" |
| 34313 | Do you think,I asked,"that writers should be specialists in writing? |
| 34313 | Does this enthusiasm for literature show itself in the college magazine? |
| 34313 | Has American fiction been lacking in visualization? |
| 34313 | Has literature been produced by people who made writing only an avocation? |
| 34313 | How did this happen? |
| 34313 | How do you account for that? |
| 34313 | How does this theory apply to poets? |
| 34313 | How far is this idolatry of the movie actor to go, anyway? 34313 How has literature been affected,"I asked,"by the suffrage movement and feminism?" |
| 34313 | How is a writer going to get ideas for stories,asked Mr. Beach, in turn,"unless he uses ideas? |
| 34313 | How is one to decide whether or not a poet is great? |
| 34313 | How will it alter it? |
| 34313 | I suppose,I said,"that the conditions you describe are distinctively modern, are they not? |
| 34313 | Is it not probable that the American novel will so develop as to escape the effects of serialization? |
| 34313 | Is n''t this rather high praise for Charlie Chaplin? |
| 34313 | Is not the war, which is surely the greatest event of our time, an anti- democratic thing? |
| 34313 | Is this true of the best short stories being written now? 34313 Is_ Huckleberry Finn_ a phase? |
| 34313 | Mr. Guiterman,I said,"is this the advice that you would give to John Keats if he were to ask you?" |
| 34313 | Mr. Herrick,I asked,"just what is a realist?" |
| 34313 | Now, when you walk down Broadway, do you find any reminders of the popular novels of the day? 34313 Should a poet be able to make a living out of poetry?" |
| 34313 | Still, in spite of their precarious financial condition, modern authors are doing good work, are they not? |
| 34313 | Then a novel may be at once optimistic and realistic? |
| 34313 | Then you believe that there is a distinctively American literature? |
| 34313 | Then you do n''t think,I said,"that literature has lost through the poverty of poets?" |
| 34313 | Then you do not share Katharine Fullerton Gerould''s belief that O. Henry''s influence on modern fiction is bad? |
| 34313 | Then you think that poetry is not always appreciated in the lifetime of its maker? |
| 34313 | Then,I said,"you would go to Georgia, I suppose, if you wanted to write a story about life in a New York apartment?" |
| 34313 | This has not always been the case, has it? |
| 34313 | To what publication had you sold it? |
| 34313 | War stops everything else,said Mr. McCutcheon,"so why not literature? |
| 34313 | Were those the days,I asked,"in which you first read Tolstoy?" |
| 34313 | What about present- day relationship between American publishers and authors? |
| 34313 | What are the forces in America to- day,I asked,"that hinder the development of art and letters?" |
| 34313 | What do you mean by the great American novel? |
| 34313 | What effect,I asked,"is the war likely to have on American literature?" |
| 34313 | What great literature did it produce? |
| 34313 | What is Bohemia? |
| 34313 | What is genius? |
| 34313 | What is it in Dickens that especially attracts you? |
| 34313 | What is it, then,I asked,"that has changed American humor?" |
| 34313 | What is the connection between democracy and the tendency you have described? |
| 34313 | What is the remedy for this condition, Miss Hurst? |
| 34313 | What is the thing that American poetry chiefly needs? |
| 34313 | What realists have been optimistic? |
| 34313 | What was it that did away with the snobs? |
| 34313 | What writers who use the English language seem to you to deserve best the name of realist? |
| 34313 | What,I asked,"are some of the extra- curricular manifestations of literary interest among the students?" |
| 34313 | Where,he asked,"are the German- Americans and the Italian- Americans? |
| 34313 | Who are some of the writers who seem to you to be especially ready to avail themselves of the commercial value of sex? |
| 34313 | Who are the leading romanticists of the day? |
| 34313 | Who was the last great poet? |
| 34313 | Why is it that the art of fiction is no longer taken as seriously as it was, for example, in the time of Sir Walter Scott? |
| 34313 | Why is it that_ Pepys''s Diary_ is interesting to us? |
| 34313 | Why is it, then,I asked,"that Russia, a nation of militaristic ideals, has produced so many great novels during the past century?" |
| 34313 | Why is it,I asked,"that Poe''s influence on American fiction has been so slight?" |
| 34313 | Why is it,asked Mrs. Norris,"that a girl like that can not see the value of such an incident as that? |
| 34313 | Why is there,Mr. Tarkington asked in turn,"no group like Homer( was n''t he a group?) |
| 34313 | Why unionize? 34313 Will it be good or bad?" |
| 34313 | Will there,I asked,"ever be the great American novel? |
| 34313 | Would you make a similar comment on any other poetry of our time? |
| 34313 | You believe,I said,"that Whitman is our greatest poet?" |
| 34313 | You do not agree with the critic who said that American literature was''a condition of English literature''? |
| 34313 | ''What is your shoe- drawer?'' |
| 34313 | And yet what more interesting subject is there for her to write about than that shoe- drawer? |
| 34313 | Are any of the short stories written since that period being bound into volumes and extensively sold? |
| 34313 | At Columbia-- I have Prof. John Erskine''s word for it-- there has lately developed a genuine interest in-- what do you suppose? |
| 34313 | At what time in the history of America have conditions been most favorable to literary expression?" |
| 34313 | Beyond our literature, what of Balzac? |
| 34313 | But do they? |
| 34313 | Can a mere reflection of life justly be called poetry, or must imagination be present? |
| 34313 | Did you ever read Brand Whitlock''s_ Forty Years of It_? |
| 34313 | Do the professors of English literature recommend them to their classes? |
| 34313 | Do you remember how Dr. Johnson wrote_ Rasselas_? |
| 34313 | Do you think that O. Henry''s influence is responsible for this?" |
| 34313 | Do you think that its evil effects are evident in contemporary literature?" |
| 34313 | Have n''t the authors changed, too?" |
| 34313 | How should he, with no one to tell him? |
| 34313 | I asked,"Do you think they are all they should be?" |
| 34313 | I asked,"What do you think of contemporary poetry?" |
| 34313 | If one must have a model, why not Hall Caine, infinitely the superior of Dickens as a craftsman? |
| 34313 | Is it because of snobbishness or literary colonialism on the part of the American public? |
| 34313 | Is it not the appeal of symbolism, the expression of life''s meanings in sensuous form? |
| 34313 | Is rhyme essential to poetry? |
| 34313 | Is rhythm essential to poetry? |
| 34313 | Just what sort of reformer is it that has taken the place of the snob?" |
| 34313 | Mr. William Dean Howells was the third writer to whom was put the question,"What effect will the Great War have on literature?" |
| 34313 | That is, will there ever be a novel which reflects American life as adequately as_ Vanity Fair_ reflects English life?" |
| 34313 | The good novel, it is true, is praised heartily, but then so are all the bad novels-- and how is one to tell? |
| 34313 | There is Tcheckoff-- have you read his_ Orchard_? |
| 34313 | Think how the war changed Rupert Brooke, for instance? |
| 34313 | Well, what if that is true? |
| 34313 | What could be more conventional and more democratic than the old ballad, with its recurrent refrain in which the audience joined? |
| 34313 | What do you think about it?" |
| 34313 | What else is there to think? |
| 34313 | What is art but self- government, the harmonizing of the elements of the mind? |
| 34313 | What is this elemental appeal? |
| 34313 | What kind of French literature of the war do you think would appear in Germany and be fostered there? |
| 34313 | What''s the value of my opinion that_ The Undiscovered Country_ is a''greater''novel than_ A Pair of Blue Eyes_? |
| 34313 | When any one says that to me, I always answer him in the chaste little way which so endears me to my day and generation:''Hell, are n''t you? |
| 34313 | Who is conscious of his heart- beats except at the great moments of life, and who is unconscious of them then? |
| 34313 | Who nowadays can find a laugh in the pages of Artemus Ward, Philander Q. Doesticks, or Petroleum V. Nasby? |
| 34313 | Why ca n''t I do what they''re doing?'' |
| 34313 | Why is this? |
| 34313 | Why not, when Shakespeare himself followed the line of action of which I spoke? |
| 34313 | Why should I go back to the people of bygone ages and of lands not my own?" |
| 34313 | _ MAGAZINES CHEAPEN FICTION_ GEORGE BARR McCUTCHEON Why is the modern American novel inferior to the modern English novel? |
| 34313 | _ WHAT IS GENIUS?_ 75 ROBERT W. CHAMBERS Robert W. Chambers was born in Brooklyn, New York, May 26, 1865. |
| 34313 | _"EVASIVE IDEALISM"IN LITERATURE_ ELLEN GLASGOW What is the matter with American literature? |
| 34313 | in Greece? |
| 10605 | A big red one, with a yellow blow- off? |
| 10605 | Ambitious,I asked,"for what?" |
| 10605 | And what is it,asked Dante,"that makes them so grievously suffer?" |
| 10605 | And you knew all the time? |
| 10605 | As you came down,I asked finally,"did you happen to see old man Masterson''s threshing machine?" |
| 10605 | Big gray, banked barn? |
| 10605 | But does it say,I asked,"that Adam and Eve had not themselves been using their best wits in creating a hell? |
| 10605 | But he did n''t go? |
| 10605 | But the point is,he argued,"might not the same faculties applied to other things yield better and bigger results?" |
| 10605 | By the way,says Charles Baxter,"have you seen George Warren? |
| 10605 | Charm, personality, character, the great gift of unexpectedness? |
| 10605 | Could anything be more appropriate? |
| 10605 | David,he said severely,"where did you git this?" |
| 10605 | Did you ever grease a wagon? |
| 10605 | Did you ever see a more beautiful binding? |
| 10605 | Do I? |
| 10605 | Do you believe that we shall go to hell? |
| 10605 | Do you know the greatest sorrow of the Scotch preacher and his wife? |
| 10605 | Does it make you feel that way? |
| 10605 | For the good of bachelors as well as other people? |
| 10605 | Have you got trace of her? |
| 10605 | Have you seen a brown cow? |
| 10605 | Horace,called the Doctor,"why do n''t you paint your barn?" |
| 10605 | How much,I asked,"will you sell the covers for without the insides?" |
| 10605 | How''s that? |
| 10605 | How,I asked,"does the sap get up to the top of these great maples and elms? |
| 10605 | I suppose I might,I said,"but do you think I''d be any better off or happier with fifty thousand a year than I am now? |
| 10605 | If we put it all in the budget this year what will that make the rate? |
| 10605 | Information, learning, money? |
| 10605 | Is n''t it important that it shall not only be done, but well done? |
| 10605 | Is that possible? |
| 10605 | Is that right? |
| 10605 | Live too much? |
| 10605 | Mercy, what are you going to do? |
| 10605 | Oh well,I thought, with vainglorious superiority,"he does n''t know,"So I said:"What would you have me be-- a millionnaire?" |
| 10605 | Perhaps,I said, as engagingly as I knew how,"you''d like to try the art yourself? |
| 10605 | Say, there,he shouted, drawing up at my gate,"would you mind holding my horse a minute? |
| 10605 | Say,he asked,"what page is that poem on?" |
| 10605 | Shall I deliver the set at once,he said,"or can you wait until the first of February?" |
| 10605 | This is an uncommonly heavy package,he remarked;"did I say table- spoons?" |
| 10605 | Trims up the room, do n''t it? |
| 10605 | Was it? |
| 10605 | Was it? |
| 10605 | Well then--exultantly,"where is it? |
| 10605 | What have you? |
| 10605 | What have you? |
| 10605 | What is it? |
| 10605 | What on_ earth_ are you laughing about? |
| 10605 | What was in that package, Harriet? |
| 10605 | Where, where? |
| 10605 | Why do I sell them? |
| 10605 | Why do you sell such priceless things as these? |
| 10605 | Why does a man like you,he asked finally,"waste himself on a little farm back here in the country?" |
| 10605 | Why pay a teacher$ 40 a month when one can be had for$ 30? |
| 10605 | Why teach physiology? |
| 10605 | Without the insides? |
| 10605 | Would you really advise me,I asked,"to start in to be a millionnaire?" |
| 10605 | Yes, but----"Is n''t it honest and useful work? |
| 10605 | You know who I am? |
| 10605 | You like it, do n''t you? |
| 10605 | You will bank the fire and see that the doors are locked? |
| 10605 | You wo n''t stay up late? |
| 10605 | You''re all straight, are you? |
| 10605 | *****"David?" |
| 10605 | ----"Why,"asks Charles Baxter,"do you always put the end of your stories first?" |
| 10605 | After a pause: STRANGER: Live around here? |
| 10605 | After watching him for some time the Doctor said:"Baxter, why do you spend so much time on that table? |
| 10605 | Ah, tow- headed boy, shall I tread as lightly that dread pathway when I come to it? |
| 10605 | And Baxter''s old lamp with its smoky tin reflector, is not that the veritable torch of our liberties? |
| 10605 | And are there better arguments? |
| 10605 | And is it not a pleasure? |
| 10605 | And is it not the primal struggle of man to escape classification, to form new differentiations? |
| 10605 | And what is more enthralling to the human mind than this splendid, boundless, coloured mutability!--life in the making? |
| 10605 | And what, I asked, is corn compared with a friend? |
| 10605 | And where''s that other piece that tells how a man feels when he''s lonesome? |
| 10605 | And who am I to get ahead of?" |
| 10605 | And why and wherefore? |
| 10605 | And why hope to enlarge one''s world by the creeping acquisition of a few acres to his farm? |
| 10605 | And why should they be brought low? |
| 10605 | Are you not afraid of being stopped in the road and robbed? |
| 10605 | But did He?" |
| 10605 | But does the Bible say that He created a hell or a devil? |
| 10605 | Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? |
| 10605 | Could n''t you make a thousand or five thousand or even fifty thousand a year?" |
| 10605 | Curious, this human nature of ours, is n''t it? |
| 10605 | Did he not have the largest barn and the best corn silo? |
| 10605 | Did the Knight finally kill the lions?" |
| 10605 | Did you ever think, stranger, that most of the wars of the world have been fought for the control of this farmer''s second table? |
| 10605 | Do n''t you see her?" |
| 10605 | Do you happen to remember a story of Tolstoi''s called Ivan the Fool''?" |
| 10605 | Do you? |
| 10605 | Does it?" |
| 10605 | Finally he quoted quietly, but with a deep note in his voice:"Canst thou by searching find God? |
| 10605 | Finance? |
| 10605 | Fine idea, ai n''t it? |
| 10605 | For how can you win the friendship of one who is trying to convert you to his superior beliefs? |
| 10605 | For in the best laughter do we not hear constantly that deep minor note which speaks of the ache in the human heart? |
| 10605 | Has n''t he a duty to society?" |
| 10605 | Have you ever had anyone give you up as hopeless? |
| 10605 | Have you thought that the surplus of wheat and corn and cotton is what the railroads are struggling to carry? |
| 10605 | He stepped up close to me and said, with an appealing note in his voice:"You do not really believe in a hell, do you?" |
| 10605 | I exclaimed,"do you mean to tell me that science has not solved this simplest of natural phenomena?" |
| 10605 | I had no twinge of compunction, for was this not fulfillment? |
| 10605 | I read the title aloud, but in a low voice:"Is There a Hell?" |
| 10605 | I said to myself, Why should any man fence himself in? |
| 10605 | I suppose I had heard the passage many times before, but upon this certain morning---- Shall I ever forget? |
| 10605 | I took it, curious, and read the title:"Is There a Hell?" |
| 10605 | In boyhood I remember asking after every story I heard:"What happened next?" |
| 10605 | Instid o''that he put an open bottle on his table and he looked at it and said:''Which is stronger, now, you or John North? |
| 10605 | Is it not a fine Providence that gives us different things to love? |
| 10605 | Is there?" |
| 10605 | It came to be a common and humorous experience for people to go to the Doctor and say:"Now, Doctor North, how much do I owe you? |
| 10605 | It is as high as heaven: what canst thou do? |
| 10605 | Let me ask you: Is n''t it important to society that this piece of earth be plowed and cultivated?" |
| 10605 | Moreover, was not Horace the"best off"of any farmer in the country? |
| 10605 | My father asked:"David, have you been swimming?" |
| 10605 | Now the question is, would I be any better off, or any happier, if I had fifty thousand a year?" |
| 10605 | Now, is n''t it possible to rise from that? |
| 10605 | Of all obstacles to that complete democracy of which we dream, is there a greater than property? |
| 10605 | Oh, gray preacher, may I now make amends? |
| 10605 | Our conversation ran something like this: STRANGER: Has she any spots or marks on her? |
| 10605 | STRANGER: How old a cow is she? |
| 10605 | STRANGER: Pure blood? |
| 10605 | STRANGER: Valuable animal? |
| 10605 | Should n''t a man make the most of the talents given him? |
| 10605 | Suddenly she broke out:"What was his name?" |
| 10605 | Suddenly, however, I heard Mr. Purdy''s voice, with a new note in it:"Hulloo, hulloo----""What luck?" |
| 10605 | That is n''t hell, is it?" |
| 10605 | Then I asked:"Do you really want to know?" |
| 10605 | Then he added, as though some new uncertainty puzzled him,"Do you?" |
| 10605 | Under such conditions how can you expect self- government? |
| 10605 | Was not Shakespeare great because he lost less of the savings of his senses than other men? |
| 10605 | Was there such a word?" |
| 10605 | We are not so sensitive to them as we should be-- do you think?" |
| 10605 | What do you mean by rising? |
| 10605 | What does it all mean? |
| 10605 | What finer spirit? |
| 10605 | What is going to become of such folks? |
| 10605 | What is the best gift for a baby? |
| 10605 | What more artificial than a house, or a barn, or a fence? |
| 10605 | What power is there that should draw it upward against the force of gravity?" |
| 10605 | What was I that I should judge without knowledge? |
| 10605 | When you chop, which hand do you hold down?" |
| 10605 | When you come to think of it, in the light of history, is not that a wonderful thing? |
| 10605 | Where is it?" |
| 10605 | Who is it that says I must plow so many furrows this day? |
| 10605 | Who knows, I thought, what he may bring with him: who knows what I may send away by him? |
| 10605 | Who shall step forth freer than he who goes with nothing save his lyre? |
| 10605 | Who''s going to know whether or not the last touch has been put on the under side of it?" |
| 10605 | Why may there not be future heavens and hells--''other heavens for other earths''? |
| 10605 | Why not do it? |
| 10605 | Why should he? |
| 10605 | Will you forgive me? |
| 10605 | You see what a heavy book this is?" |
| 10605 | You''ve done wrong, have n''t you? |
| 10605 | Your name''s Grayson, ai n''t it? |
| 10605 | [ Illustration:"What would you have me be-- a millionaire?"] |
| 10605 | [ Illustration:''Did you ever see a more beautiful binding?''] |
| 10605 | deeper than hell, what canst thou know?" |
| 10605 | he asked tapping his forehead;"did n''t anybody ever try to take you up?" |
| 22030 | ''Refectory,''what is a''refectory''? 22030 And did the old Romans really play at roulette, and was_ that_ one of their tables?" |
| 22030 | And do you like ale? |
| 22030 | And how do you do with them? |
| 22030 | And how is it that he has kept his house? |
| 22030 | And what difference,I said,"can one white hair make to any friend?" |
| 22030 | And what dost thou expect, son Hassard? |
| 22030 | And what is that? |
| 22030 | And what of this? |
| 22030 | And who has been passing you through a bark- mill that you look so ground- up? |
| 22030 | And you ai n''t a major in the Confederate service? |
| 22030 | And you ai n''t had no goings on with the rebels up the river to bring back the Confederacy here? |
| 22030 | Brigham,I said in Spanish,"_ es la mano o el navajo_?" |
| 22030 | But how in Heaven''s name,cried the girl,"could she_ know_ that_ you_ spoke Gitano?" |
| 22030 | But how would_ you_ like, my dear, if you were of the lower orders, to wear a dress which proclaimed it? |
| 22030 | Could you point him out to me? |
| 22030 | Did you understand_ that_? |
| 22030 | General Whipple,I replied,"is this town under military occupation in time of war, or is it not?" |
| 22030 | German, or Irish, or what? |
| 22030 | Got any land over? |
| 22030 | How many fingers, be jabers? 22030 How much did it cost?" |
| 22030 | I''ve got a present for her; are you going that way? |
| 22030 | In the name of Heaven, who and what are you? |
| 22030 | Is dot der Karl Leland vot dranslate de_ Reisebilder_? 22030 Is that all?" |
| 22030 | No; what was it? |
| 22030 | Och, Jamie, ye shtupid crature, Sure ye''re the divil''s son; How many fingers''load, thin, Did ye putt in this d--- d ould gun? |
| 22030 | Shall I open the window? |
| 22030 | Sir,said the lady,"do_ I look_ like an impostor?" |
| 22030 | Then how much_ will_ you give, master? |
| 22030 | Then who the devil are you, and where do you belong? |
| 22030 | Then,he answered,"why do n''t you_ drink_ ale?" |
| 22030 | What can I do to thank you? |
| 22030 | What do you think of this? |
| 22030 | What do you want? |
| 22030 | What is the number of her room? |
| 22030 | What makes you think so? |
| 22030 | Where are you going so late by night? |
| 22030 | Where is old Liz? |
| 22030 | Where the devil did you get this? |
| 22030 | Why not? |
| 22030 | Why? |
| 22030 | Yes, first- rate; geologer''s certificate; can you put it on the market? |
| 22030 | Yes,he replied,"and how was it that you_ chanced_ to read that book? |
| 22030 | _ Konnen Sie auch Deutsch sprechen_? |
| 22030 | _ Pen a mandy_,_ Priscilla Cooper_,_ sa buti me sosti del tute for adovo pustini vashtini_? |
| 22030 | _ Que diable_,_ mon ami_,_ faistu ici dans cette galere_? |
| 22030 | _ You_ look like an officer,she said to Captain Colton,"and so does_ that_ one, but what is_ he_?" |
| 22030 | ( I_ think_ he said"will you be?") |
| 22030 | ( Tell me, Priscilla Cooper, how much should I give you for those woollen gloves?) |
| 22030 | ( road), or"Do you know Sam Smith?" |
| 22030 | ("How do you call that?") |
| 22030 | A fellow- passenger asked me,"Is that your book?" |
| 22030 | About this time( 1826?) |
| 22030 | After a time he said,"Why do n''t you look at that picture?" |
| 22030 | After all had departed, and I was smoking alone with Sir Charles, he said--"Well, what did you think of Dore?" |
| 22030 | Aghast at such a tremendous feat, one who remained, asked,"Who in God''s wrath are you?--haven''t you a name?" |
| 22030 | And being asked,"Wherefore this unrestrained hilarity?" |
| 22030 | And seeing that my companion had a pair, he said scornfully:"Dave Goshorn, what do_ you_ know about such things? |
| 22030 | And we conquered; but_ how_? |
| 22030 | And what did I ever have to do with that Tower? |
| 22030 | And where did I learn that? |
| 22030 | And why? |
| 22030 | Attaches of an opera company-- ladies''-maids who had made the grand tour-- who knows? |
| 22030 | But hearing his victim groan, he was returning, when he met another servant, who said,"Juan, where are you going?" |
| 22030 | But how to begin? |
| 22030 | But she added triumphantly,"What do you say when I tell you that I had my_ cheque- book_? |
| 22030 | But what on airth--""But are you for us, or against?" |
| 22030 | Can you tell the difference between the_ Aschkenazim_ and the_ Sephardim_ by their eyes? |
| 22030 | Could he refer me to some leading authority in the University, known to him, who would give me advice? |
| 22030 | Did a Jew ever hear of Moses, or an American of General Washington? |
| 22030 | Did you ever hear of him?" |
| 22030 | Do any of you fellows know of a good governor for Mauritius?" |
| 22030 | Do n''t you see the difference?" |
| 22030 | Do you call_ that_ sitting up? |
| 22030 | Do you know Grindstone Knob and a white house with green windows at its foot?" |
| 22030 | Do you know what those men came here for? |
| 22030 | Do you not remember hearing from our position at Carlisle the guns of that great battle-- the turning- point of the war? |
| 22030 | Do you see that fat man laughing so heartily in the pit? |
| 22030 | Do you see that great square tent?" |
| 22030 | Does the reader remember the scene in"The Bohemian Girl"in which the dandy Count examines the nasty knife left behind by the gypsy Devilshoof? |
| 22030 | Great was the amazement and delight of the Kaws, who roared with laughter, and their chief curiously inquired,"_ You_ Kaw?" |
| 22030 | Had Jim surmised, by that marvellous intuition of character which blacks possess, that I had in me"the mystery"? |
| 22030 | Hassard heard the whizz, and cried,"What''s that?" |
| 22030 | He laughed, and said,"Do you find the result required in ale?" |
| 22030 | He looked at me and said,"How long have you been in Chicago?" |
| 22030 | He looked utterly amazed, and inquired,"What the devil did you think I said?" |
| 22030 | Here Mr. Carlyle, looking utterly amazed and startled, though not at all angry, said, for the first time, in broad Scotch--"Whot''s_ thot_ ye say?" |
| 22030 | Hillburn Jones, does thee know? |
| 22030 | How could I have possessed it if I had not a right to draw?" |
| 22030 | I answered,''My dear little woman, what does a candle or two signify to you? |
| 22030 | I asked of the Indian,"_ Wa go nin- iu_?" |
| 22030 | I explained, when he laughed heartily, and told me that his question was,"Has there been any firing here before?" |
| 22030 | I forget who that was: was it Pischek? |
| 22030 | I gazed at him in utter astonishment, as if I would say,"What manner of man art thou?" |
| 22030 | I had read in_ Sartor Resartus_,"If a man reads, shall he not be learned?" |
| 22030 | I have heard my mother say that as a girl she had a tame crow who was named Tom, and that he could distinctly cry the word"What?" |
| 22030 | I nivir putt in a wan; Did ye think I''d be afther jammin''Me fingers into a gun?" |
| 22030 | I remarked,"Then why the devil seek to overcome them? |
| 22030 | I said abruptly,"I come from Mr.------; where are your trunks?" |
| 22030 | Indeed, I can still recall it after sixty years:--"Who can tell me where Weinsberg lies? |
| 22030 | Is it not a maxim of war, that he who strives to defend a defenceless place must be put to death? |
| 22030 | Is it not more noble and sensible to yield where resistance is in vain, than to fight to the end? |
| 22030 | Is it true that you''re a great friend of Jeff Davis?" |
| 22030 | Is not a collection of such vases like a library?" |
| 22030 | It was just opposite a very quaint old- fashioned collection of many little dwellings in one( modelled after the Fuggerei of Augsburg?) |
| 22030 | Joseph Widdifield, does thee?" |
| 22030 | Leland?" |
| 22030 | May I here venture to mention that he always declared that my later poem of"Breitmann and the Pope"was the best Macaronic poem which he had ever read? |
| 22030 | Now what I want to know is, if you''re_ not_ French, how came the_ whole_ of you to know it?" |
| 22030 | One day George said--"Of course you have no Indian blood in you, Mr. Leland; but were n''t you a great deal among''em when you were young?" |
| 22030 | One day I heard a lady say very meaningly,"I suppose that you know what kind of books he has_ and how he obtained them_?" |
| 22030 | One day he said to me,"Why do n''t you publish your''Breitmann Ballads?'' |
| 22030 | One morning George asked me in confidence,"Mr. Leland, you''re not all French, are you?" |
| 22030 | One morning I called, and after some deliberation he said,"You are a lawyer, are you not?" |
| 22030 | Rozprava pochesky? |
| 22030 | Seeing that I was one of them, one said to me,"Sir, where shall we make a barricade?" |
| 22030 | She replied,"Oh, yes,"and then added naively,"but was n''t it really_ alt a humbug_?" |
| 22030 | Should I go back and hang--- up over his own door? |
| 22030 | So I called in Spanish,"Adonde venga usted?" |
| 22030 | Some time after I met her magnificently dressed, and I said,''Sally, where do you live now?'' |
| 22030 | The official stared, and said--"Do I understand that you formally demand the keys?" |
| 22030 | Thinking he had said,"Were you ever under fire before?" |
| 22030 | Thus, I needed only say,"Seen any of the Coopers or Bosvilles lately on the drum?" |
| 22030 | To which I replied,"Well, what is to pay?" |
| 22030 | To which I replied,"What the devil do you want here, anyhow?" |
| 22030 | Well, and what, O tourist, dost thou travel_ for_? |
| 22030 | Whar do all dem books come from? |
| 22030 | What am I to do?" |
| 22030 | What business had you to come over my hedge into my field to steal my blackberries?" |
| 22030 | What shall I do?" |
| 22030 | What shall I do?" |
| 22030 | What''s set_ you_ to gittin''deer''s horns? |
| 22030 | What''s the reason?" |
| 22030 | When I replied,"Only enough to pay my passage,"he replied,"Is that all?" |
| 22030 | When I returned my teacher said--"Now, Mr. Leland, can you repeat accurately_ word for word_ what Mr. Dimpfel said?" |
| 22030 | When Tom was walking about in the garden, if called, he would reply"What?" |
| 22030 | When the proof was finished"Horace"said to me--"How is John Forney getting on?" |
| 22030 | Where am I now?'' |
| 22030 | Which suggested to me the idea,"Does the public, then, generally believe that poets look like their heroes?" |
| 22030 | Who makes all our boots an''clothes and sends us tea an''everythin''? |
| 22030 | Who that lives in London ever goes to see the Tower? |
| 22030 | Why did n''t they go to one of the other gentlemen? |
| 22030 | Why not give in like a man?" |
| 22030 | With a very grave expression he asked me,"Do n''t the gals in_ your_ part of the country allays break for the woods when they see_ you_ a- coming?" |
| 22030 | [ Is it to be hand, or knife?] |
| 22030 | _ Et depuisse- quand_,_ s''il vous plait_?" |
| 22030 | _ Mais ou sont les neiges d''antan_, or the ducats of Panurge? |
| 22030 | _ Mais ou sont les neiges d''antan_? |
| 22030 | _ Quien sabe_? |
| 22030 | _ Ya- hinzeer_--_wa Yahud_--_yin uldeen ak_?" |
| 22030 | _ be_ you one of our people?" |
| 22030 | daggers and whisky, and all kinds of beautiful things flying around for Brigham, but what am_ I_ to have?" |
| 22030 | he cried,"you do n''t mean to shoot at him?" |
| 22030 | he exclaimed,"kin you tell me where a chap could get some ammynition?" |
| 22030 | replied,"Is it not enough to make a man laugh to see the Devil running away with two clergymen?" |
| 22030 | what have you been saying to that Indian?" |
| 22030 | what the devil are you doing here?" |
| 22030 | where did you ever learn to talk Italian?" |
| 22030 | { 266a}"Do you remember the night we spent at the forge? |
| 22329 | A rough pile o''brick like that? |
| 22329 | Am I not making in my small way the same sort of historical record of the west that Whittier and Holmes secured for New England? |
| 22329 | Am I not worthy of an occasional friendly word, a message of encouragement? |
| 22329 | Are n''t you a little hard on me? |
| 22329 | Are those the mountains? |
| 22329 | Are we really going up there? |
| 22329 | Are you gold- hunting? |
| 22329 | But how did you_ get here_? |
| 22329 | But when-- how long ago? |
| 22329 | But-- my sewing? |
| 22329 | Ca n''t you build a thing like this? |
| 22329 | Can I combine the two activities? 22329 Can I pick the flowers? |
| 22329 | Can science find no check upon these recurrent forms of disease? |
| 22329 | Comfortable? 22329 Common red brick?" |
| 22329 | Did Sitting Bull take part in this? |
| 22329 | Did n''t they_ ever_ see her any more? |
| 22329 | Did your father live to see his grandchildren? |
| 22329 | Did your mother get her new daughter? |
| 22329 | Do n''t they have rainbows in the city? |
| 22329 | Do they really milk their cows in that way? |
| 22329 | Do you expect it to heat the house? |
| 22329 | Do you think it will ever be finished? 22329 Has any individual a right to such a privilege?" |
| 22329 | How can he go skittering about all over the world in this way? |
| 22329 | How can they shelter and clothe and feed three million men? |
| 22329 | How long did she live to enjoy the peace of her Homestead? |
| 22329 | How much do you want for him? |
| 22329 | I am perfectly contented,she said to me,"except----""Except what, mother?" |
| 22329 | I can see you are bound to do it,she said,"but where can it be built?" |
| 22329 | Is Local Color essential to fiction? |
| 22329 | Is it all made new? |
| 22329 | Is it worth while to rebuild? |
| 22329 | It is true an author can make himself felt from any place, but why do it at a disadvantage? 22329 Must humanity forever suffer the agonies of diphtheria and pneumonia? |
| 22329 | Think of being proprietor of one- half of Sierra Blanca? |
| 22329 | This compensates for the humble scene of our wedding, does n''t it? |
| 22329 | Was I cute, Daddy? 22329 Well, Father, what do you think about the European situation?" |
| 22329 | Well, why do n''t you do it? |
| 22329 | What about my new daughter? 22329 What are stars? |
| 22329 | What became of David and Burton? |
| 22329 | What did you do it for? |
| 22329 | What do you do it for? |
| 22329 | What do you intend to do with your experiences? |
| 22329 | What do you think of it? |
| 22329 | What do you think you''re doing-- exploring? |
| 22329 | What is he doing? |
| 22329 | What is the reason for this literary sterility? |
| 22329 | What of that? 22329 What shall I do now? |
| 22329 | What shall I do now? |
| 22329 | What will they say of you in Wisconsin, when they hear of your appearance at an English dinner wearing''the livery of the oppressor''? |
| 22329 | What would Dr. Brander Matthews, Colonel Church and Howells, who had warmly commended the book, think of me at this moment? |
| 22329 | When can you come? |
| 22329 | When shall we see you? |
| 22329 | When will you come again? |
| 22329 | Where can I keep a wife? 22329 Where did_ you_ come from?" |
| 22329 | Where is the manuscript? 22329 Where shall we spend the night?" |
| 22329 | Where''s my new daughter? 22329 Why concern yourself with forestry?" |
| 22329 | Why did n''t Mrs. Garland come? |
| 22329 | Why not do something with it yourself? |
| 22329 | Why not stay right here and study modeling with your brother? 22329 Why should not these powerful cities produce authors? |
| 22329 | Why, Poppie? 22329 Will she ever speak again? |
| 22329 | Will the Queen ever come to Chicago again? |
| 22329 | Would you like me to bring my bed and tent? |
| 22329 | You little witch,he said,"what do you mean by beating your granddad?" |
| 22329 | _ Why_ are the children calling? |
| 22329 | _ Why_ did they take her away? |
| 22329 | Almost at once he asked,"Where is your wife? |
| 22329 | And the breakfast was-- well it was like one of your stories-- Do you_ always_ have steak and doughnuts for breakfast?" |
| 22329 | Are n''t you glad you are here in this lovely valley and not out on the bleak Dakota plain?" |
| 22329 | Are they carrying us to higher grounds in fiction and in other arts, or are they descending to lower levels of motive and workmanship?] |
| 22329 | As the last horseman of the procession was passing, she asked faintly--"Will it come again, Poppie?" |
| 22329 | At last she whispered,"Is this the Queen''s room?" |
| 22329 | At that moment I asked myself,"What right have men and women to bring exquisite souls like this into a world of disease and death? |
| 22329 | Ca n''t you come now?" |
| 22329 | Can I walk on the grass?" |
| 22329 | Can it be, as some have said, that you are only an automaton, a physical reaction?" |
| 22329 | Can we come now, papa?" |
| 22329 | Did I say calm? |
| 22329 | Did n''t you see that little shining thing?" |
| 22329 | Did not the proof of it lie in the fact that I was pushing my building with desperate haste? |
| 22329 | Did that deter me? |
| 22329 | Did you like me then?" |
| 22329 | Did you look upon us from the dusky corners, adding your faint voices to the chorus of our songs? |
| 22329 | Do n''t you like our house? |
| 22329 | Do n''t you want me?" |
| 22329 | Do you wonder that I hesitated? |
| 22329 | Enough to feed all the Eagle''s Nest campers.--How many are coming to dinner?" |
| 22329 | From what dusky night rose your starry eyes? |
| 22329 | Greeting me pleasantly he asked,"Has the ceremony begun?" |
| 22329 | Has the life of man any more significance than that of an insect? |
| 22329 | Have I heard her voice for the last time?" |
| 22329 | He made no complaint in his short infrequent letters although as spring came on he once or twice asked,"Why do n''t you come up? |
| 22329 | He pointed toward a woman crouching over a fire in the corral,"You see him-- my wife? |
| 22329 | How do people make wall paper?" |
| 22329 | How had I, whose youth had been so full of penury and toil, earned a share in such leisure, such luxury? |
| 22329 | How would she like some Hopi jars?" |
| 22329 | I exclaimed,"not Henry M. Stanley of Africa?" |
| 22329 | I hated to admit my poverty, but what was the use of making any concealment? |
| 22329 | I withdraw in favor of a better and richer man"--instead of uttering these noble words, what did I do? |
| 22329 | I wonder if by any chance he is for sale?" |
| 22329 | If so why bring children into the world?" |
| 22329 | In the peaceful intervals when she was in her bed, her mother and I discussed the question,"Where shall we make our winter home?" |
| 22329 | Is it complete?" |
| 22329 | Is n''t it fun to have it all to ourselves?" |
| 22329 | Is she here?" |
| 22329 | It all seemed very foolish to some people and my only explanation was suggested by a brake- man who said,"He''s a runnin''horse, ai n''t he?" |
| 22329 | Keeping close hold upon my hand she whispered with excitement,"What was that, Poppie? |
| 22329 | Little Connie, five years old, with chattering teeth, joined her pleading cry,"_ Ca n''t_ you put it out, papa?" |
| 22329 | My joy in my daughter was an agony of fear and remorse-- why had I not acted sooner? |
| 22329 | Now here, in her own home, was she to remain without the witchery of crackling flame? |
| 22329 | Oh, Mother and David, were you with us at that moment? |
| 22329 | Or shall I go on?" |
| 22329 | Out of what unillumined void flowered your fairy face? |
| 22329 | Over and over again as I met her deep serene glance, I asked( as other parents have done),"Whence came you? |
| 22329 | Several times each day he came into the house to say,"Well, how is my granddaughter getting on?" |
| 22329 | Shall I go back to Chicago? |
| 22329 | Shane said,"Remember the time I''bushed''you over in Dunlap''s meadow?" |
| 22329 | She could model, she could paint and she could draw,--but-- to whom did Mary Isabel turn when she wanted a picture? |
| 22329 | Suppose France did that? |
| 22329 | The foreman who came in a few minutes later to see that we were getting fed politely inquired,"Is there anything else I can get you, miss?" |
| 22329 | The idea of the dinner allured me but I shuffled,"Ca n''t I go as I am?" |
| 22329 | Then she asked,"Will it ever be home for us again?" |
| 22329 | To her artist mother? |
| 22329 | To the conductor I put an anxious question,"Is there a decent hotel in Reno?" |
| 22329 | Turning to him suddenly I asked,"Sir Henry, how do you pronounce the name of that poisonous African fly-- is it Teetsie or Tettsie?" |
| 22329 | Was her soul merely the automatic reaction of a material organism against a material environment? |
| 22329 | Was her spirit dependent on the life of its little body or could it live on independent of the flesh? |
| 22329 | Was it a gnome?" |
| 22329 | Was it right for me to give myself up to the enjoyment of it? |
| 22329 | We like to be bossed, do n''t we, Belle?" |
| 22329 | What do you say to that?" |
| 22329 | What does iron come from? |
| 22329 | What does it matter if the''pussley''does cover the ground?" |
| 22329 | What does it? |
| 22329 | What had she to do with elderly folk? |
| 22329 | What have you to show me?" |
| 22329 | What makes the moon spotted? |
| 22329 | What purpose is subserved by keeping the endless chain of human misery lengthening on?" |
| 22329 | What was it all about? |
| 22329 | What was that noise? |
| 22329 | What was that noise?" |
| 22329 | What was the value of their efforts or my own? |
| 22329 | When am I to see her? |
| 22329 | When at last she and I were alone in my study I began,"Well, how do you like West Salem and the Garlands?" |
| 22329 | Whence came these people, these dances, these ceremonials? |
| 22329 | Where did that personality come from? |
| 22329 | Why did n''t you bring her?" |
| 22329 | Why do n''t you celebrate Eagle''s Nest? |
| 22329 | Why do you do it?" |
| 22329 | Why go on? |
| 22329 | Why maintain the race? |
| 22329 | Why not all come down together?" |
| 22329 | Why not fifty dollars? |
| 22329 | Why not put our wedding a week earlier and let me take you into the mountains? |
| 22329 | Why should I not feel this? |
| 22329 | Why spend more time and money on a vain attempt to dispose of this manuscript?" |
| 22329 | Why travel, when your wife, your babe, and your hearthstone are here?" |
| 22329 | Will being a husband and a householder cramp and defeat me as a novelist?" |
| 22329 | Would my humble home content my artist bride? |
| 22329 | Would you let a gown come between you and a chance to see the Needle Peak? |
| 22329 | Yes, but what Thanksgiving could there be for him or for me, now? |
| 22329 | You understand?" |
| 22329 | Zulime was disheartened by all this, but Mary Isabel climbed to my knee as if to say,"Boppa, where is my fireplace?" |
| 22329 | she asked; then, with a look of dismay, she added,"What am I going to do with you in Hanover?" |
| 22329 | when any of us asked"How are you to- day?" |
| 2987 | But what has become of Caesar''s gold, Brother, big brother? |
| 2987 | But you read it? |
| 2987 | Could a man live on a world so small as that? |
| 2987 | Dear child, do n''t you want to run out and play a while? 2987 Does He send all of them, mama?" |
| 2987 | How about a disguise? |
| 2987 | How about dematerialization? |
| 2987 | How big is he? |
| 2987 | How can you be so positive? |
| 2987 | How do you mean, m''lord? |
| 2987 | How long have you been with Barnum and Bailey? |
| 2987 | How many more are there? |
| 2987 | Is it He that sends them? |
| 2987 | Is n''t it strange? |
| 2987 | Is there any evidence that he did n''t? |
| 2987 | Oh, how high is Caesar''s house, Brother, big brother? |
| 2987 | Strange? 2987 Suppose you divide the drop?" |
| 2987 | Suppose you remove a drop of it? 2987 Suppose you separate the hydrogen and the oxygen?" |
| 2987 | Tell me, Franklin[ a microbe of great learning], is the ocean an individual, an animal, a creature? |
| 2987 | The fourth what? |
| 2987 | The times are bad and the world is old--Who knows the where of the Caesar''s gold? 2987 Then it does not matter where the truth, as you call it, comes from?" |
| 2987 | Then water-- any water- is an individual? |
| 2987 | Then you make your own Bible? |
| 2987 | What do you think it was, mama? |
| 2987 | What for? |
| 2987 | What for? |
| 2987 | What is your little bonfire of Vesuvius to this? |
| 2987 | What manner of men are these? |
| 2987 | What reason, mama? |
| 2987 | Where are the rest of the Innocents? |
| 2987 | Where are you going to put him? |
| 2987 | Where is the Ascot Cup? |
| 2987 | Where is the elephant? |
| 2987 | Who first thought of it like that, mama? 2987 Who taught you so, mama?" |
| 2987 | Why do you think so? |
| 2987 | Would you have it in the schools, then? |
| 2987 | Yes, the wee creatures that inhabit the bodies of us germs and feed upon us, and rot us with disease: Ah, what could they have been created for? 2987 You admitted its literary art?" |
| 2987 | APPENDIX K A SUBSTITUTE FOR RULOFF HAVE WE A SIDNEY CARTON AMONG US? |
| 2987 | After a pause:"Did He make the roof fall in on the stranger that was trying to save the crippled old woman from the fire, mama?" |
| 2987 | Am I saying that the pulpit does not do its share toward disseminating the marrow, the meat of the gospel of Christ? |
| 2987 | Am I to go away and let them have peace and quiet for a year and a half, and then come back and only lecture them twice? |
| 2987 | And when the man draws them well why do they stir my admiration? |
| 2987 | And whence and whither?" |
| 2987 | Anything left of Hoffman?" |
| 2987 | Are the two things identical? |
| 2987 | Are you?" |
| 2987 | As we drove into the lane that led to the Stormfield entrance, he said:"Can we see where you have built your billiard- room?" |
| 2987 | Bright? |
| 2987 | But to cease teaching and go back to the beginning again, was it not pitiable-- that spectacle? |
| 2987 | But what if it produce that in spite of you? |
| 2987 | CCLXXVII"IS SHAKESPEARE DEAD?" |
| 2987 | Ca n''t you give me enough of the hypnotic injunction to put an end to me?" |
| 2987 | Clemens said:"Trowbridge, are you still alive? |
| 2987 | Clemens said:"What is it?" |
| 2987 | Clemens sand:"Is that so? |
| 2987 | Clemens?" |
| 2987 | DEAR CHAMP CLARK,--Is the new copyright law acceptable to me? |
| 2987 | DOES THE RACE OF MAN LOVE A LORD? |
| 2987 | Did He give Billy Norris the typhus?" |
| 2987 | Did I know jean''s value? |
| 2987 | Did it? |
| 2987 | Do they even resemble each other? |
| 2987 | Do you admire the race(& consequently yourself)? |
| 2987 | Do you comprehend? |
| 2987 | Do you remember? |
| 2987 | Do you think I wrote the second one to give that man pleasure? |
| 2987 | Do you think you could teach it arithmetic?" |
| 2987 | Do you want to bring the lightning?" |
| 2987 | Does he take an oath or make a promise of any sort?--or does n''t he leave himself entirely free? |
| 2987 | Does this sound like shouting? |
| 2987 | Had we no moral duty to perform? |
| 2987 | Have n''t I told you so, over and over again?" |
| 2987 | Have you forgotten early twitterings of your own? |
| 2987 | He commended man to multiply& replenish- what? |
| 2987 | He said, very gently:"How beautiful it all is? |
| 2987 | He says:"A billion, that is a million millions,[?? |
| 2987 | He says:"A billion, that is a million millions,[?? |
| 2987 | How can you ask such a thing of me? |
| 2987 | How does a soul like that stay in a carcass without getting mixed with the secretions and sweated out through the pores? |
| 2987 | Howells, did you write me day- before- day- before yesterday or did I dream it? |
| 2987 | I bent down over her and patted her cheek and said:"I do n''t seem to remember your name; what is it?" |
| 2987 | I noticed that Jean was listening anxiously, and when I finished she said:"Is that a true story?" |
| 2987 | I said,"How do you account for the changed attitude toward these things? |
| 2987 | I said,''Jean, is this you trying to let me know you have found the others?'' |
| 2987 | I suppose I ought to defend my character, but how can I defend it? |
| 2987 | I was ashamed again, and confessed it; then:"How old are you, dear?" |
| 2987 | I was naturally astonished, and immediately wrote: I did fall and skin my shin at five o''clock yesterday afternoon, but how did you find it out? |
| 2987 | If a life be offered up on the gallows to atone for the murder Ruloff did, will that suffice? |
| 2987 | If so is she extinct and can never attend a third? |
| 2987 | In a dictation following his return, Mark Twain said: Who began it? |
| 2987 | Is it a regular army? |
| 2987 | Is it an army of volunteers who have enlisted for the war, and may righteously be shot if they leave before the war is finished? |
| 2987 | Is it less humiliating to dance to the lash of one master than another? |
| 2987 | Is it possible for human wickedness to invent a doctrine more infernal and poisonous than this? |
| 2987 | Is n''t it curious? |
| 2987 | Is n''t it interesting? |
| 2987 | Is n''t that a brewery?" |
| 2987 | Is n''t that a brewery?" |
| 2987 | Is that it?" |
| 2987 | Is that true, mother--because if it is true why did Mr. Hollister laugh at it?" |
| 2987 | Is there imaginable a baser servitude than it imposes? |
| 2987 | Is what is left an individual?" |
| 2987 | It only costs the public a dollar apiece, and if they ca n''t stand it what do they stay here for? |
| 2987 | It was not wrong? |
| 2987 | MR. MARK TWAIN-- DEAR SIR,--Will you start now, without any unnecessary delay? |
| 2987 | Mark Twain''s own book on the subject--''Is Shakespeare Dead?'' |
| 2987 | Must he prove that he is sound in any way, mind or body? |
| 2987 | Must he prove that he knows anything-- is capable of anything-- whatever? |
| 2987 | Not much of it all is left to me, but I remember Howells saying,"Did it ever occur to you that the newspapers abolished hell? |
| 2987 | Now you all know all these things yourself, do n''t you? |
| 2987 | Now, therefore, why should I withhold it? |
| 2987 | OR HELL? |
| 2987 | Of course you can save money by denying yourself all these vicious little enjoyments for fifty years; but then what can you do with it? |
| 2987 | Once, half roused, he looked at me searchingly and asked:"Is n''t there something I can resign and be out of all this? |
| 2987 | One day she said:"Mama, why is there so much pain and sorrow and suffering? |
| 2987 | Ought we to allow this war to begin? |
| 2987 | Replying to the question( put to himself),"Are you pleased with the marriage?" |
| 2987 | Says I,''Hold on there, Evangeline, what are you going to do with them?'' |
| 2987 | Shall I ever be cheerful again, happy again? |
| 2987 | Shall you also say that it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter and become a mouthing lunatic besides? |
| 2987 | Shall you say the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? |
| 2987 | She? |
| 2987 | Take a man like Sir Oliver Lodge, and what secret of Nature can be hidden from him? |
| 2987 | That''s closed in, is n''t it, for the winter? |
| 2987 | The autumn splendors passed you by? |
| 2987 | The letter itself consisted merely of a line, which said: Wo n''t you give your friends, the missionaries, a good mark for this? |
| 2987 | The property has got to fall to some heir, and why not the United States? |
| 2987 | The question is, if she attends two doe luncheons in succession is she a doe- doe? |
| 2987 | The sensational head- lines in a morning paper,"Is Mark Twain a Plagiarist?" |
| 2987 | There was such a mingling of yells and calls and questions, such as,"Have you brought the jumping Frog with you?" |
| 2987 | They give us pain, they make our lives miserable, they murder us-- and where is the use of it all, where the wisdom? |
| 2987 | To Howells, on the same day, he wrote: Wo n''t you& Mrs. Howells& Mildred come& give us as many days as you can spare& examine John''s triumph? |
| 2987 | Toward the evening of the first day, when it grew dark outside, he asked:"How long have we been on this voyage?" |
| 2987 | U. E. WAS IT HEAVEN? |
| 2987 | U. E. WHY NOT ABOLISH IT? |
| 2987 | Very well, then, what is the use of your stringing out your miserable lives to a clean and withered old age? |
| 2987 | Very well, then- what ought we to do? |
| 2987 | WHAT IS MAN? |
| 2987 | WHICH WAS WHICH? |
| 2987 | Was it R. U. Johnson? |
| 2987 | Was it an illusion? |
| 2987 | Was it both together? |
| 2987 | Was it not our duty to administer a rebuke to this selfish and heartless Family? |
| 2987 | Was it not our duty to stop it, in the name of right and righteousness? |
| 2987 | Was it the Authors''League? |
| 2987 | Was it to discipline the church?" |
| 2987 | Was it to discipline the hog, mama?" |
| 2987 | Was it you?" |
| 2987 | Was that right?" |
| 2987 | Well, is it? |
| 2987 | Well, suppose you combine them again, but in a new way: make the proportions equal-- one part oxygen to one of hydrogen?" |
| 2987 | Well, they have invented a heaven, out of their own heads, all by themselves; guess what it is like? |
| 2987 | What do you take me for? |
| 2987 | What is it all for?" |
| 2987 | What is it you want?" |
| 2987 | What is the essential difference between a lifelong democrat and any other kind of lifelong slave? |
| 2987 | What is the process when a voter joins a party? |
| 2987 | What is the use of your saving money that is so utterly worthless to you? |
| 2987 | What kind of a disease is that? |
| 2987 | What mother knows not that? |
| 2987 | What ship is that? |
| 2987 | What ship is that?" |
| 2987 | What slave is so degraded as the slave that is proud that he is a slave? |
| 2987 | What use can you put it to? |
| 2987 | What would become of me if he should disintegrate? |
| 2987 | What, sir, would the people of this earth be without woman? |
| 2987 | When he had read a number of these he said:"Well, why does He do it then? |
| 2987 | Where was ever a sermon preached that could make filial ingratitude so hateful to men as the sinful play of"King Lear"? |
| 2987 | Why do I respect my own? |
| 2987 | Why do we respect the opinions of any man or any microbe that ever lived? |
| 2987 | Why does He give Himself the trouble?" |
| 2987 | Why should his life be taken away for their sake, when he was n''t doing anything?" |
| 2987 | Why should they have declined? |
| 2987 | Will you remember that? |
| 2987 | You do not think me wrong? |
| 2987 | You notice that? |
| 2987 | You notice the stately General standing there with his hand resting upon the muzzle of a cannon? |
| 2987 | and when England''s Prime Minister- Campbell- Bannerman-- came forward some one shouted,"What about the House of Lords?" |
| 2987 | impostors, were they? |
| 2987 | said I;"who were the others?" |
| 13583 | Mes enfans,said a French gentleman to the cherubs in the Picture,"Mes enfans, asseyez- vous?" |
| 13583 | What care I for the house? 13583 Why? |
| 13583 | ( Did you get those two Newspapers?) |
| 13583 | * How do you like it? |
| 13583 | * Shall I say then,"In the mouth of two witnesses"? |
| 13583 | ----------_"Forgotten you? |
| 13583 | --R. Waldo Emerson May I trouble you with a commission when you are in the City? |
| 13583 | A cassock? |
| 13583 | A sore calamity has fallen on us, or rather has fallen on my poor Wife( for what am I but like a spectator in comparison? |
| 13583 | A_ disjectum membrum;_ cut off from relations with men? |
| 13583 | After all, why should not Letters be on business too? |
| 13583 | All the world cries out, Why_ do you_ publish with Fraser? |
| 13583 | Always excepting my wonderful Professor, who among the living has thrown any memorable truths into circulation? |
| 13583 | And can not you renew and confirm your suggestion touching your appearance in this continent? |
| 13583 | And must not we say that Drunkenness is a virtue rather than that Cato has erred? |
| 13583 | And now the Heterodox, the Heterodox, where is that? |
| 13583 | And now why do not_ you_ write to me? |
| 13583 | And now will you not tell me what you read and write? |
| 13583 | And see Miss Martineau in the last_ Westminster Review:_--these things you are old enough to stand? |
| 13583 | And then, How? |
| 13583 | And what more can a man ask of his writing fellow- man? |
| 13583 | And yet did ever wise and philanthropic author use so defying a diction? |
| 13583 | And yet, as you will say, why not even of dollars? |
| 13583 | Are all these things interesting to you? |
| 13583 | As you know my whereabout, will you throw a little light on your own? |
| 13583 | But after all, will it suit America to print an_ unequal_ number of your two pairs of volumes? |
| 13583 | But has literature any parallel to the oddity of the vehicle chosen to convey this treasure? |
| 13583 | But now first as to this question, What I mean? |
| 13583 | But on the whole are we not the_ formalest_ people ever created under this Sun? |
| 13583 | But the way to find that word? |
| 13583 | But then where? |
| 13583 | But what avail any commendations of the form, until I know that the man is alive and well? |
| 13583 | But what makes the priest? |
| 13583 | By the by, have you not learned to read German now? |
| 13583 | By the bye, will you tell me some time or other in_ what_ American funds it is that your funded money, you once gave me note of, now lies? |
| 13583 | Can they not see the necessity of your coming to look after your American interests? |
| 13583 | Can you have the generosity to write,_ without_ an answer? |
| 13583 | Can you not have some_ Sartors_ sent? |
| 13583 | Can you tell me? |
| 13583 | Carlyle to Emerson Chelsea, London, 13 April, 1839 My Dear Emerson,--Has anything gone wrong with you? |
| 13583 | Could you send me two copies of the American_ Life of Schiller,_ if the thing is fit for making a present of, and easy to be got? |
| 13583 | Could you send us out a part of your edition at American prices, and at the same time to your advantage? |
| 13583 | Couldst not wait a little? |
| 13583 | Did I tell you that we hope shortly to send you some American verses and prose of good intent? |
| 13583 | Did he ever write to you? |
| 13583 | Did the Upholsterer make this Universe? |
| 13583 | Did you ever see such a vacant turnip- lantern as that Walsingham Goethe? |
| 13583 | Did you not tell me, Mr. Thomas Carlyle, sitting upon one of your broad hills, that it was Jesus Christ built Dunscore Kirk yonder? |
| 13583 | Do not the two together make one work? |
| 13583 | Do you know English Puseyism? |
| 13583 | Do you know what I think of doing with it? |
| 13583 | Do you not believe that the fields and woods have their proper virtue, and that there are good and great things which will not be spoken in the city? |
| 13583 | Do you read German or not? |
| 13583 | Do you read Landor, or know him, O seeing man? |
| 13583 | Do you remember Fraser''s Magazine for October, 1832, and a Translation there, with Notes, of a thing called Goethe''s Mahrchen? |
| 13583 | Emerson What manner of person is Heraud? |
| 13583 | Far, far better seems to me the unpopularity of this Philosophical Poem( shall I call it?) |
| 13583 | Fear not that!--Do you attend at all to this new_ Laudism_ of ours? |
| 13583 | For the sake of America will she not try the trip to Leith again? |
| 13583 | For which last Evangel, the confirmation and rehabilitation of all other Evangels whatsoever, how can I be too grateful? |
| 13583 | Gustave d''Eichthal( did you hear?) |
| 13583 | Has the heterodoxy arrived in Chelsea, and quite destroyed us even in the charity of our friend? |
| 13583 | Has the_ Meister_ ever arrived? |
| 13583 | Have I involved you in double postage by this loquacity? |
| 13583 | Have you received a letter from me with a pamphlet sent in December? |
| 13583 | How can I speak of them on a miserable scrap of blue paper? |
| 13583 | How do I know what is good for_ you,_ what authentically makes your own heart glad to work in it? |
| 13583 | How is it that you do not write to me? |
| 13583 | How should he be so poor? |
| 13583 | I am getting on with some studies of mine prosperously for me, have got three essays nearly done, and who knows but in the autumn I shall have a book? |
| 13583 | I am weary of hearing it said,"We love the Americans,""We wish well,"& c.,& c. What in God''s name should we do else? |
| 13583 | I ask constantly of all men whether life may not be poetic as well as stupid? |
| 13583 | I declare, I am ashamed of my intolerance:--and yet you have ceased to be a Teacher of theirs, have you not? |
| 13583 | I have seen some other Lions, and Lion''s-_providers;_ but consider them a worthless species.--When will you write, then? |
| 13583 | I know not what he will make of it;-- perhaps wry faces at it? |
| 13583 | I rejoice rather in my laziness; proving that I_ can_ sit.--But, after all, ought I not to be thankful? |
| 13583 | I sometimes ask myself rather earnestly, What is the duty of a citizen? |
| 13583 | I will not love them.--And yet, what am I saying? |
| 13583 | If it be not His will,--then is it not better so? |
| 13583 | If you in America wanted more also--? |
| 13583 | In any case what signifies it much? |
| 13583 | In this number what say you to the_ Elegy_ written by a youth who grew up in this town and lives near me,--Henry Thoreau? |
| 13583 | Is he now a preacher? |
| 13583 | Is it Cromwell still? |
| 13583 | Is lecturing and noise the way to get at that? |
| 13583 | Is not all that very morbid,--unworthy the children of Odin, not to speak of Luther, Knox, and the other Brave? |
| 13583 | Is there, at bottom, in the world or out of it, anything one would like so well, with one''s whole heart_ well,_ as PEACE? |
| 13583 | It seems then this Mahomet was not a quack? |
| 13583 | John Sterling scolds and kisses it( as the manner of the man is), and concludes by inquiring, whether there is any procurable Likeness of Emerson? |
| 13583 | Little and James Brown, 112 Washington St.), or is not this the right way? |
| 13583 | May I not call it temporary? |
| 13583 | Meanwhile, however, is it not pitiable? |
| 13583 | Milnes did get your Letter: I told you? |
| 13583 | More than one inquires of me, Has that Emerson of yours written nothing else? |
| 13583 | My copy of the_ Oration_ has never come: how is this? |
| 13583 | Norton* surely is a chimera; but what has the whole business they are jarring about become? |
| 13583 | Now, what does your question point at in reference to your new edition, asking"if we want more"? |
| 13583 | Or are you perhaps writing a Book? |
| 13583 | Or do you ever mean to learn it? |
| 13583 | Or perhaps it is not a whit worse; only rougher, more substantial; on the whole better? |
| 13583 | Or the power( and thence the call) to teach man''s duties as they flow from the Superhuman? |
| 13583 | Or who knows but Mahomet may go to the mountain? |
| 13583 | Patience;--and yet who can be patient? |
| 13583 | People cry over it:"Whitherward? |
| 13583 | Perhaps in some late number of the_ Zeitgenossen_ there may be something? |
| 13583 | Probably, there is no chance before the middle of March or so? |
| 13583 | Read the article_ Simonides_ by him in the_ London and Westminster_--brilliant prose, translations-- wooden? |
| 13583 | Says not the sarcasm,"Truth hath the plague in his house"? |
| 13583 | Shall it be Switzerland, shall it be Scotland, nay, shall it be America and Concord? |
| 13583 | Shall we have anthracite coal or wood in your chamber? |
| 13583 | Suppose you and I promulgate a treatise next,"How to see"? |
| 13583 | Tell me of the author''s health and welfare; or, will not he love me so much as to write me a letter with his own hand? |
| 13583 | Tell me whether you dislike it less; what you do think of it? |
| 13583 | That he is a better Christian, with his"bastard Christianity,"than the most of us shovel- hatted? |
| 13583 | That is the right way, is it not? |
| 13583 | The Cat- Raphael? |
| 13583 | The Printer is slack and lazy as Printers are; and you do not wish to write till you can send some news of him? |
| 13583 | The cost of a copy in sheets or"folded"( if that means somewhat more?) |
| 13583 | The second volume was just closing; shall it live for a third year? |
| 13583 | The way to speak it when found?" |
| 13583 | The"Lectures on the Times"are even now in progress? |
| 13583 | Then again I think it is perhaps better so; who knows? |
| 13583 | These voices of yours which I likened to unembodied souls, and censure sometimes for having no body,--how can they have a body? |
| 13583 | They are delivering Orations about him, and emitting other kinds of froth,_ ut mos est._ What hurt can it do? |
| 13583 | They are even of benefit? |
| 13583 | They ask, What shall be done? |
| 13583 | To fly in the teeth of English Puseyism, and risk such shrill welcome as I am pretty sure of, is questionable: yet at bottom why not? |
| 13583 | To what use, surely? |
| 13583 | Varnhagen himself will not bring up your fourth volume to the right size; hardly beyond 380 pages, I should think; yet what more can be done? |
| 13583 | Very saucy, was it not? |
| 13583 | Were you created by the Tailor? |
| 13583 | What am I to do? |
| 13583 | What can we say in these cases? |
| 13583 | What could Homer, Socrates, or St. Paul say that can not be said here? |
| 13583 | What does he at Clifton? |
| 13583 | What has life better to offer than such tidings? |
| 13583 | What have you to do with Italy? |
| 13583 | What help, O James? |
| 13583 | What is to hinder huge London from being to universal Saxondom what small Mycale was to the Tribes of Greece,--a place to hold your[ Greek] in? |
| 13583 | What news, my dear friend, from your study? |
| 13583 | What she is to write I know not, except it be what she has said, holding up the pamphlet,"Is it not a noble thing? |
| 13583 | What would it avail to tell you anecdotes of a sweet and wonderful boy, such as we solace and sadden ourselves with at home every morning and evening? |
| 13583 | What, What?" |
| 13583 | When will you come and redeem your pledge? |
| 13583 | Wherefore, putting all things together, can not I feel that I have washed my hands of this business in a quite tolerable manner? |
| 13583 | Why may you not give the reins to your wit, your pathos, your philosophy, and become that good despot which the virtuous orator is? |
| 13583 | Why not you come over, since I can not? |
| 13583 | Why will not this_ Appendix_ do, these_ Appendixes,_ to hang to the skirts of Volume Four as well? |
| 13583 | Will it ever reach him? |
| 13583 | Will not that do? |
| 13583 | Will this_ Appendix_ do, then? |
| 13583 | Will you say to him that he sent me some books two or three years ago without any account of prices annexed? |
| 13583 | Yet I work better under this base necessity, and then I have a certain delight( base also?) |
| 13583 | Yet how is it that I do not hear? |
| 13583 | Yet it was to fulfil my duty, finish my mission, not with much hope of gratifying him,--in the spirit of"If I love you, what is that to you?" |
| 13583 | Yet perhaps it is the proper place after all, seeing all places are improper: who knows? |
| 13583 | You can not believe it? |
| 13583 | You of course read his sublime"article"? |
| 13583 | You, friend Emerson, are to be a Farmer, you say, and dig Earth for your living? |
| 13583 | _ Varnhagen_ may be printed I think without offence, since there is need of it: if that will make up your fourth volume to a due size, why not? |
| 13583 | and WHEREFORE? |
| 13583 | and_ Mirabeau_ and_ Macaulay?_ Stearns Wheeler is very faithful in his loving labor,--has taken a world of pains with the sweetest smile. |
| 13583 | canst thou not make a pulpit by simply_ inverting the nearest tub?_"yet, alas! |
| 13583 | he has to fly again.--Did you get his letter? |
| 13583 | in the whole circle of History is there the parallel of that,--a true worship rising at this hour of the day for Bands and the Shovel- hat? |
| 13583 | my horror of_ Lecturing_ continues great; and what else is there for me to do there? |
| 13583 | or What is your American rule? |
| 13583 | was it you that defalcated? |
| 13583 | what designs ripened or executed? |
| 13583 | what hopes? |
| 13583 | what thoughts? |
| 6702 | ''What is this life to one who has suffered as I have?"'' |
| 6702 | ''And how will you get it, friend of mine?'' 6702 ''How much longer must the gingerbread stay in?'' |
| 6702 | ''Ma''am, shall I put ginger into this pumpkin?'' 6702 ''Ma''am, shall I put the pork on the top of the beans?'' |
| 6702 | ''Ma''am, what shall I do with these egg- shells and all this truck here?'' 6702 ''Shall I put in the brown or the white bread first?'' |
| 6702 | ''Well, but kitchen affairs?'' 6702 ''What do you think of it?'' |
| 6702 | ''What, you, too?'' 6702 And now you ask, What can the_ women_ of a country do? |
| 6702 | Can it be,said I,"that we are to be obliged to spend a night in the streets?" |
| 6702 | Have you talked with the Curtises yourself? |
| 6702 | Is there, then, no satisfaction for this craving of the soul? 6702 Mr. Sturge is to be there waiting for us, but he does not know us and we do n''t know him; what is to be done?" |
| 6702 | Oh,says a by- stander,"do n''t you know that"''The quality of mercy is not strained''?" |
| 6702 | Pray what is there in Cincinnati to satisfy one whose mind is awakened on this subject? 6702 We had first- rate seats, and how do you think we got them? |
| 6702 | What are folks in general saying about the slave law, and the stand taken by Boston ministers universally, except Edward? 6702 What does make this river so muddy?" |
| 6702 | What has the Son of God done which the meanest and most selfish creature upon earth would not have done? 6702 While all the nations of Europe are thus moved on the subject of American slavery, shall we alone remain unmoved? |
| 6702 | Who struck that guitar? |
| 6702 | Why do n''t you go to law? |
| 6702 | You have a woman that can write an able refutation of Edwards on''The Will''? 6702 ''Here is Frederick sitting by Ellen, glancing at her brilliant face, and saying something aboutguardian angel,"and all that-- you remember?'' |
| 6702 | ''How can we?'' |
| 6702 | ''Is it so?'' |
| 6702 | ''Is this all?'' |
| 6702 | ''The last sentence was:"What is this life to one who has suffered as I have?" |
| 6702 | ''What next?'' |
| 6702 | A Kilkenny- cattish style of advice? |
| 6702 | After that who cares what critics say? |
| 6702 | An incident like that appeals to one''s heart, does it not? |
| 6702 | And has not James Marvyn also his lesson to be taught? |
| 6702 | And is not the value of dogmatic theology as a rule of life to be thoroughly tested for the doctor by his slave- trading parishioners? |
| 6702 | And never be forgiven? |
| 6702 | And so she is getting nice and strong? |
| 6702 | And what would then be gained for the negro? |
| 6702 | As Cowper hath somewhere happily said:--"Oh, why are farmers made so coarse, Or clergy made so fine? |
| 6702 | As I saw the way to the cathedral blocked up by a throng of people who had come out to see me, I could not help saying,"What went ye out for to see? |
| 6702 | As Mrs. Stowe has since repeatedly said,"I could not control the story; it wrote itself;"or"I the author of''Uncle Tom''s Cabin''? |
| 6702 | Ask her, please, when you write, with my love, whether, when she stands now behind the great stick, one can see much of her on each side? |
| 6702 | But could a woman hope to have_ always_ such a heart, and yet ever be weaned from earth"all this and heaven, too"? |
| 6702 | But do n''t you see from this how I must want"spiritualism"above most persons? |
| 6702 | But do we always find this horror or this desire? |
| 6702 | But where was the joyous ecstasy of that beautiful Sabbath morning of a year ago? |
| 6702 | CAN THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL BE PROVED BY THE LIGHT OF NATURE? |
| 6702 | CONTENTS: The Ravages of a Carpet; Home- Keeping_ versus_ House- Keeping; What is a Home? |
| 6702 | Can I lawfully divide my attention by literary efforts? |
| 6702 | Can we look into the council of the"Unsearchable"and see what means are made to answer their ends? |
| 6702 | Can you wonder now that such a wicked woman should be gone from you a full month instead of the week I intended? |
| 6702 | Could you ever come out and spend a day with us? |
| 6702 | Did I see you( in white frock and black silk apron) when I was in Ohio in 1835? |
| 6702 | Did not liberty in those days feel the strong impulse of woman''s heart? |
| 6702 | Do I suppose he has destroyed the flower? |
| 6702 | Do invisible spirits speak in any wise,--wise or foolish?--is the question_ a priori_? |
| 6702 | Do you have, as we do,_ cartes de visite_? |
| 6702 | Does not the Bible plainly tell us of a time when there shall be no more pain? |
| 6702 | For all these kindnesses, what could I give in return? |
| 6702 | Froude is coming here-- why not you? |
| 6702 | Funny!--isn''t it? |
| 6702 | God has written it in his book that you must be a literary woman, and who are we that we should contend against God? |
| 6702 | Had n''t we better get a little beefsteak, or something, for dinner? |
| 6702 | Has she not talent? |
| 6702 | Have you ever subjected the facts to the judgment of a medical man, learned in nervous pathology? |
| 6702 | Have you had any more manifestations, any truths from the spirit world? |
| 6702 | He wore a sword, and Fred, touching it, asked,''Is this for use or ornament, sir?'' |
| 6702 | He''s nailed it all crooked; what shall he do? |
| 6702 | His note ends with the words,"And who but God is to be glorified?" |
| 6702 | How do you prove that you are not trammeled by educational or traditional notions as to the entire sanctity of the book? |
| 6702 | How do you think New England theology would have fared if our fathers had been landed here instead of on Plymouth Rock? |
| 6702 | How was it to be kept on? |
| 6702 | I could not but think what if anything should happen to me there? |
| 6702 | I feel, therefore, a desire to"walk softly,"and inquire, for what has He so trusted us? |
| 6702 | I really wish to know what you think of this.... Do you suppose that God really loves sinners before they come to Him? |
| 6702 | I shall in all probability be in London in May: shall I see you? |
| 6702 | If they call the fiction dreadful, what will they say of the fact, where I can not deny, suppress, or color? |
| 6702 | If, with your heart and brain,_ you_ are not orthodox, in Heaven''s name who is? |
| 6702 | If_ he_ can see these things, they are to be seen, and why can not Exeter Hall see them? |
| 6702 | In all England is there no Amen? |
| 6702 | Independence? |
| 6702 | Is he to be depended on? |
| 6702 | Is it not insanity? |
| 6702 | Is it not much more evident that the great majority of mankind have no such dread at all? |
| 6702 | Is it not worth all the suffering of writing it? |
| 6702 | Is it right to say to those who are in deep distress,''God is interested in you; He feels for and loves you''?" |
| 6702 | Is it the beginning of the restitution of all things? |
| 6702 | Is not this blessed, my dear husband? |
| 6702 | Is not truth between man and man, and between man and woman, the foundation on which all things rest? |
| 6702 | Is there yet anything for me to do? |
| 6702 | It was as if a voice had said to me:"You trusted in God, did you? |
| 6702 | MY DEAR SISTER,--Is it really true that snow is on the ground and Christmas coming, and I have not written unto thee, most dear sister? |
| 6702 | May I, a critic by profession, say the whole truth to a woman of genius? |
| 6702 | Mrs. Stowe, there is a man come with a lot of pails and tinware from Furbish; will you settle the bill now? |
| 6702 | Mrs. Stowe, where are the screws of the black walnut bedstead? |
| 6702 | My 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? |
| 6702 | No one can have the system of slavery brought before him without an irrepressible desire to_ do_ something, and what is there to be done?" |
| 6702 | No voice? |
| 6702 | Nothing, doubtless, compared to genius; but has she genius? |
| 6702 | Now He has hurried him into eternity without a moment''s warning, without preparation, and where is he?" |
| 6702 | Oh, where is your soul? |
| 6702 | Serials they demand and will have, and I thought, since this generation will listen to nothing but stories, why not tell them?" |
| 6702 | Shall Hatty go to Boardman''s for some more black thread? |
| 6702 | Shall every State in the Union be thrown open to slavery? |
| 6702 | Shall the whole power of these United States go into the hands of slavery? |
| 6702 | Shall we, the wives, mothers, and sisters of America, remain content with inaction in such a crisis as this? |
| 6702 | She writes:"When the young man came to Jesus, is it not said that Jesus loved him, though he was unrenewed?" |
| 6702 | Sisters, what have_ you_ done, and what do you mean to do? |
| 6702 | So kind Mrs. Parsons stopped in the very midst of her pumpkin pies to think of us? |
| 6702 | So you are coming round to Venice, after all? |
| 6702 | So you have been seeing the Pope and all his Easter performances? |
| 6702 | Stowe._ Where shall I get soap? |
| 6702 | Stowe?" |
| 6702 | Take from us Christ and what He taught, and what have we here? |
| 6702 | Ten thousand, did I say? |
| 6702 | The black thread is all used up, and what shall I do about putting gimp on the back of that sofa? |
| 6702 | The questions,"What becomes of the soul at the time of death?" |
| 6702 | Then what is to become of her older lover? |
| 6702 | They sum up my cares, and were they gone I should ask myself, What now remains to be done? |
| 6702 | Turn our backs on them, and leave them to their fate? |
| 6702 | Was it not pleasant, when I had a heart so warm for this old country? |
| 6702 | Was n''t it nice? |
| 6702 | What are the slaveholders to do when this is the best their friends and supporters can say for them? |
| 6702 | What can I do? |
| 6702 | What could I say? |
| 6702 | What does make people go on so about you?" |
| 6702 | What is talent? |
| 6702 | What made Shakespeare so great? |
| 6702 | What next?'' |
| 6702 | What next?'' |
| 6702 | What shall I write next?'' |
| 6702 | What shall we do now? |
| 6702 | What think you? |
| 6702 | What was the use of thinking about_ him_? |
| 6702 | What woman could n''t call such a spirit evidence of being prepared for speedy translation? |
| 6702 | What''s to be done? |
| 6702 | What, then? |
| 6702 | When are you coming back again? |
| 6702 | When the brain gives out, as mine often does, and one can not think or remember anything, then what is to be done? |
| 6702 | Where are all those great souls that have created such an atmosphere of light about Edinburgh? |
| 6702 | Where is the inkstand?'' |
| 6702 | Where was that heavenly friend? |
| 6702 | Who but admires that undaunted firmness in time of peace and that profound depth of policy which she displayed in the cabinet? |
| 6702 | Who is that Hale, Jr., that sent me the''Boston Miscellany,''and will he keep his word with me? |
| 6702 | Who knows what we may get entrapped into? |
| 6702 | Who so low, who so poor, who so despised as the American slave? |
| 6702 | Who, but upon reading the history of England, does not look with awe upon the effects produced by the talents of her Elizabeth? |
| 6702 | Why did n''t you engage the two tombstones-- one for you and one for me? |
| 6702 | Why do foreign lands regard us with this intensity of interest? |
| 6702 | Why do the horrible barbarities of_ Southern_ soldiers cause no comment? |
| 6702 | Why is_ all_ expression of sympathy on the_ Southern_ side? |
| 6702 | Will our sisters in England feel no heartbeat at that event? |
| 6702 | Will you consent to enter the Episcopal Church and be our clergyman? |
| 6702 | Will you not come out in defense of it and roll back the tide of vituperation?" |
| 6702 | Will you settle them now? |
| 6702 | With all the faults of the colored people, take a man and put him down with nothing but his hands, and how many could say as much as that? |
| 6702 | Yes? |
| 6702 | Yet was not this as it should be, and might not God leave her"to make herself as miserable as she had made herself sinful"? |
| 6702 | [ 21] I often think,_ Why_ am I spared? |
| 6702 | _ Ca n''t_ you come? |
| 6702 | a reed shaken with the wind?" |
| 6702 | about that sink?" |
| 6702 | and, if it be not annihilated,"What is its destiny after death?" |
| 6702 | could I know that when I parted from my Henry on English shores that I should never see him more? |
| 6702 | exclaimed Mr. Goldschmidt,''the author of"Uncle Tom''s Cabin"? |
| 6702 | for what? |
| 6702 | give up the point of emancipation for these four million slaves? |
| 6702 | to do what? |
| 6702 | what did your brave mothers do in the days of our Revolution? |
| 6702 | who that had a friend in heaven could wish them to return in such wise as this? |
| 6702 | why does n''t Mina get up? |
| 39407 | ''What yer want here?'' 39407 ''Where did you work while you were away?'' |
| 39407 | ''Why, do n''t you know me?'' 39407 ''Yes-- how long there?'' |
| 39407 | A present? |
| 39407 | And now? |
| 39407 | And what became of Love? |
| 39407 | And... and what is our Susie going to do-- give a ball, and invite the Governor of Kentucky? |
| 39407 | B,said Emmy Lou,"and e?" |
| 39407 | Ca n''t I drink to the beggar, too, whoever he is? |
| 39407 | Can you show them-- valentines? |
| 39407 | Constance Parker, what on earth is the matter with you to- day? 39407 Did I do wrong? |
| 39407 | Did the two little Knights of Kentucky ever meet Joyce again or find the Gate of the Giant Scissors? |
| 39407 | Do n''t you think it would be more natural for him to count and think in dollars-- a million dollars? |
| 39407 | Do you know Bear Waller owes its muserkil educashun to me? 39407 General Haverhill-- Miss--?" |
| 39407 | Genie Roscoe, what pranks are you playing? |
| 39407 | Get any valentines? |
| 39407 | God? |
| 39407 | Goin''somewheres? |
| 39407 | Hogwallow? |
| 39407 | Hot agin-- ain''t it? |
| 39407 | How did they come to find-- it? |
| 39407 | How long has that man been here? |
| 39407 | Howd''y do, St. John? 39407 I hesitated a moment; he looked at me more closely and said in that same tone:"''Where?'' |
| 39407 | I suppose Lieutenant Rigby here has told you that we must use your house? |
| 39407 | I suppose you, too, are loyal-- to Virginia, Miss Eugenia? |
| 39407 | Is he followin''us? |
| 39407 | Is it your fader? |
| 39407 | Lally, this is the only thing I have ever owned in the way of jewelry, and it''s not much, but will you take it and wear it for my sake? |
| 39407 | Marstah, hez you seed anythin''ob a spotted heifer wid one horn broke off, anywhars on de road? 39407 My dear child, has your husband been preaching? |
| 39407 | No? |
| 39407 | Oh, D.,she cried, in a sudden rapture,"we are glad, ai n''t we?" |
| 39407 | Right yonder, over Little Niggerwool-- see''em there? |
| 39407 | Shall we go home? |
| 39407 | So,said Gracie Gayle,"you''re out of the running?" |
| 39407 | Still, what think you became of all that men did? |
| 39407 | Tell me, what are you going to do? |
| 39407 | Tell me? |
| 39407 | Then I must just go back to treating her like a child again? |
| 39407 | There''s a new poet, did you know? 39407 They had such a habit of asking:''Where did you work last?'' |
| 39407 | Think you that all of them are not gathered elsewhere-- strangely changed, yet the same? 39407 To Laura-- On the Vanity of Passion?" |
| 39407 | To Laura-- Unrelenting? |
| 39407 | To Laura-- Whose Departing Darkens the Sky? |
| 39407 | Wanted-- fur-- whut? |
| 39407 | Well, sir? |
| 39407 | Well, where is it-- the body? |
| 39407 | What am I to do without my little candle? |
| 39407 | What are you doing? |
| 39407 | What became of the man who was true? |
| 39407 | What became of the woman who asked for nothing in life but love and youth? |
| 39407 | What do we know; what did he know on earth? 39407 What do you mean? |
| 39407 | What does it read? |
| 39407 | What does it read? |
| 39407 | What does it read? |
| 39407 | What happened after the Little Colonel''s house party? |
| 39407 | What is going on? |
| 39407 | What was your idea, Constance, in coming to this tiny place? |
| 39407 | What''s up? |
| 39407 | What''s your business? |
| 39407 | Which-- him? |
| 39407 | Whither did Science go? 39407 Who''s the superintendent of the Oriel mine? |
| 39407 | Whose little girl_ are_ you? |
| 39407 | Whut buzzards-- where? |
| 39407 | Why should I hesitate to tell what you do n''t hesitate to do? |
| 39407 | Why, who is this? 39407 Will she go to him?" |
| 39407 | Wo n''t you? |
| 39407 | Would n''t you like to be Dandie''s and papa''s little girl all at once? |
| 39407 | Would not all have helped each? |
| 39407 | Would not each have helped all? |
| 39407 | Would they have so mingled their wars with their prayers? |
| 39407 | Would they not have thrown away their weapons and thrown their arms around one another? 39407 Yes, is n''t it? |
| 39407 | You are going in, then? |
| 39407 | You are-- loyal? |
| 39407 | You awake, miss? 39407 You do n''t know about the place? |
| 39407 | You love me in spite of dat I am your nigga? |
| 39407 | You love me in spite of dis? |
| 39407 | You make a practice of this? |
| 39407 | You surmise the contents of the will? |
| 39407 | You vill gome mit me to mein gountry? |
| 39407 | ("Is it only a mother you want for Lola-- and yourself? |
| 39407 | ("Oh, you do?") |
| 39407 | (_ Goes off into another peal of laughter, turns to the men._) Howard, Dad, all of you, did you hear that? |
| 39407 | (_ Laughs._)"To Laura-- Who Deigns Not a Single Tear?" |
| 39407 | (_ Shouts heard._)_ Alathea._ What''s that? |
| 39407 | (_ To Lynch._) Are you satisfied, Mr. Lynch? |
| 39407 | (_ To the rest-- rising._) Shall we depart, that he may still indite them? |
| 39407 | A buzzard-- hey? |
| 39407 | A cowbell-- that was it; but why did it seem to come from overhead, from up in the sky, like? |
| 39407 | A little face to look at, A little face to kiss; Is there anything, I wonder, That''s half so sweet as this? |
| 39407 | A tear? |
| 39407 | Ai n''t I? |
| 39407 | Ai n''t they got nothin''but soldiers to send out here? |
| 39407 | And give me a chance to be of use? |
| 39407 | And how was it that the clapper seemed to strike so fast? |
| 39407 | And if not, how was she to survive the contumely and shame? |
| 39407 | And she''ll answer them, mamma, wo n''t she?" |
| 39407 | And that young man-- does he never get tired of his own works?" |
| 39407 | And when a man got a little along in life he was apt to be a light sleeper-- wasn''t that so? |
| 39407 | And who can turn backward our feet from the destined place? |
| 39407 | And who will remember the time, or the wish, or the boon? |
| 39407 | And why did it shift so abruptly from one quarter to another-- from left to right and back again to left? |
| 39407 | And"Why, for cat''s sake, ca n''t you tell a fellow what''s up your sleeve?" |
| 39407 | And"is this a merry jape?" |
| 39407 | Are the modern ways Darker for all the light That the years have shed? |
| 39407 | Are you a real colonel or jest a newspaper colonel, or are you a colonel on the governor''s staff? |
| 39407 | As I drew near he called out threateningly:"''Who are you?'' |
| 39407 | At last a postscript from Mrs. Loring herself:"Would n''t you like to come to see her? |
| 39407 | BELL HORSES[ From_ Under a Fool''s Cap_( London, 1884)] Bell horses, Bell horses, What time of day? |
| 39407 | Beneath me? |
| 39407 | Blakemore._ What''s the joke? |
| 39407 | But Larkin saw the gourd and at a glance understood it, and asked,--"Whar''d ye git that ar gourd? |
| 39407 | But can it be a shadowy road Whereon both Youth and Genius strode? |
| 39407 | But the rector''s question,"May, would you put in your furniture before you built your walls?" |
| 39407 | But then I am so used to the heartache that I might be lonesome without it; who knows? |
| 39407 | But this particular buzzard now-- wasn''t he making for Little Niggerwool? |
| 39407 | But what did the letters make? |
| 39407 | But what have my Lady''s girls to do? |
| 39407 | But you will have it, will you? |
| 39407 | But, say, The next day? |
| 39407 | Ca n''t I?" |
| 39407 | Certainly; but do not such objectors know in their hearts that their reply is no answer, but is utterly irrelevant? |
| 39407 | Contentment, wallowing despair? |
| 39407 | Could it be following him? |
| 39407 | Could some arrangement be made...? |
| 39407 | Dat suits you well? |
| 39407 | Day by day these two felt that these frayed ends would meet sometime; and hold? |
| 39407 | Dear heart, may I at last on thy warm breast Sink to forgetfulness and silent rest When evening cometh on? |
| 39407 | Did I make him suspect? |
| 39407 | Did n''t we have a royal time that summer and were n''t we young and foolish? |
| 39407 | Did you hear that-- faint and far away? |
| 39407 | Did''you see a lane forkin''off''bout a mile back by de crick, close to de big''simmon- tree? |
| 39407 | Do n''t you hear it? |
| 39407 | Do you know when and where it was that satire virtually ceased to exist in English literature? |
| 39407 | Do you think I could stand for that cat-- Puss, I mean-- in this house and me off to Reno? |
| 39407 | Does it grow Feeble with years, and move slow On the path that leads To the world''s needs? |
| 39407 | Does it make you feel bad to see me cry, Pa Gladden? |
| 39407 | Does man reach up or down To take the victor''s crown Of progress in science, art and commerce? |
| 39407 | Does not every one see that any such test would be wholly impracticable and nugatory? |
| 39407 | Does some one reply that some Negroes are better than some Whites, physically, mentally, morally? |
| 39407 | Does the heart harden By what the hand has wrought? |
| 39407 | Does the soul narrow With the broadening of thought? |
| 39407 | Flows yet that crystal stream whereof I drank? |
| 39407 | For what have the ages to say of the myriad dead? |
| 39407 | For why should day be more magnificent than life? |
| 39407 | Frivolity, woe burlesquely masked by unselfishness or pride? |
| 39407 | Had she acted her part well, she wondered, or had she overdone it? |
| 39407 | Have you any daughter?" |
| 39407 | Have you never looked at yourself in the glass, child? |
| 39407 | Have you never thought of studying your own lines? |
| 39407 | He began as usual:"''Where did you work last?'' |
| 39407 | He took her hands in his and asked, with searching earnestness,"If you love me, vy vill you not gome mit me?" |
| 39407 | Hinton?" |
| 39407 | How could it come to naught?" |
| 39407 | How does my Lady''s garden grow? |
| 39407 | How in hell should I know you?'' |
| 39407 | How long would he stay? |
| 39407 | How long?" |
| 39407 | How long?'' |
| 39407 | How pay you back? |
| 39407 | Howd''y do, Miss Ogden? |
| 39407 | Howd''y do, Nevin?" |
| 39407 | I came to call you-- All right? |
| 39407 | I like the new ones best, do n''t you? |
| 39407 | I orgernized the Zobo band, I lent''em my ballads, but whar''s my thanks? |
| 39407 | I remember that there was a time, Miss Barton, when I loved it better than school; do you?" |
| 39407 | I was right?" |
| 39407 | I wonder if there ever was a fight that can match mine? |
| 39407 | I wondered if it were stolidity or stoicism? |
| 39407 | I''ve met no stray cows; but can you tell me how far it is to Major Hiram Gilcrest''s? |
| 39407 | IN OLD TUCSON[59][ From_ Quivira_( Boston, 1907)] In old Tucson, in old Tucson, What cared I how the days ran on? |
| 39407 | If they were thus to sleep at last, why were they ever awakened? |
| 39407 | If you''ll bring_ me_ something-- Wo n''t you please, dear? |
| 39407 | In all the works that plan And purpose to accomplish The betterment of man? |
| 39407 | In big places like this there is so much to see, so much to digest, so much to read out of guide books, that-- what''s the use? |
| 39407 | Is n''t this a real letter?" |
| 39407 | Is not indifference often a net to catch or to conceal? |
| 39407 | Is not philosophy, at times, resignation in delirium? |
| 39407 | Is some other quenchless star their safe habitation?" |
| 39407 | Is the right Dead-- Under the wheels of progress By the side of the road to success, Bleeding and bruised and broken, Left in forgetfulness? |
| 39407 | Is truth Stronger in youth Than in age? |
| 39407 | It was a hot- enough night-- wasn''t it? |
| 39407 | It would be difficult for a critic to say more in praise of an author, would it not? |
| 39407 | It''s her favor_rite_, and why? |
| 39407 | Kin you speak Spanish?" |
| 39407 | Langor, shrewd energy? |
| 39407 | Liebchen, is it for me?" |
| 39407 | MY LADY''S GARDEN[ From the same] How does my Lady''s garden grow? |
| 39407 | Marion speaks gaily._) Mr. Lynch, of the City News, may I present Mrs. Elizabeth Blakemore? |
| 39407 | May I offer supper to him and his staff?" |
| 39407 | Messer Petrarca, should not be made High Jurisconsult to our lord, the Devil, Whose breath of life is oaths?... |
| 39407 | Mine is a lineage of Kentucky poor white trash, who knows, but a speck of''nigger''? |
| 39407 | Modesty, diplomatic egotism? |
| 39407 | Must I go to the meeting of the heirs?" |
| 39407 | No? |
| 39407 | Now he struck away the trembling hands which clutched at his white jacket, ignoring the shivering inquiries as to"What was the matter?" |
| 39407 | Now was n''t that sweet of him? |
| 39407 | Now who plays Hubert false? |
| 39407 | O lost Elysium, art thou hiding there? |
| 39407 | OF DEATH( To Michael Monahan)[ From the same] Why should I fear that ultimate thing-- The Great Release of clown and king? |
| 39407 | Of course God sent the little babies, but how did he get them down to Mrs. Katzman? |
| 39407 | Or bothered about anything? |
| 39407 | Or was she wench... Or some shuddering maid...? |
| 39407 | Or-- less? |
| 39407 | Over her waves the flag of her hopes; where are the monuments that are her memories? |
| 39407 | Said I to Love:"What must I do, All in the summer gloaming?" |
| 39407 | Said I to Love:"What must I do, All in the summer nooning?" |
| 39407 | Said I to Love:"What must I do, All on a summer''s morning?" |
| 39407 | Said I to Love:"What must I do? |
| 39407 | Said I to Love:"What must I do? |
| 39407 | Said I to Love:"What must I do? |
| 39407 | Sainte Nitouche, you do n''t refuse it? |
| 39407 | Shall I despair now Hope On the horizon spreads her dawn- white wings? |
| 39407 | Shall I not wait? |
| 39407 | Shall we depart? |
| 39407 | She began by contributing poems to the periodicals, but her one- act comediette, entitled_ Where was Elsie? |
| 39407 | So I have come to give Mr. Stanton a----_ General Livingston._(_ Interrupting._) Would the papers print that? |
| 39407 | Sold her bed to lie upon straw; Was she not a dirty slut To sell her bed, and live in dirt? |
| 39407 | Surely? |
| 39407 | Sweet, there''s a door to every shrine; Wilt thou, as morning, open thine? |
| 39407 | Sweetheart? |
| 39407 | THE LITTLE CHRIST[79][ From_ The Atlantic Monthly_, December, 1905] Mother, I am thy little Son-- Why weepest thou? |
| 39407 | THE UNDERGROUND PALACE OF THE FAIRIES[ From_ Where was Elsie?_( New York, 1888)] Act I, Scene IV. |
| 39407 | THESE DAYS[21][ From_ Pearson''s Magazine_( April, 1907)] Pray, What is it to- day That it should be worse than the early days? |
| 39407 | That dared the knife And that took the blade?... |
| 39407 | The one that demands the protection of profits the continued policy of hot- house growth for our industries? |
| 39407 | The woman asked me in a sharp voice, as if she were defending herself from being overcharged:"''How much?'' |
| 39407 | Then whose Puss is she? |
| 39407 | There are some; where are the others? |
| 39407 | These ceremonies-- whom will they incite to kindred action elsewhere? |
| 39407 | UNREMEMBERING JUNE[85][ From_ Some Successful Marriages_( New York, 1906)]"And you will let me have word of you? |
| 39407 | UNREQUITED[48][ From_ Poems_( New York, 1911)] Passion? |
| 39407 | WHAT RIGHT HAST THOU? |
| 39407 | Was he sick? |
| 39407 | Was it suspicion that she had seen in the general''s eyes as she left him? |
| 39407 | Was not this what in human times they called Christmas Eve?" |
| 39407 | Was there such a combination to be found, he asked, in a youngster of twenty- three or twenty- four, such as would be graduating at the"Tech?" |
| 39407 | Well, then? |
| 39407 | Were there four of them? |
| 39407 | What are you all grinning about, anyway?" |
| 39407 | What became of the children? |
| 39407 | What can artists do, other than quicken the pulse of sluggard humanity? |
| 39407 | What cared he for the lament of the leaves? |
| 39407 | What difference do they make as long as you have a steady income of your own?" |
| 39407 | What do I know of it but that''tis fair? |
| 39407 | What dost know of me to love? |
| 39407 | What for?" |
| 39407 | What gav''st thou these? |
| 39407 | What is his godship''s name?" |
| 39407 | What kind of father, and man, do you think me?" |
| 39407 | What maiden toil or spinning to do? |
| 39407 | What other monuments will they build? |
| 39407 | What right hast thou thus vilely to inflame Thy fellow men with hate, O fiend of greed? |
| 39407 | What right hast thou to take the hallowed name Of God upon thy lips, or Christ''s, who came To save the race from sorrows thou dost cause? |
| 39407 | What shall I do? |
| 39407 | What shall I do? |
| 39407 | What shall I do? |
| 39407 | What spell dost bear from listening plant to plant, Like some white witch, some ghostly ministrant, Some specter of some perished flower of phlox? |
| 39407 | What use to dwell on this premature Hell? |
| 39407 | What was the end of the march of the earth''s children?" |
| 39407 | What would they do to him? |
| 39407 | What? |
| 39407 | When did you get here?" |
| 39407 | Where are Kentucky''s monuments for her battlefields? |
| 39407 | Where are her monuments for her heroes that she insists were hers alone? |
| 39407 | Where beauty mocks and springtime comes in vain, And love grows mute, and wisdom is forgot? |
| 39407 | Where did the myriads of them march to? |
| 39407 | Where do you live?" |
| 39407 | Which course is the wiser for our government to take? |
| 39407 | Who dared to tie her up like that?" |
| 39407 | Who dares to state That God grows less as man grows great? |
| 39407 | Who ever heard of a place called''Hogwallow''?" |
| 39407 | Who is she? |
| 39407 | Who shall say That decay Marks the good of to- day? |
| 39407 | Who''s ahead? |
| 39407 | Who''s goin''to run the army? |
| 39407 | Whose gourd is that?" |
| 39407 | Whose little girl-- or boy-- are you?" |
| 39407 | Why do we drink to him? |
| 39407 | Why is it that when a distinguished person enters a church it allus perduces a flutter? |
| 39407 | Why should I dread to take my way Through the same shadowed path as they? |
| 39407 | Will you come in?" |
| 39407 | Will you come, my Glaia? |
| 39407 | Wit, brilliant misery? |
| 39407 | Wo n''t ye come inter the house, my darter? |
| 39407 | Wo n''t you forgive me and take me back? |
| 39407 | Wo n''t you step into the coach and speak to her?" |
| 39407 | Wo n''t you?" |
| 39407 | Would I be permitted to refuse this dish? |
| 39407 | Would he search-- and find? |
| 39407 | You want it parted on the side, do n''t you, tied with a bow, and all the rest hanging down? |
| 39407 | Your father will find you fancy- free, will he not?" |
| 39407 | _ Alathea._ Who''s ahead? |
| 39407 | _ Alathea._ Why does n''t Queen Bess come to the front? |
| 39407 | _ An accident_--you''ll remember, old man? |
| 39407 | _ Bob and Morris._(_ Turn, face each other, absolute amazement showing on their faces, speak together._) Well, what do you think of that? |
| 39407 | _ But oh, for the clover in bloom and the breeze blowing there!_ Fame? |
| 39407 | _ Col._ Madam, what are you all doing here? |
| 39407 | _ Dear Pierrepont_: Who is this Helen Heath, and what are your intentions there? |
| 39407 | _ Enter Jack and Elsie with fairy flask and taper.__ Elsie._ Is this the room, Mr. Jack o''Lantern? |
| 39407 | _ General Livingston._ What do you mean? |
| 39407 | _ Gla._ And you will stay with me? |
| 39407 | _ Gla._ Do brothers talk like that? |
| 39407 | _ Gla._ How cam''st thou here? |
| 39407 | _ Gla._ Into that world? |
| 39407 | _ Gla._ Why talk Of crowns and kings? |
| 39407 | _ Hen._ And what didst think of me? |
| 39407 | _ Hen._ I think not, sweet_ Gla._ But you will be my brother? |
| 39407 | _ Hen._ O, I''m loved? |
| 39407 | _ Hen._ See yon light cloud half- kirtled with faint rose? |
| 39407 | _ Lynch._ Would they print it? |
| 39407 | _ Marion._ Not your Puss, Howard? |
| 39407 | _ Marion._ Puss? |
| 39407 | _ Marion._ Take you back? |
| 39407 | _ Marion._(_ Enters._) Has she gone? |
| 39407 | _ Sancia._ And that is-- what? |
| 39407 | _ Sancia._ And, to the rack, if faithless? |
| 39407 | _ Sancia._ And-- long ago? |
| 39407 | _ Sancia._ You hear him? |
| 39407 | _ Stanton._ Who? |
| 39407 | and if it has, why does it not speak of it? |
| 39407 | and it might Not sound so sweet in sonnets ever after? |
| 39407 | and then? |
| 39407 | are you a sonnet- monger? |
| 39407 | are you all gone dotty?" |
| 39407 | are you in? |
| 39407 | asked Emmy Lou,"m and y?" |
| 39407 | asked Mr. Opp,"not endeavoring to improve her intellect, or help her grow up in any way?" |
| 39407 | bows._)_ Alathea._ Colonel, what are you all doing here? |
| 39407 | but perhaps you can direct me to Mister Mason Rogers''house? |
| 39407 | faster, faster fly, For know ye not the sun Is climbing high across the sky, And yet my work''s not done?" |
| 39407 | for I see a crown of thorns, A bleeding brow._ Mother, I am thy little Son-- Why dost thou sigh? |
| 39407 | he said, as if he had discovered something--''and before that?'' |
| 39407 | like it was something to take pride in, instead of sorrow for? |
| 39407 | long ago? |
| 39407 | or snap? |
| 39407 | some dull and silly show Out of your sallow books? |
| 39407 | they demand, and they send letters to the Valley by the score, asking"Did Betty go blind?" |
| 39407 | this air will soil it? |
| 39407 | what Prince? |
| 39407 | what can I do?" |
| 39407 | what can I do?" |
| 39407 | what can I do?" |
| 39407 | what''s that shiny thing? |
| 2988 | 23--and a lawyer? |
| 2988 | APPENDIX K A SUBSTITUTE FOR RULOFF HAVE WE A SIDNEY CARTON AMONG US? |
| 2988 | Am I right? |
| 2988 | Am I saying that the pulpit does not do its share toward disseminating the marrow, the meat of the gospel of Christ? |
| 2988 | Am I to go away and let them have peace and quiet for a year and a half, and then come back and only lecture them twice? |
| 2988 | America? |
| 2988 | And could we now? |
| 2988 | And do you think that you have added just the right smear of polish to the closing clause of the sentence? |
| 2988 | And ignorantly& unthinkingly? |
| 2988 | And shall we see Susy? |
| 2988 | And what is a man without energy? |
| 2988 | And what is the appendix for? |
| 2988 | And what the flavor can surpass Of sugar, spirit, lemons? |
| 2988 | And when the man draws them well why do they stir my admiration? |
| 2988 | And why should it be otherwise? |
| 2988 | And why should n''t I be? |
| 2988 | And will Mark Twain never write such another? |
| 2988 | Anything left of Hoffman? ” “ No, ” I said. |
| 2988 | Are the Blue and the Gray one to- day? |
| 2988 | Are the two things identical? |
| 2988 | Are there in Sir Walter''s novels passages done in good English--English which is neither slovenly nor involved? |
| 2988 | Are there passages which burn with real fire-- not punk, fox- fire, make- believe? |
| 2988 | Are there passages whose English is not poor& thin& commonplace, but is of a quality above that? |
| 2988 | Are you sure it was clams? |
| 2988 | Are you? ” I did not pursue the subject, and since then I have not traveled on my''nom de guerre''enough to hurt. |
| 2988 | Are you? ” That broke the ice. |
| 2988 | As concerns the man who has gone unpunished eleven million years, is it your belief that in life he did his duty by his microbes? |
| 2988 | At first he looked at the culprit thoughtfully, then he made some inquiries: “ Did you strike him first? ” Captain Klinefelter asked. |
| 2988 | At forty what do you do? |
| 2988 | B.--Look here, are you charging storage? |
| 2988 | Better lo''ed ye canna be, Will ye no come back again? |
| 2988 | Blasphemy? |
| 2988 | Bright? |
| 2988 | But I have n''t lost my temper, and I''ve made Livy lie down most of the time; could anybody make her lie down all the time? |
| 2988 | But ca n''t I get it in anywhere? |
| 2988 | But in the mean time what do you do? |
| 2988 | But to cease teaching and go back to the beginning again, was it not pitiable-- that spectacle? |
| 2988 | But what if it produce that in spite of you? |
| 2988 | But what is the use of remembering all these bitter details? |
| 2988 | But what of that? |
| 2988 | But what were you doing on the inside? |
| 2988 | By searching? |
| 2988 | By the way, third''s a lucky number for length of days, is n''t it? |
| 2988 | Ca n''t you tell her it always makes you sick to go home late at night or something like that? |
| 2988 | Can I support such grief as this? |
| 2988 | Can not the''Californian''afford to keep Mark all to itself? |
| 2988 | Can the curse of the Deity beautify a land? |
| 2988 | Can you conceive of a man''s getting himself into a sweat over so diminutive a provocation? |
| 2988 | Can you read him and keep your respect for him? |
| 2988 | Clara, dear, after the luncheon-- I hate to put this on you-- but could you do two or three little shopping- errands for me? |
| 2988 | Clemens said: “ Trowbridge, are you still alive? |
| 2988 | Clemens said: “ What is it? ” Wilberforce impressively answered: “ It is the Holy Grail. ” Clemens naturally started with surprise. |
| 2988 | Clemens, I am not embarrassed, are you? ” So he remembered that first, long- ago meeting. |
| 2988 | Clemens, will you tell me where Mr. Charles Dudley Warner lives? ” This was the chance! |
| 2988 | Continuing he said: Do you know the prettiest fancy and the neatest that ever shot through Harte''s brain? |
| 2988 | Could she feel the wrinkles in my hand through her hair? |
| 2988 | Could you lend an admirer$ 1.50 to buy a hymn- book with? |
| 2988 | Curious, but did n''t Florence want a Cromwell? |
| 2988 | DEAR CHAMP CLARK,--Is the new copyright law acceptable to me? |
| 2988 | DEAR PAMELA,--Will you take this$ 15& buy some candy or other trifle for yourself& Sam& his wife to remind you that we remember you? |
| 2988 | DOES THE RACE OF MAN LOVE A LORD? |
| 2988 | Did I ever tell you the plot of it? |
| 2988 | Did I know jean''s value? |
| 2988 | Did he know how to write English,& did n''t do it because he did n''t want to? |
| 2988 | Did it? |
| 2988 | Did n''t you know that? |
| 2988 | Did you get that key to- day?'' |
| 2988 | Did you get wet? |
| 2988 | Did you have any bets on us? |
| 2988 | Did you want to saddle that disaster upon us for life? ” He was blowing off steam, and I knew it and encouraged it. |
| 2988 | Do n''t you care more about the wretchedness of others than anything that happens to you?'' |
| 2988 | Do n''t you feel well? ” Jean said that she had a little stomack- ache, and so thought she would lie down. |
| 2988 | Do n''t you hear me? |
| 2988 | Do n''t you know that I have expended money in this country but have made none myself? |
| 2988 | Do n''t you know that I have never held in my hands a gold or silver bar that belonged to me? |
| 2988 | Do n''t you know that I have only talked, as yet, but proved nothing? |
| 2988 | Do n''t you know that it''s all talk and no cider so far? |
| 2988 | Do n''t you know that undemonstrated human calculations wo n''t do to bet on? |
| 2988 | Do n''t you know they are calling for you? ” They remained in Keokuk a week, and Susy starts to tell something of their visit there. |
| 2988 | Do n''t you realize that you ought not to intrude your help in a delicate art like that with your limitations? |
| 2988 | Do serenity and peace brood over you after you have done such a thing? |
| 2988 | Do they even resemble each other? |
| 2988 | Do they live in---- ” “ In this street? |
| 2988 | Do you admire the race(& consequently yourself)? |
| 2988 | Do you hear? ” The slim, youthful person trembled a good deal, and said: “ I would, Mr. Clemens, I would indeed, sir, if I could. |
| 2988 | Do you know any one who does know him? ” “ Yes, I know his most intimate friend. ” “ Then he is the man for you to approach. |
| 2988 | Do you know that shock? |
| 2988 | Do you know that shock? |
| 2988 | Do you remember? |
| 2988 | Do you see the big, plain house over there with the placard in the third floor window? |
| 2988 | Do you suppose you could get me a key that would fit my trunk?'' |
| 2988 | Do you think I wrote the second one to give that man pleasure? |
| 2988 | Do you think you could teach it arithmetic? ” Joy was uncertain. |
| 2988 | Do you want to bring the lightning? ” “ You know the lightning did come last week, mama, and struck the new church, and burnt it down. |
| 2988 | Does he ever chain the reader''s interest& make him reluctant to lay the book down? |
| 2988 | Does he keep boarders? ” “ What an idea! |
| 2988 | Does he keep him in mind years and years and go on contriving miseries for him? |
| 2988 | Does he take an oath or make a promise of any sort?--or does n''t he leave himself entirely free? |
| 2988 | Does man regard the difference? |
| 2988 | Does one build a boarding- house for the sake of the boarding- house itself or for the sake of the boarders? |
| 2988 | Does this sound like shouting? |
| 2988 | Does your wife give you rats, like that, when you go a little one- sided? |
| 2988 | Dreaming of what? |
| 2988 | Familiar? |
| 2988 | For 6 days now my story in the Christmas Harper''s “ Was it Heaven? |
| 2988 | Further along he refers to one of his reforms: Smoke? |
| 2988 | Give him a good sound thrashing; do you hear? |
| 2988 | Goodness, who is there I have n''t known? |
| 2988 | Had we no moral duty to perform? |
| 2988 | Has he funny characters that are funny, and humorous passages that are humorous? |
| 2988 | Has he heroes& heroines who are not cads and cadesses? |
| 2988 | Has he heroes& heroines whom the reader admires-- admires and knows why? |
| 2988 | Has he paused& taken thought? |
| 2988 | Has he personages whose acts& talk correspond with their characters as described by him? |
| 2988 | Have I got to learn the shape of the river according to all these five hundred thousand different ways? |
| 2988 | Have n''t I told you so, over and over again? ” “ It''s awful cruel, mama! |
| 2988 | Have n''t you read anything at all about Joan of Arc? |
| 2988 | Have you a memorandum of the route we took, or the names of any of the stations we stopped at? |
| 2988 | Have you been secreted in the closet or lurking on the shed roof? |
| 2988 | Have you developed any novelties of conduct since you left Mr. Murray''s,& have they been of a character to move the concern of your friends? |
| 2988 | Have you ever been like that? |
| 2988 | Have you forgotten early twitterings of your own? |
| 2988 | He commended man to multiply& replenish- what? |
| 2988 | He did not suspect what had happened until he heard one of the daughters ask: “ Katie, is it true? |
| 2988 | He had never had a lesson, she said; if he could only have lessons what might he not accomplish? |
| 2988 | He probably referred to the Monday Evening Club essay, “ What Is Happiness? ”( February, 1883). |
| 2988 | He said to himself: “ Why did n''t I go now? |
| 2988 | He said, very gently: “ How beautiful it all is? |
| 2988 | He said: “''You thought you were playing a nice joke on me, did n''t you? |
| 2988 | He says: “ A billion, that is a million millions,[?? |
| 2988 | He says: “ A billion, that is a million millions,[?? |
| 2988 | He wished to receive the full value( who does not?) |
| 2988 | He wrote, asking Howells: Will the proposed treaty protect us( and effectually) against Canadian piracy? |
| 2988 | Helen Keller wrote: And you are seventy years old? |
| 2988 | Hereafter if you must write such things wo n''t you please be so kind as to label them? |
| 2988 | His friend asked: “ Who''s Mark Twain? ” “ God knows; I do n''t! ” The lecturer could not ride any more. |
| 2988 | How can you ask such a thing of me? |
| 2988 | How could he, with a fortune so plainly in view? |
| 2988 | How could that impress Adam? |
| 2988 | How could you do it? |
| 2988 | How did you ever think of it? ” It was a fearful ordeal for a boy like Jim Wolfe, but he stuck to his place in spite of what he must have suffered. |
| 2988 | How do I account for this change of view? |
| 2988 | How do you explain this? ” Clemens said: “ Oh, that is very simple to answer, your Excellency. |
| 2988 | How do you reckon I can remember such a mess as that? ” “ My boy, you''ve got to remember it. |
| 2988 | How do you reckon he accomplished that miracle? |
| 2988 | How do you run Plum Point? ” He met Bixby at New Orleans. |
| 2988 | How in the world did you ever come to locate there? ” Then they began to notice what they had not at first seen. |
| 2988 | How much money does the devil give you for arraigning Christianity and missionary causes? ” But there were more of the better sort. |
| 2988 | Howells in his letter said: She hallowed what she touched far beyond priests.... What are you going to do, you poor soul? |
| 2988 | Howells, did you write me day- before- day- before yesterday or did I dream it? |
| 2988 | I asked him if he was well, and he said,''What the hell do you want?'' |
| 2988 | I gave her a conundrum, thus: “ My dear madam, why ought your hand to retain its present grace and beauty always? |
| 2988 | I said to the Duke: “ Your Grace, they''re just about finger- milers! ” “ How do you mean, m''lord? ” “ This. |
| 2988 | I said, “ I did n''t belong to any. ” Then he asked me what order of knighthood I belonged to? |
| 2988 | I said, “ None. ” Then he asked me what the red ribbon in my buttonhole stood for? |
| 2988 | I said,''Jean, is this you trying to let me know you have found the others?'' |
| 2988 | I sha''n''t say a word against it, but she will find it a difficult& disheartening job,& meanwhile what is to become of that miraculous girl? |
| 2988 | I suppose I ought to defend my character, but how can I defend it? |
| 2988 | I want somebody to light my pipe. ” “ Why do n''t you get up and light it yourself? ” Brownell asked. |
| 2988 | I was greatly pleased and asked: “ Who gets the extra one? ” “ Widows and orphans. ” “ A good idea, too. |
| 2988 | I was naturally astonished, and immediately wrote: I did fall and skin my shin at five o''clock yesterday afternoon, but how did you find it out? |
| 2988 | I wonder if it is? |
| 2988 | If I had my new lecture completed I would n''t hesitate a moment, but really is n''t “ Cussed Be Canaan ” too old? |
| 2988 | If a life be offered up on the gallows to atone for the murder Ruloff did, will that suffice? |
| 2988 | If base music gives me wings, why should I want any other? |
| 2988 | If he ca n''t get renewals of his bric- a- brac in the next world what will he look like? |
| 2988 | If so is she extinct and can never attend a third? |
| 2988 | If they want letters from here-- who''ll run from morning till night collecting material cheaper? |
| 2988 | If we are going to be gay in spirit, why be clad in funeral garments? |
| 2988 | If we made this colonel a grand fellow, and gave him a wife to suit-- hey? |
| 2988 | If you can play that way left- handed what could you do right- handed?'' |
| 2988 | If you should be passing this way to- morrow will you look in and change hats? |
| 2988 | In a dictation following his return, Mark Twain said: Who began it? |
| 2988 | In later years Mark Twain once said: “ How much of the nursing did I do? |
| 2988 | In one of her letters she says: The house has been full of company, and I have been “ whirled around. ” How can a body help it? |
| 2988 | In the accompanying note he said: Say, Boss, do you want this to lighten up your old freight- train with? |
| 2988 | Interest? |
| 2988 | Introducing him, President Frank Lawrence said: “ What name is there in literature that can be likened to his? |
| 2988 | Is it a regular army? |
| 2988 | Is it an army of volunteers who have enlisted for the war, and may righteously be shot if they leave before the war is finished? |
| 2988 | Is it less humiliating to dance to the lash of one master than another? |
| 2988 | Is it one prayer? |
| 2988 | Is it possible for human wickedness to invent a doctrine more infernal and poisonous than this? |
| 2988 | Is n''t it curious? |
| 2988 | Is n''t it interesting? |
| 2988 | Is n''t that a brewery? ” “ It is, Mark. |
| 2988 | Is n''t that a brewery? ” “ It is, Mark. |
| 2988 | Is n''t that valuable? |
| 2988 | Is that it? ” “ Yes, that is correct. ” “ By George, it beats the band! ” He liked the expression, and set it down in his tablets. |
| 2988 | Is the Rebellion ended and forgotten? |
| 2988 | Is there imaginable a baser servitude than it imposes? |
| 2988 | Is there some way, honest or otherwise, by which you can get a copy of Mayo''s play, “ Pudd''nhead Wilson, ” for me? |
| 2988 | It has always seemed natural and right to me, and wise and most kindly and merciful. ” “ Who first thought of it like that, mama? |
| 2988 | It is n''t Holcomb, it''s Blackmer. ” I was ashamed again, and confessed it; then: “ How old are you, dear? ” “ Twelve; New- Year''s. |
| 2988 | It may have materialized out of the unseen-- who knows? |
| 2988 | It only costs the people$ 1 apiece, and if they ca n''t stand it what do they stay here for?... |
| 2988 | It only costs the public a dollar apiece, and if they ca n''t stand it what do they stay here for? |
| 2988 | It was not wrong? |
| 2988 | It was you. ” “ But do you realize, ma''am, how tired and hungry we are? |
| 2988 | Italy? |
| 2988 | Klinefelter turned to Sam: “ Did n''t you hear him? ” “ Yes, sir. ” Brown said: “ Shut your mouth! |
| 2988 | L. Am I not, to a man, as is a billion solar systems to a grain of sand? |
| 2988 | L. And the air? |
| 2988 | L. C.''Which was? |
| 2988 | L. Do you know what a microbe is? |
| 2988 | L. Does he forget him? |
| 2988 | L. Employs himself with more important matters? |
| 2988 | L. Has she been out to- day? |
| 2988 | L. He commits depredations upon your blood? |
| 2988 | L. How many men are there? |
| 2988 | L. In ten days the aggregate reaches what? |
| 2988 | L. In that costume? |
| 2988 | L. Is it true the human race thinks the universe was created for its convenience? |
| 2988 | L. Now then, according to man''s own reasoning, what is man for? |
| 2988 | L. Then what? |
| 2988 | L. Then why punish him? |
| 2988 | L. To what intent are these uncountable microbes introduced into the human race? |
| 2988 | L. What am I to man? |
| 2988 | L. What is he for? |
| 2988 | L. What is the sea for? |
| 2988 | L. When was this? |
| 2988 | L. Who is it? |
| 2988 | L. Why? |
| 2988 | L. Why? |
| 2988 | L. You took a cab both ways? |
| 2988 | Land sakes, Livy, what can I do? ” “ Which way did he go, Youth? ” “ Why, I sent him to Charlie Warner''s. |
| 2988 | Land sakes, Livy, what can I do? ” “ Which way did he go, Youth? ” “ Why, I sent him to Charlie Warner''s. |
| 2988 | Later he wrote: “ Put''Is He Dead?'' |
| 2988 | Livy screamed, then said, “ Who is it? |
| 2988 | MR. MARK TWAIN-- DEAR SIR,--Will you start now, without any unnecessary delay? |
| 2988 | Maguire, why Will you thus skyugle? |
| 2988 | Mama said, “ Why do n''t you try''mind cure''? ” “ I am, ” Jean answered. |
| 2988 | Man kills the microbes when he can? |
| 2988 | Mark Twain''s own book on the subject--''Is Shakespeare Dead?'' |
| 2988 | May I send you the constitution& laws of the club? |
| 2988 | Must he prove that he is sound in any way, mind or body? |
| 2988 | Must he prove that he knows anything-- is capable of anything-- whatever? |
| 2988 | My friend said, “ I always admired it, even before I saw it in The Innocents Abroad. ” I naturally said, “ What do you mean? |
| 2988 | Next day he asked, “ Katie, did you see my pipe- cleaner? |
| 2988 | Not much of it all is left to me, but I remember Howells saying, “ Did it ever occur to you that the newspapers abolished hell? |
| 2988 | Now is n''t she the devil? |
| 2988 | Now then, with this common- sense light to aid your perceptions, what are the air, the land, and the ocean for? |
| 2988 | Now what is it? |
| 2988 | Now you all know all these things yourself, do n''t you? |
| 2988 | Now, do n''t you see what a world of confidence that must necessarily breed? |
| 2988 | Now, therefore, why should I withhold it? |
| 2988 | Now, therefore, why should I withhold it? |
| 2988 | Now, will that do you? ” Clemens said it would. |
| 2988 | Now, young men, if any of you were in command of such a fortress, how would you proceed?'' |
| 2988 | OR HELL? |
| 2988 | OR HELL? ” The Christmas number of Harper''s Magazine for 1902 contained the story, “ Was it Heaven? |
| 2988 | OR HELL? ” The Christmas number of Harper''s Magazine for 1902 contained the story, “ Was it Heaven? |
| 2988 | Of course. ” “ What for? ” “ Oh, to discipline us! |
| 2988 | Oh, Katie, is it true? ” He realized then that she was gone. |
| 2988 | On another: Have you seen any portion of the second volume? |
| 2988 | Once, half roused, he looked at me searchingly and asked: “ Is n''t there something I can resign and be out of all this? |
| 2988 | Once, writing to Jean, he asked: What is your favorite piece of music, dear? |
| 2988 | One day Clemens sand to him: “ Cable, why do you sit in here? |
| 2988 | One day she said: “ Mama, why is there so much pain and sorrow and suffering? |
| 2988 | One day, soon after, he said to me: “''Steve, do you know that I think that that bogus pipe smokes about as well as the good one? |
| 2988 | One paper celebrated him in verse: Who killed Croker? |
| 2988 | Or a gullet? |
| 2988 | Or at least why was n''t something creditable created in place of it?... |
| 2988 | Or is it a gull? |
| 2988 | Or is the report exaggerated, like that of your death? |
| 2988 | Ought we to allow this war to begin? |
| 2988 | Out of this grew the story, “ Was it Heaven? |
| 2988 | Presently, he asked me what order of nobility I belonged to? |
| 2988 | Put a trap like that into the midst of a tragical story? |
| 2988 | Redpath had besought him as usual, and even in midsummer had written: “ Will you? |
| 2988 | Reverence for what-- for whom? |
| 2988 | Rose Terry Cooke wrote: Horrid man, how did you know the way I behave in a thunderstorm? |
| 2988 | Sam said: “ What''s that, Steve? ” “ Why, ” I said, “ that''s Laud. |
| 2988 | Sam; ” he said, “ what do they mean by that? ” Clemens stepped to the wheel and brought the boat around. |
| 2988 | Says I,''Hold on there, Evangeline, what are you going to do with them?'' |
| 2988 | See? |
| 2988 | Shall I ever be cheerful again, happy again? |
| 2988 | Shall we ever laugh again? |
| 2988 | Shall we think this over, or drop it as being nonsense? |
| 2988 | Shall you also say that it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter and become a mouthing lunatic besides? |
| 2988 | Shall you say the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? |
| 2988 | She ran breathlessly to her aunt: “ Can I have it? |
| 2988 | She said, “ Why, Jean, what''s the matter? |
| 2988 | She was determined to go out again, but---- L. How did you know she was out? |
| 2988 | Shrunk how? |
| 2988 | Since I wrote my Bible--[The “ Gospel, ” What is Man?] |
| 2988 | So he sat down and stayed there until an executioner came. ” I said, “ How do you account for the changed attitude toward these things? |
| 2988 | Speaking as a member of it, what do you think the other animals are for? |
| 2988 | Suppose, after all, the school- teachers had declined to come? |
| 2988 | Take a man like Sir Oliver Lodge, and what secret of Nature can be hidden from him? |
| 2988 | Take it with you. ” “ Why? ” “ Because of that sketch of yours entitled''Luck.'' |
| 2988 | Telegram to Redpath: How in the name of God does a man find his way from here to Amherst, and when must he start? |
| 2988 | That is to say, is n''t she a right smart little woman? |
| 2988 | That they are in London, the metropolis of the world, Post- office District, N. W.? |
| 2988 | That''s closed in, is n''t it, for the winter? |
| 2988 | That''s his house. ” “ The placard that says''Furnished rooms to let''? |
| 2988 | The autumn splendors passed you by? |
| 2988 | The coachman sent in for him at 9, but he said, “ Oh, nonsense!--leave glories& grandeurs like these? |
| 2988 | The curtain hid her.... Do you comprehend? |
| 2988 | The humblest of us is cared for-- oh, believe it!--and this fleeting stay is not the end! ” You notice that? |
| 2988 | The inspector asks: “ Now what does this elephant eat, and how much? ” “ Well, as to what he eats-- he will eat anything. |
| 2988 | The letter itself consisted merely of a line, which said: Wo n''t you give your friends, the missionaries, a good mark for this? |
| 2988 | The property has got to fall to some heir, and why not the United States? |
| 2988 | The question is, if she attends two doe luncheons in succession is she a doe- doe? |
| 2988 | The two sums aggregate- what? |
| 2988 | Then he asked solemnly: “ And is he never serious? ” And Dr. Parker as solemnly answered: “ Mr. |
| 2988 | Then he broke out: “ Why ca n''t a man die when he''s had his tragedy? |
| 2988 | Then he says: Why do I offer him the play at all? |
| 2988 | Then he was likely to say: “ Why did n''t you stop me? |
| 2988 | Then if Satan should come, he would slap him on the shoulder and say,''Why, Satan, how do you do? |
| 2988 | Then who is it, what is it, that they worship? |
| 2988 | Then: “ What does he call it? ” he asked. |
| 2988 | There''s nothing “ to strike out ”; nothing “ to replace. ” What more could be said of any one? |
| 2988 | They cost ten dollars apiece. ” Clemens sand: “ Is that so? |
| 2988 | They give us pain, they make our lives miserable, they murder us-- and where is the use of it all, where the wisdom? |
| 2988 | This is my work, and I know that I do very wrong when I feel chafed by it, but how can I be right about it? |
| 2988 | Thomas Hardy said to Howells one night at dinner: “ Why do n''t people understand that Mark Twain is not merely a great humorist? |
| 2988 | To Howells, on the same day, he wrote: Wo n''t you& Mrs. Howells& Mildred come& give us as many days as you can spare& examine John''s triumph? |
| 2988 | To Twichell Clemens wrote: Joe, do you know the Irish gentleman& the Irish lady, the Scotch gentleman& the Scotch lady? |
| 2988 | To Twichell he wrote, playfully but sincerely: Am I honest? |
| 2988 | To a woman who wrote, asking for his opinion on dogs, he said, in part: By what right has the dog come to be regarded as a “ noble ” animal? |
| 2988 | To her sister she wrote: Do you think we can live through the first going into the house in Hartford? |
| 2988 | Twain expect the public to credit this narrative to his clever brain? |
| 2988 | U. E. WAS IT HEAVEN? |
| 2988 | U. E. WHY NOT ABOLISH IT? |
| 2988 | Upon my face She must not look until the day was done; For she was doing penance... She? |
| 2988 | Venice? |
| 2988 | Very well, then, what is the use of your stringing out your miserable lives to a clean and withered old age? |
| 2988 | Very well, then- what ought we to do? |
| 2988 | W- h- a- r- r''s my golden arm? |
| 2988 | WHAT IS MAN? |
| 2988 | WHICH WAS WHICH? |
| 2988 | Was hast du gesagt? ” But she said the same words over again, and in the same decided way. |
| 2988 | Was it Grady who killed himself trying to do all the dining and speeching? |
| 2988 | Was it R. U. Johnson? |
| 2988 | Was it an illusion? |
| 2988 | Was it both together? |
| 2988 | Was it not our duty to administer a rebuke to this selfish and heartless Family? |
| 2988 | Was it not our duty to stop it, in the name of right and righteousness? |
| 2988 | Was it the Authors''League? |
| 2988 | Was it to discipline the church? ”( Wearily.) |
| 2988 | Was it to discipline the hog, mama? ” “ Dear child, do n''t you want to run out and play a while? |
| 2988 | Was it to discipline the hog, mama? ” “ Dear child, do n''t you want to run out and play a while? |
| 2988 | Was it you? ” “ Oh no, child, I was taught it. ” “ Who taught you so, mama? ” “ Why, really, I do n''t know-- I ca n''t remember. |
| 2988 | Was it you? ” “ Oh no, child, I was taught it. ” “ Who taught you so, mama? ” “ Why, really, I do n''t know-- I ca n''t remember. |
| 2988 | Was n''t it a rattling good comedy situation? |
| 2988 | Was that right? ” “ Certainly, certainly. |
| 2988 | We know it was a good reason, whatever it was. ” “ What do you think it was, mama? ” “ Oh, you ask so many questions! |
| 2988 | Well, is it? |
| 2988 | Well, then, what is he to do? |
| 2988 | Well, they have invented a heaven, out of their own heads, all by themselves; guess what it is like? |
| 2988 | What a child he always was-- always, to the very end? |
| 2988 | What are deciduous flowers, and do they always “ bloom in the fall, tra la ”? |
| 2988 | What are his tonsils for? |
| 2988 | What are you going to do? ” “ I''m going to shoot those burglars, ” he said. |
| 2988 | What are your plans for getting left, or shall you trust to inspiration? |
| 2988 | What did it matter to him? |
| 2988 | What do you take me for? |
| 2988 | What do you think the General wanted to require of me?'' |
| 2988 | What does it mean, Susy? |
| 2988 | What is Jean doing? |
| 2988 | What is biography? |
| 2988 | What is his beard for? |
| 2988 | What is it all for? ” It was an easy question, and mama had no difficulty in answering it: “ It is for our good, my child. |
| 2988 | What is it that we want in a novel? |
| 2988 | What is it you want? ” But you and I are in the business ourselves. |
| 2988 | What is it? |
| 2988 | What is romance? |
| 2988 | What is the essential difference between a lifelong democrat and any other kind of lifelong slave? |
| 2988 | What is the matter? ” I said, “ There ai n''t anything the matter. |
| 2988 | What is the process when a voter joins a party? |
| 2988 | What is the use of your saving money that is so utterly worthless to you? |
| 2988 | What is there to say? |
| 2988 | What kind of a disease is that? |
| 2988 | What mother knows not that? |
| 2988 | What name do you want to use''Josh''? ” “ No, I want to sign them''Mark Twain.'' |
| 2988 | What nationalities would he prefer? ” “ He is indifferent about nationalities. |
| 2988 | What night will you come down& smoke? |
| 2988 | What noise? |
| 2988 | What other humorist could have refrained from hinting, at least, the inference suggested by the obvious “ Gas Works ”? |
| 2988 | What ship is that? |
| 2988 | What should we do and how should we feel if we had no bright prospects before us, and yet how many people are situated in that way? |
| 2988 | What slave is so degraded as the slave that is proud that he is a slave? |
| 2988 | What the devil does a man want with any more feet when he owns in the invincible bomb- proof “ Monitor ”? |
| 2988 | What they want---- ” “ The nobility? |
| 2988 | What use can you put it to? |
| 2988 | What was the greatest feature in Napoleon''s character? |
| 2988 | What would become of me if he should disintegrate? |
| 2988 | What would it be for the whole human population? |
| 2988 | What''s happened? ” “ Do n''t wait to talk. |
| 2988 | What, sir, would the people of this earth be without woman? |
| 2988 | When did larches begin to flame, and who set out the pomegranates in that canyon? |
| 2988 | When shall I come? |
| 2988 | When the Duke first moved in here he---- ” “ Does he live in this street? ” “ Him! |
| 2988 | When the children came for eggs he would say: “ Your hens wo n''t lay, eh? |
| 2988 | When the dictation ended he said: “ Have you any special place to lunch to- day? ” I replied that I had not. |
| 2988 | When we entered, and Mrs. Clemens read on Shakespeare''s grave,''Good friend, for Jesus''sake, forbear,''she started back, exclaiming,''where am I?'' |
| 2988 | When you get an exasperating letter what happens? |
| 2988 | Where are we going? ” “ Do n''t worry. |
| 2988 | Where is it Orion''s going to? |
| 2988 | Where was ever a sermon preached that could make filial ingratitude so hateful to men as the sinful play of “ King Lear ”? |
| 2988 | Where was your remedy? |
| 2988 | Who is his nearest friend? ” MacAlister knew a man on terms of social intimacy with the official. |
| 2988 | Who is it? ” His informant hesitated a moment, then named a name of world- wide military significance. |
| 2988 | Who is it? ” The courier said, “ Napoleon. ” Clemens assented. |
| 2988 | Who is to decide what ought to command my reverence-- my neighbor or I? |
| 2988 | Who knows? |
| 2988 | Who lit the lilacs, and which end up do they hang? |
| 2988 | Who might this late comer be? |
| 2988 | Who so poor in his ambitions as to consent to be God on those terms? |
| 2988 | Whose heart is broken by this murder? |
| 2988 | Why curse and swear, And rip and tear The innocent McDougal? |
| 2988 | Why did n''t I go with her now? ” She went from Clemens''s over to Warner''s. |
| 2988 | Why do I respect my own? |
| 2988 | Why do we respect the opinions of any man or any microbe that ever lived? |
| 2988 | Why does He give Himself the trouble? ” I suggested that it was a sentiment that probably gave comfort to the writer of it. |
| 2988 | Why does he affront me with the fancy that I interest Myself in trivialities-- like men and microbes? |
| 2988 | Why howl about his wrongs after said wrongs have been redressed? |
| 2988 | Why should Darwin have gone to them for rest and refreshment at midnight, when spent with scientific research? |
| 2988 | Why should his life be taken away for their sake, when he was n''t doing anything? ” “ Oh, I do n''t know! |
| 2988 | Why should not China be free from the foreigners, who are only making trouble on her soil? |
| 2988 | Why should they have declined? |
| 2988 | Why was the human race created? |
| 2988 | Why, Clara, are n''t you going to your lesson? |
| 2988 | Why, Tufts, do n''t you know that the soldiers in the theater are the same old soldiers marching around and around? |
| 2988 | Will Kanawha be sailing after that& can I go as Sunday- school superintendent at half rate? |
| 2988 | Will anybody contend that a man can say to such masterful anger as that, Go, and be obeyed? |
| 2988 | Will healing ever come, or life have value again? |
| 2988 | Will one of you boys buy that house? |
| 2988 | Will ye no come back again? |
| 2988 | Will you remember that? |
| 2988 | Will you return those proofs or revises to me, so that I can use the same on some future occasion? |
| 2988 | With a rent- roll of twelve hundred thousand marks a year? |
| 2988 | Wo n''t you please stop it? |
| 2988 | Wo n''t you talk awhile? |
| 2988 | Wo n''t you? |
| 2988 | Would you encourage in literature a man who the older he grows the worse he writes? |
| 2988 | Would you like a series of papers to run through three months or six or nine-- or about four months, say? |
| 2988 | Would you like me to come out there and cry? |
| 2988 | Writing to MacAlister, Clemens said: Florentine sunshine? |
| 2988 | Yes, he is here; and the question is not-- as it has been heretofore during a thousand ages-- What shall we do with him? |
| 2988 | Yes, you know that, and confess it-- but what were you to do? |
| 2988 | You can do your work just as well here as in Cambridge, ca n''t you? |
| 2988 | You could n''t possibly teach music with a company of raw recruits drilling overhead-- now, could you? |
| 2988 | You do not think me wrong? |
| 2988 | You hold her, will you, till I come back?'' |
| 2988 | You note that position? |
| 2988 | You notice the stately General standing there with his hand resting upon the muzzle of a cannon? |
| 2988 | You say, “ Is this it?--this? |
| 2988 | You think that picture looks old? |
| 2988 | You will continue upon the water for some time yet; you will not retire finally until ten years from now.... What is your brother''s age? |
| 2988 | after all this talk and fuss of a thousand generations of travelers who have crossed this frontier& looked about them& told what they saw& felt? |
| 2988 | and ai n''t that a big enough majority in any town? ” he asks in a critical moment-- a remark which stamps him as a philosopher of classic rank. |
| 2988 | and in pursuit of an office? |
| 2988 | can a body do it to- day? |
| 2988 | do you realize, Mark, what a symposium it is to be? |
| 2988 | have you noticed that? |
| 2988 | he telegraphed his tormentor: “ Why do n''t you congratulate me? |
| 2988 | how have you written this miracle? |
| 2988 | how''s that? ” A curious character was Cutter-- a Long Island farmer with the obsession of rhyme. |
| 2988 | impostors, were they? |
| 2988 | or Hell? ” a heartbreaking history which probes the very depths of the human soul. |
| 2988 | or Hell? ” and it immediately brought a flood of letters to its author from grateful readers on both sides of the ocean. |
| 2988 | or shall I send it to the hotel? |
| 2988 | the tropics? |
| 2988 | where is he? |
| 2988 | “ And how is Mrs. Clemens? ” asked the uninvited guest. |
| 2988 | “ But what in hell is an oesophagus? |
| 2988 | “ Could a man live on a world so small as that? ” I asked. |
| 2988 | “ Did you do that? ” he asked, ominously. |
| 2988 | “ Did you ever hear of Mark Twain? ” asked Twichell. |
| 2988 | “ Do n''t I deserve one yet? ” Unhappy day! |
| 2988 | “ Do n''t you understand? |
| 2988 | “ Do you expect to pay extra fare? ” asked Sherman. |
| 2988 | “ Do you know the Bowen boys? ” he asked--“pilots in the St. Louis and New Orleans trade? ” “ I know them well-- all three of them. |
| 2988 | “ Do you know the Bowen boys? ” he asked--“pilots in the St. Louis and New Orleans trade? ” “ I know them well-- all three of them. |
| 2988 | “ Do you mean to say that you''re not going to vote for him? ” “ Yes, that is what I mean to say. |
| 2988 | “ Do you see it? ” Clemens looked carefully now and identified one of the books as a still- born novel which Keeler had published. |
| 2988 | “ Do you use terbacker? ” the big girl had asked, meaning did he chew it. |
| 2988 | “ Does it? ” he said, very deliberately. |
| 2988 | “ George, ” he said, “ what pictures are those that gentleman left? ” “ Why, Mr. Clemens, those are our own pictures. |
| 2988 | “ Great guns, what is the matter with it? ” wrote Clemens in November when he received a detailed account of its misconduct. |
| 2988 | “ Hain''t we all the fools in town on our side? |
| 2988 | “ Have n''t you any other friend that you could suggest? ” Langdon said. |
| 2988 | “ Here, where are you heading for now? ” he yelled. |
| 2988 | “ Here, why did n''t you tell me we had got to land at that plantation? ” he demanded. |
| 2988 | “ Here, ” he would shout, “ where are you going now? |
| 2988 | “ How are you, Mr. Clemens? ” he said. |
| 2988 | “ How far off was it? ” “ Oh, about thirty yards. ” “ Can he do it again? ” “ Of course, ” I said; “ every time. |
| 2988 | “ How far off was it? ” “ Oh, about thirty yards. ” “ Can he do it again? ” “ Of course, ” I said; “ every time. |
| 2988 | “ How many more are there? ” he asked. |
| 2988 | “ How many? ” he demanded. |
| 2988 | “ How much do you think it ought to be, Mark? ” James Anthony asked. |
| 2988 | “ How would you like a young man to learn the river? ” he said. |
| 2988 | “ I said,''Who the h-- l are you? |
| 2988 | “ IS SHAKESPEARE DEAD? ” I set out on my long journey with much reluctance. |
| 2988 | “ Is n''t that a guitar over there? ” he asked. |
| 2988 | “ Is there any evidence that he did n''t? ” I asked. |
| 2988 | “ Livy, ” he said, “ did it sound like that? ” “ Of course it did, ” she said, “ only worse. |
| 2988 | “ M.--What does it mean? |
| 2988 | “ MAMA-- What did you say? |
| 2988 | “ Man adapted to the earth? ” he said. |
| 2988 | “ Nobody could have done it better; and did you see how those cats got out of there? |
| 2988 | “ Promise what? ” I said. |
| 2988 | “ Quick! ” “ What is it? |
| 2988 | “ Reporters? ” The butler feigned uncertainty. |
| 2988 | “ Sam said,''Dan, did you know, when you invited me to make that speech, that those fellows were going to give me a bogus pipe?'' |
| 2988 | “ Some one you know? ” “ No, ” he said. |
| 2988 | “ Steve, what is that d-- d noise? ” he would say. |
| 2988 | “ Still you-- are going to publish it, are you not? ” Clemens, pacing up and down the room in his dressing- gown and slippers, shook his head. |
| 2988 | “ Tell us, Mark, why are you like the Pacific Ocean? ” “ I do n''t know, ” he drawled. |
| 2988 | “ That-- rascal? ” he said, “ He has done me more injury than any other man in America. ”] LVI. |
| 2988 | “ WAS IT HEAVEN? |
| 2988 | “ Was he always really tranquil within, ” he says, “ or was he only externally so-- for effect? |
| 2988 | “ Was this rebuke studied and intentional? |
| 2988 | “ Well, he''s been here. ” “ Oh, Youth, have you done anything? ” “ Yes, of course I have. |
| 2988 | “ Well, ” he said, “ who told you you could go in this car? ” “ Nobody, ” said Clemens. |
| 2988 | “ Well, ” he sand, “ why am I like the Pacific Ocean? ” Several guesses were made, but none satisfied him. |
| 2988 | “ Well-- Mrs. Clemens is about as usual-- I believe. ” “ And the children-- Miss Susie and little Clara? ” This was a bit startling. |
| 2988 | “ What are you doing here? ” he asked. |
| 2988 | “ What are you reading, Sam? ” he asked. |
| 2988 | “ What in nation are you steerin''at, anyway? |
| 2988 | “ What is your name? ” The applicant told him, and the two stood looking at the sunlit water. |
| 2988 | “ What kind of a trip did you boys have? ” a friend asked of them. |
| 2988 | “ What makes you pull your words that way? ”( “ pulling ” being the river term for drawling), he asked. |
| 2988 | “ What will you have, Sam? ” he asked. |
| 2988 | “ What would you do? ” he asked me. |
| 2988 | “ What would you give for a copy? ” asked. |
| 2988 | “ What''s the matter, Sam? |
| 2988 | “ Where is it? |
| 2988 | “ Where is the elephant? ” he asked, as they drove along. |
| 2988 | “ Who did that? ” asked Laird''s second. |
| 2988 | “ Who is he, George? ” Clemens asked, without looking at the card. |
| 2988 | “ Who was it? ” asked his companion. |
| 2988 | “ Why did n''t you mention it before? |
| 2988 | “ Why do you think so? ” he asked. |
| 2988 | “ Why in nation did you offer him your cue? ” “ Was n''t that the courteous thing to do? ” I asked. |
| 2988 | “ Why in nation did you offer him your cue? ” “ Was n''t that the courteous thing to do? ” I asked. |
| 2988 | “ Why not leave them all to me? ” My business brothers? |
| 2988 | “ Why not leave them all to me? ” My business brothers? |
| 2988 | “ Why, ” he said, “ have we met before? ” The Prince smiled happily. |
| 2988 | “ Yes, sir, it is; what of it? ” The culprit walked over, and taking it up, tuned the strings a little and struck the chords. |
| 2988 | “''What is it?'' |