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| 13435 | I had, afterward, some talk with Mrs. C., whom hitherto I had only_ seen_, for who can speak while her husband is there? 13435 Who knows the inscrutable design? |
| 13435 | And who on earth could have anticipated what the voice said? |
| 13435 | Are there not beautiful things there, glorious things; wanting only an eye to note them, a hand to record them? |
| 13435 | For if a good speaker-- an eloquent speaker-- is not speaking the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? |
| 13435 | Had the finite measured itself with infinity, instead of surrendering itself up to the influence? |
| 13435 | Has the English nation changed, then, altogether? |
| 13435 | If not, what is the real value of Mr. Carlyle''s teachings? |
| 13435 | In August, 1867, Carlyle broke silence again with an utterance in the style of the_ Latter- Day Pamphlets_, entitled"Shooting Niagara: and After?" |
| 13435 | Is that for ever impossible?'' |
| 13435 | It is not right, it is wrong; and yet how shall I reprove you? |
| 13435 | Need I say, then, what it must be to an English ear? |
| 13435 | What are nuggets and millions? |
| 13435 | What has been done by rushing after fine speech? |
| 13435 | What need of quoting a speech which by this time has been read by everybody? |
| 13435 | Why should your mother, Charles, not mine, Be weeping at her darling''s grave? |
| 13435 | Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker if it is not the truth that he is speaking? |
| 13435 | Wilhelm, who is there beside him, says,"What is that?" |
| 13435 | why is there no sleep to be sold?" |
| 2101 | Justify? 2101 ''Nevertheless, Madam,''said I,''does not your Majesty place really your trust in God? 2101 -- So that, it would seem, there WILL gradually among mankind, if Friedrich last some centuries, be a real Epic made of his History? 2101 --Which will mean also that M. de la Bergerie may go home? 2101 --While this was going on, her Brother, Duke Ernst August, came into the Queen''s room,--perhaps with his eye upon me and my motions? |
| 2101 | 74( quoting_ Memoires du Comte de Dohna);_& c.& c.]--about what? |
| 2101 | A Crown- Prince of Prussia, ought he not to learn soldiering, of all things; by every opportunity? |
| 2101 | All that he did was to knock at the gate( the Kaiser''s gate and the world''s), and ask,"IS it achieved, then?" |
| 2101 | And then her mind,--for gifts, for graces, culture, where will you find such a mind? |
| 2101 | And what did he achieve and suffer in the world?" |
| 2101 | Are you for Bedlam, then?" |
| 2101 | But now, how extricate the man from his Century? |
| 2101 | But what else was possible? |
| 2101 | Curiosity quickened, or which should be quickened, by the great and all- absorbing question, How is that same exploded Past ever to settle down again? |
| 2101 | Do not you fly(_ n''a- t- elle pas recours_) to the blood and merits of Jesus Christ, without which it is impossible for us to stand before God?'' |
| 2101 | Do you not very earnestly(_ bien serieusement_) crave pardon of Him for all the sins you have committed? |
| 2101 | Does not the new Sovereign Lady, in her heart, wish YOU were dead, my Prince? |
| 2101 | Elector Friedrich was indeed advised, in cipher, by his agent at Vienna, to write in person to--"Who is that cipher, then?" |
| 2101 | Every original man of any magnitude is;--nay, in the long- run, who or what else is? |
| 2101 | Has the reader heard of Sauerteig''s last batch of_ Springwurzeln,_ a rather curious valedictory Piece? |
| 2101 | Hope it perhaps? |
| 2101 | How did the like of him contrive to achieve Kingship? |
| 2101 | Is Brandenburg grown ripe for having a crown? |
| 2101 | Kaiser, Karl or Charles VI.? |
| 2101 | Let us give some Excerpt, in condensed state:--"How can St. Jerome, for example, be a key to Scripture?" |
| 2101 | Men not"of genius,"apparently? |
| 2101 | One question only are we a little interested in: How he came by the Kingship? |
| 2101 | Such waste of labor and of means: what can one do but be silent? |
| 2101 | We are to try for some Historical Conception of this Man and King; some answer to the questions,"What was he, then? |
| 2101 | What doomed dog questions it, then? |
| 2101 | What remains but that I blow my brains out, and do at length one true action?" |
| 2101 | Whence, how? |
| 2101 | Why not give him this promotion; since it costs us absolutely nothing real, not even the price of a yard of ribbon with metal cross at the end of it? |
| 2101 | Will it be needful for you to grant Brandenburg a crown? |
| 2101 | [ Mirabeau,_ Histoire Secrete de la Cour de Berlin,_ Lettre 28?? |
| 2101 | [ Mirabeau,_ Histoire Secrete de la Cour de Berlin,_ Lettre 28?? |
| 2101 | at Madrid, 1st November, 1700, for whose heritages all the world stood watching with swords half drawn, considerably assist Pater Wolf? |
| 1932 | Do n''t you see? |
| 1932 | How is this? |
| 1932 | Oh, why hast thou wakened me from such a dream? |
| 1932 | Such of thy enemies, King? |
| 1932 | The King said,''Hast thou killed the Jarl?'' 1932 Then Dale Gudbrand stood up and said,''Where now, king, is thy God? |
| 1932 | What dream was it, then? |
| 1932 | What is that? |
| 1932 | What is this that has broken? |
| 1932 | What is this? |
| 1932 | What is to be done? |
| 1932 | What is to be my penalty, then? 1932 Which way wilt thou do, then?" |
| 1932 | Who is this that spoke to you? |
| 1932 | Yes; but what is this with the king''s right hand? |
| 1932 | stitched together) by somebody more musical than Snorro was? |
| 1932 | 860- 872? |
| 1932 | 876?). |
| 1932 | And the eternal Providence that guides all this, and produces alike these entities with their epochs, is not its course still through the great deep? |
| 1932 | Can he eat up all the kale in England itself, this Knut the Great? |
| 1932 | Does he wish to rule over all the countries of the North? |
| 1932 | Does not it still speak to us, if we have ears? |
| 1932 | Dost thou call him God, whom neither thou nor any one else can see? |
| 1932 | He is reckoned to have ruled in Norway, or mainly ruled, either in the struggling or triumphant state, for about thirty years( 965- 995?). |
| 1932 | I am King Sigurd''s veritable half- brother: what will King Sigurd think it fair to do with me?" |
| 1932 | In the evening the king asked Gudbrand''s son What their God was like? |
| 1932 | Jarl Sigwald joined with new ships by the way:"Had,"he too,"a visit to King Burislav to pay; how could he ever do it in better company?" |
| 1932 | Of their conduct in battle, fiercer than that of_ Baresarks_, where was there ever seen the parallel? |
| 1932 | Olaf such baptism notwithstanding, did not quit his viking profession; indeed, what other was there for him in the world as yet? |
| 1932 | Shall I give it, out of Snorro, and let the reader take it for as authentic as he can? |
| 1932 | The King said,''Hast thou killed the Jarl?'' |
| 1932 | The king, with some transient thought of possibility going through his head, rejoins,"Wilt thou surrender, Erling?" |
| 1932 | Thor with his hammer evidently acting; but in behalf of whom? |
| 1932 | Tryggveson said little; waited impassive,"What your reasons are, good men?" |
| 1932 | Where now is the golden helmet?'' |
| 1932 | Why do you suffer it, you kings really great?" |
| 1932 | With a single slave he flies that same night;--but whitherward? |
| 1932 | Your main problem is that ancient and trite one,''Who is best man?'' |
| 1932 | _ Hakon._"''What wilt thou take, King?'' |
| 1932 | _ King._"''Dost thou not apprehend that thou art in such a condition that, hereafter, there can be neither victory nor defeat for thee?'' |
| 1932 | _ King._"''What wilt thou give me, Jarl, if, for this time, I let thee go, whole and unhurt?'' |
| 1932 | murmured they in angry astonishment;"how can even the land be got tilled in that way?" |
| 36074 | And are wooings and weddings obsolete, that there can be Comedy no longer? |
| 36074 | And what does all this avail him? |
| 36074 | And what then had these men, which Burns wanted? |
| 36074 | Are his Harolds and Giaours, we would ask, real men, we mean, poetically consistent and conceivable men? |
| 36074 | But what then is the amount of their blame? |
| 36074 | Did not Cervantes finish his work, a maimed soldier, and in prison? |
| 36074 | Do men gather grapes of thorns? |
| 36074 | For is he not a well- wisher of the French Revolution, a Jacobin, and therefore in that one act guilty of all? |
| 36074 | Had they not their game to preserve; their borough interests to strengthen; dinners, therefore, of various kinds to eat and give? |
| 36074 | Has life no meanings for him, which another can not equally decipher? |
| 36074 | How could a man, so falsely placed, by his own or others''fault, ever know contentment or peaceable diligence for an hour? |
| 36074 | How could he be at ease at such banquets? |
| 36074 | How did coexisting circumstances modify him from without? |
| 36074 | How did the world and man''s life, from his particular position, represent themselves to his mind? |
| 36074 | How does the poet speak to all men, with power, but by being still more a man than they? |
| 36074 | How, indeed, could the"nobility and gentry of his native land"hold out any help to this"Scottish Bard, proud of his name and country?" |
| 36074 | Ilk happing bird, wee helpless thing, That in the merry month o''spring Delighted me to hear thee sing, What comes o''thee? |
| 36074 | In one word, what and how produced was the effect of society on him? |
| 36074 | Is he happy, is he good, is he true? |
| 36074 | Is it of description-- some visual object to be represented? |
| 36074 | Is it of reason-- some truth to be discovered? |
| 36074 | Is not every genius an impossibility till he appear? |
| 36074 | Is there not the fifth act of a Tragedy, in every death- bed, though it were a peasant''s and a bed of heath? |
| 36074 | Nay, have we not seen another instance of it in these very days? |
| 36074 | Nay, was there not a touch of grace given him? |
| 36074 | Or are men suddenly grown wise, that Laughter must no longer shake his sides, but be cheated of his Farce? |
| 36074 | Tell me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing? |
| 36074 | Was Milton rich or at his ease, when he composed_ Paradise Lost_? |
| 36074 | Was it his aim to_ enjoy_ life? |
| 36074 | Were the nobility and gentry so much as able rightly to help themselves? |
| 36074 | Were their means more than adequate to all this business, or less than adequate? |
| 36074 | What is that excellence? |
| 36074 | Where then does it lie? |
| 36074 | Where wilt thou cow''r thy chittering wing, And close thy ee?" |
| 36074 | Who ever uttered sharper sayings than his; words more memorable, now by their burning vehemence, now by their cool vigor and laconic pith? |
| 36074 | Why do we call him new and original, if_ we_ saw where his marble was lying, and what fabric he could rear from it? |
| 36074 | Why should we speak of_ Scots, wha hae wi''Wallace bled_; since all know it, from the king to the meanest of his subjects? |
| 36074 | Will a Courser of the Sun work softly in the harness of a Drayhorse? |
| 36074 | With what endeavors and what efficacy rule over them? |
| 36074 | how did he modify these from within? |
| 36074 | or shall we cut down our thorns for yielding only a_ fence_, and haws? |
| 36074 | what and how produced was his effect on society? |
| 36074 | with what resistance and what suffering sink under them? |
| 2102 | Soft, your Hungarian Majesty,thinks Jobst:"till my cash is paid, may it not probably be another?" |
| 2102 | We are clear, then, at this date? |
| 2102 | What is it, then? |
| 2102 | Whip my Abbot? 2102 --How it came about? 2102 67,?? 2102 67,?? 2102 A servant waiting at dinner inadvertently let slip the word:--Zisca there? |
| 2102 | After Barbarossa, Coeur- de- Lion and Philippe Auguste have tried it with such failure, what wise man will be in haste to try it again? |
| 2102 | And for the Order a happy time? |
| 2102 | And he IS to pay, then,--Archbishop of Beelzebub?" |
| 2102 | Body, all cut in pieces, and nailed to poles, had long ignominiously withered in the wind; perhaps it was now only buried overnight for the nonce? |
| 2102 | But now, How raise such a ransom, our very jewels being sold? |
| 2102 | Confused crank machine this of the German Empire too, your Majesty? |
| 2102 | Conrad retires into himself:"What is her real sin, perhaps, to mine?" |
| 2102 | Grow fat, become luxurious, incredulous, dissolute, insolent; and need to be burnt out of the way? |
| 2102 | It was very dangerous to go;--and with what likelihood of speeding? |
| 2102 | It will never leave off its dire worship of Satan, then? |
| 2102 | Kaiser of the Holy Roman Empire, and so much else: is not Sigismund now a great man? |
| 2102 | Law thy hand created for protection of thy children: but where now is Law? |
| 2102 | Lies buried in Quedlinburg Abbey:--any Tomb? |
| 2102 | No hope in the SCHWERTBRUDER for Prussia;--and in massacred Missionaries what hope? |
| 2102 | Or will the reader care to know how Culmbach came into the possession of the Hohenzollerns, Burggraves of Nurnberg? |
| 2102 | Otto''s Wife, all streaming in tears, and flaming in zeal, what shall she do? |
| 2102 | Regardless of God and man, and of the last look of a dying Brother? |
| 2102 | Sovereignty of multiplex Princes, with a Peerage of intermediate Robber Barons? |
| 2102 | Stork, when wilt thou appear, then,"and with thy stiff mandibles act upon them a little? |
| 2102 | The Teutsch Order helps valiantly in Palestine, or would help; but what is the use of helping? |
| 2102 | There is no hope of converting Preussen, then? |
| 2102 | These things were; but they have no History: why should they have any? |
| 2102 | This was the beginning of Pawnings to Brandenburg; of which when will the end be? |
| 2102 | Times alter greatly.--Will the reader take a glimpse of Conrad von Thuringen''s biography, as a sample of the old ways of proceeding? |
| 2102 | What can Dryasdust himself do with them? |
| 2102 | What multiple of the Equator was it, then, O Dryasdust? |
| 2102 | Who his Markgraves were? |
| 2102 | Will you give your daughter to a dog?" |
| 2102 | YOU have taken Acre?" |
| 2102 | [ Menckenii_ Scriptores,_ i.?? |
| 2102 | [ Menckenii_ Scriptores,_ i.?? |
| 2102 | xi.?? |
| 2102 | xi.?? |
| 2108 | ''Was it not your intention to go to England?'' 2108 ''You have learned nothing of what is to become of me?'' |
| 2108 | The first sane step was to throw myself at the feet of the King: King said,''Are you content with me? 2108 What is wrong, Herr General?" |
| 2108 | What to make of all this? |
| 2108 | Whereupon the King asked him:''Was it thou that temptedst Katte; or did Katte tempt thee?'' 2108 Years''imprisonment? |
| 2108 | ''O Heaven, my Brother?'' |
| 2108 | --Well; but was Schlubhut sentenced to hanging? |
| 2108 | --Why then, O Princess? |
| 2108 | And MAY my ursine heart flow out again, and blubber gratefully over a sinner saved, a poor Son plucked as brand from the burning? |
| 2108 | Apologies, subterfuges do but provoke him farther; it is not long till he starts up, growling terribly:"IHR SCHURKEN( Ye Scoundrels), how could you?" |
| 2108 | Are we become as Hebrew Elijahs, then; so that the wild ravens have to bring us food? |
| 2108 | As my Father brought him proofs from Scripture, the Prince asked him one time, How he could keep chapter and verse so exactly in his memory? |
| 2108 | But what the Prince, in his own heart, thought of it all; how he looked, talked, lived, in unofficial times? |
| 2108 | Crown- Prince said:''I should like to know what that good old gentleman does with a Mistress?'' |
| 2108 | Crown- Prince, when I did, in some interval of the dance, report this of Grumkow, and say, Why so changed and cold, then, Brother of my heart? |
| 2108 | Did readers ever hear of such a thing? |
| 2108 | Do n''t you see those strangers who have just come in?'' |
| 2108 | Do you keep two weights and two measures, in that Criminal- Collegium of yours, then? |
| 2108 | Does He( ER) know what stealing means, then? |
| 2108 | For, in the first place, your Highness, is it not written in the Law of God, Adulterers shall not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven?" |
| 2108 | Frustrate, bankrupt, chargeable with a friend''s lost life, sure enough he, for one, is: what is to become of him? |
| 2108 | He caressed me greatly( ME GRACIEUSA FORT); afterwards questioned me about my way of life in Vienna; and asked, if I had diverted myself well there? |
| 2108 | How the commonest convicted private thief finds the gallows his portion; much more a public Magistrate convicted of theft? |
| 2108 | I then took the liberty of saying:''Monseigneur, the most, at present, depends on yourself.--''How so?'' |
| 2108 | Is He aware that He, in a very especial manner, deserves hanging, then?" |
| 2108 | Is theft in the highest quarters a thing to be let off for refunding?" |
| 2108 | Jamaica, say you? |
| 2108 | King LOQUITUR:--"How do you like your Custrin life? |
| 2108 | Modest travelling- equipage rolls up into the inner court; to the foot of the grand staircase there, whither only Princes come:--who can it be? |
| 2108 | Money back? |
| 2108 | Or IS that all the thanks he has for Wilhelmina? |
| 2108 | Or shall his Majesty compel him?" |
| 2108 | Papa, in hopeful moments, asks himself:"To whom shall we marry him, then; how settle him?" |
| 2108 | Poor Wilhelmina never thought of disobeying her parents: only, which of them to obey? |
| 2108 | Poor old Hesse could not tell:"God is my witness, no penny of them eyer stuck to me,"asseverated poor old Hesse;"but where they are--? |
| 2108 | Refund? |
| 2108 | Sugar? |
| 2108 | Suspects poison, you think? |
| 2108 | Truly, yes; where is the liberty of private capital or liberty of almost any kind, on those terms? |
| 2108 | What Seckendorf and Grumkow thought of all these phenomena? |
| 2108 | What can be the meaning of it? |
| 2108 | What has become of these thousands, Sir? |
| 2108 | What shall we say? |
| 2108 | Whither is he to turn, thoroughly beaten, foiled in all his enterprises? |
| 2108 | Who knows but, of all the offers she had,"four"or three"crowned heads"among them, this final modest honest one may be intrinsically the best? |
| 2108 | answers Schlubhut, high mannered at the wrong time:"I can and will pay the money back!"--NOBLE- man? |
| 2108 | as you called it?" |
| 2108 | cried I:''But I do n''t see him; where is he? |
| 2108 | of Spain, leaving a younger Son to be King of Naples, ancestor of the now Majesty there?" |
| 2108 | thinks the desperate young man? |
| 2104 | A_ Candidatus Theoligiae,_ your Majesty,answered a handfast threadbare youth one day, when questioned in this manner.--"Where from?" |
| 2104 | For the Housemaids at Wusterhausen,Do n''t I pay them myself? |
| 2104 | Was it not Catholic once? |
| 2104 | Who are you? |
| 2104 | Yes, truly, too many of them; but there are exceptions; I know two.--"Two? |
| 2104 | --Surely not so many as four hundred, you too witty Princess? |
| 2104 | 418,? |
| 2104 | Admire?" |
| 2104 | All right here?" |
| 2104 | And the Pretender is coming again, they say? |
| 2104 | And then the execution, the realizing, amid the contradiction, silent or expressed, of men and things? |
| 2104 | And truly we might ask, What has become of the other more considerable"spheres"in that epoch? |
| 2104 | At which"correspondence,"when the Facts are once well recognized, he has at last to ask himself with amazement,"Did I ever recognize it, then?" |
| 2104 | Bargain clear enough: but will this Karl Philip incline to keep it? |
| 2104 | But Nature is still capable of such products: if in Hellas long ages since, why not in Brandenburg now? |
| 2104 | CORPS EVANGELICORUM, so presided over as at present, what can be had of such a Corpus? |
| 2104 | Fever, pestilence, are bad for the body; but Doubt, impious mutiny, doubly impious hypocrisy, are these nothing for the mind? |
| 2104 | For the poor Heidelberg Consistorium, as they could not undertake to give up their Church on request of his Serenity,--"How dare we, or can we?" |
| 2104 | For, in fact, he was dangerous; and would ask in an alarming manner,"Who are you?" |
| 2104 | Heathen Latins, Romans;--who perhaps were no great things of Heathen, after all, if well seen into? |
| 2104 | His favorite dish at dinner was bacon and greens, rightly dressed; what could the French Cook do for such a man? |
| 2104 | How could they? |
| 2104 | In King Friedrich''s time, there were wo nt to be a thousand saddle- horses at corn and hay: but how many of them were in actual use? |
| 2104 | Instantly after which, my Son shall get into bed; shall be in bed at half- past 10;"--and fall asleep how soon, your Majesty? |
| 2104 | Is not this an ursine man- of- genius, in some sort, as we once defined him? |
| 2104 | May we not say that, in matter of religion too, Friedrich was but ill- bested? |
| 2104 | No help for it, so sore as it goes against us:"Why will the very King whom I most respect compel me to be his enemy?" |
| 2104 | One of their words,"RAGOTIN( Stumpy),"whom does the reader think it designates? |
| 2104 | Or will the Kaiser, his Jesuits advising him, interfere to do us justice? |
| 2104 | Partly a kind of Milton''s- Devil physiognomy? |
| 2104 | People dreaded it might be a"Spectre"of Swedish tendencies; aiming to burn the Palace, spirit off the Royal Children, and do one knew not what? |
| 2104 | Perhaps? |
| 2104 | Poor Fritz, they say, had tears in his eyes; but what help in tears? |
| 2104 | Posthorses,"two hundred and eighty- seven at every station,"he has from the Community; but the rest of his expenses, from Memel all the way to Wesel? |
| 2104 | So that here is the Majesty of Prussia, who beyond all men abhors lies, giving orders to tell one? |
| 2104 | The money saved is something, nothing if you will; but the amount of mendacity expunged, has any one computed that? |
| 2104 | The supremest loud- trumpeting"political activities"which then filled the world and its newspapers, what has the upshot of them universally been? |
| 2104 | Then have you anything to drink?" |
| 2104 | This new KUR- PFALZ( Elector- Palatine) Karl Philip is by genealogy-- who, thinks the reader? |
| 2104 | Was there ever seen such a travelling tagraggery of a Sovereign Court before? |
| 2104 | We infer only that everything went by inflexible routine; not asking at all, WHAT pupil?--nor much, Whether it would suit any pupil? |
| 2104 | What help for it? |
| 2104 | What is Justice but another form of the REALITY we love; a truth acted out? |
| 2104 | What is to be done with them? |
| 2104 | Without subsidies, do you think, so many as 15,000? |
| 2104 | [ Carlyle''s_ Miscellanies,_ v.? |
| 2104 | and"Whether he, Friedrich Wilhelm, ought not perhaps himself to be Director?" |
| 2104 | which then?" |
| 2110 | Baron von Obergwas the other:--Hanoverian Baron: the same who went into the Wars, and was a"General von Oberg"twenty years hence? |
| 2110 | Change in the value of money? |
| 2110 | Has all success forsaken me, then, since Eugene died? |
| 2110 | He had no trial; but was there any doubt he had justice? 2110 M. de Voltaire( for we now drop the Arouet altogether, and never hear of it more) came to England-- when? |
| 2110 | Ought to be refuted by somebody? |
| 2110 | Such a bulk of light luggage? |
| 2110 | We hate war; but can not quite do without justice, your Serenity,thinks Friedrich Wilhelm:"must it be the eighty thousand iron ramrods, then?" |
| 2110 | Well,--is there anything more? 2110 What have you been reading lately, M. de Beausobre?" |
| 2110 | What is the use of arguing with anybody that can believe in Machiavel? |
| 2110 | ''Can not come,''answers Arouet;''how can I, so engaged?'' |
| 2110 | ''Hm, the Rising Sun?'' |
| 2110 | ''In ever- talking, ever- printing Paris, is it as in Timbuctoo, then, which neither prints nor has anything to print?'' |
| 2110 | ''Monseigneur de Sulli, is not such atrocity done to one of your guests, an insult to yourself?'' |
| 2110 | --"Alas, not long,"answered Pitsch.--"Say not, alas; but how do you( He) know?" |
| 2110 | --"And what?" |
| 2110 | --"Impossible,"said he, lifting his arm:"how could I move my fingers so, if the pulse were gone?" |
| 2110 | --Much oppression, forcing men to build in Berlin.--"Oppression? |
| 2110 | --To which the response is:"Hm, think you so, most happy, gracious, illustrious Prince, with every convenience round you, and such prospects ahead? |
| 2110 | All at once the Crown- Prince steps in; direct from Reinsberg:[ 12th April, 1740? |
| 2110 | Allies? |
| 2110 | And Mr. Pulteney exclaimed: Palatinate? |
| 2110 | And why do so few Princes seek this glory? |
| 2110 | And yet who knows but, in his very simplicity, there lay something far beyond the Ill Margraf to whom he was so quizzable? |
| 2110 | As I advanced, he asked,''Whence I came, and whitherward I was going?'' |
| 2110 | Bog- meteor, foolish putrescent will- o''-wisp, his Majesty promptly defined it to be: Tom- foolery and KINDERSPIEL, what else? |
| 2110 | But is there no help? |
| 2110 | Can not we get away from this scurvy wasp''s- nest of a Paris, thought they, and live to ourselves and our books? |
| 2110 | Concerning which will the reader accept this condensed testimony by an eye- witness? |
| 2110 | Derschau, you who managed it?" |
| 2110 | Did modern readers ever hear of"John Pine, the celebrated English Engraver"? |
| 2110 | Has not Jenkins''s Ear re- emerged, with a vengeance? |
| 2110 | Has not this Kaiser lost his outlying properties at a fearful rate? |
| 2110 | His bow to the divine Princess Caroline and suite, could it fail in graceful reverence or what else was needed? |
| 2110 | Hm!--And then there is forgiveness of enemies; your Majesty is bound to forgive all men, or how can you ask to be forgiven? |
| 2110 | How soon shall it be realized, then? |
| 2110 | Kaiser and Reich, with the other Mediating Powers, go on mediating; but when will they decide? |
| 2110 | Kaiser, so ruined lately, how can he send thirty thousand, and keep them recruited, in such distant expedition? |
| 2110 | Maypole Schulenburg the lean Aunt, Ex- Mistress of George I., over in London,--I think she must now be dead? |
| 2110 | Might build, new- build, an ACADEMY OF SCIENCES at Berlin for your Royal Highness, one day? |
| 2110 | Or did the reader ever hear of"M. Fredersdorf,"Head Valet at this time? |
| 2110 | Perhaps it is so with the rest of these Serenities, here fallen upon evil tongues?] |
| 2110 | Quitted England-- when? |
| 2110 | Readers remember how Jenkins''s Ear re- emerged, Spring gone a year, in a blazing condition? |
| 2110 | Shall we add the subsequent felicities of Anton Ulrich here; or wait till another opportunity?" |
| 2110 | She is in the family- way, this summer 1737, a very young lady still; result thought to be due-- When? |
| 2110 | The rest of its history either pure somnambulism; or a mere Controversy, to the effect,''Realized Voltairism? |
| 2110 | The very name VOLTAIRE, if you ask whence came it? |
| 2110 | This was the chosen soul''s employment of Friedrich, the flower of life to him, at Reinsberg, through the yea? |
| 2110 | To all which Roloff, a courageous pious man, answers with discreet words and shakings of the head,"Did I behave ill, then; did I ever do injustice?" |
| 2110 | What date? |
| 2110 | What may not Francois hope to become? |
| 2110 | _''Quel est done ce jeune homme qui parle si haut,_ Who is this young man that talks so loud, then?'' |
| 2110 | pretending to use me in this manner, is it other, in the court of Rhadamanthus, than transcendent Stupidity, with transcendent Insolence superadded?'' |
| 2110 | was it not their benefit, as well as Berlin''s and the Country''s? |
| 2105 | Balance of Power, they tell me, is in a dreadful way: certainly if one can help the Balance a little, why not? 2105 In God''s name, what is the real truth of all that?" |
| 2105 | Kaiser''s messenger, why not? |
| 2105 | What is that? |
| 2105 | Who is that? |
| 2105 | --"Lost it, say you?" |
| 2105 | 348,? |
| 2105 | 78,? |
| 2105 | A very Dictionary of a man; who knows, in a manner, all things; and is by no means ignorant that he knows them: Would not this man suit his Majesty? |
| 2105 | Alas, and why not? |
| 2105 | An appropriate enough catastrophe, comfortable to the reader; upon which perhaps he will not grudge to read still another word? |
| 2105 | An iracund bear, of dangerous proportions, and justly irritated against us at present? |
| 2105 | And if the thing had been only a popular Myth, is it not a significant one? |
| 2105 | And now, at some Guard- house of the place, a Prussian Officer inquires, not too reverently of a nobleman without carriage,"Who are you?" |
| 2105 | And they hope that he will do it? |
| 2105 | And who may you be that ask?" |
| 2105 | And yet who dare interfere? |
| 2105 | Another is, to make alliance with Russia, by well flattering the poor little brown Czarina there: but is not that a still poorer? |
| 2105 | At the appointed day he reappears; the chest is ready;--we hope, an unexceptionable article? |
| 2105 | Best chance, instead of the worst chance as at present: ah me, ah me, who will reduce fools to silence again in any measure? |
| 2105 | Blockheadism, Unwisdom, while silent, is reckoned bad; but Blockheadism getting vocal, able to speak persuasively,--have you considered that at all? |
| 2105 | But Nature''s gifts have not prospered with him: how could they, in that hackney- coach way of life? |
| 2105 | But by disobedience, by rebellion open or secret? |
| 2105 | Colic? |
| 2105 | Did"the Old Pretender,"who was then in his expectant period, in this same village of St. Germain, see it too, as Fassmann did? |
| 2105 | Echo answers, What? |
| 2105 | Finding Anton Ulrich still continue Protestant, she wrote to him out of Spain:--"Why, O honored Grandpapa, have you not done as you promised? |
| 2105 | Grumkow, purchased by his Pension of 500 pounds, is dog- cheap at the Money, as Seckendorf often urges at Vienna, Is he not? |
| 2105 | Has his Majesty no prize questions to propose, then? |
| 2105 | He is two years older than my little Wilhelmina: why should not they we d, and the two chief Protestant Houses, and Nations, thereby be united?" |
| 2105 | He once officially put these learned Associates upon ascertaining for him"Why Champagne foamed?" |
| 2105 | He said to himself, Why should not my Netherlands trade to the East, as well as these English and Dutch, and grow opulent like them? |
| 2105 | Here are mines of native Darkness and Human Stupidity, capable of being made to phosphoresce and effervesce,--are there not, your Majesty? |
| 2105 | How else can we be certain of getting those indispensable Apanages, when they fall vacant?" |
| 2105 | Majesty, in Tabagie, notices Gundling''s coat- breast:"Where is your Key, then, Herr Kammerherr?" |
| 2105 | Nay at length the Kaiser''s Ostend Company came to light: what will third parties, Dutch and English especially, make of that? |
| 2105 | Or perhaps that their affairs will go thither of their own accord? |
| 2105 | Perhaps the poetic temperament is more liable to such morbid biases, influxes of imaginative crotchet, and mere folly that can not be cured? |
| 2105 | Poor Kirkman, does he sometimes think of the Hill of Howth, and that he will never see it more? |
| 2105 | Pretty little Grandson this, your Majesty;--any future of history in this one, think you? |
| 2105 | The Troubles of Thorn( sad enough Papist- Protestant tragedy in their time),--who now cares to know of them? |
| 2105 | Usage? |
| 2105 | Was there ever seen such horse- play? |
| 2105 | What in the world has become of it? |
| 2105 | Why they sent the poor little Lady home on those shocking terms? |
| 2105 | You would have said, the first question he asks of every creature is,"Will you covenant for my Pragmatic Sanction with me? |
| 2105 | You, therefore, what is the good of you? |
| 2105 | and his Majesty looks dreadfully grave.--"Key lost?" |
| 2105 | inquired his Majesty, of the practical man:"DOES Wolf teach hellish doctrines; as Lange says, or heavenly, as himself says?" |
| 2105 | our precious Cousin, of Schwedt, is not he Sister''s- son of that Old Dessauer? |
| 2105 | thinks his Majesty:"And what are the laws, if an ignorant fellow is shot, and a learned wise one escapes?" |
| 2105 | thinks his Prussian Majesty:--"Who knows?" |
| 2103 | I could borrow the money from the Fuggers of Augsburg,said the Archbishop hesitatingly;"but then--?" |
| 2103 | Is not she NEAREST of kin? 2103 No salvation possible, says my Dearest? |
| 2103 | On that condition, jackanapes? |
| 2103 | Weisse Frau? 2103 What would you have me do towards reforming the Teutsch Order?" |
| 2103 | Who is this we have got for a Governor? |
| 2103 | ''s younger Brother) will have to conform to this Treaty of Utrecht: what other possibility for him? |
| 2103 | --"How agree?" |
| 2103 | --"Philip is not permitted to go,"said Imperial Officiality;"Philip is to continue here, and we fear go to prison."--"Prison?" |
| 2103 | --and sit obedient? |
| 2103 | 109- 158,? |
| 2103 | 138, 140(? |
| 2103 | ? |
| 2103 | A Kaiser chased into the mountains, capable of being seized by a little spurring;--"Capture him?" |
| 2103 | All Offices, are they not, by nature, ours to share among us?" |
| 2103 | An inconsistent, treacherous man? |
| 2103 | And an innocent Court- Mask or Dancing Soiree is criminal in the sight of God and of the Queen? |
| 2103 | And then Gustavus''s sudden laying- hold of Pommern, which had just escaped from Wallenstein and the Kaiser? |
| 2103 | And this, then, is the end of Sweden, and its bad neighborhood on these shores, where it has tyrannously sat on our skirts so long? |
| 2103 | Are there no memorials left of those"English volunteers,"then? |
| 2103 | But what man that believed in such a Universe as that of this Dead- Sea Pamphleteer could consent to live in it at all? |
| 2103 | Can not we ride together?" |
| 2103 | Can two Protestants fall to slashing one another, in such an aspect of the Reich and its Jesuitries?" |
| 2103 | Complaint emphatic enough:''Where will you find a man that has not suffered injury in his rights, perhaps in his person? |
| 2103 | Does the reader remember that scene in the High Church of Stettin a hundred and fifty years ago? |
| 2103 | For which what safe method is there, but that the Kaiser himself become proprietor? |
| 2103 | He who wants that, what else has he, or can he have? |
| 2103 | His Despatches, are they in the Paper- Office still? |
| 2103 | How King Ferdinand permitted himself such a procedure? |
| 2103 | How could Kaiser Max revoke his Father''s deed, or Kaiser Karl his Great- grandfather''s? |
| 2103 | If, again, the Ritterdom was not dead--? |
| 2103 | In Heaven or Earth, then, is there no hope for me? |
| 2103 | Jarrings were unavoidable; but how mend it? |
| 2103 | Monkish vows, Pope, Holy Church itself, what is one to think, Herr Doctor? |
| 2103 | Nay, in fact, to whom will you fling it up? |
| 2103 | O Heaven, who could laugh? |
| 2103 | Ora pro nostro Principe;_ der fromme Mann und herzliche Mensch ist doch ja wohl geplaget"( Seckendorf,_ Historia Lutheranismi,_ ii.? |
| 2103 | Pfalz- Neuburg, who married the Second Daughter, he is actually claiming, then;--the whole, or part? |
| 2103 | Probably his new allodial Ritter gentlemen were not the most submiss, when made hereditary? |
| 2103 | Protestant or not Protestant? |
| 2103 | So the Kaiser, on hardly any pretext, seized Mecklenburg from the Proprietors,--"Traitors, how durst you join Danish Christian?" |
| 2103 | Suppose we gave the Kaiser''s self a shot, then?" |
| 2103 | That is very certain: she too is on flight towards Saxony, to shelter with her uncle Kurfurst Johann,--unless for reasons of state he scruple? |
| 2103 | That were a painful thought?_]; and this one, as his Sister[ WILHELMINA] did, gets them[ THE TEETH] without trouble. |
| 2103 | The Elector listens with both ears: What Territory, then? |
| 2103 | The question meant everywhere:"Is there anything of nobleness in you, O Nation, or is there nothing? |
| 2103 | This was a questionable step; feasible perhaps for a great Elector of Saxony;--but for a Margraf of Anspach? |
| 2103 | Was this a cheering issue of such an adventure to the poor old expensive Gentleman? |
| 2103 | What could Father do more? |
| 2103 | What could an unfortunate Kurfurst do, but tremble and obey? |
| 2103 | What is to be done? |
| 2103 | What then is to be done? |
| 2103 | What were pedlers and mechanic fellows made for, if not to be plundered when needful? |
| 2103 | Which has been of uncountable advantage to Brandenburg:--how could it fail? |
| 2103 | Which probably, after all, it may have had, in Nature, some tendency to do? |
| 2103 | Withdraw, therefore; fling it up!--Fling it up? |
| 2103 | [ In Carlyle''s_ Miscellanies_( vi.? |
| 2103 | i.? |
| 2103 | iv.? |
| 2117 | Can not? 2117 Enter that room? |
| 2117 | How get across the Elbe? |
| 2117 | Plunge into the Austrians with a will: Prussian Soldiery,--can Austrians resist it? 2117 Prisoners of War,--to keep them locked up, with trouble and expense, in that fashion? |
| 2117 | The''League with Russia against you''is nonextant, a thing of your imagination: Have not we already answered? |
| 2117 | Tried? |
| 2117 | YOU will? |
| 2117 | ''What? |
| 2117 | --and in what humor Bruhl answered:"Hah? |
| 2117 | 159,? |
| 2117 | A most triumphant thing, thinks Hanbury: Could another of you have done it? |
| 2117 | Alas, my heavy- laden constitutional heart; but what can we do? |
| 2117 | And do you think it can be the interest of your Master[ and his Scarlet Woman] to abandon us to the fury of our enemies? |
| 2117 | And the French,--what are the French? |
| 2117 | And this does hinder, effectually while it continues:"How march to Bohemia, and leave the road blocked in our rear?" |
| 2117 | Archives of a crowned Head? |
| 2117 | Are not Excellency Broglio, and France, and Austria, and the whole world at our back?" |
| 2117 | At Pirna are plenty of boats; and by oar and track- rope, the River itself might be a road for them? |
| 2117 | Austria, it appears, is quite ungrateful:"Was n''t he bound?" |
| 2117 | Bruhl and Polish Majesty''s Army, still only about 18,000, have their apprehensions of such visit: but what can they do? |
| 2117 | But how return on our steps? |
| 2117 | But unless Browne''s Army had wings, how is it ever to get there? |
| 2117 | Did not he use them as a cloak for highway robbery, and swallowing of a peaceable Saxony, bad man that he surely is?" |
| 2117 | Eight miles of abysmal roads, our horses all extenuated? |
| 2117 | Fact how accomplished; by what methods? |
| 2117 | Friedrich, who likes Nivernois and his polite ways, answers quizzingly:"Island of Tobago? |
| 2117 | Hitherto the axiom always was,"Prussia the Adjunct and Satellite of France:"now to be entirely reversed, you say? |
| 2117 | I am told, they are but weak in those posts; surely, by double impetus, and dead- lift effort from us both, they CAN be forced? |
| 2117 | Indignant Broglio reappeared, next day, on foot; Lieutenant- General Prince Friedrich Eugen of Wurtemberg the chief man in charge:''Do you dare?'' |
| 2117 | Is it so wonderful that she does, by degrees, rise into eminent suspicion, anger, fear, violence and vehemence against her bad neighbor? |
| 2117 | Island of Tobago( a deserted, litigated, but pretty Island, were it ever ours), will not that entice this King, intent on Commerce?" |
| 2117 | Kings and Queens,--yes, and if that were all: but their poor Countries too? |
| 2117 | Little, or even nothing, of fighting there is: why should there be? |
| 2117 | Next day Broglio appeared in his state- carriage, formally demanding entrance, free thoroughfare:''Do you dare refuse me?'' |
| 2117 | Not a measure for imitation, as we said!--How Friedrich defended such hard conduct to the Saxons? |
| 2117 | Not ruined at all; but foiled, frustrated; and has to devise earnestly,"What next?" |
| 2117 | Of the question, What is to be done with those Saxons? |
| 2117 | Perhaps the English will pacify the Russian CATIN for me; tie her, with packthreads, bribes and intrigues, from stirring? |
| 2117 | Poland is to be stirred up;--has not your Czarish Majesty heard of his intrigues there? |
| 2117 | Poor Hanover indeed; she reaps little profit from her English honors: what has she had to do with these Transatlantic Colonies of England? |
| 2117 | Rutowski had not known it, then? |
| 2117 | Rutowski had said to himself, perhaps not quite with the due rigor of candor proportionate to the rigorous fact:"How get across the Elbe? |
| 2117 | So that now the loud uproar is reduced to one small question with us, What did he read in those Menzel Documents? |
| 2117 | Starvation, or the Austrians, which will be first here? |
| 2117 | The French, in reality a good deal astonished at the Prussian- Britannic Treaty, affected to take it easy:"Treaty for Neutrality of Germany?" |
| 2117 | The Most Christian Majesty''s Ambassador, and treated in this way? |
| 2117 | The Pompadour, for instance: who was it that answered,"JE NE LA CONNAIS PAS; I do n''t know her!"? |
| 2117 | The ill- informed world rang violently, then and long after, with a Controversy,"Was it of his beginning, or Not of his beginning?" |
| 2117 | The question now is: Will he go back to Budin; or will he try farther towards Schandau? |
| 2117 | The very Pamphlets printed on it,--cannot Dryasdust give me the number of tons weight, then? |
| 2117 | These are the two chief Towns, which do all the trade of this region; picturesque places both:--the Tourist remembers Pirna? |
| 2117 | WE never would sign anything; what have we to do with it? |
| 2117 | What Fact lying in them was it that Friedrich had to read? |
| 2117 | What alternative is there? |
| 2117 | What will Friedrich decide on attempting? |
| 2117 | Which feat, when Browne hears of it, means to him,"Going to cut me off from Budin, then? |
| 2117 | Who would now trust us?''" |
| 2117 | Will not?" |
| 2117 | Yes, a diabolical pair, they, sure enough:--and the thing they betrayed against their Masters, was that a celestial thing? |
| 2117 | Yes, of course; nay I am this moment going to the Empress: only you must tell me about what?" |
| 2117 | counsel they:"You can not drag your ammunitions, say you; your poor couple of big guns? |
| 2109 | ... As to what you tell me of the Princess of Mecklenburg,for whom they want a Brandenburg Prince,--"could not I marry her? |
| 2109 | Are you actual Protestants, the Treaty of Westphalia applicable to you? 2109 But were you ever at her toilette?" |
| 2109 | Emigrate, says your Imperial Majesty? 2109 I felt mad to see him so humiliate himself,"said Grumkow afterwards to Wilhelmina,"J''ENRAGEAIS DANS MA PEAU:"why not? |
| 2109 | King gets into passions; has beaten the pages[ may we hope, our dark friend among the rest? 2109 O Kaiser, Kaiser of the Holy Roman Empire; and this is your return for my loyal faith in you? |
| 2109 | To the question, How with the King and you? 2109 Treaty of Westphalia? |
| 2109 | What individual the Polish Grandees would have chosen for King if entirely left alone to do it? 2109 What? |
| 2109 | ''But, your Majesty, what is it ruffles you so? |
| 2109 | ''Lorraine? |
| 2109 | ''Why do you cry?'' |
| 2109 | --"And our properties, our goods and chattels?" |
| 2109 | 70 feet, but fell on"sewerage,"and did not die, but set the whole world on fire? |
| 2109 | And because I was of faith more than human, you took me for a dog? |
| 2109 | And still rarer, have readers noted what a power of holding his peace this young man has? |
| 2109 | And then as to poor Stanislaus? |
| 2109 | Are the Laws of Nature fallen void?" |
| 2109 | But then what will the neighboring Kings say? |
| 2109 | Did the reader ever hear of Finance- Minister Creutz, once a poor Regiment''s Auditor, when his Majesty, as yet Crown- Prince, found talent in him? |
| 2109 | Did we inform the reader once about Kaiser Karl''s young marriage adventures; and may we, to remind him, mention them a second time? |
| 2109 | Dullish, we should apprehend,--and perhaps BETTER lost to us? |
| 2109 | Eternal friendship, OH JA:--and as to Julich and Berg? |
| 2109 | For I should prefer being made a"--what shall we say? |
| 2109 | Have east- winds a heart, that they should feel pity? |
| 2109 | Having not a groschen of money, how could he succeed? |
| 2109 | He has a thousand vexations from it every day.... And what aim has the King? |
| 2109 | Hope your Majesty likes Prag? |
| 2109 | How can people''s feelings be saved? |
| 2109 | How the Grand- daughter changed accordingly, went to Barcelona, and was wedded;--and had to dun old Grandpapa,"Why do n''t you change, then?" |
| 2109 | I am to get nothing out of Brandenburg, my dear Hacke? |
| 2109 | I tell you there have fallen no snows this winter: how can inundation be?" |
| 2109 | Imperial Majesty will make me break my word before all the world? |
| 2109 | In what way shall I offer stronger proofs? |
| 2109 | Is it worth any human Creature''s while to look into the plans of this precious pair of individuals? |
| 2109 | Leave Salzburg?" |
| 2109 | Long ago, at the beginning of this History, did not the reader hear of a pestilence in Prussian Lithuania? |
| 2109 | Naples itself, crown of the Two Sicilies, lies in the wind for Carlos;--and your junior infant, great Madam, has he no need of apanages?" |
| 2109 | No end to people''s kindness: many wept aloud, sobbing out,''Is this all the help we can give?'' |
| 2109 | No money to fight France, say you? |
| 2109 | Not mere fanatic mystics, as Right Reverend Firmian asserts; protectible by no Treaty?" |
| 2109 | One Catholic, unequalled among Captains, we already have; but where is the Protestant, Duke Eberhard being dead? |
| 2109 | Or Wallenstein''s Palace,--did your Majesty look at that? |
| 2109 | Or the Council- Chamber window, out of which"the Three Prag Projectiles fell into the Night of things,"as a modern Historian expresses it? |
| 2109 | Poor Fred, who of us knows what of sense might be in these demands? |
| 2109 | Possible; and yet so very dangerous,--perhaps not possible? |
| 2109 | Pragmatic Sanction, hitherto refused as contrary to plain rights of ours,--that, if conceded to a spectre- hunting Kaiser? |
| 2109 | Protestants these two last: but they can not both have it; and what will Wurtemberg say to either of them? |
| 2109 | Prussian Majesty stares wide- eyed; the breath as if struck out of him; repeats,"Julich and Berg absolutely secured, say you? |
| 2109 | Readers know of a Book called_ Hermann and Dorothea?_ It is written by the great Goethe, and still worth reading. |
| 2109 | Terms perhaps known to August to be rash; to have been frightfully rash; but what can he now do? |
| 2109 | Terrific Spectre, thought to be in Swedish pay,--properly a spy Scullion, in a small concern of Grumkow VERSUS Creutz? |
| 2109 | The diversions for the Duke of Lorraine are very well schemed; but"--but what mortal can now care about them? |
| 2109 | Their conversation, road- colloquy, could it interest any modern reader? |
| 2109 | Thirty men I had to shift out of my company in consequence[ of Buddenbrock''s order]; and where am I now to get other thirty? |
| 2109 | To Stanislaus, to France?'' |
| 2109 | We dare;--dare we?" |
| 2109 | What is a mendicant like you come hither for?" |
| 2109 | Whereby the thoughtless young men were again driven to think of nocturnal charivari? |
| 2109 | Who in the world will it be, then? |
| 2109 | Who knows,--or need know? |
| 2109 | Why stand ye without?'' |
| 2109 | Why take the eldest, if so? |
| 2109 | With some hereditary King over it, and a regulated Saxony to lean upon: truly might it not be a change to the better? |
| 2109 | You young creatures, you are of one intention with your parents in this matter? |
| 2109 | Zisca''s drum, for instance, in the Arsenal here? |
| 2109 | of my Spouse[ as Ludwig Rudolf does, by all accounts], than to have a blockhead who would drive me mad by her ineptitudes? |
| 2109 | said he:"What is little Frederika[ my little Baby at Baireuth] doing?" |
| 2109 | shrieked the Right Reverend Father:"Are we getting into open mutiny, then? |
| 1085 | And who was Mogg? 1085 If the bottled moonshine_ be_ actually substance? |
| 1085 | Why write the Life of Sterling? |
| 1085 | You are going, then; to Spain? 1085 _ December 22d_.--By the way, did you ever read a Novel? |
| 1085 | ''Reason,''''Understanding:''is there, then, such an internecine war between these two? |
| 1085 | (?) |
| 1085 | (?) |
| 1085 | --"And suppose it were Pot- theism?" |
| 1085 | 8, I find these words:''But whence? |
| 1085 | Already, for some months,_ Strafford_ lay complete: but how to get it from the stocks; in what method to launch it? |
| 1085 | And in what is this alienation grounded? |
| 1085 | As perhaps it might, on certain terms? |
| 1085 | But I had to answer,"Who will join it, my friend?" |
| 1085 | But at what expense is it bought? |
| 1085 | But how, in any measure, is the small kingdom necessary for Sterling to be attained? |
| 1085 | But of the true and perfect Drama it may be said, as of even higher mysteries, Who is sufficient for these things?" |
| 1085 | But then I am at a loss to make out, How the decision of the very few really competent persons has been ascertained to be thus in contradiction to me? |
| 1085 | By what means is a noble life still possible for me here? |
| 1085 | Can a thing be at once known for true, and known for false? |
| 1085 | Can you understand anything of this? |
| 1085 | Especially that doctrine of the"greatness and fruitfulness of Silence,"remained afflictive and incomprehensible:"Silence?" |
| 1085 | Have you had the same icy desolation as prevails here?" |
| 1085 | Here then is the new celestial manna we were all in quest of? |
| 1085 | How unfold one''s little bit of talent; and live, and not lie sleeping, while it is called To- day? |
| 1085 | If Sterling has done little in Literature, we may ask, What other man than he, in such circumstances, could have done anything? |
| 1085 | If you in any way ask practically, How a noble life is to be led in it? |
| 1085 | Ill- health? |
| 1085 | In fact here once more was a parting of the ways,"Write in Poetry; write in Prose?" |
| 1085 | Is there no hope of your coming? |
| 1085 | It is droll to hear them talking of all the common topics of science, literature, and life, and in the midst of it:''Does thou know Wordsworth?'' |
| 1085 | Jack bounds aloft, the explosion instantly follows, bruises his face as he looks over; he is safe above ground: and poor Will? |
| 1085 | Nay, what of men or of the world? |
| 1085 | O Heaven, whither? |
| 1085 | Once let him learn well to be_ slow_ as the common run of men are, would not all be safe and well? |
| 1085 | Once more, what is to be done? |
| 1085 | Perhaps endure in patience till the dust laid itself again, as all dust does if you leave it well alone? |
| 1085 | Perhaps one might get some scheme raised into life, in Downing Street, for universal Education to the Blacks, preparatory to emancipating them? |
| 1085 | R. Cavendish(?) |
| 1085 | Returning speedily with a face which in vain strove to be calm, his Wife asked, How at Knightsbridge? |
| 1085 | Sir Edmund Head(?) |
| 1085 | Sir F. Palgrave(?) |
| 1085 | So that, in these bad circumstances, Sterling had perhaps rather made a hit than otherwise? |
| 1085 | Sterling was not long in certainty as to his abode at Clifton: alas, where could he long be so? |
| 1085 | The question, Poetry or Prose? |
| 1085 | These weary groups, pacing the Euston- Square pavements, had often said in their despair,"Were not death in battle better? |
| 1085 | They had now been seven years in it, many of them; and were asking, When will the end be? |
| 1085 | This thrice- refined pabulum of transcendental moonshine? |
| 1085 | What does-- or rather, what does not-- this portend?" |
| 1085 | What is Greek accidence, compared to Spartan discipline, if it can be had? |
| 1085 | What is faith; what is conviction, credibility, insight? |
| 1085 | What is there better in Fielding or Goldsmith? |
| 1085 | What is to be done? |
| 1085 | What use have you for me, or I for you?" |
| 1085 | Which is the lion''s- skin; which is the real lion? |
| 1085 | Whoso eateth thereof,--yes, what, on the whole, will_ he_ probably grow to? |
| 1085 | Why not? |
| 1085 | Why_ sing_ your bits of thoughts, if you_ can_ contrive to speak them? |
| 1085 | Will you despatch them to Hastings when you have an opportunity? |
| 1085 | Ye Heavens and thou Earth, oh, how?" |
| 1085 | _ Puer bonae spei_, as the school- albums say; a boy of whom much may be hoped? |
| 1085 | fiercely interjects the marine policeman from the ship''s deck.--"Why stop? |
| 1085 | or''Will thou take some refreshment?'' |
| 1085 | or,''Did thou see the Coronation?'' |
| 2111 | BRUSSELS, 29th August( 1740),_ 3d year since the world flattened._How the Devil, great Philosopher, would you have had me write to you at Wesel? |
| 2111 | But it is worth trying? |
| 2111 | But what need have I to excite you to glory? 2111 Do you intend to support it? |
| 2111 | HeRambonet"wore big linen ruffles at his wrists, very dirty[ visibly so in the moonlight? |
| 2111 | Holland? 2111 Indivisibility? |
| 2111 | Just Rights? 2111 Probably the weakest Piece I ever translated?" |
| 2111 | Sha''n''t we go to the Play, then, Monsieur le Marechal? 2111 TOUT LE PAYS SERA RUINE( the whole Country will be ruined),"say you? |
| 2111 | Tell me, I beg, if the enormous monad of Volfius--[Wolf, would the reader like to hear about him? 2111 The Exact Sciences, what else is there to depend on?" |
| 2111 | What he will grow to? |
| 2111 | What shall I do, in this sudden case? |
| 2111 | What shall I write to England? |
| 2111 | Wo n''t you have me send you some Books? 2111 Would not your Majesty perhaps consent to sell this Herstal, as your Father of glorious memory was pleased to be willing once?" |
| 2111 | ''Look me in the eyes,''said he;''have I the air of one dying? |
| 2111 | ''When will they be out, and the thing complete?'' |
| 2111 | ''Your Majesty, those old Sovereigns are to obtain Heavenly mercy by them, to be delivered out of Purgatory by them.''--''Purgatory? |
| 2111 | --"In eight days I leave for[ where thinks the reader? |
| 2111 | --''And what good does anybody get of them?'' |
| 2111 | 318; Newspapers,& c.]"Goose, Madam?" |
| 2111 | All summer there has gone fitfully a rumor, that he wished to see France; perhaps Paris itself incognito? |
| 2111 | Amiability is good, my Princess; but the question rises,"To whom?--for example, to the young gentleman who shot himself in Lobegun?" |
| 2111 | And if so, How, and to what lengths, will he proceed about it? |
| 2111 | And in that case, how will Austria, Europe at large? |
| 2111 | And now this Herstal business; the Imperial Dehortatoriums, perhaps of a high nature, that are like to come? |
| 2111 | And the Kaiser, what will the Kaiser say to it?" |
| 2111 | And they are not yet out, those poor souls, after so many hundred years of praying?'' |
| 2111 | Apparently that is the Piece by Voltaire? |
| 2111 | As to the royal mind and understanding, what shall Bielfeld say? |
| 2111 | At his first meeting of Council, they say, he put this question,"Could not the Prussian Army be reduced to 45,000?" |
| 2111 | Belonged to the Spaens, fifty years ago;--some shadow of our poor banished friend the Lieutenant resting on it? |
| 2111 | Brussels, too, is so near these Cleve Countries; within two days''good driving:--if only the times and routes would rightly intersect? |
| 2111 | But Friedrich Wilhelm was on the alert for it: Are you coming in with your NIE POZWALAM( your LIBERUM VETO), then? |
| 2111 | But in Germany, what need of Austria being so superlative? |
| 2111 | But thoughtless Konig, strong in his opinion about the infinitely little, appealed to Maupertuis:"Am not I right, Monsieur?" |
| 2111 | But, on the other Frontier, neither England nor Holland could take umbrage,"--points clearly to Silesia, then, your Excellency Dickens? |
| 2111 | Can no one else be got to do it? |
| 2111 | Colonel Loigle sends word to Broglio; Broglio despatches straightway an Officer and fine carriage:"Will the foreign Gentleman do me the honor?" |
| 2111 | Could not Voltaire go and try? |
| 2111 | Extremely interesting to know what Friedrich of Prussia will do in such contingency? |
| 2111 | Friedrich, in these same days, writes this Autograph; which who of men or lions could resist? |
| 2111 | Harrington''s reply is to the effect,"Hum, drum:--Berg and Julich, say you? |
| 2111 | Hope;--though who can say? |
| 2111 | If that is the nature of the Bashaw, and one''s sole mode of fishing knowledge from him, why not? |
| 2111 | Impossible to answer; minds not made up here:--What will his Prussian Majesty do for US?" |
| 2111 | Jordan, with his fine- drawn wit, French logics, LITERARY TRAVELS, thin exactitude; what can be done for Jordan? |
| 2111 | Meseems a heavier whip than that of satire might be in place here, your Majesty? |
| 2111 | Or perhaps the Bishop of Liege will bethink him, at last, what considerable liberty he is taking with some people''s whiskers? |
| 2111 | Orange itself, for example, what was to be done with the Principality of Orange? |
| 2111 | Perhaps Botta will penetrate him? |
| 2111 | Perhaps it had been better to stand by mere Prussian or German merit, native to the ground? |
| 2111 | Princess Tour hopes she shall lodge this unparalleled Prince in her Palace:"You, Madame?" |
| 2111 | Prussian Budget is fixed, many things are fixed: why talk of them farther? |
| 2111 | Schloss Moyland: How far from Brussels, and by what route? |
| 2111 | Schonborn, Austrian Kanzler, or who? |
| 2111 | Shall we now apply to the Royal Doggerel again, where we left off, and see the other side of the picture? |
| 2111 | There are magazines being formed at Frankfurt- on- Oder and at Crossen,"--handy for Silesia, you would say? |
| 2111 | This foreign Count speaks French wonderfully; a brilliant man, whom the others rather fear: perhaps something more than a Count? |
| 2111 | To Baireuth;--who knows if not farther? |
| 2111 | Truly; but then again, there are considerations:"What is this Friedrich, just come out upon the world? |
| 2111 | Two days''driving? |
| 2111 | Voltaire told us he himself"did one Manifesto, good or bad,"on this Herstal business:--where is that Piece, then, what has become of it? |
| 2111 | What Preachers he was acquainted with in Berlin? |
| 2111 | What are rights, never so just, which you can not make valid? |
| 2111 | What he thought of comedies and operas? |
| 2111 | What is the young King to do with this paltry little Hamlet of Herstal? |
| 2111 | What is to be done? |
| 2111 | What real fighting power has he, after all that ridiculous drilling and recruiting Friedrich Wilhelm made? |
| 2111 | What work was left for them? |
| 2111 | What you want of me? |
| 2111 | Whether he too was a Writer of Books? |
| 2111 | Who lived in it; what kind of thing was it, is it? |
| 2111 | Why not? |
| 2111 | Why should not, say, Three Electors united be able to oppose her?... |
| 2111 | Will he be faithful in bargain; is not, perhaps, from of old, his bias always toward France rather? |
| 2111 | Will his Britannic Majesty guarantee me there? |
| 2111 | Yes; but also towards Cleve, certain detachments of troops are marching,--do not men see? |
| 2111 | You still say those Masses, then?'' |
| 2111 | Your great Sea- Armaments, did I ask you any questions about them? |
| 2111 | [ Busching''s_ Beitrage_(? |
| 2111 | ["Look me in the eyes; pack of fools; you will have to dissect me, you will then know:"Any truth in all that? |
| 2111 | answer the most, in their various dialects:"who is he that we should sup with him?" |
| 2111 | exclaimed a philanthropist projector once, whose scheme of sweeping chimneys by pulling a live goose down through them was objected to:"Goose, Madam? |
| 2111 | modestly suggests Dickens.--''Well, if France will guarantee me those Duchies, and you will not do anything?'' |
| 2111 | poor Broglio is thinking to himself:"must write to Court; perhaps try to detain--?" |
| 2111 | thinks French cultivated society:"and has not Monsieur done a feat in that line?" |
| 2106 | Captain Natzmer to swing on the gallows? 2106 Dismissed, turned off for some fault or other-- or perhaps because the Princess knows enough of English?" |
| 2106 | Hearken, Louisa( HORE, LUISE), it is still time,said the King:"Tell us, wouldst thou rather go to Anspach, now, or stay with me? |
| 2106 | Is that enough? 2106 No answer yet?" |
| 2106 | No answer? |
| 2106 | Small- pox; what will Prince Fred think? 2106 These intolerable usages from England[ Seckendorf is rumored to have said], can your Majesty endure them forever? |
| 2106 | What is this? 2106 When will it go off, then( WANN GEHT ES LOS)?" |
| 2106 | Where is our real King, then? 2106 Who''s dat who ride astride de pony, So long, so lean, so lank and bony? |
| 2106 | Write to England? 2106 Your whole debt, then, is that? |
| 2106 | --"Hm, Na, would it, then?" |
| 2106 | --"What third party, then?" |
| 2106 | --''What do you mean by that?'' |
| 2106 | --O my dim old Friend, these surely are sublimities of the sick- bed? |
| 2106 | 110; Johnson''s_ Lives of the Poets,_? |
| 2106 | 306,? |
| 2106 | 307,& c.? |
| 2106 | A man of quality caught me, the other day, reading a Latin Author; and asked me, with an air of contempt, Whether I was designed for the Church? |
| 2106 | A man of some worth, too;"scrupulously kept his word,"say the witnesses: a man always conscious to himself,"Am not I a man of honor, then?" |
| 2106 | A successful visit; burns off like successful fire- works, piece after piece: and what more is to be said? |
| 2106 | After which he left me?" |
| 2106 | Alas, in the end of June, what far other Job''s- post is this that reaches Berlin and Queen Sophie? |
| 2106 | Alas, the money was eaten; how could the money be paid back? |
| 2106 | And the Double- Marriage, in such circumstances, are we to consider it as dead, then? |
| 2106 | And they called Rebecca, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? |
| 2106 | And this man is probably one of the"Four Kings"she was to be asked by? |
| 2106 | And with whom? |
| 2106 | At length Borck hits on a consideration:"Your Majesty has been ill lately; hand perhaps not so steady as usual? |
| 2106 | Barely possible some lighter readers might wish to see, for one moment, an Excellenz that has been seized by a Press- gang? |
| 2106 | But having no forces in the country, what could he do? |
| 2106 | But how to turn it aside? |
| 2106 | But is his Britannic Majesty aware? |
| 2106 | But the settlements, the applications to Parliament:--and all for this perverse Fred, who has become unlovely, and irritates our royal mind? |
| 2106 | But what can anything profit? |
| 2106 | Did English readers ever hear of Franke? |
| 2106 | Does not hate us, he, perhaps; but only Grumkow through him? |
| 2106 | Friedrich Wilhelm had answered,"Gout?" |
| 2106 | Friedrich Wilhelm sees well that it all comes from George''s private humor: Why should human blood be shed except George''s and mine? |
| 2106 | He asked my Sister, If that gave her pleasure? |
| 2106 | Her Majesty is overjoyed to hear it: who would not be? |
| 2106 | I am breaking up, then?" |
| 2106 | If his Majesty had looked into the wood- closet? |
| 2106 | Is not Grumkow worth his pension? |
| 2106 | Is not this itself sufficiently tragical? |
| 2106 | It is certain, the dilapidated Polish Majesty having become a Widower, questions would rise, Will not he marry again? |
| 2106 | Or can it be the State that will profit from such a marriage? |
| 2106 | Or shall we not clutch at England, after all,--and perhaps bring him to terms? |
| 2106 | Part of his road lies through Prussian Territory:"Shall he have free post- horses, as his late Majesty was wo nt?" |
| 2106 | Perhaps uses may lie in it there? |
| 2106 | Pragmatic Sanction once acceded to, would probably propitiate the Kaiser? |
| 2106 | Princes of the Powers of the Air, Shall we define them? |
| 2106 | Probably the Kaiser will sit still? |
| 2106 | Probably the Termagant, with all the fire she has, will not do much damage upon Gibraltar? |
| 2106 | Prussia and Hanover retained hold of their Hypothecs; for as to the expenses, what hope was there? |
| 2106 | Shall we sum up that sorry matter here, and wash our hands of it? |
| 2106 | Simple honest Orson of a Prussian Majesty, what a bepainted, beribboned insulting Play- actor Majesty has he fallen in with!--"Hm, so? |
| 2106 | So that things look well? |
| 2106 | Some''eight cart- loads of hay,''worth say almost 5 pounds or 10 pounds sterling: who is to mow that grass, I wonder?" |
| 2106 | Sovereign will is to the effect:"Write to England one other time, Will you at once marry, or not at once; Yea or No? |
| 2106 | Such a mass of potential- battle as George or the Hanover Officiality are-- ready to fight? |
| 2106 | Taken on Brandenburg territory too, and not the least notice given me?" |
| 2106 | The Formera, beautiful as painted Chaos; yes, her;--and why not, after a while, the Orzelska too, all the same? |
| 2106 | The SECOND,--cannot WE guess who the second is? |
| 2106 | The question means withal, What is to be done in these dreadful Congress- of- Soissons complexities, and mad reelings of the Terrestrial Balance? |
| 2106 | Then his Russian Unique of Wives:--his probable adventures, prior and subsequent, in Uncle Peter''s sphere, can these have been pleasant to him? |
| 2106 | Then there is the Meadow of Clamei which we spoke of:"That belongs to Brandenburg, you say? |
| 2106 | Then, you English, what is the meaning of these war- fleets in the West Indies; in the Mediterranean, on the very coast of Spain? |
| 2106 | There exists no Prussia, then, for little George?" |
| 2106 | These Diplomatic gentlemen,--say, are they aught? |
| 2106 | Thus the negotiation hangs fire; and will do so,--till dreadful waterspouts come, and perhaps quench it altogether? |
| 2106 | To a wise much- meditative House- Mastiff, can that be pleasant, from an unthinking dizened creature of the Ape species? |
| 2106 | Treaty of Seville; a part to be acted on the world- theatre, with applauses, with envies, almost from the very demi- gods? |
| 2106 | What Friedrich Wilhelm did with such a mass of wild pork? |
| 2106 | What to do in such a crisis? |
| 2106 | Who his associates there or at Potsdam were? |
| 2106 | Why did not the bargain close, then? |
| 2106 | Why should he? |
| 2106 | Why was there no Hansard in that Institution of the Country? |
| 2106 | Wilt thou, Louisa?'' |
| 2106 | Would Finkenstein( Head Tutor), or would Knyphausen( distinguished Official here), be the agreeable man?" |
| 2106 | [ Fassmann, p. 392; see Forster,& c.] Is not this a sublime patient? |
| 2106 | and How she would regulate her housekeeping when married? |
| 2106 | he, doubtless, will help in quelling those Peasant and other Anarchies? |
| 2106 | replied the King:''what is there wanting at my table?'' |
| 2106 | says adoring Fassmann; who privately knows of"Courts"( perhaps the GLORWURDIGSTE, Glory- worthiest, August the Great''s Court, for one?) |
| 2106 | what would Wilhelmina have thought? |
| 2122 | ''Am I in Rome? 2122 ''Amtsrath? |
| 2122 | ''And have you children?'' 2122 ''And whose?'' |
| 2122 | ''Are there still improvements needed here?'' 2122 ''Are they good people, these Colonists? |
| 2122 | ''Are you married too?'' 2122 ''But give me some idea: what kind of appearance had the Luch before it was drained?'' |
| 2122 | ''But how many more have they in all? 2122 ''But why do you grow no hemp?'' |
| 2122 | ''But your capons and poults, you could bring these to Ruppin?'' 2122 ''Ca n''t I see Wusterau,''where old Ajax Ziethen lives,''from here?'' |
| 2122 | ''Ca n''t we yet see Pechlin?'' 2122 ''Did General von Ziethen gain, among others, by the draining of the Luch?'' |
| 2122 | ''Do the people too increase well? 2122 ''Do they manage their husbandry well?'' |
| 2122 | ''Do you keep more cattle than your predecessor?'' 2122 ''Do you know how long it is since I was here last?'' |
| 2122 | ''Ha, ha, the Herr with the white feather!--Do you sow wheat too?'' 2122 ''Have I to drive through the village?'' |
| 2122 | ''Have you had it here?'' 2122 ''Hear now: these people are not prospering here?'' |
| 2122 | ''Hear: Is it far to the Mecklenburg border, here where we are?'' 2122 ''Here you, now: how are you content with the harvest?'' |
| 2122 | ''How do you know?'' 2122 ''How far is that?'' |
| 2122 | ''How has it come that you sow so much more than he?'' 2122 ''How long has he been there?'' |
| 2122 | ''How many more?'' 2122 ''How much did your predecessor use to sow?'' |
| 2122 | ''How much have you sown?'' 2122 ''How much?'' |
| 2122 | ''I''ll give them nothing, though.--What village is that, there ahead of us?'' 2122 ''In the Guards? |
| 2122 | ''Is he of the Nobility?'' 2122 ''Is the General at home?'' |
| 2122 | ''Is your wife among the ladies yonder?'' 2122 ''Its name is Brenken- hosius- hof!--Are these the Stollen hills that lie before us?'' |
| 2122 | ''Kanonicus? 2122 ''Na, tell me now, do n''t you really know why that Kleist at Protzen took his discharge?'' |
| 2122 | ''Sha''n''t we see it, when we come closer?'' 2122 ''So, so; that I am glad of!--Who is He( are you)?'' |
| 2122 | ''So? 2122 ''So? |
| 2122 | ''Steigs, what is that?'' 2122 ''Tell me now: how did you get on in the last War[ KARTOFFEL KRIEG, no fighting, only a scramble for proviant and"potatoes"]? |
| 2122 | ''Tell me, then, where does Stollen lie?'' 2122 ''That I am glad of!--What is the Beamte''s name in Alt- Ruppin?'' |
| 2122 | ''That is bad.--Tell me though; there lived a Landrath here before: he had a quantity of children: ca n''t you recollect his name?'' 2122 ''To WHOM belongs it?'' |
| 2122 | ''To whom belongs it now?'' 2122 ''To whom belongs it?'' |
| 2122 | ''To whom belongs it?'' 2122 ''To whom belongs it?'' |
| 2122 | ''To whom belongs this estate on the left here?'' 2122 ''To whom does it belong?'' |
| 2122 | ''Very well? 2122 ''Was he in the service?'' |
| 2122 | ''What Kleist is that?'' 2122 ''What Luderitz is that?'' |
| 2122 | ''What Mitschepfal is that?'' 2122 ''What do you get for your butter in Berlin?'' |
| 2122 | ''What do you sow, then, where you used to have hemp?'' 2122 ''What do you sow, then, where you would have put Farbekraut?'' |
| 2122 | ''What is the name of this Colony?'' 2122 ''What is the village here before us?'' |
| 2122 | ''What kind of rye is that?'' 2122 ''What the Devil, these people will be wanting money from me, I suppose?'' |
| 2122 | ''What village is this before us?'' 2122 ''What was your father?'' |
| 2122 | ''What were YOU by birth?'' 2122 ''What''s the name of this village we are coming to?'' |
| 2122 | ''What''s your name?'' 2122 ''What''s your name?'' |
| 2122 | ''Where do you send your butter, capons and poults( PUTER) for sale?'' 2122 ''Where is the Beamte of Alt- Ruppin?'' |
| 2122 | ''Where? 2122 ''Who are you?'' |
| 2122 | ''Who had it before him?'' 2122 ''Who sowed them?'' |
| 2122 | ''Whose is it?'' 2122 ''Why did n''t the old one stay?'' |
| 2122 | ''Why did the man seek his discharge?'' 2122 ''Why not of your own?'' |
| 2122 | ''Why not to Ruppin?'' 2122 ''You may tell me, I have no view in asking: why did the man take his discharge?'' |
| 2122 | His Majesty now stept into his carriage again[ was Gortz sitting all the while, still in silence? 2122 ''Tell me now, what is that village over on the right yonder?'' 2122 ( p. 22);--but, surely, except as above, it has no sense? 2122 --[TO ME]''Tell me now, is the Elbe far from here?'' 2122 --[TO RATHENOW]''Have you children too, Rathenow?'' 2122 --[TO THE FORESTER]''But do you know how fir- cones( KIENAPFEL) should be sown?'' 2122 A daughter of General von Krocher''s?'' 2122 About how many, that is?'' 2122 Amtsrath? 2122 Are there jolly children?'' 2122 Are you married?'' 2122 As the DAMME,Dams or Raised Roads through the Peat- bog,"are too narrow hereabouts, I could not, ride beside him,"and so went before? |
| 2122 | Be a great help to you, wo n''t it; and many will be ruined by the job, especially the proprietors of the ground NICHT WAHR?'' |
| 2122 | But tell me, I see no wood here: where do the Colonists get their timber?'' |
| 2122 | But tell me, though, why did Kleist of Protzen take his discharge?'' |
| 2122 | But what other steeple is that?'' |
| 2122 | But why?'' |
| 2122 | Can I see Drammitz hereabouts?'' |
| 2122 | Can I see Pechlin?'' |
| 2122 | Can not I see Ruppin somewhere here?'' |
| 2122 | Corn brings no price: if one did not turn a penny with other things, how could one raise the rent at all?'' |
| 2122 | From east to west, or from north to south?'' |
| 2122 | Has this Kleist been in the service too?'' |
| 2122 | Have your tenants, too, more cattle than formerly?'' |
| 2122 | How call we the village here before us?'' |
| 2122 | How goes it with you 7 Are you whole and well?" |
| 2122 | How the Devil comes a Kanonicus to be a Beamte?'' |
| 2122 | I knew him very well.--But tell me now( SAGT MIR EINMAL) has the draining of the Luch been of much use to you here?'' |
| 2122 | I know nothing of Kriegsraths!--To whom does the Estate belong?'' |
| 2122 | Is he dead now?'' |
| 2122 | Is he still alive?'' |
| 2122 | Is that the manor- house( EDELHOF)?'' |
| 2122 | Kanonicus? |
| 2122 | Na, have you many cattle here on the Colonies?'' |
| 2122 | That is one of the Gorgases, then!--Are you still making experiments with the foreign kinds of corn?'' |
| 2122 | The murrain( VIEHSEUCHE) is not here in this quarter?'' |
| 2122 | Then stand by wheat!--Your tenants are in good case, I suppose?'' |
| 2122 | They are mere Latin names!--Why is that hedged in so high?'' |
| 2122 | To whom belongs that?'' |
| 2122 | What is the other Colony called?'' |
| 2122 | What kind of wood is there on it?'' |
| 2122 | What was he before?'' |
| 2122 | When once the ground is arable, I reckon upon 300 families for it, and 500 head of cows,--ha?'' |
| 2122 | When we came upon the patch of Sand- knolls which lie near Fehrbellin, his Majesty cried:--"''Forester, why are n''t these sand- knolls sown?'' |
| 2122 | Where are the four sons that are still in life?'' |
| 2122 | Where is the Beamte of Alt- Ruppin?'' |
| 2122 | [ Ha?] |
| 2122 | [ THEN CLOSE INTO MY EAR] Who is the fat man there with the white coat?'' |
| 2122 | [ TO ME]''What man is that to the right there?'' |
| 2122 | [ TO THE HERR AMTSRATH KLAUSIUS]''Where were you born?'' |
| 2122 | [ a frequent interjection of Friedrich''s and his Father''s], how are they sown, then? |
| 2122 | ["LEBT ER NOCH, is HE still alive?" |
| 2122 | ["VAN MORGEN GEGEN ABEND, ODER VAN ABEND GEGEN MORGEN?" |
| 2122 | ["WAS SIND SIE,"the respectful word,"FUR EINE GEBORNE?"] |
| 2122 | no Krapp?'' |
| 2122 | or BEHIND, with woodman before? |
| 2122 | where? |
| 2107 | But what is to become of Nosti? 2107 Coffee- houses?" |
| 2107 | Field of Blenheim, says your Majesty? 2107 I AM Kaiser now, then?" |
| 2107 | I was so little moved by it, that I answered, going on with my work,''Is that all?'' 2107 QUE FAIRE? |
| 2107 | QUE FAIRE? |
| 2107 | Tush,answers old Karl Philip always:"Bargain?" |
| 2107 | Well,answers England,"who can help it? |
| 2107 | Wish we could manage the Marriage; but this Grumkow, this--Cannot they contrive to send an ORIGINAL strong enough? |
| 2107 | ''Infamous CANAILLE,''said he;''darest thou show thyself before me? |
| 2107 | ''Well,''says he,''the Emperor will abandon the Netherlands, and who will be master of them? |
| 2107 | ''What,''cried the Queen,''you have had the barbarity to kill him?'' |
| 2107 | ''Yes, I tell you,--but where is the sealed Desk?'' |
| 2107 | --"Quit of him? |
| 2107 | --"Why bother with the Kaiser and his German puddles?" |
| 2107 | ---Then why not SILENCE about both, my Friend Smelfnngus? |
| 2107 | --Which, alas, what can it avail with the Britannic Majesty, in regard to such outrageous Propositions from the Prussian? |
| 2107 | A brisk military man, in the prime of his years; who might do as Prussian Envoy himself, if nothing great were going on? |
| 2107 | A loyal, clever, and gallant kind of young fellow, if your Majesty will think? |
| 2107 | Across the Rhine to Speyer is but three hours riding; thence to Landau, into France, into--? |
| 2107 | Ah, DID you send me Berlin sausages, then, you untrue Papa? |
| 2107 | All is right, Nosti, is it not? |
| 2107 | And August the Strong-- what shall we say of August? |
| 2107 | And I insinuated something of it to his Majesty, the day before yesterday[ 27th April, 1730, therefore? |
| 2107 | And his Royal Highness the Crown- Prince all this while? |
| 2107 | And now--? |
| 2107 | And this, then, is what the Hotham mission is come to? |
| 2107 | As my Brother was most in my anxieties, I asked, If it concerned him? |
| 2107 | At Bamberg why should a Prussian Majesty linger, except for picturesque or for mere baiting purposes? |
| 2107 | At Gera, dim, old Town,--does not your Royal Highness well know the"Gera Bond( GERAISCHE VERTRAG)"? |
| 2107 | Baked by machinery; how otherwise could peel or roller act on such a Cake? |
| 2107 | Bargains?" |
| 2107 | Buddenbrock was there, and Anhalt- Dessau: for their very sake, were there nothing farther, one surely ought to go? |
| 2107 | But is it not the seed- ground of the Hohenzollerns, this Nurnberg, memorable above cities to a Prussian Majesty? |
| 2107 | But it is not in the power of reward or punishment to bend her female will in the essential point:''Divorce, your Highness? |
| 2107 | But what then? |
| 2107 | But where can the Prince be? |
| 2107 | Could Jupiter Tonans, had he been travelling on business in those parts, have done better with his dinner?--"At Sinzheim?" |
| 2107 | Could not Katte get a"Recruiting Furlough,"leave to go into the REICH on that score; and join one there? |
| 2107 | Deeply pondering these things, what shall the poor Prince do? |
| 2107 | Divine Laws, are they not? |
| 2107 | Duhan: did not forget to inform you of that? |
| 2107 | EINMAL KORPERLICH MISSHANDELT: why did not the Professor give us time, occasion, circumstances, and name of some eye- witness? |
| 2107 | Franz Josias, a hearty man of thirty- five, he too will stand by the Kaiser in these coming storms? |
| 2107 | Friedrich Wilhelm said, this Sunday evening at Darmstadt to his own Prince:"Still here, then? |
| 2107 | German puddles?" |
| 2107 | Give it up; and go, unmolested, to the-- in fact to the Devil: Can not you?" |
| 2107 | Has not she, by her incantations, made the stone houses dance out hither? |
| 2107 | He must be in the Hague? |
| 2107 | Heilbronn, the most famous City on the Neckar; and its old miraculous Holy Well--? |
| 2107 | Into France, into Holland, England? |
| 2107 | Let him take the answer they give him?" |
| 2107 | May not one reasonably pretend that a bargain should be kept? |
| 2107 | My Amiable and his Seckendorf, need they ask if Nosti will, and in a way to give them pleasure?"... |
| 2107 | Nay need we, a few months ago, have spent such loads of gold subsidizing those Hessians and Danes against him? |
| 2107 | Nay what is still more mortifying, my Brother says,"On the whole, I had better, had not I?" |
| 2107 | Nay, at any rate, what are the Letters? |
| 2107 | Need he fear their new Hotham, then? |
| 2107 | No definite countenance from England, the reverse rather, your Highness sees;--how can there be? |
| 2107 | Or is not the ultimate closing day perhaps still notabler; a day of universal eating? |
| 2107 | Or perhaps he has the curiosity to know the speech of birds? |
| 2107 | Ought we not to make a run to Dresden, therefore, and apprise the Polish Majesty? |
| 2107 | Page Keith, at this moment, comes with a pair of horses, too:"Whither with the nags, Sirrah?" |
| 2107 | Political men take some interest in the question;"Why neglect your Prince of Wales?" |
| 2107 | Prince Friedrich to be STATTHALTER in Hanover with his English Princess? |
| 2107 | Reader, have you tried such a thing? |
| 2107 | Seckendorf emerges from the other Barn; awake at the common hour:"How do you like his Royal Highness in the red roquelaure?" |
| 2107 | Seek justice for himself by his 80,000 men and the iron ramrods? |
| 2107 | Sits the wind in that quarter? |
| 2107 | Suppose he went to the Hague, and took soundings there what welcome we should have? |
| 2107 | Surely the law of No- company does not extend to that of an innocent child? |
| 2107 | That is the method settled on; neighborhood of Berlin, clearly somewhere there, must be the place? |
| 2107 | The Townhouse too( RATHHAUS), with its amazing old Clock? |
| 2107 | The meaning, we perceive, is in sum:"Hm, you wo n''t, surely? |
| 2107 | This Deserter Crown- Prince and his accomplices, especially Katte his chief accomplice, what is to be done with them? |
| 2107 | This is what it is come to?" |
| 2107 | To glide out of their quarters there, in that waste negligent old Town( where post- horses can be had), in the gray of the summer''s dawn? |
| 2107 | To overturn the Country, belike; and fling the Kaiser, and European Balance of Power, bottom uppermost? |
| 2107 | Truly, yes; they mean to ask in Parliament( as poor gamblers in that Cockpit are wo nt),''And why did not you make the offer sooner, then? |
| 2107 | WAIBLINGEN, within an hour''s ride, has got memorability on other grounds;--what reader has not heard of GHIBELLINES, meaning Waiblingens? |
| 2107 | Was ever Father more careful for his children, soul and body? |
| 2107 | Was there ever such a baffled Royal Highness; or young bright spirit chained in the Bear''s Den in this manner? |
| 2107 | Well, yes, your Majesty, divine and human;--or are there perhaps no laws but the human sort, completely explicit in this case? |
| 2107 | What high person would not keep for himself, to say nothing of eating, some fraction of such a Nonpareil? |
| 2107 | What is Friedrich Wilhelm to do? |
| 2107 | What is the use of our industries and riches?'' |
| 2107 | Whither can I fly when haunted, except to thee? |
| 2107 | Who knows, in spite of the light going out, but Keith is still there, merely with a window shutter to screen him? |
| 2107 | Why Papa was in such a fuss about this little circumstance? |
| 2107 | Why has no Prussian Painter done that scene? |
| 2107 | Will English readers consent to a momentary glance into his affairs and him? |
| 2107 | Will the very Army break its oath, then?" |
| 2107 | Would the reader wish to look into this Nosti- Grumkow Correspondence at all? |
| 2107 | [ Buddaus,_ Lexicon,_ ii.? |
| 2107 | [ Carlyle''s_ Miscellanies,_ vi.? |
| 2107 | again leaving only Daughters; will not this change the notion? |
| 2107 | and is assiduous in studying them,--evidently very desirous to know the face of Germany, the Rhine Countries in particular? |
| 2107 | can it, be thought that any liberality in use of the bellows or other fire- implements will now avail with his Majesty? |
| 2107 | said Osiander:''Do we not say, DELIVER US FROM EVIL?'' |
| 2107 | we are all right?'' |
| 2107 | what hissing far aloft is that? |
| 2119 | A thousand times over, Schmettau must have asked himself,''Why was I in such a hurry? 2119 ACH KINDER, Alas, children, you are badly wounded, then?" |
| 2119 | And for me, what orders has Excellency? |
| 2119 | And now suddenly, on the Tuesday morning, What is this? 2119 And what is this one hears from Gohfeld in the evening? |
| 2119 | JA, your Majesty: but how goes the Battle? |
| 2119 | May not it be another Rossbach( if we are lucky)? |
| 2119 | N''Y A- T- IL DONC PAS UN BOUGRE DE BOULET QUI PUISSE M''ATTEINDREE( Is there no one b---- of a ball that can reach me, then)? |
| 2119 | Northeast? 2119 Not in Sommerfeld?" |
| 2119 | Schmettau had been over- hasty; what need had Schmettau of haste? 2119 The Caudine Forks;""Scene of Pirna over again, in reverse form;""Is not your King at last over with it?" |
| 2119 | The King does not see his way, then, after all? |
| 2119 | The King of Prussia? |
| 2119 | Think you there is any pleasure in leading this dog of a life[ CHIENNE, she- dog]? 2119 What rage animates you against Maupertuis? |
| 2119 | What, from Rothe Vorwerk to Big Hollow, no passage, say you; no crossing? |
| 2119 | Why not in Nanci here? |
| 2119 | Will not Excellency Soltikof, who disdains idleness, go himself upon Silesia, upon Glogau for instance, and grant me a few days? |
| 2119 | Would not Dantzig by ourselves be the advisable thing? |
| 2119 | ''Fatherly? |
| 2119 | ''May not some of them belong to Polish Majesty?'' |
| 2119 | ''You?'' |
| 2119 | ''Your obstinate Town can be bombarded, then,--cannot it?'' |
| 2119 | ( Answer, evasive on this point):"Are you bandaged, though? |
| 2119 | --To which Schmettau answers:''Can Durchlaucht think us ignorant of the common rules of behavior to Persons of that Rank? |
| 2119 | --not even the 800 wagons are ready for us;''Ca n''t your baggages go in boats, then?'' |
| 2119 | 537- 563; BERICHT VON DER UNTERNEHMUNG DES PRINZEN HEINRICH IN FRANKEN, IM JAHR, 1759;_ Helden- Geschichte,_ v. 1033- 1039; Tempelhof,??? |
| 2119 | 537- 563; BERICHT VON DER UNTERNEHMUNG DES PRINZEN HEINRICH IN FRANKEN, IM JAHR, 1759;_ Helden- Geschichte,_ v. 1033- 1039; Tempelhof,??? |
| 2119 | 537- 563; BERICHT VON DER UNTERNEHMUNG DES PRINZEN HEINRICH IN FRANKEN, IM JAHR, 1759;_ Helden- Geschichte,_ v. 1033- 1039; Tempelhof,??? |
| 2119 | ?, et seq.] |
| 2119 | A Siege of Colberg, however, there is actually to be: Second Siege,--if perhaps it will prove luckier than the First was, two years since? |
| 2119 | A very disappointing circumstance to Soltikof;"Austrian Junction still a problem, then; a thing in the air? |
| 2119 | ALDER Waste? |
| 2119 | About seven in the morning Maguire had his Messenger in Dresden,''Your Excellency''s Paper ready?'' |
| 2119 | After all, I am so used to treacheries and bad manoeuvres,"--what matters this insignificant one? |
| 2119 | And first of all, concerning the enigma"What is Luc?" |
| 2119 | And if not, what becomes of you? |
| 2119 | And who, in the interim, will watch Daun and his enterprises? |
| 2119 | And with regard to the requisition of proviant, they answered in a scornful angry key,''Proviant? |
| 2119 | At once thither;--and leave Glogau and the Russians to their luck,--which in such case, what is it like to be? |
| 2119 | Beautifully written too, says Retzow; but what, in the eyes of this King, is beautiful writing, to knowing your business well? |
| 2119 | But again, did not his Majesty expect, do not these words"a bout"still seem to expect, a bit of fighting with somebody or other? |
| 2119 | But can English readers consent to halt in this hot pinch of the Friedrich crisis; and read the briefest thing which is foreign to it? |
| 2119 | But in the northwest part, those Fincks and Wunsches, Excellenz?" |
| 2119 | But it must have been an interesting discovery to Daun, if he foreshadowed to himself what results it would have on him:"Taking the defensive, then? |
| 2119 | Continue that, and what becomes of Soltikof and me? |
| 2119 | Daun has a horror at weakening himself to that extent; but what can he do? |
| 2119 | Daun is off from Triebel Country to this dangerous scene; indignantly cashiers Deville,''Why did not you attack these Ziethen people? |
| 2119 | Did, all that Monday, his best to prepare himself; called in his outposts("Was not I ordered?" |
| 2119 | Does it depend on me? |
| 2119 | Et qu''auraient- ils a craindre en se revoltant?... |
| 2119 | Finck had not a gun or a man in it:"Had not I order?" |
| 2119 | Friedrich had observed his fiery ways on the day of Leuthen:"Hah, a new Winterfeld perhaps?" |
| 2119 | Friedrich takes the road for Guben; reaches Markersdorf( twenty miles''march, still seven or eight from Guben); falls upon-- What phenomenon is this? |
| 2119 | From Triebel he sends the news at gallop to Lieberose and Soltikof:"Rejoice with us, Excellenz: did not I predict it? |
| 2119 | Had not you 10,000, Sir?'' |
| 2119 | Has not Daun good reason now to be proud of the cunctatory method? |
| 2119 | Have you been let blood?" |
| 2119 | He has now no Winterfeld, Schwerin, no Keith, Retzow, Moritz:--whom has he? |
| 2119 | He makes charming verses, in times when another could not write a line of prose; he deserves to be happy: but will he be so? |
| 2119 | He was of that sad Zittau business of the late Prince of Prussia''s,--Goltz, Winterfeld, Ziethen, Schmettau and others? |
| 2119 | Hear the stiff Answer that comes:"''Conditions of Peace,''do you call them? |
| 2119 | How can Daun, if himself merely speculative, calculative, hope that Soltikof will continue acting? |
| 2119 | I grieve to resemble Cassandra with my prophecies; but how augur well of the desperate situation we are in, and which goes on growing worse? |
| 2119 | I will forget who took Peitz: perhaps Haddick, of whom we have lately heard so much? |
| 2119 | I, can I join myself to that set? |
| 2119 | IS HE STILL IN BERLIN; OR WHERE IN THE UNIVERSE IS HE? |
| 2119 | If he run to save Hanover from Broglio, he loses Westphalia: Osnabruck( his magazine)? |
| 2119 | If they will stand fight? |
| 2119 | In his place one might have, at least, shot out a spy or two? |
| 2119 | In the hope probably of finding something of human provender withal? |
| 2119 | Into the Night; men and goods, every item:--who shall say whitherward? |
| 2119 | Is it to be a mere fighting for meal? |
| 2119 | Maupertuis, say you? |
| 2119 | Meal? |
| 2119 | Monsieur, my ammunition is in Posen; my bread is fallen scarce; in Frankfurt can you find me one horse more?'' |
| 2119 | Or of what use was it anywhere? |
| 2119 | Or will not he perhaps go, of himself, when the rough weather comes?''" |
| 2119 | Or would readers care to glance into the very fact with their own eyes? |
| 2119 | Our Court will cheerfully furnish money, instead of meal."--"Money? |
| 2119 | Possibly a high career lying ahead;--a man that may be very valuable to Friedrich, who has now so few such left? |
| 2119 | Provisions of meal? |
| 2119 | QUESTION,"WHO WROTE Matinees du Roi de Prusse?" |
| 2119 | Reflect that even Kings make peace after long battling; can not you ever make it? |
| 2119 | Renounced thoughts of Italy:''Europe bleeding, and especially France and Prussia, how go idly touring?'' |
| 2119 | Serene Highness gets on horseback; but what can that help? |
| 2119 | Shall he manoeuvre himself out, and march away, bread- carts, baggages and all entire? |
| 2119 | Soltikof understands the congratulations very well; but as to that of trampling out, snorts an indignant negative:''Nay, you, why do n''t you try it? |
| 2119 | That is Retzow''s notion: who knows but there may be truth in it? |
| 2119 | The case is critical; especially this Haddick- Loudon part of it: add 30 or 36,000 Austrians to Soltikof, how is he then to be dealt with? |
| 2119 | The poor Fortress of Peitz was taken again;--do readers remember it,"on the day of Zorndorf,"last year? |
| 2119 | There is such a thing as being too cunctatory, is not there, your Excellency? |
| 2119 | They say Prince Henri took the liberty of counselling him, even of entreating him:"Leave well alone; why run risks?" |
| 2119 | To the disgust of Serene Highness:''Which of you did stand, then? |
| 2119 | Too close? |
| 2119 | Uncertain still what it is,--if not the Austrians altogether? |
| 2119 | Upon which there is a Surgeon instantly brought; reprimanded for neglect:"Desperate, say you? |
| 2119 | WHAT IS PERPETUAL PRESIDENT MAUPERTUIS DOING, ALL THIS WHILE? |
| 2119 | Was it their blame, led as they were?'' |
| 2119 | What finer example to follow than that of those heroes? |
| 2119 | What on earth can this be? |
| 2119 | What the LUC in Voltaire is? |
| 2119 | What, this beautiful, what, this grand genius, Whom I admired with transport, Soils himself with calumny, and is ferocious on the dead? |
| 2119 | Which indeed the soldier who would know his business--(and not knowing it, is not he of all solecisms in this world the most flagrant?) |
| 2119 | Why Schmettau did not shoot forth a spy or two, to ascertain for him What, or whether Nothing whatever, was passing outside Dresden? |
| 2119 | Why does n''t Ferdinand cross Weser, re- cross Weser; coerce Broglio back; and save Hanover? |
| 2119 | Will not Austria vindicate its claim? |
| 2119 | With his own eyes he sees Reichsfolk marching, in quantity, southeastward by the Elbe shore:"Intending towards Dohna, as is like?" |
| 2119 | Yes, to Glogau possibly enough,"thinks Daun:"Or may not he, cunning as he is and full of feints, intend a stroke on Bautzen, in my absence?" |
| 2119 | You too without it? |
| 2119 | ]): but both are of one mind; both are on one problem,"What is to be done with that impassable dike?" |
| 2119 | a Prag, a Kolin, Leuthen, Rossbach;--must there still be others, then, to the misery of poor mankind?" |
| 2119 | inquires he of Captain Sydow, who is on guard at the Prussian end;"How dared you make this change, without acquainting the Second in Command? |
| 2119 | not close enough?'' |
| 2119 | not far enough? |
| 2119 | thinks Contades( as Ferdinand wished him to do):''Is our skilful enemy, in this extreme embarrassment, losing head, then? |
| 2119 | thinks Daun:"You, Zweibruck, Haddick, Maguire and Company, you are 36,000 in Saxony; Finck has not 12,000 in the field: How is this?" |
| 2119 | thinks Wedell:"Can not we burst in on their flank, as they march yonder, those awkward fellows; and tumble them into heaps?" |
| 2114 | Accordingly he grumbles, threatens: he has been listening to France,''Bourbon, how much will you give me, then?'' 2114 Can not the Reich be roused for settlement of this Bavarian- Austrian quarrel?" |
| 2114 | Co- operation, M. le Marechal; attack on Budweis? |
| 2114 | Compensation for the past, Security for the future:Compensation? |
| 2114 | Compensation;"The Reich as good as mine:Whither is all this tending? |
| 2114 | EMILIE FAIT DE L''ALGEBRE,sneers he once, in an inadvertent moment, to some Lady- friend:"Emilie doing? |
| 2114 | First, he asked me, If it was true that the French Nation was so angered against him; if the King was, and if you were? 2114 Follow Noailles; transfer the seat of war to France itself? |
| 2114 | Headship of the Golden Fleece, Madam; YOU head of it? 2114 Hear ye?" |
| 2114 | How to do it, to make ready for doing it? 2114 Is not Germany, are not all the German Princes, interested to have Peace?" |
| 2114 | Off on this side? |
| 2114 | Oriflamme enterprises, private intentions of cutting Germany in Four; well, have not I smarted for them; as good as owned they were rather mad? 2114 Out of it?" |
| 2114 | Perhaps it will attract moneyed strangers to frequent our Capital? |
| 2114 | Relieve Braunau? 2114 Silesia being settled,"think many, thinks Friedrich for one,"what else of real and solid is there to settle?" |
| 2114 | The rest of my MEMOIRE[ Paper before given?] 2114 To Frankfurt, say you? |
| 2114 | To whom I suggested this and that( does your Lordship observe? |
| 2114 | We can not have a Reichs Mediation- Army, then? 2114 What they intended: or intend, by coming hither?" |
| 2114 | What this Pragmatic Army means to do? 2114 ''But have you seen a retreat better managed?'' 2114 ''Get into Lorraine?'' 2114 ''Liberty to march home, and equitable Peace- Negotiations in the rear?'' 2114 ''Plunge home upon Prince Karl and the Grand- Duke; beat them, with your Broglio to help in the rear?'' 2114 ''To Strasburg? 2114 ''We can besiege Dunkirk at any rate, can not we, your High Mightinesses? 2114 ''We? 2114 ''Well, he has plenty of cash:--is it my Cause, then, or his Majesty''s and Liberty''s?'' 2114 ( that contemptible Country, where their very beer is called MUM),--and no remedy within view? |
| 2114 | --''You recognize ME for your General?'' |
| 2114 | 162- 166;_ Campagnes,_ v. 170, 124,& c.& c.]''Army of Bavaria?'' |
| 2114 | After a little thought, he fixes,--does the reader know upon whom? |
| 2114 | After which are Mountain- passes; Bohemian Forest: and the Event--? |
| 2114 | Allow me, as LANDES- HERR, some trifle of overplus: how much, then? |
| 2114 | And Broglio has lost head, a mere whirlwind of flaming gases; and your ablest Comte de Saxe in such position, what can he do? |
| 2114 | And his cash paid Madam, and his Dettingen mouse- trap fought? |
| 2114 | And then the breakages, damages still chargeable; the probable afterclap? |
| 2114 | And you?" |
| 2114 | And, however potent you are, is an ally useless to you? |
| 2114 | Anti- English Armament; to be led by, whom thinks the reader? |
| 2114 | As it is, there play cannon across the River upon him:--Why not bend to right, and get out of range, asks the reader? |
| 2114 | But how?'' |
| 2114 | But to have my apology spit upon; but to be myself publicly cut in pieces for them?" |
| 2114 | But where are the divine Emilie and Voltaire, that morning, while the Brigadier is in such taking? |
| 2114 | But will they resist your power, joined to that of the House of Bourbon? |
| 2114 | Can not we, from these enormous Paper- masses, carefully riddled, afford the reader a glimpse or two, to quicken his imagination of these things? |
| 2114 | Deign to think, may not this too,--in the present state of my King, of my Two Kings, and of all Europe,--be itself a kind of spheral thing?" |
| 2114 | Do not you cover yourself with an immortal glory in declaring yourself, with effect, the protector of the Empire? |
| 2114 | Dunkirk, which, by all the Treaties in existence, ought to need no besieging; but which, in spite of treatyings innumerable, always does?'' |
| 2114 | Dunkirk-- or what is Dunkirk even? |
| 2114 | Eatables, street- lamps, do I say? |
| 2114 | Enough, the poor Kaiser, after doleful''Council of War held at Augsburg, June 25th,''does on the morrow make off for Frankfurt again:--whither else? |
| 2114 | For he holds the door of the Alps, Bully Bourbon on one side of it, Bully Hapsburg on the other; and inquires sharply,"You, what will you give me? |
| 2114 | Give"Kur- Baiern, Kaiser as they call him,"something in the Netherlands to live upon? |
| 2114 | Had not little George better have stayed at home out of these Pragmatic Wars? |
| 2114 | Has cost already, I should guess, some 80,000 French drilled Men, paid down, on the nail, to the inexorable Fates: and of coined Millions,--how many? |
| 2114 | Have you in that case, Sire, any ally but France? |
| 2114 | He wished to favor the Arts, yes; but did he reckon Opera- dancing a chief one among them? |
| 2114 | How can they, if Grammont do his duty? |
| 2114 | How did I never think of that myself?" |
| 2114 | How should it? |
| 2114 | If Prince Karl come upon us in this scattered posture, what are we to do?" |
| 2114 | If only the Dutch prove hoistable!--"And so, from May on to September, it noisily proceeds, at multiplex rates? |
| 2114 | If you were but to march a body of troops to Cleves, do not you awaken terror and respect, without apprehension that any one dare make war on you? |
| 2114 | In what station Commodore Trunnion did then serve in the British Navy? |
| 2114 | Is it not clear that France shows vigor and wisdom? |
| 2114 | Landgraf Wilhelm is proud to have saved his Kaiser,--who so glad as the Landgraf and his Kaiser? |
| 2114 | Nay, but where is YOUR commission to command in Prag, M. le Marechal?'' |
| 2114 | No law of the Reich had been violated against her Hungarian Majesty or Husband:"What law?" |
| 2114 | Nor a Swabian- Franconian Army, to defend their own frontier?" |
| 2114 | Old snuffling Seckendorf, born to ill success in his old days, strong only in caution, how is he to quench or stay this crackling of the posts? |
| 2114 | One wonders, Were Pipes and Hatchway perhaps there, in Martin''s squadron? |
| 2114 | Or to the Three Bishoprics''"( Metz, Toul, Verdun:--readers recollect that Siege of Metz, which broke the great heart of Karl V.? |
| 2114 | Or, give him the Kingdom of Naples,--if once we had conquered it again? |
| 2114 | Parties go out freely to investigate:--but as to forage? |
| 2114 | Prag may go to the-- What have I to do with Prag? |
| 2114 | Prag? |
| 2114 | Silesia, then, is not considered settled, by the high contracting parties? |
| 2114 | Six or eight times as useful to Prussia: and to the Inhabitants what multiple of usefulness shall we give? |
| 2114 | Success? |
| 2114 | Surely King Friedrich ought to admit that these are fine symptoms? |
| 2114 | Talent? |
| 2114 | The Dutch? |
| 2114 | The great Marlborough used to play such, and win; making the wide elements, the times and the spaces, hit with exactitude: but a Maillebois? |
| 2114 | The lynx- eyed animal,--anxiously asking itself,"Whitherward, then, out of such a mess?" |
| 2114 | The thing is not comfortable to Friedrich; but what help? |
| 2114 | Then again, what say you to Bavaria, in lieu of the Silesia lost? |
| 2114 | This Bassecour, or Backyard, seems to be the gentleman that has charge of fattening the capons and turkeys for their High Mightinesses? |
| 2114 | This same October, the Reich, after endless debatings on the question,"Help our Kaiser, or not help?" |
| 2114 | This was what you call sincere Panegyric in liberal measure; why be stingy with your measure? |
| 2114 | To Lorraine perhaps? |
| 2114 | To continue crossing the Abysses on bridges of French rainbow? |
| 2114 | To put my Son in Austrian hands? |
| 2114 | To the last, they say, if a Stranger, getting audience, were graciously asked,''From what Country, then?'' |
| 2114 | Victory indisputably lost:--but is it not Grammont''s blame altogether? |
| 2114 | Voltaire had his difficulties with Valori, too;"What interloping fellow is this?" |
| 2114 | We may ask, Are these things of a nature to create love of the Hierarchy in M. de Voltaire? |
| 2114 | Which settled, Broglio proceeded to the Saxon Court; who answered him:''Provender? |
| 2114 | Why should not we play Marlborongh again, and teach them a little what Invasion means? |
| 2114 | Wild bare mountains; good for what? |
| 2114 | You can not help it, say you; there is no shutting up of a Reverend Desfontaines, which would be so salutary to himself and to us all? |
| 2114 | [ Busching,_ Beitrage,_? |
| 2114 | [ unless, indeed, your Highness were driven into Financial or other straits?] |
| 2114 | _ On les y recevra, Biribi, A la facon de Barbari, Mon ami._ We will receive them, Twiddledee, In the mode of Barbary, Do n''t you see? |
| 2114 | asks the Public everywhere:"To go into the Donau Countries, and enclose Broglio between two fires?" |
| 2114 | exclaims all the world.--"Revoke such shamefully partial Dictature?" |
| 2114 | not an ounce of provender possible; how dare we?'' |
| 2114 | said she( the Improper Duchess, at sight of me),''will the King of Prussia be a tyrant, then? |
| 2114 | said the Captaincy[ said Stair, chiefly, it was thought]:''Shall the whole summer waste itself to no purpose?'' |
| 2114 | urges the Britannic Majesty:''Patience; may not there be compensation, if we hunt well?''" |
| 2114 | what does her Hungarian Majesty mean? |
| 2112 | And the Austrian Hapsburgs being out, do not the Spanish Hapsburgs come in? 2112 Are we to stand here like milestones, then, and be all shot without a stroke struck?" |
| 2112 | Battle lost,said Schwerin:"but what is the loss of a Battle to that of your Majesty''s own Person? |
| 2112 | Battle of Dettingen, Battle of Fontenay,--what, in the Devil''s name, were we ever doing there? |
| 2112 | But to hang it on Bavaria, which is a lean bare pole? 2112 He( ER) lives near Grunberg, then, Mein Herr von Hocke?" |
| 2112 | In which case, will not, must not, Austria help us? |
| 2112 | That man is mad, your Most Christian Majesty? |
| 2112 | To deliver such Key? 2112 Walpole and Company, aware of that fact, do take some trouble about it; and now, may not we say, PAULLO MAJORA CANAMUS? |
| 2112 | Well; if it could be done,--and quite without trouble? |
| 2112 | What news have you of the Enemy? |
| 2112 | Who the Irish Brothers Browne, the Fathers of these Marshals Browne, were? 2112 ''Batteries? 2112 ''Miracle? 2112 ''Sir, may I give that fellow a shot?'' 2112 ''The direct real method this,''thinks Walpole:''is there in reality any other?'' 2112 ''What good will you get of going into that? 2112 ''s Daughter,--Maria Theresa''s Cousin, and by an Elder Brother;--this, too, ought surely to be something in the Anti- Pragmatic line? 2112 --Tush, what signifies my poor silly soul compared with the honor of the family?" |
| 2112 | --Quick, your Plan of Battle, then? |
| 2112 | --what Pope or body of Popes can sanction such a procedure? |
| 2112 | 13; Liegnitz,? |
| 2112 | 14; Oppeln and Ratibor,? |
| 2112 | 16;--and that Ludwig had sent a Copy of this Argument[ weighty Performance altogether? |
| 2112 | A most sad Miscellany of Royalties, coming all to the point,"Will you eat your Covenant, Will you keep it?" |
| 2112 | Among the then extant Sons of Adam, where was he who could in the faintest degree surmise what issues lay in the Jenkins''s- Ear Question? |
| 2112 | And even leave ill alone:--are you the tradesman to tinker leaky vessels in England? |
| 2112 | And it was some beggarly Attorney- Devil that built this sublunary world and us? |
| 2112 | And now the response to them is--? |
| 2112 | And sarcastic quizzing( especially if it be truth too), on certain female topics, what Improper Female, Czarina of All the Russias, could stand it? |
| 2112 | And there rose great argument, which is not yet quite ended, as to the question,"Original falsified, or Copy falsified?" |
| 2112 | Are the Ten Commandments only a figure of speech, then? |
| 2112 | But how could she,--the high Imperial Lady, keystone of Europe, though by accident with only a few pounds of ready money at present? |
| 2112 | But how to obtain marriage? |
| 2112 | But if they were travail- throes that had no birth, who of mortals would remember them? |
| 2112 | Can nobody but you have business here, then, which is not displeasing to the gods? |
| 2112 | Carthagena Expedition is, at length, fairly in contact with its Problem,--the question rising,''Do you understand it, then?'' |
| 2112 | Colonial- Empire, whose is it to be? |
| 2112 | Due a little to the OLD Dessauer, may we not say, as well as to the Young? |
| 2112 | Especially what he, Roth, meant by firing on our first Trumpet on Wednesday last?'' |
| 2112 | Friedrich suppresses the glance that is rising to his eyes:"Ca n''t you give it to Saxony, then? |
| 2112 | General Browne is at present in the Southern parts; an able active man and soldier; but, with such a force what can he attempt to do? |
| 2112 | Golden Fleece, you?" |
| 2112 | Good Government in any kind is not known here: Possibly the Prussian will be better; who can say? |
| 2112 | Gotter has fulfilled his instructions in regard to this important little Document; and now the effect of it is--? |
| 2112 | Gotter''s Proposals,--would the reader wish to hear these Proposals, which were so intensely interesting at one time? |
| 2112 | How could"the times"continue talking of him? |
| 2112 | How she has got the funds is, to this day, a mystery;--unless George and Walpole, from their Secret- Service Moneys, have smuggled her somewhat? |
| 2112 | How the English Nation took it? |
| 2112 | I am considering what we shall make of that Moravia?" |
| 2112 | If Friedrich had not business there, what man ever had in an enterprise he ventured on? |
| 2112 | If we but knew where the Enemy is; on which side of us; what doing, what intending? |
| 2112 | Iron ramrods against wooden; five shots to two: what is there but falling back? |
| 2112 | Is not, this a curious case of testamentary right; human greed obliterating personal identity itself? |
| 2112 | May be important, that,--who knows? |
| 2112 | Might perhaps be used in that way, by the Examining Military Boards, in Prussia and elsewhere, if no other use lie in it? |
| 2112 | Nevertheless, what new thing is this? |
| 2112 | Not he, but another who will suit France better:"Kur- Sachsen perhaps, the so- called King of Poland? |
| 2112 | Not the least news from any quarter; Ohlau uncertain, too likely the wrong way: What is to be done? |
| 2112 | O Louis, O my King, is not this an outlook? |
| 2112 | O soul of honor, O first Nation of the Universe, was there ever such a subterfuge? |
| 2112 | Of the actual transit to high mass, transit very visible in the Great Gallery or OEil- de- Boeuf, why should a human being now say anything? |
| 2112 | Or did Friedrich exaggerate to himself his Uncle''s real share in the matter? |
| 2112 | Or say it were Karl Albert Kur- Baiern, the hereditary friend and dependent of France? |
| 2112 | Or shall it be Spain''s for arrogant- torpid sham- devotional purposes, contradictory to every Law? |
| 2112 | Other Coaches, more or less grandly escorted; Head Cup- bearers, Seneschals, Princes, Margraves:--but where is the King? |
| 2112 | Parliamentary criticism, argument and botheration? |
| 2112 | Perhaps an ominous thing? |
| 2112 | Perhaps this rumor sprang of its own accord;--or perhaps not quite? |
| 2112 | Possible? |
| 2112 | Schlesien-- will the reader learn to call it by that name, on occasion? |
| 2112 | Scholzke, floundering homewards with the outfit from Kriesewitz, flounders at this moment into Saldern''s sphere of vision:''Whence, whither?'' |
| 2112 | Shall there be a Yankee Nation, shall there not be; shall the New World be of Spanish type, shall it be of English? |
| 2112 | Shall we besiege Glogau, then? |
| 2112 | Slight stutter ensues on the part of the Four Grenadiers; but they give one another the hint, and dash forward:"Prisoners?" |
| 2112 | Surely question will rise, Whether distaff can, validly, hand it over to distaff''s husband, as they are about doing? |
| 2112 | Surely the Bishop himself, respectable Cardinal Graf von Sinzendorf, had better get out of these localities while time yet is?" |
| 2112 | The Jesuit- Priest kind are clear in their minds for Austria; but think, Perhaps Prussia itself will not prove very tyrannous? |
| 2112 | The King, and the few who had not yet broken down, arrive at the Gate of Oppeln, late, under cloud of night:"Who goes?" |
| 2112 | The first point to be noted is, Where did it originate? |
| 2112 | The question, How you buy? |
| 2112 | There are two claimants on the Milanese, then; the Spanish Termagant, and he? |
| 2112 | There is the Key lying: but to GIVE it-- You are not the Queen of Hungary''s Officer, I doubt?" |
| 2112 | These beautiful improvements, beautiful humanities,--were done by whom? |
| 2112 | These two, will they side with Prussia, will they side with Austria? |
| 2112 | Think, your Majesty: ought not that Bohemian Vote to be excluded, for one thing? |
| 2112 | This Paper, after the question, Burn or insert? |
| 2112 | This, then, is what the Pragmatic Sanction has come to? |
| 2112 | Together they may do some execution, if we judge by the old Bucanier and Queen- Elizabeth experiences? |
| 2112 | Treaty of Westphalia mended much of this, and set fair limits to Papist encroachment;--had said Treaty been kept: but how could it? |
| 2112 | Under mild pretexts:"Peaceable as lambs, do n''t you observe? |
| 2112 | Unfortunate Schulenburg did at last come up:--had he miscalculated the distances, then? |
| 2112 | WHO WAS TO BLAME FOR THE AUSTRIAN- SUCCESSION WAR? |
| 2112 | War at any rate inevitable, you object? |
| 2112 | We may be attacked, then, this very night, if they are diligent? |
| 2112 | What Friedrich''s own humor is, what Friedrich''s own inner man is saying to him, while all the world so babbles about his Silesian Adventure? |
| 2112 | What is to be done, then? |
| 2112 | What is truth, falsity, human Kingship, human Swindlership? |
| 2112 | What the issue will be? |
| 2112 | What to do with such a War; how extricate the Episode, and leave the War lying? |
| 2112 | Where does it issue? |
| 2112 | Whether, in fact, Kur- Bohmen is not in abeyance for this time?" |
| 2112 | Which doubtless he would have done, had it been in his power; but how, except by miracle, could it be? |
| 2112 | Which perhaps are symptomatic circumstances? |
| 2112 | Whither is the dusky Swan of Padua gone?] |
| 2112 | Whitherward; How; What? |
| 2112 | Who dared suspect our King''s indifference to Protestantism?''" |
| 2112 | Why not?'' |
| 2112 | Why spend money on couriers, and get into such a taking?" |
| 2112 | Would the reader care to look for a moment? |
| 2112 | Would you like to know my way of life? |
| 2112 | You all laughed at him as a fool: do you begin to see now who was wise, who fool? |
| 2112 | [ What is the business? |
| 2112 | and the pacific Fleury have been got into this sublimely adventurous mood? |
| 2112 | asks Saldern:''Dost thou know where the Austrians are?'' |
| 2112 | c. 3 handles the Prussian claims: Jagerndorf being? |
| 2112 | c. 3 of it, which would have had a better chance?] |
| 2112 | desirable to sound the Sardinian Majesty a little, who is Doorkeeper of the Alps, between France and Austria, and opens to the best bidder? |
| 2112 | had to do there? |
| 2112 | or not, here truly has a new Man and King come upon the scene: capable perhaps of doing something? |
| 2112 | shall it be told, then?" |
| 2113 | ''And pray, Monsieur, who are they?'' 2113 ''Have not I great reason to be dissatisfied with your Court? |
| 2113 | ''His Excellency Podewils has been taking notes; if I am to be bound by them, might I first see that he has mistaken nothing?'' 2113 ''Is that your Majesty''s deliberate answer?'' |
| 2113 | ''Let us see then( VOYONS), what is there more?'' 2113 ''MILORD, DE QUOI S''AGIT- IL A PRESENT( What is it now, then)?'' |
| 2113 | ''Retire out of Silesia? 2113 ''What do you mean? |
| 2113 | ''What was the sum of money then offered her Hungarian Majesty?'' 2113 ''With that Answer: is your Majesty serious?'' |
| 2113 | ''Would your Majesty consent now to stand by his Excellency Gotter''s original Offer at Vienna on your part? 2113 ''Would your Majesty consent to an Armistice?'' |
| 2113 | And you consent, if I take that in hand? |
| 2113 | Can not one still mend it; can not one still do something of the like? |
| 2113 | Clippings of Bohemia? 2113 Did not I give up my invaluable Silesia, the jewel of my crown, for you, cruel Britannic Majesty with the big purse, and no heart to speak of?" |
| 2113 | False? |
| 2113 | How a King''s Daughter and an Empress are to meet, was probably never settled by example: what number of steps down stairs does she come? 2113 In Heaven''s name, what are your intentions, then?" |
| 2113 | Is it conceivable that Friedrich could have beaten us, in that manner, except by buying Neipperg in the first place? 2113 Let the Silesian matter stand where it stood,"thinks Friedrich:"since Austria will not, will you? |
| 2113 | Mendacity,my friends? |
| 2113 | Shall I join with the English, in hope of some tolerable bargain from Austria? 2113 Surely you are a Sea- Power, ye valiant Dutch; the OTHER Sea- Power? |
| 2113 | The Austrians will not complete their bargain of Klein- Schnellendorf? |
| 2113 | Why not drive him out of Budweis,think the Two French Marshals,"him and whatever force can come? |
| 2113 | Wo n''t your Majesty co- operate? |
| 2113 | ''How is it possible, my Lord, to believe things so contradictory? |
| 2113 | ''Might I request a short Private Audience of your Majesty?'' |
| 2113 | ''Price?'' |
| 2113 | ''Take Prag: but how?'' |
| 2113 | ( We have no strong place, or footing in this Country: what are we to do? |
| 2113 | -- It is true they have no money, these blind dull people; but are not the Sea- Powers, England especially, there, created by Nature to supply money? |
| 2113 | --Can his Excellency Hyndford get Vienna, get Feldmarschall Reipperg with power from Vienna, to accept: Yes or No? |
| 2113 | --He concludes:"Have I need of Peace? |
| 2113 | ... That expression made him smile, and he began to look a little cooler....''Shall we apply to Vienna, your Majesty?'' |
| 2113 | 339(? |
| 2113 | 45, 193); and French Peerage- Books,? |
| 2113 | A very strong resolution, they and the Gazetteers think it; and ask themselves, Is it not likely to have some effect? |
| 2113 | Above all, if Neipperg''s Army were to disengage itself, and be let loose into those parts? |
| 2113 | Am not I fortifying Brieg and Glogau? |
| 2113 | And for money? |
| 2113 | And from England, in about a fortnight, gets for answer,"Do harm, think you? |
| 2113 | And go not into that dust- whirlwind of extinct stupidities, O reader:--what reader would, except for didactic objects? |
| 2113 | And in a prompt manner, if you please, Sir; why not prompt and abundant? |
| 2113 | And to me they can not spare a few trifling Principalities? |
| 2113 | Are we alarm- clocks, that need only to be wound up, and told at what hour, and for whom?] |
| 2113 | At all events, if asked: Where then is the specifical not"superstitious"WANT of"veracity"you ever found in Friedrich? |
| 2113 | Austria prefers your friendship; but if your Majesty disdain Austria''s advances, what is it to do? |
| 2113 | Being again urged, Why have not you performed? |
| 2113 | Besides, who would guarantee them?'' |
| 2113 | But how could she see to do it,--especially with little George at her back, and abundance of money? |
| 2113 | But now again, see, do not the dust- clouds pause? |
| 2113 | But what can sympathies avail? |
| 2113 | But will they? |
| 2113 | Certain enough, Peace with Friedrich is now on the way; and can not well linger:--what prospect has Austria otherwise? |
| 2113 | For if she is a Kaiser''s Daughter and Kaiser''s Spouse, am not I somewhat too? |
| 2113 | France will be contentable with something in the Netherlands; what else can she want of us? |
| 2113 | Friedrich, in astonishment and indignation, sends a messenger to Dresden:"Would the Polish Majesty BE''King of Moravia,''then, or not be?" |
| 2113 | Has not France guaranteed the Pragmatic Sanction; has not England? |
| 2113 | Have not they given whole Kingdoms to Spain? |
| 2113 | Have they ever got to his Majesty? |
| 2113 | Here is a successful young King; is not he? |
| 2113 | Here is the enormous jumbling of a World broken loose; boiling as in very chaos; asking of him, him more than any other,"How? |
| 2113 | How is it that you will not?" |
| 2113 | How keep our incognito, with all these people heaping civilities upon us? |
| 2113 | I asked, Where are those nine acres; what crop is now upon them? |
| 2113 | I have now joined with France; and to join against it in this manner? |
| 2113 | If the English would but get me a bargain--? |
| 2113 | If the Queen prosper, I shall-- perhaps I shall have no objection to join her by and by? |
| 2113 | In return for which his Prussian Majesty-- will do what? |
| 2113 | Interests of Kur- Sachsen''s in that Country?" |
| 2113 | Is it not the one thing needful? |
| 2113 | Is not this the bulwark of your Prag just now?" |
| 2113 | It is really difficult to say what: Be a true ally and second to France in its grand German Adventure? |
| 2113 | Kaiser Ferdinand, Karl V.''s brother, on a Progress to Prag, came to lodge at Czaslau, one afternoon:"What is that?" |
| 2113 | Limburg? |
| 2113 | Lobkowitz, surely not Lobkowitz? |
| 2113 | Might not the Enemy grow more tractable to Robinson''s seductions in such case? |
| 2113 | My first enterprise; and to be given up lightly?''" |
| 2113 | Neipperg and the generality of them, in that luckless Silesian Business? |
| 2113 | Neipperg be chased, say you? |
| 2113 | Old Uuddenbrock, surely, did not himself RIDE in the charge? |
| 2113 | Or suppose, we are beaten by him?'' |
| 2113 | Ought not Karl Albert to be upon the road again? |
| 2113 | Parings from that outskirt, what are these compared with Silesia, a horrid gash into the vital parts? |
| 2113 | Perhaps it is not true? |
| 2113 | Prince George of Hessen- Cassel, did readers ever hear of him before? |
| 2113 | QUOI, such a paltry scraping( BICOQUE) as that, for all my just claims in Silesia? |
| 2113 | Queen and Hofraths have been waiting in agony of suspense,"Will Friedrich bargain on those gentle terms, and help us with 100,000 men?" |
| 2113 | Retire out of Silesia, which has cost me so much treasure and blood in the conquest of it? |
| 2113 | Sends to Silesia, to Glatz and the Young Dessauer;--nay to Brandenburg and the Old Dessauer? |
| 2113 | Shall I be bought out of this country? |
| 2113 | Shall I have to join with the French, in despair of any?" |
| 2113 | So that he had soon quitted Mahren; made for Budweis and neighborhood:--dangerous to Broglio''s outposts there? |
| 2113 | Such Town Sovereign persecutes innocence, stops his ears to its cry; flourishes his sharp scourge;--no one shall complain: for is it not justice? |
| 2113 | Such is Robinson''s gloomy view: finished, he, and the game lost,--unless perhaps Hyndford could still do something? |
| 2113 | Support France, at least in its small Bavarian Anti- Austrian Adventure? |
| 2113 | Syndic Guzmar and the peccant Officials being summoned out to Strehlen, it had been asked of them,"Do you know this Letter?" |
| 2113 | The arm- chair( FAUTEUIL), is that to be denied me?" |
| 2113 | The rest-- the spiders are very welcome to it: who of mortals would read it, were it made never so lucid to him? |
| 2113 | The saving operation, Friedrich well sees, would be to get hold of Brunn: but, unluckily, How? |
| 2113 | To unravel cobwebs, and register laboriously and date and sort in the sorrow of your soul the oaths of crowned dicers,--what use is it to gods or men? |
| 2113 | Vehemently fought on both sides;--calculated, one may hope, to end this Silesian matter? |
| 2113 | Was there ever so contingent a Treaty before? |
| 2113 | What can the Town Major do; Prussian grenadiers, cannoneers, gravely environing him? |
| 2113 | What else is their purpose in Creation? |
| 2113 | What is his Britannic Majesty to do? |
| 2113 | What is the use to human creatures of recording all that melancholy stuff? |
| 2113 | What, How?" |
| 2113 | What?" |
| 2113 | Who minds or keeps guarantees in this age? |
| 2113 | Why do n''t you all fly to the Queen''s succor?''" |
| 2113 | Will even the King of Prussia himself be reserved to the last? |
| 2113 | Will he, like that DIVER of Schiller''s, have to try the feat a second time? |
| 2113 | With what face shall I meet my Ancestors, if I abandon my right, which they have transmitted to me? |
| 2113 | [ Can that be, O Spener or Speer? |
| 2113 | [ turning to Podewils]--QU''EST- CE QUE NOUS MANQUE DE TOUTE LA GUELDRE( How much of Guelderland is theirs, and not ours already)?'' |
| 2113 | a mere"Bavarian Army,"do n''t you see? |
| 2113 | do readers wonder to see him dance, being an Archbishop? |
| 2113 | reports Van Hoey always; and the Dutch answer his Britannic Majesty:"Hm, rise? |
| 2113 | to stir up allies against me? |
| 2115 | ''Well, and if they did, they? 2115 A few days before her death,--perhaps some attendant sorrowfully asking,''Can we do nothing, then?'' |
| 2115 | An invasion of Bohemia, will not that astonish Prince Karl; and bring him to his Rhine- Bridges again? 2115 Are the Saxons enemies; are they friends? |
| 2115 | But how, then,persists Valori;"but--?" |
| 2115 | By what points the Austrian- Saxon Armament will come through upon us? 2115 Insulting; how, your Excellency?" |
| 2115 | Intending to block us out from Schatzlar? 2115 King of Poland, thinks your Majesty?" |
| 2115 | Let the King of France crown his glories by the Siege of Freyburg, the conquest of Brisgau:--for behoof of the poor Kaiser, do n''t you observe? 2115 Rapidity is indispensable,--and yet how quit Tabor? |
| 2115 | Sire, will not you dispute the Passes, then? |
| 2115 | WAS THUTS? 2115 Well; but why not attack, then, with your ferocity?" |
| 2115 | ''And we can not pass through this moor skirt of Lausitz, say you, then?'' |
| 2115 | ''If now Stockstadt were suddenly snatched by us,''thinks Karl;--''if a few pontoons were nimbly swung in?'' |
| 2115 | ''Prisoner, are not you?'' |
| 2115 | ''Push to the left, over the Hochwald top, must not we?'' |
| 2115 | ''QUE VOULEZ- VOUS DONC?'' |
| 2115 | ''Seckendorf, increased in this munificent manner, can he still do nothing?'' |
| 2115 | ''What share?'' |
| 2115 | ''Who ever saw such positions, your Majesty?'' |
| 2115 | --''And us at the gates of Vienna,''answered I promptly,''with the same indifference?'' |
| 2115 | --On hearing of the Peace of Fussen, perhaps a day or so later, Friedrich again writes:--"APRIL[ no distinct date; Neisse still? |
| 2115 | --So that there is not the least prospect of peace here? |
| 2115 | --and even gets into FROIDES PLAISANTERIES:''Perhaps the Marechal did it himself? |
| 2115 | --and questions arise innumerable thereupon, Will France go into electioneering again? |
| 2115 | ... Peace of Fussen, Bavaria turned against me? |
| 2115 | 169("Your illustrious''Column,''at Fontenoy? |
| 2115 | 248 n.] What"that May Eleventh"is or was? |
| 2115 | A winter march of 150 miles;--but what, say the spies, is to hinder? |
| 2115 | A young Countess Flemming( daughter of old Feldmarschall Flemming) doubtless there might be, who presented him a flute; but as to HIS FIRST flute--? |
| 2115 | Aback, too indisputably, all!--"And Belleisle''s Accident?" |
| 2115 | After which fine feat, salvatory to the Cause of Liberty, and destructive to French influence, what is to prevent his election to the Kaisership? |
| 2115 | Alas, we are to stand a fourth siege, then? |
| 2115 | And little Bruhl''s late insolence; Bruhl''s evident belief that"we are finished( AUX ABOIS)"? |
| 2115 | And of the JENKINS''S- EAR question, generous England will say nothing? |
| 2115 | And that is the good we have got of the sublime Austrian Alliance; and that is the pass our grand scheme of Partitioning Prussia has come to? |
| 2115 | And we must now say, Silesia or Prag? |
| 2115 | Are not we conquering Hither Austria here, for the Kaiser''s behoof?" |
| 2115 | Are we never to have any good of our life, then( NE DOIS- JE DONC JAMAIS JOUIR)? |
| 2115 | At nine, Bruhl himself arrives, for Privy Council:''What is your Majesty pleased to think on these points of current business?'' |
| 2115 | At the first gleam of dawn, as they are shoving down their pontoon boats, there comes a"WER- DA, Who goes?" |
| 2115 | August the Strong, where is he; and his famous Three Hundred and Fifty- four, Enchantress Orzelska and the others, where are they? |
| 2115 | Better be vigilant, Prince Leopold!--Grune, lying at Gera yonder, is not intending for Prince Karl, then? |
| 2115 | Britannic George, though Purseholder, what is his success here? |
| 2115 | But what help? |
| 2115 | But what shall we say? |
| 2115 | But where are provisions to be had? |
| 2115 | But, after all, what could Seckendorf do? |
| 2115 | Coming to take us on the right flank here; to attack our Camp by surprise: will crush us northward through the defiles, and trample us down in detail? |
| 2115 | Consider farther: the Imperial dignity, is it compatible with the fatal deprivation of Silesia? |
| 2115 | Could not one, by good methods, make friends with his Polish Majesty?" |
| 2115 | Does not England love the Cause of Liberty? |
| 2115 | Duchy of Glogau; some small paring of Silesia, wo n''t your Majesty?'' |
| 2115 | For the rest, the Bavarian question; and very specially, Who the new Emperor is to be? |
| 2115 | Forward; steady: can I doubt but you will acquit yourselves like Prussian men?" |
| 2115 | French sitting well on Prince Karl''s skirts? |
| 2115 | Friedrich has still his hopes of Bavaria, so grandiloquent are the French in regard to it; who but would hope? |
| 2115 | Had the Saxons stood still, steadily handling arms, how, on such terms, could the Prussians ever have managed it? |
| 2115 | Had your Majesty forgotten the Joint- Stock Principle, then? |
| 2115 | Has not England money, then? |
| 2115 | His battle- lines torn in two in that manner, hovering in ragged clouds over the field, what hope is there in the Battle? |
| 2115 | His speech seemed very like that of an Irishman; very sly[ how did you know, my poor friend? |
| 2115 | How shall he make some impression on the Siege of Tournay? |
| 2115 | How to smooth the King of Prussia, and turn him to harmony again? |
| 2115 | How we are to maintain ourselves in this country? |
| 2115 | If old Marshal Wade, at the other end of the line, should chance to awaken and press home on Saxe, and his remnant of French, with right vigor? |
| 2115 | If we stay near Prag, what becomes of our communication with Silesia; what becomes of Silesia itself? |
| 2115 | Is he entitled to exchange by cartel, or not entitled?'' |
| 2115 | Is not this a bit of modern chivalry? |
| 2115 | Is not this the Kaiser''s Order? |
| 2115 | Kur- Sachsen, the Polish Majesty again? |
| 2115 | Meaning what? |
| 2115 | Means to cut us off from Prag, then, which is our fountain of life in these circumstances? |
| 2115 | On Thursday, 3d June: Do you notice that cloud of dust rising among the peaks over yonder? |
| 2115 | On the morrow, 5 A.M., what is this that is going on? |
| 2115 | Or perhaps the fatal alternative will not actually arrive? |
| 2115 | Or some- whither to find fat winter- quarters: who knows? |
| 2115 | Or will they perhaps make an attempt on Prag? |
| 2115 | Or will they retreat without attempting mischief? |
| 2115 | Or, better still, Would not perhaps the Saxons, in this humiliated state, accept Peace, and finish the matter? |
| 2115 | Peace with George the Purseholder, does not that mean Peace with all the others? |
| 2115 | Peace with Prussia, what good could it do at present?'' |
| 2115 | Perhaps nothing will follow; next to nothing? |
| 2115 | Poor old Wade, last year,--perhaps Wade did suffer, as he alleged, from"want of sufficient authority in that mixed Army"? |
| 2115 | Prince Karl, you would certainly say, has gone into winter- quarters; about Konigsgratz, and farther on? |
| 2115 | Question now is, How will it stand with the Old Dessauer and his part? |
| 2115 | Reinstated Chateauroux: but this time, poor creature, she continued only about a day:--"Sudden fever, from excitement,"said the Doctors:"Fever? |
| 2115 | Reverence, sacred Respect for Human Worth, sacred Abhorrence of Human Unworth, have you considered what it means? |
| 2115 | Robinson and the English seem not to be enthusiastic in that direction; as indeed how can they? |
| 2115 | SAME LETTER, OR ANOTHER? |
| 2115 | Saxons from the Lausitz, Austrians from Bohmen, enclosing us between two fires?" |
| 2115 | Silesia and no afterthought? |
| 2115 | Silesia, which was NOT yours nor ever shall be? |
| 2115 | So long as Pardubitz and Kolin hold; and we have the Elbe for barrier? |
| 2115 | Such is the rumor,--perhaps only a rumor, in mockery of the hebetated old gentleman fallen unlucky? |
| 2115 | Surely, Monseigneur, only a man ignorant of war, or with treasonous intention[ or ill- off for victuals],--could post troops in that way? |
| 2115 | Tallard, prisoner after Blenheim, made PEACE, you know, in England?'' |
| 2115 | That famed Middle- Rhine Army has gone to the-- what shall we say? |
| 2115 | That second plan would have been the wisest:--then why not, follow it? |
| 2115 | The Sazawa- Luschnitz tract of Country is quite lost, then; lost with damages: the question now is, Can we keep the Sazawa- Elbe tract? |
| 2115 | The question now is, Will Saxony assist Austria in invading Silesia, with or without Britannic subsidy? |
| 2115 | The traitor Seckendorf had made such a choice of posts,--left unaltered by Drum Thorring;--what could French valor do? |
| 2115 | Then perhaps towards Saxony, to reinforce the Saxons? |
| 2115 | This also is a thing to be amended, a thing you had to learn, your Majesty? |
| 2115 | This will do, wo n''t it?" |
| 2115 | Three Currents instinct with fire and destruction, but as yet quite opaque; which have been launched,--whitherward thinks the reader? |
| 2115 | To leave them to the Tolpaches? |
| 2115 | To winter in these towns between the Sazawa and the Luschnitz? |
| 2115 | To- morrow;--well, to- morrow? |
| 2115 | Together will it be, or separately? |
| 2115 | Valori sees the King; finds him, as expected, the fac- simile of Bruhl in this matter; Jesuit Guarini the like: how otherwise? |
| 2115 | Valori, horror- struck at such Peace, what shall he do to prevent it, to retard it? |
| 2115 | Valori, so seldom spoken to, is lodged in a suburb there:''Had not you better go into the town itself?'' |
| 2115 | Very dear to the hearts of these poor people;--and to their purses, interests and skins, has not he in another sense been dear? |
| 2115 | Was that our bargain?'' |
| 2115 | What are we, poor human atoms, to get up projects that cost so much blood? |
| 2115 | What can Valori expect, on this heroic occasion, from such a King? |
| 2115 | What had become of us pacific? |
| 2115 | What to do? |
| 2115 | What will France do with HIM; what he with France? |
| 2115 | What will become of poor pacific mortals hereabouts? |
| 2115 | White flag accordingly( Tuesday, 15th):"Free withdrawal, to the Wischerad; wo n''t you?" |
| 2115 | Whom can the French try as Candidate against the Grand- Duke? |
| 2115 | Why Populations suffer for their guilty Kings? |
| 2115 | Why not? |
| 2115 | With Austria, with Saxony, Britannic Majesty has been entirely unsuccessful:--"May not Sohr, perhaps, be a fresh persuasive?" |
| 2115 | With a Konigseck to dry- nurse him, may not Royal Highness, luck favoring, do very well? |
| 2115 | Would you have a Nation live forever that is content to be governed by Bruhls? |
| 2115 | You will let him keep his own henceforth, then, will you? |
| 2115 | [ MILITARY INSTRUCTIONS? |
| 2115 | asks Valori, amazed:"Not defend your Mountain rampart, then?" |
| 2115 | thinks Friedrich sadly to himself: but what is Prag and artillery, compared to Silesia? |
| 2115 | with that hill, that brook, that bit of bog?'' |
| 2120 | A glass of burgundy[ poisoned burgundy], your Highness? |
| 2120 | Among the thousand ill strokes of Fortune, does there at length come one pre- eminently good? 2120 And the Moral?" |
| 2120 | And you are again our Gracious King, then? |
| 2120 | Are you( ER) the Professor Gellert? |
| 2120 | At Schonbrunn, in the short hours, Kappel finds Frau Kappel in state of unappeasable curiosity:''What can it be? 2120 Austria willing for Treaty; is your Majesty willing?" |
| 2120 | Be swift enough, may not we cut through to Jauer, and get ahead of Daun? |
| 2120 | But why does n''t it change? 2120 Can it be good,"she might privately think withal,"to begin our reign by kindling a foolish War again?" |
| 2120 | Can the Reichshofrath say our junction is not complete? |
| 2120 | Can you repeat any of your Fables? |
| 2120 | Commissariat horses, drivers? 2120 Eight regiments, you said? |
| 2120 | Hanover not in real danger,argues he;"if the French had it, would not they, all Europe ordering them, have to give it up again?" |
| 2120 | Havana, what shall we do with it? |
| 2120 | Have not you a brother at Freyberg? |
| 2120 | Have you never been out of Saxony? |
| 2120 | How can I? 2120 How these things will end?" |
| 2120 | How, would you wish one Augustus, then, for all Germany? |
| 2120 | Inevitable, then? 2120 Intending to enclose us in this bad pot of a Seichau; no crossing of the Katzbach, or other retreat to be left us at all?" |
| 2120 | Meaning to try it then? |
| 2120 | Peace coming? |
| 2120 | Perhaps by Jauer, then, still? 2120 Push westward, nearer the King? |
| 2120 | So? 2120 The Sisyphus stone, which we had got dragged to the top, the chains all beautifully slack these three months past,--has it leapt away again? |
| 2120 | Their cash is out: except prayer to the Virgin, what but Peace can they attempt farther? 2120 Through, no: and were we through, is not there the Rohrgraben?" |
| 2120 | Well, this is one good Author among the Germans; but why have not we more? |
| 2120 | What do you think, is Homer or Virgil the finer as an Epic Poet? |
| 2120 | What is it, then? |
| 2120 | What is that you are cooking? |
| 2120 | What is your complaint? 2120 What to do with it?" |
| 2120 | Why all this dodging, and fidgeting to and fro? 2120 Why did not Friedrich stay altogether, and wait here?" |
| 2120 | ''And do you know where the Kallenberg lies?'' |
| 2120 | ''Are you a Protestant?'' |
| 2120 | ''Behind Strehlen, say you? |
| 2120 | ''Better surrender to Christian Austrians, had not you?'' |
| 2120 | ''How long have you been in prison?'' |
| 2120 | ''March? |
| 2120 | ''Sweep rapidly past Ferdinand,--cannot we? |
| 2120 | ''That is a Letter to me,''answers the Good- man:''What have you to do with it?'' |
| 2120 | ''The Lager- Haus, say you? |
| 2120 | ''Were you well treated?'' |
| 2120 | ''You shall go for soldiers, then;--possibly you will prefer that, you fine powdered velvet gentlemen? |
| 2120 | ),--are you able to prevent even that? |
| 2120 | --"''Five thalers bounty for artillery men"say you? |
| 2120 | --''Perhaps that is because you favored the Reichsfolk while here?'' |
| 2120 | --and ended by saying:"Succeed here, and all may yet be saved; be beaten here, I know the consequences: but what can I do? |
| 2120 | --and would try a spoonful of it, in such company; while the rough fellows would forbid smoking,"Do n''t you know he dislikes it?" |
| 2120 | --surely that is loyal, and not in the old cat''s- paw way? |
| 2120 | --to replace Czernichef, and the blank he has left there? |
| 2120 | 592 n."October 5th"( ACCEPTANCE of the resignation, I suppose?) |
| 2120 | A Gottsched inclined to the Socinian view? |
| 2120 | A mere adjunct, or auxiliary, we: and we are a Feldmarschall; and you, what is your rank and seniority?" |
| 2120 | A position not to be attacked on that southern front, nor on either of its flanks:--where can it be attacked? |
| 2120 | A sally into Brandenburg: oh, could not you? |
| 2120 | After two such Victories, and such almost miraculous recovery of himself, who shall say what resistance he will not yet make? |
| 2120 | Alas, is our Czar regardless of Holy Religion, then? |
| 2120 | All the more, as Division Three is likewise got across from Estremadura, invading Alemtejo: what is to keep these Two from falling on Lisbon together? |
| 2120 | Am I here to inquire which of you shows bravery, which poltroonery?"'' |
| 2120 | And does order forward, hither, thither, masses of force to support the De Ligne, the O''Kelly, among others,--but who can tell what to support? |
| 2120 | And then, on more reflection, Broglio afterwards:''Or not till the 15th, M. le Prince; till I reconnoitre ye and drive in his outposts?'' |
| 2120 | And where are these to come from; England and its help having also fallen into such dubiety? |
| 2120 | Are not all men equal?" |
| 2120 | Artillery recruits are scarce in the extreme; demand bounty: five thalers, shall we say?" |
| 2120 | Breslau road? |
| 2120 | Busy about many things;--"using the altar,"it seems,"by way of writing- table[ self or secretaries kneeling, shall we fancy, on those new terms? |
| 2120 | But a certain Sergeant, Fugleman, or chief Corporal, stept out, saluting reverentially:"Regiment Bernburg, IHRO MAJESTAT--?" |
| 2120 | But having solidly eaten out said Magazine, what could Hulsen do but again move rearward? |
| 2120 | But why weary you with such details of my labors and my sorrows? |
| 2120 | Butturlin and the Russians grumble to themselves:"And you to take all the credit, as you did at Kunersdorf? |
| 2120 | Can there by no method be some distant notion afforded of them to the general reader? |
| 2120 | Cautious Henri never would make the smallest attack on Soltikof, but merely keep observing him;--the end of which, what can the end of it be? |
| 2120 | Choiseul frankly admits that he has come to the worst: ready for concessions, but the question is, What? |
| 2120 | Consideration is:"To Holstein? |
| 2120 | Did not they cancel it, and flatly refuse?" |
| 2120 | Did you ever hear such a cannonade before? |
| 2120 | Do n''t speak to me of dangers; the last Action costs me only a Coat[ torn, useless, only one skirt left, by some rebounding cannon- ball?] |
| 2120 | Embarrassing? |
| 2120 | Engaged, yes, and alas with what? |
| 2120 | Ephraim and Itzig, mint- masters of that copper- coinage; rolling in foul wealth by the ruin of their neighbors; ought not these to bleed? |
| 2120 | Fancy Loudon''s astonishment, on the third day:"While we have sat consulting how to attack him, there is he,--unattackable, shall we say?" |
| 2120 | For which he severely suffered: and perhaps repented,--who knows? |
| 2120 | For which, after all, is not everybody thankful, less or more? |
| 2120 | Fouquet has obeyed to the letter:"Did not my King wrong me?" |
| 2120 | Fouquet lost, Glatz unrelieved-- Nay, just before marching off, what is this new phenomenon? |
| 2120 | Friedrich''s grief about Berlin we need not paint; though there were murmurs afterwards,"Why did not he start sooner?" |
| 2120 | Going upon Glogau; upon Breslau?" |
| 2120 | Goltz and Gudowitsh are engaged on Treaty of Peace; Czar frankly gives up East Preussen,"Yours again; what use has Russia for it, Royal Friend?" |
| 2120 | HENRI..."I confess I am in great apprehension for Colberg:"--shall one make thither; think you? |
| 2120 | Have not you heard, then? |
| 2120 | Have you read La Fontaine?" |
| 2120 | He asked me,"Do n''t you know the rules of war, then; that you fire after chamade is beaten?" |
| 2120 | He has an Anti- Danish Russian Army just now in that neighborhood; he will not be safe in Holstein;--where will he be safe?" |
| 2120 | He passionately entreats Czernichef to be helpful to him,--which Czernichef would fain be, only how can he? |
| 2120 | Heyde consults his people:''KAMERADEN, what think you should I do?'' |
| 2120 | How a Baron, hitherto of honor, could all at once become TURPISSIMUS, the Superlative of Scoundrels? |
| 2120 | How form in order of battle here, with Ziethen''s batteries shearing your columns longitudinally, as they march up? |
| 2120 | How get these masses of enemies lured away, so that you could try such a thing? |
| 2120 | How is this fire to be got under? |
| 2120 | Human talent, diligence, endeavor, is it but as lightning smiting the Serbonian Bog? |
| 2120 | I asked the Commandant, who was behind me, which way I should march; to the Crown- work or to the Envelope? |
| 2120 | I can not; how can I? |
| 2120 | I know not if you have arranged with Duke Ferdinand for a proportionate succor, in case his French also should try to penetrate into Saxony upon me? |
| 2120 | I suppose these are bad times, are not they?" |
| 2120 | I took arrangements with General Fouquet[ about that long fine- spun Chain of Posts, where we are to do such service?] |
| 2120 | If Most Christian Majesty and his Pompadour will continue this War, is it he, or is it you, that can furnish the Magazines? |
| 2120 | If even this day it be allowed us? |
| 2120 | If everybody will do miracles, can not we perhaps still manage it, in spite of Fate?''" |
| 2120 | Impregnable, under Prince Henri in far inferior force: how will you take it from Daun in decidedly superior? |
| 2120 | Intends to finish Silesia altogether;--cannot he, after such a beginning upon Glatz last Year? |
| 2120 | Is it DIE GELEHRTE KRANKHEIT( Disease of the Learned,"Dyspepsia so called)? |
| 2120 | Is not Tottleben gone? |
| 2120 | Let them fall off into Peace, like ripe pears, of themselves; we can then turn round and say,''Save you harmless? |
| 2120 | Liegnitz itself, was not that( as many opine) a disaster due to cunctation, not of Loudon''s? |
| 2120 | Loudon aiming for Neisse, do n''t you think? |
| 2120 | No getting across the Rohrgraben on them, says your Excellenz? |
| 2120 | No use marching thitherward farther:--whither now, therefore? |
| 2120 | Nobody knows better than Friedrich in what perilous crisis he now stands: beaten here, what army or resource has he left? |
| 2120 | Nobody seems to be able for his business; Lefebvre a blockhead( DUMMER TEUFEL), who knows nothing of mining: the Generals, too, where are they? |
| 2120 | Not far from the Lordship Casserey, where there is a Water- mill, the King asked me,''Have n''t you missed the Bridge here?'' |
| 2120 | One of the King''s first questions was:''But how have I offended Warkotsch?'' |
| 2120 | Or Destiny, perhaps, may have tried him sufficiently; and be satisfied? |
| 2120 | Or awkward Inadvertence only, practically meaning little or nothing?" |
| 2120 | Or perhaps it will be a second Maxen to his Majesty and us, who was so indignant with poor Finck?" |
| 2120 | Or, again, TO HENRI: Berlin? |
| 2120 | Perhaps a sudden clutch at Lacy, in the opposite direction, might be the method of recalling Daun, and reaching him? |
| 2120 | Perhaps by a Surprisal; by extreme despatch?'' |
| 2120 | Perhaps it will be some days yet before he do anything?'' |
| 2120 | Perhaps, at heart still Lutheran, and has no Religion?" |
| 2120 | Poor Paul, does not he father himself, were there nothing more? |
| 2120 | Readers recollect one Blucher"Prince of Wahlstatt,"so named from one of his Anti- Napoleon victories gained there? |
| 2120 | Saxony is all theirs; can not they maintain Saxony? |
| 2120 | Since September 18th, there had been three Cabinet- Councils held on this great Spanish question:"Mystery of treachery, meaning War from Spain? |
| 2120 | Six yards? |
| 2120 | So that, at Parchwitz, next morning( August 16th), the question,"To Glogau? |
| 2120 | Some of my Commissariat people have been misbehaving? |
| 2120 | Some stroke at the enemy on their south or southwestern side, where we have not molested them all day? |
| 2120 | That is the barbaric Russian notion:''who are you, ill- formed insolent persons, that give a loose to your tongue in that manner? |
| 2120 | The 4 or 5,000 good muskets lying on the field, shall not we take them also? |
| 2120 | The King is far away; what are Eugen''s 5,000 against these? |
| 2120 | The alloy this Year became as 3 to 1:--what other remedy? |
| 2120 | The outer world, especially the Vienna outer world, is naturally a little surprised:"How is this, Feldmarschall Daun? |
| 2120 | The sentries are in mutual view: each Camp could cannonade the other; but what good were it? |
| 2120 | The unspeakable Sovereign Woman, is she verily dead, then, and become peaceable to me forevermore?" |
| 2120 | Then the Turks; the Danes,--"Might not the Danes send us a trifle of Fleet to Colberg( since the English never will), and keep our Russians at bay?" |
| 2120 | There ensued about the banks of the Fulda, and the question, Shall we be driven across it sooner or not so soon? |
| 2120 | To Breslau?" |
| 2120 | To Friedrich the Russian movements are, and have been, full of enigma:"Going upon Colberg? |
| 2120 | To which of the gods, if not to Soltikof again, can he apply? |
| 2120 | Towards sunset of the 29th, exuberant joy- firing rises far and wide from the usually quiet Austrian lines,--"Meaning what, once more?" |
| 2120 | We are over with it, then?" |
| 2120 | We have bread only for eight days; our Magazines are at Schweidnitz and Breslau: what is to be done? |
| 2120 | We outnumber them,--but as to trying fight in any form? |
| 2120 | We spoke of the Choiseul Peace- Negotiation; of an offer indirectly from King Carlos,"Could not I mediate a little?" |
| 2120 | Well, have you one?" |
| 2120 | What can this be? |
| 2120 | What has it come to? |
| 2120 | What have you to do here? |
| 2120 | What is the use of such talk?'' |
| 2120 | What is to be done? |
| 2120 | What ought an Army- Chaplain to preach or advise? |
| 2120 | When Bamberg was ransomed, Spring gone a year,--Reich and Kaiser, did they respect our Bill we had on Bamberg? |
| 2120 | Where are our recruits, our magazines, our resources for a new Campaign? |
| 2120 | Where do you come from?" |
| 2120 | Where is the place to trample on it, before opening door or window, or saying a word to the King or anybody? |
| 2120 | Whether Austria''s and the world''s prophecy would have been fulfilled? |
| 2120 | Who the weakest- headed was( perhaps JOMINI, among the widely circulating kind? |
| 2120 | Why do n''t you close on him at once, if you mean it at all? |
| 2120 | Why does no one undertake a Translation of Tacitus?" |
| 2120 | Why have we no good Historians? |
| 2120 | Will this make no impression? |
| 2120 | Would modern Friends of Progress believe it? |
| 2120 | Yes: but if Broglio have 130,000, what will it come to? |
| 2120 | [ An uncommonly broad neckcloth on it, did you observe?] |
| 2120 | and perhaps from her Papa,"Shall SHE, think you, O my ditto?" |
| 2120 | answers Pitt, with a flash as if from the empyrean:"Who sent for Most Catholic Majesty?" |
| 2120 | as who had not? |
| 2120 | counted he:"What Alliance can there be with that ever- fluctuating People? |
| 2120 | interrupts My Lady, who was sitting there:''Herr Good- man, what is that?'' |
| 2120 | probably firing withal; and getting killed in consequence? |
| 2120 | where is the King?" |
| 2118 | All bad as Poetry, those Verses? |
| 2118 | Attacked, you? |
| 2118 | Burn the Suburbs? |
| 2118 | Defend? 2118 Have not I reconquered Silesia?" |
| 2118 | How is this? |
| 2118 | I am sorry indeed to hear that!--Were there Generals too in your house? 2118 MY DEAREST SISTER,--What is the good of philosophy unless one employ it in the disagreeable moments of life? |
| 2118 | Neutrality to Hanover? |
| 2118 | No, you are an honest man:--probably a Protestant? |
| 2118 | On the Height beyond Neumarkt, that will be? |
| 2118 | Or else? |
| 2118 | Recapture of Silesia? |
| 2118 | Rest:--and Daun, coming on with 30,000 of reinforcement to them, might arrive this night? 2118 Send to Kur- Mainz say you? |
| 2118 | Shall not we reap, then, where there is such a harvest standing white to us? |
| 2118 | Shall we order that to cease, your Majesty? |
| 2118 | Should you have known me again? |
| 2118 | Swedes, what are they? |
| 2118 | To see the--what shall we call it: seat of honor, in fact,"of your enemy:"has it not an undeniable charm? |
| 2118 | Well, children, how think you it will be to- morrow? 2118 What IS all that?" |
| 2118 | What could I do? 2118 What does or can he mean, then?" |
| 2118 | What is Friedrich? 2118 What is to hinder you from starving them into surrender?" |
| 2118 | What made thee desert, then? |
| 2118 | What sound is that? |
| 2118 | When got you rid of your high guests? |
| 2118 | Who are you? |
| 2118 | Why not spare me a small English squadron, and blow these away? |
| 2118 | Why not unite with the Swedes and take Stettin( the finest harbor in the Baltic), which would bring Russia, by ships, to your very hand? |
| 2118 | Why not, if we do our duty at all, annihilate his trifle of an Army; take himself prisoner, and so end it? |
| 2118 | You are dead, sirrah,said Daun;"hoisted to the highest gallows: Are not you? |
| 2118 | ''Again nominated, why again?'' |
| 2118 | ''Do n''t I?'' |
| 2118 | ''Making for Hanover?'' |
| 2118 | ''SI UN ALLEMAND PEUT AVOIR DE L''ESPRIT( Can a German possibly have sharpness of wits)?'' |
| 2118 | ''What did he die of?'' |
| 2118 | ''What of that?'' |
| 2118 | ( Where the 103 pieces of my own are, and my 27 flags, and my Army- chest and sundries? |
| 2118 | --"GLAUBT ER DIES, Do you think so?" |
| 2118 | --"Well, and if he do? |
| 2118 | --''Why rage the Heathen; why do the people imagine a vain thing? |
| 2118 | --Heavy billeting; but what was that?... |
| 2118 | 167, 168,? |
| 2118 | 50);& c.& c.] and not leave Austria by itself to do the duel with Friedrich? |
| 2118 | A longish, almost straight row of young Prussian recruits stretched among the slain, what are these? |
| 2118 | Alas, my friends, what could Xavier probably avail, the foolish fellow, with only three regiments? |
| 2118 | An eye- sorrow, they, with their commerce, their weavings and industryings, to Austrian Papists, who can not weave or trade?" |
| 2118 | And did you ever see such horses, such splendor of equipment, regardless of expense? |
| 2118 | And where is it said, that Brutus and Cato should carry magnanimity farther than Princes and Kings? |
| 2118 | And, alas, withal, how is it possible, with that America hanging over us?" |
| 2118 | And, in fact, the second man of these poor fellows did die there? |
| 2118 | As I was on foot, and none of my people now near, he bade give me his led horse which he still had[ and sent me home for surgery? |
| 2118 | As when( June 9th) he personally visits Balbi''s parallels( top of the Tafelberg yonder); and inquires,''When do you calculate to get done, then?'' |
| 2118 | Attack to be in this point?" |
| 2118 | Be assaulted by an Army like his?" |
| 2118 | Better than two pitched battles gained: who shall say? |
| 2118 | Bring the war into our own borders? |
| 2118 | But does your Eminency take notice how high my connections are; what service a poor obscure creature might perhaps do the State some day?" |
| 2118 | But how help it? |
| 2118 | But if they are gone to St. Vitus, and fail in every point, what can one do? |
| 2118 | But is that the example for me to follow? |
| 2118 | But the answer was-- what could the answer be? |
| 2118 | But the noise grew louder, and came ever nearer; I turned my guns towards it[ southward, southeastward, or perhaps a gun each way?] |
| 2118 | But there is no crossing of the Mutzel, there is only drowning in the quagmires there:--death any way; what can be done but die? |
| 2118 | But with regiments jammed in this astonishing way, and got collectively into the lion''s throat, what can be done? |
| 2118 | But, indeed, what other shift has he,"considers Daun,"but to try rallying at Glogau yonder, safe under the guns?" |
| 2118 | Can this be the same Army that Royal Highness led to the Sea and the Parish Pound? |
| 2118 | Carteret, at this crisis, was again applied to,''Can not you? |
| 2118 | Continually southward, as if for Tamsel:--poor old Tamsel, do readers recollect it at all, does Friedrich at all? |
| 2118 | Dangerous, serving Citatio in that quarter: and by what art try to smuggle it into the hands of such a one? |
| 2118 | Daun ought to be far on with the conquest of that Country? |
| 2118 | Daun, that morning, in his reconnoitrings, had asked of a peasant,"What is that, then?" |
| 2118 | Dinner, up in the Schloss, is just being taken from the spit, and the swashing at its height, when--''Hah what is that, though?'' |
| 2118 | Double or quits, that is our game: can we yield for a little ill- luck? |
| 2118 | FOX to Pitt:''Will you join ME?'' |
| 2118 | Feasible perhaps:"but straightway?" |
| 2118 | Fermor, in the evening, said to his Artillery People:"Why have you ceased to fire grenadoes?" |
| 2118 | For you, when I reflect that you are Prussians, can I think that you will act unworthily? |
| 2118 | Friedrich sometimes remonstrates:"Can not you spare such phraseology, unseemly to Kings? |
| 2118 | Furious, and strenuous, it is not doubted, on this Friedrich''s part: but against such odds, what can he do? |
| 2118 | Half a mile behind Krzeczhorz( let us write it Kreczor, for the future: what can we do? |
| 2118 | He is down reconnoitring his end of the Bridge: sha''n''t I, then?" |
| 2118 | His Prussians at Zittau, at Moys, at Breslau in the new Malplaquet, were we beaten by them? |
| 2118 | His men have been on foot since midnight, and on forced marches for days past: were it not better to rest for this one day? |
| 2118 | How Prince Karl came to expose his Bakery, his staff of life so far ahead of him? |
| 2118 | How can a Prince survive his State, the glory of his Country, his own reputation? |
| 2118 | How could I know?" |
| 2118 | I fired off my cannons[ shall we say straight southward?] |
| 2118 | I struggled to my feet, as fast as, for weakness, I possibly could; and got up to our confused mass[ CONFUSEN KLUMPEN,--exact place, where? |
| 2118 | If outrage irritates even cowards, what will it do to hearts that have courage? |
| 2118 | If peradventure he can take Custrin without proper siege- artillery, in the Oczakow or Anti- Turk way? |
| 2118 | If the carrying of meal so far be difficult what will the carrying of siege- furniture be? |
| 2118 | If you learn that a misfortune happens to one of us, ask,''Did he die fighting?'' |
| 2118 | In behalf of an afflicted old King?'' |
| 2118 | In vain, or nearly so, is Friedrich''s tactic or manoeuvring talent; what now is there to manoeuvre? |
| 2118 | Is Liberty, that precious prerogative, to be less dear to a Sovereign in the eighteenth century than it was to Roman Patricians of old? |
| 2118 | Is it for you to bend under worn- out notions of justice, right? |
| 2118 | Is there new order come? |
| 2118 | Meanwhile, is it not remarkable that Friedrich wrote more Verses, this Autumn, than almost in any other three months of his life? |
| 2118 | Nay, before the passage was complete-- what light- horse squadrons are these? |
| 2118 | Nay, perhaps my Rhine- Bridge itself, and the small Party left there?'' |
| 2118 | No man is willing for the operation, most men shudder at it; but who can help them? |
| 2118 | Nobler fire, when did it burn in any Army? |
| 2118 | November 5th is a day unforgettable: but anterior to that, what can we do? |
| 2118 | One asks only: How is the business ever to be done, if you can not even settle what imbecile is to go and try it? |
| 2118 | One moment of practical happiness is worth a thousand years of imaginary in such Temple.--Is the lot of high people so very sweet, then? |
| 2118 | One of Four; to the Four most deserving: Schwerin( 1771), Winterfeld( 1777), Seidlitz( 1779, Keith( when? |
| 2118 | Or perhaps Friedrich now judged it immaterial, and a question only of hours? |
| 2118 | Or perhaps there never seriously was such a plan? |
| 2118 | Perhaps only cautious of getting into a general action for what was intrinsically nothing? |
| 2118 | Pitt sulkily looking on America, on Minorca; on things German, on things in general; warily set on returning, as is thought; but How? |
| 2118 | Prisoners?" |
| 2118 | Push home upon him, as united Posse Comitatus of Mankind; in a sacred cause of Polish Majesty and Public Justice, how can one malefactor resist? |
| 2118 | Quaggy Zaberngrund,--do readers remember it; one of those"Three continuous Leakages,"very important, to Fermor and us at present? |
| 2118 | Riding up the line, all now grown dusky, Friedrich asks,"Any battalion a mind to follow me to Lissa?" |
| 2118 | Ruler''s Work,--policy, administration, governance, guidance, performance in any kind,--where is it to be found? |
| 2118 | Runs to the Duke of Cumberland at Stade; thence to Richelieu at Zeven; back to the Duke, back to Zeven:''Wo n''t you; and wo n''t YOU?'' |
| 2118 | Shall I write to Collini on it? |
| 2118 | Shall we follow Moritz and Bevern?" |
| 2118 | Some of the more veteran sort asked, ruggedly confidential, as well as loyal:"What is thy news, then, so late?" |
| 2118 | Stiff dispute; and had the Austrians possessed the Prussian dexterity in manoeuvring, and a Friedrich been among them,--perhaps? |
| 2118 | Straight upon Zittau?" |
| 2118 | Such a Problem has this King: soluble within the time; or not soluble? |
| 2118 | The Anecdote- Books( perhaps not mythically) add this:"Where are all your guns, though?" |
| 2118 | The Russians, beaten to fragments, would not run: whither run? |
| 2118 | The poor Prince takes post on what Heights there are, on his own side of the Neisse; looks wistfully down upon Zittau, asking How? |
| 2118 | The quarrels of Kings have to be decided by the sword; what profit in unseemly language, Madam?" |
| 2118 | There were twirls of that kind in Friedrich; intricate weak places; knots in the sound straight- fibred mind he had( as in whose mind are they not? |
| 2118 | They have got the Eckart''s Hill, which commands Zittau:--and how to get into Zittau and our magazines, and how to subsist if we were in? |
| 2118 | They were talking of Shakspeare:''Genial, if you will,''said Gottsched,''but the Laws of Aristotle; Five Acts, unities strict!''--''Aristotle? |
| 2118 | They, and the force they still had in Lissa, could easily have taken him: but how could they know? |
| 2118 | This, it was afterwards surmised, had been a feint on Friedrich''s part; to give the Austrians pleasant thoughts:''Invading us, is he? |
| 2118 | To dictate peace from the walls of Vienna: that lay on the cards for him this morning; and at night--? |
| 2118 | To which Bevern replies,"Excellent, truly; but how?" |
| 2118 | Unhappily they did not arrive, or not in due quantity at the set time,--for what reason, by what strange mistake? |
| 2118 | Was it ever seen before, that three great Princes laid plot in concert to destroy a Fourth, who had done nothing against them? |
| 2118 | Was it here while waiting about Meissen, or where was it, that Daun got his Letter to Fermor answered in that singular way? |
| 2118 | We are not to have our Pandourade, then?" |
| 2118 | We are on the Breslau Great Road, that goes through Lissa, are n''t we?" |
| 2118 | What a sight for Friedrich:"Big game SHALL be played, then; death sure, this day, to thousands of men: and to me--? |
| 2118 | What can a Polish Majesty and Electoral Translucency do? |
| 2118 | What else?" |
| 2118 | What is to become of those poor people, if not even a Lord Loudon can get out?" |
| 2118 | What is to hinder a man from making his Tragedy in Ten acts, if it suit him better?'' |
| 2118 | What said they? |
| 2118 | When was there seen such a Bellona as Dauphiness before? |
| 2118 | Which was the idea in London, too:"Do n''t we, by Apocalyptic Newswriters and eyesight of our own, understand the man?" |
| 2118 | Who could express that in German with such melody?'' |
| 2118 | Whose IS that blood but thine? |
| 2118 | Why not; were the"Deliverance of Saxony"complete? |
| 2118 | Will readers take a touch more of the DRILL- SERGEANT? |
| 2118 | Will the reader consent to their Dialogue, which is dullish, but singular to have in an authentic form, with Nicolai as voucher? |
| 2118 | Winterfeld was by no means universally liked; as what brave man is or can be? |
| 2118 | Would the reader wish to see, in summary, what Pitt''s Offices have been, since he entered on this career about thirty years ago? |
| 2118 | Yes; and is there nothing to account of Pirna, and the later scores? |
| 2118 | [ Peerage Books,? |
| 2118 | [_ OEuvres de Frederic,_( in several places); see Hormayr,? |
| 2118 | and will Sovereigns, who maintain these tribunals and these laws in their States, give such example to their subjects?... |
| 2118 | answered they.--"But think only where they stand yonder, and how they have intrenched themselves?" |
| 2118 | asked he sharply of Retzow senior, who had broken through his order, one day, to avert great mischief:"How come you here, MON GENERAL?" |
| 2118 | asked somebody( might be Deblin the Shoemaker, for anything I know) of an Austrian sentry there:"That? |
| 2118 | coming round upon Bohemia from the east, then?" |
| 2118 | said he, with a gay tone, stepping in:"Is there still room left, think you?" |
| 2118 | say the Russians:"Russians what?" |
| 2118 | sighed Britannic Majesty:"Alas, am not I pledged by Treaty? |
| 2118 | that makes 100,000; say his Prussian Majesty has two- thirds of the number: can the Fabius Cunctator attempt nothing, before Prag utterly famish? |
| 2118 | the other,''Did n''t I tell you?''" |
| 2118 | thought Ferdinand:''Or perhaps meaning to attack my 12,000 English that are just landed? |
| 2118 | you would everybody sacrifice his life for the State, and you would not have your Brothers give the example? |
| 2116 | ''But what am I to do now? 2116 ''Did you study BIBLICA diligently?'' |
| 2116 | ''Hm, Copy? 2116 ''Is Teutschland a Nation; is there in Teutschland still a Nation?'' |
| 2116 | ''That is he who had such quarrelling with Wolf?'' 2116 ''The grand May Review at Berlin just ahead, wo n''t you look in; it is straight on your road home?'' |
| 2116 | ''Thetics and Exegetics with Fortsch[ How the deuce did Fortsch teach these things? 2116 ''Under what Pro- rector were you inscribed?'' |
| 2116 | ''What form of Government do you reckon the best?'' 2116 ''What other useful Courses of Lectures( COLLEGIA) did you attend?'' |
| 2116 | ''What years?'' 2116 ''Where did you( ER) study?'' |
| 2116 | ''Who were your other Professors in the Theological Faculty?'' |
| 2116 | And why? |
| 2116 | Beaten my Jew, have n''t I? |
| 2116 | Did you ever hear of anything so shocking? |
| 2116 | Do you see the man in the garden yonder, sitting smoking his pipe?'' 2116 He made thousand protestations of his fidelity to your Majesty; became pretty weak[ like fainting, think you, Herr Resident? |
| 2116 | I must tell you a story of the King of Prussia''s regard for the Law of Nations,continues he to Walpole? |
| 2116 | Inn, Baireuth, say you? 2116 Meaning battle and wrestle again?" |
| 2116 | Not much above a million of you, say the French;"and surely there is room enough East of the Alleghanies? |
| 2116 | Ocean Highway to be free; for the English and others who have business on it? |
| 2116 | Saxe having eaten Bergen- op- Zoom before our eyes, what can withstand the teeth of Saxe? |
| 2116 | Something real this time? |
| 2116 | Sunset? |
| 2116 | Surely not ill, your Majesty; and much better in late years,answered Sulzer.--"In late years: why?" |
| 2116 | The King has held his Consistory; and it has there been discussed, Whether your case was a mortal sin or a venial? 2116 The King of France continues me as Gentleman of the Chamber, say you; but has taken away my Title of Historiographer? |
| 2116 | Their Captain WAS, first, to be Lacy, old Marshal Lacy; then, failing Lacy,''Why not General Keith?'' 2116 Well, Monsieur Sulzer, how are your Schools getting on?" |
| 2116 | What would your Majesty think to be elected Stadtholder of Holland? 2116 Which Discovery, then?" |
| 2116 | Who is this Voltaire? |
| 2116 | Why does n''t Voltaire come; as Quantz of the Flute has done? |
| 2116 | Yours? 2116 ''A L''ENFER?'' 2116 ''Austrian Officer?'' 2116 ''But how can one create Something out of Nothing?'' 2116 ''Did the King bid me wait? 2116 ''Hm, Steuer- Scheine, and the Jew Hirsch to be Court- Jeweller, you say?'' 2116 ''How is it, O flower of human thinkers, that I can not get on with his Majesty, or make the least way?'' 2116 ''Let us carry our own goods at least, Silesian linens, Memel timbers, stock- fish; what need of the Dutch to do it?'' 2116 ''MA CHERE COUSINE,''could I have believed it, at one time? |
| 2116 | ''Obscurities?'' |
| 2116 | ''One would like it, of all things,''answered the other:''but the King?'' |
| 2116 | ''Prize Courts? |
| 2116 | ''Was the like ever heard of?'' |
| 2116 | ''What will the handsome Compensation be, I wonder?'' |
| 2116 | ''What?'' |
| 2116 | ''Why not go on with your expenditures, ye Sea- Powers? |
| 2116 | ''Why starve our Italian Enterprises; heaping every resource upon the Netherlands and Saxe?'' |
| 2116 | ''s short statement; and made answer:"Monsieur, and is it you that will pick holes in the King''s Law? |
| 2116 | ( Are We a Hackney- Coachman, then?) |
| 2116 | --"Amiable young Nobleman, is not it one''s duty to salute, in passing such a one? |
| 2116 | --"But your written promise to Voltaire?" |
| 2116 | --"Inclination rather to good?" |
| 2116 | --''If it is still time to declare[ to announce in Saxony and demand payment for] Notes one holds on the Steuer? |
| 2116 | --''Very well,''answered he;''but where will you find Kings of that sort?'' |
| 2116 | --''Were you ever in Germany?'' |
| 2116 | --''Yes, Monsieur; and what should we do with that?'' |
| 2116 | --''You are in a circle,''said I;''how will you get out of it?'' |
| 2116 | --Voltaire can at once have: but to get it in the friendly shape, and as if for a time only? |
| 2116 | --but what farther can he do?'' |
| 2116 | --for what will a poor man not do in extreme stress of Fortune? |
| 2116 | 209,? |
| 2116 | 220 n.] Could there be a phenomenon more indisputably of bramble nature? |
| 2116 | ?^( p.212 Book XVI) VOILA!] |
| 2116 | A Bookseller Gosse[ read JORE, your Majesty? |
| 2116 | ACH, MEIN LIEBER SULZER, you do n''t know( do you, then?) |
| 2116 | Ah, could not one get to some Country Lodge near you,''the MARQUISAT''for instance? |
| 2116 | And Leibnitz discovered it, so far as true?" |
| 2116 | And Versailles, with its sulky Trajans, its Crebillon cabals, what charm is in Versailles? |
| 2116 | And gave rise to many conjectures among the idle of mankind,"What, on Earth, or under Earth, can be the meaning of it?" |
| 2116 | And is not England drowned too?" |
| 2116 | And now there will be peace in our garden of the gods, and perpetual azure will return? |
| 2116 | And now, Friedrich''s Ownership of Silesia recognized by all the Powers to be final and unquestionable, surely nothing more is wanted? |
| 2116 | And so poor Fred is ended;--and sulky people ask, in their cruel way,"Why not?" |
| 2116 | And then the Pompadour, could she, Head- Butterfly of the Universe, be an anchor that would hold, if gales rose? |
| 2116 | And this is the noble Lady''s way of thinking, up in her fine Schloss yonder? |
| 2116 | And why? |
| 2116 | And yet Phoebus Apollo going about as mere Cowherd of Admetus, and exposed to amuse the populace by his duels with dogs that have bitten him? |
| 2116 | And yet-- and yet--?" |
| 2116 | At the name Keith, a slight shadow( very slight, for how could Keith help himself?) |
| 2116 | At what date? |
| 2116 | Breeches- pocket MINUS most other requisites: alas, with such methods as you have, what can come of it? |
| 2116 | But are there no obscene details at all, then? |
| 2116 | But what then? |
| 2116 | By Henzi?'' |
| 2116 | Can money and life be spent better? |
| 2116 | Clever, but wrong, do you say? |
| 2116 | Could not Suspicion-- why can not she!--take her natural rest; and all these terrors vanish? |
| 2116 | Do not imagine you will make people believe that black is white; when one[ ON, meaning_ I_] does not see, the reason[ sic]? |
| 2116 | Do readers recall the circumstance? |
| 2116 | Does any reader know the Dollart? |
| 2116 | Enumerate, then, do me the pleasure of enumerating, What he contrived that the Heavens answered Yes to, and not No to? |
| 2116 | France, Spain, Sardinia, the Italian Petty Principalities and Anarchies: suppose they tug and tussle, and collapse there as they can? |
| 2116 | French Tragedies played at Berlin, I myself taking part; an Englishman Envoy of France there: strange circumstances these, are n''t they?" |
| 2116 | Friedrich does cast it out, more and more, henceforth,--"ACH, MEIN LIEBER SULZER, what was your knowledge, then, of that damned race?" |
| 2116 | Friedrich never would bite at this salutary scheme for strengthening the House of Austria:''A bad man, is not he?'' |
| 2116 | Friedrich, now that Voltaire has fallen widower, renews his pressings,"Why do n''t you come?" |
| 2116 | HAVE BEEN LAYING IT ON TOO THICK( No date; IN VERSE).--"Marcus Aurelius was wo nt to"--(Well, we know who that is: What of Marcus, then?) |
| 2116 | Had no hand, he, I hope, in that latter atrocity? |
| 2116 | Had not Britannic Majesty, for his dear Daughter''s sake, come to the rescue in this crisis, where had we been? |
| 2116 | Have not we gained Fontenoy, Roucoux, Lauffeld; and strong- places innumerable[ mostly in a state of dry- rot]? |
| 2116 | He has three"--what shall we call them? |
| 2116 | He is come''on pressing business,''--perhaps not of stage- diamonds alone? |
| 2116 | He looked fixedly at me, for a while; and then said, without farther preface,''Who are you, Monsieur?'' |
| 2116 | Heavens, what?" |
| 2116 | How am I to live, if you take my very money from me?'' |
| 2116 | How, in the name of wonder, it can be; and even, Whether it is at all? |
| 2116 | Is not that a gracious little touch? |
| 2116 | It is to the good Plougher, not ultimately to the good Cannonier, that those portions of Creation will belong? |
| 2116 | It is well known there have been, to the metaphysical head, difficulties almost insuperable as to How, in the System of Nature, Motion is? |
| 2116 | It will be very difficult, my friend;--why did not you yourself do it? |
| 2116 | Jew Ephraim( exaggerative and an enemy to this Hirsch House) answers,''Justly? |
| 2116 | Leave was at once granted him, almost huffingly; we hope not with too much readiness? |
| 2116 | Linsenbarth answers his own"And why?" |
| 2116 | Live silent there, and see your face sometimes?" |
| 2116 | Manoeuvred about; bewildering the mind of Royal Highness and the Stadtholder("Will he besiege Breda? |
| 2116 | My Discovery an Error? |
| 2116 | Nay, when the Judges, not hiding their surprise at the form of this Document, asked, Will you swear it is all genuine? |
| 2116 | Not much real money: except, indeed, the money were offered you gratis, from other parties interested? |
| 2116 | Nous sommes de mene metier; Faut- il de moi vous defier, Et cacher vos bonnes fortunes?" |
| 2116 | Oh, M. de Voltaire, and why not leave it to him, then? |
| 2116 | Oh, my President, that DIRA REGNANDI CUPIDO!--"Question is, however, What the Academy will do? |
| 2116 | On the other hand, Voltaire has been asking himself,''My 450 pounds worth of Jewels, were they justly valued, though?'' |
| 2116 | Our portfolios and CASSETTE( money- box) were thrown into an empty trunk[ what else could they be thrown into?] |
| 2116 | POTSDAM PALACE( No date): SIRE, NZAY I CHANGE MY ROOM?... |
| 2116 | Perhaps M. de Voltaire did say it:--why not, had it only been prudent? |
| 2116 | Perhaps all this will be more effective than Congresses of Breda? |
| 2116 | Practical"BLASPHEMY,"is it not, if you reflect? |
| 2116 | Quand pourrai- je d''une style honnete Dire:''Le cul de mon heros Va tout aussi bien que sa tete''?" |
| 2116 | Readers have heard of that"TRAJAN EST- IL CONTENT?" |
| 2116 | Rubrics, vanished Shadows, nearly all those high Dames and Gentlemen; LA PAUVRE Saint- Pierre,"eaten with gout,"who is she? |
| 2116 | Special Commission?'' |
| 2116 | That it is in my power to stick you into a hole underground for the rest of your life? |
| 2116 | That, think you?" |
| 2116 | The 60,000 Austrians are but 30,000; the-- In fact, you will have to make Peace, what else?" |
| 2116 | The Officers noticed this; came straight to me, and said,''What letters has He there, then?'' |
| 2116 | The Piece has nothing noisy, nothing untrue; but what has it of importance? |
| 2116 | The exact number of soldiers I can not learn:"a SCHILDWACHE of the Town- guard[ means one; surely does not mean Four?] |
| 2116 | The incalculable Yankee Nations, shall they be in effect YANGKEE("English"with a difference), or FRANGCEE("French"with a difference)? |
| 2116 | The meetings are occasionally of stormy character; Voltaire''s patience nearly out:"But did n''t I return you that Topaz Ring, value 75 pounds? |
| 2116 | Then as to''Dissecting the Brains of Patagonians;''what harm, if you can get them gross enough? |
| 2116 | Then too, in the Court- circle itself,"is Trajan pleased,"or are all things well? |
| 2116 | They tempt one to ask, What is the good of wit, then, if this be it? |
| 2116 | Think what a stab; crueler than daggers through one''s heart:"Crebillon?" |
| 2116 | Tie some tin- canister to your too- sensitive tail? |
| 2116 | To provide for your own paltry kindred in the State- employments; to palaver grandly with all comers; and publish melodious Despatches of Van Hoey? |
| 2116 | To which Friedrich answered,"Subsidies, your Excellency?" |
| 2116 | Twenty pounds a Year certain; let us guess it twenty, with glebe- land, piggeries, poultry- hutches: who is now to get all that? |
| 2116 | Was there ever seen such a Paper; one end of it contradicting the other? |
| 2116 | Was there ever seen such radiancy of valor? |
| 2116 | Was there ever such a Pluto varnished into Literary Rose- pink? |
| 2116 | What have we to do with them? |
| 2116 | What if it should even lose Italy? |
| 2116 | What is to be done with such an Ass of Balaam? |
| 2116 | What is to become of us; whose is America to be?" |
| 2116 | What say you?'' |
| 2116 | What? |
| 2116 | Who can have done it? |
| 2116 | Why he fell upon so ambitious a title for his Royal Cottage? |
| 2116 | Will he do this, will he do that?") |
| 2116 | Will perhaps be printed by some inquiring PITTSBURGHER, one day, after good study on the ground itself? |
| 2116 | Yes;--and how many Ploughed Fields bearing Crop have you? |
| 2116 | Your road lies that way, then? |
| 2116 | Yours, of all people''s?" |
| 2116 | [ L''ECHANGE, The Exchange, or WHEN SHALL I GET MARRIED? |
| 2116 | [ ONLY proof:^????? |
| 2116 | [ ONLY proof:^????? |
| 2116 | [ ONLY proof:^????? |
| 2116 | [ ONLY proof:^????? |
| 2116 | [ ONLY proof:^????? |
| 2116 | ], all or the best part of them, which I have here in pawn for Papa''s Bill: 650 pounds was it not? |
| 2116 | asked the King one day,--long after this, but nobody will tell me exactly when, though the fact is certain enough:"How goes our Education business?" |
| 2116 | can it be possible? |
| 2116 | cries he,( can not I be allowed to-- to vomit, then?''" |
| 2116 | crosses the mind:"Is this, by ill luck, the Feldmarschall Keith?" |
| 2116 | hysterically shrieks Voltaire:"in the wrong, were n''t you, then; and fined thirty shillings?" |
| 2116 | in the Garden?'' |
| 2116 | in the declaration?'' |
| 2116 | mere echo answering, What,--till a Signora Sister of Barberina the Dancer''s answered:''Try Berlin, and King FRIDERICO IL GRANDE there? |
| 2116 | says he, quite historically: Yes, Why? |
| 2116 | thinks Friedrich:"Sure enough, this is a strange Trismegistus, this of mine: star fire- work shall we call him, or terrestrial smoke- and- soot work? |
| 2116 | thought his cattle:--but, after all, how could he well help it, with such a set? |
| 2121 | ''A King of France, Sire, is always the Patriarch of Clever People( PATRIARCHE DES GENS D''ESPRIT:''You do not much mean this, Monsieur? 2121 ''A fire- work at my Wedding, was n''t that it, my dear Pinto?'' |
| 2121 | ''Ah, that is pretty!--On what system do you treat your patients?'' 2121 ''And your battery on the Windberg, which would have scourged my poor battalions, all the while, in your Ravine?'' |
| 2121 | ''Apropos of M. de Voghera, is your Majesty aware of a little thing he did before charging? 2121 ''But there are some Physicians whose methods you prefer to those of others?'' |
| 2121 | ''But, Sire, the night?'' 2121 ''Did you get my Letter?'' |
| 2121 | ''Did, you let them bind you before the operation?'' 2121 ''Do me the honor to say whether it was successful?'' |
| 2121 | ''Do you know who taught me the little I know? 2121 ''Do you know,''said the King, one day, to me,--''Do you know that the first soldiering I did was for the House of Austria? |
| 2121 | ''From what Town in the Canton of Bern are you originally?'' 2121 ''Have you ever,''said he,''seen such a rain as yesterday''s? |
| 2121 | ''How did you find[ LIKE] the English fare( LA CHERE ANGLAISE?'' 2121 ''How have you liked( AVEX- VOUS TROUVE) the French?'' |
| 2121 | ''How long is it since you were in England?'' 2121 ''How, then; disciplined? |
| 2121 | ''How, then? 2121 ''I have sometimes heard the Prince de Conti spoken of: what sort of man is he?'' |
| 2121 | ''Is it you who drew up the judgment in the Arnold case?'' 2121 ''Mademoiselle de l''Enclos wrote some good LETTERS?'' |
| 2121 | ''May I( OSERAIS- JE) ask you to whom?'' 2121 ''Tell me, pray, is there no citable Writer left in France?'' |
| 2121 | ''That I permit; and will repay you the ESTAFETTE moneys.--Tell me, How comes the decrease of population in these parts? 2121 ''Their language?'' |
| 2121 | ''Were you personally acquainted with Lord Bolingbroke?'' 2121 ''What has become of a brave Colonel who played the devil at Rossbach? |
| 2121 | ''What is M. Haller doing now?'' 2121 ''What is your opinion of the ELOISE''[ Rousseau''s immortal Work]? |
| 2121 | ''What says Zimmermann?'' 2121 ''What, a Massalska? |
| 2121 | ''Where did you pick up all these fine old Pieces? 2121 ''Where did you study?'' |
| 2121 | ''You have built a Church?'' 2121 ''You have stood a cruel operation: you must have suffered horribly?'' |
| 2121 | A crown a head on the import of fat cattle, Tax on butcher''s- meat? |
| 2121 | A messenger to him, to Karl Theodor and him,thinks Friedrich:"a messenger instantly; and who?" |
| 2121 | But can not we perhaps make it worth his while? |
| 2121 | Contumacies? |
| 2121 | Could n''t we, the few Faithful, go to Cleve in a body? |
| 2121 | Could not we persuade you to come to Petersburg, Madam Landgravine? |
| 2121 | Enemies at Court suggested,or the accident itself suggested without any enemy,"Has not he been playing false, using cheap bad materials?" |
| 2121 | How do YOU know, Herr? |
| 2121 | I have heard you are for Germany this season; some say you intend to become German altogether? |
| 2121 | In itself perhaps not,thought Kaunitz;"but the free consent of Karl Theodor the Heir, will not that be a Title in full? |
| 2121 | Is there no method, then, of allowing Russia to prosecute its Turk War in spite of Austria and its umbrages? |
| 2121 | It seems to me you have already been to see the King of Prussia? |
| 2121 | King told me, on one occasion,''Would you believe it? 2121 Must two great Courts quarrel, then, for the sake of a small one?" |
| 2121 | Not at any price? |
| 2121 | Papers all at Custrin, say you? 2121 Perhaps Prussia will quarrel about it?" |
| 2121 | Shall we never see the end of this, then? |
| 2121 | Suppose you had had to part with your Bavaria altogether? |
| 2121 | The carriage drew up; and the King said to his coachman[ the far- famed Pfund]:''Is this Dolgelin?'' 2121 What EDELLEUTE that are members of STANDE have you[ ER] got in your Circle?" |
| 2121 | What is your Circle most short of? |
| 2121 | What said he of the feet? |
| 2121 | Who are you? |
| 2121 | Who completely understands it? |
| 2121 | Why be in such heat? 2121 Why not leave it to Nature?" |
| 2121 | You will go, Herr von Nussler; be so kind, wo n''t you? |
| 2121 | Your Majesty, as co- mediator, will join us, should the Russians make War? |
| 2121 | ''Ah, how goes the Prince of Philosophers, then? |
| 2121 | ''And who commands my Russians?'' |
| 2121 | ''Galitzin? |
| 2121 | ''Go, then, sir; get you to the Governor himself; a clearance, and out of harbor this day: had n''t you better?'' |
| 2121 | ''Ought he to be King of Poland?'' |
| 2121 | ''Reverenced his Office,''says a simple reader? |
| 2121 | ''What then, is your hope?'' |
| 2121 | ''What,''said I to myself,''not a single epigram on us, or on our Master? |
| 2121 | ''Where do you think it comes from?'' |
| 2121 | ''Would you believe it?'' |
| 2121 | ( Bevern at REICHENBACH, for instance, do you reckon that his blame?) |
| 2121 | --"QUOI DONC--?" |
| 2121 | --''Is that the General?'' |
| 2121 | --Troops into Poland, Sire? |
| 2121 | 278(? |
| 2121 | 85);& c.& c.] Feather- beds, swine and ducats had their value in Brandenburg; but were marriageable girls such a scarcity there? |
| 2121 | AUSTRIA:"Can not two States of the Reich come to a mutual understanding, as Austria and Bavaria have done? |
| 2121 | Above six weeks before either of these NOTES, Friedrich, hearing of him from Lord Marischal, had answered:"An asylum? |
| 2121 | Accordingly, when God asked,''Who commands my Russians?'' |
| 2121 | Act of 1566, allowing Gersdorf to make his Pond? |
| 2121 | After talking a good while with the Merchants- Deputation from the Hill Country, he said,''Is there anything more, then, from anybody?'' |
| 2121 | All our little rubs, custom- house squabbles on the Frontier, and such like, why not settle them here, and now? |
| 2121 | An accidental merit, thinks the reader? |
| 2121 | And privately puts the question to himself,''Have these Giaours a real Admiral among them, or, like us, only a sham one?''" |
| 2121 | And sometimes, after this had been agreed to; he would say:''But can not you stay till Thursday, then? |
| 2121 | And that impartial Soldier- person, whom Friedrich sent to examine by the light of nature, and report? |
| 2121 | And these once got, or lost till next term,--what is there to hope or to fear? |
| 2121 | And what does the Custrin Court of Justice do? |
| 2121 | And what have third parties to say to it?" |
| 2121 | And what value can you put on such bellowing? |
| 2121 | And where, in these circumstances, are the means of raising such a sum? |
| 2121 | And"from whence does this money come, after a long expensive War? |
| 2121 | As the wall- clock above his head struck 11, he asked:"What o''clock?" |
| 2121 | At Vienna, to the Karl- Theodor Ambassador, the Kaunitz Officials were altogether loud- voiced, minatory:''What is this, Herr Excellenz? |
| 2121 | But are you quite recovered, though?'' |
| 2121 | But the same grand principle, in the later instance of partitioning Poland, has it not proved eminently triumphant, successful in all points? |
| 2121 | But"--And is there no remedy? |
| 2121 | By the by, she must detest you, that High Lady?'' |
| 2121 | Could Arnold grind, or not, as formerly? |
| 2121 | Could not it become a means of getting English husbandry[ TURNIPS in particular, whether short- horns or not, I do not know] introduced among us? |
| 2121 | Did you hear what he said to me about Liberty of the Press, and the Troubling of Consciences( LA GENE DES CONSCIENCES)? |
| 2121 | Dispensers of Right in God''s Name and mine? |
| 2121 | Do you know I was well pleased( BIEN CONTENT) with the Kaiser last night at supper? |
| 2121 | Do you know what her Grandmother did?'' |
| 2121 | Do you think us worthy to be originals ourselves?'' |
| 2121 | Electress( after ten days)...."Why should the Empress be so much against us? |
| 2121 | Filling a noble office ignobly; doing a celestial task in a quietly infernal manner? |
| 2121 | Foreign States do n''t seem to pay much attention,--indeed, what sane person would like to interfere, or hope to do it with profit? |
| 2121 | Great is the Electress''s persistence,--"My poor Husband being dead, can not our poor Boy, can not his uncle Prince Xavier try? |
| 2121 | Had it to sit, weeping unconsolably, or not? |
| 2121 | Has not he been Russia''s patient stepping- stone, all along; his anarchic Poland and he accordant in that, if in nothing else? |
| 2121 | Have not I tried to plant, sow, till, dig, with the GEORGICS in my hand? |
| 2121 | Have not we had enough of that old Friedrich, who stands perpetually upon STATUS QUO, and to both of us is a mere stoppage of the way?" |
| 2121 | Have you got a pencil( HAT ER CRAYON)? |
| 2121 | Have you got a pencil?'' |
| 2121 | He asked them What they wanted? |
| 2121 | He had gone first to Karl Theodor''s Minister:"Dead to it, I fear; has already signed?" |
| 2121 | His Netherlands revolted against him,"Can holy religion, and old use- and- wont be tumbled about at this rate?" |
| 2121 | His first Note to Zimmermann is of June 6th,"Would you consent to come for a fortnight, and try upon me?" |
| 2121 | His poor Highness, thunderstruck as may be imagined, asks:"But-- but-- What would your Excellency advise me?" |
| 2121 | Honor, indeed-- but what, to an old stager in the dilettante line, is honor? |
| 2121 | How have you been of late?'' |
| 2121 | How they got any business done at all, under such a Law? |
| 2121 | I often said to myself,''Shall I never get rid of that man, then?'' |
| 2121 | If Nobilities themselves become Washed Populaces in a manner, what are we to say?] |
| 2121 | If he answer, Dead; then ask his Heir, Have you no life to it?" |
| 2121 | In his young years, would not he have done so? |
| 2121 | In return for which, Bavaria ours in fee- simple, and so finish that?" |
| 2121 | In sight of Friedrich, who inquired,"What is this stir on the streets, then?" |
| 2121 | Is he gay; is he busy; did you see him often?'' |
| 2121 | Is it long since?'' |
| 2121 | Is the world becoming all a Mausoleum, then; nothing of divine in it but the Tombs of vanished loved ones? |
| 2121 | Is there no hope at all, then? |
| 2121 | Is there no possibility left in negotiation and mutual concession? |
| 2121 | It asks, as the Kaunitz Memorial will, though in another style,"Must there be war, then? |
| 2121 | It was your old Marshal Traun: that was a man, that one.--You spoke of the French: do they make progress?'' |
| 2121 | KING:_"Monsieur est- il parent de Mylord Chatham? |
| 2121 | Leaves a ruined Saxony lying round him; a ruined life mutely asking him,"Couldst thou have done no better, then?" |
| 2121 | My Christian friends, what could I or can I do?'' |
| 2121 | Nations who have lost this quality, or who never had it, what Friedrich can they hope to be possible among them? |
| 2121 | Never had the Holy Romish Reich such a shock before:"Meaning to partition us like Poland?" |
| 2121 | Nobody will say; or perhaps can? |
| 2121 | Not so fatally perhaps, had Schmettau looked beyond his epaulettes: was not the thing, by that slow method, got done? |
| 2121 | Of the Netherlands, which might be called geographically the head of Austria, alas, the long neck, Lorraine, was once ours; but whose is it? |
| 2121 | One of her women arranged the cushions, asked in a whisper,"Will your Majesty sleep, then?" |
| 2121 | Our interests are very visible: and the interests and wishes and claims of Poland,--are they nowhere worthy of one word from you, O King? |
| 2121 | Our obligation will be infinite.... Why should she be absolutely against us? |
| 2121 | Pinto, did n''t I send you yesterday some of my good Preussen honey?'' |
| 2121 | Readers ask rather:"And had Friedrich no feeling about Poland itself, then, and this atrocious Partitioning of the poor Country?" |
| 2121 | Say Two Centuries yet,--say even Ten of such a process: before the Old is completely burnt out, and the New in any state of sightliness? |
| 2121 | So that Prince Leopold himself, the King''s own Nephew, proves futile? |
| 2121 | So that Pulawski, it would appear, did Two Cloister Defences? |
| 2121 | So- and- so is to have your Pension, I am told; now, by all right, it should belong to me, do n''t you think so?''" |
| 2121 | Speech, my friend? |
| 2121 | THE KING:''Are you a relation of Lord Chatham''s?'' |
| 2121 | The Case is that of a murderer,--murder indisputable;"but may not insanity be suspected, your Majesty, such the absence of motive, such the--?" |
| 2121 | The King again writes:"No Nobles to be found, say you? |
| 2121 | The King answered me:''I, for my part, will do anything you wish; but what thinks the other Director, my comrade, the Elector of Cologne, about it?'' |
| 2121 | The Letters are without general interest: but, for Friedrich''s sake, perhaps readers will consent to a specimen? |
| 2121 | The Right of Confederation, too, is very curious: do readers know it? |
| 2121 | The poor Herr bethought him, what could he do? |
| 2121 | Then the King looked at the Clergyman, beckoned him near, and asked, Whose child it was? |
| 2121 | Think, might it not be useful both to your native Country and to your adopted?" |
| 2121 | This Promise must have been found among his Papers after his death[ still in the Archives? |
| 2121 | This Voltaire calls"THE INFAMOUS;"and this-- what name can any of us give it? |
| 2121 | Till at length came, in the tone of indignation,''Will your Majesty give me my ball, then?'' |
| 2121 | To follow wiggeries and forms with solemn attention, careless what became of the internal fact? |
| 2121 | To him the King said:''You have been presented to me before?'' |
| 2121 | To sit grieving or desponding is, at all times, far from him:"Why despond? |
| 2121 | To which the Mylord:''I? |
| 2121 | Two Winters in Bohemia? |
| 2121 | Was elected-- do readers still remember how? |
| 2121 | What can I do? |
| 2121 | What does Eleanor mean about my Congratulatory Letter to Lord Suffolk[ our Foreign Secretary, on his marriage lately]? |
| 2121 | What has she to fear from us? |
| 2121 | What is Act of 1566, or any or all Acts, in comparison? |
| 2121 | What is the meaning of your sitting there as Judges? |
| 2121 | What king or man had seen himself delivered from such strangling imbroglios of destruction, such devouring rages of a hostile world? |
| 2121 | When was I found to oppress a poor man for love of a rich? |
| 2121 | Which only Fate can compel you to believe, one day, if they are true words:--you think, probably, they are not? |
| 2121 | Who maintained a dignified demeanor?--Who is it that bawls and bellows now? |
| 2121 | Who was it that then made the noise? |
| 2121 | Who, from the remote distance, would venture to contradict? |
| 2121 | Why continue? |
| 2121 | Why should not she? |
| 2121 | Will you take a walk in my Garden? |
| 2121 | Wo n''t it be all done presently; is it of much moment while it lasts?" |
| 2121 | Would you believe it, Heaven, or the Sun, refuse me everything? |
| 2121 | You merely grin it from the teeth outward?) |
| 2121 | You will, give me that proof of the flattering sentiments I have been so proud of hitherto,"--won''t you, now? |
| 2121 | [ Carlyle''s_ Miscellanies_( Library Edition), v. 3- 96,? |
| 2121 | [ In Spaen''s Villa of Bellevue, shall we still suppose? |
| 2121 | its grace, or did they themselves acquire it from the many amiable persons they found there? |
| 2121 | said the King''s agent:"Can not the King take it from you for nothing, if he chose?" |
| 2121 | shortly]; may not he perhaps draw profit from it? |
| 2121 | the sound of which almost made Friedrich turn pale:"Have you spoken or hinted of this to the Prince?" |
| 2121 | thinks he at one time:"To Cleve; and there, as from a safe place, under the Philosopher King, shoot out our fiery artilleries with effect?" |
| 2121 | who could equal the Prince Eugen?'' |
| 1140 | Am I not a horse, and half- brother? |
| 1140 | And for that, what is the method? |
| 1140 | I, then, am the Ablest of English attainable Men? 1140 Really, one of the most difficult questions this we have in these times, What to do with our criminals?" |
| 1140 | Reforming Pope? |
| 1140 | We can not,say you? |
| 1140 | What method, then; by what method? |
| 1140 | What they have done? |
| 1140 | What to do with our criminals? |
| 1140 | Work, for you? 1140 _ Ichabod_; is the glory departing from us? |
| 1140 | _ Quiet_ Anarchy,you exultingly say? |
| 1140 | --"Gold, so much gold?" |
| 1140 | --"I''ll thank you for a definition of Justice?" |
| 1140 | --Are there many such, who will answer to the call, in England? |
| 1140 | --But can not he reform? |
| 1140 | --of him what hope is there? |
| 1140 | --what will become of such a man? |
| 1140 | A Mrs. Manning"dying game,"--alas, is not that the foiled potentiality of a kind of heroine too? |
| 1140 | A Parliament of the Paris pattern, such as we see just now, might be extracted: and from that? |
| 1140 | A divine gift, that? |
| 1140 | A ration this?" |
| 1140 | About to break up that huge imposthume too, by''curing''it? |
| 1140 | Again I ask, Why make an example of me, for your own convenience alone?" |
| 1140 | An excellent human soul, direct from Heaven,--how shall any excellence of man become recognizable to this unfortunate? |
| 1140 | And Farmer Hodge sallying forth, on a dry spring morning, with a sieve of oats in his hand, and agony of eager expectation in his heart, is he happy? |
| 1140 | And alas, if you_ know_ only the eloquent fallacious semblance of the truth, what chance is there of your ever doing it? |
| 1140 | And if this is so, then surely the question, How these Governments came to sink for_ want_ of intellect? |
| 1140 | And now by what method ascertain the monition of the gods in regard to our affairs? |
| 1140 | And upon that latter you are to act;--with what success, do you expect? |
| 1140 | And we have changed all that; no- government is now the best; and a tailor''s foreman, who gives no trouble, is preferable to any other for governing? |
| 1140 | And yet Governments, it would appear, could by no means get enough of it; almost none of it came their way: what had become of it? |
| 1140 | And yet one would think the Majesty''s Chief Governor ought to have a kind of interest in the thing? |
| 1140 | And yet who would not, in his heart of hearts, feel piously thankful that Imposture has fallen bankrupt? |
| 1140 | And, truly, good consequences follow out of it: who can be blind to them? |
| 1140 | Any concern at all, except that of handsomely keeping apart from them? |
| 1140 | Are you too foolish?" |
| 1140 | Are''solemnly constituted Impostors''the proper Kings of men? |
| 1140 | As for Protectionist jargon, who in these earnest days would occupy many moments of his time with that? |
| 1140 | As perhaps Heaven, in its infinite bounty, by stern methods, gradually will? |
| 1140 | As your ally and coadjutor; or failing that, as your natural enemy: which shall it be? |
| 1140 | Bay Darby, wilt not thou perhaps? |
| 1140 | British Liberty produces-- what? |
| 1140 | Brotherhood? |
| 1140 | But do you wish his empty speech of what he believes, to become farther an insincere speech of what he does not believe? |
| 1140 | But have we well considered a divergence_ in thought_ from what is the fact? |
| 1140 | But if Nature and Fact do_ not_ love him? |
| 1140 | But if it is not, and never was, or can be? |
| 1140 | But if you do enter, the condition is well known:"Talk; who can talk best here? |
| 1140 | But the question,"Are we to continue subjects of her Majesty, or start rebelling against her? |
| 1140 | But what am I to say of heaven- born Pitt the son of Chatham? |
| 1140 | But, alas, what next? |
| 1140 | Can anything be more unreasonable than a Seventy- four? |
| 1140 | Christian Religion? |
| 1140 | Did not cotton spin itself, beef grow, and groceries and spiceries come in from the East and the West, quite comfortably by the side of shams? |
| 1140 | Did you think the Life of Man was a grimacing dance of apes? |
| 1140 | Do I make myself plain to Mr. Peter''s understanding? |
| 1140 | Do not you interrupt me, but try to understand and help me!----"Work, was I saying? |
| 1140 | Do you call that a good trade? |
| 1140 | Does he, in any sense,"think"? |
| 1140 | Does the Christian or any religion prescribe love of scoundrels, then? |
| 1140 | Education, kingship, command,--where is it, whither has it fled? |
| 1140 | Elderly men can remember the tar- barrels burnt for success and thrice- immortal victory in the business; and yet what result had we? |
| 1140 | Emancipation? |
| 1140 | For in fact, it is reasonably asked, What vital interest has England in any cause now deciding itself in foreign parts? |
| 1140 | For the alternative is not, Stay where we are, or change? |
| 1140 | For those who will not have pity on themselves, and will force the Universe and the Laws of Nature to have no"pity on"them? |
| 1140 | Happy regiments of the line, what soldier to any earthly or celestial Power has such a lodging and attendance as you here? |
| 1140 | Have a false opinion, and tell it with the tongue of Angels, what can that profit? |
| 1140 | Have the Parcae fallen asleep, because you wanted to make money in the City? |
| 1140 | Have we no work to do but drilling Devil''s regiments of the line? |
| 1140 | Have you at all computed how much less? |
| 1140 | Have you no more respect for misfortune? |
| 1140 | He can turn round upon you and say,"Why make an''example''of me, a merely ill- situated, pitiable man? |
| 1140 | He whose very tongue utters falsities, what has his heart long been doing? |
| 1140 | Here are our ten divinest men; with these, unhappily not divine enough, we must even content ourselves and die in peace; what help is there? |
| 1140 | How can Parliament get through the Criminal Question? |
| 1140 | How can the thought of such a man, what he calls thought, be other than false? |
| 1140 | How do men rise in your Society? |
| 1140 | How do you employ that? |
| 1140 | How find it? |
| 1140 | How is your ship to be steered by a Pilot with no_ eyes_ but a pair of glass ones got from the constitutional optician? |
| 1140 | How it shall be done? |
| 1140 | How the judge will do it? |
| 1140 | How will this be done? |
| 1140 | I hope it prescribes a healthy hatred of scoundrels;--otherwise what am I, in Heaven''s name, to make of it? |
| 1140 | If our Government is to be a No- Government, what is the matter who administers it? |
| 1140 | If this is the fact, why not treat it as such? |
| 1140 | If your Government is to be a Constituted Anarchy, what issue can it have? |
| 1140 | In all Societies, Turkey included, and I suppose Dahomey included, men do rise; but the question of questions always is, What kind of men? |
| 1140 | Is Society become wholly a bag of wind, then, ballasted by guineas? |
| 1140 | Is not America an instance in point? |
| 1140 | Is not this Proposal the very essence of whatever truth there is in"Democracy;"this, that the able man be chosen, in whatever rank be is found? |
| 1140 | Is not this a very wonderful arrangement? |
| 1140 | Is there no value, then, in human things, but what can write itself down in the cash- ledger? |
| 1140 | Is this such a sublime distinction, then? |
| 1140 | It is a Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence_ he_ came? |
| 1140 | Lastly,--or rather firstly, and as the preliminary of all, would there not be a Minister of Education? |
| 1140 | Law of veracity? |
| 1140 | Men of noble gifts, or men of ignoble? |
| 1140 | Nature for such a man, and for Nations that follow such, has her patibulary forks, and prisons of death everlasting:--dost thou doubt it? |
| 1140 | Nay, for this latter object, is not a certain height of intelligence even dangerous? |
| 1140 | Nay, if M''Croudy offered his own life for_ sale_ in Threadneedle Street, would anybody buy it? |
| 1140 | Nay, if they were in life- and- death earnest, what could it avail you in such a case? |
| 1140 | Not the whole method; nor the method at all, if taken as the whole? |
| 1140 | Nothing but"Rate in aid,""Time will mend it,""Necessary business of the Session;"and"After me the Deluge"? |
| 1140 | One such, perhaps, might be attained; one such might prove discoverable among our Parliamentary populations? |
| 1140 | Or is such a man, even if born in the due rank for it, the likeliest to present himself, and court their most sweet voices? |
| 1140 | Or is there none; no one that can and dare? |
| 1140 | Or perhaps Democracy, which we announce as now come, will itself manage it? |
| 1140 | Or what say we, Cholera Doctors? |
| 1140 | Pity, yes: but pity for the scoundrel- species? |
| 1140 | Reader, did you ever hear of"Constituted Anarchy"? |
| 1140 | Reward and punishment? |
| 1140 | Shall we never think of this; shall we never more remember this, then? |
| 1140 | Shall we say, May_ he_, may the Devil give you good of it, ye Elect of Scoundrelism? |
| 1140 | Slop- shirts attainable three halfpence cheaper, by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls? |
| 1140 | Such drowned ass ought to ask himself, If the function is a sublime one? |
| 1140 | Surely on this side, if on no other, matters stood not ill with him? |
| 1140 | Talent for Literature, thou hast such a talent? |
| 1140 | That he must_ think_ the truth; much more speak it? |
| 1140 | That is imperative upon her: she too will die, otherwise, and cough her last upon the streets some day;--how can she continue living? |
| 1140 | The Almighty Maker is wroth that the Sarawak cut- throats, with their poisoned spears, are away? |
| 1140 | The Kings were Sham- Kings, play- acting as at Drury Lane;--and what were the people withal that took them for real? |
| 1140 | The Real Captain, unless it be some Captain of mechanical Industry hired by Mammon, where is he in these days? |
| 1140 | The dog that was drowned last summer, and that floats up and down the Thames with ebb and flood ever since,--is it not dead? |
| 1140 | The model of the world, then, is at once unattainable by the world, and not much worth attaining? |
| 1140 | The most Herculean Ten Men that could be found among the English Twenty- seven Millions, are these? |
| 1140 | The question, What to do with you? |
| 1140 | The result of all which, what was it? |
| 1140 | The speaker is"excellent;"the notes he does are beautiful? |
| 1140 | The talent that can say nothing for itself, what is it? |
| 1140 | The time, I believe, has come for asking with considerable severity, How far is it so? |
| 1140 | The unhappy creature, does he not know, then, that every lie is accursed, and the parent of mere curses? |
| 1140 | The work is but idle; if the doing of it will but pass, what need of more? |
| 1140 | There_ are_ not, in any place, under any figure, ten diviner men among us? |
| 1140 | These abject, ape, wolf, ox, imp and other diabolic- animal specimens of humanity, who of the very gods could ever have commanded them by love? |
| 1140 | These guides, then, were mere blind men only pretending to see? |
| 1140 | These reverend Dignitaries that sat amid their far- shining symbols and long- sounding long- admitted professions, were mere Impostors, then? |
| 1140 | This and the Honorable Mr. That, as to their respective pretensions to ride the high horse? |
| 1140 | To be led always by the squeak of your paltry fiddle? |
| 1140 | To bring these Captainless under due captaincy? |
| 1140 | To bring these hordes of outcast captainless soldiers under due captaincy? |
| 1140 | To increase the reverence for Human Intellect or God''s Light, and the detestation of Human Stupidity or the Devil''s Darkness, what method is there? |
| 1140 | To load the fatal_ chain_ with your perpetual staggerings and sprawlings; and ever again load it, till we all lie sprawling? |
| 1140 | To puddle in the embouchures and drowned outskirts, and ulterior and ultimate issues and cloacas of the affair: what profit can there be in that? |
| 1140 | To rectify the relation that exists between two men, is there no method, then, but that of ending it? |
| 1140 | To the gifted soul that is born in England, what is the career, then, that will carry him, amid noble Olympic dust, up to the immortal gods? |
| 1140 | Toughness_ plus_ astucity:--perhaps a simple wooden mast set up in Palace- Yard, well soaped and duly presided over, might be the honester method? |
| 1140 | Universal Suffrage, ballot- boxes, count of heads? |
| 1140 | What else? |
| 1140 | What escape is there? |
| 1140 | What great human soul, what great thought, what great noble thing that one could worship, or loyally admire, has yet been produced there? |
| 1140 | What had become of this celebrated Nineteenth Century''s intellect? |
| 1140 | What harm had Sparrowbill done me that I should so help to ruin him? |
| 1140 | What is Democracy; this huge inevitable Product of the Destinies, which is everywhere the portion of our Europe in these latter days? |
| 1140 | What is a lie? |
| 1140 | What right have you to hang any poor creature"for an example"? |
| 1140 | What sort of reformers and workers are you, that work only on the rotten material? |
| 1140 | What talent is born to you? |
| 1140 | What this Law of the Universe, or Law made by God, is? |
| 1140 | What to do with you? |
| 1140 | Whence comes it, this universal big black Democracy; whither tends it; what is the meaning of it? |
| 1140 | Which it is not"impossible"that we should cease to be, I hope? |
| 1140 | Who are available to your Offices in Downing Street? |
| 1140 | Who are you, ye thriftless sweepings of Creation, that we should forever be pestered with you? |
| 1140 | Who would govern that can get along without governing? |
| 1140 | Who, then, is to be the Reforming Statesman, and begin the noble work for us? |
| 1140 | Why does not England repudiate Ireland, and insist on the"Repeal,"instead of prohibiting it under death- penalties? |
| 1140 | Why should not all Nations subsist and flourish on Democracy, as America does? |
| 1140 | Why should they quarrel? |
| 1140 | Will Nature change, or sulphuric acid become sweet milk, for the noise of vociferous blockheads? |
| 1140 | With our utmost soul''s travail we could discover, by the sublimest methods eulogized by all the world, no abler Englishman than this? |
| 1140 | You prefer Delolme on the British Constitution, the Gospel according to M''Croudy, and a good balance at your banker''s? |
| 1140 | You refuse? |
| 1140 | You will have to pay it even in money if you live:--and, poor slave, do you think there is no payment but in money? |
| 1140 | You would have saved the Sarawak Pirates, then? |
| 1140 | You, ye diabolic canaille, what has a Governor much to do with you? |
| 1140 | Your Potential Chief of Workers, will he come there at all, to try whether he can talk? |
| 1140 | Your born genius, therefore, will first have to ask himself, Whether he can hold his tongue or can not? |
| 1140 | in all thoroughfares, these eighteen hundred years in vain? |
| 1140 | said one of our acquaintance, often in those weeks,"Was there ever such a miracle? |
| 1091 | Detect quacks? |
| 1091 | Gain influence? |
| 1091 | Have you hope? |
| 1091 | Hypocrisy? |
| 1091 | Is not Belief the true god- announcing Miracle? |
| 1091 | There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has Force in it; how else could it rot? |
| 1091 | To which of these Three Religions do you specially adhere? |
| 1091 | What do I see? |
| 1091 | Which is the great secret? |
| 1091 | Why talk and complain; above all, why quarrel with one another? 1091 Wuotan?" |
| 1091 | --He went out for the last time into the mosque, two days before his death; asked, If he had injured any man? |
| 1091 | A false man found a religion? |
| 1091 | A humble, solitary man, why should he at all meddle with the world? |
| 1091 | A man embraces truth with his eyes open, and because his eyes are open: does he need to shut them before he can love his Teacher of truth? |
| 1091 | A mean man he, how shall he reform a world? |
| 1091 | A_ great_ man? |
| 1091 | Accordingly all persons, from the Queen Antoinette to the Douanier at the Porte St. Denis, do they not worship him? |
| 1091 | Again Thor struck, so soon as Skrymir again slept; a better blow than before; but the Giant only murmured, Was that a grain of sand? |
| 1091 | Ah, does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him? |
| 1091 | Alas, is not this the history of all highest Truth that comes or ever came into the world? |
| 1091 | Alas, was not his doom stern enough? |
| 1091 | Alas, yes;--but as Cato said of the statue: So many statues in that Forum of yours, may it not be better if they ask, Where is Cato''s statue?" |
| 1091 | All crowns and sovereignties whatsoever, where would_ they_ in a few brief years be? |
| 1091 | And accordingly was there not what we can call a_ faith_ in him, genuine so far as it went? |
| 1091 | And did he not interpret the dim purport of it well? |
| 1091 | And if_ true_, was it not then the very thing to do? |
| 1091 | And indeed may we not say that intellect altogether expresses itself in this power of discerning what an object is? |
| 1091 | And now in this sense, one may ask, Is not all worship whatsoever a worship by Symbols, by_ eidola_, or things seen? |
| 1091 | And now still, what hinders it from being the name of a Heroic Man and_ Mover_, as well as of a god? |
| 1091 | And then the''honor''? |
| 1091 | And thereupon the unbelievers sneer and ask, Is this your man according to God''s heart? |
| 1091 | And we call it"dissimulation,"all this? |
| 1091 | And what therefore is loyalty proper, the life- breath of all society, but an effluence of Hero- worship, submissive admiration for the truly great? |
| 1091 | And who are you that prate of Constitutional Formulas, rights of Parliament? |
| 1091 | And yet what were all Emperors, Popes and Potentates, in comparison? |
| 1091 | And yet withal this hypochondria, what was it but the very greatness of the man? |
| 1091 | Answer it;_ thou_ must find an answer.--Ambition? |
| 1091 | Are not all dialects"artificial"? |
| 1091 | Are not you yourselves there? |
| 1091 | Are they base, miserable things? |
| 1091 | Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the Almighty have lived by and died by? |
| 1091 | As for the Old Woman, she was_ Time_, Old Age, Duration: with her what can wrestle? |
| 1091 | Ask now, What Paganism could have been? |
| 1091 | Ay, what? |
| 1091 | Bad methods: but are they so much worse than our methods,--of understanding him to be always the eldest- born of a certain genealogy? |
| 1091 | Ballot- boxes, suffrages, French Revolutions:--if we are as Valets, and do not know the Hero when we see him, what good are all these? |
| 1091 | Begging is not in our course at the present time: but for the rest of it, who will say that a Johnson is not perhaps the better for being poor? |
| 1091 | But alas, what help now? |
| 1091 | But call it worship, call it what you will, is it not a right glorious thing, and set of things, this that Shakspeare has brought us? |
| 1091 | But how shall we blame_ him_ for struggling to realize it? |
| 1091 | But if you ask, Which is the worst? |
| 1091 | But indeed that strange outbudding of our whole English Existence, which we call the Elizabethan Era, did not it too come as of its own accord? |
| 1091 | But now, intrinsically, is not all this the inevitable fortune, not of a false man in such times, but simply of a superior man? |
| 1091 | But would it be a kindness always, is it a duty always or often, to disturb them in that? |
| 1091 | Can not a man do without King''s Coaches and Cloaks? |
| 1091 | Can not we conceive that Odin was a reality? |
| 1091 | Can not we understand how these men_ worshipped_ Canopus; became what we call Sabeans, worshipping the stars? |
| 1091 | Can the man say,_ Fiat lux_, Let there be light; and out of chaos make a world? |
| 1091 | Can we not understand him? |
| 1091 | Compared with any speaker or singer one knows, even with Aeschylus or Homer, why should he not, for veracity and universality, last like them? |
| 1091 | Creative, we said: poetic creation, what is this too but_ seeing_ the thing sufficiently? |
| 1091 | Did Hero- worship fail in Knox''s case? |
| 1091 | Did he not, in spite of all, accomplish much for us? |
| 1091 | Did the Westminster Confession of Faith add some new property to the soul of man? |
| 1091 | Do not Books still accomplish_ miracles_, as_ Runes_ were fabled to do? |
| 1091 | Do not we feel it so? |
| 1091 | Do we not see well enough how the Fable might arise, without unveracity on the part of any one? |
| 1091 | Does like join itself to like; does the spirit of method stir in that confusion, so that its embroilment becomes order? |
| 1091 | Each one of us here, let the world go how it will, and be victorious or not victorious, has he not a Life of his own to lead? |
| 1091 | Effect? |
| 1091 | England, Scotland, Ireland, all lying now subdued at the feet of the Puritan Parliament, the practical question arose, What was to be done with it? |
| 1091 | Ever the constitutional Formula: How came you there? |
| 1091 | Every such man is the born enemy of Disorder; hates to be in it: but what then? |
| 1091 | Fame, ambition, place in History? |
| 1091 | Faults? |
| 1091 | For our honor among foreign nations, as an ornament to our English Household, what item is there that we would not surrender rather than him? |
| 1091 | For this world, and for all worlds, what curse is so fatal? |
| 1091 | Forger and juggler? |
| 1091 | From of old, a thousand thoughts, in his pilgrimings and wanderings, had been in this man: What am I? |
| 1091 | From of old, was there not in his life a weight of meaning, a terror and a splendor as of Heaven itself? |
| 1091 | Given your Hero, is he to become Conqueror, King, Philosopher, Poet? |
| 1091 | God has made many revelations: but this man too, has not God made him, the latest and newest of all? |
| 1091 | Has he not solved for them the sphinx- enigma of this Universe; given assurance to them of their own destiny there? |
| 1091 | Has he not the power of articulate Thinking; and many other powers, as yet miraculous? |
| 1091 | Has it not_ been_, in this world, as a practiced fact? |
| 1091 | Has not each man a soul? |
| 1091 | He asked of the Parliament, What it was they would decide upon? |
| 1091 | He courts no notice: what could notice here do for him? |
| 1091 | He has the power of holding his peace over many things which do not vitally concern him,--"They? |
| 1091 | He is the fatal man; unutterably fatal, put in the high places of men.--"Why complain of this?" |
| 1091 | He was a great_ ebauche_, a rude- draught never completed; as indeed what great man is other? |
| 1091 | He was a weak child, they told him: could he lift that Cat he saw there? |
| 1091 | Hero- worship,--Odin, Burns? |
| 1091 | Hero- worship? |
| 1091 | His love of Music, indeed, is not this, as it were, the summary of all these affections in him? |
| 1091 | His scorn, his grief are as transcendent as his love;--as indeed, what are they but the_ inverse_ or_ converse_ of his love? |
| 1091 | Homer yet_ is_ veritably present face to face with every open soul of us; and Greece, where is_ it_? |
| 1091 | Hot weather? |
| 1091 | How came he not to study his words a little, before flinging them out to the public? |
| 1091 | How can a man act heroically? |
| 1091 | How could a man travel forward from rustic deer- poaching to such tragedy- writing, and not fall in with sorrows by the way? |
| 1091 | How could he? |
| 1091 | How could the rude Earth make these, if her Essence, rugged as she looks and is, were not inwardly Beauty? |
| 1091 | How much does one of us foresee of his own life? |
| 1091 | How shall he stand otherwise? |
| 1091 | How to regulate that struggle? |
| 1091 | How was it, what was it? |
| 1091 | How was this? |
| 1091 | How will you govern these Nations, which Providence in a wondrous way has given up to your disposal? |
| 1091 | Hypocrite, mummer, the life of him a mere theatricality; empty barren quack, hungry for the shouts of mobs? |
| 1091 | I do not assert Mahomet''s continual sincerity: who is continually sincere? |
| 1091 | I? |
| 1091 | If Hero mean_ sincere man_, why may not every one of us be a Hero? |
| 1091 | If he owed any man? |
| 1091 | In all this what"hypocrisy,""ambition,""ca nt,"or other falsity? |
| 1091 | In fact, if a man have any purpose reaching beyond the hour and day, meant to be found extant_ next_ day, what good can it ever be to promulgate lies? |
| 1091 | In the commonest meeting of men, a person making, what we call,"set speeches,"is not he an offence? |
| 1091 | In the one sense and in the other, are we not right glad to possess it? |
| 1091 | In the same direction have not we their descendants since carried it far? |
| 1091 | Influence? |
| 1091 | Is it even of business, a matter to be done? |
| 1091 | Is it such a blessedness to have clerks forever pestering you with bundles of papers in red tape? |
| 1091 | Is not a man''s walking, in truth, always that:"a succession of falls"? |
| 1091 | Is not all work of man in this world a_ making of Order_? |
| 1091 | Is not every leaf of it a biography, every fibre there an act or word? |
| 1091 | Is not that a sign?" |
| 1091 | Is not this the sincerest and yet rudest voice of the spirit of man? |
| 1091 | It is like Pococke asking Grotius, Where is your_ proof_ of Mahomet''s Pigeon? |
| 1091 | It was Superstition, Fanaticism, disgraceful ignorance of Constitutional Philosophy to insist on the other thing!--Liberty to_ tax_ oneself? |
| 1091 | Joyful to men as the dawning of day from night;--_is_ it not, indeed, the awakening for them from no- being into being, from death into life? |
| 1091 | Liberty of judgment? |
| 1091 | May we not call Shakspeare the still more melodious Priest of a_ true_ Catholicism, the"Universal Church"of the Future and of all times? |
| 1091 | Mighty fleets and armies, harbors and arsenals, vast cities, high- domed, many- engined,--they are precious, great: but what do they become? |
| 1091 | Mirabeau''s ambition to be Prime Minister, how shall we blame it, if he were"the only man in France that could have done any good there"? |
| 1091 | Miracles? |
| 1091 | Money? |
| 1091 | Morality itself, what we call the moral quality of a man, what is this but another_ side_ of the one vital Force whereby he is and works? |
| 1091 | Mother of God? |
| 1091 | Mother? |
| 1091 | Napoleon looking up into the stars, answers,"Very ingenious, Messieurs: but_ who made_ all that?" |
| 1091 | Napoleon''s working, accordingly, what was it with all the noise it made? |
| 1091 | Nay I may ask, Is not every true Reformer, by the nature of him, a_ Priest_ first of all? |
| 1091 | Nay here in these ages, such as they are, have we not two mere Poets, if not deified, yet we may say beatified? |
| 1091 | Nay not only our preaching, but even our worship, is not it too accomplished by means of Printed Books? |
| 1091 | Nay, a man preaching from his earnest_ soul_ into the earnest_ souls_ of men: is not this virtually the essence of all Churches whatsoever? |
| 1091 | Nay, at bottom, what else is alive_ but_ Protestantism? |
| 1091 | Nay, is it not what all zealous men, whether called Priests, Prophets, or whatsoever else called, do essentially wish, and must wish? |
| 1091 | Nevertheless, you will say, there must be a difference between true Poetry and true Speech not poetical: what is the difference? |
| 1091 | Not so Cromwell:"For all our fighting,"says he,"we are to have a little bit of paper?" |
| 1091 | Not to pay out money from your pocket except on reason shown? |
| 1091 | Notoriety: what would that do for him? |
| 1091 | Of Odin what history? |
| 1091 | Of a man or of a nation we inquire, therefore, first of all, What religion they had? |
| 1091 | Of all acts, is not, for a man,_ repentance_ the most divine? |
| 1091 | Oliver''s life at St. Ives and Ely, as a sober industrious Farmer, is it not altogether as that of a true and devout man? |
| 1091 | Or are we made of other clay now? |
| 1091 | Or coming into lower, less unspeakable provinces, is not all Loyalty akin to religious Faith also? |
| 1091 | Or indeed what of the world and its victories? |
| 1091 | Or what of Scotland? |
| 1091 | Our own Wednesday, as I said, is it not still Odin''s Day? |
| 1091 | Peace? |
| 1091 | Popeship, spiritual Fatherhood of God''s Church, is that a vain semblance, of cloth and parchment? |
| 1091 | Possible? |
| 1091 | Precious they; but also is not he precious? |
| 1091 | Pure? |
| 1091 | Really his utterances, are they not a kind of"revelation;"--what we must call such for want of some other name? |
| 1091 | Reform Bill, free suffrage of Englishmen? |
| 1091 | Shall we not say, of this great mournful Johnson too, that he guided his difficult confused existence wisely; led it_ well_, like a right valiant man? |
| 1091 | Shall we say, then, Dante''s effect on the world was small in comparison? |
| 1091 | She was a widow; old, and had lost her looks: you love me better than you did her?" |
| 1091 | Sword and Bible were borne before him, without any chimera: were not these the_ real_ emblems of Puritanism; its true decoration and insignia? |
| 1091 | Tax- gatherer? |
| 1091 | That_ he_ stood there as the strongest soul of England, the undisputed Hero of all England,--what of this? |
| 1091 | The Age of Miracles past? |
| 1091 | The Atheistic logic runs off from him like water; the great Fact stares him in the face:"Who made all that?" |
| 1091 | The Giant merely awoke; rubbed his cheek, and said, Did a leaf fall? |
| 1091 | The Poet indeed, with his mildness, what is he but the product and ultimate adjustment of Reform, or Prophecy, with its fierceness? |
| 1091 | The Prophet too has his eye on what we are to love: how else shall he know what it is we are to do? |
| 1091 | The Time call forth? |
| 1091 | The Writer of a Book, is not he a Preacher preaching not to this parish or that, on this day or that, but to all men in all times and places? |
| 1091 | The builder cast_ away_ his plummet; said to himself,"What is gravitation? |
| 1091 | The crabbed old Schoolmaster used to ask, when they brought him a new pupil,"But are ye sure he''s_ not a dunce_?" |
| 1091 | The eye too, it looks out as in a kind of_ surprise_, a kind of inquiry, Why the world was of such a sort? |
| 1091 | The human Reynard, very frequent everywhere in the world, what more does he know but this and the like of this? |
| 1091 | The light which now rose upon them,--how could a human soul, by any means at all, get better light? |
| 1091 | The poor old Mother!--What had this man gained; what had he gained? |
| 1091 | The rough words he articulated, are they not the rudimental roots of those English words we still use? |
| 1091 | The uses of this Dante? |
| 1091 | The world''s heart is palsied, sick: how can any limb of it be whole? |
| 1091 | The world- wide soul wrapt up in its thoughts, in its sorrows;--what could paradings, and ribbons in the hat, do for it? |
| 1091 | The"imagination that shudders at the Hell of Dante,"is not that the same faculty, weaker in degree, as Dante''s own? |
| 1091 | They are lamentable, undeniable; but after all, what has Luther or his cause to do with them? |
| 1091 | They called him Prophet, you say? |
| 1091 | They say scornfully, Is this your King? |
| 1091 | Think, would_ we_ believe, and take with us as our life- guidance, an allegory, a poetic sport? |
| 1091 | This I call a noble true purpose; is it not, in its own dialect, the noblest that could enter into the heart of Statesman or man? |
| 1091 | This Rome, this scene of false priests, clothed not in the beauty of holiness, but in far other vesture, is_ false_: but what is it to Luther? |
| 1091 | This Universe, ah me-- what could the wild man know of it; what can we yet know? |
| 1091 | This body, these faculties, this life of ours, is it not all as a vesture for that Unnamed? |
| 1091 | This indeed is properly the sum of his offences, the essential sin; for which what pardon can there be? |
| 1091 | This is the Work he and his disciples made so much of, asking all the world, Is not that a miracle? |
| 1091 | This night the watchman on the streets of Cairo when he cries,"Who goes?" |
| 1091 | This was imperfect enough: but to welcome, for example, a Burns as we did, was that what we can call perfect? |
| 1091 | Those are critics of small vision, I think, who cry:"See, is it not the sticks that made the fire?" |
| 1091 | Though all men walk by them, what good is it? |
| 1091 | Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain? |
| 1091 | Till it do come, what have we? |
| 1091 | Till we know that, what is all our knowledge; how shall we even so much as"detect"? |
| 1091 | To be Sheik of Mecca or Arabia, and have a bit of gilt wood put into your hand,--will that be one''s salvation? |
| 1091 | To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not a God made visible, if we will open our minds and eyes? |
| 1091 | True, you may well ask, What could the world, the governors of the world, do with such a man? |
| 1091 | Utility? |
| 1091 | Was it Heathenism,--plurality of gods, mere sensuous representation of this Mystery of Life, and for chief recognized element therein Physical Force? |
| 1091 | Was it his blame? |
| 1091 | Was it not the humble sincere nature of the man? |
| 1091 | Was it not_ true_, God''s truth? |
| 1091 | Was not such a Parliament worth being a member of? |
| 1091 | Was not the purpose so formed like to be precisely the best, wisest, the one to be followed without hesitation any more? |
| 1091 | Was not the whole Norse Religion, accordingly, in some sense, what we called"the enormous shadow of this man''s likeness"? |
| 1091 | We all love great men; love, venerate and bow down submissive before great men: nay can we honestly bow down to anything else? |
| 1091 | Well, answers Luther, what harm will a cassock do the man? |
| 1091 | Were they not indubitable awful facts; the whole heart of man taking them for practically true, all Nature everywhere confirming them? |
| 1091 | What Act of Parliament, debate at St. Stephen''s, on the hustings or elsewhere, was it that brought this Shakspeare into being? |
| 1091 | What am I to believe? |
| 1091 | What am I to do? |
| 1091 | What are all earthly preferments, Chancellorships, Kingships? |
| 1091 | What built St. Paul''s Cathedral? |
| 1091 | What could gilt carriages do for this man? |
| 1091 | What indeed are faculties? |
| 1091 | What is Florence, Can della Scala, and the World and Life altogether? |
| 1091 | What is Life; what is Death? |
| 1091 | What is it? |
| 1091 | What is the chief end of man here below? |
| 1091 | What made it? |
| 1091 | What man''s heart does, in reality, break forth into any fire of brotherly love for these men? |
| 1091 | What we wants to get at is the_ thought_ the man had, if he had any: why should he twist it into jingle, if he_ could_ speak it out plainly? |
| 1091 | What will become of your harvest through all Eternity? |
| 1091 | What will he do with it? |
| 1091 | What wonder it runs all wrong? |
| 1091 | What_ is_ this unfathomable Thing I live in, which men name Universe? |
| 1091 | What_ will_ he do with it? |
| 1091 | Whatever wrongs he did, were they not all frightfully avenged on him? |
| 1091 | Whence comes it? |
| 1091 | Where, then, lies the evil of it? |
| 1091 | Whereby, is not spiritual union, all hierarchy and subordination among men, henceforth an impossibility? |
| 1091 | Whether they shall take him to be a god, to be a prophet, or what they shall take him to be? |
| 1091 | Which Englishman we ever made, in this land of ours, which million of Englishmen, would we not give up rather than the Stratford Peasant? |
| 1091 | Whither goes it? |
| 1091 | Who is called there"the man according to God''s own heart"? |
| 1091 | Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us? |
| 1091 | Who knows but, in that same"best possible organization"as yet far off, Poverty may still enter as an important element? |
| 1091 | Why could not Dante''s Catholicism continue; but Luther''s Protestantism must needs follow? |
| 1091 | Why is Idolatry so hateful to Prophets? |
| 1091 | Why not? |
| 1091 | Why should the Prophet so mercilessly condemn him? |
| 1091 | Why should we misknow one another, fight not against the enemy but against ourselves, from mere difference of uniform? |
| 1091 | Why should we? |
| 1091 | With spurious Popes, and Believers having no private judgment,--quacks pretending to command over dupes,--what can you do? |
| 1091 | Yet, at bottom, after all the talk there is and has been about it, what is tolerance? |
| 1091 | You will burn me and them, for answer to the God''s- message they strove to bring you? |
| 1091 | Your Cromwell, what good could it do him to be"noticed"by noisy crowds of people? |
| 1091 | Your harvest? |
| 1091 | _ Was_ it not such? |
| 1091 | am not I sincere? |
| 1091 | cries he: What miracle would you have? |
| 1091 | said the Preacher, appealing to all the audience: what then is_ his_ duty? |
| 1091 | what are they?" |
| 1051 | ''But is it not the deepest Law of Nature that she be constant?'' 1051 ''But is not a real Miracle simply a violation of the Laws of Nature?'' |
| 1051 | Again, could anything be more miraculous than an actual authentic Ghost? 1051 And yet, O Man born of Woman,"cries the Autobiographer, with one of his sudden whirls,"wherein is my case peculiar? |
| 1051 | But if such things,continues he,"were done in the dry tree, what will be done in the green? |
| 1051 | But thou as yet standest in no Temple; joinest in no Psalm- worship; feelest well that, where there is no ministering Priest, the people perish? 1051 But what boots it(_ was thut''s_)?" |
| 1051 | Do we not see a little subdivision of the grand Utilitarian Armament come to light even in insulated England? 1051 For whether thou bear a sceptre or a sledge- hammer, art not thou ALIVE; is not this thy brother ALIVE? |
| 1051 | Great practical method and expertnesshe may brag of; but is there not also great practical pride, though deep- hidden, only the deeper- seated? |
| 1051 | How I lived? |
| 1051 | I asked myself: What is this that, ever since earliest years, thou hast been fretting and fuming, and lamenting and self- tormenting, on account of? 1051 Meanwhile what are antiquated Mythuses to me? |
| 1051 | Nevertheless, need I put the question to any Physiologist, whether it is disputable or not? 1051 Of great Scenes why speak? |
| 1051 | Or thinkest thou it were impossible, unimaginable? 1051 Shall we tremble before clothwebs and cobwebs, whether woven in Arkwright looms, or by the silent Arachnes that weave unrestingly in our Imagination? |
| 1051 | The Soul Politic having departed,says Teufelsdrockh,"what can follow but that the Body Politic be decently interred, to avoid putrescence? |
| 1051 | To the eye of vulgar Logic,says he,"what is man? |
| 1051 | Were it not wonderful, for instance, had Orpheus, or Amphion, built the walls of Thebes by the mere sound of his Lyre? 1051 What, for example,"says he,"is the universally arrogated Virtue, almost the sole remaining Catholic Virtue, of these days? |
| 1051 | What, speaking in quite unofficial language, is the net purport and upshot of war? 1051 Who am I; what is this ME? |
| 1051 | & c.& c. Or again, has it often been the lot of our readers to read such stuff as we shall now quote? |
| 1051 | ''She looks on thee,''cried he:''she the fairest, noblest; do not her dark eyes tell thee, thou art not despised? |
| 1051 | A Voice, a Motion, an Appearance;--some embodied, visualized Idea in the Eternal Mind? |
| 1051 | A man that devotes his life to learning, shall he not be learned? |
| 1051 | A new Adamite, in this century, which flatters itself that it is the Nineteenth, and destructive both to Superstition and Enthusiasm? |
| 1051 | Again, leaving that wondrous Schwarzwald Smithy- Altar, what vacant, high- sailing air- ships are these, and whither will they sail with us? |
| 1051 | Again, what Cookery does the Greenlander use, beyond stowing up his whale- blubber, as a marmot, in the like case, might do? |
| 1051 | Again, what may the unchristian rather than Christian''Diogenes''mean? |
| 1051 | Again,_ Nothing can act but where it is_: with all my heart; only, WHERE is it? |
| 1051 | Alas, the fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself; and how could I believe? |
| 1051 | Am I a botched mass of tailors''and cobblers''shreds, then; or a tightly articulated, homogeneous little Figure, automatic, nay alive? |
| 1051 | Am I to view the Stupendous with stupid indifference, because I have seen it twice, or two hundred, or two million times? |
| 1051 | An unmetaphorical style you shall in vain seek for: is not your very_ Attention_ a_ Stretching- to_? |
| 1051 | And knowest thou no Prophet, even in the vesture, environment, and dialect of this age? |
| 1051 | And now does the spiritual, eternal Essence of Man, and of Mankind, bared of such wrappages, begin in any measure to reveal itself? |
| 1051 | And now of you, too, I make the old inquiry: What those same unalterable rules, forming the complete Statute- Book of Nature, may possibly be? |
| 1051 | And now, for all this perennial Martyrdom, and Poesy, and even Prophecy, what is it that the Dandy asks in return? |
| 1051 | And then? |
| 1051 | And yet why is the thing impossible? |
| 1051 | And yet, thou brave Teufelsdrockh, who could tell what lurked in thee? |
| 1051 | Are not our Bodies and our Souls in continual movement, whether we will or not; in a continual Waste, requiring a continual Repair? |
| 1051 | Are they not Souls rendered visible: in Bodies, that took shape and will lose it, melting into air? |
| 1051 | Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? |
| 1051 | Are we returning, as Rousseau prayed, to the state of Nature? |
| 1051 | Art not thou the''Living Garment of God''? |
| 1051 | Art thou not tried, and beaten with stripes, even as I am? |
| 1051 | Art thou the malignest of Sansculottists, or only the maddest? |
| 1051 | At a small cost men are educated to make leather into shoes; but at a great cost, what am I educated to make? |
| 1051 | Because the THOU( sweet gentleman) is not sufficiently honored, nourished, soft- bedded, and lovingly cared for? |
| 1051 | Besides, of what profit were it? |
| 1051 | Bright, nimble creatures, who taught you the mason- craft; nay, stranger still, gave you a masonic incorporation, almost social police? |
| 1051 | But how came"the Wanderer"into her circle? |
| 1051 | But is not this same looking through the Shows, or Vestures, into the Things, even the first preliminary to a_ Philosophy of Clothes_? |
| 1051 | But nobler than all in this kind are the Lives of heroic god- inspired Men; for what other Work of Art is so divine? |
| 1051 | But what does the writer mean by''Baphometic fire- baptism''? |
| 1051 | But what next? |
| 1051 | But what of the awe- struck Wakeful who find it a Reality? |
| 1051 | But what then? |
| 1051 | But what then? |
| 1051 | But what was her surname, or had she none? |
| 1051 | But whence?--O Heaven whither? |
| 1051 | But why,"says the Hofrath, and indeed say we,"do I dilate on the uses of our Teufelsdrockh''s Biography? |
| 1051 | But, alas, what vehicle of that sort have we, except_ Fraser''s Magazine_? |
| 1051 | By way of proem, take the following not injudicious remarks:--"The benignant efficacies of Concealment,"cries our Professor,"who shall speak or sing? |
| 1051 | By which last wire- drawn similitude does Teufelsdrockh mean no more than that young men find obstacles in what we call"getting under way"? |
| 1051 | Can I choose my own King? |
| 1051 | Can a Tartar be said to cook, when he only readies his steak by riding on it? |
| 1051 | Can any Sovereign, or Holy Alliance of Sovereigns, bid Time stand still; even in thought, shake themselves free of Time? |
| 1051 | Can he not arrest for debt? |
| 1051 | Come there not tones of Love and Faith, as from celestial harp- strings, like the Song of beatified Souls? |
| 1051 | Could she have driven so much as a brass- bound Gig, or even a simple iron- spring one? |
| 1051 | Death? |
| 1051 | Did he never stand so much as a contested Election? |
| 1051 | Did not the Boy Alexander weep because he had not two Planets to conquer; or a whole Solar System; or after that, a whole Universe? |
| 1051 | Did that reverend Basket- bearer intend, by such designation, to shadow forth my future destiny, or his own present malign humor? |
| 1051 | Do our readers discern any such corner- stone, or even so much as what Teufelsdrockh, is looking at? |
| 1051 | Does Legion still lurk in him, though repressed; or has he exorcised that Devil''s Brood? |
| 1051 | Does any reader"in the interior parts of England"know of such a man? |
| 1051 | Does not the following glimpse exhibit him in a much more natural state? |
| 1051 | Dost thou, does man, so much as well know the Alphabet thereof? |
| 1051 | Doth not thy cow calve, doth not thy bull gender? |
| 1051 | For Matter, were it never so despicable, is Spirit, the manifestation of Spirit: were it never so honorable, can it be more? |
| 1051 | For have not I too a compact all- enclosing Skin, whiter or dingier? |
| 1051 | For is not a Symbol ever, to him who has eyes for it, some dimmer or clearer revelation of the Godlike? |
| 1051 | For what is it properly but an Altercation with the Devil, before you begin honestly Fighting him? |
| 1051 | For which reason it was to be altered, not without underhand satire, into a plainer Symbol? |
| 1051 | For which, as for other mercies, ought not he to thank the Upper Powers? |
| 1051 | From which is it not clear that the internal Satanic School was still active enough? |
| 1051 | Had Teufelsdrockh also a father and mother; did he, at one time, wear drivel- bibs, and live on spoon- meat? |
| 1051 | Had not my first, last Faith in myself, when even to me the Heavens seemed laid open, and I dared to love, been all too cruelly belied? |
| 1051 | Had these men any quarrel? |
| 1051 | Hadst thou not Greek enough to understand thus much:_ The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought_, though it were the noblest? |
| 1051 | Hadst thou, any more than I, a Father whom thou knowest? |
| 1051 | Hast thou not a Brain, furnished, furnishable with some glimmerings of Light; and three fingers to hold a Pen withal? |
| 1051 | Hast thou well considered all that lies in this immeasurable froth- ocean we name LITERATURE? |
| 1051 | Have any deepest scientific individuals yet dived down to the foundations of the Universe, and gauged everything there? |
| 1051 | Have we not seen him disappointed, bemocked of Destiny, through long years? |
| 1051 | He can say to himself:"Tools? |
| 1051 | He exclaims,"Or hast thou forgotten Paris and Voltaire? |
| 1051 | Hear in what earnest though fantastic wise he expresses himself on this head:--"Shall Courtesy be done only to the rich, and only by the rich? |
| 1051 | Here, looking round, as was our hest, for"organic filaments,"we ask, may not this, touching"Hero- worship,"be of the number? |
| 1051 | How came it that the Wanderer advanced thither with such forecasting heart(_ ahndungsvoll_), by the side of his gay host? |
| 1051 | How came it to evaporate, and not lie motionless? |
| 1051 | How from such inorganic masses, henceforth madder than ever, as lie in these Bags, can even fragments of a living delineation be organized? |
| 1051 | How happens it that no intelligence about the matter has come out directly to this country? |
| 1051 | How is this; or what make ye of your_ Nothing can act but where it is_? |
| 1051 | How shall_ he_ give kindling, in whose own inward man there is no live coal, but all is burnt out to a dead grammatical cinder? |
| 1051 | How then could I believe in my Strength, when there was as yet no mirror to see it in? |
| 1051 | How then? |
| 1051 | How thou fermentest and elaboratest, in thy great fermenting- vat and laboratory of an Atmosphere, of a World, O Nature!--Or what is Nature? |
| 1051 | How? |
| 1051 | However, that is not our chief grievance; the Professor continues:--"Why multiply instances? |
| 1051 | I said that Imagination wove this Flesh- Garment; and does not she? |
| 1051 | If he loved his Disenchantress? |
| 1051 | If it prove otherwise, why should he murmur? |
| 1051 | If our era is the Era of Unbelief, why murmur under it; is there not a better coming, nay come? |
| 1051 | If so, what are those_ Prize- Questions_; what are the terms of Competition, and when and where? |
| 1051 | In Death too, in the Death of the Just, as the last perfection of a Work of Art, may we not discern symbolic meaning? |
| 1051 | In Pagan countries, can not one write Fetishes? |
| 1051 | In all that respects openness of Sense, affectionate Temper, ingenuous Curiosity, and the fostering of these, what more could I have wished? |
| 1051 | In like manner, ask me not, Where are the LAWS; where is the GOVERNMENT? |
| 1051 | In which country, in which time, was it hitherto that man''s history, or the history of any man, went on by calculated or calculable''Motives''? |
| 1051 | In which words, indicating a total estrangement on the part of Teufelsdrockh may there not also lurk traces of a bitterness as from wounded vanity? |
| 1051 | Increased Security and pleasurable Heat soon followed: but what of these? |
| 1051 | Independence, in all kinds, is rebellion; if unjust rebellion, why parade it, and everywhere prescribe it?" |
| 1051 | Is he not in most countries a taxpaying animal? |
| 1051 | Is it by short clothes of yellow serge, and swineherd horns, that an infant of genius is educated? |
| 1051 | Is it of a truth leading us into beatific Asphodel meadows, or the yellow- burning marl of a Hell- on- Earth? |
| 1051 | Is not God''s Universe a Symbol of the Godlike; is not Immensity a Temple; is not Man''s History, and Men''s History, a perpetual Evangel? |
| 1051 | Is not Shame(_ Schaam_) the soil of all Virtue, of all good manners and good morals? |
| 1051 | Is not he a Temple, then; the visible Manifestation and Impersonation of the Divinity? |
| 1051 | Is not such a prize worth some striving? |
| 1051 | Is that a real Elysian brightness, cries many a timid wayfarer, or the reflex of Pandemonian lava? |
| 1051 | Is that a wonder, which happens in two hours; and does it cease to be wonderful if happening in two million? |
| 1051 | Is the Past annihilated, then, or only past; is the Future non- extant, or only future? |
| 1051 | Is the heroic inspiration we name Virtue but some Passion; some bubble of the blood, bubbling in the direction others_ profit_ by? |
| 1051 | Is the pitifullest mortal Person, think you, indifferent to us? |
| 1051 | Knowest thou none such? |
| 1051 | Knowest thou that''_ Worship of Sorrow_''? |
| 1051 | Let the Philosopher answer this one question: What figure, at that period, was a Mrs. Teufelsdrockh likely to make in polished society? |
| 1051 | Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords? |
| 1051 | Man is called a Laughing Animal: but do not the apes also laugh, or attempt to do it; and is the manliest man the greatest and oftenest laugher? |
| 1051 | Meanwhile, for Andreas and his wife, the grand practical problem was: What to do with this little sleeping red- colored Infant? |
| 1051 | Meanwhile, the question of questions were: What specially is a Miracle? |
| 1051 | Meanwhile, what portion of this inconsiderable terraqueous Globe have ye actually tilled and delved, till it will grow no more? |
| 1051 | Namely, that while the Beacon- fire blazed its brightest, the Watchman had quitted it; that no pilgrim could now ask him: Watchman, what of the Night? |
| 1051 | Names? |
| 1051 | Nay, even for the basest Sensualist, what is Sense but the implement of Fantasy; the vessel it drinks out of? |
| 1051 | Nay, has not perhaps the Motive- grinder himself been in_ Love_? |
| 1051 | Nay, in any case, would Criticism erect not only finger- posts and turnpikes, but spiked gates and impassable barriers, for the mind of man? |
| 1051 | Nevertheless, wayward as our Professor shows himself, is there any reader that can part with him in declared enmity? |
| 1051 | Nevertheless, which of the two was the more cunningly devised article, even as an Engine? |
| 1051 | O Heavens, is it, in very deed, HE, then, that ever speaks through thee; that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? |
| 1051 | Of what station in Life was she; of what parentage, fortune, aspect? |
| 1051 | Once more I say, sweep away the illusion of Time; compress the threescore years into three minutes: what else was he, what else are we? |
| 1051 | Only a torch for burning, no hammer for building? |
| 1051 | Or even where is the use of such practical reflections as the following? |
| 1051 | Or has the Professor his own deeper intention; and laughs in his sleeve at our strictures and glosses, which indeed are but a part thereof? |
| 1051 | Or hast thou forgotten the day when thou first receivedst breeches, and thy long clothes became short? |
| 1051 | Or how, without Clothes, could we possess the master- organ, soul''s seat, and true pineal gland of the Body Social: I mean, a PURSE?" |
| 1051 | Or is the God present, felt in my own heart, a thing which Herr von Voltaire will dispute out of me; or dispute into me? |
| 1051 | Or is this merely one of his half- sophisms, half- truisms, which if he can but set on the back of a Figure, he cares not whither it gallop? |
| 1051 | Or was there something of intended satire; is the Professor and Seer not quite the blinkard he affects to be? |
| 1051 | Or, cries the courteous reader, has your Teufelsdrockh forgotten what he said lately about"Aboriginal Savages,"and their"condition miserable indeed"? |
| 1051 | Or, on the other hand, what is there that we can not love; since all was created by God? |
| 1051 | Perhaps also in the following; wherewith we now hasten to knit up this ravelled sleeve:--"But there is no Religion?" |
| 1051 | Plummet''s? |
| 1051 | Remarkable, moreover, is this saying of his:"How were Friendship possible? |
| 1051 | Rest? |
| 1051 | Said I not, Before the old skin was shed, the new had formed itself beneath it?" |
| 1051 | Say it in a word: is it not because thou art not HAPPY? |
| 1051 | Seems it not at least presumable, that, under his Clothes, the Tailor has bones and viscera, and other muscles than the sartorius? |
| 1051 | Seldom reflecting that still the new question comes upon us: What is Madness, what are Nerves? |
| 1051 | Shall I not have all Eternity to rest in?'' |
| 1051 | Some one''s doing, it without doubt was; from some Idea, in some single Head, it did first of all take beginning: why not from some Idea in mine?" |
| 1051 | Spake we not of a Communion of Saints, unseen, yet not unreal, accompanying and brother- like embracing thee, so thou be worthy? |
| 1051 | Stands he not thereby in the centre of Immensities, in the conflux of Eternities? |
| 1051 | Sure enough, I am; and lately was not: but Whence? |
| 1051 | Than which paragraph on Metaphors did the reader ever chance to see a more surprisingly metaphorical? |
| 1051 | That living flood, pouring through these streets, of all qualities and ages, knowest thou whence it is coming, whither it is going? |
| 1051 | The Overseer(_ Episcopus_) of Souls, I notice, has tucked in the corner of it, as if his day''s work were done: what does he shadow forth thereby?" |
| 1051 | The first ground handful of Nitre, Sulphur, and Charcoal drove Monk Schwartz''s pestle through the ceiling: what will the last do? |
| 1051 | The stirring of a child''s finger brings the two together; and then-- What then? |
| 1051 | The thunder- struck Air- sailor is not wanting to himself in this dread hour: but what avails it? |
| 1051 | The voice of Prophecy has gone dumb? |
| 1051 | The withered leaf is not dead and lost, there are Forces in it and around it, though working in inverse order; else how could it rot? |
| 1051 | Then, have we not a Doctrine of Rent, a Theory of Value; Philosophies of Language, of History, of Pottery, of Apparitions, of Intoxicating Liquors? |
| 1051 | There are not wanting men who will answer: Does your Professor take us for simpletons? |
| 1051 | Therefrom he preaches what most momentous doctrine is in him, for man''s salvation; and dost not thou listen, and believe? |
| 1051 | These Limbs, whence had we them; this stormy Force; this life- blood with its burning Passion? |
| 1051 | These are Apparitions: what else? |
| 1051 | Thinkest thou there is aught motionless; without Force, and utterly dead? |
| 1051 | This is even what I dispute: but in any case, hast thou not still Preaching enough? |
| 1051 | Thou art still Nothing, Nobody: true; but who, then, is Something, Somebody? |
| 1051 | Thou foolish Teufelsdrockh How could it else? |
| 1051 | Thou foolish"absolved Auscultator,"before whom lies no prospect of capital, will any yet known"religion of young hearts"keep the human kitchen warm? |
| 1051 | Thou hast no Tools? |
| 1051 | Thou thyself, wert thou not born, wilt thou not die? |
| 1051 | Thus has not the Editor himself, working over Teufelsdrockh''s German, lost much of his own English purity? |
| 1051 | Thus, were it not miraculous, could I stretch forth my hand and clutch the Sun? |
| 1051 | Thy very Hatred, thy very Envy, those foolish Lies thou tellest of me in thy splenetic humor: what is all this but an inverted Sympathy? |
| 1051 | To the eye of Pure Reason what is he? |
| 1051 | To the''_ Worship of Sorrow_''ascribe what origin and genesis thou pleasest,_ has_ not that Worship originated, and been generated; is it not_ here_? |
| 1051 | Unhappy Teufelsdrockh, had man ever such a"physical or psychical infirmity"before? |
| 1051 | Want, want!--Ha, of what? |
| 1051 | Was Luther''s Picture of the Devil less a Reality, whether it were formed within the bodily eye, or without it? |
| 1051 | Was Teufelsdrockh also a fringe, of lace or cobweb; or promising to be such? |
| 1051 | Was her real name Flora, then? |
| 1051 | Was it by the humid vehicle of_ AEsthetic Tea_, or by the arid one of mere Business? |
| 1051 | Was it not the still higher Orpheus, or Orpheuses, who, in past centuries, by the divine Music of Wisdom, succeeded in civilizing Man? |
| 1051 | Was she not to him in very deed a Morning- star; did not her presence bring with it airs from Heaven? |
| 1051 | Was the attraction, the agitation mutual, then; pole and pole trembling towards contact, when once brought into neighborhood? |
| 1051 | Was there so much as a fault, a''caprice,''he could have dispensed with? |
| 1051 | We ask in turn: Why perplex these times, profane as they are, with needless obscurity, by omission and by commission? |
| 1051 | We figure to ourselves, how in those days he may have played strange freaks with his independence, and so forth: do not his own words betoken as much? |
| 1051 | Were I a Steam- engine, wouldst thou take the trouble to tell lies of me? |
| 1051 | Were thy three broad Highways, meeting here from the ends of Europe, made for Ammunition- wagons, then? |
| 1051 | What Act of Legislature was there that_ thou_ shouldst be Happy? |
| 1051 | What English intellect could have chosen such a topic, or by chance stumbled on it? |
| 1051 | What are all your national Wars, with their Moscow Retreats, and sanguinary hate- filled Revolutions, but the Somnambulism of uneasy Sleepers? |
| 1051 | What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? |
| 1051 | What argument will avail? |
| 1051 | What cares the world for our as yet miniature Philosopher''s achievements under that"brave old Linden"? |
| 1051 | What henceforth becomes of the brave Herr Towgood, or Toughgut? |
| 1051 | What is the use of health, or of life, if not to do some work therewith? |
| 1051 | What make ye of your Christianities, and Chivalries, and Reformations, and Marseillaise Hymns, and Reigns of Terror? |
| 1051 | What then? |
| 1051 | What, for example, are we to make of such sentences as the following? |
| 1051 | What, for instance, was in that clouted Shoe, which the Peasants bore aloft with them as ensign in their_ Bauernkrieg_( Peasants''War)? |
| 1051 | What, then, was our Professor''s possession? |
| 1051 | Whence, then, their so unspeakable difference? |
| 1051 | Where, then, is that same cunningly devised almighty GOVERNMENT of theirs to be laid hands on? |
| 1051 | Wherefore, like a coward, dost thou forever pip and whimper, and go cowering and trembling? |
| 1051 | Wherein consists the usefulness of this Apron? |
| 1051 | Whereto? |
| 1051 | Whereupon the Professor publishes this reflection:--"By what strange chances do we live in History? |
| 1051 | Which function of manhood is the Tailor not conjectured to perform? |
| 1051 | Whither should I go? |
| 1051 | Who can refrain from a smile at the yoking together of such a pair of appellatives as Diogenes Teufelsdrockh? |
| 1051 | Who ever saw any Lord my- lorded in tattered blanket fastened with wooden skewer? |
| 1051 | Who is there now that can read the five columns of Presentations in his Morning Newspaper without a shudder? |
| 1051 | Whom I answer by this new question: What are the Laws of Nature? |
| 1051 | Why can not he lay aside his pedantry, and write so as to make himself generally intelligible? |
| 1051 | Why mention our disquisitions on the Social Contract, on the Standard of Taste, on the Migrations of the Herring? |
| 1051 | Why not; what binds me here? |
| 1051 | Why of Shakspeare, in his_ Taming of the Shrew_, and elsewhere? |
| 1051 | Why should I speak of Hans Sachs( himself a Shoemaker, or kind of Leather- Tailor), with his_ Schneider mit dem Panier_? |
| 1051 | Why was the Living banished thither companionless, conscious? |
| 1051 | Why, if there is no Devil; nay, unless the Devil is your God?" |
| 1051 | Will Majesty lay aside its robes of state, and Beauty its frills and train- gowns, for a second skin of tanned hide? |
| 1051 | Will all the shoe- wages under the Moon ferry me across into that far Land of Light? |
| 1051 | Will the whole Finance Ministers and Upholsterers and Confectioners of modern Europe undertake, in joint- stock company, to make one Shoeblack HAPPY? |
| 1051 | Wilt thou know a Man, above all a Mankind, by stringing together bead- rolls of what thou namest Facts? |
| 1051 | Would he have all this unsaid; and us betake ourselves again to the"matted cloak,"and go sheeted in a"thick natural fell"? |
| 1051 | Writings of mine, not indeed known as mine( for what am I? |
| 1051 | Yes, long ago has many a British Reader been, as now, demanding with something like a snarl: Whereto does all this lead; or what use is in it? |
| 1051 | _ Is_ the work a translation?" |
| 1051 | _ Wo steckt doch der Schalk_? |
| 1051 | a little while ago, and he was yet in all darkness: him what Graceful(_ Holde_) would ever love? |
| 1051 | and calls it Peace, because, in the cut- purse and cut- throat Scramble, no steel knives, but only a far cunninger sort, can be employed? |
| 1051 | cries an illuminated class:''Is not the Machine of the Universe fixed to move by unalterable rules?'' |
| 1051 | exclaims Teufelsdrockh,"Have we not all to be tried with such? |
| 1051 | how could he hope it; should he not have died under it? |
| 1051 | how did he comport himself when in Love? |
| 1051 | how should they so much as once meet together? |
| 1051 | thou hast no faculty in that kind? |
| 1051 | what are these to Clothes and the Tailor''s Goose? |
| 1051 | what is the sum- total of the worst that lies before thee? |
| 1051 | what is this paltry little Dog- cage of an Earth; what art thou that sittest whining there? |
| 1051 | why do I not name thee GOD? |
| 1051 | why journeyest thou wearisomely, in thy antiquarian fervor, to gaze on the stone pyramids of Geeza, or the clay ones of Sacchara? |
| 13534 | Assist us still better to bush the partridges; strangle Plugson who spins the shirts? |
| 13534 | But my future fate? |
| 13534 | But what is to be done with our manufacturing population, with our agricultural, with our ever- increasing population? |
| 13534 | Men cease to regard money? |
| 13534 | My starving workers? |
| 13534 | No Lake of Sicilian or other sulphur burns now anywhere in these ages,sayest thou? |
| 13534 | What is justice? |
| 13534 | What is justice? |
| 13534 | Where is your Posted Ledger? |
| 13534 | Which do you want? |
| 13534 | Which of the two_ do_ you want? |
| 13534 | You are no sister of ours; what shadow of proof is there? 13534 _ Verily!--then which of ours? |
| 13534 | ''Can not I do what I like with my own?'' |
| 13534 | ''Commercial Law''does indeed acquit him; asks, with wide eyes, What else? |
| 13534 | ''Contrary to the habits of Parliament, the habits of Government?'' |
| 13534 | ''Happy,''my brother? |
| 13534 | ''Impossible?'' |
| 13534 | ''Man of Genius?'' |
| 13534 | ''More Wisdom''indeed: but where to find more Wisdom? |
| 13534 | ''Posterity?'' |
| 13534 | ''Rhetoric all this?'' |
| 13534 | ''Rude poetic ages?'' |
| 13534 | ''The schoolmaster''s creed is somewhat awry?'' |
| 13534 | ''Thy very ATTENTION, does it not mean an_ attentio,_ a STRETCHING- TO?'' |
| 13534 | ''What is to be done?'' |
| 13534 | ''When the very Tailor verges towards Sansculottism, is it not ominous? |
| 13534 | ''While we ourselves continue valets, how can any hero come to govern us?'' |
| 13534 | --"What is to become of our Cotton- trade?" |
| 13534 | ------------- To whom, then, is this wealth of England wealth? |
| 13534 | --My brothers, You? |
| 13534 | --Nay, what wouldst thou thyself have us do? |
| 13534 | A fashionable wit, ach Himmel, if you ask, Which, he or a Death''s- head, will be the cheerier company for me? |
| 13534 | A human Mother and Father had said to themselves, What shall we do to escape starvation? |
| 13534 | A kind of penultimate thing, precursor of very strange consummations; last thing but one? |
| 13534 | Abbot Hugo assembles us in Chapter; asks,"If there is any complaint?" |
| 13534 | Abbot Samson thereupon answers the monk:"Elmswell? |
| 13534 | Acts of Parliament are venerable; but if they correspond not with the writing on the Adamant Tablet, what are they? |
| 13534 | Again, are not Sanitary Regulations possible for a Legislature? |
| 13534 | Again, are not Spinning- Dervishes an eloquent emblem, significant of much? |
| 13534 | Alas, how shall we ever learn the solution of that, benighted, bewildered, sniffing, sneering, godforgetting unfortunates as we are? |
| 13534 | Alas, is there no noble work for this man too? |
| 13534 | All England stands wringing its hands, asking itself, nigh desperate, What farther? |
| 13534 | And again, hast thou valued Patience, Courage, Perseverance, Openness to light; readiness to own thyself mistaken, to do better next time? |
| 13534 | And can you any more continue to lead a Working World unregimented, anarchic? |
| 13534 | And does our venerable Parliament announce itself elected and eligible in this manner? |
| 13534 | And does she not propound her riddles to us? |
| 13534 | And expect that we are to remain quietly unled, and in a composed manner perish of starvation? |
| 13534 | And in Industrial Fighters and Captains is there no nobleness discoverable? |
| 13534 | And in Work, which is of itself noble, and the only true fighting, there shall be no such possibility? |
| 13534 | And is it come to this? |
| 13534 | And now, in good sooth, why should an indigent discerning Freeman give his vote without bribes? |
| 13534 | And such man calls himself a_ noble_-man? |
| 13534 | And the Master Unworker, is not he in a still fataller situation? |
| 13534 | And thou but half- discernest this; thou but half- believest it? |
| 13534 | And thou pratest of thy liberty? |
| 13534 | And truly, as we said above, is not this comparative silence of Abbot Samson as to his religion, precisely the healthiest sign of him and of it? |
| 13534 | And we shall not offer you our own wheat at the price that pleases us, but that partly pleases you? |
| 13534 | Are not your filthy mills built on these fields of ours; on this soil of England, which belongs to-- whom think you? |
| 13534 | Are they better, beautifuller, stronger, braver? |
| 13534 | Are they even what they call''happier? |
| 13534 | Are ye ambitious to try_ which_ it shall be? |
| 13534 | Be counselled, ascertain if no work exist for thee on God''s Earth; if thou find no commanded- duty there but that of going gracefully idle? |
| 13534 | Before this, the English People have taken very preternatural- looking Spectres by the beard; saying virtually:"And if thou_ wert_''preternatural?'' |
| 13534 | Brethren, have we no need of discovering true Governors, but will sham ones forever do for us? |
| 13534 | Bribery: have we reflected what bribery is? |
| 13534 | Brothers, I answer, if for you it be impossible, what is to become of you? |
| 13534 | But here, of all helps, is not a Boswell the welcomest; even a small Boswell? |
| 13534 | But indeed what say we, apprenticeship? |
| 13534 | But indeed, when men and reformers ask for''a religion,''it is analogous to their asking,''What would you have us to do?'' |
| 13534 | But of a Midas- eared Mammonism, which indeed at bottom all pure Mammonisms are, what better can you expect? |
| 13534 | But our first preliminary stage of it, How to deal with the Actual Labouring Millions of England? |
| 13534 | But the means of repaying him? |
| 13534 | But to the Idle Aristocracy, what will the world have to say? |
| 13534 | But was it in virtue of his seeing armed Phantasms of St. Edmund''on the rim of the horizon,''looking minatory on him? |
| 13534 | But without soul, alas what winnowing- machine in human elections, can be of avail? |
| 13534 | But, in God''s name, what_ art_ thou? |
| 13534 | But,''Go gracefully idle in Mayfair,''what does or can that mean? |
| 13534 | By very working, they will learn; they have, Antaeus- like, their foot on Mother Fact: how can they but learn? |
| 13534 | By what art discover him? |
| 13534 | Came it never, like the gleam of preternatural eternal Oceans, like the voice of old Eternities, far- sounding through thy heart of hearts? |
| 13534 | Can England not subsist without being_ above_ all people in working? |
| 13534 | Can I dread such things of England? |
| 13534 | Can aught that is_ wrong_ become of us?" |
| 13534 | Can it long continue to see such? |
| 13534 | Can not we kill you? |
| 13534 | Can thunder from all the thirty- two azimuths, repeated daily for centuries of years, make God''s Laws more godlike to me? |
| 13534 | Cease to regard money? |
| 13534 | Chapter II Gospel of Mammonism Reader, even Christian Reader as thy title goes, hast thou any notion of Heaven and Hell? |
| 13534 | Chapter III The One Institution What our Government can do in this grand Problem of the Working Classes of England? |
| 13534 | Chapter IV Morrison''s Pill What is to be done, what would you have us do? |
| 13534 | Chapter V Aristocracy of Talent When an individual is miserable, what does it most of all behove him to do? |
| 13534 | Chapter XIV Henry of Essex Of St. Edmund''s fearful avengements have they not the remarkablest instance still before their eyes? |
| 13534 | Charitable burghers of St. Edmundsbury? |
| 13534 | Could not it, in this extremity, be peeled off, at least in part; under condition, of course, of its being replaced, when times mended? |
| 13534 | Day''s- wages for day''s- work? |
| 13534 | Destructive or Conservative, what will either of them destroy or conserve of vital moment to this Freeman? |
| 13534 | Did I depart in any jot or tittle from the Laws of the Bucaniers? |
| 13534 | Did I not pay my brother_ his_ wages, the thing he had merited from me? |
| 13534 | Did I not pay them, to the last sixpence, the sum covenanted for? |
| 13534 | Did William the Norman Bastard, or any of his Taillefers,_ Ironcutters,_ manage so? |
| 13534 | Didst thou never, O Traveler, fall in with parties of this tribe? |
| 13534 | Difficult? |
| 13534 | Difficult? |
| 13534 | Do they look with satisfaction on more things and human faces in this God''s Earth; do more things and human faces look with satisfaction on them? |
| 13534 | Do we wonder at French Revolutions, Chartisms, Revolts of Three Days? |
| 13534 | Do you count what treasuries of bitter indignation they are laying up for you in every just English heart? |
| 13534 | Do you know their Cromwells, Hampdens, their Pyms and Bradshaws? |
| 13534 | Do you know what questions, not as to Corn- prices and Sliding- scales alone, they are_ forcing_ every reflective Englishman to ask himself? |
| 13534 | Do you not already know the way? |
| 13534 | Does he find, with his three hundred thousand pounds, no noble thing trodden down in the thoroughfares, which it were godlike to help up? |
| 13534 | Does it take no warning; does it stand, strong in its three readings, in its gibbets and artillery- parks? |
| 13534 | Dost thou call that nothing? |
| 13534 | Dost thou know that Court; hast thou had any Law- practice there? |
| 13534 | Dost thou not know, our Lord the Abbot sent me once to Acre in Norfolk, to solitary confinement and bread and water, already? |
| 13534 | Elmswell? |
| 13534 | For example, did he not treat Gilbert de Cereville in the most shocking manner? |
| 13534 | For if there be now no Hero, and the Histrio himself begin to be seen into, what hope is there for the seed of Adam here below? |
| 13534 | For what noble work was there ever yet any audible''demand''in that poor sense? |
| 13534 | Formulas? |
| 13534 | Genius, Poet: do we know what these words mean? |
| 13534 | Give it, I advise thee;--thou dost not expect to_ sell_ thy Life in an adequate manner? |
| 13534 | Good Heavens, will not one French Revolution and Reign of Terror suffice us, but must there be two? |
| 13534 | Govern a country on such guidance? |
| 13534 | Had man ever to go lower for a proof? |
| 13534 | Had not the Monk- life extraordinary''political capabilities''in it; if not imitable by us, yet enviable? |
| 13534 | Had that, intrinsically, anything to do with his religion at all? |
| 13534 | Has he not thick- headed ignorant boors; lazy, enslaved farmers; weedy lands? |
| 13534 | Has your half- dead avaricious Corn- Law Lord, your half- alive avaricious Cotton- Law Lord, never seen one such? |
| 13534 | Hast merely heard of it by faint tradition as a thing that was or had been? |
| 13534 | Hast thou looked on the Potter''s wheel,--one of the venerablest objects; old as the Prophet Ezechiel and far older? |
| 13534 | He answers, in indignant surprise:"Done with it? |
| 13534 | He will ask you, What other? |
| 13534 | He will say with Faust:"Who_ dare_ name HIM?" |
| 13534 | Heavy- laden England, how many hast thou in this hour? |
| 13534 | Here and there a human soul may listen to the words,--who knows how many human souls? |
| 13534 | Here,--what is to be done here? |
| 13534 | Him we have left to his destiny; but whom else have we found? |
| 13534 | His crown a Crown of Thorns? |
| 13534 | His dust lies under the Edgeware Road, near Tyburn Turnpike, at this hour; and his memory is-- Nay, what matters what his memory is? |
| 13534 | His poor mother dedicated him to St. Edmund,--left him there with prayers and tears: what better could she do? |
| 13534 | His three- years total stagnation of trade, alas, is not that a painful enough''lying in bed to consider himself?'' |
| 13534 | His very money, where is it to come from? |
| 13534 | His victuals he does eat: but as for keeping in the inside of the window,--have not his friends, like me, enough to do? |
| 13534 | Horseloads, shiploads of white or yellow metal: in very sooth, what are these? |
| 13534 | House and people, royal and episcopal, lords and varlets, where are they? |
| 13534 | How can a Lord Abbot, all stuck over with horse- leeches of this nature, front the world? |
| 13534 | How can a man, without clear vision in his heart first of all, have any clear vision in the head? |
| 13534 | How can he have the skill to bind and to loose, he who does not understand the Scriptures? |
| 13534 | How can there be any remedy in insurrection? |
| 13534 | How comes it, I say; how comes it? |
| 13534 | How did a Chivalry ever come out of that; how anything that was not hideous, scandalous, infernal? |
| 13534 | How did he behave to the people of the manor? |
| 13534 | How is this? |
| 13534 | How it is to be cured? |
| 13534 | How much of it is now done by them; done by anybody? |
| 13534 | How often must I remind you? |
| 13534 | How shall we attack any one, shoot or be shot by any one? |
| 13534 | How shall_ we_ find out a Hero and Viceking Samson with a maximum of two shillings in his pocket? |
| 13534 | How then, it may be asked, did this Edmund rise into favour; become to such astonishing extent a recognised Farmer''s Friend? |
| 13534 | How will or can you preserve_ it,_ the thing that is not fair? |
| 13534 | How wilt thou appease this, Abbot Samson? |
| 13534 | How--?"'' |
| 13534 | Hugo, in a fine frenzy, threatens to depose the Sacristan, to do this and do that; but, in the mean while, How to quiet your insatiable Jew? |
| 13534 | Idleness? |
| 13534 | If England can not get her Knaves and Dastards''arrested,''in some degree, but only get them''elected,''what is to become of England? |
| 13534 | If indeed it be possible, by any aid of Jocelin, by any human art, to get thither, with a reader or two still following us? |
| 13534 | If slowness, what we in our impatience call''stupidity,''be the price of stable equilibrium over unstable, shall we grudge a little slowness? |
| 13534 | If there is no atmosphere, what will it serve a man to demonstrate the excellence of lungs? |
| 13534 | If thou ask again, therefore, on the Morrison''s- Pill hypothesis, What is to be done? |
| 13534 | If we chose to grow only partridges henceforth, and a modicum of wheat for our own uses? |
| 13534 | If we do not''succeed,''where is the use of us? |
| 13534 | If we made the Holders of the Land pay every shilling still of the expense of Governing the Land, what were all that? |
| 13534 | If you ask this Pontiff,"Who made him? |
| 13534 | In his haunted chamber, they find that the perturbed spirit is an unfortunate-- Imitator of Byron? |
| 13534 | In silence: for, alas, what word was to be said? |
| 13534 | In the wide Earth, if it be not Saint Edmund, what friend or refuge has he? |
| 13534 | In very truth, what could poor old Abbot Hugo do? |
| 13534 | In what land the sun does visit, Brisk are we, whate''er betide: To give space for wandering is it That the world was made so wide?'' |
| 13534 | Is he not as a perpetual death''s- head and cross- bones, with their_ Resurgam,_ on the grave of a Universal Heroism,--grave of a Christianity? |
| 13534 | Is it not enough, at any rate, to strike the thing called''Fame''into total silence for a wise man? |
| 13534 | Is it not lamentable; is it not even, in some sense, amazing? |
| 13534 | Is it not something; O Heavens, is it not all? |
| 13534 | Is it so? |
| 13534 | Is it to talent, intrinsic manly worth of any kind, you unfortunate Bobus? |
| 13534 | Is not Light grander than Fire? |
| 13534 | Is not Pandarus Dogdraught a member of select clubs, and admitted into the drawingrooms of men? |
| 13534 | Is not serene or complete Religion the highest aspect of human nature; as serene Ca nt, or complete No- religion, is the lowest and miserablest? |
| 13534 | Is not that a somewhat singular Hell? |
| 13534 | Is not this singular? |
| 13534 | Is not this still a World? |
| 13534 | It is like jesting Pilate asking, What is Truth? |
| 13534 | It is so old, say you? |
| 13534 | Its cathedral the Dome of Immensity,--hast thou seen it? |
| 13534 | Know ye the interpretation of that Dream? |
| 13534 | Knowledge? |
| 13534 | Let him come covered over with the world''s execrations, gashed with ignominious death- wounds, the gallows- rope about his neck: what avails that? |
| 13534 | Liberty? |
| 13534 | Looking up, looking down, around, behind or before, discernest thou, if it be not in Mayfair alone, any_ idle_ hero, saint, god, or even devil? |
| 13534 | Men ask on Free- trade platforms, How can the indomitable spirit of Englishmen be kept up without plenty of bacon? |
| 13534 | Methodism with its eye forever turned on its own navel; asking itself with torturing anxiety of Hope and Fear,"Am I right, am I wrong? |
| 13534 | Millions enchanted in Bastille Workhouses; Irish Widows proving their relationship by typhus- fever: what would you have? |
| 13534 | Murmurs thereupon among us: Was the like ever heard? |
| 13534 | My indomitable Plugson,--nay is there not even in thee some hope? |
| 13534 | Nay what is it in yourself that you are proudest of, that you take most pleasure in surveying meditatively in thoughtful moments? |
| 13534 | Nay, at bottom, dost thou need any reward? |
| 13534 | Nay, for another thing, may not this religious reticence, in these devout good souls, be perhaps a merit, and sign of health in them? |
| 13534 | Nay, may it not become at once translucent and uncoloured? |
| 13534 | Nay, with the ship''s prow once turned in that direction, is not all, as it were, already well? |
| 13534 | Never? |
| 13534 | No Government can longer neglect it: once more, what can our Government do in it? |
| 13534 | No man oppresses thee, O free and independent Franchiser: but does not this stupid Porter- pot oppress thee? |
| 13534 | No man, wiser, unwiser, can make thee come or go: but thy own futilities, bewilderments, thy false appetites for Money, Windsor Georges and such like? |
| 13534 | Not one false man but does uncountable mischief: how much, in a generation or two, will Twenty- seven Millions, mostly false, manage to accumulate? |
| 13534 | Not sumptuously with Mammon? |
| 13534 | Not till Doomsday in the afternoon? |
| 13534 | O brother, the Infinite of Terror, of Hope, of Pity, did it not at any moment disclose itself to thee, indubitable, unnameable? |
| 13534 | O my right honourable friend, when the Paragraphs flowed in, who was like Sir Jabesh? |
| 13534 | Of all public functionaries boarded and lodged on the Industry of Modern Europe, is there one worthier of the board he has? |
| 13534 | Of each man she asks daily, in mild voice, yet with a terrible significance,"Knowest thou the meaning of this Day? |
| 13534 | Of hats for the human head, of shoes for the human foot, of stools to sit on, spoons to eat with-- Nay, what say we hats or shoes? |
| 13534 | Old? |
| 13534 | On the whole, who knows how to reverence the Body of man? |
| 13534 | One curious fact and question certainly is, How Hugo Third- Prior, who was of the electoral committee, came to nominate_ himself_ as one of the Three? |
| 13534 | Or does the reader not know the history of that Scottish iron Misanthrope? |
| 13534 | Or if you declare that you can not lead us? |
| 13534 | Or that Sliding- scales will increase the vital stamina of it? |
| 13534 | Or thinkest thou, the Right Honourable Sir Jabesh Windbag can be made something by Parliamentary Majorities and Leading Articles? |
| 13534 | Or was the Christian Religion itself accomplished by Prize- Essays, Bridgewater Bequests, and a''minimum of Four thousand five hundred a year?'''' |
| 13534 | Or what kind of baking was it that this other brother- mortal got, which has baked him into the genus Dandy? |
| 13534 | Or why_ will;_ why do we pray to Heaven, without setting our own shoulder to the wheel? |
| 13534 | Or, alas, why go to Rome for Phantasms walking the streets? |
| 13534 | Our Lord the King, hearing of such work, sends down his Almoner to make investigations: but what boots it? |
| 13534 | Our Prior is remiss; our Cellarers, officials are remiss, our monks are remiss: what man is not remiss? |
| 13534 | Our deity no longer being Mammon,--O Heavens, each man will then say to himself:"Why such deadly haste to make money? |
| 13534 | Our first Chartist Parliament, or Oliver_ Redivivus,_ you would say, will know where to lay the new taxes of England!--Or, alas, taxes? |
| 13534 | Our''Aristocracy of Talent''seems at a considerable distance yet; does it not, O Bobus? |
| 13534 | Over- production: runs it not so? |
| 13534 | Painting no Pictures more for us, but only the everlasting Azure itself? |
| 13534 | Pass by with minatory eagle- glance, with calm- sniffing mockery, or even without any mockery or sniff, when these present themselves? |
| 13534 | Pay to each man what he has earned and done and deserved; what more have we to ask? |
| 13534 | Perhaps I am above being frightened; perhaps it is not Fear, but Reverence alone, that shall now lead me!--Revelations, Inspirations? |
| 13534 | Phantasms, ghosts, in this midnight hour, hold jubilee, and screech and jabber; and the question rather were, What high Reality anywhere is yet awake? |
| 13534 | Poor devil, what will thy success amount to? |
| 13534 | Possible? |
| 13534 | Posterity, which has made of Norse Odin a similitude, and of Norman William a brute monster, what will or can it make of English Jabesh? |
| 13534 | Rebel against these also? |
| 13534 | Shall I be saved, shall I not be damned?" |
| 13534 | Shall we say then, The world has retrograded in its talent of apportioning wages to work, in late days? |
| 13534 | Shooting Niagara; and After? |
| 13534 | So too Howel Davies asks, Was it not according to the strictest Bucanier Custom? |
| 13534 | Stupid blockheads, to reverence their St. Edmund''s dead Body in this manner? |
| 13534 | Success will never more attend thee: how can it now? |
| 13534 | Success? |
| 13534 | Supply- and- demand: For what noble work was there ever yet any audible''demand''in that poor sense? |
| 13534 | Supply- and- demand? |
| 13534 | That God is a lie; and that Man and his Life are a lie.--Alas, alas, who of us_ is_ there that can say, I have worked? |
| 13534 | That a body of men could be got together to kill other men when you bade them: this,_ a priori,_ does it not seem one of the impossiblest things? |
| 13534 | The Bucanier strikes down a man, a hundred or a million men: but what profits it? |
| 13534 | The Epic of French and Phrygians was comparatively a small Epic: but that of Flirts and Fribbles, what is that? |
| 13534 | The Highest Man of Genius, knowest thou him; Godlike and a God to this hour? |
| 13534 | The Hill I first saw the Sun rise over, when the Sun and I and all things were yet in their auroral hour, who can divorce me from it? |
| 13534 | The King, at recitation of our Three, asks us:"Who are they? |
| 13534 | The Pagan Hercules, why was he accounted a hero? |
| 13534 | The Universe_ being_ intrinsically a Perhaps, being too probably an''infinite Humbug,''why should any minor Humbug astonish us? |
| 13534 | The Wisdom is not now there: how will you''collect''it? |
| 13534 | The Working Aristocracy-- Yes, but on the threshold of all this, it is again and again to be asked, What of the Idle Aristocracy? |
| 13534 | The builders of Stonehenge, for example:--or alas, what say we, Stonehenge and builders? |
| 13534 | The celebrated Kilkenny Cats, through their tumultuous congress, cleaving the ear of Night, could they be said to do nothing? |
| 13534 | The grand question still remains, Was the judgment just? |
| 13534 | The humane Physician asks thereupon, as with a heart too full for speaking, Would it not have been_ economy_ to help this poor Widow? |
| 13534 | The money is here, earned with my best lifeblood: but the honour? |
| 13534 | The people clamour, Why have we not found pleasant things? |
| 13534 | The question is asked of them, not, How do you agree with Downing- streets and accredited Semblance? |
| 13534 | The star- fire of the Empyrean shall eclipse itself, and illuminate magic- lanterns to amuse grown children? |
| 13534 | The thing which is unjust, which is not according to God''s Law, will you, in a God''s Universe, try to conserve that? |
| 13534 | The utterance of them is begun; and where will it be ended, think you? |
| 13534 | The very clothmakers sit meditative at their looms; asking, Who shall be Abbot? |
| 13534 | The''primeval poetic element?'' |
| 13534 | Their Missals have become incredible, a sheer platitude, sayest thou? |
| 13534 | Their architecture, belfries, land- carucates? |
| 13534 | Then if not, How much and what? |
| 13534 | Then there is this other question, raised by Brother Samson: What if the Thirteen should not themselves be able to agree? |
| 13534 | These be thy gods, O Israel? |
| 13534 | They put their huge inarticulate question,"What do you mean to do with us?" |
| 13534 | Thinkest thou there were no poets till Dan Chaucer? |
| 13534 | This English Nation, will it get to know the meaning of_ its_ strange new Today? |
| 13534 | This poor Pope,--who knows what good is in him? |
| 13534 | This poor blockhead too is born for uses: why, elevating him to mastership, will you make a conflagration, a parish- curse or world- curse of him? |
| 13534 | This question, however, rises; alas, a quite preliminary question: Will the_ Dominus Rex_ allow us to choose freely? |
| 13534 | Thou appealest to Posterity, thou? |
| 13534 | Thou knowest not such a Court? |
| 13534 | Thou thyself, cultivated reader, hast done something in that alone true warfare; but, alas, under what circumstances was it? |
| 13534 | Thou wilt not join our small minority, thou? |
| 13534 | Thou with thy''divine- rights''grown diabolic wrongs? |
| 13534 | Thou, O World, how wilt thou secure thyself against this man? |
| 13534 | Thou, if thou know not this, what are all rituals, liturgies, mythologies, mass- chantings, turnings of the rotatory calabash? |
| 13534 | Though printed, hot- pressed, reviewed, celebrated, sold to the twentieth edition: what is all that? |
| 13534 | Thy''success?'' |
| 13534 | To all noble Christian hearts of that era, what earthly enterprise so noble? |
| 13534 | To complain of this man or of that, of this thing or of that? |
| 13534 | To fill the world and the street with lamentation, objurgation? |
| 13534 | To guide men in the way wherein they should go; towards their true good in this life, the portal of infinite good in a life to come? |
| 13534 | To reconcile Despotism with Freedom:--well, is that such a mystery? |
| 13534 | To that dingy fuliginous Operative, emerging from his soot- mill, what is the first duty I will prescribe, and offer help towards? |
| 13534 | To the present hour I ask thee, Who else? |
| 13534 | To them, alone of men, there shall forever be no blessedness but in swollen coffers? |
| 13534 | Too many shirts? |
| 13534 | True, most true; but how to get it? |
| 13534 | True; from all men thou art emancipated: but from Thyself and from the Devil--? |
| 13534 | Truly, if a man can not get some glimpse into the Eternities, looking through this portal,-- through what other need he try it? |
| 13534 | Vagrant Sam- Slicks, who rove over the Earth doing''strokes of trade,''what wealth have they? |
| 13534 | Was it not the wages I promised you? |
| 13534 | Was not that one of the''impossiblest''things? |
| 13534 | Was the like ever heard of? |
| 13534 | We English find a Poet, as brave a man as has been made for a hundred years or so anywhere under the Sun; and do we kindle bonfires, thank the gods? |
| 13534 | We ask, If you mean to lead us towards work; to try to lead us,--by ways new, never yet heard of till this new unheard- of Time? |
| 13534 | We have had a pleasant journey in that direction; and are-- arriving at our inn? |
| 13534 | We might ask, Which of us has it enriched? |
| 13534 | We say to ourselves,"The man is in good society,"-- others have already voted for him; why should not I? |
| 13534 | Were they born in my domain? |
| 13534 | What Government can do? |
| 13534 | What Legislating can you get out of a man in that fatal situation? |
| 13534 | What are Twenty- seven Millions, and their unanimity? |
| 13534 | What becomes of a man in such predicament? |
| 13534 | What boots it? |
| 13534 | What can the incorruptiblest_ Bobuses_ elect, if it be not some_ Bobissimus,_ should they find such? |
| 13534 | What god ever carried it with the Tenpound Franchisers; in Open Vestry, or with any Sanhedrim of considerable standing? |
| 13534 | What good is it? |
| 13534 | What hast thou done, and how? |
| 13534 | What have I to do with them more?" |
| 13534 | What if the Thirteen should not themselves be able to agree? |
| 13534 | What is a distressed_ Cellerarius_ to do? |
| 13534 | What is his Hell; after all these reputable, oft- repeated Hearsays, what is it? |
| 13534 | What is his''Religion?'' |
| 13534 | What is it that thou have a hundred thousand- pound bills laid up in thy strong- room, a hundred scalps hung up in thy wigwam? |
| 13534 | What is it you expect of us? |
| 13534 | What is it you mean to do with us?" |
| 13534 | What is justice? |
| 13534 | What is justice? |
| 13534 | What is the end of Government? |
| 13534 | What is the meaning of nobleness, if this be''noble?'' |
| 13534 | What is the use of your spun shirts? |
| 13534 | What is to become of a Parliament elected or eligible in this manner? |
| 13534 | What is to become of him and us?" |
| 13534 | What is to hinder this Samson from governing? |
| 13534 | What now is our fashionable coat? |
| 13534 | What other could they do? |
| 13534 | What price, for example, would content thee? |
| 13534 | What the thoughts of the Dominus Rex may be farther? |
| 13534 | What thou canst do Today; wisely attempt to do?" |
| 13534 | What would become of the Earth, did she cease to revolve? |
| 13534 | What would become of you, if we chose, at any time, to decide on growing no wheat more?" |
| 13534 | When Cain, for his own behoof, had killed Abel, and was questioned,"Where is thy brother"he too made answer,"Am I my brother''s keeper?" |
| 13534 | When was a god found agreeable to everybody? |
| 13534 | Where are they to find a supportable existence? |
| 13534 | Where didst Thou come from? |
| 13534 | Where, I say, are our superior, are our similar or at all comparable discoveries? |
| 13534 | Wherefore are they, wherefore should they be? |
| 13534 | Which is thy ideal of a man; or nearest that? |
| 13534 | Which of these two? |
| 13534 | Who are you that ask? |
| 13534 | Who art thou that complainest of thy life of toil? |
| 13534 | Who can doubt, after what we have said, that there was a Monastery here at one time? |
| 13534 | Who can, or could, sell it to us? |
| 13534 | Who is it that it blesses; makes happier, wiser, beautifuller, in any way better? |
| 13534 | Who knows? |
| 13534 | Who made THEE? |
| 13534 | Who_ durst_ have elected a Pandarus Dog- draught, in those days, to any office, Carlton Club, Senatorship, or place whatsoever? |
| 13534 | Whose else is it? |
| 13534 | Why do not all just citizens rush, half- frantic, to stop him, as they would a conflagration? |
| 13534 | Why dwell on this aspect of the matter? |
| 13534 | Why not? |
| 13534 | Why not? |
| 13534 | Why should the blessed Silence be broken into noises, to communicate only the like of this? |
| 13534 | Why should the oak prove logically that it ought to grow, and will grow? |
| 13534 | Will he awaken, be alive again, and have a soul; or is this death- fit very death? |
| 13534 | Will not that be a thing worthy of''doing;''to deliver ourselves from quacks, sham- heroes; to deliver the whole world more and more from such? |
| 13534 | Will not the reader peep with us into this singular_ camera lucida,_ where an extinct species, though fitfully, can still be seen alive? |
| 13534 | Will the candid reader, by way of closing this Book Third, listen to a few transient remarks on that subject? |
| 13534 | Wilt thou pay now? |
| 13534 | With Nations it is as with individuals: Can they rede the riddle of Destiny? |
| 13534 | With the millions no longer able to live, how can the units keep living? |
| 13534 | Work? |
| 13534 | Wouldst thou commune with such a one,--_be_ his real peer then: does that lie in thee? |
| 13534 | Ye ungrateful!--and did you not grow under the shadow of our wings? |
| 13534 | Yes, brother;--and yet, on the whole, who knows how to reverence the Body of a Man? |
| 13534 | Yes, thy future fate, indeed? |
| 13534 | Yes: and thy own god- created Soul; dost thou not call that a` revelation?'' |
| 13534 | Yes: but did any Parliament or Government ever sit in a Year Forty- three before? |
| 13534 | You ask him, at the year''s end:"Where is your three- hundred thousand pound; what have you realised to us with that?" |
| 13534 | You will say to him:"Not welcome, O complex Anomaly; would thou hadst staid out of doors: for who of mortals knows what to do with thee? |
| 13534 | Your cotton- spinning and thrice- miraculous mechanism, what is this too, by itself, but a larger kind of Animalism? |
| 13534 | Your most sweet voices, making one enormous goose- voice, O Bobus and Company, how can they be a guidance for any Son of Adam? |
| 13534 | Your trousers too, which you have made, of fustian, of cassimere, of Scotch- plaid, of jane, nankeen and woollen broadcloth, are they not manifold? |
| 13534 | _ Can_ he pray, by any ascertained method? |
| 13534 | _ Canst_ thou read in thy New Testament at all? |
| 13534 | _ Il faut payer de sa vie._ Why was our life given us, if not that we should manfully give it? |
| 13534 | _ Quis talia crederet,''_ concludes Jocelin,''Who can believe such things?'' |
| 13534 | answered the other:"How can such a man make a sermon in the chapter, or to the people on festival days, when he is without letters? |
| 13534 | answers the rich Mill- owner:"Did not I hire them fairly in the market? |
| 13534 | but, How do you agree with God''s Universe and the actual Reality of things? |
| 13534 | cried certain Spinners, when the Factory- Bill was proposed;"What is to become of our invaluable Cotton- trade?" |
| 13534 | cried they.--Cannot I die? |
| 13534 | cries Bobus of Houndsditch:"What else do all men strive for? |
| 13534 | cry many.--Aye, what? |
| 13534 | exclaims a sarcastic man; alas, in what corner of this Planet, since Adam first awoke on it, was that ever realised? |
| 13534 | meaning''What is become of him?'' |
| 20585 | Have you hope? |
| 20585 | She looks on thee,cried he:"she the fairest, noblest; do not her dark eyes tell thee, thou art not despised? |
| 20585 | To which of these Three Religions do you specially adhere? |
| 20585 | What do I see? |
| 20585 | Which is the great secret? |
| 20585 | Why talk and complain; above all, why quarrel with one another? 20585 Wuotan?" |
| 20585 | & c.& c. Or again, has it often been the lot of our readers to read such stuff as we shall now quote? |
| 20585 | ''"But is it not the deepest Law of Nature that she be constant?" |
| 20585 | ''"But is not a real Miracle simply a violation of the Laws of Nature?" |
| 20585 | ''Again, could anything be more miraculous than an actual authentic Ghost? |
| 20585 | ''And yet, O Man born of Woman,''cries the Autobiographer, with one of his sudden whirls,''wherein is my case peculiar? |
| 20585 | ''But if such things,''continues he,''were done in the dry tree, what will be done in the green? |
| 20585 | ''But thou as yet standest in no Temple; joinest in no Psalm- worship; feelest well that, where there is no ministering Priest, the people perish? |
| 20585 | ''But what boots it(_ was thut''s_)?'' |
| 20585 | ''Detect quacks''? |
| 20585 | ''Do we not see a little subdivision of the grand Utilitarian Armament come to light even in insulated England? |
| 20585 | ''For whether thou bear a sceptre or a sledgehammer, art thou not ALIVE; is not this thy brother ALIVE? |
| 20585 | ''Gain influence''? |
| 20585 | ''Great practical method and expertness''he may brag of; but is there not also great practical pride, though deep- hidden, only the deeper- seated? |
| 20585 | ''How I lived?'' |
| 20585 | ''Hypocrisy''? |
| 20585 | ''I asked myself: What is this that, ever since earliest years, thou hast been fretting and fuming, and lamenting and self- tormenting, on account of? |
| 20585 | ''Is not Belief the true god- announcing Miracle?'' |
| 20585 | ''Meanwhile what are antiquated Mythuses to me? |
| 20585 | ''Nevertheless, need I put the question to any Physiologist, whether it is disputable or not? |
| 20585 | ''Of great Scenes why speak? |
| 20585 | ''Or thinkest thou it were impossible, unimaginable? |
| 20585 | ''There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has Force in it: how else could it rot?'' |
| 20585 | ''To the eye of vulgar Logic,''says he,''what is man? |
| 20585 | ''Were it not wonderful, for instance, had Orpheus, or Amphion, built the walls of Thebes by the mere sound of his Lyre? |
| 20585 | ''What, for example,''says he,''is the universally- arrogated Virtue, almost the sole remaining Catholic Virtue, of these days? |
| 20585 | ''What, speaking in quite unofficial language, is the net- purport and upshot of war? |
| 20585 | ''Who am I; what is this ME? |
| 20585 | --He went out for the last time into the mosque, two days before his death; asked, If he had injured any man? |
| 20585 | A Voice, a Motion, an Appearance;--some embodied, visualised Idea in the Eternal Mind? |
| 20585 | A false man found a religion? |
| 20585 | A humble, solitary man, why should he at all meddle with the world? |
| 20585 | A man embraces truth with his eyes open, and because his eyes are open: does he need to shut them before he can love his Teacher of truth? |
| 20585 | A man that devotes his life to learning, shall he not be learned? |
| 20585 | A mean man he, how shall he reform a world? |
| 20585 | A new Adamite, in this century, which flatters itself that it is the Nineteenth, and destructive both to Superstition and Enthusiasm? |
| 20585 | A_ great_ man? |
| 20585 | Accordingly all persons, from the Queen Antoinette to the Douanier at the Porte St. Denis, do they not worship him? |
| 20585 | Again Thor struck, so soon as Skrymir again slept; a better blow than before: but the Giant only murmured, Was that a grain of sand? |
| 20585 | Again, leaving that wondrous Schwarzwald Smithy- Altar, what vacant, high- sailing air- ships are these, and whither will they sail with us? |
| 20585 | Again, what Cookery does the Greenlander use, beyond stowing- up his whale- blubber, as a marmot, in the like case, might do? |
| 20585 | Again, what may the unchristian rather than Christian"Diogenes"mean? |
| 20585 | Again,_ Nothing can act but where it is_: with all my heart; only, WHERE is it? |
| 20585 | Ah, does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him? |
| 20585 | Alas, is not this the history of all highest Truth that comes or ever came into the world? |
| 20585 | Alas, was not his doom stern enough? |
| 20585 | Alas, yes;--but as Cato said of the statue: So many statues in that Forum of yours, may it not be better if they ask, Where is Cato''s statue?" |
| 20585 | All crowns and sovereignties whatsoever, where would_ they_ in a few brief years be? |
| 20585 | Am I a botched mass of tailors''and cobblers''shreds, then; or a tightly- articulated, homogeneous little Figure, automatic, nay alive? |
| 20585 | Am I to view the Stupendous with stupid indifference, because I have seen it twice, or two- hundred, or two- million times? |
| 20585 | An unmetaphorical style you shall in vain seek for: is not your very_ Attention_ a_ Stretching- to_? |
| 20585 | And accordingly was there not what we can call a_ faith_ in him, genuine so far as it went? |
| 20585 | And did he not interpret the dim purport of it well? |
| 20585 | And if_ true_, was it not then the very thing to do? |
| 20585 | And indeed may we not say that intellect altogether expresses itself in this power of discerning what an object is? |
| 20585 | And knowest thou no Prophet, even in the vesture, environment, and dialect of this age? |
| 20585 | And now does the Spiritual, eternal Essence of Man, and of Mankind, bared of such wrappages, begin in any measure to reveal itself? |
| 20585 | And now in this sense, one may ask, Is not all worship whatsoever a worship by Symbols, by_ eidola_, or things seen? |
| 20585 | And now of you, too, I make the old inquiry: What those same unalterable rules, forming the complete Statute- Book of Nature, may possibly be? |
| 20585 | And now still, what hinders it from being the name of a Heroic Man and_ Mover_, as well as of a god? |
| 20585 | And now, for all this perennial Martyrdom, and Poesy, and even Prophecy, what is it that the Dandy asks in return? |
| 20585 | And then the''honour''? |
| 20585 | And then? |
| 20585 | And thereupon the unbelievers sneer and ask, Is this your man according to God''s own heart? |
| 20585 | And we call it''dissimulation,''all this? |
| 20585 | And what therefore is loyalty proper, the life- breath of all society, but an effluence of Hero- worship, submissive admiration for the truly great? |
| 20585 | And who are you that prate of Constitutional Formulas, rights of Parliament? |
| 20585 | And yet what were all Emperors, Popes and Potentates, in comparison? |
| 20585 | And yet withal this hypochondria, what was it but the very greatness of the man? |
| 20585 | And yet, thou brave Teufelsdröckh, who could tell what lurked in thee? |
| 20585 | Answer it;_ thou_ must find an answer.--Ambition? |
| 20585 | Are not all dialects''artificial''? |
| 20585 | Are not our Bodies and our Souls in continual movement, whether we will or not; in a continual Waste, requiring a continual Repair? |
| 20585 | Are not you yourselves there? |
| 20585 | Are they base, miserable things? |
| 20585 | Are they not Souls rendered visible: in Bodies, that took shape and will lose it, melting into air? |
| 20585 | Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade- away again into air and Invisibility? |
| 20585 | Are we returning, as Rousseau prayed, to the state of Nature? |
| 20585 | Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the Almighty have lived by and died by? |
| 20585 | Art not thou the"Living Garment of God"? |
| 20585 | Art thou not tired, and beaten with stripes, even as I am? |
| 20585 | Art thou the malignest of Sansculottists, or only the maddest? |
| 20585 | As for the Old Woman, she was_ Time_, Old Age, Duration; with her what can wrestle? |
| 20585 | Ask now, What Paganism could have been? |
| 20585 | At a small cost men are educated to make leather into shoes; but at a great cost, what am I educated to make? |
| 20585 | Ay, what? |
| 20585 | Bad methods: but are they so much worse than our methods,--of understanding him to be always the eldest born of a certain genealogy? |
| 20585 | Ballot- boxes, suffrages, French Revolutions:--if we are as Valets, and do not know the Hero when we see him, what good are all these? |
| 20585 | Because the THOU( sweet gentleman) is not sufficiently honoured, nourished, soft- bedded, and lovingly cared for? |
| 20585 | Begging is not in our course at the present time: but for the rest of it, who will say that a Johnson is not perhaps the better for being poor? |
| 20585 | Besides, of what profit were it? |
| 20585 | Bright, nimble creatures, who taught_ you_ the mason- craft; nay, stranger still, gave you a masonic incorporation, almost social police? |
| 20585 | But alas, what help now? |
| 20585 | But call it worship, call it what you will, is it not a right glorious thing, and set of things, this that Shakspeare has brought us? |
| 20585 | But how came''the Wanderer''into her circle? |
| 20585 | But how shall we blame_ him_ for struggling to realise it? |
| 20585 | But how was this to be done? |
| 20585 | But if you ask, Which is the worst? |
| 20585 | But indeed that strange outbudding of our whole English Existence, which we call the Elizabethan Era, did not it too come as of its own accord? |
| 20585 | But is not this same looking through the Shows, or Vestures, into the Things, even the first preliminary to a_ Philosophy of Clothes_? |
| 20585 | But nobler than all in this kind, are the Lives of heroic god- inspired Men; for what other Work of Art is so divine? |
| 20585 | But now, intrinsically, is not all this the inevitable fortune, not of a false man in such times, but simply of a superior man? |
| 20585 | But what does the writer mean by''Baphometic fire- baptism''? |
| 20585 | But what next? |
| 20585 | But what of the awestruck Wakeful who find it a Reality? |
| 20585 | But what then? |
| 20585 | But what then? |
| 20585 | But what was her surname, or had she none? |
| 20585 | But whence?--O Heaven, whither? |
| 20585 | But why,''says the Hofrath, and indeed say we,''do I dilate on the uses of our Teufelsdröckh''s Biography? |
| 20585 | But would it be a kindness always, is it a duty always or often, to disturb them in that? |
| 20585 | But, alas, what vehicle of that sort have we, except_ Fraser''s Magazine_? |
| 20585 | By way of proem, take the following not injudicious remarks:''The benignant efficacies of Concealment,''cries our Professor,''who shall speak or sing? |
| 20585 | By which last wiredrawn similitude does Teufelsdröckh mean no more than that young men find obstacles in what we call''getting under way''? |
| 20585 | Can I choose my own King? |
| 20585 | Can a Tartar be said to cook, when he only readies his steak by riding on it? |
| 20585 | Can any Sovereign, or Holy Alliance of Sovereigns, bid Time stand still; even in thought, shake themselves free of Time? |
| 20585 | Can he not arrest for debt? |
| 20585 | Can not a man do without King''s Coaches and Cloaks? |
| 20585 | Can not we conceive that Odin was a reality? |
| 20585 | Can not we understand how these men_ worshipped_ Canopus; became what we call Sabeans, worshipping the stars? |
| 20585 | Can the man say,_ Fiat lux_, Let there be light; and out of chaos make a world? |
| 20585 | Can we not understand him? |
| 20585 | Come there not tones of Love and Faith, as from celestial harp- strings, like the Song of beautified Souls? |
| 20585 | Compared with any speaker or singer one knows, even with Æschylus or Homer, why should he not, for veracity and universality, last like them? |
| 20585 | Could she have driven so much as a brass- bound Gig, or even a simple iron- spring one? |
| 20585 | Creative, we said: poetic creation, what is this too but_ seeing_ the thing sufficiently? |
| 20585 | Death? |
| 20585 | Did Hero- worship fail in Knox''s case? |
| 20585 | Did he never stand so much as a contested Election? |
| 20585 | Did he not, in spite of all, accomplish much for us? |
| 20585 | Did not the Boy Alexander weep because he had not two Planets to conquer; or a whole Solar System; or after that, a whole Universe? |
| 20585 | Did that reverend Basket- bearer intend, by such designation, to shadow- forth my future destiny, or his own present malign humour? |
| 20585 | Did the Westminster Confession of Faith add some new property to the soul of man? |
| 20585 | Do not Books still accomplish_ miracles_ as_ Runes_ were fabled to do? |
| 20585 | Do not we feel it so? |
| 20585 | Do our readers discern any such corner- stone, or even so much as what Teufelsdröckh is looking at? |
| 20585 | Do we not see well enough how the Fable might arise, without unveracity on the part of any one? |
| 20585 | Does Legion still lurk in him, though repressed; or has he exorcised that Devil''s Brood? |
| 20585 | Does any reader''in the interior parts of England''know of such a man? |
| 20585 | Does like join itself to like; does the spirit of method stir in that confusion, so that its embroilment becomes order? |
| 20585 | Does not the following glimpse exhibit him in a much more natural state? |
| 20585 | Dost thou, does man, so much as well know the Alphabet thereof? |
| 20585 | Each one of us here, let the world go how it will, and be victorious or not victorious, has he not a Life of his own to lead? |
| 20585 | Effect? |
| 20585 | England, Scotland, Ireland, all lying now subdued at the feet of the Puritan Parliament, the practical question arose, What was to be done with it? |
| 20585 | Ever the constitutional Formula: How came_ you_ there? |
| 20585 | Every such man is the born enemy of Disorder; hates to be in it: but what then? |
| 20585 | Fame, ambition, place in History? |
| 20585 | Faults? |
| 20585 | For Matter, were it never so despicable, is Spirit, the manifestation of Spirit: were it never so honourable, can it be more? |
| 20585 | For have not I too a compact all- enclosing Skin, whiter or dingier? |
| 20585 | For is not a Symbol ever, to him who has eyes for it, some dimmer or clearer revelation of the Godlike? |
| 20585 | For our honour among foreign nations, as an ornament to our English Household, what item is there that we would not surrender rather than him? |
| 20585 | For this world, and for all worlds, what curse is so fatal? |
| 20585 | For what is it properly but an Altercation with the Devil, before you begin honestly Fighting him? |
| 20585 | For which reason it was to be altered, not without underhand satire, into a plainer Symbol? |
| 20585 | For which, as for other mercies, ought not he to thank the Upper Powers? |
| 20585 | Forger and juggler? |
| 20585 | From of old, a thousand thoughts, in his pilgrimings and wanderings, had been in this man: What am I? |
| 20585 | From of old, was there not in his life a weight of meaning, a terror and a splendour as of Heaven itself? |
| 20585 | From which is it not clear that the internal Satanic School was still active enough? |
| 20585 | Given your Hero, is he to become Conqueror, King, Philosopher, Poet? |
| 20585 | God has made many revelations: but this man too, has not God made him, the latest and newest of all? |
| 20585 | Had Teufelsdröckh also a father and mother; did he, at one time, wear drivel- bibs, and live on spoon- meat? |
| 20585 | Had not my first, last Faith in myself, when even to me the Heavens seemed laid open, and I dared to love, been all- too cruelly belied? |
| 20585 | Had these men any quarrel? |
| 20585 | Hadst thou not Greek enough to understand thus much:_ The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought_, though it were the noblest? |
| 20585 | Hadst thou, any more than I, a Father whom thou knowest? |
| 20585 | Has he not solved for them the sphinx- enigma of this Universe; given assurance to them of their own destiny there? |
| 20585 | Has he not the power of articulate Thinking; and many other powers, as yet miraculous? |
| 20585 | Has it not_ been_, in this world, as a practised fact? |
| 20585 | Has not each man a soul? |
| 20585 | Hast thou not a Brain, furnished, furnishable with some glimmerings of Light; and three fingers to hold a Pen withal? |
| 20585 | Hast thou well considered all that lies in this immeasurable froth- ocean we name LITERATURE? |
| 20585 | Have any deepest scientific individuals yet dived- down to the foundations of the Universe, and gauged everything there? |
| 20585 | Have we not seen him disappointed, bemocked of Destiny, through long years? |
| 20585 | He asked of the Parliament, What it was they would decide upon? |
| 20585 | He can say to himself:''Tools? |
| 20585 | He courts no notice: what could notice here do for him? |
| 20585 | He exclaims,''Or hast thou forgotten Paris and Voltaire? |
| 20585 | He has the power of holding his peace over many things which do not vitally concern him,--"They? |
| 20585 | He is the fatal man; unutterably fatal, put in the high places of men.--"Why complain of this?" |
| 20585 | He was a great_ ébauche_, a rude- draught never completed; as indeed what great man is other? |
| 20585 | He was a weak child, they told him; could he lift that Cat he saw there? |
| 20585 | Hear in what earnest though fantastic wise he expresses himself on this head:''Shall Courtesy be done only to the rich, and only by the rich? |
| 20585 | Here, looking round, as was our hest, for''organic filaments,''we ask, may not this, touching''Hero- worship,''be of the number? |
| 20585 | Hero- worship,--Odin, Burns? |
| 20585 | Hero- worship? |
| 20585 | His love of Music, indeed, is not this, as it were, the summary of all these affections in him? |
| 20585 | His scorn, his grief are as transcendent as his love;--as indeed, what are they but the_ inverse_ or_ converse_ of his love? |
| 20585 | Homer yet_ is_, veritably present face to face with every open soul of us; and Greece, where is_ it_? |
| 20585 | Hot weather? |
| 20585 | How came he not to study his words a little, before flinging them out to the public? |
| 20585 | How came it that the Wanderer advanced thither with such forecasting heart(_ ahndungsvoll_), by the side of his gay host? |
| 20585 | How came it to evaporate, and not lie motionless? |
| 20585 | How can a man act heroically? |
| 20585 | How could a man travel forward from rustic deer- poaching to such tragedy- writing, and not fall- in with sorrows by the way? |
| 20585 | How could he? |
| 20585 | How could it else? |
| 20585 | How could the rude Earth make these, if her Essence, rugged as she looks and is, were not inwardly Beauty? |
| 20585 | How from such inorganic masses, henceforth madder than ever, as lie in these Bags, can even fragments of a living delineation be organised? |
| 20585 | How happens it that no intelligence about the matter has come out directly to this country? |
| 20585 | How is this; or what make ye of your_ Nothing can act but where it is_? |
| 20585 | How much does one of us foresee of his own life? |
| 20585 | How shall he stand otherwise? |
| 20585 | How shall_ he_ give kindling, in whose own inward man there is no live coal, but all is burnt- out to a dead grammatical cinder? |
| 20585 | How then could I believe in my Strength, when there was as yet no mirror to see it in? |
| 20585 | How then? |
| 20585 | How thou fermentest and elaboratest, in thy great fermenting- vat and laboratory of an Atmosphere, of a World, O Nature!--Or what is Nature? |
| 20585 | How to regulate that struggle? |
| 20585 | How was it, what was it? |
| 20585 | How was this? |
| 20585 | How will you govern these Nations, which Providence in a wondrous way has given- up to your disposal? |
| 20585 | How? |
| 20585 | However, that is not our chief grievance; the Professor continues:''Why multiply instances? |
| 20585 | Hypocrite, mummer, the life of him a mere theatricality; empty barren quack, hungry for the shouts of mobs? |
| 20585 | I do not assert Mahomet''s continual sincerity: who is continually sincere? |
| 20585 | I said that Imagination wove this Flesh- Garment; and does not she? |
| 20585 | I? |
| 20585 | If Hero mean_ sincere man_, why may not every one of us be a Hero? |
| 20585 | If he loved his Disenchantress? |
| 20585 | If he owed any man? |
| 20585 | If it prove otherwise, why should he murmur? |
| 20585 | If our era is the Era of Unbelief, why murmur under it; is there not a better coming, nay come? |
| 20585 | If so, what are those_ Prize- Questions_; what are the terms of Competition, and when and where? |
| 20585 | In Death too, in the Death of the Just, as the last perfection of a Work of Art, may we not discern symbolic meaning? |
| 20585 | In Pagan countries, can not one write Fetishes? |
| 20585 | In all that respects openness of Sense, affectionate Temper, ingenuous Curiosity, and the fostering of these, what more could I have wished? |
| 20585 | In all this what''hypocrisy,''''ambition,''''ca nt,''or other falsity? |
| 20585 | In fact, if a man have any purpose reaching beyond the hour and day, meant to be found extant_ next_ day, what good can it ever be to promulgate lies? |
| 20585 | In like manner, ask me not, Where are the LAWS; where is the GOVERNMENT? |
| 20585 | In such circumstances what was needed? |
| 20585 | In the commonest meeting of men, a person making, what we call,''set speeches,''is not he an offence? |
| 20585 | In the one sense and in the other, are we not right glad to possess it? |
| 20585 | In the same direction have not we their descendants since carried it far? |
| 20585 | In which country, in which time, was it hitherto that man''s history, or the history of any man, went on by calculated or calculable"Motives"? |
| 20585 | In which words, indicating a total estrangement on the part of Teufelsdröckh, may there not also lurk traces of a bitterness as from wounded vanity? |
| 20585 | Increased Security and pleasurable Heat soon followed: but what of these? |
| 20585 | Independence, in all kinds, is rebellion; if unjust rebellion, why parade it, and everywhere prescribe it?'' |
| 20585 | Influence? |
| 20585 | Is he not in most countries a tax- paying animal? |
| 20585 | Is it by short- clothes of yellow serge, and swineherd horns, that an infant of genius is educated? |
| 20585 | Is it even of business, a matter to be done? |
| 20585 | Is it of a truth leading us into beatific Asphodel meadows, or the yellow- burning marl of a Hell- on- Earth? |
| 20585 | Is it such a blessedness to have clerks forever pestering you with bundles of papers in red tape? |
| 20585 | Is not God''s Universe a Symbol of the Godlike; is not Immensity a Temple; is not Man''s History, and Men''s History, a perpetual Evangel? |
| 20585 | Is not Shame(_ Schaam_) the soil of all Virtue, of all good manners and good morals? |
| 20585 | Is not a man''s walking, in truth, always that:''a succession of falls''? |
| 20585 | Is not all work of man in this world a_ making of Order_? |
| 20585 | Is not every leaf of it a biography, every fibre there an act or word? |
| 20585 | Is not he a Temple, then; the visible Manifestation and Impersonation of the Divinity? |
| 20585 | Is not such a prize worth some striving? |
| 20585 | Is not that a sign?'' |
| 20585 | Is not this the sincerest yet rudest voice of the spirit of man? |
| 20585 | Is that a real Elysian brightness, cries many a timid wayfarer, or the reflex of Pandemonian lava? |
| 20585 | Is that a wonder, which happens in two hours; and does it cease to be wonderful if happening in two million? |
| 20585 | Is the Past annihilated, then, or only past; is the Future non- extant, or only future? |
| 20585 | Is the heroic inspiration we name Virtue but some Passion; some bubble of the blood, bubbling in the direction others_ profit_ by? |
| 20585 | Is the pitifullest mortal Person, think you, indifferent to us? |
| 20585 | It is like Pococke asking Grotius, Where is your_ proof_ of Mahomet''s Pigeon? |
| 20585 | It was Superstition, Fanaticism, disgraceful Ignorance of Constitutional Philosophy to insist on the other thing!--Liberty to_ tax_ oneself? |
| 20585 | Joyful to men as the dawning of day from night;_ is_ it not, indeed, the awakening for them from no- being into being, from death into life? |
| 20585 | Knowest thou none such? |
| 20585 | Knowest thou that"_ Worship of Sorrow_"? |
| 20585 | Let the Philosopher answer this one question: What figure, at that period, was a Mrs. Teufelsdröckh likely to make in polished society? |
| 20585 | Liberty of judgment? |
| 20585 | Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords? |
| 20585 | Man is called a Laughing Animal: but do not the apes also laugh, or attempt to do it; and is the manliest man the greatest and oftenest laugher? |
| 20585 | May we not call Shakspeare the still more melodious Priest of a_ true_ Catholicism, the''Universal Church''of the Future and of all times? |
| 20585 | Meanwhile, for Andreas and his wife, the grand practical problem was: What to do with this little sleeping red- coloured Infant? |
| 20585 | Meanwhile, the question of questions were: What specially is a Miracle? |
| 20585 | Meanwhile, what portion of this inconsiderable terraqueous Globe have ye actually tilled and delved, till it will grow no more? |
| 20585 | Men speak much of the Printing- Press with its Newspapers:_ du Himmel!_ what are these to Clothes and the Tailor''s Goose?'' |
| 20585 | Mighty fleets and armies, harbours and arsenals, vast cities, high- domed, many- engined,--they are precious, great: but what do they become? |
| 20585 | Mirabeau''s ambition to be Prime Minister, how shall we blame it, if he were''the only man in France that could have done any good there''? |
| 20585 | Miracles? |
| 20585 | Money? |
| 20585 | Morality itself, what we call the moral quality of a man, what is this but another_ side_ of the one vital Force whereby he is and works? |
| 20585 | Mother of God? |
| 20585 | Mother? |
| 20585 | Namely, that while the Beacon- fire blazed its brightest, the Watchman had quitted it; that no pilgrim could now ask him: Watchman, what of the Night? |
| 20585 | Names? |
| 20585 | Napoleon looking up into the stars, answers,"Very ingenious, Messieurs: but_ who made_ all that?" |
| 20585 | Napoleon''s working, accordingly, what was it with all the noise it made? |
| 20585 | Nay I may ask, Is not every true Reformer, by the nature of him, a_ Priest_ first of all? |
| 20585 | Nay here in these pages, such as they are, have we not two mere Poets, if not deified, yet we may say beatified? |
| 20585 | Nay not only our preaching, but even our worship, is not it too accomplished by means of Printed Books? |
| 20585 | Nay, a man preaching from his earnest_ soul_ into the earnest_ souls_ of men: is not this virtually the essence of all Churches whatsoever? |
| 20585 | Nay, at bottom, what else is alive_ but_ Protestantism? |
| 20585 | Nay, even for the basest Sensualist, what is Sense but the implement of Fantasy; the vessel it drinks out of? |
| 20585 | Nay, has not perhaps the Motive- grinder himself been_ in Love_? |
| 20585 | Nay, in any case, would Criticism erect not only finger- posts and turnpikes, but spiked gates and impassable barriers, for the mind of man? |
| 20585 | Nay, is it not what all zealous men, whether called Priests, Prophets, or whatsoever else called, do essentially wish, and must wish? |
| 20585 | Nevertheless, wayward as our Professor shows himself, is there any reader that can part with him in declared enmity? |
| 20585 | Nevertheless, which of the two was the more cunningly- devised article, even as an Engine? |
| 20585 | Nevertheless, you will say, there must be a difference between true Poetry and true Speech not poetical: what is the difference? |
| 20585 | Not so Cromwell:"For all our fighting,"says he,"we are to have a little bit of paper?" |
| 20585 | Not to pay- out money from your pocket except on reason shown? |
| 20585 | Notoriety: what would that do for him? |
| 20585 | O Heavens, is it, in very deed, HE, then, that ever speaks through thee; that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? |
| 20585 | Of Odin what history? |
| 20585 | Of a man or of a nation we inquire, therefore, first of all, What religion they had? |
| 20585 | Of all acts, is not, for a man,_ repentance_ the most divine? |
| 20585 | Of what station in Life was she; of what parentage, fortune, aspect? |
| 20585 | Oliver''s life at St Ives or Ely, as a sober industrious Farmer, is it not altogether as that of a true and devout man? |
| 20585 | Once more I say, sweep away the illusion of Time; compress the threescore years into three minutes: what else was he, what else are we? |
| 20585 | Only a torch for burning, no hammer for building? |
| 20585 | Or are we made of other clay now? |
| 20585 | Or coming into lower, less_ un_speakable provinces, is not all Loyalty akin to religious Faith also? |
| 20585 | Or even where is the use of such practical reflections as the following? |
| 20585 | Or has the Professor his own deeper intention; and laughs in his sleeve at our strictures and glosses, which indeed are but a part thereof? |
| 20585 | Or hast thou forgotten the day when thou first receivedst breeches, and thy long clothes became short? |
| 20585 | Or how, without Clothes, could we possess the master- organ, soul''s seat, and true pineal gland of the Body Social: I mean, a PURSE?'' |
| 20585 | Or indeed what of the world and its victories? |
| 20585 | Or is the God present, felt in my own heart, a thing which Herr von Voltaire will dispute out of me; or dispute into me? |
| 20585 | Or is this merely one of his half- sophisms, half- truisms, which if he can but set on the back of a Figure, he cares not whither it gallop? |
| 20585 | Or was there something of intended satire; is the Professor and Seer not quite the blinkard he affects to be? |
| 20585 | Or what of Scotland? |
| 20585 | Or, on the other hand, what is there that we can not love; since all was created by God? |
| 20585 | Our own Wednesday, as I said, is it not still Odin''s Day? |
| 20585 | Over- population: With a world like ours and wide as ours, can there be too many men? |
| 20585 | Peace? |
| 20585 | Perhaps also in the following; wherewith we now hasten to knit- up this ravelled sleeve:''But there is no Religion?'' |
| 20585 | Plummet''s? |
| 20585 | Popeship, spiritual Fatherhood of God''s Church, is that a vain semblance, of cloth and parchment? |
| 20585 | Possible? |
| 20585 | Precious they; but also is not he precious? |
| 20585 | Pure? |
| 20585 | Really his utterances, are they not a kind of''revelation;''--what we must call such for want of some other name? |
| 20585 | Reform Bill, free suffrage of Englishmen? |
| 20585 | Remarkable, moreover, is this saying of his:''How were Friendship possible? |
| 20585 | Rest? |
| 20585 | Said I not, Before the old skin was shed, the new had formed itself beneath it?'' |
| 20585 | Say it in a word: is it not because thou art not HAPPY? |
| 20585 | Seems it not at least presumable, that, under his Clothes, the Tailor has bones and viscera, and other muscles than the sartorious? |
| 20585 | Seldom reflecting that still the new question comes upon us: What is Madness, what are Nerves? |
| 20585 | Shall I not have all Eternity to rest in?" |
| 20585 | Shall we say, then, Dante''s effect on the world was small in comparison? |
| 20585 | She was a widow; old, and had lost her looks: you love me better than you did her?" |
| 20585 | Some one''s doing, it without doubt was; from some Idea, in some single Head, it did first of all take beginning: why not from some Idea in mine?'' |
| 20585 | Spake we not of a Communion of Saints, unseen, yet not unreal, accompanying and brother- like embracing thee, so thou be worthy? |
| 20585 | Stands he not thereby in the centre of Immensities, in the conflux of Eternities? |
| 20585 | Sure enough, I am; and lately was not: but Whence? |
| 20585 | Sword and Bible were borne before him, without any chimera: were not these the_ real_ emblems of Puritanism; its true decoration and insignia? |
| 20585 | Taxgatherer? |
| 20585 | Than which paragraph on Metaphors did the reader ever chance to see a more surprisingly metaphorical? |
| 20585 | That living flood, pouring through these streets, of all qualities and ages, knowest thou whence it is coming, whither it is going? |
| 20585 | That_ he_ stood there as the strongest soul of England, the undisputed Hero of all England,--what of this? |
| 20585 | The Age of Miracles past? |
| 20585 | The Atheistic logic runs- off from him like water; the great Fact stares him in the face:"Who made all that?" |
| 20585 | The Giant merely awoke; rubbed his cheek, and said, Did a leaf fall? |
| 20585 | The Overseer(_ Episcopus_) of Souls, I notice, has tucked- in the corner of it, as if his day''s work were done: what does he shadow forth thereby?'' |
| 20585 | The Poet indeed, with his mildness, what is he but the product and ultimate adjustment of Reform, or Prophecy with its fierceness? |
| 20585 | The Prophet too has his eye on what we are to love: how else shall he know what it is we are to do? |
| 20585 | The Time call forth? |
| 20585 | The Writer of a Book, is not he a Preacher preaching not to this parish or that, on this day or that, but to all men in all times and places? |
| 20585 | The builder_ cast away_ his plummet; said to himself,"What is gravitation? |
| 20585 | The crabbed old Schoolmaster used to ask, when they brought him a new pupil,"But are ye sure he''s_ not a dunce_?" |
| 20585 | The eye too, it looks- out as in a kind of_ surprise_, a kind of inquiry, Why the world was of such a sort? |
| 20585 | The first ground handful of Nitre, Sulphur, and Charcoal drove Monk Schwartz''s pestle through the ceiling: what will the last do? |
| 20585 | The human Reynard, very frequent everywhere in the world, what more does he know but this and the like of this? |
| 20585 | The light which now rose upon them,--how could a human soul, by any means at all, get better light? |
| 20585 | The poor old Mother!----What had this man gained; what had he gained? |
| 20585 | The rough words he articulated, are they not the rudimental roots of those English words we still use? |
| 20585 | The stirring of a child''s finger brings the two together; and then-- What then? |
| 20585 | The thunder- struck Air- sailor is not wanting to himself in this dread hour: but what avails it? |
| 20585 | The uses of this Dante? |
| 20585 | The voice of Prophecy has gone dumb? |
| 20585 | The withered leaf is not dead and lost, there are Forces in it and around it, though working in inverse order; else how could it_ rot_? |
| 20585 | The world''s heart is palsied, sick: how can any limb of it be whole? |
| 20585 | The world- wide soul wrapt- up in its thoughts, in its sorrows;--what could paradings, and ribbons in the hat, do for it? |
| 20585 | The''imagination that shudders at the Hell of Dante,''is not that the same faculty, weaker in degree, as Dante''s own? |
| 20585 | Then, have we not a Doctrine of Rent, a Theory of Value; Philosophies of Language, of History, of Pottery, of Apparitions, of Intoxicating Liquors? |
| 20585 | There are not wanting men who will answer: Does your Professor take us for simpletons? |
| 20585 | Therefrom he preaches what most momentous doctrine is in him, for man''s salvation; and dost not thou listen, and believe? |
| 20585 | These Limbs, whence had we them; this stormy Force; this life- blood with its burning Passion? |
| 20585 | These are Apparitions: what else? |
| 20585 | They are lamentable, undeniable; but after all what has Luther or his cause to do with them? |
| 20585 | They called him Prophet, you say? |
| 20585 | They say scornfully, Is this your King? |
| 20585 | Think, would_ we_ believe, and take with us as our life- guidance, an allegory, a poetic sport? |
| 20585 | Thinkest thou there is aught motionless; without Force, and utterly dead? |
| 20585 | This I call a noble true purpose; is it not, In its own dialect, the noblest that could enter into the heart of Statesman or man? |
| 20585 | This Rome, this scene of false priests, clothed not in the beauty of holiness, but in far other vesture, is_ false_: but what is it to Luther? |
| 20585 | This Universe, ah me-- what could the wild man know of it; what can we yet know? |
| 20585 | This body, these faculties, this life of ours, is it not all as a vesture for that Unnamed? |
| 20585 | This indeed is properly the sum of his offences, the essential sin; for which what pardon can there be? |
| 20585 | This is even what I dispute: but in any case, hast thou not still Preaching enough? |
| 20585 | This is the Work he and his disciples made so much of, asking all the world, Is not that a miracle? |
| 20585 | This night the watchman on the streets of Cairo when he cries"Who goes?" |
| 20585 | This was imperfect enough: but to welcome, for example, a Burns as we did, was that what we can call perfect? |
| 20585 | Thou art still Nothing, Nobody: true; but who, then, is Something, Somebody? |
| 20585 | Thou hast no Tools? |
| 20585 | Thou thyself, wert thou not born, wilt thou not die? |
| 20585 | Though all men walk by them, what good is it? |
| 20585 | Thought, true labour of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain? |
| 20585 | Thus has not the Editor himself, working over Teufelsdröckh''s German, lost much of his own English purity? |
| 20585 | Thus, were it not miraculous, could I stretch forth my hand and clutch the Sun? |
| 20585 | Thy very Hatred, thy very Envy, those foolish lies thou tellest of me in thy splenetic humour: what is all this but an inverted Sympathy? |
| 20585 | Till it do come, what have we? |
| 20585 | Till we know that, what is all our knowledge; how shall we even so much as''detect''? |
| 20585 | To be Sheik of Mecca or Arabia, and have a bit of gilt wood put into your hand,--will that be one''s salvation? |
| 20585 | To the eye of Pure Reason what is he? |
| 20585 | To the"_ Worship of Sorrow_"ascribe what origin and genesis thou pleasest,_ has_ not that Worship originated, and been generated; is it not_ here_? |
| 20585 | To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not a God made visible, if we will open our minds and eyes? |
| 20585 | True, you may well ask, What could the world, the governors of the world, do with such a man? |
| 20585 | Unhappy Teufelsdröckh, had man ever such a''physical or psychical infirmity''before? |
| 20585 | Utility? |
| 20585 | Want, want!--Ha, of what? |
| 20585 | Was Luther''s Picture of the Devil less a Reality, whether it were formed within the bodily eye, or without it? |
| 20585 | Was Teufelsdröckh also a fringe, of lace or cobweb; or promising to be such? |
| 20585 | Was her real name Flora, then? |
| 20585 | Was it Heathenism,--plurality of gods, mere sensuous representation of this Mystery of Life, and for chief recognised element therein Physical Force? |
| 20585 | Was it by the humid vehicle of_ Æsthetic Tea_, or by the arid one of mere Business? |
| 20585 | Was it his blame? |
| 20585 | Was it not the humble sincere nature of the man? |
| 20585 | Was it not the still higher Orpheus, or Orpheuses, who, in past centuries, by the divine Music of Wisdom, succeeded in civilising Man? |
| 20585 | Was it not_ true_, God''s truth? |
| 20585 | Was not such a Parliament worth being a member of? |
| 20585 | Was not the purpose so formed like to be precisely the best, wisest, the one to be followed without hesitation any more? |
| 20585 | Was not the whole Norse Religion, accordingly, in some sense, what we called''the enormous shadow of this man''s likeness''? |
| 20585 | Was she not to him in very deed a Morning- Star; did not her presence bring with it airs from Heaven? |
| 20585 | Was the attraction, the agitation mutual, then; pole and pole trembling towards contact, when once brought into neighbourhood? |
| 20585 | Was there so much as a fault, a"caprice,"he could have dispensed with? |
| 20585 | We all love great men; love, venerate, and bow down submissive before great men: nay can we honestly bow down to anything else? |
| 20585 | We ask in turn: Why perplex these times, profane as they are, with needless obscurity, by omission and by commission? |
| 20585 | We figure to ourselves, how in those days he may have played strange freaks with his independence, and so forth: do not his own words betoken as much? |
| 20585 | Well, answers Luther, what harm will a cassock do the man? |
| 20585 | Were I a Steam- engine, wouldst thou take the trouble to tell lies of me? |
| 20585 | Were they not indubitable awful facts; the whole heart of man taking them for practically true, all Nature everywhere confirming them? |
| 20585 | Were thy three broad Highways, meeting here from the ends of Europe, made for Ammunition- wagons, then? |
| 20585 | What Act of Legislature was there that_ thou_ shouldst be Happy? |
| 20585 | What Act of Parliament, debate at St. Stephen''s, on the hustings or elsewhere, was it that brought this Shakspeare into being? |
| 20585 | What English intellect could have chosen such a topic, or by chance stumbled on it? |
| 20585 | What am I to believe? |
| 20585 | What am I to do? |
| 20585 | What are all earthly preferments, Chancellorships, Kingships? |
| 20585 | What are all your national Wars, with their Moscow Retreats, and sanguinary hate- filled Revolutions, but the Somnambulism of uneasy Sleepers? |
| 20585 | What are the supreme lessons which he uses it to convey? |
| 20585 | What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? |
| 20585 | What argument will avail? |
| 20585 | What built St Paul''s Cathedral? |
| 20585 | What cares the world for our as yet miniature Philosopher''s achievements under that''brave old Linden''? |
| 20585 | What could gilt carriages do for this man? |
| 20585 | What henceforth becomes of the brave Herr Towgood, or Toughgut? |
| 20585 | What indeed are faculties? |
| 20585 | What is Florence, Can della Scala, and the World and Life altogether? |
| 20585 | What is Life; what is Death? |
| 20585 | What is it? |
| 20585 | What is the chief end of man here below? |
| 20585 | What is the use of health, or of life, if not to do some work therewith? |
| 20585 | What made it? |
| 20585 | What make ye of your Christianities, and Chivalries, and Reformations, and Marseillese Hymns, and Reigns of Terror? |
| 20585 | What man''s heart does, in reality, break- forth into any fire of brotherly love for these men? |
| 20585 | What then? |
| 20585 | What we want to get at is the_ thought_ the man had, if he had any: why should he twist it into jingle, if he_ could_ speak it out plainly? |
| 20585 | What will become of your harvest through all Eternity? |
| 20585 | What will he do with it? |
| 20585 | What wonder it runs all wrong? |
| 20585 | What, for example, are we to make of such sentences as the following? |
| 20585 | What, for instance, was in that clouted Shoe, which the Peasants bore aloft with them as ensign in their_ Bauernkrieg_( Peasants''War)? |
| 20585 | What, then, is the moral significance of Carlyle''s"symbolic myth"? |
| 20585 | What, then, was our Professor''s possession? |
| 20585 | What_ is_ this unfathomable Thing I live in, which men name Universe? |
| 20585 | What_ will_ he do with it? |
| 20585 | Whatever wrongs he did, were they not all frightfully avenged on him? |
| 20585 | Whence comes it? |
| 20585 | Whence, then, their so unspeakable difference? |
| 20585 | Where, then, is that same cunningly- devised almighty GOVERNMENT of theirs to be laid hands on? |
| 20585 | Where, then, lies the evil of it? |
| 20585 | Whereby, is not spiritual union, all hierarchy and subordination among men, henceforth an impossibility? |
| 20585 | Wherefore, like a coward, dost thou forever pip and whimper, and go cowering and trembling? |
| 20585 | Wherein consists the usefulness of this Apron? |
| 20585 | Whereto? |
| 20585 | Whereupon the Professor publishes this reflection:''By what strange chances do we live in History? |
| 20585 | Whether they shall take him to be a god, to be a prophet, or what they shall take him to be? |
| 20585 | Which Englishman we ever made, in this land of ours, which million of Englishmen, would we not give- up rather than the Stratford Peasant? |
| 20585 | Which function of manhood is the Tailor not conjectured to perform? |
| 20585 | Whither goes it? |
| 20585 | Whither should I go? |
| 20585 | Who can refrain from a smile at the yoking together of such a pair of appellatives as Diogenes Teufelsdröckh? |
| 20585 | Who ever saw any Lord my- lorded in tattered blanket fastened with wooden skewer? |
| 20585 | Who is called there''the man according to God''s own heart''? |
| 20585 | Who is there now that can read the five columns of Presentations in his Morning Newspaper without a shudder? |
| 20585 | Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us? |
| 20585 | Who knows but, in that same''best possible organisation''as yet far off, Poverty may still enter as an important element? |
| 20585 | Whom I answer by this new question: What are the Laws of Nature? |
| 20585 | Why can not he lay aside his pedantry, and write so as to make himself generally intelligible? |
| 20585 | Why could not Dante''s Catholicism continue; but Luther''s Protestantism must needs follow? |
| 20585 | Why is Idolatry so hateful to Prophets? |
| 20585 | Why mention our disquisitions on the Social Contract, on the Standard of Taste, on the Migrations of the Herring? |
| 20585 | Why not; what binds me here? |
| 20585 | Why not? |
| 20585 | Why of Shakspeare, in his_ Taming of the Shrew_, and elsewhere? |
| 20585 | Why should I speak of Hans Sachs( himself a Shoemaker, or kind of Leather- Tailor), with his_ Schneider mit dem Panier_? |
| 20585 | Why should the Prophet so mercilessly condemn him? |
| 20585 | Why should we misknow one another, fight not against the enemy but against ourselves, from mere difference of uniform? |
| 20585 | Why should we? |
| 20585 | Why was the Living banished thither companionless, conscious? |
| 20585 | Why, if there is no Devil; nay, unless the Devil is your God''? |
| 20585 | Will Majesty lay aside its robes of state, and Beauty its frills and train- gowns, for a second- skin of tanned hide? |
| 20585 | Will all the shoe- wages under the Moon ferry me across into that far Land of Light? |
| 20585 | Will the whole Finance Ministers and Upholsterers and Confectioners of modern Europe undertake, in jointstock company, to make one Shoeblack HAPPY? |
| 20585 | Wilt thou know a Man, above all a Mankind, by stringing- together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts? |
| 20585 | With spurious Popes, and Believers having no private judgment,--quacks pretending to command over dupes,--what can you do? |
| 20585 | Would he have all this unsaid; and us betake ourselves again to the''matted cloak,''and go sheeted in a''thick natural fell''? |
| 20585 | Writings of mine, not indeed known as mine( for what am_ I_? |
| 20585 | Yes, long ago has many a British Reader been, as now, demanding with something like a snarl: Whereto does all this lead; or what use is in it? |
| 20585 | Yet, at bottom, after all the talk there is and has been about it, what is tolerance? |
| 20585 | You will burn me and them, for answer to the God''s- message they strove to bring you? |
| 20585 | Your Cromwell, what good could it do him to be''noticed''by noisy crowds of people? |
| 20585 | Your harvest? |
| 20585 | _ Editorial Difficulties_ How to make known Teufelsdröckh and his Book to English readers; especially_ such_ a book? |
| 20585 | _ Is_ the work a translation?" |
| 20585 | _ Shooting Niagara: and After?_ 1867( from"Macmillan"). |
| 20585 | _ Was_ it not such? |
| 20585 | a little while ago, and he was yet in all darkness; him what Graceful(_ Holde_) would ever love? |
| 20585 | am not I sincere? |
| 20585 | and calls it Peace, because, in the cut- purse and cut- throat Scramble, no steel knives, but only a far cunninger sort, can be employed? |
| 20585 | cries an illuminated class:"Is not the Machine of the Universe fixed to move by unalterable rules?" |
| 20585 | cries he; what miracle would you have? |
| 20585 | exclaims Teufelsdröckh:''Have we not all to be tried with such? |
| 20585 | how did he comport himself when in Love? |
| 20585 | how should they so much as once meet together? |
| 20585 | infandum!_ And yet why is the thing impossible? |
| 20585 | said the Preacher, appealing to all the audience: what then is_ his_ duty? |
| 20585 | the fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself; and how could I believe? |
| 20585 | thou hast no faculty in that kind? |
| 20585 | what are they?" |
| 20585 | what is the sum- total of the worst that lies before thee? |
| 20585 | what is this paltry little Dog- cage of an Earth; what art thou that sittest whining there? |
| 20585 | why do I not name thee GOD? |
| 20585 | why journeyest thou wearisomely, in thy antiquarian fervour, to gaze on the stone pyramids of Geeza, or the clay ones of Sacchara? |