This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
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| 1850 | Methinks I hear the questions asked by my graver readers,"To what purpose is all this?--how is the world to be made wiser by this talk?" |
| 1850 | Nothing but the hair of his good, gray, old head and beard left? |
| 1850 | OLD CHRISTMAS By Washington Irving But is old, old, good old Christmas gone? |
| 1850 | What, after all, is the mite of wisdom that I could throw into the mass of knowledge? |
| 1850 | Why does the chilling winter''s morne Smile like a field beset with corn? |
| 1850 | is there not wisdom enough extant for the instruction of the world? |
| 1850 | or how am I sure that my sagest deductions may be safe guides for the opinions of others? |
| 14228 | Like enough, like enough,said the stranger;"everybody seems to have forgotten poor Slingsby?" |
| 14228 | You have; and, pray, why so? |
| 14228 | He reminds me of that fearful personage in the nursery rhyme:"Who goes round the house at night? |
| 14228 | The bride looked uncommonly beautiful; but, in fact, what woman does not look interesting on her wedding- day? |
| 14228 | Who steals all the sheep at night? |
| 14228 | [ Illustration: The General Nonplussed]"Did you ever hear such a pack of stuff, general?" |
| 14228 | it ca n''t be Tom Slingsby?" |
| 14228 | it ca n''t be Tom Slingsby?" |
| 7948 | An''where the deil does your honor mean to go? |
| 7948 | And who is the next heir? |
| 7948 | Has nobody passed by here? |
| 7948 | Hoot, man,said Scott,"not that old mull: where''s the bonnie French one that I brought you from Paris?" |
| 7948 | Hout man,replied the other,"are ye in the heart o''Glasgow, and speer the name of it?" |
| 7948 | I suppose, then,said I,"you recollect something of Lord Byron, when he used to visit here?" |
| 7948 | The third time, after a still longer pause, The shadow pass''d away-- but where? 7948 And did he see this? 7948 And have I not cause for gloomy reflections? 7948 And pray who is the Little White Lady? |
| 7948 | But when did a human being ever exercise an influence more salutary and benignant? |
| 7948 | The following sonnet is the most coherent and most descriptive of her peculiar state of mind:"Well, thou art gone-- but what wert thou to me? |
| 7948 | exclaims he, with a sudden burst of feeling,"why do I say_ my_? |
| 7948 | or was it a vapor? |
| 7948 | said Lauckie,"can they write?--can they cipher?" |
| 7948 | where is Lethe''s fabled stream? |
| 8519 | How many may accompany me? |
| 8519 | Villejo,said he, mournfully,"whither are you taking me?" |
| 8519 | What power,exclaimed she indignantly,"has the admiral to give away my vassals?" |
| 8519 | 3) exclaims,"Who can believe all that, he says of the city of Quinsai? |
| 8519 | Abraham was above an hundred years when he begat Isaac; and was Sarah youthful? |
| 8519 | But how was this message to be conveyed? |
| 8519 | Columbus, thinking that he had been in the very vicinity of Cathay, exclaims with sudden zeal,"Who will offer himself for this task? |
| 8519 | If so, how long were they to remain here, vainly looking for relief which was never to arrive? |
| 8519 | If that had really been the case, what motive could he have for concealing the fact? |
| 8519 | If this were not the case, why did not the ships arrive, or why did not Fiesco return, as had been promised? |
| 8519 | Might not this arise from the weakness and incapacity of the rulers? |
| 8519 | Need I tell you how deeply interesting and gratifying it has been to me? |
| 8519 | Or for David, whom, from being a shepherd, he made a king in Judea? |
| 8519 | What did he more for Moses, or for his servant David, than he has done for thee? |
| 8519 | What did he more for the great people of Israel when he led them forth from Egypt? |
| 8519 | What has become of the countless multitudes this fortress was intended to awe? |
| 8519 | What monarch would not rejoice to gain empire on such conditions? |
| 8519 | What then? |
| 8519 | What tie had he upon their fidelity stronger than the sacred obligations which they had violated? |
| 8519 | Who is he to be? |
| 8519 | Who will doubt that this light was from the holy Scriptures, illumining you as well as myself with rays of marvelous brightness?" |
| 8519 | Why should Colnmbus feel this strong interest in Genoa, had he been born in any of the other Italian states which have laid claim to him? |
| 8519 | Why should he, therefore, confer princely dignities and prerogatives for that which men were daily offering to perform gratuitously? |
| 8519 | and why, if they knew it, should they not proclaim it? |
| 8519 | do you speak the truth?" |
| 8519 | who hath afflicted thee so much, and so many times?--God, or the world? |
| 8519 | why art thou cast down? |
| 7002 | And what is their temper now? |
| 7002 | But suppose you had really fallen short, do you think your superlative merit entitles you to greater indulgence than others? 7002 By whose authority do you act?" |
| 7002 | Do n''t think I seek a place of safety,replied Warren, quickly;"where will the attack be hottest?" |
| 7002 | Do you think the people of America would submit to pay the stamp duty if it was moderated? |
| 7002 | If the act is not repealed, what do you think will be the consequences? |
| 7002 | My dear Halket:--Are we to have you once more among us? 7002 What is it we are contending against?" |
| 7002 | What right has Onontio here? 7002 What,"he was asked,"was the temper of America towards Great Britain, before the year 1763?" |
| 7002 | When will you be ready to go? |
| 7002 | Who is that officer who appears in command? |
| 7002 | Who run? |
| 7002 | Will he fight? |
| 7002 | _ A quel regiment?_was the demand. |
| 7002 | _ Qui va la?_( who goes there?) |
| 7002 | _ Qui va la?_( who goes there?) |
| 7002 | And shall we revisit together a hapless spot, that proved so fatal to many of our former brave companions? |
| 7002 | And to what end? |
| 7002 | Are not all these things evident proofs of a fixed and uniform plan to tax us? |
| 7002 | But have we not tried this already? |
| 7002 | But what can I do? |
| 7002 | But what has been the consequence? |
| 7002 | Have we not addressed the lords, and remonstrated to the commons? |
| 7002 | How could they be so near without coming to visit him? |
| 7002 | How was this to be done? |
| 7002 | How were these double claims to ceremonious respect happening at the same time to be managed? |
| 7002 | If dissolved, how could another be collected? |
| 7002 | If dissolved, what would there be to prevent the British from sallying out of Boston, and spreading desolation throughout the country? |
| 7002 | If we want further proofs, do not all the debates in the House of Commons serve to confirm this? |
| 7002 | It was granted of course,"for was he not a son of the tribe-- was he not one of themselves?" |
| 7002 | Now, whether I am to understand this aye or no to the plain simple question asked, Is the fort to be continued or removed? |
| 7002 | Ought we not, then, to put our virtue and fortitude to the severest tests?" |
| 7002 | The disposition to uphold the army was general; but the difficult question was, who should be commander- in- chief? |
| 7002 | Washington eagerly inquired particulars; above all, how acted the militia? |
| 7002 | What did I get by that? |
| 7002 | What was to be done? |
| 7002 | Where are your landmarks-- your boundaries of colonies? |
| 7002 | Why, soldiers, why? |
| 7002 | _ But can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice?_"CHAPTER XXXVIII. |
| 7002 | asked he;"Is it against paying the duty of threepence per pound on tea because burdensome? |
| 13042 | Ay, is it so? |
| 13042 | I doubt me much,said Peter Stuyvesant,"that thou art some scurvy costard- monger knave: how didst thou acquire this paramount honor and dignity?" |
| 13042 | Of what consequence is it,said Pliny,"that individuals appear, or make their exit? |
| 13042 | And what is immortal fame? |
| 13042 | Besides, why should I have been sociable to the crowd of how- d''ye- do acquaintances that flocked around me at my first appearance? |
| 13042 | But hold, whither am I wandering? |
| 13042 | Did I not enter with sad forebodings on this ill- starred expedition? |
| 13042 | For what is history, in fact, but a kind of Newgate Calendar-- a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow- men? |
| 13042 | For what says the ballad? |
| 13042 | Had they not been devoured alive by the cannibals of Marblehead and Cape Cod? |
| 13042 | Had they not been put to the question by the great council of Amphictyons? |
| 13042 | Had they not been smothered in onions by the terrible men of Pyquag? |
| 13042 | Is it not enough that I have followed thee undaunted, like a guardian spirit, into the midst of the horrid battle of Fort Christina? |
| 13042 | Now if it could have happened in that manner, why might it not have been at the same time, and by the same means, with the other parts of the globe?" |
| 13042 | Take away his pipe? |
| 13042 | Taking the pipe slowly out of his mouth,"To whom should I lower my flag?" |
| 13042 | This resolution being carried unanimously, another was immediately proposed-- whether it were not possible and politic to exterminate Great Britain? |
| 13042 | Upon this my wife ventured to ask him, what he did with so many books and papers? |
| 13042 | Was not this too much for human patience? |
| 13042 | What are the great events that constitute a glorious era? |
| 13042 | What stronger right need the European settlers advance to the country than this? |
| 13042 | What was it to him if he should set the house on fire, so that he might boil his pot by the blaze? |
| 13042 | What was the consequence of these exploring expeditions? |
| 13042 | Where is the reader who can contemplate without emotion the disastrous events by which the great dynasties of the world have been extinguished? |
| 13042 | Where, then, is the difference in principle between our measures and those you are so ready to condemn among the people I am treating of? |
| 13042 | Why are kings desolating empires, and depopulating whole countries? |
| 13042 | and are we not at this very moment striving our best to tyrannize over the opinions, tie up the tongues, and ruin the fortunes of one another? |
| 13042 | and have you the baseness to murmur, when we claim a pitiful return for all these benefits?" |
| 13042 | does not our moon give you light every night? |
| 13042 | have we not come thousands of miles to improve your worthless planet? |
| 13042 | have we not intoxicated you with nitrous oxide? |
| 13042 | would he roar,"have I caught ye at last?" |
| 13042 | would you have had me take such sunshine, faint- hearted recreants to my bosom at our first acquaintance? |
| 8571 | ''Why so?'' 8571 Company?" |
| 8571 | For the love of heaven, where are they, wife? |
| 8571 | How is this? |
| 8571 | Is not this Serafina Alvarez, and is not that her portrait? |
| 8571 | Is this a time,said she,"to keep people out of their beds, and to bring home company, to turn the house upside down?" |
| 8571 | Serafina?--what mean you by Serafina? 8571 What mean you, Sir,"cried the latter,"by this intrusion?" |
| 8571 | What right have you,replied Don Fernando,"to ask the question?" |
| 8571 | Who and what are ye,cried he,"and what seek ye in this land?" |
| 8571 | Who did not think, till within these foure yeares, but that these islands had been rather a habitation for Divells, than fit for men to dwell in? 8571 Who goes there?" |
| 8571 | Who goes there? |
| 8571 | Who is there? |
| 8571 | Who is there? |
| 8571 | Who''s afraid? |
| 8571 | ''Have I then been deceived?'' |
| 8571 | ''Have those nurtured in my very bosom, been conspiring against me? |
| 8571 | And what right had he to rail about constancy, after what had passed between him and the Alcayde''s daughter? |
| 8571 | As a citizen of the United States? |
| 8571 | As an American? |
| 8571 | As to the_ sound_, what can you make of it, either in poetry or prose? |
| 8571 | But might not Serafina, herself, be forgetful of her plighted faith? |
| 8571 | But were miracles never to cease? |
| 8571 | But why should I attempt to describe him, when I have Wilson''s own graphic verses to place him before the reader? |
| 8571 | But will they keep those vows? |
| 8571 | Could she have heard of his flirtation with the Alcayde''s daughter? |
| 8571 | Could she hope that the marvelous protection shown to herself would be extended to a whole sisterhood? |
| 8571 | Could this be true? |
| 8571 | Did his eyes deceive him? |
| 8571 | Does any one want further particulars of the fortunes of this eventful little pile? |
| 8571 | Does he take warning and reform? |
| 8571 | Had he indeed been thus tempest- driven upon the very land of which he was in quest? |
| 8571 | Had his vessel been driven from her anchors, and wrecked during his sleep? |
| 8571 | Has it, too, been buried under its cabbage- gardens, and only dug out in modern days for the wonder and edification of the world? |
| 8571 | Have they not called the constant moon to witness? |
| 8571 | Her eyes were ever fixed on the road that led from the country of the Moors, and often she asked the watchman of the tower,"What seest thou?" |
| 8571 | How can I hope that even Sleepy Hollow can escape the general inundation? |
| 8571 | How is a citizen of this republic to designate himself? |
| 8571 | How should he reconcile the two passionate inclinations? |
| 8571 | If the mere fact of being chargeable with faults and imperfections is to condemn an author, who is to escape? |
| 8571 | If, then, such reverses in opinion as to matters of taste can be so readily brought about, when may an author feel himself secure? |
| 8571 | Is this your return for my paternal tenderness?--to beguile the affections of my child, and teach her to deceive her father? |
| 8571 | Might he not behold some peerless beauty in one or other of those seven cities, who might efface the image of Serafina from his thoughts? |
| 8571 | Might he not meet with other loves in foreign ports? |
| 8571 | Might not some wealthier rival present, while he was tossing on the sea, and, backed by the authority of her father, win the treasure of her hand? |
| 8571 | Or who ever made thy moon- lit balconies, thy gardens of myrtles and roses, of oranges, citrons, and pomegranates, respond to more tender serenades? |
| 8571 | What charmed spell has kept this wonderful little place unchanged, though in sight of the most changeful city in the universe? |
| 8571 | What was to be done to ward off so foul a disgrace and to save their illustrious escutcheons from this murderous stain of blood? |
| 8571 | Where is the anchoring- ground of popularity, when he may thus be driven from his moorings, and foundered even in harbor? |
| 8571 | Who did not hate the name, when hee was on land, and shun the place when he was on the seas? |
| 8571 | Who does not know the tale, as told in the magic page of Shakspeare? |
| 8571 | Who ever bore the favors of thy dames more proudly on their casques, or championed them more gallantly in the chivalrous tilts of the Vivarambla? |
| 8571 | cried Vanderscamp,"by pulling so close to the island?" |
| 8571 | cried he in a tone of agony,"is this thy plighted constancy?" |
| 8571 | exclaimed I;''wilt thou cease to love me, because I am not thy brother?'' |
| 8571 | exclaimed she,"how often wilt thou tempt thy fate, and when will thy thirst for glory be appeased?" |
| 8571 | exclaimed the Alcayde, reproachfully,"that you, who were so hardy and fearless in the field, should lose all spirit in prison? |
| 8571 | inquired I;''why shall I not sleep in this hall?'' |
| 8571 | senor,"said she,"what has detained you thus long? |
| 32987 | And how did he take it? |
| 32987 | By whose authority do you act? |
| 32987 | Did Scammel act as aide- de- camp for the day, or did he not? |
| 32987 | Here, sir, are my troops,said he,"how is it your pleasure I should dispose of them?" |
| 32987 | What can you do? |
| 32987 | What do you seek here? |
| 32987 | What is the meaning of all this, sir? |
| 32987 | What is to be done? |
| 32987 | What party? |
| 32987 | What right has Onontio here? 32987 What think you,"said Washington,"if we should retreat to the back parts of Pennsylvania, would the Pennsylvanians support us?" |
| 32987 | Who runs? |
| 32987 | A movement towards Philadelphia? |
| 32987 | But how was he to do this, deficient as he was in horses and vehicles for transportation? |
| 32987 | But what must have been the feelings of the commander- in- chief as he anxiously patrolled his camp and considered his desperate position? |
| 32987 | But what part? |
| 32987 | But which of them?--and by whom? |
| 32987 | But whither? |
| 32987 | But you surely do not consider his case and mine alike?'' |
| 32987 | Could the enemy be at hand? |
| 32987 | Could they remain unconcerned spectators of a conflict between their ancient enemy and republican France? |
| 32987 | Could you lend them instantaneously funds to shelter them from English prosecution? |
| 32987 | Did he intend to detach a part of his forces for a winter''s campaign against the South? |
| 32987 | Did he meditate an irruption into the Jerseys? |
| 32987 | Did he really intend to break through by the way of Ticonderoga? |
| 32987 | He had won laurels in the field; would they continue to flourish in the cabinet? |
| 32987 | He must attempt something on account of his reputation, for what has he done as yet with his great army?" |
| 32987 | How could they be so near without coming to visit him? |
| 32987 | How had they been obtained? |
| 32987 | How was he to be protected from these intrusions? |
| 32987 | How was the apprehended blow to be parried? |
| 32987 | How was this to be done? |
| 32987 | How was this to be prevented? |
| 32987 | How were these double claims to ceremonious respect happening at the same time to be managed? |
| 32987 | How would his inexperienced troops stand the encounter? |
| 32987 | If there is not power in it to check them, what security has a man for life, liberty, or property?" |
| 32987 | If we should be obliged to abandon the town, ought it to stand as winter quarters for the enemy? |
| 32987 | In case an attack while on the march were determined on, should it be a partial or a general one? |
| 32987 | In this situation, remote from reinforcements, inferior to the enemy in numbers, and without hope of support, what was to be done? |
| 32987 | Let me ask you, sir, when is the time for brave men to exert themselves in the cause of liberty and their country, if this is not? |
| 32987 | Losing all caution, he exclaimed, eagerly:"Gentlemen, I hope you belong to our party?" |
| 32987 | Might he make social visits to acquaintances and public characters, not as President, but as private individual? |
| 32987 | Now, whether I am to understand this aye or no to the plain simple question asked, Is the fort to be continued or removed? |
| 32987 | Or why should an ineffectual attempt to relieve the distresses of one brave, unfortunate man, involve many more in the same calamities?" |
| 32987 | Should any difficulties that they may have to encounter at this important crisis deter them? |
| 32987 | Should he keep on to Brunswick or not? |
| 32987 | Since kingly rule is at an end, why retain its effigy? |
| 32987 | The disposition to uphold the army was general; but the difficult question was, who should be commander- in- chief? |
| 32987 | The general said to the surgeon:''Tell me the truth, is there no hope?'' |
| 32987 | The question now was, what would be their next move? |
| 32987 | The question was, how could their plans be most successfully opposed? |
| 32987 | Wait for the arrival of the promised reinforcement, or attempt to check the ravage? |
| 32987 | Washington eagerly inquired particulars; above all, how acted the militia? |
| 32987 | Were they to cannonade the city, or to land troops above it? |
| 32987 | What could be the reason of this supineness on the part of Sir William Howe? |
| 32987 | What stronger evidence can be given of the want of energy in our government than these disorders? |
| 32987 | What was the state of Washington''s army? |
| 32987 | What was their destination? |
| 32987 | What was to be done? |
| 32987 | What was to be done? |
| 32987 | What was to be done? |
| 32987 | What would be the defence of the city if assailed by the ships? |
| 32987 | What, it was asked, were Americans to do in such a juncture? |
| 32987 | Where would it be made? |
| 32987 | Who had sent them? |
| 32987 | Why should we suppose them to possess more humanity than we have ourselves? |
| 32987 | Will not the wise and good strive hard to avert this evil? |
| 32987 | Would they proceed thither by land or water? |
| 32987 | for what purpose of interest or ambition?" |
| 13515 | But what have I to do with her attachments? |
| 13515 | But, father,said Antonio,"can not you spare a moment to point out the road to others? |
| 13515 | Did you ever hear such a pack of stuff, general? |
| 13515 | Do you know the passages about this mansion? |
| 13515 | Is senor Antonio de Castros with him? |
| 13515 | Is there no relief from man-- no pity in heaven? |
| 13515 | May I ask, senor,said Antonio, with some hesitation,"may I ask what you are searching after in all these books?" |
| 13515 | What could she have wished to communicate? 13515 What proof have you to give of your innocence?" |
| 13515 | What--what have we done, that we should be thus wretched? |
| 13515 | Where am I? |
| 13515 | Where are we? |
| 13515 | Where is he, then? |
| 13515 | Where will we meet with such merry groups now- a- days? |
| 13515 | A husband, it is true, may now and then be master in his own house; but who ever knew a bachelor that was not managed by his housekeeper? |
| 13515 | According to Eleazer, the ministering angels said to the Deity,"What is there in man, that thou makest him of such importance? |
| 13515 | Add your knowledge to my youth and activity, and what shall we not accomplish? |
| 13515 | And Bernard de Treves, even after he had attained a knowledge of all the requisites, was he not delayed full three years? |
| 13515 | Antonio inquired whether she knew the name of this impetuous admirer? |
| 13515 | Are there, indeed, such beings? |
| 13515 | But where now is this fair soul? |
| 13515 | But who could he be? |
| 13515 | But why, then, was she brought to his house? |
| 13515 | Did not Pontanus err two hundred times, before he could obtain even the matter on which to found his experiments? |
| 13515 | Do you not know that the time is come for Eugene to return? |
| 13515 | Had he had evil designs, would he have treated her with such frigid ceremony when he had her in his power? |
| 13515 | Has not the swallow flown back over the sea? |
| 13515 | Have you nothing better than this to offer in your defence?" |
| 13515 | He felt convinced that he was a favoured lover; yet, if so, why did he not frequent the tower?--why did he not make his approaches by noon- day? |
| 13515 | He reminds me of that fearful personage in the nursery rhyme: Who goes round the house at night? |
| 13515 | He talks frequently about"the service,"and is fond of humming the old song, Why, soldiers, why, Should we be melancholy, boys? |
| 13515 | He was examined generally, whether he knew why he was arrested, and was conscious of any guilt that might deserve the notice of the holy office? |
| 13515 | He was not mistaken; but how had he got out of the house? |
| 13515 | How do I know that she is worthy of affection? |
| 13515 | How was he to be approached? |
| 13515 | I am ignorant myself of the path of true knowledge; how then can I show it to others?" |
| 13515 | Indeed, why should I confine it to the feathered tribe? |
| 13515 | Is he any thing else than vanity? |
| 13515 | It was evidently the tread of some heavy personage; and yet how could he have got into the house without making a noise? |
| 13515 | Merry or sad shall''t be? |
| 13515 | Nations are too ready to admit that they have natural enemies; why should they be less willing to believe that they have natural friends? |
| 13515 | Or if she is, must not so gallant a lover as this, with his jewels, his rank, and his detestable music, have completely captivated her? |
| 13515 | People, it is true, did talk-- but have not people been prone to talk ever since the world began? |
| 13515 | Perhaps to account for the scene in the garden;--but how can she account for it, or why should she account for it to me? |
| 13515 | Should he be borne down by the oppressive hand of power, who would murmur at his fate?--"Why cumbereth he the ground?" |
| 13515 | Should tempests arise, and he be laid prostrate by the storm, who would mourn over his fall? |
| 13515 | Stranger and sojourner as he was in the land, solitary and harmless in his pursuits, how could he have provoked such hostility? |
| 13515 | The boy had parts, and could pound a pestle and run an errand with any boy in the town- and what more was wanted in a student? |
| 13515 | The bride looked uncommonly beautiful; but, in fact, what woman does not look interesting on her wedding- day? |
| 13515 | The great Flamel, too, did he not labour four- and- twenty years, before he ascertained the first agent? |
| 13515 | The poor scholar was treading enchanted ground; for what fairy land has more of magic in it, than the bedchamber of innocence and beauty? |
| 13515 | To which God replied,"Do you imagine that I will be exalted and glorified only by you here above? |
| 13515 | Was he not some personage of distinction, traveling incog.? |
| 13515 | Was not the mysterious disappearance of Antonio connected with this? |
| 13515 | What am I to her?--or rather, what is she to me?" |
| 13515 | What could be the meaning of this solitude and mystery? |
| 13515 | What difficulties and hardships did not Cartilaceus encounter, at the very threshold of his discoveries? |
| 13515 | What idle humour is this that I have fallen into? |
| 13515 | What is to become of the country, with these evils rankling in its very core? |
| 13515 | What merit, then, have I in assisting your escape? |
| 13515 | What was I to do to pass away the long- lived day? |
| 13515 | What was to be done? |
| 13515 | What were its objects? |
| 13515 | Where was he to shelter himself? |
| 13515 | Who can tell how women generally contrive to get the upper hand? |
| 13515 | Who is there among you that can call all the creatures by their names?" |
| 13515 | Who steals all the sheep at night? |
| 13515 | Who yet has been able to comprehend and describe the nature of the soul, its connection with the body, or in what part of the frame it is situated? |
| 13515 | Why? |
| 13515 | and his mother is happy-- and we shall never-- never part again-- shall we, Eugene?" |
| 13515 | and, pray, why so?" |
| 13515 | art thou still alive?" |
| 13515 | cried one:"think''st thou the servants of the most holy inquisition are to be daunted by thy clamours? |
| 13515 | cried the doctor, impatiently;"will they never have done chattering about that house? |
| 13515 | did I not say that Dolph would one day or other hold up his head with the best of them?" |
| 13515 | exclaimed he with fury,"why have you fled from your friends? |
| 13515 | exclaimed the stranger,"what is to be done? |
| 13515 | he would say,"is not this very decrepitude and suffering another proof of the importance of those secrets with which we are surrounded? |
| 13515 | it ca n''t be Tom Slingsby?" |
| 13515 | said she with a smile,"have you not noticed the trees putting on their wedding dresses of blossoms? |
| 13515 | said she,"it seems as if I have had a long and dismal dream; what has happened, and what has been the matter with me?" |
| 13515 | that he will be home to- morrow, and that on Sunday we are to be married?" |
| 13515 | thought he,"of what avails all thy study? |
| 13515 | where shall we look for truth and innocence, where shall we repose confidence in woman, if even you can deceive?" |
| 7994 | ''And how on earth did you get here?'' 7994 ''And what have you come here for?'' |
| 7994 | ''And what will you do when you get there?'' 7994 ''And what, may I ask, has brought you into this part of the country?'' |
| 7994 | ''And where are your companions?'' 7994 ''And where do you mean to go?'' |
| 7994 | ''How am I to travel, then?'' 7994 ''Señor,''said he,''may I ask the reason of yonder throng?'' |
| 7994 | ''What are you after, my lad?'' 7994 ''What are you going there for?'' |
| 7994 | ''When will you come back?'' 7994 ''Where are you going, youngster?'' |
| 7994 | ''Where are you going?'' 7994 ''Your family, I believe, lives in Richmond?'' |
| 7994 | And is that what you were ashamed to tell me? 7994 And pray how much of this story,"said I,"is believed in Seville?" |
| 7994 | And the change for the hundred- crown note? |
| 7994 | And why so? |
| 7994 | But where am I? |
| 7994 | Do you call that a frivolous subject? |
| 7994 | Good fortune? |
| 7994 | In the diocese of Toul? 7994 In what diocese did you take the white veil?" |
| 7994 | Julia, my dear,said Mr. Somerville,"perhaps you may recollect the name of which Mr. Mountjoy is in quest?" |
| 7994 | Milton''s Paradise Lost? |
| 7994 | We have outstripped pursuit,said the Bedouins;"whither shall we conduct thee? |
| 7994 | Well, but,cried my father,"who is she?--what is she? |
| 7994 | Well,said her husband,"how much have you received from the''charming''young man?" |
| 7994 | What can be the cause of this? |
| 7994 | What do you mean?--what sorrows, my child? |
| 7994 | What has your cousin done to affect you? |
| 7994 | What is the matter with you? |
| 7994 | What possesses the lad? |
| 7994 | What think you,said I, hesitating,"what think you of love?" |
| 7994 | Where am I? 7994 Why, you do not mean to say that the story is founded on fact?" |
| 7994 | ''Father,''said he, with trembling voice, to one of the priests,''who is this you are about to inter?'' |
| 7994 | ''Have you a mother living?'' |
| 7994 | ''How can any one tell the distance?'' |
| 7994 | ''Where are you from?'' |
| 7994 | ''Who surveyed it? |
| 7994 | And pray what were you thinking of? |
| 7994 | And, Scipio-- is she-- is she pretty?" |
| 7994 | Are you perfectly sure of it?" |
| 7994 | But how was I to set about it? |
| 7994 | But we will see what is to be done? |
| 7994 | But where was I to quarter him for the night? |
| 7994 | But who could be this Unknown, that had thus passed by, as in a morning dream, leaving merely flowers and fairy footsteps to tell of her loveliness? |
| 7994 | Can any one have real sensibility of heart, and not be alive to poetry? |
| 7994 | Come down to the level of her mind, or endeavor to raise her to some kind of intellectual equality with myself? |
| 7994 | Did I break out in one of my accustomed rhapsodies? |
| 7994 | Did I seize upon it? |
| 7994 | Do you want to provoke more hostilities? |
| 7994 | From such a devoted, such a rational being, what secrets could I have? |
| 7994 | Has one song, idly piped in thine ear, been sufficient to charm away the cherished tenderness of a whole summer?" |
| 7994 | Have you killed anything?'' |
| 7994 | How came I here? |
| 7994 | How came I here?" |
| 7994 | How can I keep my good fortune from my benefactors, and desert their hospitable roofs in silence? |
| 7994 | How could it be otherwise, under a despotic government that could alter the value of property at every moment? |
| 7994 | How dare you to question me in this manner?'' |
| 7994 | How do they know it? |
| 7994 | I am irretrievably in love with her; what then am I to do? |
| 7994 | If I can furnish an original idea, what care I how many languages she can translate it into? |
| 7994 | If I remain here there will soon be nothing left to hunt; but am I to be a hunter all my life? |
| 7994 | If a duchess can do this, what will other ladies do?" |
| 7994 | If a hunter grossly missed his aim he would ask,''Who shot last with this rifle?'' |
| 7994 | In old Virginny?'' |
| 7994 | Is the tenderest and most fervid affection that can animate the human breast to be made a matter of cold- hearted ridicule?" |
| 7994 | It is true he had to make scanty meals, and to lodge in a garret; but what of that? |
| 7994 | It was necessary for me to go there, and put myself in the way of business; but how was I to go? |
| 7994 | Law had nearly fulfilled one of his promises, for the greater part of the public debt had been paid off; but how paid? |
| 7994 | May I ask what has been your course of study for the last six months?" |
| 7994 | May I ask what system you observe in your intellectual exercises?" |
| 7994 | My father observed me continually with a book in my hand, and satisfied himself that I was a profound student; but what were my studies? |
| 7994 | My first questions were as to where I was and how I came there? |
| 7994 | My heart yearned to know her; but how was I to accost her? |
| 7994 | Something was necessary to make me happy; but what was that something? |
| 7994 | The peddler could not sufficiently express his thankfulness; and when about to depart inquired what he had to pay? |
| 7994 | There''s Judge Broadnax, now, one of the best lawyers we have; is n''t it surprising he should believe in such stuff? |
| 7994 | They accordingly inveighed with heat and bitterness at the rudeness they experienced in the French metropolis; yet what better had they to expect? |
| 7994 | Think you she will keep her vow? |
| 7994 | Was I then to act with reserve toward him, in a matter which might affect the whole current of my future life? |
| 7994 | Was I thinking of the money? |
| 7994 | Was this respectful treatment to my father-- to_ such_ a father, too-- who had always regarded me as the pride of his age-- the staff of his hopes? |
| 7994 | What is a lover without a confidante? |
| 7994 | What is the use of Latin and Greek? |
| 7994 | What unknown region had I landed upon? |
| 7994 | What was to be done? |
| 7994 | Where is thy home and the land of thy people?" |
| 7994 | Where was he to be found? |
| 7994 | Who was it?" |
| 7994 | a voice seemed to exclaim,"is this the stability of thine affections? |
| 7994 | cried I, starting on my feet,''what business is it of yours? |
| 7994 | cried he:''is it not enough to have violated all human ties? |
| 7994 | echoed Don Manuel;''and can you tell me his name?'' |
| 7994 | exclaimed they,"has he been torn to pieces?" |
| 7994 | hast thou so soon forgotten the nymph of the fountain? |
| 7994 | said he, in the softest and most benevolent tone of voice,"What is your age?" |
| 7994 | said he,"you seem agitated; has anything in particular happened?" |
| 7994 | who carried the chain? |
| 7993 | And are you sure, sir,replied Goldsmith, sharply,"that_ you_ can comprehend what he says?" |
| 7993 | And pray, sir,asked Boswell,"what did he say was the appearance?" |
| 7993 | And was he excused? |
| 7993 | Ay; but how many of them,asked Goldsmith, with affected simplicity,"would reach to the moon?" |
| 7993 | But did you make no reply to this high compliment? |
| 7993 | But have you not the thing? |
| 7993 | Come,says George''s adviser,"I see you are a lad of spirit and some learning; what do you think of commencing author like me? |
| 7993 | Did it make you laugh? |
| 7993 | Do n''t you consider, sir, that these are not the manners of a gentleman? 7993 Do you know anything about birds?" |
| 7993 | Do you think, sir,said Boswell,"that all who commit suicide are mad?" |
| 7993 | Eh, what''s that you say? |
| 7993 | Has George Conway put up a sign yet; or John Binley left off drinking drams; or Tom Allen got a new wig? 7993 Have you been bred apprentice to the business?" |
| 7993 | Have you seen,said he in a letter to a friend,"''An Impartial Account of Goldsmith''s History of England''? |
| 7993 | How do you think he served me? |
| 7993 | I know not whether I should tell you-- yet why should I conceal these trifles, or, indeed, anything from you? 7993 Is there anything I can do for you at Paris? |
| 7993 | It is,replied Goldsmith,"for fear of something that he has resolved to kill himself; and will not that timid disposition restrain him?" |
| 7993 | Mr. Goldsmith,said he,"what do you mean by the last word in the first line of your Traveler,''remote, unfriended, solitary, slow?'' |
| 7993 | Nay, but, my dear sir,rejoined Johnson,"why should you not see what every one else does?" |
| 7993 | Nay,replied Burke,"if you had not said so, how should I have known it?" |
| 7993 | Not an atom,replied Cradock;"do you?" |
| 7993 | Pray, doctor,said the lady of the house,"could you do it better?" |
| 7993 | Pray, madam, where did you ever find the epithet''good,''applied to the title of doctor? 7993 Surely, surely, my dear friend,"cried Goldsmith, with alarm,"surely I did not say so?" |
| 7993 | What are you doing there, sir? |
| 7993 | What is the common price of an oak stick, sir? |
| 7993 | What was the name of that Indian king who gave Alexander the Great so much trouble? |
| 7993 | What''s that? 7993 What, is it you, ye dogs?" |
| 7993 | Who is this Scotch cur at Johnson''s heels? |
| 7993 | Who, sir? |
| 7993 | Why was you glad? |
| 7993 | Yet what shall I say now I am entered? 7993 ''And what did you answer,''said I,''to this gracious offer?'' 7993 ''But where is your justice? 7993 ''But, pray, who have they pilfer''d?''... 7993 ''How does he know we will_ permit_ him? 7993 ''My two shirts,''cried he, in a tone that faltered with confusion;''what does the idiot mean?'' 7993 ''Pray what does Miss Horneck? 7993 ''What signifies_ handsome_, when people are thieves?'' 7993 ''What signifies_ justice_? 7993 ''_ He''ll be of us?_''growled he. 7993 ...''I, Sir? 7993 Ah, not Then what was his failing? 7993 And the women here speak it in its highest purity; for instance, teach one of your young ladies at home to pronounce the''Whoar wull I gong?'' 7993 Boswell.--Will you not admit the superiority of Robertson, in whose history we find such penetration, such painting?" |
| 7993 | Bunbury?'' |
| 7993 | But how is poor Goldsmith to raise the ways and means? |
| 7993 | But how was he to get there? |
| 7993 | But to be less serious; where will you find a language so prettily become a pretty mouth as the broad Scotch? |
| 7993 | But what has he to be either proud or vain of? |
| 7993 | But what shall I say? |
| 7993 | But who are those who make the streets their couch, and find a short repose from wretchedness at the doors of the opulent? |
| 7993 | Can we wonder that, with all the love for his native place, which is shown throughout Goldsmith''s writings, he had not the heart to return there? |
| 7993 | Can you dress the boys''hair?" |
| 7993 | Can you lie three in a bed?" |
| 7993 | Come, tell it, and burn ye-- He was, could he help it? |
| 7993 | Do we want a picture as an illustration? |
| 7993 | Do we want a picture of Goldsmith''s experience in this part of his career? |
| 7993 | Do wisdom''s sons gorge cates and vermicelli, Like beastly Bickerstaffe or bothering Kelly? |
| 7993 | England was to him as completely a foreign land as any part of the Continent, and where on earth is a penniless stranger more destitute? |
| 7993 | Foote?" |
| 7993 | Goldsmith immediately carried the war into Boswell''s own quarters, and pinned him with the question,"what he would do if affronted?" |
| 7993 | Granting the poems were not ancient, were they not good? |
| 7993 | Granting they were not the productions of Rowley, were they the less admirable for being the productions of Chatterton? |
| 7993 | Have you a good stomach?" |
| 7993 | Have you got an engraving?" |
| 7993 | Have you seen it, Sam? |
| 7993 | He had been teasing him with many direct questions, such as What did you do, sir? |
| 7993 | He''s done wi''Paoli; he''s off wi''the land- louping scoundrel of a Corsican; and whose tail do you think he has pinn''d himself to now, mon? |
| 7993 | How amid all that love of inferior company, which never to the last forsook him, did he keep his genius so free from every touch of vulgarity?" |
| 7993 | How could he resist such an invitation-- especially as the Jessamy Bride would, of course, be among the guests? |
| 7993 | How does my cousin Jenny, and has she recovered her late complaint? |
| 7993 | How does my poor Jack Goldsmith? |
| 7993 | How was it to be taken by the stripling officer? |
| 7993 | I must treat you to something-- what shall it be? |
| 7993 | I will not be baited with_ what_ and_ why;_ What is this? |
| 7993 | In such a state as ours, who would not wish to please the chief magistrate?" |
| 7993 | Is it not strange that two of such like affections should be so much separated, and so differently employed as we are? |
| 7993 | Is poverty a careless fault? |
| 7993 | Is this the good that makes the humble vain, The good philosophy should not disdain? |
| 7993 | It was necessary to appear in a decent garb before the examining committee; but how was he to do so? |
| 7993 | Johnson.--"Why, who are before him?" |
| 7993 | Or art thou tired of th''undeserved applause Bestowed on bards affecting Virtue''s cause? |
| 7993 | Or do thy moral numbers quaintly flow, Inspired by th''_ Aganippe_ of Soho? |
| 7993 | The country is a fine one, perhaps? |
| 7993 | Then, perhaps, there''s more wit and learning among the Irish? |
| 7993 | There are good company in Ireland? |
| 7993 | To what could I attribute this silence but to displeasure or forgetfulness? |
| 7993 | Was ever poet so trusted before?" |
| 7993 | Was the Jessamy Bride a witness of this unlucky exploit? |
| 7993 | Well, now that I am down, where the d-- l_ is I_? |
| 7993 | Were the bright eyes of the Jessamy Bride responsible for this additional extravagance of wardrobe? |
| 7993 | What art can wash her guilt away? |
| 7993 | What chance had he of gaining it? |
| 7993 | What did you say, sir? |
| 7993 | What do you think, mon? |
| 7993 | What had Boswell done to merit such an honor? |
| 7993 | What is The Deserted Village but a pretty poem of easy numbers, without fancy, dignity, genius, or fire? |
| 7993 | What is The Good- Natured Man but a poor, water- gruel dramatic dose? |
| 7993 | What is that? |
| 7993 | What more could be said to express the intolerable nuisance of a consummate bore? |
| 7993 | What signifies teasing you longer with moral observations, when the business of my writing is over? |
| 7993 | What was to be done? |
| 7993 | When uncover''d, a buzz of inquiry runs round,''Pray what are their crimes?''... |
| 7993 | When you-- but I stop here, to inquire how your health goes on? |
| 7993 | Whence this love for every place and every country but that in which we reside-- for every occupation but our own? |
| 7993 | Whence this romantic turn that all our family are possessed with? |
| 7993 | Where is Charles? |
| 7993 | Who will not say that Goldsmith had not the best of this petty contest? |
| 7993 | Why do you get up before the cloth is removed? |
| 7993 | Why is a cow''s tail long? |
| 7993 | Why is a fox''s tail bushy?" |
| 7993 | Why the plague, then, so fond of Ireland? |
| 7993 | Will you have some apples?" |
| 7993 | You are perhaps the worst-- eh, eh?'' |
| 7993 | _''What, yon solemn- faced, odd- looking man that stands near? |
| 7993 | and from whom? |
| 7993 | but how? |
| 7993 | cried Garrick,"with twopence halfpenny in your pocket?" |
| 7993 | do you mean tardiness of locomotion?" |
| 7993 | exclaimed the bishop,''is that the hawthorn- bush? |
| 7993 | glancing at an old woman''s stall; then, recollecting the print- shop window:"Sam,"said he,"have you seen my picture by Sir Joshua Reynolds? |
| 7993 | replied I,''cut down the bush that supplies so beautiful an image in The Deserted Village?'' |
| 7993 | say, philosophic sage, Whose genius suits so well this tasteful age, Is the Pantheon, late a sink obscene, Become the fountain of chaste Hippocrene? |
| 7993 | take courage, come do,''...''Who, I? |
| 7993 | this desire of fortune, and yet this eagerness to dissipate? |
| 7993 | your good worships, how could they be wiser, When both have been spoil''d in to- day''s''Advertiser''?" |