Questions

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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19753And why should I not write to Klopstock,he wrote,"and send him anything of mine, anything in which he can take an interest?
19753But what is thine?
19753Can they separate me from myself?
19753Do you recognise me in this tone, Behrisch?
19753If one did not play some mad pranks in youth,he said on another occasion,"what would one have to think of in old age?"
19753It is now about time that I should return[ to Strassburg]; I will and will, but what avails willing in the presence of the faces I see around me? 19753 Lieber Gott,"he wrote on receiving a letter from his father,"shall I then also become like this when I am old?
19753Who among all my teachers, except yourself,he afterwards wrote on his return to Frankfort,"ever thought me worthy of encouragement?
19753[ 83] Might we not infer from this passage that not Herder but Goethe was the dominating spirit in their intercourse? 19753 _ Bist''s?_"was Lavater''s first exclamation.
19753Am I not a bit of a scamp, seeing I am in love with all these girls?
19753Am I not more resigned in the matter of understanding and proving than yourself?
19753And to what end?
19753Are life and love not here?
19753Are not these the fairy gardens after which thy heart yearned?
19753Aug'', mein Aug'', was sinkst du nieder?
19753Do I require evidence that I exist?
19753Do n''t let us be frightened like weaklings because we must often disagree: should our passions collide, can we not endure the collision?
19753Does anyone consider whence he came?
19753Fesselt dich die Jugendblüte, Diese liebliche Gestalt, Dieser Blick voll Treu''und Güte Mit unendlicher Gewalt?
19753Fetters thee that lovely mien?
19753Fetters thee that youthful freshness?
19753Goldne Träume, kommt ihr wieder?
19753Herz, mein Herz, was soll das geben?
19753How should you, tender and good as I know you to be, not be a little partial to me in return?
19753I can tell you nothing, for what is there that can be said?
19753If Goethe was fortunate in the place of his birth, was he equally fortunate in its date( 1749)?
19753In a letter to a correspondent who had lent him a work of Spinoza we have these casual words:"May I keep it a little longer?
19753Is he the same being who now sits at the card- table amid the glaring lights of a fashionable drawing- room in the presence of hateful faces?
19753Is it not a better choice for one of decent merit to plunge into the world?
19753May I not address the living, to whose grave I would make a pilgrimage?
19753Perhaps the novelty of the impression has struck me overmuch, but how can I help it if natural causes produce natural workings in me?...
19753Say, heart of me, what this importeth; What distresseth thee so sore?
19753Shall my soul no longer attach itself to what is good and amiable?
19753That glance so full of truth and goodness, With an adamantine chain?
19753Und doch, wenn ich, Lili, dich nicht liebte, Fänd''ich hier und fänd''ich dort mein Glück?
19753Under what conditions, he asks, do classical writers appear?
19753Was bedränget dich so sehr?
19753Whither he is hasting, who knows?
19753Why sink my eyelids as I gaze?
19753Ye golden dreams of other days, Come ye again?
19753evidence that I feel?
19753hast thou not here all that peaceful bliss requires?...
19753how cam''st thou in such case?
19753what bliss; Yet, Lili, if I loved thee not, Where should I find my happiness?
5733Mademoiselle,replied he, somewhat embarrassed,"I know not"--"How?"
5733We will not speak of it,I replied:"what is the use of it?
5733What do you desire?
5733What do you want?
5733What hinders me,he exclaimed,"from taking one of the green cords, and fitting it, if not to your neck, to your back?"
5733What would he say, then?
5733Who allowed you to open that box?
5733Who has revealed that to you?
5733Why not?
5733Why not?
5733Young gentleman, how came you here, and what are you doing?
5733--"And do you, Emilia, give me this advice, to avoid your house?"
5733--"And what reward do you require?"
5733--"But what shall I do?"
5733--"Do you know me, then?"
5733--"For example,"I continued,"if any one who knew, prized, honored, and adored you, laid such a paper before you, what would you do?"
5733--"How so, master?"
5733--"In what company?"
5733--"In what do they consist?"
5733--"What do you want to know?"
5733--"What is known, then?"
5733--"Where did you become acquainted with him?"
5733--"Who, then, are you,"he asked in defiance,"who dare speak thus?"
5733--"Why not?"
5733And what is Homer in the/Ilias/?
5733And what more could we desire?
5733And what then was Religion, what was Poetry, what was all high and heroic feeling?
5733But should not this redound to his credit, that he showed his art just where an object for it presented itself?
5733But where should these images be got except from nature?
5733Can I serve you?"
5733Do I not always say, that ingratitude is the greatest of vices, and no man would be ungrateful if he were not forgetful?"
5733Do you see these three apples?"
5733For what good is it to''whine, put finger i''the eye, and sob,''in such a case?
5733How could I comfort her without at least assuring her of some sort of affection?
5733How has such a temper been attained in this so lofty and impetuous mind, once too, dark, desolate and full of doubt, more than any other?
5733How is he who is encompassed with a double terror to be emancipated from fear?
5733How may we, each of us in his several sphere, attain it, or strengthen it, for ourselves?
5733I had my sword by my side too; and could I not soon have finished with the old man, in case of hostile demonstrations?
5733I had often pressed my friend Behrisch, too, that he would make plain to me what was meant by experience?
5733I might have looked worse than I myself knew, since for a long time I had not consulted a looking- glass; and who does not become used to himself?
5733Might I not look more closely at that golden railing, which appears to enclose in a very wide circle the interior of the garden?"
5733Spangenberg, what is your business with Thorane?
5733Still more, to snarl and snap in malignant wise,''like dog distract, or monkey sick?''
5733Suppose we had lost the battle: what would have been their fate at this moment?
5733The painter professedly imitated nature: why not the poet also?
5733The reply of a pious master- tinman was especially noted, who, when one of his craft attempted to shame him by asking,"Who is really your confessor?"
5733These depressing reflections, as I was soon convinced, were only to be banished by activity; but of what was I to take hold?
5733These men-- are they, then, completely blinded?
5733These towns will be imperial towns, will they?
5733Think you the enemy would have stood with his hands before him?
5733This house- holder-- what would he have?
5733This one, too, you have now taken away from me, without letting the other go; and how many do you not manage to keep at once?
5733Thus I also was then a Prussian in my views, or, to speak more correctly, a Fritzian; since what cared we for Prussia?
5733Was it not just so with him who is absent, and who at last betrothed himself to you under my very eyes?
5733What has she confessed, then?
5733What has she signed?"
5733What was I to do?
5733What will people say?
5733What will you say if I entreat you not to continue your lessons?
5733Who could ever see it?
5733Who knows, or can figure what the Man Shakespeare was, by the first, by the twentieth perusal of his works?
5733Who was I, she would like to know, that had a right to doubt the family and respectability of this young man?
5733Why do we wish to assemble in such numbers, except to take a mutual interest in each other?
5733With respect to both, but especially the latter, the cause lies close at hand; but who dares to speak it out?
5733With such youthful impressions, which nothing had as yet rubbed off, how could I have resolved to set foot in an inn in a strange city?
5733Yet who had ever seen it?
5733You remember that small- ware woman at the corner, who is neither young nor pretty?
5733and could I do that at such a moment in a cool, moderate manner?
5733and how can that be done when so many little secessions are to be seen in our circle?
5733one must select that which is important: but what is important?
5733place?"
5733said she, with graceful astonishment,"do you forget your friends so soon?"
5733street?"
5733you serve?"