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21815Are they worth anything as religious views?
21815But_ you_,he said sternly,"tell me what did_ you_ think when you saw my name?
21815Hey, what now? 21815 How did you manage it?"
21815I suppose you thought I was in the habit of selling my books? 21815 My dear Whiteside, how_ can_ you say so?
21815My dear fellow, you must_ not_ let me be a kill- joy, you must really open the bottle for yourself; why should you deny yourself for me? 21815 My dear fellow,"he wrote again,"with the ranks so thinning around us, should we not close up, come nearer to each other?
21815Very odd, all this,he said,"but I suppose when we_ do_ come back, it will be all right?"
21815What?
21815Alas, is there not much of this when one of these pleasant"specialists"departs?
21815But he would have liked to hear,"May we also smoke?"
21815Do you not see that by saying such a thing you give yourself away?"
21815Even granting its correctness, what need or compulsion to mention it?
21815Have you not the tact to see that such a thing as that should not appear?"
21815How did it leave my library?"
21815It would do very well to go to Court in, hey?"
21815Some of these personages were highly indignant, for were they not characters in the drama?
21815Surely not?"
21815Was he on his travels at a strange place?
21815What do you make of it?"
21815What_ can_ he mean?
21815When the ladies began to titter, he looked round sternly saying"Where''s the merriment?
21815Who do you think it was?
21815Who will forget his quaint little figure, shrewd face, the native accent, never lost; and his"Ah me dear fellow, shure what can I do?"
21815of some of Boz''s short stories?
11729For what reason?
11729''Am I to be hunted in this manner?''
11729''Are we alive after all this satire?''
11729''Because a man can not be right in all things, is he to be right in nothing?''
11729''Do n''t you consider, Sir, that these are not the manners of a gentleman?''
11729''Do the devils lie?
11729''Do you know how to say_ yes_ or_ no_ properly?''
11729''How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?''
11729''How much do you think you and I could get in a week if we were to_ work as hard_ as we could?''
11729''How will you prove that, Sir?''
11729''If a bull could speak, he might as well exclaim,"Here am I with this cow and this grass; what being can enjoy greater felicity?"''
11729''If any man has a tail, it is Col,''v. 330;''I will not be baited with what and why; what is this?
11729''Pray, Sir, have you ever seen Brentford?''
11729''Upon the whole, which is preferable, the philosophic method of the English, or the rhetoric of the French preachers?
11729''What harm does it do to any man to be contradicted?''
11729''What have you to do with Liberty and Necessity?
11729''What is your drift, Sir?''
11729''Who can like the Highlands?''
11729''Who is the worse for being talked of uncharitably?
11729''Why do n''t you dash away like Burney?''
11729''Why do you shiver?''
11729''Worth seeing?
11729126;''Have you no better manners?
11729141, n. 2;''Does the dog talk of me?''
11729153, n. 1;''do the devils lie?''
11729248; which is the best?
11729273; humane one, a, v. 357;''is any King a Whig?''
11729320;''If I accustom a servant to tell a lie for_ me_, have I not reason to apprehend that he will tell many lies for himself?''
11729320;''Is getting £ 100,000 a proof of excellence?''
11729321, n. 3;''is this your tragedy or comedy?''
11729341;_ Lives of the Poets_, 200 guineas(?
1172936, 257; what is poetry?
11729444; what should be taught first?
11729461;''Who can run the race with death?''
117294_; v. 389, n. 1;''Describe the inn, Sir?
1172951;''If one man in Scotland gets possession of two thousand pounds, what remains for all the rest of the nation?''
1172957;''To a sick man what is the public?''
1172969;''What, is it you, you dogs?''
1172994;''Do you think that a man the night before he is to be hanged cares for the succession of a royal family?''
11729Biddle?"
11729Boswell?"
11729Can a leaf be cancelled without too much trouble?
11729I owe to the authenticity of my work, to its respectability, and to the credit of my illustrious friends[?
11729Mr. Berkeley, being called upon, enquired what was to be done?
11729Or what more than to hold your tongue about it?''
11729Pray, now, are you ever able to bring the sloe to perfection?''
11729You may be sure that I do[?
11729_ Sir Thomas Brown''s remark''Do the devils lie?
11729a prig, Sir?''
11729is Signor Florismarte there?"
11729what is that?
11729why is a cow''s tail long?
11729why is a fox''s tail bushy?''
16745Could''st thou no better keep, O Abbey old?
16745Is it that of a dependant to a parental benefactor? 16745 The question is,"wrote Arnold,"is the view propounded_ true_?
16745To have faith in Christ means to be attached to Christ, to embrace Christ, to be identified with Christ--but how?
16745Well, my little man, and how do you spell_ dog_?
16745_ Your educated and intelligent classes_,sneered Arminius, in his most offensive manner--"where are they?
16745''O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?''
16745''Who are we?''
16745Alluring, is it not?
16745And from that memorable book what did we learn?
16745And on that Death, what is St. Paul''s teaching?
16745And what would he have raised in their place?
16745Are we to call him a great poet?
16745But was the publicity in these cases perfectly full and entire?
16745But what is the capital difficulty in the way of obligatory instruction, or indeed any national system of instruction, in this country?
16745Can any life be imagined more hideous, more dismal, more unenviable?...
16745How is he to bring the evil and self- seeking tendencies of his composite nature into conformity with the law and will of God?
16745Little helping, wounding much, Dull of heart, and hard of touch, Brother man''s despairing sign Who may trust us to divine?
16745Poor Mr. Matthew Arnold, upon this, emerged suddenly from his corner, and asked hesitatingly:''But will any one dare to call him a man of delicacy?''
16745Were there not some places which the details did not reach?
16745What is Lent, and the miracle of the temptation?
16745What is it which sets Paul in motion?
16745What is the miracle of the Incarnation?
16745What resolutions could I propose?
16745What then, according to Arnold, is God?
16745When shall I be My God with Thee, To see Thy face?
16745When we originally encounter the word in the Lecture[30] on Heine, Arnold is speaking of Heine''s life- long battle-- with what?
16745Why is the earnest Liberalism and Nonconformity of Lancashire and Yorkshire to be agitated on this question by hope deferred?
16745Why then do we call him the greatest Inspector that we ever had?
16745Would he have tolerated the testimony of another?
16745was offered as a paraphrase of"Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased?"
11031And what did you reply?
11031And who is the gentleman in lace?
11031And would I not, sir?
11031Are you?
11031But, sir, you will allow that some players are better than others?
11031Did you hear?
11031Did you see?
11031Here is Mr. Johnson very ill,she writes on the 1st of February;...."What shall we do for him?
11031How is it,he said,"that we always hear the loudest yelps for liberty amongst the drivers of negroes?"
11031How,asked Walmsley,"can you contrive to plunge your heroine into deeper calamity?"
11031If, sir, you were shut up in a castle and a new- born baby with you, what would you do?
11031Is it wrong, sir,he took speedy opportunity of inquiring from the oracle,"to affect singularity in order to make people stare?"
11031Sir, do you think that a man the night before he is to be hanged cares for the succession of the royal family? 11031 Sir,"said Johnson,"do n''t you know how you yourself think?
11031Think nothing gain''d,he cries,"till nought remain; On Moscow''s walls till Gothic standards fly, And all be mine beneath the polar sky?"
11031What do you mean by damned?
11031What do you mean, sir?
11031What do you take me for? 11031 What had Cromwell done for his country?"
11031What influence can Mr. Sheridan have upon the language of this great country by his narrow exertions? 11031 What would you have me retract?
11031What,he asked,"have not all insects gay colours?"
11031Who is that gentleman?
11031Who is this Scotch cur at Johnson''s heels?
11031Why did you go?
11031Why is a cow''s tail long? 11031 Why should you think so?
11031Why, then, sir, did you go?
11031Why_ nations_? 11031 Would you eat your dinner that day, sir?"
11031After some months of instruction in English history, he asked them who had destroyed the monasteries?
11031At another time he checked Boswell''s flow of panegyric by asking,"Is he like Burke, who winds into a subject like a serpent?"
11031Before long he was trying Boswell''s tastes by asking him in Greenwich Park,"Is not this very fine?"
11031Did his gaiety extend further than his own nation?"
11031Did no subverted empire mark his end?
11031Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound?
11031Do you read books through?
11031Do you think I am so ignorant of the world as to prescribe to a gentleman what company he is to have at his table?"
11031He for subscribers baits his hook; And takes your cash: but where''s the book?
11031He''s done wi''Paoli-- he''s off wi''the land- louping scoundrel of a Corsican, and who''s tail do you think he''s pinned himself to now, mon?"
11031How was he to reach some solid standing- ground above the hopeless mire of Grub Street?
11031If a bull could speak, he might as well exclaim,''Here am I with this cow and this grass; what being can enjoy greater felicity?''"
11031Johnson was not unnaturally displeased with the dialogue, and growled out,"Why should I be always writing?"
11031Must dull suspense corrupt the stagnant mind?
11031Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
11031Must no dislike alarm, no wishes rise?
11031No cries invoke the mercies of the skies?
11031No matter where; wise fear, you know Forbids the robbing of a foe; But what to serve our private ends Forbids the cheating of our friends?
11031Or hostile millions press him to the ground?
11031Or what more than to hold your tongue about it?"
11031Poor Boswell was stunned; but he recovered when Johnson observed to Davies,"What do you think of Garrick?
11031Should we regret or rejoice to say that it involves an obvious inaccuracy?
11031What do you think, mon?
11031What have you to do with liberty and necessity?
11031What more can be desired for human happiness?"
11031What shall I do?"
11031When the last sheet of the_ Dictionary_ had been carried to the publisher, Millar, Johnson asked the messenger,"What did he say?"
11031Where was he to turn for daily bread?
11031Why is a fox''s tail bushy?"
11031Would not a gentleman be disgraced by having his wife sing publicly for hire?
11031is it you, you dogs?
11031sir, would you prevent any people from feeding themselves, if by any honest means they can do it?"
11031sir,"exclaimed Johnson,"a fellow who claps a hump upon his back and a lump on his leg and cries,''_ I am Richard III._''?
8957A tailor?
8957Are you then,said M."studying your lesson?"
8957Did you see that?
8957Do you think,said the general,"you can run a Frenchman through the body?"
8957How can that be?
8957See what?
8957So, sirrah, you are an infidel, are you? 8957 That rat I just sent into its hole again-- did you feel the shot?
8957What do you come here for, sir?
8957Will you sell him?
8957''True,''( it may be answered)''but how are the PUBLIC interested in your sorrows or your description''?''
8957( Said Christabel,) And who art thou?
8957( he said, after a short pause,) might the cost be?
8957--"When I played this air,"observed the lady,"to a dear friend whom you know, she turned to me, saying,''what do you want?''
8957Am I right in assuming this as the cause?
8957And in''Halbert the Grim'':"There is pity in many,-- Is there any in him?
8957And what can ail the mastiff bitch?
8957And who are the friends of the People?
8957And will your mother pity me, Who am a maiden most forlorn?
8957And with what increased caution and jealousy ought we not to listen to the affirmation, that Jacobinism is obsolete even in France?
8957Are ligament and exterior combination indispensable pre- requisites to the sovereign influence of mind over mind?
8957Are you familiar with Leighton''s Works?
8957But are we not weakening ourselves?
8957But for what peace?
8957But why should they be opposed, when they may be made subservient merely by being subordinated?
8957By what softer name shall we characterise appeals to the people on a subject which touches their feelings, and precludes their reasoning?
8957By what softer name shall we characterise the attempts to connect the war by false facts and false reasoning with accidental scarcity?
8957Can this be she, The lady who knelt at the old oak tree?
8957For why, good Lord?
8957From the negotiations at Lisle to the present moment has England or France weakened itself in the greater degree?
8957Geraldine rises, puts on her silken vestments-- tricks her hair, and not doubting her spell, she awakens Christabel,"Sleep you, sweet lady Christabel?
8957I have power to bid thee flee?"
8957If possible, what are its necessary conditions?
8957Infinite Wisdom deemed clearer manifestations inexpedient; and is man to dictate to his Maker?
8957Is the night chilly and dark?
8957Let the grand question be determined; Is, or is not the Bible''inspired?''
8957Man asks what is wisdom?
8957Said Christabel, How camest thou here?
8957Sir, to employ arguments solely to the purposes of popular irritation is a branch of Jacobinism?
8957Sir, will men be governed by mere words without application?
8957That comes to a deal of money at the end of a year; and how much did you say there was to be for the money?
8957The Baron surprised at these sudden transitions, exclaims,"What ails then my beloved child?"
8957The next question was,"How would you like to have them furnished?"
8957The night is chill; the forest bare; Is it the wind that moaneth bleak?
8957The old man looking at him attentively, asked him if he had been in bed?
8957Thirty and two pages?
8957This difference may, without breaking the ties of effective union, exist even in this house; how much more then in different kingdoms?
8957Thus in''Johnie of Breadis Lee'':"What news, what news, ye grey- headed carle, What news bring ye to me?"
8957Was it there before?
8957We are for ever attributing personal unities to imaginary aggregates.--What is the PUBLIC, but a term for a number of scattered individuals?
8957We have been asked too, what we mean by Jacobinism?
8957What sees she there?
8957What, says he, do you mean by destroying the power of Jacobinism?
8957Where is the grave of Sir Arthur O''Kellyn?
8957Whether, at the end of this campaign, France is not more likely to suffer the feebleness ensuing on exhausted finance than England?
8957Why did I wish for peace at Lisle?
8957Why stares she with unsettled eye Can she the bodiless dead espy?
8957Why then write sonnets or monodies?
8957With a proud spirit, that forgets its own contracted range of thought, and circumscribed knowledge, who is to limit the sway of Omnipotence?
8957and whence comes it?
8957dost thou loiter here?
8957or is it that, as years come upon us,( except with some more healthy- happy spirits,) life itself loses much of its poetry for us?
8957or mind over matter?
8957so who is he who would thus erect a funeral pile to the memory of the honoured dead?
8957so young, and so wicked?"
8957such sights to see?)
8957what ails poor Geraldine?
8957when will you get rid of that shameful gown?"
8918And was he excused?
8918Ay, ay, man,said he,"pray where is the great wit in that speech?"''
8918But you think, Sir, that Warburton is a superiour critick to Theobald?
8918But, Sir,( said Mr. Burney,) you''ll have Warburton upon your bones, wo n''t you?
8918Very true, and where will you find such_ men_ and such_ horses_?''
8918What do you think of them?
8918Who, Sir? 8918 Why, Sir, do you stare?
8918''And who are you,''asked Johnson,''that talk thus liberally?''
8918''And who will be my biographer,''said he,''do you think?''
8918''But why does my dear Mr. Warton tell me nothing of himself?
8918''Can I do any thing to promoting the diploma?
8918''Has heaven reserv''d in pity to the poor, No pathless waste, or undiscover''d shore?
8918''Has not----[1333] a great deal of wit, Sir?''
8918''How does poor Smart do, Sir; is he likely to recover?''
8918''How, Sir,( said Dr. Adams,) can you think of doing it alone?
8918''How, when competitors like these contend, Can_ surly Virtue_ hope to fix a friend?''
8918''I know my Baretti will not be satisfied with a letter in which I give him no account of myself: yet what account shall I give him?
8918''I think in a few weeks to try another excursion[1102]; though to what end?
8918''I( says he) may surely be contented without the praise of perfection, which if I could obtain in this gloom of solitude, what would it avail me?
8918''Is there not imagination in them, Sir?''
8918''Poor dear Collins[811]!--Would a letter give him any pleasure?
8918''Still to one bishop Philips seem a wit?''
8918''Then when I come to talk of Greenwich-- Did you ever see it?
8918''Towards Mr. Savage''s_ Life_ what more have you got?
8918''Was there ever,''cried he,''such stuff as great part of Shakespeare?
8918''What do they make me say, Sir?''
8918''What''s the matter?''
8918''You perhaps ask, whither should I go?
8918''_ He''ll be of us_,( said Johnson) how does he know we will_ permit_ him?
8918''_ Langton_ is a good Cumæ, but who must be Sibylla?
8918( said Dodsley) do you think a letter from Johnson could hurt Lord Chesterfield?
8918236. Who touched old Northcote''s hand?
891899):--''Does not one table Bavius still admit?
8918After staring at each other in silent amaze, Dr. Francis asked how that speech could be written by him?
8918Amid these names can BOSWELL be forgot, Scarce by North Britons now esteem''d a Scot[659]?
8918And every publisher refuse The offspring of his happy Muse[356]?''
8918And would you have me cross my_ genius_ when it leads me sometimes to voracity and sometimes to abstinence?''
8918Aut, hoc si nimium est, tandem nova lexica poscam?
8918Besides, Sir, what influence can Mr. Sheridan have upon the language of this great country, by his narrow exertions?
8918But if a man can be supposed to make no provision for death in war, what can be the state that would have awakened him to the care of futurity?
8918But what can I do?
8918But what can you expect, as Lord Kames justly observes, from a school where boys are taught to rob on the highway?''
8918But what is success to him that has none to enjoy it?
8918But what think you?
8918But where shall we find them, and, at the same time, the obedience due to them?
8918But why then does he not write now and then on the living manners of the times?''
8918But, Sir, how can you do this in three years?
8918Can I help?
8918Carmina vis nostri scribant meliora Poetae?
8918Computation, if two to one against two, how many against five?
8918Deteriora ei offerre cui meliorum ingens copia est, cui non ridiculum videtur?
8918Did I ever tell you an anecdote of him?
8918Do n''t you like it, Sir?"
8918Do you know Mathematicks?
8918Do you know Natural History?''
8918Ego cur, acquirere pauca Si possum, invideor; cum lingua Catonis et Enni Sermonem patrium ditaverit, et nova rerum Nomina protulerit?
8918Garrick overhearing him, exclaimed,''eh?
8918Have you any more notes on Shakspeare?
8918He asked me, I suppose, by way of trying my disposition,''Is not this very fine?''
8918He behaved with perfect composure at his execution, and called out''_ Dulce et decorum est pro patriâ mori_?''
8918He continues:--''Such is the reason of our practice; and who shall treat it with contempt?
8918He looked at me as if I had talked of going to the North Pole, and said,"You do not insist on my accompanying you?"
8918He then addressed himself to Davies:''What do you think of Garrick?
8918He then began to descant upon the force of testimony, and the little we could know of final causes; so that the objections of, why was it so?
8918He then called to the boy,''What would you give, my lad, to know about the Argonauts?''
8918How are you to get all the etymologies?
8918How goes Apollonius[844]?
8918How other- wise was Johnson able to hire and furnish a large house for his school?
8918How shall we determine the proportion of intrinsick merit?
8918How would"disposition"do?...
8918I am afraid my stay with you can not be long; but what is the inference?
8918I ask him a plain question,''What do you mean to teach?''
8918I have already assumed the bee for my device, and who ever brought an action of trover or trespass against that avowed free- booter?
8918If Mrs. Johnson had not money, how did she and her husband live from July 1735 to the spring of 1738?
8918If you said two and two make four, he would say,"How will you prove that, Sir?"
8918In all modern periods of this country, have not the writers on one side been regularly called hirelings, and on the other patriots?''
8918Is Boulter there?''
8918Is that not too strong?
8918Is there not sad stuff?
8918Is this the language of one who wished to blast the laurels of Milton[683]?
8918Johnson has thus translated:--''Canst thou believe the vast eternal mind Was e''er to Syrts and Libyan sands confin''d?
8918Johnson?''
8918Late in life, if any man praised a book in his presence, he was sure to ask,''Did you read it through?''
8918Lord Lansdowne was the Granville of Pope''s couplet--''But why then publish?
8918May I enquire after her?
8918May I fondly hope that to the maker of so large an Index will be extended the gratitude which Lord Bolingbroke says was once shown to lexicographers?
8918May not this, however, be a poetical fiction?
8918May there not be the same difference between men who read as their taste prompts and men who are confined in cells and colleges to stated tasks?
8918Misfortune, indeed, he may yet feel; for where is the bottom of the misery of man?
8918Mr. Burney asked him then if he had seen Warburton''s book against Bolingbroke''s_ Philosophy_[983]?
8918Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
8918No matter where; wise fear, you know, Forbids the robbing of a foe; But what, to serve our private ends, Forbids the cheating of our friends[948]?''
8918No peaceful desert yet unclaim''d by Spain?
8918No peaceful desert, yet unclaimed by Spain?''
8918No secret island in the boundless main?
8918No secret island in the boundless main?
8918Now Temple, can I help indulging vanity?''
8918O where was the common sense of those who instituted such colleges?
8918Omnia percurro trepidus, circum omnia lustro, Si qua usquam pateat melioris semita vitae, Nec quid agam invenio.... Quid faciam?
8918On Oct. 10, 1779, Boswell told Johnson, that he had been''agreeably mistaken''in saying:--''What would it avail me in this gloom of solitude?''
8918Quid autem Cæcilio Plautoque dabit Romanus, ademptum Virgilio Varioque?
8918Quis sanus hirtam agrestemque vestem Lucullo obtulisset, cujus omnia fere Serum opificia, omnia Parmae vellera, omnes Tyri colores latuerunt?
8918Shall I come uninvited, or stay here where nobody perhaps would miss me if I went?
8918Shall JOHNSON friendless range the town?
8918Shall dull suspense corrupt the stagnant mind?
8918Shall no dislike alarm, no wishes rise, No cries attempt the mercy of the skies?
8918Shall the Presbyterian_ Kirk_ of Scotland have its General Assembly, and the Church of England be denied its Convocation?''
8918Sir, you may analyse this, and say what is there in it?
8918That he would choose this waste, this barren ground, To teach the thin inhabitants around, And leave his truth in wilds and deserts drown''d?''
8918That it must be so soon quitted, is a powerful remedy against impatience; but what shall free us from reluctance?
8918The Stuarts have found few apologists, for the dead can not pay for praise; and who will, without reward, oppose the tide of popularity?
8918The passage is in Thomson''s_ Winter_, l. 116:--''In what far- distant region of the sky, Hush''d in deep silence, sleep ye when''tis calm?''
8918The visit was paid early in the year, and was over in February; what haymakers were there at that season?
8918They would all have some people under them; why not then have some people above them?''
8918This most unlucky accident threw him into such a fit of shame and anger that he roared out like a bull,"What have I done?
8918To either of these how could any answer be returned?
8918To this circumstance Mr. Derrick alludes in the following lines of his_ Fortune, a Rhapsody_:''Will no kind patron JOHNSON own?
8918Was Mallet anywise hurt by his publication of Lord Bolingbroke?
8918Was there a single writer at that time who had objected to torture?
8918Was there more than one?
8918We can fit the two volumnes in two hours, ca n''t we?"
8918What have I done?"''
8918What then can be the reason why we lament more him that dies of a wound, than him that dies of a fever?
8918What was Johnson doing meanwhile?
8918What?
8918What?
8918What?''
8918When the messenger who carried the last sheet to Millar returned, Johnson asked him,''Well, what did he say?''
8918When would that man have prepared himself to die, who went to seek death without preparation?
8918Where hangs the new volume[821]?
8918Where warbles to thy ear the sacred throng, Thy moral sense, thy dignity of song?
8918Where was Mrs. Johnson living at this time?
8918Where was the offence?
8918Whether Roper''s?
8918Why then should I suppress it?
8918Why''out of the abundance of the heart''should I not speak[75]?
8918Why, now, there is stealing; why should it be thought a crime?
8918Will it not, Sir?"
8918Will you believe me, when I assure you he told me"he had but one, and that he kept for_ his own reading_?"''
8918Will you now do my picture?
8918With the debates, shall not I have business enough?
8918Would your society[440], or any gentleman, or body of men that you know, take such a bargain?
8918[ 1339]''Has heaven reserved, in pity to the poor, No pathless waste, or undiscovered shore?
8918[ 247] Hawkins(_ Life_, p. 61) says that in August, 1738(?
8918[ 275] May we not trace a fanciful similarity between Politian and Johnson?
8918[ 372]''For who would leave, unbrib''d, Hibernia''s land, Or change the rocks of Scotland for the Strand?
8918[ 715] Catherine Sawbridge, sister of Mrs.[?
8918[ 926]''Et pourquoi tuer cet amiral?
8918[ Page 126: Was Richard Savage Thales?
8918an accingar studiis gravioribus audax?
8918but wherefore alas?
8918have not all insects gay colours[1448]?''
8918have they given_ him_ a pension?
8918or why was it not so?
8918or, to mention a stronger attraction, why not to dear Mr. Langton?
8918tenebrisne pigram damnare senectam Restat?
8918that''Johnson neither asked nor received from government any reward whatsoever for his political labours?''
8918what do you say?
8918what gleam is that which paints the air?
8918with two- pence half- penny in your pocket?''
8918ye little short- sighted criticks, could JOHNSON be envious of the talents of any of his contemporaries?
8489''What would''st thou with me?'' 8489 ''What would''st thou with me?''
8489How so?
8489Signor, are you then a Christian?
8489What next, Michael?
8489Why so?
8489Why, what?
8489''Did not you take dates out of your portmanteau, and, as you ate them, did not you throw the shells about on both sides?''
8489***** A person said to me lately,"But you will, for civility''s sake,_ call_ them_ Catholics_, will you not?"
8489***** Can a politician, a statesman, slight the feelings and the convictions of the whole matronage of his country?
8489***** Can dialogues in verse be defended?
8489***** Could you ever discover any thing sublime, in our sense of the term, in the classic Greek literature?
8489***** How did the Atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
8489***** Must not the ministerial plan for the West Indies lead necessarily to a change of property, either by force or dereliction?
8489***** Was there ever such a miserable scene as that of the exhibition of the Austrian standards in the French house of peers the other day?
8489--"Not that I know, my lord,"I replied;"what have I done which argues any derangement of mind?"
8489--''Did not you sit down when you came hither?''
848911.?])
8489A lady once asked me--"What then could be the intention in creating so many great bodies, so apparently useless to us?"
8489And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general?
8489And how could a_ man_ be a mediator between God and man?
8489And shall man alone stoop?
8489And she loved you too?
8489And then what does this Samuel do?
8489And what next?
8489Are all my tears lost, all my righteous prayers Drown''d in thy drunken wrath?
8489Are domestic charities on the increase amongst families under this system?
8489Are you not damned eternally?"
8489Are you, indeed?
8489As for the House of Lords, what is the use of ever so much fiery spirit, if there be no principle to guide and to sanctify it?
8489At last I was so provoked, that I said to him,"Pray, why ca n''t you say''old clothes''in a plain way as I do now?"
8489Ay, thou unreverend boy, Sir Robert''s son: why scorn''st thou at Sir Robert?
8489Belike you found some rival in your love, then?
8489Besides, can we altogether disregard the practice of the modern Greeks?
8489Bowyer asked me why I had made myself such a fool?
8489But are you sure that they are dead?
8489But how can it be shown that the principles applicable to an interchange of conveniences or luxuries apply also to an interchange of necessaries?
8489But tell me, Signor, what_ are_ the differences?"
8489But your subtle fluid is pure gratuitous assumption; and for what use?
8489But,_ what_ happiness?
8489By the by, do you know any parallel in modern history to the absurdity of our giving a legislative assembly to the Sicilians?
8489By the by, what do you mean by exclusively assuming the title of Unitarians?
8489Can any thing beat his remark on King William''s motto,--_Recepit, non rapuit_,--"that the receiver was as bad as the thief?"
8489Can there ever be any thorough national fusion of the Northern and Southern states?
8489Children are excluded from all political power; are they not human beings in whom the faculty of reason resides?
8489Colbrand the giant, that same mighty man?
8489Coleridge?"
8489Do n''t you see that each is in all, and all in each?
8489Does such a combination often really exist in rerum naturae?
8489First, however, what does O. P. Q. mean by the word_ happiness_?
8489First, where will you begin your collection of facts?
8489For, has any thing happened that has happened, from any other causes, or under any other conditions, than such as I laid down Beforehand?"
8489G."And why not, Signor?"
8489G."But do you not worship Jesus, who sits on the right hand of God?"
8489G."I''m thinking, Signor, what is the difference between you and us, that you are to be certainly damned?"
8489G."Then why not worship the Virgin, who sits on the left?"
8489He will not, can not study; of what avail had all his study been to him?
8489How can creatures susceptible of pleasure and pain do otherwise than desire happiness?
8489How can there be a sinful carcass?
8489How could a poet-- and such a poet as Dante-- have written the details of the allegory as conjectured by Rosetti?
8489How could he be tempted, if he had no formal capacity of being seduced?
8489How far are we to go?
8489How should it be otherwise?
8489I see no reformer who asks himself the question,_ What_ is it that I propose to myself to effect in the result?
8489If a man''s conduct can not be ascribed to the angelic, nor to the bestial within him, what is there left for us to refer to it, but the fiendish?
8489If you take from Virgil his diction and metre, what do you leave him?
8489In what respect were the Jews more sinful in delivering Jesus up,_ because_ Pilate could do nothing except by God''s leave?
8489Is Holland any authority to the contrary?
8489Is it Sir Robert''s son that you seek so?
8489Is it not just to kill him that has killed another?''
8489Is it not unnatural to be always connecting very great intellectual power with utter depravity?
8489Is not its real price enhanced to every Christian and patriot a hundred- fold?
8489Is not"Romeo and Juliet"a love play?
8489Is reason, then, an affair of sex?
8489Is that forehead, that nose, those temples and that chin, akin to the monkey tribe?
8489Is the House of Commons to be re- constructed on the principle of a representation of interests, or of a delegation of men?
8489Is the case much altered now, do you know?
8489Is there, then, no knowledge by which these pleasures can be commanded?
8489James Gurney, wilt thou give us leave a while?
8489LADY F. Where is that slave, thy brother?
8489Must it be another threat of foreign invasion?
8489My brother Robert?
8489Now, what would he not have done if he had lived now, and could have availed himself of all our vast acquisitions in physical science?"
8489Now, would such prohibitions have been fabricated in those kings''reigns, or afterwards?
8489Of what complexion was she?
8489Old Sir Robert''s son?
8489Quale est?_ and_ Quid est?_ the last bringing you to the most material of all points, its individual being.
8489Quale est?_ and_ Quid est?_ the last bringing you to the most material of all points, its individual being.
8489Shall we give less credence to John and Paul themselves?
8489That holds in chase mine honour up and down?
8489The cavern?
8489The last are likest to their original, but what pleasure do they give?
8489Then, again, if a popular tumult were to take place in Poland, who can doubt that the Jews would be the first objects of murder and spoliation?
8489They''ll hang the faster on for death''s convulsion.-- Thou seed of rocks, will nothing move thee, then?
8489Think of the sublimity, I should rather say the profundity, of that passage in Ezekiel,[ 2]"Son of man, can these bones live?
8489Think of upwards of 160 members voting away two millions and a half of tax on Friday[1], at the bidding of whom, shall I say?
8489Thou calledst him?
8489Thus shall our healths do others good, Whilst we ourselves do all we would; For, freed from envy and from care, What would we be but what we are?
8489Was I so mad to bid light torches now?
8489Was there ever a greater misnomer?
8489Was there ever such an absolute disregard of literary fame as that displayed by Shakspeare, and Beaumont and Fletcher?
8489We had ridiculed their_ quiddities_, and why?
8489Were your bloods equal?
8489What blasphemy, I should like to know, unless the assuming to be the"Son of God"was assuming to be of the_ divine nature_?
8489What brings you here to court so hastily?
8489What can an English minister abroad really want but an honest and bold heart, a love for his country and the ten commandments?
8489What classes should we admit?
8489What could he have been but a sort of virtuous Sesostris or Buonaparte?
8489What could redintegrate us again?
8489What evil results now to this country, taken at large, from the actual existence of the National Debt?
8489What further need have we of witnesses?
8489What have_ we_ to do with him?
8489What in the eye of an intellectual and omnipotent Being is the whole sidereal system to the soul of one man for whom Christ died?
8489What is it that Mr. Landor wants, to make him a poet?
8489What is the spirit which seems to move and unsettle every other man in England and on the Continent at this time?
8489What make you with your torches in the dark?
8489What moral object was there, for which such a Messiah should come?
8489What saidst thou?
8489What would you think of a law which should tax every person in Devonshire for the pecuniary benefit of every person in Yorkshire?
8489What, and yours too?
8489Where are our statesmen to meet this emergency?
8489Where must we stop?
8489Who can read with pleasure more than a hundred lines or so of Hudibras at one time?
8489Who could always follow to the turning- point his long arrow- flights of thought?
8489Who could fix those ejaculations of light, those tones of a prophet, which at times have made me bend before him as before an inspired man?
8489Who has not a thousand times seen snow fall on water?
8489Who is mad now?"
8489Who would dream, indeed, of comparing Wesley with a Cuvier, Hufeland, Blumenbach, Eschenmeyer, Reil,& c.?
8489Who would listen to the county of Bedford, if it were to declare itself disannexed from the British empire, and to set up for itself?
8489Whom must we disfranchise?
8489Why are not Donne''s volumes of sermons reprinted at Oxford?
8489Why do we expect the Jews to abandon their national customs and distinctions?
8489Why need we talk of a fiery hell?
8489Why not use common language?
8489Why not_ shillinged, farthinged, tenpenced,_& c.?
8489Why should not the old form_ agen_ be lawful in verse?
8489Why should we not wish to see it realized?
8489Why?
8489Would he not have said,"You need not make a difficulty; I only mean so and so?"
8489Would it not be silly to call the Argonauts pirates in our sense of the word?
8489Would not a total silence of this great apostle and evangelist upon this mystery be strange?
8489Would you put England on a footing with a country, which can be overrun in a campaign, and starved in a year?
8489[ 1] Did the name of criticism ever descend so low as in the hands of those two fools and knaves, Seward and Simpson?
8489[ 1] His Liberty of Prophesying is a work of wonderful eloquence and skill; but if we believe the argument, what do we come to?
8489[ 1] I have a mind to try how it would bear translation; but what metre have we to answer in feeling to the elegiac couplet of the Greeks?
8489[ Footnote 1: I know not when or where; but are not all the writings of this exquisite genius the effusions of one whose spirit lived in past time?
8489[ Footnote 3:"But who is this, what thing of sea or land?
8489and, secondly, how does he propose to make other persons agree in_ his_ definition of the term?
8489are all Englishmen Christians?"
8489are you not Turks?
8489dost thou mock us, slave?
8489he is holding his nose at thee at that distance; dost thou think that I, sitting here, can endure it any longer?"
8489it is my mother:--How now, good lady?
8489my good lord, of what crime can I be guilty towards you that you should take away my life?''
8489said Ball,"what can you mean, Sir?"
8489says the merchant,''how should I kill your son?
8489was it not so?
8489where is he?
8489where will you end it?
8489why dost thou wonder at it?
8489you believe in Christ then?"
10451A Miss,said the Prince of Wales,"why are not all girls Misses?"
10451But was he respected?
10451Did not I shew you the lion well to- day?
10451Mr. Mallet,says Garrick in his gratitude of exultation,"have you left off to write for the stage?"
10451Pray, Sir,said Johnson,"do you know who was the author of the Lord''s Prayer?"
10451Was he frae the Indies?
10451Who forgets, Sir?
10451Why,said I,"have you ever seen Prince Charles?"
10451''A good scholar, Sir?''
10451''Are you of that opinion as to the portraits of ancestors, whom one has never seen?''
10451''Ay, Sir,''he replied; but how much worse would it have been, if we had been neglected[1091]?''
10451''But consider, Sir; what is the House of Commons?
10451''But is not the case now, that, instead of flattering one person, we flatter the age?''
10451''But is there not reason to fear that the common people may be oppressed?''
10451''But what do you say, Sir, to the ancient and continued tradition of the church upon this point?''
10451''But what motive could he have to make himself a Laplander?''
10451''But, Sir, if they have leases is there not some danger that they may grow insolent?
10451''But, Sir, is it not somewhat singular that you should_ happen_ to have_ Cocker''s Arithmetick_ about you on your journey?
10451''But,( said I,) if the Duke invites us to dine with him to- morrow, shall we accept?''
10451''But,( said she,) is it not enough if we keep it?
10451''Do you think, Sir, that Burke has read Cicero much?''
10451''From whence, then, does all this money come?''
10451''Have you_ The Idler_?
10451''How can there( said he) be a physical effect without a physical cause[762]?''
10451''If it were so, why has it ceased?
10451''Is he an oculist?''
10451''Is that a''your objection, mon?''
10451''Nor no woman, Sir?''
10451''Or is it, perhaps, better to be brought about by indirect means, and in this artful manner?
10451''Pray,( said he,) can they pronounce any_ long_ words?''
10451''Sir, do n''t you perceive that you are defaming the countess?
10451''T''other day as he was with the Prince of Wales, Kitty Fisher passed by, and the child named her; the Prince, to try him, asked who that was?
10451''Then Hume is not the worse for Beattie''s attack?
10451''This Sir Allan,''said he,''was he a_ regular baronet_, or was his title such a traditional one as you find in Ireland?''
10451''Upon what terms have you it?''
10451''Very rich mines?''
10451''Was it upon that occasion that he expressed no curiosity to see the room at Dumfermline, where Charles I. was born?
10451''We have now( said he) a splendid dinner before us; which of all these dishes is unwholesome?''
10451''What did Johnson say?''
10451''What do you say to the Bishop of Meaux?''
10451''What if we had him here?''
10451''What is Pekin?
10451''What is to become of society, if a friendship of twenty years is to be broken off for such a cause?''
10451''What, Sir?
10451''Why is it recorded?''
10451''Why is not the original deposited in some publick library, instead of exhibiting attestations of its existence?
10451''Why, John,( said I,) did you think the king should be controuled by a parliament?''
10451''Why, Sir, if moral evil be consistent with the government of the Deity, why may not physical evil be also consistent with it?
10451''Why, he said,''replied Smith, with the deepest impression of resentment,''he said,_ you lie!_''''And what did you reply?''
10451''Why,( said Sir Allan,) are they not all my people?''
10451( said Dr. Johnson,) you must have a very great trade?''
10451( said he,) do n''t you know that I can hang you, if I please?''
10451--Did he envy us the birth- place of the king?''
10451--He afterwards said to me,"Did you observe the wonderful confidence with which young Tytler advanced, with his front already_ brased_?"''
10451403):--''Who is secure against Jack Straw and a whirlwind?
10451A young lady of quality, who was present, very handsomely said,''Might not the son have justified the fault?''
10451About one he came into my room, and accosted me,''What, drunk yet?''
10451After saluting him, Malcolm, pointing to the sea, said,''What, John, if the prince should be prisoner on board one of those tenders?''
10451And had he not also a perpetual feast of fame[76]?
10451And should not we tire, in looking perpetually on this rock?
10451And what was this book?
10451And when I said,''Lord, what then shall I do?''
10451Are we not to believe a man, when he says he has a great desire to see another?
10451Are you not rather too late in the year for fine weather, which is the life and soul of seeing places?
10451At breakfast, I asked,''What is the reason that we are angry at a trader''s having opulence[881]?''
10451Being told that Dr. Johnson did not hear well, Lochbuy bawled out to him,''Are you of the Johnstons of Glencro, or of Ardnamurchan[914]?''
10451Boswell, wo n''t you have some tea?''
10451Boswell?''
10451But, Madam, what is the meaning of it?
10451But, as a learned friend has observed to me,''What trials did he undergo to prove the perfection of his virtue?
10451Can you name one book of any value, on a religious subject, written by them[692]?''
10451Consider, Sir; what is the purpose of courts of justice?
10451Delapsae coelo flammae licet acrius urant Has gelida exstingui non nisi morte putas?
10451Did he ever experience any great instance of adversity?''
10451Did you never see my head before my Thesaurus?"''
10451Do n''t you believe that I was very impatient for your coming to Scotland?''
10451Do n''t you know that, if I order you to go and cut a man''s throat, you are to do it?''
10451Do you think, Sir, they ought to have such an influence?''
10451Does mother- love its charge prepare?
10451Dr. Johnson again[358] solemnly repeated--''How far is''t called to Fores?
10451Dr. Johnson asked, What made the difference?
10451Dr. Johnson said in the morning,''Is not this a fine lady[580]?''
10451Dr. Johnson said,''A wind, or not a wind?
10451Dr. Johnson said,''How_ the devil_ can you do it?''
10451Finding that there was now a discovery, Malcolm asked''What''s to be done?''
10451For, when I asked him,''Would you not, Sir, start as Mr. Garrick does, if you saw a ghost?''
10451From whom can it be, in this commerce, that I desire to hide any thing?
10451Garrick was asked,''Sir, have you a free benefit?''
10451He asked her,''What is that about?
10451He asked, how did the women do?
10451He laughed heartily at his lordship''s saying he was an_ enthusiastical_ farmer;''for,( said he,) what can he do in farming by his_ enthusiasm_?''
10451He looked at me, as if I had talked of going to the North Pole, and said,''You do not insist on my accompanying you?''
10451He spoke of Prince Charles being here, and asked Mrs. Macdonald,''_ Who_ was with him?
10451He''s done wi''Paoli-- he''s off wi''the land- louping scoundrel of a Corsican; and whose tail do you think he has pinned himself to now, mon?''
10451How long shall the capital city of Scotland, yea, and the chief street of it, stink worse than a common sewer?''
10451How should one who has had only a Scotch education be quite at home at Eton?
10451I am desiring to become charitable myself; and why may I not plainly say so?
10451I asked if this was not unlucky: would not they hurt one another?
10451I asked in what?
10451I put him in mind of it to- day, while he expressed his admiration of the elegant buildings, and whispered him,''Do n''t you feel some remorse[994]?''
10451I said,''Would not the same objection hold against the Trinity as against Transubstantiation?''
10451I told him my intentions, but he was not satisfied, and said,''Do you know, I should as soon have thought of picking a pocket, as doing so?''
10451If this be the case, why are not these distinctly ascertained?
10451In his_ London_, a poem, are the following nervous lines:--''For who would leave, unbrib''d, Hibernia''s land?
10451Inter erroris salebrosa longi, Inter ignotae strepitus loquelae, Quot modis mecum, quid agat, requiro, Thralia dulcis?
10451Is not a great part of it chosen by peers?
10451Is there shame in it, or impiety?
10451It seems as if Shakespeare asked himself, what is a prince likely to say to his attendants on such an occasion?
10451Lady M''Leod asked, if no man was naturally good?
10451Let Dr. Smith consider: Was not Mr. Hume blest with good health, good spirits, good friends, a competent and increasing fortune?
10451Let us consider; can there be more wanting to complete the Meditation on a Pudding?
10451M''Leod asked, what is the particular excellence of Burke''s eloquence?
10451Mr. Croker says that''the exact words are:-- bony?
10451Must we never have more convenience than Rorie More had?
10451Need any one ask from what motive this was wrote?
10451Non bilem ille movet, nulla hic pituita; Salutis Quae spes, si fallax ardeat intus aqua?
10451Now, how low should a price be?
10451Of such ancestry who would not be proud?
10451On p. 301, after mentioning_ Rasselas_, he continues:--''Did I tell you I had a letter from Johnson, inclosing Vernon''s_ Parish- clerk_?''
10451Or change the rocks of Scotland for the Strand?
10451Pray, what do you know about his motions?
10451Quis tandem arte nova domitam mitescere Pestem Credat,& antiquas ponere posse minas?
10451Quo vagor ulterius?
10451Scrase gives us fine fruit; I wished you my pear yesterday; but then what would one pear have done for you?''
10451She seems inspir''d, and can herself inspire: How then( if malice rul''d not all the fair) Could Daphne publish, and could she forbear?
10451Sir, he would reason thus:"What will it cost me to be there once in two or three summers?
10451So who has the best of it, my reverend friend?''
10451Soothes she, I ask, her spouse''s care?
10451Stores she her mind with knowledge rare, Or lively tale?
10451Suppose you afterwards know him, and find that he does not practise what he teaches; are you to give up your former conviction?
10451That look not like the inhabitants o''the earth, And yet are on''t?''
10451The contest now is, What_ has_ he?''
10451The landlady said to me,''Is not this the great Doctor that is going about through the country?''
10451The prince''s answer was noble:''And would_ you_ not have done the same, madam, had he come to you, as to her, in distress and danger?
10451The serjeant asked,''Who is this fellow?''.
10451The wish is laudable: why should I form designs to hide it?
10451To me it was highly comick, to see the grave philosopher,--the Rambler,-toying with a Highland beauty[713]!--But what could he do?
10451We were at his house in Cheshire[ Shropshire].... Do not you remember how he rejoiced in having_ no_ park?
10451What are these, So wither''d, and so wild in their attire?
10451What can the_ M''Craas_[619] tell about themselves a thousand years ago?
10451What do you think, mon?
10451What have your clergy done, since you sunk into presbyterianism?
10451What is it then that I am doing?
10451What is it to live and not to love?''
10451What made you buy such a book at Inverness?''
10451What part of Bayle do you mean?
10451What principle is there, why a loadstone attracts iron?
10451What that can fill the hunger of ignorance, or quench the thirst of curiosity?''
10451When Dr. Johnson came in, she called to him,''Do you choose any cold sheep''s- head, Sir?''
10451Who_ can_ like the Highlands[1020]?
10451Why do n''t we see men thus produced around us now?
10451Why does he not tell how to fill it?''
10451Why is it that whatever you see, and whoever you see, you are to be so indiscriminately lavish of praise?"
10451Why is not the form of the petition brought nearer to the meaning?
10451Why not as well be Rorie More all over, as live upon his rock?
10451Why should such a writer be so forgetful of human comfort, as to give any countenance to that dreary infidelity which would make us poor indeed?''
10451Why, at least, does it not keep pace, in some measure, with the progress of time?
10451Why, perhaps, five hundred pounds; and what is that, in comparison of having a fine retreat, to which a man can go, or to which he can send a friend?"
10451Your old preceptor[929] repeated, with much solemnity, the speech--"How far is''t called to Fores?
10451[ 1035]''The peace you seek is here-- where is it not?
10451[ 1189] Johnson wrote to Mrs. Thrale on Sept. 13, 1777:--''Boswell wants to see Wales; but except the woods of Bachycraigh, what is there in Wales?
10451[ 236] Goldsmith in_ Retaliation_, a few months later, wrote of William Burke:--''Would you ask for his merits?
10451[ 528]''They which forewent us did leave a Roome for us, and should wee grieve to doe the same to these which should come after us?
10451[ 562] Hume describes how in 1753(?
10451[ 675] It has been triumphantly asked,''Had not the plays of Shakspeare lain dormant for many years before the appearance of Mr. Garrick?
10451[ 733]"But hold,"she cries,"lampooner, have a care; Must I want common sense, because I''m fair?"
10451_ Nil opus est oeris sacra de turre sonantis Admonitu, ipsa suas nunciat hora vices._ Quid, quod sacrifici versavit foemina libros?
10451_ Sint pro legitimis pura labella sacris._ Quo vagor ulterius?
10451are you baptised?''
10451but instantly corrected himself,''How can you do it[826]?''
10451how can you talk so?
10451is this the case?''
10451mox spatiabere Qua mens ruinae ducta meatibus Gaudebit explorare coetus, Buccina qua cecinit triumphos; Audin?
10451or what degree of confidence should there be to make a bargain be set aside?
10451q?
10451said the Highland chief of M''Lean with more emphasis than before,''And yon smaller house?''
10451shall I keep my servant in pain for thy sake?''
10451who is it that I would impose on?
10451why a tree grows upwards, when the natural tendency of all things is downwards?
10451why an egg produces a chicken by heat?
10357And did not you tell him he was a rascal[35]?
10357And how did Mrs. Montagu herself behave?
10357But how did she bear this?
10357But now,said Mr. Crutchley to me,"I have not a notion of sitting for my picture-- for who wants it?
10357Had I seen Dr. Johnson''s_ Lives of the Poets_?
10357Has he taken,said she,"anything?"
10357Hutton,said the King to him one morning,"is it true that you Moravians marry without any previous knowledge of each other?"
10357I can see the fraud plainly enough,is said to have been Fox''s retort,"but where is the piety?"''
10357Pray, who is she?
10357Why so?
10357''"It is very comical, is it not, Sir?"
10357''A trick,''she continues,''which I have seen played on common occasions of sitting steadily[?
10357''And who is the worse for that?''
10357''Are not atheism and bigotry first cousins?
10357''As Waller professed to have imitated Fairfax, do you think a few pages of Fairfax would enrich our edition?
10357''But does not the text say,"As the tree falls, so it must lie[699]?"''
10357''But may not a man attain to such a degree of hope as not to be uneasy from the fear of death?''
10357''But may not solids swell and be distended?''
10357''But, Sir, was he not once a factious man?''
10357''Certainly,( said the Doctor;) but,( turning to me,) how old is your pig?''
10357''Colman, in a note on his translation of_ Terence_, talking of Shakspeare''s learning, asks,"What says Farmer to this?
10357''DEAR SIR,''What can be the reason that I hear nothing from you?
10357''Did you find, Sir, his conversation to be of a superiour style?''
10357''Do you know the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire?
10357''Do you so, Sir?''
10357''Do you think, Sir, that there are any perfect synonimes in any language?''
10357''Do you think, Sir, you could make your_ Ramblers_ better?''
10357''Early, Sir?''
10357''For what purpose, Sir?''
10357''Has Langton no orchard?''
10357''Have not they vexed yourself a little, Sir?
10357''His images are[ sometimes confused]_ not always distinct_?
10357''Hold, Sir, do you believe that some will be punished at all?''
10357''How can it be possible to spend that money in Scotland?''
10357''How do you think I live?''
10357''How so, Sir?''
10357''How then, Sir, did he get into favour with the King?''
10357''I am still disturbed by my cough; but what thanks have I not to pay, when my cough is the most painful sensation that I feel?
10357''I suppose, Sir, you could not make them better?''
10357''I then said:--"Do you ever, Sir, hear from mother?"
10357''Is not a good garden a very common thing in England, Sir?''
10357''Is there not a law, Sir, against exporting the current coin of the realm?''
10357''Its elegance[ who can exhibit?]
10357''Jeremy Collier, Sir?''
10357''May we not take it as amusing fiction?''
10357''Might not Mrs. Montagu have been a fourth?''
10357''Nay, Madam, what right have you to talk thus?
10357''Once he asked Tom Davies, whom he saw drest in a fine suit of clothes,"And what art thou to- night?"
10357''Pluck out one thorn to mitigate thy pain, What boots it while so many more remain?''
10357''Postquà   m tu discesseris, quò me vertam[452]?
10357''Pray, Boswell, how much may be got in a year by an Advocate at the Scotch bar?''
10357''Pray, Sir, by a sheet of review is it meant that it shall be all of the writer''s own composition?
10357''Pray, Sir, have you been much plagued with authours sending you their works to revise?''
10357''Pray, Sir, is the_ Turkish Spy_[624] a genuine book?''
10357''Pray, Sir,( said I,) how many opera girls may there be?''
10357''Pray, Sir,( said he,) whether do you reckon Derrick or Smart[604] the best poet?''
10357''Shall I ask him?''
10357''Supposing the person who wrote_ Junius_ were asked whether he was the authour, might he deny it?''
10357''Were there not six horses to each coach?''
10357''What do you mean by damned?''
10357''What do you think, Sir, of William Law?''
10357''What signifies our wishing?''
10357''What, Sir,( cried the gentleman,) do you say to"The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by[845]?"''
10357''What, Sir,( said I,) are you going to turn Captain Macheath?''
10357''Why so?
10357''Will you not allow, Sir, that a man may be taught to read well?''
10357''Would you restrain private conversation, Sir?''
10357''Yes, Sir: but might not the House of Commons, in case of real evident necessity, order our own current coin to be sent into our own colonies?''
10357''You would not like to make the same journey again?''
10357146]:--"Who would lose Though full of pain this intellectual being?"''
10357A book may be good for nothing; or there may be only one thing in it worth knowing; are we to read it all through[943]?
10357Am I to be_ hunted_ in this manner?''
10357Among the 149 persons who that summer had been sentenced to death(_ ante_, p. 328) who would notice these two?
10357And have you ever seen Chatsworth?
10357And how does my own Jenny?
10357And what does Mr. Farmer say on this occasion?
10357Are our calamities lessened for not being ascribed to Adam?
10357Are there not as interesting varieties in such a life[322]?
10357Are you sick, or are you sullen?
10357But did you ever hear what he told me himself?
10357But from such petty imperfections what writer was ever free?
10357But grant our hero''s hope, long toil And comprehensive genius crown, All sciences, all arts his spoil, Yet what reward, or what renown?
10357But of Milton''s great excellence as a poet, where shall we find such a blazon as by the hand of Johnson?
10357But to a sick man, what is the publick?''
10357But what can a sick man say, but that he is sick?
10357But when will you get the value of two hundred pounds of walls, in fruit, in your climate?
10357But why are all thus overlooked?
10357Can he wonder at my wishing for preferment, when men of the first family and fortune in England struggle for it?''
10357Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtles round your ruined shed?
10357Can the enquirer be blamed if he goes away believing that a soldier''s red coat is all that he has?
10357Can their light tales your weighty griefs o''erpower, Or glad with airy mirth the toilsome hour?''
10357Can you explain him, Sir?
10357Could it be any disadvantage to the clergyman to have it known that he was taught an easy and graceful delivery?
10357Could there be, upon this aweful subject, such a thing as balancing of accounts?
10357Darius is the person addressed:----Quò tendis inertem, Rex periture, fugam?
10357Did I give a set to Lord Hailes?
10357Did ever one make it a point of honour to speak truth to children or madmen?
10357Does it not imply hopes that the Judges will change their opinion?
10357Does it not lessen the confidence of the publick?
10357Does it not suppose, that the former judgement was temerarious or negligent?
10357For why should not Dr.[263] Johnson add to his other powers a little corporeal agility?
10357From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray, Where Fancy leads, or Virgil led the way?''
10357Good life be now my task: my doubts are done; What more could shock[160] my faith than Three in One?''
10357Had the Saxons any gold coin?
10357Have I said anything against Mr.----?
10357Have your Lectures any vacation?
10357He introduces Johnson in it, annoyed by an impertinent fellow, and saying to him:--''Have I said anything, good Sir, that you do not comprehend?''
10357He made two or three peculiar observations; as when shewn the botanical garden,''Is not every garden a botanical garden?''
10357He might answer,"Where is all the wonder?
10357He was of a club in Old- street, with me and George Psalmanazar, and some others[587]: but pray, Sir, was he a good taylor?''
10357Horace Walpole( Letters, v. 30) writes:--''Have you seen that delightful paper composed out of scraps in the newspapers?
10357How does Miss Mary?
10357How many friendships have you known formed upon principles of virtue?
10357How then are they Johnson''s?
10357However, he went up to her himself, longing to begin, and very roughly said:--"Well, Madam, what''s become of your fine new house?
10357I am very ill even when you are near me; what should I be were you at a distance?
10357I have here more company, but my health has for this last week not advanced; and in the languor of disease how little can be done?
10357If a man should give me arguments that I do not see, though I could not answer them, should I believe that I do not see?''
10357If one man in Scotland gets possession of two thousand pounds, what remains for all the rest of the nation?''
10357If you were_ sure_ that he wrote_ Junius_, would you, if he denied it, think as well of him afterwards?
10357If your condition be unhappy, is it not still unhappy, whatever was the occasion?
10357In petty circumstances this[?
10357In this uncomfortable state your letters used to relieve; what is the reason that I have them no longer?
10357Is a prodigal, for example, an_ hypocrite_, when he owns he is satisfied that his extravagance will bring him to ruin and misery?
10357Is not this enough for you?
10357Is not this strange weather?
10357Is not uncertainty and inconstancy in the highest degree disreputable to a Court?
10357Is the nation ruined?
10357Is this the balloon that has been so long expected, this balloon to which I subscribed, but without payment[1104]?
10357It has been the subject of discussion, whether there are two distinct particulars mentioned here?
10357Johnson was at first startled, and in some heat answered,''How can your Lordship ask so simple a question?''
10357Johnson, in his reply, said:--''What will the world do but look on and laugh when one scholar dedicates to another?''
10357Johnson?''
10357Johnson?''
10357Madam; who is the worse for being talked of uncharitably?
10357Miss Adams mentioned a gentleman of licentious character, and said,''Suppose I had a mind to marry that gentleman, would my parents consent?''
10357Miss Burney wrote on Dec. 28 to one of her sisters:--''How can you wish any wishes[ matrimonial wishes] about Sir Joshua and me?
10357Mr. Henderson mentioned Kenn and Kettlewell; but some objections were made: at last he said,''But, Sir, what do you think of Leslie?''
10357Mr. Palmer asked how did it appear upon examining the mummies?
10357Now what I ought to do for the authour, may I not do for myself?
10357Now what harm does it do to any man to be contradicted?''
10357O when shall it dawn on the night of the grave?''
10357Of this experiment I have read nothing; where was it exhibited?
10357On my asking him,"Which poem had you rather have written, the_ Iliad_ or the_ Odyssey_?"
10357Or what more than to hold your tongue about it?
10357Or what this facetiousness( or_ wit_ as he calls it before) doth import?
10357Parr?"
10357Pope, a dozen years or so before Richardson, asked,''Who now reads Cowley?
10357Pray how shall I wind up?
10357Pray, my Lord, do you recollect any particulars that he told you of Lord Peterborough?
10357Priestley[739]?"
10357Shall I ever be able to bear the sight of this stone?
10357Shall I give the_ character_ from my_ Tour_ somewhat enlarged?''
10357Shall Sam refuse the sportive lay?
10357She and I are good friends now; are we not?''
10357Streathamiam quando revisam?''
10357Swift then stepped up and said,"Pray, Captain Hamilton, do you know how to say_ yes_ or_ no_ properly?"
10357The family and Mr. Scott only were present, who, in a jocose way, clapped him on the back, and said:--"What''s all this, my dear Sir?
10357The only question was, as the nation was much in want of money, whether it would not be better to take a large price from a foreign State?''
10357The operation is doubtless painful; but is it dangerous?
10357Then how goes George on with his studies?
10357Then what avails it to be wise?
10357These Voyages,( pointing to the three large volumes of_ Voyages to the South Sea_[944], which were just come out)_ who_ will read them through?
10357Upon which his Lordship very gravely, and with a courteous air said,''Pray, Sir, is it true that you are taking lessons of Vestris?''
10357We talked of the casuistical question, Whether it was allowable at any time to depart from_ Truth_?
10357What can be done?''
10357What care will be taken of us, who can tell?
10357What could I do with the scroll?
10357What did you make of all your copy[490]?
10357What has the Duke of Bedford?
10357What has the Duke of Devonshire?
10357What have you to do with Liberty and Necessity[236]?
10357What is it you have to say against it?
10357What says Johnson[63]?"
10357When the bonny blade carouses, Pockets full, and spirits high-- What are acres?
10357When_ you_ have left, whither shall I turn?''
10357Why do you speak here?
10357Why had he not some considerable office?
10357Why is all this to be swept away?''
10357Why should he complain?
10357Why should we walk there?
10357Why then publish the anecdote?
10357Why was he not in such circumstances as to keep his coach?
10357Will not he who knows himself wrong to- day, hope that the Courts of Justice will think him right to- morrow?
10357Will that word do?''
10357Will you allow me to send for him?''
10357Would a man who has an ill title to an estate, but yet is in possession of it, would he bring it of his own accord to be tried at Westminster?
10357Would he have selected certain topicks, and considered them in every view so as to be in readiness to argue them at all points?
10357Would it not be fairer to consider this as an inadvertence, and draw no general inference?
10357Would men of merit exchange their intellectual superiority, and the enjoyments arising from it, for external distinction and the pleasures of wealth?
10357Would not this be a miserable distribution for the poor dunces?
10357Would you advise me to publish a new edition of it?''
10357Would you refuse any slight gratifications to a man under sentence of death?
10357[ 107]''Do you conceive the full force of the word CONSTITUENT?
10357[ 1101] Quid te exempta_ levat_ spinis de pluribus una?
10357[ 47] One evening, in the Haymarket Theatre,''when Foote lighted the King to his chair, his majesty asked who[ sic] the piece was written by?
10357[ 788]''Why is not the original deposited in some publick library?''
10357_ But who can run the race with death?_''''Sept.
10357an atheist and a bigot?
10357and does Mr. Hume pluck a stone from a church but to raise an altar to tyranny?''
10357and what may we suppose those topicks to have been?
10357and who was the man that ran away with so much money?
10357at a time too when you were not_ fishing_ for a compliment?''
10357had you them all to yourself, Sir?''
10357or that we are to understand the giving of thanks to be in consequence of the dissolution of the Ministry?
10357or were they translated to heaven?
10357or what evil can he prevent?
10357otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?
10357p. 144),''was more sincere and steady in his friendships?''
10357quidem) videtur diligenter tractasse; spero non inauditus(?
10357what are houses?
34825''Are n''t you pretty near ready for breakfast, Stephen?'' 34825 ''Um- m. How do you know?
34825... Well, sir, what is it?
34825A spring night in Kentucky-- hot, damp, starlit-- shall I ever forget that terrible night of_ A Tribute to Art_? 34825 About that dictated letter?"
34825Ah, how should I know? 34825 And did you remember Vhruebert in that fairy luncheon together?"
34825And how did you learn of his coming?
34825And is n''t it great the way the papers treated it? 34825 And so you two have been writing letters?"
34825And what''s that big dug- out thing behind?
34825And you really think Pelée may not hold out?
34825And you will not go to the wine- shop, before you see me-- in the morning?
34825And-- you are able to ride?
34825Are you going?
34825Before I got to the gate where the star- stuff passes through?
34825Bob,he called down shakily,"have you got any whiskey?"
34825But have n''t you heard from him?
34825But how can one choose the real, if all are not admitted at first? 34825 But how could you know?"
34825But if I should go far away?
34825But is n''t Melville acknowledged to be the headwaters of inspiration for all later sea- books?
34825But why, oh why, do you always think of me with Bellingham?
34825By the way,Selma Cross retorted,"did you notice that word''love''in either of his recent books-- except as a generality?"
34825Can he not stop that kind of devouring?
34825Can it be that women in general encounter influences-- of this kind?
34825Can you imagine, Paula, that it was an instant of singular glory to me-- that climax?... 34825 Dear Paula, do you think it will really turn out-- that you are to have no relation with Bellingham?"
34825Did any woman ever tell you that you''re rather a mean sort, Quentin Charter?
34825Did ever suicidal genius conceive of corrupting such majesty of force with his pygmy purpose?
34825Did ever the body of a man clog the crater of a live volcano?
34825Did n''t he write?
34825Did you arrange at the post- office to have your mail sent care of the Hotel?
34825Did you get the leviathan alongside and study the bewildering chaos of a ninety- foot nervous system?
34825Did you know I was n''t a Catholic?
34825Do n''t you see, it is the strength you give me!--that girds me to say such things?
34825Do n''t your sentences register?
34825Do you always shape your philosophy to meet the objections of your disciples-- so?
34825Do you happen to know of any reason why an idle ship should not be used for some such purpose?
34825Do you honestly believe that-- that which feels the attraction of earth, and becomes a part of earth after death-- is the stuff of immortality?
34825Do you know that means something-- from a woman like you? 34825 Do you mean that old Villiers paid the night- bird to watch us-- to learn where we went, and possibly what we said?"
34825Do you think hell is worse than this, Ernst, barrin''the effrontery of the question? 34825 Do you think this is big- man stuff?"
34825Early next week, then?
34825Ever been in Pittsburg?
34825Father,Paula said, remembering the words of the washer- woman, as they emerged into the street,"when one is sick of soul-- does one knock here?"
34825Have a little touch, Lafe?
34825Have n''t you discovered that Skylarks are not of the insisting kind-- even when they need new plumage? 34825 Have you the strent'', sir, to do the overhand up the chain?"
34825He had said he loved you?
34825How can he?
34825How far do you go with the_ Panther_?
34825I just wanted to tell you-- Tim will take you back to the city to- night, grateful for the chance, but do you really have to go? 34825 I know no writer by that name-- but how did you know that I did not meet him, Child?"
34825I like the calm, conquering voices of the prophets better.... Immortality of the body?... 34825 I shall go and see what is wanted, Miss Wyndam, and hurry back-- if I may?"
34825I wonder if ever there was a humiliation so artistically complete as mine?
34825I wonder if the long white face with the pain- lit eyes could ever mean to any one else what it does to me?
34825I''ve always wanted to know if you believed-- what an apprentice I really was in love-- give- and- take-- when you came?
34825In other words-- if the mountain wo n''t recede from Miss Wyndam, we''d better snatch up Miss Wyndam and make a getaway from the mountain?
34825Is he well?
34825Is that to the point?
34825Is there really no fact by which his age can be determined?
34825It has been strange to be with you again-- almost like-- those early mornings.... Did you ever hear me calling you--''way off there in the West? 34825 It was always hard for me to call you Wyndam----""Harder to hear, Quentin Charter....""But are you sure you are not badly burned?"
34825It''s altogether too good to be hurt.... Do you realize you''ve never had your hat off in this office?
34825It''s very good of you,he said dully,"but what of my people?"
34825Love me?
34825Magician-- surely?
34825Much that my life has misunderstood is made clear to me-- by this love of yours and his----"''And his,''Father?
34825My dear Paula, you felt the need of me?... 34825 Past all doubt, ca n''t Bellingham turn back?"
34825Pere Rabeaut''s wine- shop in the_ Rue Rivoli_?... 34825 Processes which these poor Islanders could understand?"
34825Some one you know?
34825That was easily believed, Selma----"Then you grant I was n''t acting-- when I gave myself to you?
34825The other reason is not a pretty matter, and doubtless you will call any repugnance of mine an affectation----"Repugnance-- what do you mean?
34825Then the old martyrs and saints who macerated themselves wove great folds of spirit?
34825Then you think it is inevitable that the end of man is-- the clouds?
34825There was a writer here-- a young man very dear to me-- of whom you reminded me at once----"Of whom I reminded you, Father?
34825Vine leaves, indeed,said Paula,"Did M. Mondet tell you he would print this warning?"
34825Was it a man''s way to give me no chance to explain?
34825What are you doing''way up here alone-- in this dreadful suffocation?
34825What are you thinking?
34825What do you make of it, sir?
34825What does the man want?
34825What else would you look for-- here at the very fut av the mountain?
34825What for?
34825What have you been doing with Old Man Pelée, Father? 34825 What is to prevent me from never seeing him?
34825What must it be down in the city-- when we suffer so here? 34825 What relation could I have?
34825What was it, you could not forgive?
34825What?
34825When did you see her last?
34825Where do you live?
34825Who''s Bellingham?
34825Why do you teach only women?
34825Why, what do you mean, Miss Wyndam?
34825Why, yes, Child-- who are you?
34825Will the visitation be repeated? 34825 With all his worldly knowledge, and knowing his own doom, can he not turn back-- far back, a lowly- organized soul, but on the human way?"
34825Wo n''t somebody say something?
34825Wo n''t you tell me about that, too?
34825Would there not be hope-- if he battled with that-- put_ that_ vampirism behind?
34825Yes, I confess I have n''t been so consumed in years----She drew close to him...."It has been dramatic, if not literary, has n''t it?"
34825Yet where can you find such temperamental happiness?
34825You are Miss Linster?
34825You attended the first of my Prismatic Hall lectures ten days ago?... 34825 You do n''t actually believe-- to the contrary?"
34825You do not believe in the wild torrents, the forked lightnings, and the shocking thunders of the poets?
34825You have been impelled to go to him, Paula?
34825You mean because I spoke of another writer?
34825You mean volcanic ash?
34825You regard this as an entertainment worth waiting for?
34825You say he was drinking-- when you knew him?
34825You think, then, that the spirit grows as the body wastes?
34825You thought much of him then, Father Fontanel?
34825You what?
34825You what?
34825You''ll stay a day or two, wo n''t you?
34825''What was it, once more, that you mean to do?''
34825*****"Did you follow_ Moby Dick''s_ whale tracks around the wet wastes of the world?"
34825... Do you know, I really like to write to you?
34825Add to this, a woman who has come up from the dregs-- for years in the midst of the slum- blooms of the chorus?
34825Am I given the present serenity as a resting- time before meeting a more subtle and formidable enemy?
34825And I know that the wolves shall have been slain, when he comes again----""And the angels, Father?"
34825And the great work?
34825And what of Skylark, the lovely, the winged?..."
34825And who can say that his royal mate will not laughingly unfold wings for him, when they stand together in the radiant altitude?
34825Are there fangs and hackles and claws which I have not yet uncovered?
34825Are you going-- beyond New York?"
34825Are you hurted, sir?"
34825Are you sure he can not prove that false?"
34825As for Madame Nestor, might she not have reached a more acute stage of a similar derangement?
34825Bellingham was calling:"Come to me-- won''t you come and help me in my excellent labors?
34825Bellingham?...
34825But are not these great forces splendid fuel for the mind?
34825But do you mean that now when you do n''t need him any longer-- you told him to go away?"
34825But it is n''t altogether a novelty, is it, for the mountain to behave this way?"
34825But would n''t it be rather severe on the other boys and girls, if the usual formula of perpetuating self is used?
34825By the way, did you hear what happened yesterday, during the darkness and racket while we were at dinner?"
34825Ca n''t you see how it hurt when he turned out to be-- well, that name you refuse to utter?"
34825Can you imagine a colder reception?
34825Did not the latter still dip here, there, and everywhere in the occult and weird?
34825Did she pass on the street men and women in whom the process of soul- starvation was complete or completing?
34825Did some one send for you?"
34825Did you see it?"
34825Do I wake or sleep?"
34825Do n''t you remember, the greatest moment of all-- coming downstairs, partly dressed, into the room_ They_ had made ready?
34825Do you know that we live in the time of a spiritual high- tide?
34825Do you remember the rock in the desert on which you sat and waited long ago?
34825Do you think I can not resist?"
34825Do you wonder that the life from which you have risen to one of the regnant queens has become inseparable in my mind with shuddering aversion?"
34825Does any one happen to know who owns the beautiful ship in the harbor?"
34825Does it not seem very clear to you?...
34825Faintly her heart answered, but quickly,"Yes, if they are forever nameless....""Specific abandonments?"
34825Flowers bloom to catch a bug-- such girls, to catch a man-- perpetuate-- oh God, what for?
34825From the number, I think you must overlook the Park-- don''t you?...
34825Had New York called him?
34825Has my vitality miraculously been preserved for some final battle with a champion of champions of the flesh?
34825Have you a drop left in the heel av the flask, Adele, dear?"
34825Having consented to the trick,_ might she not be listening_?...
34825Her inward joy was to study in Peter Stock the unacknowledged influence of Father Fontanel-- or was it an unconscious influence?
34825How far do you go with the_ Panther_?"
34825How shall she repay man for brutalizing her so long?"
34825How strange, I have always thought of you so?
34825How very strange that you should have heard what I said.... You will join one of his classes, I presume?"
34825I am near.... Come to me, Paula Linster, of plentiful treasures.... Do you not see the open way-- how near I am?
34825I ask you, how is a woman, for the first time alone with a man-- to know that he is different from other men?
34825I ask you-- how did I know he was an exception-- rather than the rule among the Glowworms?"
34825I have symbolized the whole struggle of our race in your personal struggle-- don''t you see this, Paula?...
34825I mean, would he not have to restore his vitality from the others?"
34825I said I was celebrating for two things----""Pray, what is the other?"
34825I wanted to ask if it ever occurred to you that even the_ Morne d''Orange_ might fall into the sweeping range of Pelée''s guns?"
34825I wonder if there ever was a fight that can match mine?
34825I wonder if there is any authority or precedent for such a hope?"
34825I would n''t open any letter from Danube now-- but he shall have his chance----""What do you mean to do?"
34825I''d better get her ready, had n''t I, sir?"
34825If you interest them sexually-- they will hear what you have to say----""Is n''t that a reckless talk?"
34825Inscrutable, but thrilling-- isn''t it, my dear Paula?"
34825Is he not bright and clean and pretty?
34825Is it because the sting is gone from my scar- tissues that I feel so strong and so white to- night?
34825Is n''t it a dear world?"
34825Is n''t it glorious?"
34825It always spoils-- oh, what am I saying?
34825It had been a hard moment for her, but he sprang high among the nobilities of her heart, and was sustained.... What if it were just a throat- singing?
34825It is not well to be a day late...."And did you notice how Felix Larch uncoiled?"
34825It is quite possible that the values of my instruction are over- estimated by many.... Do you mind if I sit down a moment?
34825It would not do, not to go to Father Fontanel-- would it?"
34825Listen, Paula, to New York below-- treading the empty mill of commerce----""New York has not chosen yet?"
34825Macready questioned, and added in a ghost''s whisper,"with the fairest of tin thousand waitin''at the top?"
34825Many times she asked:"Where is the undiscovered master of my heart?"
34825Might she not have something to do with the projectiles of Desire?
34825Might she not have watched for him or be near him now?
34825Mine is a lineage of Kentucky poor white trash, who knows, but a speck of''nigger''?
34825Mondet?"
34825My dear young woman, does n''t a ride on the ocean sound good for this afternoon?
34825My launch is at the Sugar Landing.... On second thought, I''ll go back down- town with you.... Miss Wyndam-- later in the day-- a chat with you?"
34825No other man suffices----""But why-- why do you prepare_ me_?
34825Oh, why must we keep our gods so far away-- lest we lose them?
34825Ointments and bandages were applied before the owner said:"We must be getting pretty close in the harbor?"
34825One thought apart from these effects, Paula could not shake from her mind: Were there human beings with dead or dying souls?
34825Only at its highest speed does the top sing its peace with God.... Had not the finest glow of his powers been reserved until her coming?...
34825Or must there always be this dim, hurting thing?
34825Paula exclaimed...."You think this Bellingham has made the evil choice?"
34825Pelée''s muzzle is turned toward the city----""I sent you many cheers and high hopes-- did they come?"
34825Portions of some of the later letters follow: Did you know, that without the upward spread of wings-- there can be no song from the Skylark?
34825Shall I show you?"
34825Shall I tell you what added thought came to me, as you crossed the floor so unsteadily-- looking so white?"
34825She called him back,"Come and see me-- at my best-- at the_ Herriot_--won''t you?"
34825She had found an old picture of his in a magazine and commented on it deliciously...."I wonder if you think of me as I am-- plain,_ plain_?"
34825She noted the instant contraction of his brows, and shrank inwardly at the hard, rapid tone, with which he darted the question:"Are you a Catholic?"
34825Should she not be thankful that a beyond- devil had been required to test her soul?
34825So_ A Damsel Came to Peter_?"
34825Some brivate vire of yours?''
34825Some time-- who knows?
34825Stay, wo n''t you please, and share a bite of supper with me, Madame Nestor?
34825Stay, wo n''t you?"
34825Still, do n''t you see it-- how wonderful was your victory to- day?"
34825Stock?"
34825Tell me, can scar- tissue ever be so fine?
34825That moment, before you actually see-- just as you enter the mingled dawn and fire- light and catch the first glisten of the tree?...
34825The American''s further activities unfolded:"By the way, have you been reading the French paper here--_Les Colonies_?"
34825The club type she preferred to know from a sort of middle distance...."Wo n''t you, please?"
34825The critic grasped the low shoulders of a bald, thin- lipped acquaintance, exclaiming:"Where did you get that diadem, Lucky One?"
34825Then he heard:"What is this dripping darkness?"
34825Then she uttered an unforgettable question:"_ Can a tiger eat grains?_"Vast ranges of terrible understanding were suggested.
34825There is a dress- maker-- and_ we_ breakfast together.... Root for me-- for us, to- night-- won''t you, dear girl?"
34825There shall be no note from me----""But did you write to him, Paula?"
34825There was a low, husky laugh, and then plainly these words:"She makes your goppers sizzle-- eh?...
34825There was a mystery left upon the face by the intervening years,"while the tireless soul etched on...."Should she ever know?
34825There was a suggestion of world- wisdom here, or was it world- wear?
34825There''s no fun in giving something you do n''t want.... Are you going to hear Bellingham to- night?"
34825They left her in a dark-- that was madness.... And if they were false, what was the meaning of her exaltations?
34825This is certainly Ash- Wednesday, is n''t it?"
34825Through the ends of these two, had some essential balance of power been preserved in the world?
34825To what god or devil had he sold his soul that he was thus condemned to eternal scrivening?
34825True, as man and woman, they had made no covenant, but to her( and had he not expressed the same in a score of ways?
34825Vite- Apron?''
34825Was it all the etching of the_ soul_--that this later print revealed?...
34825Was it not good to live, since the sun was trying to shine again and the mountain did not answer the ringing of the bells?
34825Was n''t it monstrous?"
34825We shall_ remember_ then.... And so you live alone?
34825What can happen to a body that continually makes of itself a lying instrument?
34825What could a mind like his_ not_ build about months of communion( eyes and ears strained toward flashing skies) with a Skylark ideal?...
34825What does this mean-- this desire of woman to bring out the latent powers of a stranger''s child?
34825What law, human or divine, was disordered by two human grown- ups with clean minds communing together intimately in letters?
34825What other purpose could he have?
34825What right had she to say that the world- mind was in error and she normal-- she and the unreckonable Madame Nestor?...
34825What, thin, must it be in that pit of destruction?"
34825Where is his valor now, his taking of cities, his smiling deaths for honor?
34825Why should he rush off alone?
34825Why was he so eager for the dawn?
34825Wing often to my window-- won''t you?
34825Wo n''t you let me hear at once, please?
34825Would she ever write again?...
34825Would the City crush him into a trifler, with artificial emotions, or was this a Daniel come to interpret her evil dreams?...
34825You bring the thing home to a room in a New York apartment... Ca n''t you see how hard to adjust, this is?
34825You have come wonderfully and differently into the glare, but let me ask where is Martha Boardman to- night-- a few short years later?"
34825You know him?"
34825You see how I could have spoiled_ The Thing_ last night-- if I had let the passion flood through me like a torrent through a broken dam?
34825You two have had me soaring.... Charter, you do n''t mean to tell me you called Miss Wyndam to meet you in the wine- shop?"
34825You will be here in the morning-- the first thing in the morning?"
34825You work while we sleep-- eh?
34825You, who used to be-- singing flames?"
9180Books?
9180Know him? 9180 Pray now,"said he to the Doctor,"what would you give, old gentleman, to be as young and sprightly as I am?"
9180Pray, Sir, how does Mrs. Williams like all this tribe?
9180Pray, Sir,said Mr. Hume,"in what branch of philosophy did you employ your researches?
9180Pray, Sir,said she,"did not you write a book about my cousin Pope?"
9180Then you can tell me some anecdotes of him?
9180What does a man learn by travelling? 9180 What upon earth,"said one at our house,"could have made--[Fitzherbert] hang himself?"
9180''"So Sir,"said Johnson to Cibber,"I find you know[ knew?]
9180''"Why does not my book make its appearance?"
9180''A flagelet, Sir!--so small an instrument[681]?
9180''And how was it, Sir?''
9180''And if Jack Wilkes_ should_ be there, what is that to_ me_, Sir?
9180''And what think you, Sir, of it?''
9180''Are they well translated, Sir?''
9180''Because she was fifteen years younger?''
9180''But how are the passions to be purged by terrour and pity?''
9180''But if they should be good, why not give them hearty praise?''
9180''But if we could have pleasure always, should not we be happy?
9180''But if you see a friend going to tumble over a precipice?''
9180''But is not courage mechanical, and to be acquired?''
9180''But is not that taking a mere chance for having a good or a bad Mayor?''
9180''But may they not as well be forgotten?''
9180''But stay,( said he, with his usual intelligence, and accuracy of enquiry,) does it take much wine to make him drunk?''
9180''But why did you not take your revenge directly?''
9180''But why nations?
9180''But why smite his bosom, Sir?''
9180''But you would not have me to bind myself by a solemn obligation?''
9180''But, Sir, is it not a sad thing to be at a distance from all our literary friends?''
9180''But, Sir, would not you wish to know old age?
9180''DEAR SIR,''What can possibly have happened, that keeps us two such strangers to each other?
9180''DEAR SIR,''Why do you talk of neglect?
9180''Dear Sir,''Why should you importune me so earnestly to write?
9180''Did he indeed speak for half an hour?''
9180''Did he mean tardiness of locomotion?
9180''Did the King please you[1091]?
9180''Did you quite_ down_ her?''
9180''Do n''t you eat supper, Sir?''
9180''Do n''t you see( said he) the impropriety of it?
9180''Do you think, Sir, it is always culpable to laugh at a man to his face?''
9180''Does Lord Kames decide the question?''
9180''Does not Gray''s poetry, Sir, tower above the common mark?''
9180''Have they not arts?''
9180''Have you seen them, Sir?''
9180''He said of a certain lady''s entertainments,"What signifies going thither?
9180''How do you live, Sir?
9180''How is this, Sir?
9180''How near is the Cathedral to Auchinleck, that you are so much delighted with it?
9180''Is getting a hundred thousand pounds a proof of excellence?
9180''Is not modesty natural?''
9180''Is not the Giant''s- Causeway worth seeing?''
9180''Is there no hope of a change to the better?''
9180''MY DEAR SIR,''Are you playing the same trick again, and trying who can keep silence longest?
9180''Must we then go by implicit faith?''
9180''Nay, Sir, how can you talk so?''
9180''Nay, Sir, what talk is this?''
9180''No, Sir?
9180''Nor for being a Scotchman?''
9180''O why,''asks Wesley, who was as strongly opposed to bleeding as he was fond of poulticing,''will physicians play with the lives of their patients?
9180''On entering, he said,"Well, Sir Joshua, and who[ sic] have you got to dine with you to- day?
9180''Poor little, pretty, fluttering thing, Must we no longer live together?
9180''Pray how many sheep- stealers did you convict?
9180''Pray, Sir, are Ganganelli''s letters authentick?''
9180''Pray, Sir, did you ever play on any musical instrument?''
9180''Pray, Sir, have you read Potter''s_ Aeschylus_?''
9180''Pray, Sir, have you read_ Edwards, of New England, on Grace_?''
9180''Pray, Sir, what has he made of his story of a ghost?''
9180''Richardson[928]?''
9180''Should you not like to see Dublin, Sir?''
9180''So then, Sir, you would allow of no irregular intercourse whatever between the sexes?''
9180''Then, Sir, what is poetry?''
9180''Then, Sir, you would not shoot him?''
9180''There are( said he) innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist?
9180''Was not Dr. John Campbell a very inaccurate man in his narrative, Sir?
9180''Was there not a story of his ghost having appeared?''
9180''Well, Sir, and what then?
9180''Were not Dodd''s sermons addressed to the passions?''
9180''What came of Dr. Memis''s cause[277]?
9180''What could you learn, Sir?
9180''What did you say, Sir?''
9180''What do you mean, Sir?
9180''What do you say of Lord Chesterfield''s_ Memoirs and last Letters_?
9180''What do you say to the written characters of their language?
9180''What doubt we to incense His utmost ire?
9180''What is the cause of this, Sir?''
9180''What is the purpose, Sir?
9180''What place, what land in all the earth but with our grief is stored?''
9180''What say you to Lord----?''
9180''What shall we learn from_ that_ stuff?''
9180''What then is the fault with which this worthy minister is charged?
9180''What, Sir, a fellow who claps a hump on his back, and a lump on his leg, and cries"_ I am Richard the Third_[518]"?
9180''What, Sir, a good book?''
9180''What, Sir, if he debauched the ladies of gentlemen in the county, will not there be a general resentment against him?''
9180''What, Sir, would you know what it is to feel the evils of old age?
9180''What, by way of a companion, Sir?''
9180''What?
9180''Where did Beckford and Trecothick learn English?''
9180''Where( said he,) will you find so large a collection without some?''
9180''Why do you wish that, Sir?''
9180''Why should it shock you, Sir?
9180''Why should you not be as happy at Edinburgh as at Chester?
9180''Why then meet at table?''
9180''Why then, Sir, did he talk so?''
9180''Why then, Sir, did you leave it off?''
9180''Why was you glad?
9180''Why, Sir, do people play this trick which I observe now, when I look at your grate, putting the shovel against it to make the fire burn?''
9180''Worth seeing?
9180''Would you tell Mr.----[1031]?''
9180''Would you tell your friend to make him unhappy?''
9180''Yet Cibber was a man of observation?''
9180''You will except the Chinese, Sir?''
9180( for if they are not authentick they are nothing;)--And how long will it be before the original French is published?
9180( said Johnson, smiling,) what would you give to be forty years from Scotland?''
9180***** In martial vest By Venus and the Graces drest, To yonder tent, who leads the way?
9180*****''Do you ever hear from Mr. Langton?
9180--''Have you, Sir?
9180--''Is not harmless pleasure very tame?''
9180--''What with Mr. Wilkes?
9180--for what?
9180... MR. T."And pray who is clerk of your kitchen, Sir?"
9180494, note 3] come to himself?
9180A little later she wrote to Mrs. Thrale:--''Does Dr. Johnson continue gay and good- humoured, and"valuing nobody"in a morning?''
9180A son is almost necessary to the continuance of Thrale''s fortune; for what can misses do with a brewhouse?
9180And as for the good worthy man; how do you know he is good and worthy?
9180And do n''t you think that we see too much of that in our own Parliament?''
9180And dost thou prune thy trembling wing, To take thy flight thou know''st not whither?
9180And surely such a state is not to be put into yearly hazard for the pleasure of_ keeping the house full_, or the ambition of_ out- brewing Whitbread_?
9180And that offend great Nature''s GOD, Which Nature''s self inspires[1027]?''
9180And what account of their religion can you suppose to be learnt from savages?
9180And what do you think of his definition of Excise?
9180And what was their yearly value?
9180And why with_ vexing thoughts art_ thou Disquieted in me?''
9180Are any of you gentlemen at the Bar able to explain this?"
9180Are we to think Pope was happy, because he says so in his writings?
9180Art thou Britannia''s Genius?
9180As it is, there is so little truth, that we are almost afraid to trust our ears; but how should we be, if falsehood were multiplied ten times?
9180As we were moving slowly along in the crowd from church, Johnson jogged my elbow, and said,''Did you attend to the sermon?''
9180Beauclerk, how came you to talk so petulantly to me, as"This is what you do n''t know, but what I know"?
9180Because a man can not be right in all things, is he to be right in nothing?
9180Because a man sometimes gets drunk, is he therefore to steal?
9180But have they not_ clipped_ rather_ rudely_, and gone a great deal_ closer_ than was necessary?
9180But have those dismal circumstances at all affected_ me_?
9180But how is it?
9180But if he may warn each man singly, what shall forbid him to warn them altogether?
9180But if you were ever so just in your disapprobation, might you not have dealt more tenderly with me?
9180But the question was, who should have the courage to propose them to him?
9180But what a man is he, who is to be driven from the stage by a line?
9180But what epicure will ever regard it?
9180But what will you do to keep away the_ black dog_[1266] that worries you at home?
9180But when he felt himself deficient he sought assistance; and what man of learning would refuse to help him?''
9180But who is without it?''
9180But, perhaps, you will ask,"who is_ consternated_,"?
9180Can we not meet at Manchester?
9180Death is, however, at a distance; and what more than that can we say of ourselves?
9180Did Miss Austen find here the title of_ Pride and Prejudice_, for her novel?
9180Did his gaiety extend farther than his own nation?''
9180Did one ever hear a more truly Christian charity than keeping up a perpetuity of three hundred slaves to look after the Gospel''s estate?''
9180Did you think he would so soon be gone?
9180Dilly''s?''
9180Do n''t you consider, Sir, that these are not the manners of a gentleman?
9180Do n''t you know that it is very uncivil to_ pit_[523] two people against one another?''
9180Do n''t you know this?''
9180Do we not judge of the drunken wit, of the dialogue between Iago and Cassio, the most excellent in its kind, when we are quite sober?
9180Do you know the history of his aversion to the word_ transpire_[1017]?''
9180Do you respect a rope- dancer, or a ballad- singer?''
9180Do you think I am so ignorant of the world, as to imagine that I am to prescribe to a gentleman what company he is to have at his table?''
9180Do you think he is likely to get the farm?''
9180Does he talk, and walk, and look about him, as if there were yet something in the world for which it is worth while to live?
9180Does it not produce real advantage in the conveniency and elegance of accommodation, and this all from the exertion of industry?
9180Does the blood rise from her lungs or from her stomach?
9180Dryden?"
9180For what were they sold?
9180For where does the poet prefer the glory of refitting_ old_ subjects to that of inventing new ones?
9180Has Sir Allan any reasonable hopes[279]?
9180He must in these early days have sometimes felt with Arviragus when he says:--''What should we speak of When we are old as you?
9180He wrote a great many plays, did not he?"
9180His Lordship however asked,''Will he write the Lives of the Poets impartially?
9180His grisly hand in icy chains Fair Tweeda''s silver flood constrains,''& c. He asked why an''_ iron_ chariot''?
9180How could you omit to write to me on such an occasion?
9180How is the suit carried on?
9180How much gardening does this occasion?
9180I have written to the Benedictine to give me an answer upon two points-- What evidence is there that the letters are authentick?
9180I hope to tell you this at the beginning of every year as long as we live; and why should we trouble ourselves to tell or hear it oftener?
9180I stated to him this case:--''Suppose a man has a daughter, who he knows has been seduced, but her misfortune is concealed from the world?
9180I took an opportunity to- day of mentioning several to him.--_Atterbury_?
9180I took down Thomson, and read aloud a large portion of him, and then asked,--Is not this fine?
9180I was once present when a gentleman asked so many as,''What did you do, Sir?''
9180I was persuaded that if I had come upon him with a direct proposal,''Sir, will you dine in company with Jack Wilkes?''
9180I will appeal to the world; and how will your judgement appear?"
9180I will not be baited with_ what_, and_ why_; what is this?
9180I, however, would not have it thought, that Dr. Taylor, though he could not write like Johnson,( as, indeed, who could?)
9180If Miss---- followed a trade, would it be said that she was bound in conscience to give or refuse credit at her father''s choice?
9180If for ten righteous men the ALMIGHTY would have spared Sodom, shall not a thousand acts of goodness done by Dr. Dodd counterbalance one crime?
9180If the king is a Whig, he will not like them; but is any king a Whig?''
9180If you said two and two make four, he would say,''How will you prove that, Sir?''
9180In your Preface you say,"What would it avail me in this gloom of solitude[1233]?"
9180Is Beauclerk the better for travelling?
9180Is Strahan a good judge of an Epigram?
9180Is it a fit of humour, that has disposed you to try who can hold out longest without writing?
9180Is not he rather an_ obtuse_ man, eh?''
9180Is not mine a kind of life turned upside down?
9180Is not that trim?
9180Is not this a noble lot for our fair Hebridean?
9180Is not this an age of daring effrontery?
9180Is the question about the negro determined[278]?
9180Johnson wrote to Mrs. Thrale:--''Did you see Foote at Brighthelmstone?
9180Johnson wrote to Mrs. Thrale:--''If I had money enough, what would I do?
9180Johnson, in a tone of displeasure, asked him,''Why do you praise Anson[ 1130]?''
9180Johnson, upon this, seemed much agitated; and, in an angry tone, exclaimed,''Why will you vex me by suggesting this, when it is too late[912]?''
9180MR. T."But how do you get your dinners drest?"
9180MRS. T."But pray, Sir, who is the Poll you talk of?
9180MRS. T."How came she among you, Sir?"
9180May I ask who she was?''
9180May I presume to petition for a meeting with you in the autumn?
9180Might not this nobleman have felt every thing"weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable[1039],"as Hamlet says?''
9180Mr. Fitzherbert being satisfied, by this, of the sincerity of his emotions, slyly said,''Had not you better take a postchaise and go and see him?''
9180No ill I hope has happened; and if ill should happen, why should it be concealed from him who loves you?
9180Now this is being as culpable as one can conceive, to misrepresent fact in a book, and for what motive?
9180Now what is the use of the memory to truth, if one is careless of exactness?
9180Now will any of his contemporaries bewail him?
9180Now, what is the concoction of a play?''
9180Now_ Elkanah Settle_ sounds so_ queer_, who can expect much from that name?
9180Of that which is to be made known to all, how is there any difference whether it be communicated to each singly, or to all together?
9180Or does he yet sit and say nothing?
9180Pray what do you mean by the question?''
9180Pray what have you heard?''
9180Pray, Sir, had you ever thought of it?''
9180Puisque cette jeune beautà © Ote à   chacun sa libertà ©, N''est- ce pas une Janseniste?"
9180Qua rosa mirantes tam nova mutat aquas?
9180Shall we go to Ireland, of which I have seen but little?
9180Shall we, shall aged men, like aged trees, Strike deeper their vile roots, and closer cling, Still more enamoured of this wretched soil?''
9180Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?''
9180Sir William Forbes said,''Might not a man warmed with wine be like a bottle of beer, which is made brisker by being set before the fire?''
9180Sir,( said I,)_ In cà ¦ lum jusseris ibit_[1064]?''
9180Society is held together by communication and information; and I remember this remark of Sir Thomas Brown''s,"Do the devils lie?
9180Such a fleet[ a fleet equal to the transportation of twenty or of ten thousand men] can not be hid in a creek; it must be safely[?]
9180Talking of divorces, I asked if Othello''s doctrine was not plausible?
9180That we"now see in[631] a glass darkly,"but shall"then see face to face?"''
9180The Duchess of Buckingham asked Lord Orrery_ who_ this person was?
9180The judge said,"I never heard of such a writ-- what can it be that adheres_ pavimento_?
9180Unde rubor vestris et non sua purpura lymphis?
9180Voltaire put the same question to the editor of them, that I did to Macpherson-- Where are the originals[836]?''
9180We have physicians now with bag- wigs[842]; may we not have airy divines, at least somewhat less solemn in their appearance than they used to be?''
9180What books did you read?"
9180What can savages tell, but what they themselves have seen?
9180What can you tell of countries so well known as those upon the continent of Europe, which you have visited?''
9180What care_ I_ for his_ patriotick friends_[192]?
9180What comes of Xenophon[1098]?
9180What did Lord Charlemont learn in his travels, except that there was a snake in one of the pyramids of Egypt?"''
9180What do you take me for?
9180What gave your springs a brightness not their own?
9180What have we done for literature, equal to what was done by the Stephani and others in France?
9180What is a friend?
9180What is a picture of Romney now worth?''
9180What is become of poor Macquarry[280]?
9180What is the opinion of Lord Auchinleck, or Lord Hailes, or Lord Monboddo?
9180What is waste?''
9180What may not a man believe if he will?''
9180What rose so strange the wond''ring waters flushed?
9180What says Addison in his_ Cato_, speaking of the Numidian?
9180What should discourage thee?
9180What should he be doing?
9180What think you of purchasing this island, and endowing a school or college there, the master to be a clergyman of the Church of England?
9180When Johnson had done reading, the authour asked him bluntly,''If upon the whole it was a good translation?''
9180When are you to be cantoned in better habitations?
9180When did I complain that your letters were too long[250]?
9180When did I neglect you?
9180When we had left Mr. Scott''s, he said,''Will you go home with me?''
9180Where did Beckford and Trecothick learn English[221]?''
9180Who knows even now that''tis deferred for ever?
9180Who thinks the worse of----[1036] for it?''
9180Why should a sober Christian, neither an enthusiast nor a fanatick, be very merry or very sad?"
9180Why should she flatter_ me_?
9180Why then should the gloomy scenes which I experience, or which I know, affect others?
9180Why was this world created?
9180Why will you not allow yourself to be persuaded that polish is material to preservation?''
9180Why, how do they manage without?"
9180Will Genius change_ his sex_ to weep?''
9180Will genius change_ his sex_ to weep?
9180Will not many even of my fairest readers allow this to be true?
9180Will not you confirm me in my persuasion, that he who finds himself so regarded has just reason to be happy?
9180Will you give me work?"
9180Will you not add,--or when driving rapidly in a post- chaise[16]?''
9180Would he not, by doing so, be accessory to imposition?
9180Would it not be foolish to regret that we shall have less mystery in a future state?
9180Would it not be worth your while to crush such noxious weeds in the moral garden?
9180Would it not have been wrong to have named him so in your_ Preface to Shakspeare_, or in any serious permanent writing of any sort?
9180Would this be better than building and planting?
9180Would this be better than building and planting?
9180Would you have decrepitude?''
9180Would you have the gout?
9180Write me word to whom I shall send besides[1123]; would it please Lord Auchinleck?
9180You will hear it said, very gravely, Why was not the half- guinea, thus spent in luxury, given to the poor?
9180[ 1131] Johnson wrote to Mrs. Thrale on Foote''s death:--''Now, will any of his contemporaries bewail him?
9180[ 1194]''Johnson''s first question was,"What kind of a man was Mr. Pope in his conversation?"
9180[ 1292]''Animula, vagula, blandula, Hospes comesque corporis, Quà ¦ nunc abibis in loca, Pallidula, rigida, nudula?
9180[ 1305] Burney[1306] and I and Queeney teize him every meal he eats, and Mrs. Montagu is quite serious with him; but what_ can_ one do?
9180[ 169] Milton had put the same complaint into Adam''s mouth:--''Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man?
9180[ 316] But is not the charm of this publication chiefly owing to the_ magnum nomen_ in the front of it?
9180[ 319] What can I do to mend them?
9180[ 411]''What must I do to be saved?''
9180[ 454]''Quae regio in terris nostri non plena laboris?''
9180[ 593] Johnson wrote to Mrs. Thrale:--''Boswell kept his journal very diligently; but then what was there to journalize?
9180[ 638] The original passage is:''Si non potes te talem facere, qualem vis, quomodo poteris alium ad tuum habere beneplacitum?''
9180[ 725]''Who can doubt,''asks Mr. Forster,''that he also meant slowness of motion?
9180_ Tillotson_?
9180_ Who_ can repeat Hamlet''s soliloquy,"To be, or not to be,"as Garrick does it?''
9180_ Who_ is ruined by gaming?
9180a Prig, Sir?''
9180about a ghost?''
9180and how did you punish them?
9180and in his conversation with Mr. Wilkes, he asked,''Where did Beckford and Trecothick learn English[573]?''
9180and is this a time to begin to be particular when I have been up all night in trembling agitation?
9180and which the way?"''
9180did you not know, Principal, that it was Cockburn and Sinclair and me?"
9180do n''t you love to have hope realized?
9180does_ he_ talk of liberty?
9180has it not gone to the_ industrious_ poor, whom it is better to support than the_ idle_ poor?
9180have you that weakness?''
9180how many labourers must the competition to have such things early in the market, keep in employment?
9180iii 422):--''What is London?
9180is this realising any of the towering hopes which have so often been the subject of our conversations and letters?
9180my dear Sir, was I ever particular in dating a letter before?
9180or is he_ a slave of state, hired by a stipend to obey his master_?
9180or what can he add to his regularity and temperance?
9180should he keep her in his house?
9180v. 5;''Why art thou then cast down, my soul?
9180what books?''
9180what has brought you here again?"
9180what is that?
9180what merit?
9180when we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December, how In this our pinching cave, shall we discourse The freezing hours away?
9180why is a cow''s tail long?
9180why is a fox''s tail bushy?''
9180will sense make the head ache?''
9180xii, Wilkes, quoting Johnson''s definition of a pensioner, asks:--''Is the said Mr. Johnson a_ dependant_?
46258''Where''s the plot then?'' 46258 About me?"
46258About me?
46258Ah, how can I tell?
46258Ah, my dear, do you think I have n''t known all along?
46258Ah, was that it?
46258All what?
46258Am I to say that you do n''t wish to see him again? 46258 And about my portrait?"
46258And am I right in supposing that you would expect whatever the usual commission happens to be?
46258And do you intend also to disobey me with regard to neither seeing nor communicating with Mr. Lathom again?
46258And has Joyce been sitting to you already?
46258And has my presence made any difference to you?
46258And have you copied much?
46258And her questions?
46258And if so will you take some lunch?
46258And if''Easter Eggs''is put on, and fails, as your other play did,he observed,"shall I not be considerably out of pocket?
46258And is there anything else you would like me to do for you?
46258And that was why Mr. Wroughton did n''t want me down there last autumn?
46258And the plates? 46258 And then, my dear?"
46258And was it any of my flirts in Cairo?
46258And were n''t you painting below Thorley Weir a week ago? 46258 And what am I to do with this foolish boy?"
46258And what did you mean by that, my dear?
46258And what is your part in this conspiracy?
46258And when will you have finished your copying?
46258And when?
46258And will you get breakfast ready if I come now?
46258And you have had a''heart- to- heart''talk with Egypt?
46258And you sat there all by yourself, mum as a mouse, and ate up your tray?
46258Are n''t you being Uriah- ish, as Mr. Armstrong says?
46258Are we going up or down the river?
46258Are you more than proud, satisfied?
46258Are you proud?
46258Are you sure it''s not a little-- well-- a little thick?
46258Are you talking about the Reynolds? 46258 But how?"
46258But is the latest addition qualitatively satisfactory?
46258But what characters?
46258But what have you bought all these papers for?
46258But what of us?
46258But why should my having breakfast matter to you?
46258But wo n''t you leave him here?
46258But you think some one has been telling damned lies about me?
46258But your hat?
46258By punching of his head?
46258Ca n''t you manage to get up, as you did when I came in this morning? 46258 Can not we by any means persuade you to stay another night?
46258Can you give me a few minutes of your time now?
46258Could n''t I see you struggling to keep your heart above water, so to speak? 46258 Did he caution you against me?"
46258Did you say £500?
46258Did you tell them that?
46258Did you-- did you mention your connection with me?
46258Do I sound as if I was lying? 46258 Do not you men cease to think of us even before we are middle- aged?"
46258Do you mean by that what you have just asked me?
46258Do you mean that you have been actually in want of money to pay for food? 46258 Do you understand?"
46258Eight hundred pounds advance, was it? 46258 Five thousand?
46258Good Lord, my dear, do you mean that?
46258Granny, darling,she said,"how many lumps of sugar?"
46258Guess? 46258 Happened?"
46258Have some now by itself?
46258He has adopted you, too, for he came out when you came, did n''t he?
46258How could your portrait show you think her a bore?
46258How much did Ward give you for Philip Wroughton''s Reynolds?
46258I began it from the picture,he said,"but may I finish it from you?
46258I should be very glad to.... And perhaps soon, not just yet, but soon, you will come and see my work, if I ring you up? 46258 If so, shall I pay it, or your friend?"
46258If you really believe Craddock is a swindler, how can you make jokes about it? 46258 Is it finished now?"
46258Is it-- do you mean it''s a huge success, huge, you know?
46258Is n''t it so distressing on a wet day?
46258Is there a big tree on the lawn? 46258 It is a clever sketch, is n''t it?"
46258Lady Crowborough?
46258Lays it on thick, does n''t it?
46258Leave it there,she said..."and then, where were we?
46258Lor'', my dear, do you think I did n''t guess that? 46258 Lor'', my dear, what do you want with experience over that sort o''thing?"
46258May n''t I give you and Miss Wroughton tea there some afternoon? 46258 My dear, what have you done?"
46258No? 46258 Not ill, I hope?"
46258Not really?
46258Oh, Charles,she said,"have you come to me?
46258Oh, Mr. Lathom,she said,"is it you?
46258Oh, Mr. Wroughton does expect me?
46258Oh, but they''re not gutless, do you think? 46258 Oh, but will you, can you?"
46258Oh, do you paint?
46258Oh, that?
46258Only that? 46258 Or were you thinking of exhibiting it?"
46258Painfully noble sentiment?
46258Shall we come to the point?
46258Shall we go?
46258Shall we take our ride into the desert or go home?
46258Shall we-- wouldn''t it be better if we got it over at once? 46258 Something up: something up, is there, Craddock?"
46258Surely for my sake a little less than yours?
46258That Craddock?
46258That I suppose is your business?
46258That is down- stream, is n''t it?
46258Then I have shown that?
46258Then would you like unpopularity? 46258 To her, do n''t you mean?"
46258Well, then, when you leave your encampment here, will you please send it to me at this address? 46258 Well?"
46258Well?
46258What did you give?
46258What do you mean to do, either of you?
46258What do you want me to do, Charles?
46258What had he bought?
46258What has happened?
46258What is your name?
46258What on earth could have happened? 46258 What on earth do you think of me?"
46258What would you like to do?
46258What''ll you give me for my portrait, or do n''t you do business in these sacred halls? 46258 What?
46258Where shall we sup to- night?
46258Why did Craddock do it?
46258Why did Mr. Craddock send father the cheque?
46258Why how could I look him in the face, and have a moment''s ease with him, if I thought you had?
46258Why not indeed? 46258 Why not?"
46258Will you give me your permission to ask Miss Joyce if she will make me the happiest of men?
46258Will you have it over your shoulders or on your knees?
46258Will you tell me who this excellent authority is?
46258Wo n''t he disturb you?
46258Wounds? 46258 Yes, dear, but how did you know?"
46258Yes, it was rot, was n''t it, Frank?
46258Yes, yes: very clever, very sparkling,he said,"but hardly in my line, do you think?
46258Yes: do you mind my asking you one thing? 46258 You are a painter of portraits, and what sitter will come up those stairs?
46258You know my mother, do you not? 46258 You were saying?"
46258You would n''t have liked that, would you? 46258 Your studio address?
46258A commission to copy a Reynolds perhaps, other things perhaps, who knows?
46258After all, what has happened?
46258Ai n''t you frightened of burglars?"
46258And an American, was it not?
46258And are there usually some dogs about?"
46258And are these chocolates for me, too?
46258And are those sketches yours?
46258And dear old Buz lay on the sofa and got worse and worse?"
46258And did you come all the way back from your tent in the heat, Mr. Lathom, to go on painting this afternoon?"
46258And do you suppose that I will do so any longer?
46258And do you want quite all those cushions and wraps?
46258And even then the Nile floods came up here did they?
46258And how long really do you think your copy will take?
46258And if you find there''s anything to be done, or talked about, well, ring me up, wo n''t you?
46258And leit- motif: what''s a leit- motif?
46258And now about what has happened to- day?
46258And now if you want to hear the first act of the''Lane without a Turning,''we had better begin?
46258And so you''ll go to him now, will you, and tell him what you know, and threaten that we''ll have the law on him as a common swindler?
46258And what does it matter?
46258And what will you do if the weather becomes odious?"
46258And what''s wrong?"
46258And when I''ve signed, or whatever I have to do, will you give me a cheque straight off?
46258And who has been blackguarding you, I should like to know?
46258And why does he wait there?"
46258And will you take me out again in your punt after tea, as you did when I was here last?
46258And you''ll let me know, wo n''t you?"
46258And your tent does n''t let the rain in?
46258And, Mr. Craddock, was n''t Charles-- the cook called him Charles-- wasn''t Charles painting rather nicely?
46258Anything for the model?
46258Apart from your work, have you been going about much?"
46258Are their souls above remuneration, and do they only want topping high art?"
46258Are we to see your father?"
46258Are you a rival, do you think?"
46258Are you going to paint all the morning, Charles?"
46258Are you going to tell your father or is he?"
46258Are you sure?"
46258Besides, what could have occurred to change the friendliness of the family into this cold acidity?
46258But do n''t you ever despise your pictures-- anyhow distrust them-- just because they are popular?"
46258But does it by any chance seem to you remunerative twaddle?"
46258But how does it all concern you?
46258But it is like Miss Wroughton, is n''t it?"
46258But somehow he felt as if he ought to have been more touched...."_ Ã � propos_ of Armstrong?"
46258But where had she gone, where should he seek and find her?
46258But where would you have been if he had n''t put on''Easter Eggs''for you?
46258But who taught you drawing?"
46258But why should I go slobbering over and blessing my father, who made life hell to me?
46258But why should you care?
46258But would you really do it for me?"
46258Can you go to her house at three?"
46258Charles is up on top, is n''t he, Craddock?"
46258Charles, I never dreamed it would stick in your mind like this-- but what has that got to do with Craddock and his nimble option?"
46258Come on, come on, what are you waiting for?"
46258Could it be she who had passed that way already?
46258Could she have been wrong about that, too?
46258Craddock is about to marry the girl of the punt, and Charles will cut his throat, and----""Whose throat?"
46258Craddock?"
46258Did Mrs. Fortescue come to your studio?
46258Did he kiss you, my dear?"
46258Did n''t the same sort of affair happen again?"
46258Did you ask her why she wanted to know?"
46258Did you know people like that?"
46258Did you lie like that when you lied about me to Philip Wroughton last autumn?
46258Did you see?"
46258Did you-- did you mean I could really guess them?"
46258Do n''t you find it so?
46258Do n''t you remember how pleased she was when she knew you were coming with us?
46258Do tell me about it?
46258Do you accept my offer or not?
46258Do you not think that it was that, Joyce?
46258Do you remember last June an American called Ward drawing a cheque at your desk at Thistleton''s?
46258Do you see?
46258Do you see?
46258Do you suppose he would listen to you?
46258Do you understand?
46258Does n''t he owe me that as well?
46258Does that show you?
46258Does your poor mind take that in at all?
46258Down stream or up?
46258Eh, Joyce?"
46258Eh?"
46258Forgive you?
46258Fortescue?"
46258Had you not better wait till I read you some of it?"
46258Has he got it for five thousand pounds?"
46258Have a cup?"
46258Have n''t I caught the vacant expression of her face quite beautifully?
46258Have you seen him since you knew about it all?"
46258Have you seen it?
46258He stayed with you, did he not, when the weather broke?"
46258He''s in rather a hole, is n''t he?"
46258Heep?"
46258Her own face, her own slim body and gesture, as he saw her, leaped at her from the sketch, and she thrilled to think,"Is that what he sees in me?"
46258How can we make him do that?"
46258How did you guess?"
46258How much do you offer me for''Easter Eggs''and on what conditions?"
46258How on earth does he do it?
46258How was it done?"
46258How''s that?
46258How''s''Easter Eggs,''by the way?"
46258I advanced you ten, did I not?
46258I always rather wanted to confess that to you-- Penance?"
46258I am late already: is there a taxi, do you think?"
46258I believe he was sorry, and if people are sorry-- well, it''s all over, is n''t it?"
46258I have heard from Mr. Lathom, asking when he can come down to see his picture framed and in its place-- I suppose any day will do, will it not?
46258I read your article in the''Whitehall,''by the way; you did n''t spare the adjectives did you?
46258I wonder why: what motive can he have had?...
46258If that is so, may I ask you, as a favour which I should so much appreciate, that you do not take your things away from my studio just yet anyhow?
46258In five minutes, then?"
46258Is it a picture, or a potentate, or a ballerina?
46258Is it late?"
46258Is it that he means by throwing himself on my mercy?
46258Is n''t it magic?
46258Is n''t that it?
46258Is n''t that it?"
46258Is that all?
46258Is that it?"
46258Is that so?"
46258It is done, is n''t it, mother?"
46258It was as if Frank knew all that Charles had been so careful not to tell him... it was as if he said"Oh, he warned you against me, did he?
46258It was not quite sunrise yet; should day, and another day lit by the dawn that from everlasting had moved the sun and the stars, dawn together?
46258Lady Crowborough said she would, and I will ask her the same day, or if my mother came, would n''t it do?
46258Lathom?"
46258Lathom?"
46258Let me see, this is the second go, is n''t it?"
46258Let me see, was n''t there a girl?
46258Lor, but it does seem likely, do n''t it?
46258May I know, Charles?"
46258Might that not open a new chapter in the history and records of the beautiful?
46258More artistic, eh?
46258Much more merciful, is n''t it, Mr. Lathom?
46258Not quite well?
46258Nothing I''ve done to worry you, I hope?"
46258Now I hear you live in a tent, Mr. Lathom?
46258Now do you think he fancies you at all?
46258Now supposing I accept, and you choose to exercise your option on it, do you get that?"
46258Now what about this Craddock?
46258Now what have you got to talk to me about?"
46258Now what other work have you got on hand?
46258Now will you come up there to- morrow and show me what you call your bits of things?
46258Now will you let me out of your options?''
46258Now, am I worse than Frank, more suspicious, more-- more awful?"
46258Oh, Mr. Frank Armstrong, is it?
46258Oh, Reggie, ca n''t you think of any explanation that is at all reasonable?"
46258Oh, how is Buz to- day?
46258Oh, is n''t it dreadful when animals are ill?
46258Oh, is that Mr. Craddock?
46258Or did you know that already?"
46258Or have tasted the bag of the bee?
46258Or shall we begin with the grand crash?
46258Or the nard in the fire?
46258Or was it over the indisposition of Buz that she was troubled?
46258Or why does it worry you?
46258Or why should I say it''s a kind, nice world just because I myself am not cold or hungry any longer?
46258Or would it quietly dissolve and drain itself away?
46258Or... or are you referring to what Lady Crowborough asked me?
46258Remunerative or not?"
46258Right or left?
46258Shall I ask him to stay the night?"
46258Shall I bring an action against you for it, or shall I merely topple you and the stool over onto the floor?"
46258Shall I get it for you?"
46258Shall we go into the next room?
46258Shall we have tea in the tent?"
46258She is not ill- looking, is she?
46258Should Charles say anything, what was easier than to look into so petty a mistake and rectify it?
46258Show me them the day after to- morrow, and shall we say ten in the morning?
46258Some fine lady wants to be painted by you, but will she survive, or will her laces survive these stairs?
46258Still, of what use is money except to secure health and enjoyment for others?
46258Ten thousand for the picture, one hundred for the frame, do you think?
46258That is so, is it not?"
46258That''s practical, is n''t it?"
46258That''s something, is n''t it?"
46258Then, for he had a poor opinion of his brother''s business capacities,"How much?"
46258There is no reason, I suppose, why you should see him and explain?
46258There was a Van der Weyde, I think----""But Dutch pictures?
46258There''s that damned telephone: see who it is, will you?"
46258They do not wrong those who are indifferent to them: for where should be the motive of that?
46258To what did she beckon him?
46258Up in my room, do you remember?
46258Was it?
46258Was it?
46258Was n''t it like that?
46258Was not that clever and dramatic?
46258Was that the amount?
46258Was that why you did n''t take sugar?"
46258Was there ever such a misconception?
46258Was this fat white man to prove a fairy?
46258Well, where would I have been if he had n''t bought that picture of Reggie, and come to look at my things?
46258Were there fairies still by the Thames- side?
46258What am I to do?"
46258What can have happened?"
46258What did Frank tirade about, Charles?
46258What did the vet say yesterday?"
46258What do I say, Mohammed, if I should want to stop?"
46258What do you propose?"
46258What do you say?"
46258What do you think I can have done, Miss Joyce?"
46258What do you want me to do?
46258What does she say to it all?"
46258What does that mean?
46258What have you done with my second shawl?"
46258What if-- if Ward gave Craddock a cheque for ten thousand pounds for the picture with a hundred for me for the copy?
46258What is it I have got to do according to your plan?
46258What letters are there for me?"
46258What more do you want?"
46258What then?''
46258What was it?
46258What when the love- light of man and woman flashed back and forth between him and the exquisite girl down by the riverside?
46258What would that hand be capable of when its power was fully matured?
46258What would you expect his mother and his friend to say?
46258What''s the matter?"
46258What''s the matter?"
46258Where is it?
46258Where''s a tea- cloth?"
46258Where''s my cup?
46258Where''s the charcoal?"
46258Who is it?
46258Who of all men in the world now is going about saying perfectly fulsome things about me?
46258Who wants holidays when he''s happy?
46258Who was the unseen to whom she beckoned with that gracious gesture, yet a little imperious?
46258Why did n''t you stop me?
46258Why did n''t you?"
46258Why did you not tell me?
46258Why do n''t you send Joyce up to town for a month, and give the girl a chance?
46258Why not?
46258Why should I appear to cease to be so?"
46258Why should I not?
46258Why should n''t I''do''him?
46258Why this unwonted good temper?"
46258Will she sit on a chair like this for an hour together, and look at a torn blind?
46258Will you deign to accept this humble token from your worshipper?''"
46258Will you try again?
46258Wo n''t you be up in town sometime before you go to Egypt, and wo n''t you come to lunch or tea?
46258Wo n''t you do that as a sign of your forgiveness?
46258Would they meet-- and his heart hammered in his throat-- in this pearly and sacred hour, when only the birds were awake?
46258Would you be better pleased if the theatre was empty, and there was no advance booking?"
46258Would you not be more prudent to close that window?
46258Wroughton?"
46258Yet how, why?
46258You are working hard with your typewriter: is that clear?
46258You mean that, do n''t you?"
46258You studied with Bonnart, did you not?"
46258You will be at work again, I suppose, to- morrow morning?"
46258You''re a psychologist, are n''t you?
46258he asked, his shyness entirely vanishing before this penetrating person Where was the point of being shy when a man understood like that?
9072And why should they be denied such sweeteners of their existence?
9072Does he, Madam? 9072 Sir Thomas,( said he,) you talk the language of a savage: what, Sir?
9072What signifies,says some one,"giving half- pence to common beggars?
9072What,said he,"will you read, child?"
9072Which answer did you give your friend, Sir?
9072Why no,replied he,"why should I always write ridiculously?"''
9072Why, Sir? 9072 Why, what can_ he_ fear,"says Baretti, placing himself between them,"that holds two such hands as I do?"
9072Would a_ gentleman_ write so?
9072_ Do you think so?
9072''A gentleman who had heard that Bentley was born in the north, said to Porson:"Was n''t he a Scotchman?"
9072''And do you think that absolutely essential, Sir?''
9072''And pray, Sir, what do you do with them?
9072''And what next?''
9072''Are you serious, Sir, in advising me to buy St. Kilda?
9072''Are you?
9072''But have not nations been more populous at one period than another?''
9072''But have they a moral right to do this?''
9072''But have you not the_ thing_?''
9072''But how can you bid me"empty my head of Corsica[174]?"
9072''But how is a man to act, Sir?
9072''But is not the fear of death natural to man?''
9072''But of what use will it be, Sir?''
9072''But then, Sir, their masses for the dead?''
9072''But what do you think of supporting a cause which you know to be bad?''
9072''But will you not allow him a nobleness of resolution, in penetrating into distant regions?''
9072''But would you take the trouble of rearing it?''
9072''But, Sir, does not Rousseau talk such nonsense?''
9072''But, Sir, does not heat relax?''
9072''But, Sir, if a bookseller should bring you a manuscript to look at?''
9072''But, Sir, is it not a very bad thing for landlords to oppress their tenants, by raising their rents?''
9072''But, Sir, is it not better that tenants should be dependant on landlords?''
9072''But, Sir, is it not very hard that I should not be allowed to teach my children what I really believe to be the truth?''
9072''But, Sir, is there not a quality called taste[561], which consists merely in perception or in liking?
9072''But, Sir, may not those discoveries be true without their being rascals?''
9072''But, Sir, may there not be very good conversation without a contest for superiority?''
9072''But, Sir, ought not Christians to have liberty of conscience?''
9072''But, Sir, why do n''t you give us something in some other way?''
9072''But, Sir, would it not be better to follow Nature; and go to bed and rise just as nature gives us light or with- holds it?''
9072''But, to consider the state of our own country;--does not throwing a number of farms into one hand hurt population?''
9072''But, was it not hard, Sir, to expel them, for I am told they were good beings?''
9072''But, would it not be sufficient to subscribe the Bible[447]?''
9072''Can the possessor of a feudal estate make any will?
9072''Confession?''
9072''Consider, Sir; would any of them have been willing to have had it known that they intrigued with France?
9072''Could,''he said,''any actress at any of the theatres attack me with a keener-- what is the word?
9072''DEAR SIR,''Why do you charge me with unkindness?
9072''Did not he think of exhibiting you, Sir?''
9072''Did the nonjuring clergymen do so, Sir?''
9072''Did you hear?''
9072''Do you think, Sir, it is wrong in a man who holds the doctrine of purgatory, to pray for the souls of his deceased friends?''
9072''Do you think, Sir, that all who commit suicide are mad?''
9072''Do you think, Sir, that what is called natural affection is born with us?
9072''Does not their invocation of saints suppose omnipresence in the saints?''
9072''Does the dog talk of me?''
9072''Foote has a great deal of humour?''
9072''For why( he urged) should not Judges get riches, as well as those who deserve them less?''
9072''Garrick entered the dining- room, and turning suddenly round, ran to the door, and called out,"Dr. Munsey, where are you going?"
9072''Had not you some desire to go upon this expedition, Sir?''
9072''How comes it that you tell me nothing of your lady?
9072''How is he as to his eye- sight?''
9072''How is this to be known?
9072''How so, Sir?
9072''How so, Sir?''
9072''How so, Sir?''
9072''How so, Sir?''
9072''I ask you first, Sir, what would you do if you were affronted?''
9072''I hope Mrs. Boswell and little Miss are well.--When shall I see them again?
9072''Is it necessary, Sir, to believe all the thirty- nine articles?''
9072''Is it wrong then, Sir, to affect singularity, in order to make people stare?''
9072''Is there not less religion in the nation now, Sir, than there was formerly?''
9072''It is for fear of something that he has resolved to kill himself; and will not that timid disposition restrain him?''
9072''May not a man, Sir, employ his riches to advantage in educating young men of merit?''
9072''May not he think them down, Sir?''
9072''Might I venture to differ from you with regard to the utility of vows?
9072''My opinion of alterative medicine is not high, but_ quid tentasse nocebit_?
9072''Nay, Sir, how can two people make an Ode?
9072''Nay, Sir, how can you talk so?
9072''Nay, but my dear Sir, why should not you see what every one else sees?''
9072''Nay,( said I, meaning to laugh with him at one of his prejudices,) ca n''t you say, it is not_ worth_ mapping?''
9072''No, Sir; there will always be some truth mixed with the falsehood, and how can it be ascertained how much is true and how much is false?
9072''Of her, of her what now remains, Who breathed the loves, who charmed the swains, And snatched me from my heart?''
9072''Pray, Mr. Dilly, how does Dr. Leland''s[743]_ History of Ireland_ sell?''
9072''Pray, Sir, is it true that Lord North paid you a visit, and that you got two hundred a year in addition to your pension?''
9072''Pray, Sir, is not Foote an infidel?''
9072''Pray, Sir, what did he say was the appearance?''
9072''Shall I ever,''he asks on Easter Day,''receive the Sacrament with tranquility?
9072''Shall we have_ A Journey to Paris_ from you in the winter?
9072''Should it not be, Sir, lashed the ocean and chained the winds?''
9072''Should not he provide amusements for himself?
9072''Sir( said he,) what is all this rout about the Corsicans?
9072''Sir, do you think him as bad a man as Voltaire?''
9072''So then, Sir, you do not think ill of a man who wins perhaps forty thousand pounds in a winter?''
9072''So, Sir, though he sees an enemy to the state charging a blunderbuss, he is not to interfere till it is fired off?''
9072''Such as Carte''s_ History_?''
9072''The Doctor, comprehending his drift, good- naturedly put away his book, and see- sawing with a very humorous smile, drolly repeated,"Bach, Sir?
9072''The idolatry of the Mass?''
9072''The question is, which is worst, one wild beast or many?''
9072''The worship of Saints?''
9072''Then, Sir, a poor Turk must be a Mahometan, just as a poor Englishman must be a Christian[41]?''
9072''Then, Sir, would it be for the advantage of a country that all its lands were sold at once?''
9072''Was he a scoundrel, Sir, in any other way than that of being a political scoundrel?
9072''Was he addicted to pick up women in the street?''
9072''We are now come to the practical question, what is to be done?
9072''Well, Sir, which of them did you think the best?''
9072''Well, Sir: do we not know that a maid can in one afternoon make pickles sufficient to serve a whole family for a year?
9072''Well, my boy, how do you go on?''
9072''What do you think of Dr. Young''s_ Night Thoughts_, Sir?''
9072''What say you to my marrying?
9072''What then is the reason for applying to a particular person to do that which any one may do as well?''
9072''What then, Sir, becomes of Demosthenes''s saying?
9072''What then, Sir, is the use of Parliament?''
9072''What would you have me retract?
9072''What( said Elphinston,) have you not read it through?''
9072''What, Sir, is nothing gained by decoration and action?
9072''What, Sir, will you allow no value to beauty in architecture or in statuary?
9072''When you travel abroad do you carry such knives as this?''
9072''Where is now my legacy?''
9072''Why should you write down my sayings?''
9072''Why so, Sir?''
9072''Why then, Sir, did you go?''
9072''Why then,( I asked,) is it thought disgraceful for a man not to fight, and not disgraceful not to speak in publick?''
9072''Why yes, Sir; but what is that to the merit of the composition?
9072''Why, Sir, did you go to Mrs. Abington''s benefit?
9072''Why, Sir, does not GOD every day see things going on without preventing them?''
9072''Why, Sir, should that prevent him from continuing his work?
9072''Why, Sir, what does this prove?
9072''Why, foolish fellow,( said Johnson,) has he any better authority for almost every thing that he believes?''
9072''Why, who are before him[693]?''
9072''Why, yes, Sir; and what then?
9072''Will you not admit the superiority of Robertson, in whose_ History_ we find such penetration-- such painting?''
9072''Will you not allow, Sir, that he draws very natural pictures of human life?''
9072''Would not that, Sir, be checking the freedom of election?''
9072''Would not you have a pleasure in teaching it?''
9072''Would you eat your dinner that day, Sir?''
9072''Would you teach this child that I have furnished you with, any thing?''
9072''You have read his apology, Sir?''
9072*****''What does Becket[868] mean by the_ Originals_ of Fingal and other poems of Ossian, which he advertises to have lain in his shop?''
9072*****''You, Mr. Dean, frequent the great, Inform us, will the emperor treat?''
9072--''But, Sir, you will allow that some players are better than others?''
9072313, note 3, where he said to him:''Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?''
9072360):--''To what then, it has been asked, could Johnson allude?
9072Am I, or are you, an Englishman?''
9072An abandoned profligate may think that it is not wrong to debauch my wife, but shall I, therefore, not detest him?
9072And being asked,''What did you say?''
9072And do n''t you think the magistrate would have a right to prevent you?
9072And if I catch him in making an attempt, shall I treat him with politeness?
9072And is it thus, Sir, that you presume to controvert what I have related?''
9072And pray, Sir, who is Bach?
9072And shall not every liberal soul be warm for them?
9072And then hastily returning to me he cried;"What?
9072And was Sheridan to assume to himself the right of giving that stamp?
9072And what merit is there in that?
9072And where could sufficient virtue be found?
9072And who would feed with the poor that can help it?
9072Are we more dishonest than the rest of mankind?
9072BOSWELL,''But has he not brought Shakspeare into notice?''
9072BOSWELL:''But may we not fortify our minds for the approach of death?''
9072Bach''s concert?
9072Be this as it may, is it not, in fact, converting the holy institution of marriage into a mere state contract?''
9072Besides, Sir, what damages would a jury give me for having been represented as swearing?''
9072Besides, Sir, what entitles Sheridan to fix the pronunciation of English?
9072Brethren, do you envy us this honour?
9072But Macpherson is very furious[860]; can you give me any more intelligence about him, or his Fingal?
9072But does not imagination make it much more important than it is in reality?
9072But he thus ends his attack;--''What, says Pope, must be the priest where a monkey is the god?
9072But how can you shew civilities to a non- entity?
9072But how is the right of patronage extinguished?
9072But should it be so when the architect gives his skill and labour_ gratis_?''
9072But was not Lord Coke a mere lawyer?''
9072But when is correction immoderate?
9072But why should we suppose that the parish will make a wiser choice than the patron?
9072But_ where_, I might with great propriety have added, can I find such?
9072By what prudence or what diligence can he hope to conciliate the affections of that party by whose defeat he has obtained his living?
9072Can he appoint, out of the inheritance, any portions to his daughters?
9072Can he prove it?
9072Can you seriously talk of my continuing an Englishman?
9072Can you suffer the wintry rain or wind, from whatever quarter it blows?
9072Churchill in the Rescind thus writes of him:--''Who could so nobly grace the motley list, Actor, Inspector, Doctor, Botanist?
9072Could not you tell your whole mind to Lord Hailes?
9072Could the women have no benefit from a law made in their favour?
9072Did he cheat at draughts?''
9072Did you never observe that dogs have not the power of comparing?
9072Did you receive them all?
9072Did you see?''
9072Do I know history?
9072Do I know law?''
9072Do I know mathematicks?
9072Do you know in what it differs from the Presbyterian Church?
9072Do you really think him a bad man?''
9072Do you remember how I used to laugh at his style when we were in the Temple?
9072Does not Lord Chesterfield give precepts for uniting wickedness and the graces?
9072Est ce que je cherche ou quelque plaisir, ou quelque soulagement?
9072Est ce que je m''ennuye?
9072For if you should ask them, what do you mean by the Church of England?
9072For who can give an account of another''s studies?
9072For why should he make the state of others worse than his own, without a reason?"
9072Gibbon?"''
9072Has Clanranald told it?
9072Has Mr. Langton got him the little horse that I recommended?
9072Has he a right to do so?
9072Have you no better manners?
9072Having mentioned Shakespeare and Nature, does not the name of Montagu force itself upon me?
9072He asked,"Did it make you laugh?"
9072He burst out,''Why should_ I_ be always writing[1291]?''
9072He had mentioned Shakespeare, nature and friendship, and continues:--''Now, of whom shall I proceed to speak?
9072He is quite unsocial; his conversation is quite monosyllabical: and when, at my last visit, I asked him what a clock it was?
9072He may tell you, he holds his finger in the flame of a candle, without feeling pain; would you believe him?
9072He then repeated some ludicrous lines, which have escaped my memory, and said,''Is not that GREAT, like his Odes?''
9072He wrote:--''The Exhibition, how will you do, either to see or not to see?
9072Heard ye the din of modern rhymers bray?
9072How can a man write poetically of serges and druggets?
9072How can the schoolmaster tell what the boy has really forgotten, and what he has neglected to learn?''
9072How does the young Laird of Auchinleck?
9072How should you offend me?
9072I could now tell why I should not write; for who would write to men who publish the letters of their friends, without their leave[172]?
9072I did not mingle much men[?
9072I have sometimes looked into the Maccabees, and read a chapter containing the question,_ Which is the strongest?_ I think, in Esdras''[ I Esdras, ch.
9072I have wholly forborne M[?
9072I here brought myself into a scrape, for I heedlessly said,''Would not_ you_, Sir, be the better for velvet and embroidery?''
9072I of the_ Narrative_:--''"What''s the matter with the auld bitch next?"
9072I proceeded:''What do you think, Sir, of Purgatory[307], as believed by the Roman Catholicks?''
9072I was talking with great indignation that the whole(?
9072If I could learn of Lucy, would it be better?
9072If a bull could speak, he might as well exclaim,--Here am I with this cow and this grass; what being can enjoy greater felicity?''
9072If there be no value in the distinction of rank, what does she suffer by being kept in the situation to which she has descended?
9072If they are thought to do harm, why not answer them?
9072In one of his_ Appeals to Men of Reason and Religion_, he asks:--''Can you bear the summer sun to beat upon your naked head?
9072In such a state as ours, who would not wish to please the Chief Magistrate?''
9072Is Burke''s speech on American taxation published by himself?
9072Is Lord Hailes on our side?
9072Is he a piper?"''
9072Is he with you?
9072Is it authentick?
9072Is it not a merry piece?
9072Is it not, as it were, committing voluntary suicide?''
9072Is it not, to a certain degree, a delusion in us as well as in women?''
9072Is it that men study to more advantage in a palace than in a cell?
9072Is it true that France had virtue enough to refuse a license for such a profligate performance?''
9072Is not mine a kind of life turned upside down?
9072Is not that proof enough?
9072Is not this the state of life?
9072Is not this very childish?
9072Is there not some danger that a lawyer may put on the same mask in common life, in the intercourse with his friends?''
9072Knows any one so well-- sure no one knows-- At once to play, prescribe, compound, compose?''
9072Mais pourquoi faut il partir?
9072Might you not send me a copy by the post as soon as it is printed off?''
9072Miss----[1227] was an instance of early cultivation, but in what did it terminate?
9072Mr. James Stuart, late Minister of Killin, distinguished by his eminent Piety, Learning and Taste?
9072Mr. T.--"But how do you get your dinners drest?"
9072Mr. T.--"No jack?
9072Mr. T.--"Well, but you''ll have a spit too?"
9072Mr. Thrale"( turning to my husband),"What shall you and I do that is good for Tom Davies?
9072Must they be passed by upon moral principles for ever, because they were once excluded by a legal prohibition?
9072My dear Sir, you surely will not rank his compilation of the Roman History with the works of other historians of this age?''
9072My noble- minded friend, do you not feel for an oppressed nation bravely struggling to be free?
9072Of whom but Mrs. Montagu?
9072On what terms does he enter upon his ministry but those of enmity with half his parish?
9072Or may that which passed only to males by one law, pass likewise to females by another?
9072Peyton,--Mr. Peyton, will you be so good as to take a walk to Temple- Bar?
9072Place me in the heart of Asia, should I not be exiled?
9072Pray now( throwing himself back in his chair, and laughing,) are you ever able to bring the_ sloe_ to perfection?''
9072Robertson?''
9072Seeing me laugh most violently,"Why, what would''st have, child?"
9072Shall we touch the continent[845]?
9072She answered:--''When did I ever plague about contour, and grace, and expression?
9072Smile with the simple;--What folly is that?
9072Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it?
9072Suppose you and I and two hundred more were restrained from printing our thoughts: what then?
9072Suppose you teach your children to be thieves?''
9072Tene cantorum modulis stupere?
9072Tene mulceri fidibus canoris?
9072Tene per pictas, oculo elegante, Currere formas?
9072Tertii verso quater orbe lustri, Quid theatrales tibi, Crispe, pompae?
9072Thale.--"And pray who is clerk of your kitchen, Sir?"
9072That confessor said,"Damn him, he has told a great deal of truth, but where the devil did he learn it?"
9072The attempt, indeed, was dangerous; for if it had missed, what became of Garrick, and what became of the Queen?
9072The key to his feelings is found in his indignant cry,''How is it that we hear the loudest_ yelps_ for liberty among the drivers of negroes?''
9072The lightning that flashes with so much brilliance may scorch, and does not her esprit do so?''
9072Though firmly convinced of the truth of his doctrine, may he not think it wrong to expose himself to persecution?
9072Voltaire writing to D''Alembert on Aug. 25, 1759, says:--''Que dites- vous de Maupertuis, mort entre deux capucins?''
9072Was Charles the Twelfth, think you, less respected for his coarse blue coat and black stock[1394]?
9072Was ever poet so trusted before?
9072We may compare Goldsmith''s lines in_ Retaliation_:--''Then what was his failing?
9072We think to go one way and return another, and for[? see] as much as we can.
9072Well, how does Lord Elibank?
9072What Frenchman is prevented from passing his life as he pleases?''
9072What Poet sings and strikes the strings?
9072What are they about?"
9072What have they to do at an University who are not willing to be taught, but will presume to teach?
9072What is climate to happiness[572]?
9072What must be the drudge of a party of which the heads are Wilkes and Crosby, Sawbridge and Townsend?''
9072What proportion does climate bear to the complex system of human life?
9072What proportion would that restraint upon us bear to the private happiness of the nation[180]?''
9072What says your synod to such innovations?
9072What, I pray you, would buy you to be a field- preacher?
9072When asked,''What is it, Sir?''
9072Where are the manuscripts?
9072Where is now my legacy[778]?
9072Where is religion to be learnt but at an University?
9072Where shall we find such another set of practical philosophers, who to a man are above the fear of death?''
9072While he was talking loudly in praise of those lines, one of the company[248] ventured to say,''Too fine for such a poem:--a poem on what?''
9072Who could think of finding an author on the first floor?"''
9072Who will read a five shilling book against me?
9072Why all this childish jealousy of the power of the crown?
9072Why do you take the trouble to give us so many fine allusions, and bright images, and elegant phrases?
9072Why do you think any part can be proved?
9072Why does he not write of the bear, which we had formerly?
9072Why should we allow it then in writing?
9072Why should you have doubted it?"
9072Why then should a natural son complain that a younger brother, by the same parents lawfully begotten, gets it?
9072Why, how do they manage without?"
9072Will you be so good as to carry a fifty pound note from me to him?"
9072Will you lend me your_ Petrarca_?"
9072Will you remember the name?''
9072Will you teach me?''
9072Would Mr. Tytler, surely''--a Scot, if ever Scot there were,''have expressed himself thus?
9072Would a fortnight ever have an end?
9072Would it not, for instance, be right for him to take a course of chymistry?''
9072Would not a gentleman be disgraced by having his wife singing publickly for hire?
9072Would not you allow a man to drink for that reason?''
9072Would the patriotick Knox[898] have spoken of it as he has done?
9072You scrape them, it seems, very neatly, and what next?''
9072[ 1284]''Whence,''asks Goldsmith,''has proceeded the vain magnificence of expensive architecture in our colleges?
9072[ 397]''What have we acquired?
9072[ 447] Burke had thus answered Boswell''s proposal:--''What is that Scripture to which they are content to subscribe?
9072[ 669]''But how did he return, this haughty brave, Who whipt the winds, and made the sea his slave?
9072[ 794]''When Davies printed the_ Fugitive Pieces_ without his knowledge or consent;"How,"said I,"would Pope have raved had he been served so?"
9072[ 834]''Do not you long to hear the roarings of the old lion over the bleak mountains of the North?''
9072[?
9072and how does Lord Monboddo?''
9072come tell it, and burn ye,--''He was, could he help it?
9072from the Coptick Church?
9072from the Greek Church?
9072from the Romish Church?
9072if not on the word_ Fort_?
9072nay, that five pickle- shops can serve all the kingdom?
9072what?"
9072when shall I marry me?
9072why the wolf?
9072you sigh?"
1564And did not you tell him he was a rascal?
1564But you think, Sir, that Warburton is a superiour critick to Theobald?
1564But, Sir,( said Mr. Burney,) you''ll have Warburton upon your bones, wo n''t you?
1564Certainly,( said the Doctor;) but,( turning to me,) how old is your pig?
1564Did he indeed speak for half an hour?
1564Pray, Sir,( said I,) how many opera girls may there be?
1564Why so? 1564 Why, Sir, do you stare?
1564''A flagelet, Sir!--so small an instrument?
1564''And do you think that absolutely essential, Sir?''
1564''And how was it, Sir?''
1564''And if Jack Wilkes SHOULD be there, what is that to ME, Sir?
1564''And pray, Sir, what do you do with them?
1564''And what next?''
1564''And who is the worse for that?''
1564''Are you serious, Sir, in advising me to buy St. Kilda?
1564''Are you?
1564''But has he not brought Shakspeare into notice?''
1564''But have they a moral right to do this?''
1564''But have you not the THING?''
1564''But how is a man to act, Sir?
1564''But if I have a gardener at any rate?--''JOHNSON.
1564''But if they should be good, why not give them hearty praise?''
1564''But if we could have pleasure always, should not we be happy?
1564''But if you see a friend going to tumble over a precipice?''
1564''But is not the fear of death natural to man?''
1564''But may not a man attain to such a degree of hope as not to be uneasy from the fear of death?''
1564''But may we not fortify our minds for the approach of death?''
1564''But of what use will it be, Sir?''
1564''But stay,( said he, with his usual intelligence, and accuracy of enquiry,) does it take much wine to make him drunk?''
1564''But then, Sir, their masses for the dead?''
1564''But why did you not take your revenge directly?''
1564''But why nations?
1564''But why smite his bosom, Sir?''
1564''But would you take the trouble of rearing it?''
1564''But you would not have me to bind myself by a solemn obligation?''
1564''But, Sir, does not Rousseau talk such nonsense?''
1564''But, Sir, does not heat relax?''
1564''But, Sir, if a bookseller should bring you a manuscript to look at?''
1564''But, Sir, is it not a sad thing to be at a distance from all our literary friends?''
1564''But, Sir, is it not very hard that I should not be allowed to teach my children what I really believe to be the truth?''
1564''But, Sir, may there not be very good conversation without a contest for superiority?''
1564''But, Sir, ought not Christians to have liberty of conscience?''
1564''But, Sir, why do n''t you give us something in some other way?''
1564''But, Sir, would not you wish to know old age?
1564''But, was it not hard, Sir, to expel them, for I am told they were good beings?''
1564''Colman, in a note on his translation of Terence, talking of Shakspeare''s learning, asks,"What says Farmer to this?
1564''Confession?''
1564''DEAR SIR,--What can be the reason that I hear nothing from you?
1564''Did not he think of exhibiting you, Sir?''
1564''Did you find, Sir, his conversation to be of a superiour style?''
1564''Did you hear?''
1564''Do n''t you eat supper, Sir?''
1564''Do you think, Sir, it is always culpable to laugh at a man to his face?''
1564''Do you think, Sir, that all who commit suicide are mad?''
1564''Do you think, Sir, that there are any perfect synonimes in any language?''
1564''Do you think, Sir, you could make your Ramblers better?''
1564''Does not Gray''s poetry, Sir, tower above the common mark?''
1564''Does the dog talk of me?''
1564''Early, Sir?''
1564''Foote has a great deal of humour?''
1564''For why( he urged,) should not Judges get riches, as well as those who deserve them less?''
1564''HE''LL BE OF US,( said Johnson) how does he know we will PERMIT him?
1564''Has Langton no orchard?''
1564''Have not they vexed yourself a little, Sir?
1564''Have you seen them, Sir?''
1564''He for subscribers bates his hook, And takes your cash; but where''s the book?
1564''Hold, Sir, do you believe that some will be punished at all?''
1564''How can it be possible to spend that money in Scotland?''
1564''How comes it that you tell me nothing of your lady?
1564''How do you live, Sir?
1564''How does poor Smart do, Sir; is he likely to recover?''
1564''How is this to be known?
1564''How is this, Sir?
1564''How so, Sir?''
1564''How so, Sir?''
1564''How so, Sir?''
1564''I suppose, Sir, you could not make them better?''
1564''Is getting a hundred thousand pounds a proof of excellence?
1564''Is it wrong then, Sir, to affect singularity, in order to make people stare?''
1564''Is not a good garden a very common thing in England, Sir?''
1564''Is not modesty natural?''
1564''Is not the Giant''s- Causeway worth seeing?''
1564''Is there not less religion in the nation now, Sir, than there was formerly?''
1564''It is for fear of something that he has resolved to kill himself; and will not that timid disposition restrain him?''
1564''Langton is a good Cumae, but who must be Sibylla?
1564''May not he think them down, Sir?''
1564''May we not take it as amusing fiction?''
1564''Might not Mrs. Montagu have been a fourth?''
1564''Must we then go by implicit faith?''
1564''Nay, Madam, what right have you to talk thus?
1564''Nay, Sir, how can you talk so?
1564''Nay, Sir, how can you talk so?''
1564''Nay, Sir, what talk is this?''
1564''Nay, but my dear Sir, why should not you see what every one else sees?''
1564''Nay,( said I, meaning to laugh with him at one of his prejudices,) ca n''t you say, it is not WORTH mapping?''
1564''No, Sir, do YOU read books through?''
1564''No, Sir; there will always be some truth mixed with the falsehood, and how can it be ascertained how much is true and how much is false?
1564''Nor for being a Scotchman?''
1564''Once he asked Tom Davies, whom he saw drest in a fine suit of clothes,"And what art thou to- night?"
1564''Pray, Boswell, how much may be got in a year by an Advocate at the Scotch bar?''
1564''Pray, Mr. Dilly, how does Dr. Leland''s History of Ireland sell?''
1564''Pray, Sir, can you trace the cause of your antipathy to the Scotch?''
1564''Pray, Sir, did you ever play on any musical instrument?''
1564''Pray, Sir, have you been much plagued with authours sending you their works to revise?''
1564''Pray, Sir, is not Foote an infidel?''
1564''Pray, Sir, is the Turkish Spy a genuine book?''
1564''Pray, Sir, what did he say was the appearance?''
1564''Pray, Sir, what has he made of his story of a ghost?''
1564''Pray, Sir,( said he,) whether do you reckon Derrick or Smart the best poet?''
1564''Richardson?''
1564''Shall I ask him?''
1564''Should it not be, Sir, lashed the ocean and chained the winds?''
1564''Should not he provide amusements for himself?
1564''Should you not like to see Dublin, Sir?''
1564''Sir, do you think him as bad a man as Voltaire?''
1564''So then, Sir, you do not think ill of a man who wins perhaps forty thousand pounds in a winter?''
1564''So then, Sir, you would allow of no irregular intercourse whatever between the sexes?''
1564''So, Sir, though he sees an enemy to the state charging a blunderbuss, he is not to interfere till it is fired off?''
1564''Such as Carte''s History?''
1564''The idolatry of the Mass?''
1564''The worship of Saints?''
1564''Then, Sir, a poor Turk must be a Mahometan, just as a poor Englishman must be a Christian?''
1564''Then, Sir, what is poetry?''
1564''Then, Sir, you would not shoot him?''
1564''Was he a scoundrel, Sir, in any other way than that of being a political scoundrel?
1564''Was not Dr. John Campbell a very inaccurate man in his narrative, Sir?
1564''Was there not a story of his ghost having appeared?''
1564''Well, Sir, and what then?
1564''Well, Sir: do we not know that a maid can in one afternoon make pickles sufficient to serve a whole family for a year?
1564''Well, my boy, how do you go on?''
1564''Were there not six horses to each coach?''
1564''What did you say, Sir?''
1564''What do they make me say, Sir?''
1564''What do you mean by damned?''
1564''What do you mean, Sir?
1564''What do you think of Dr. Young''s Night Thoughts, Sir?''
1564''What is that to the purpose, Sir?
1564''What say you to Lord------?''
1564''What then is the reason for applying to a particular person to do that which any one may do as well?''
1564''What would you have me retract?
1564''What''s the matter?''
1564''What, Sir, a fellow who claps a hump on his back, and a lump on his leg, and cries"I am Richard the Third"?
1564''What, Sir, a good book?''
1564''What, Sir, is nothing gained by decoration and action?
1564''What, Sir, will you allow no value to beauty in architecture or in statuary?
1564''What, Sir, would you know what it is to feel the evils of old age?
1564''What, Sir,''asks the hapless Boswell,''will sense make the head ache?''
1564''What, Sir,( cried the gentleman,) do you say to"The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by?"''
1564''What, Sir,( said I,) are you going to turn Captain Macheath?''
1564''What, by way of a companion, Sir?''
1564''What,( said Elphinston,) have you not read it through?''
1564''What?
1564''Why do you wish that, Sir?''
1564''Why should you write down MY sayings?''
1564''Why then meet at table?''
1564''Why then, Sir, did he talk so?''
1564''Why then, Sir, did you go?''
1564''Why then,( I asked,) is it thought disgraceful for a man not to fight, and not disgraceful not to speak in publick?''
1564''Why was you glad?
1564''Why yes, Sir; but what is that to the merit of the composition?
1564''Why, Sir, did you go to Mrs. Abington''s benefit?
1564''Why, Sir, do people play this trick which I observe now, when I look at your grate, putting the shovel against it to make the fire burn?''
1564''Why, Sir, what does this prove?
1564''Why, then, Sir, did you leave it off?''
1564''Why, who are before him?''
1564''Why, yes, Sir; and what then?
1564''Will you not admit the superiority of Robertson, in whose History we find such penetration-- such painting?''
1564''Will you not allow, Sir, that he draws very natural pictures of human life?''
1564''Worth seeing?
1564''Would not you have a pleasure in teaching it?''
1564''Would you eat your dinner that day, Sir?''
1564''Would you restrain private conversation, Sir?''
1564''Would you teach this child that I have furnished you with, any thing?''
1564''Yet Cibber was a man of observation?''
1564''You have read his apology, Sir?''
1564''You would not like to make the same journey again?''
1564( said Dodsley) do you think a letter from Johnson could hurt Lord Chesterfield?
1564( said Johnson, smiling,) what would you give to be forty years from Scotland?''
1564( to Harris,)''Pray, Sir, have you read Potter''s Aeschylus?''
1564( to Johnson,)''And what think you, Sir, of it?''
1564( turning to me,)''I ask you first, Sir, what would you do if you were affronted?''
1564--''But, Sir, you will allow that some players are better than others?''
1564--''Have you, Sir?
1564--''Is not HARMLESS PLEASURE very tame?''
1564--''What with Mr. Wilkes?
1564A book may be good for nothing; or there may be only one thing in it worth knowing; are we to read it all through?
1564Am I to be HUNTED in this manner?''
1564And as for the good worthy man; how do you know he is good and worthy?
1564And as to meanness,( rising into warmth,) how is it mean in a player,--a showman,--a fellow who exhibits himself for a shilling, to flatter his Queen?
1564And do n''t you think the magistrate would have a right to prevent you?
1564And have you ever seen Chatsworth?
1564And is it thus, Sir, that you presume to controvert what I have related?''
1564And was Sheridan to assume to himself the right of giving that stamp?
1564And what do you think of his definition of Excise?
1564And what merit is there in that?
1564And who would feed with the poor that can help it?
1564As we were moving slowly along in the crowd from church, Johnson jogged my elbow, and said,''Did you attend to the sermon?''
1564Beauclerk, how came you to talk so petulantly to me, as"This is what you do n''t know, but what I know"?
1564Because a man can not be right in all things, is he to be right in nothing?
1564Because a man sometimes gets drunk, is he therefore to steal?
1564Besides, Sir, what damages would a jury give me for having been represented as swearing?''
1564Both Mr.***** and I have reason to take it ill. You may talk so of Mr.*****; but why do you make me do it?
1564But WHERE, I might with great propriety have added, can I find such?
1564But does not imagination make it much more important than it is in reality?
1564But how can you shew civilities to a nonentity?
1564But the question was, who should have the courage to propose them to him?
1564But was not Lord Coke a mere lawyer?''
1564But what a man is he, who is to be driven from the stage by a line?
1564But when will you get the value of two hundred pounds of walls, in fruit, in your climate?
1564But who is without it?''
1564But, Sir, how can you do this in three years?
1564Did he cheat at draughts?''
1564Did he mean tardiness of locomotion?
1564Did his gaiety extend farther than his own nation?''
1564Did you never observe that dogs have not the power of comparing?
1564Did you see?''
1564Dilly''s?''
1564Do I know history?
1564Do I know law?''
1564Do I know mathematicks?
1564Do n''t you consider, Sir, that these are not the manners of a gentleman?
1564Do n''t you know that it is very uncivil to PIT two people against one another?''
1564Do we not judge of the drunken wit, of the dialogue between Iago and Cassio, the most excellent in its kind, when we are quite sober?
1564Do you know the history of his aversion to the word transpire?''
1564Do you really think HIM a bad man?''
1564Do you remember our drinking together at an alehouse near Pembroke gate?
1564Do you respect a rope- dancer, or a ballad- singer?''
1564Do you think I am so ignorant of the world as to imagine that I am to prescribe to a gentleman what company he is to have at his table?''
1564Does not Lord Chesterfield give precepts for uniting wickedness and the graces?
1564For why should not Dr. Johnson add to his other powers a little corporeal agility?
1564Garrick overhearing him, exclaimed,''eh?
1564Has he a right to do so?
1564Have I said anything against Mr.*****?
1564Have you no better manners?
1564He asked me, I suppose, by way of trying my disposition,''Is not this very fine?''
1564He is quite unsocial; his conversation is quite monosyllabical: and when, at my last visit, I asked him what a clock it was?
1564He made two or three peculiar observations; as when shewn the botanical garden,''Is not EVERY garden a botanical garden?''
1564He may tell you, he holds his finger in the flame of a candle, without feeling pain; would you believe him?
1564He might answer,"Where is all the wonder?
1564He then addressed himself to Davies:''What do you think of Garrick?
1564He then began to descant upon the force of testimony, and the little we could know of final causes; so that the objections of, why was it so?
1564He then called to the boy,''What would you give, my lad, to know about the Argonauts?''
1564He then repeated some ludicrous lines, which have escaped my memory, and said,''Is not that GREAT, like his Odes?''
1564He was of a club in Old- street, with me and George Psalmanazar, and some others: but pray, Sir, was he a good taylor?''
1564His Lordship however asked,''Will he write the Lives of the Poets impartially?
1564How are you to get all the etymologies?
1564How can a man write poetically of serges and druggets?
1564How did they fight the fight that I am to fight, and how in any case did they lose or win?
1564How did they play the game?
1564How many friendships have you known formed upon principles of virtue?
1564How shall we determine the proportion of intrinsick merit?
1564How, then, have others managed, both those who failed and those who succeeded, or those, in far greatest number, who did both?
1564I am very ill even when you are near me; what should I be were you at a distance?''
1564I could now tell why I should not write; for who would write to men who publish the letters of their friends, without their leave?
1564I here brought myself into a scrape, for I heedlessly said,''Would not YOU, Sir, be the better for velvet and embroidery?''
1564I proceeded:''What do you think, Sir, of Purgatory, as believed by the Roman Catholicks?''
1564I took down Thomson, and read aloud a large portion of him, and then asked,--Is not this fine?
1564I was once present when a gentleman asked so many as,''What did you do, Sir?''
1564I was persuaded that if I had come upon him with a direct proposal,''Sir, will you dine in company with Jack Wilkes?''
1564I will appeal to the world; and how will your judgement appear?"
1564I will not be baited with WHAT, and WHY; what is this?
1564I, however, would not have it thought, that Dr. Taylor, though he could not write like Johnson,( as, indeed, who could?)
1564If a bull could speak, he might as well exclaim,--Here am I with this cow and this grass; what being can enjoy greater felicity?''
1564If one man in Scotland gets possession of two thousand pounds, what remains for all the rest of the nation?''
1564In such a state as ours, who would not wish to please the Chief Magistrate?''
1564In your Preface you say,"What would it avail me in this gloom of solitude?"
1564Is it not, as it were, committing voluntary suicide?''
1564Is it not, to a certain degree, a delusion in us as well as in women?''
1564Is not he rather an OBTUSE man, eh?''
1564Is not that trim?
1564Is not this enough for you?
1564Is not this the state of life?
1564Johnson was at first startled, and in some heat answered,''How can your Lordship ask so simple a question?''
1564Johnson, in a tone of displeasure, asked him,''Why do you praise Anson?''
1564Johnson, offended at being thus pressed, and so obliged to own his cursory mode of reading, answered tartly,''No, Sir, do YOU read books THROUGH?''
1564Johnson, upon this, seemed much agitated; and, in an angry tone, exclaimed,''Why will you vex me by suggesting this, when it is too late?''
1564Johnson?''
1564Madam; who is the worse for being talked of uncharitably?
1564May I enquire after her?
1564Miss Adams mentioned a gentleman of licentious character, and said,''Suppose I had a mind to marry that gentleman, would my parents consent?''
1564Miss---- was an instance of early cultivation, but in what did it terminate?
1564Mr. Burney asked him then if he had seen Warburton''s book against Bolingbroke''s Philosophy?
1564My dear Sir, you surely will not rank his compilation of the Roman History with the works of other historians of this age?''
1564No matter where; wise fear, you know, Forbids the robbing of a foe; But what, to serve our private ends, Forbids the cheating of our friends?''
1564Now what harm does it do to any man to be contradicted?''
1564Now, what is the concoction of a play?''
1564Oldfield?"
1564Or what more than to hold your tongue about it?
1564Perfect obligations, which are generally not to do something, are clear and positive; as,"thou shalt not kill?''
1564Peyton,--Mr. Peyton, will you be so good as to take a walk to Temple- Bar?
1564Place me in the heart of Asia, should I not be exiled?
1564Pray now( throwing himself back in his chair, and laughing,) are you ever able to bring the SLOE to perfection?''
1564Pray what do you mean by the question?''
1564Pray what have you heard?''
1564Pray, Sir, had you ever thought of it?''
1564Priestley?"
1564Robertson?''
1564Shall the Presbyterian KIRK of Scotland have its General Assembly, and the Church of England be denied its Convocation?''
1564She and I are good friends now; are we not?''
1564Sir William Forbes said,''Might not a man warmed with wine be like a bottle of beer, which is made brisker by being set before the fire?''
1564Sir, you may analyse this, and say what is there in it?
1564Sir,( said I,) In caelum jusseris ibit?''
1564Smile with the simple;--What folly is that?
1564Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it?
1564Suppose you and I and two hundred more were restrained from printing our thoughts: what then?
1564Suppose you teach your children to be thieves?''
1564TO DR. BROCKLESBY, he writes, Ashbourne, Sept. 9:--''Do you know the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire?
1564The attempt, indeed, was dangerous; for if it had missed, what became of Garrick, and what became of the Queen?
1564These Voyages,( pointing to the three large volumes of Voyages to the South Sea, which were just come out) WHO will read them through?
1564They would all have some people under them; why not then have some people above them?''
1564Though firmly convinced of the truth of his doctrine, may he not think it wrong to expose himself to persecution?
1564Towards the conclusion of his Taxation no Tyranny, he says,''how is it that we hear the loudest YELPS for liberty among the drivers of negroes?''
1564Upon which his Lordship very gravely, and with a courteous air said,''Pray, Sir, is it true that you are taking lessons of Vestris?''
1564WHO can repeat Hamlet''s soliloquy,"To be, or not to be,"as Garrick does it?''
1564WHO is ruined by gaming?
1564Was Charles the Twelfth, think you, less respected for his coarse blue coat and black stock?
1564We have physicians now with bag- wigs; may we not have airy divines, at least somewhat less solemn in their appearance than they used to be?''
1564What Frenchman is prevented from passing his life as he pleases?''
1564What can you tell of countries so well known as those upon the continent of Europe, which you have visited?''
1564What care I for his PATRIOTICK FRIENDS?
1564What do you take me for?
1564What has the Duke of Bedford?
1564What has the Duke of Devonshire?
1564What have they to do at an University who are not willing to be taught, but will presume to teach?
1564What have you to do with Liberty and Necessity?
1564What is CLIMATE to happiness?
1564What is a friend?
1564What proportion does climate bear to the complex system of human life?
1564What proportion would that restraint upon us bear to the private happiness of the nation?''
1564What says Johnson?"
1564When Johnson had done reading, the authour asked him bluntly,''If upon the whole it was a good translation?''
1564When asked,''What is it, Sir?''
1564When we had left Mr. Scott''s, he said''Will you go home with me?''
1564Where is religion to be learnt but at an University?
1564While he was talking loudly in praise of those lines, one of the company* ventured to say,''Too fine for such a poem:--a poem on what?''
1564Who will read a five- shilling book against me?
1564Why all this childish jealousy of the power of the crown?
1564Why do you speak here?
1564Why do you take the trouble to give us so many fine allusions, and bright images, and elegant phrases?
1564Why had he not some considerable office?
1564Why is all this to be swept away?''
1564Why should he complain?
1564Why should she flatter ME?
1564Why should we allow it then in writing?
1564Why should we walk there?
1564Why was he not in such circumstances as to keep his coach?
1564Why, now, there is stealing; why should it be thought a crime?
1564Will you allow me to send for him?''
1564Will you be so good as to carry a fifty pound note from me to him?"
1564Will you give me work?"
1564Will you not add,--or when driving rapidly in a post- chaise?''
1564Will you remember the name?''
1564Would he have selected certain topicks, and considered them in every view so as to be in readiness to argue them at all points?
1564Would it not, for instance, be right for him to take a course of chymistry?''
1564Would not a gentleman be disgraced by having his wife singing publickly for hire?
1564Would not you allow a man to drink for that reason?''
1564Would you have decrepitude?''
1564Would you have the gout?
1564Would you refuse any slight gratifications to a man under sentence of death?
1564You scrape them, it seems, very neatly, and what next?''
1564a Prig, Sir?''
1564about a ghost?''
1564and what may we suppose those topicks to have been?
1564and which the way?"''
1564at a time too when you were not FISHING for a compliment?''
1564do n''t you love to have hope realized?
1564had you them all to yourself, Sir?''
1564have not all insects gay colours?''
1564have they given HIM a pension?
1564have you that weakness?''
1564is Strahan a good judge of an Epigram?
1564nay, that five pickle- shops can serve all the kingdom?
1564or why was it not so?
1564what do you say?
1564what is that?
1564what merit?
1564why does he not write of the bear, which we had formerly?
1564why is a cow''s tail long?
1564why is a fox''s tail bushy?''
1564why the wolf?
1564will sense make the head ache?''
1564with two- pence half- penny in your pocket?''