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17954	But if it is true that the less an author hears about himself the better, how are these salutary''lessons of public opinion''to penetrate to him?
17954	Can nothing be done, she asks, by dispassionate criticism towards the reform of our national habits in the matter of literary biography?
17954	Even here, among men of letters, who were also men of action and of great sociability, are not all biographies too long?
17954	Ever do anything again?''
17954	Shall I ever be good for anything again?
17172	Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? 17172 Half playfully, half seriously, she asks the question--But is it_ what_ we love, or_ how_ we love, That makes true good?"
17172	Has he, through whom first came to her definite guidance amid the dark perplexities of her life, been always untrue?
17172	Shall he accept or reject the decision?
17172	has the light that seemed through him to dawn on her been therefore misleading and perverting?
36847	''Done now, Mr. Glegg? 36847 ''Now what call have you to say that?''
36847	''Sulk at you?'' 36847 ''Why, Mrs. G., what have I done now?''
36847	Would not Fredricka or Lili have been a more genial companion than Christina Vulpius for that great poet of whom his native land is so justly proud?
36847	''When did I rejoice or triumph over you?''
36847	A succinct expression of it may be gathered from the following passage:"Which among the chief of the Gentile nations has not an ignorant multitude?
36847	After a good deal of sparring in the same tone, Mr. Glegg at last bursts forth:"''Did ever anybody hear the like i''this parish?
36847	Again, does not Mrs. Browning occupy a unique place among poets?
36847	Alfred de Vigny says truly enough:"Qu''est- ce qu''une grande vie?
36847	And it is this kind of good which must reconcile us to life, and not any answer to the question,''What would the universe have been without me?''
36847	And this grand saying--"What times are little?
36847	But was the author of''Adam Bede''not herself destined to be a triumphant refutation of her theory?
36847	Compared with such qualifications who among novelists could compete?
36847	Did not Fanny Burney distil the delicate aroma of girlhood in one of the most delightful of novels?
36847	Does it make any difference?"
36847	Is it so certain that they, too, did not speak out of the fulness of their womanly natures?
36847	Is not this a fore- shadowing of the inimitable scene at the''Rainbow?''
36847	Is there not a distinctively womanly strain of emotion in the throbbing tides of her high- wrought melodious song?
36847	Is there not a strong family resemblance between this character and Mrs. Poyser, that masterpiece of George Eliot''s art?
36847	Noble rebellion lifts a common load; But what is he who flings his own load off And leaves his fellows toiling?
36847	On seeing this lady for the first time after their mutual loss, George Eliot asked her eagerly:"Do the children help?
36847	On the novelist''s laughingly assuring him that such was by no means the case,"From whom, then,"persisted he,"did you draw''Casaubon''?"
36847	Or had those more favourable circumstances mentioned as vague possibilities already arisen in her case?
36847	Or when on a friend''s asking,"What is the meaning of Faust?"
36847	Rebel''s right?
36847	Shall we be forced to admit that the representative women of England can not justly be placed on as high a level?
36847	Shall we, however, admit George Eliot''s conclusion that Frenchwomen alone have hitherto shown any of this original bias?
36847	The point one has to care for is,''Are A, B, and C the better for me?''
36847	Then stooping down to Master Fodge, and taking him by the shoulder,''Do you like being beaten?''
36847	Was not Queen Elizabeth the best type of a female ruler, one whose keen penetration enabled her to choose her ministers with infallible judgment?
36847	What could a Dickens, or a Thackeray himself, throw into the opposing scale?
36847	What were our little Tina and her trouble in this mighty torrent, rushing from one awful unknown to another?
36847	_ done now?_...
43044	Am I on a bed of roses?
43044	I do well to be angryon that ground, do n''t I?
43044	(?)
43044	And even the intonation is occasionally admirable; for example,"And for my soul, what can he do to that?"
43044	And what else?
43044	And what have you been doing, being, or suffering in these long twelve days?
43044	And will he not come with you and Emily to dine with us next week, on any day except Wednesday and Friday?
43044	Any news of"Clerical Scenes"in its third edition?
43044	Are they not idlers with us?
43044	Are we not happy to have reached home on Wednesday before this real winter came?
43044	Are you not looking anxiously for the news from America?
43044	Are_ we_ to be blamed or you?
43044	But if that were impossible, could you not stay all night?
43044	By- the- bye, will you see that the readers have not allowed some error to creep into that solitary bit of pedantry?
43044	Can anything be done in America for"Adam Bede?"
43044	Can you believe that I have not had a headache since we set out?
43044	Could you resolve some of our wonderings into cheering knowledge?
43044	Do n''t think I mean to worry you with many such requests-- but will you copy for me the enclosed short note to Froude?
43044	Do n''t you remember Bellagio?
43044	Do you see how the publishing world is going mad on periodicals?
43044	Does n''t the spring look lovelier every year to eyes that want more and more light?
43044	Ever be worth anything?
43044	Ever do anything again?
43044	G. said,"Do you wish to see him?"
43044	George Stephenson is one of my great heroes-- has he not a dear old face?
43044	Have you not a husband who has seen it all, and can tell you much better?
43044	Have you read the"Nibelungenlied"yet?
43044	Have you read"Beata"yet-- the first novel written by his brother at Florence, who is our especial favorite?
43044	He talked a good deal about the"Clerical Scenes"and George Eliot, and at last asked,"Well, am I to see George Eliot this time?"
43044	How could any goodness become less precious to me unless my life had ceased to be a growth, and had become mere shrinking and degeneracy?
43044	I am a very blessed woman, am I not, to have all this reason for being glad that I have lived?
43044	I am wondering whether you could spare me,_ for a few weeks_, the Tempest music, and any other vocal music of that or of a kindred species?
43044	I do wish much to see more of human life: how can one see enough in the short years one has to stay in the world?
43044	I know you have good reasons for what you do, yet I can not help saying, Why do you stay at Florence, the city of draughts rather than of flowers?
43044	I wonder if she would rather rest from her blessed labors, or live to go on working?
43044	I wonder when men of that sort will take their place as heroes in our literature, instead of the inevitable"genius?"
43044	I write my note of interrogation accordingly"?"
43044	If the severest sense of fulfilling a duty could make one''s parties pleasant, who so deserving as I?
43044	Is there any possibility of satisfying an author?
43044	Liggins?...
43044	May we not put in a petition for some of his time now?
43044	Mr. Lewes tells me the country air has always a magical effect on me, even in the first hour; but it is not the air alone, is it?
43044	One sees them garnishing every other advertisement of trash: surely no being"above the rank of an idiot"can have his inclination coerced by them?
43044	Or has its appearance been deferred?
43044	Ought we not to be a great deal wiser and more efficient personages, or else to be ashamed of ourselves?
43044	Perhaps, in the cooler part of the autumn, when your book is out of your hands, you will like to move from home a little and see your London friends?
43044	Shall I ever be able to carry out my ideas?
43044	Shall I ever be good for anything again?
43044	Shall I ever write another book as true as"Adam Bede?"
43044	She said to Mr. Lewes, when he was speaking of her husband,"Ja, er ist ein netter Mann, nicht wahr?
43044	Surely I am not wrong in supposing him to be a clergyman?
43044	The book would have been published at Christmas, or rather early in December, but that Bulwer''s"What will he do with it?"
43044	The first time I saw her was at Rufa''s[32] wedding; and do n''t you remember the evening we spent at Mrs. Dobson''s?
43044	Very sweet and noble of her, was it not?
43044	What are you working at, I wonder?
43044	When do you bring out your new poem?
43044	Whereabouts are you in algebra?
43044	Why not?
43044	Why should we complain that our friends see a false image?
43044	Will it be all in vain?
43044	Will it ever be finished?
43044	Will you give me leave?"
43044	Will you give my thanks to Mr. Congreve for the"Synthèse"which I have brought with me and am reading?
43044	Will you not write to the author of"Thorndale"and express your sympathy?
43044	Will you write once more?"
43044	Will you-- can you-- arrange to come to us on Saturday to lunch or dinner, and stay with us till Sunday evening?
43044	[ 2] He is really a charming man, is he not?
43044	[ 4]"Why do you tell such lies?
43044	[ Sidenote: Letter to Mrs. Congreve, Friday(?
43045	Is that a zittern?
43045	(?)
43045	1872(?).]
43045	And do you remember Edmund Gurney?
43045	And how can the life of nations be understood without the inward light of poetry-- that is, of emotion blending with thought?
43045	And who that has any spirit of justice can help sympathizing with them in their grand repulse of the French project to invade and divide them?
43045	Are not you and I very near to one another?
43045	Are you astonished to see our whereabouts?
43045	Are you not disturbed by yesterday''s Indian news?
43045	Are you not happy in the long- wished- for sunshine?
43045	Are you not making a transient confusion of intuitions with innate ideas?
43045	As I shall not see these paged sheets again, will you charitably assure me that the alterations are safely made?
43045	At last came,"And who made you?"
43045	But can anything be more uncertain than the reception of a book by the public?
43045	But may I not beg to have a copy of my own?
43045	But under the heart- stroke, is there anything better than to grieve?
43045	But what are the facts in relation to this matter?
43045	But what sort of data can one safely go upon with regard to the success of editions?
43045	But who has not had too much moisture in this calamitously wet, cold summer?
43045	Chiefly because I want you to be quite clear that if I do not write to say,"When can you come to me?"
43045	Coming to modern tragedies, what is it that makes Othello a great tragic subject?
43045	DEAR FRIENDS,--Will you come to see me some day?
43045	Did I tell you that in the last two years he has been mastering the principles of mathematics?
43045	Do n''t you agree with me that much superfluous stuff is written on all sides about purpose in art?
43045	Do n''t you see the process already beginning?
43045	Do n''t you think that Bernal Osborne has seen more of the Grandcourt and Lush life than that critic has seen?
43045	Do n''t you think that my artistic deference and pliability deserve that it should also be better in consequence?
43045	Do you know that pretty story about Bishop Thirlwall?
43045	Do you think there are persons who admire Russia''s"mission"in Asia as they did the mission in Europe?
43045	Does not this Zulu war seem to you a horribly bad business?
43045	First, was there not some village near Stonehenge where you stayed the night, nearer to Stonehenge than Amesbury?
43045	Have the great events of these months interfered with your freedom of spirit in writing?
43045	How about Madame Mohl and her husband?
43045	How could you repeat deliberately that bad dream of your having made yourself"objectionable?"
43045	I have a cousinship with him in that taste-- but how to find space in one''s life for all the subjects that solicit one?
43045	I think it is at the end of June that you are to come home?
43045	I wonder if you all remember an old governess of mine who used to visit me at Foleshill-- a Miss Lewis?
43045	I wonder if you went to the French plays to see the supreme Got?
43045	I wonder whether you will soon want to come to town, and will send me word that you will come and take shelter with us for the night?
43045	If no parents had ever cared for their children, how could parental affection have been reckoned among the elements of life?
43045	Is Guinivere''s conduct the type of duty?
43045	Is it not wonderful that the world can absorb so much"Middlemarch"at a guinea the copy?
43045	Is not that being a sublime husband?
43045	Is there any one who does not need patience?
43045	Is there anything that cheers and strengthens more than the sense of another''s worth and tenderness?
43045	It is ravishingly beautiful; is it in its higher part thoroughly unobjectionable as a site for a dwelling?
43045	It will not be so any more, I hope, will it?
43045	Let that be soon-- will you not?
43045	May I add my kind remembrances to your daughter to the high regard which I offer to your husband?
43045	May we then be with you on Tuesday somewhere about twelve, and return home on Wednesday by afternoon daylight?
43045	No wonder there comes a season when we cease to look round and say,"How shall I enjoy?"
43045	Now, what is the fact about our individual lots?
43045	On the other hand,_ could the thing be kept private when it had once been in the printing- office_?
43045	Only the day before your letter came to me I had been saying,"I wonder how our dear Mrs. William Smith is?"
43045	Poor Dickens''s latter years wear a melancholy aspect, do they not?
43045	Secondly, do you know anything specific about Holmwood_ Common_ as a place of residence?
43045	Shall you mind the trouble of writing me a few words of news about you and yours?
43045	That lodging would suit you, would n''t it?
43045	The other,"Oh, I understand her doing that, but why did you let her marry the other fellow, whom I can not bear?"
43045	Were you not surprised to hear that we had come so far?
43045	What are we to do about"Romola?"
43045	What can consulting physicians do without pathological knowledge?
43045	What do you say to the phonograph, which can report gentlemen''s bad speeches with all their stammering?
43045	What do you think?
43045	What is better than to love and live with the loved?
43045	What is more murderous than stupidity?
43045	What would your keen wit say to a young man who alleged the physical basis of nervous action as a reason why he could not possibly take that course?
43045	When I was at Oxford, in May, two ladies came up to me after dinner: one said,"How could you let Dorothea marry_ that_ Casaubon?"
43045	Who could take your place within me or make me amends for the loss of you?
43045	Why did you write me such a brief letter, telling me nothing about your own life?
43045	Why do I want to let you know this not agreeable news about myself?
43045	Will you give Dr. Congreve my thanks for his pamphlet, which I read at Torquay with great interest?
43045	Will you not indulge me by writing more to me than you expect me to write to you?
43045	Will you think over the whole question?
43045	You remember Goethe''s contempt for the Revolution of''30 compared with the researches on the Vertebrate Structure of the Skull?
43045	You remember Mrs. Blank of Coventry?
43045	You will give me, will you not, something more than an affectionate greeting?
43045	[ Sidenote: Letter to Francis Otter, 13th(?)
43045	[ Sidenote: Letter to Frederic Harrison, 26th(?)
43045	_ Wisdom doth live with children round her knees._"Has he the magnificent sonnet on Toussaint l''Ouverture?
11680	Do you like it?
11680	If your own people are wearing a yoke, will you slip from under it, instead of struggling with them to lighten it? 11680 Not worship beauty?"
11680	To whom turn I but to Thee, the ineffable Name? 11680 Allow me to ask whether the act of publishing a book deprives a man of all claim to the courtesies usual among gentlemen? 11680 Am I to struggle and fall, and repent again? 11680 And is not the Saviour exalted at the Father''s right hand to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins? 11680 And this leads us to the heart of the question, what does the literature of women mean? 11680 And what styptic for a bleeding heart can equal copious squares of crochet- work, which are useful for slipping down the moment you touch them? 11680 Ay, but good? 11680 Because learned gentlemen are theological, are we to have no more simple honesty and good- will? 11680 But how much more than that is true of our race? 11680 But how will you find good? 11680 But you will go forth; and what will you find, my daughter? 11680 But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope? 11680 Can you change your blood? 11680 Difficulties? 11680 Do any of us? 11680 Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulses by the name of inspiration? 11680 Does that progress go on in accordance with some universal purpose, which includes the whole universe? 11680 Doubt that Thy power can fill the heart that Thy power expands? 11680 For Truth, to us, is like a living child Born of two parents: if the parents part And will divide the child, how shall it live? 11680 For the beauty of a lovely woman is like music; what can one say more? 11680 For what is fame But the benignant strength of One, transformed To joy of Many? 11680 Has life other trials as hard for me still?
11680	How has the author succeeded in making Mordecai so human and so true to nature?
11680	How shall I have patience and strength?
11680	I said to him,''Do you know that I think I have lighted upon a new author who is uncommonly like a first- class passenger?''
11680	If salvation were by works who would be saved?
11680	If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie?
11680	If you forsake your place, who will fill it?
11680	In writing?
11680	Is all suffering to conquer us, instead of our being able to conquer it, and gaining a more peaceful and a purer life through its aid?
11680	Is bound?
11680	Is it any weakness, pray, to be wrought on by exquisite music?
11680	Is it imagination, or is it a flexible poetic expression, which is absent?
11680	Is it not by grace we are saved through faith?
11680	Is it not possible for me to enjoy the scenery of earth without saying to myself, I have a cabbage- garden in it?"
11680	No; else why should she have cared to have earrings rather than anything else?
11680	Noble rebellion lifts a common load; But what is he who flings his own load off And leaves his fellows toiling?
11680	Noticing this, she said,"Do you understand?"
11680	Oh, this burning love of God, what will it not endure?
11680	Pretend to seek obscurity-- to sing In hope of disregard?
11680	Rebel''s right?
11680	Shall I lie?
11680	Shall man, whose soul is set in the royalty of discernment and resolve, deny his rank and say, I am an onlooker, ask no choice or purpose of me?
11680	Shall the mere curl of eyelashes remain, And god- enshrining symbols leave no trace Of tremors reverent?
11680	Speak words that narrow anguish to some shape: Tell me what dread is close before you?
11680	Strong, are you?
11680	To make a little difference for the better was what he was not contented to live without; but how make it?
11680	Was this question a prophecy?
11680	What English artist even attempts to rival in truthfulness such studies of popular life as the pictures of Teniers or the ragged boys of Murillo?
11680	What am I but a miserable brand Lit by mysterious wrath?
11680	What good is there in taking all these pains to give an exact likeness of old women and clowns?
11680	What had they to form a polity with but memories of Europe, corrected by the vision of a better?
11680	What has your dead wisdom done for you, my daughter?
11680	What if the coolness of our tardier veins Be loss of virtue?
11680	What is that?
11680	What is the end of human progress?
11680	What nation could she have taken that would have so clearly illustrated her theory of national memories and traditions?
11680	What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and_ loved_ because it is known?
11680	What were our little Tina and her trouble in this mighty torrent, rushing from one awful unknown to another?
11680	What, have fear of change from Thee, who art ever the same?
11680	When Emerson asked her somewhat suddenly,"What one book do you like best?"
11680	Where get, you say, a binding law, a rule Enforced by sanction, an Ideal throned With thunder in its hand?
11680	Where, in our picture exhibitions, shall we find a group of true peasantry?
11680	Who says that the history and literature of our race are dead?
11680	Why that book; why along such a way should the light come?
11680	Will any one teach the nullification of this feeling and call his doctrine a philosophy?
11680	Will any say,''It can not be''?
11680	Will you adopt a soul without its thoughts, Or grasp a life apart from flesh and blood?
11680	Your husband is not a malefactor?"
11680	what is Lucy feeling now?
11680	you say your love for your father no longer tells you to stay in Florence?
12933	And did Mr. Gladstone go?
12933	And did Oliver Goldsmith really play his harp in this very room?
12933	And do you never admit visitors, even to the grounds?
12933	And so you are an alien?
12933	And what did you tell him?
12933	Ay, mon, but ai n''t ut a big un?
12933	Aye, you are a gentleman-- and about burying folks in churches?
12933	But did Shakespeare run away?
12933	But visitors do come?
12933	Can you tell me how far it is to Brantwood?
12933	Can you tell me where Mr. Whitman lives?
12933	Did George Eliot live here?
12933	Did you visit Carlyle''s''ouse?
12933	Do we use them? 12933 Do you believe in cremation, sir?"
12933	Have ye a penny, I do n''t know?
12933	He might know all about one woman, and if he should regard her as a sample of all womankind, would he not make a great mistake?
12933	Heart of my heart, is this well done?
12933	How can any adversity come to him who hath a wife?
12933	Never mind wot I am, sir--''oo are you?
12933	Question, What is justice in Pigdom? 12933 Rheumatism?
12933	The Anxworks package-- I will not deceive you, Sweet; why should I?
12933	Together, I s''pose?
12933	Was what sarcasm?
12933	Well,said Hawkins,"what did he say to you?"
12933	What are you reading?
12933	What did I say-- really I have forgotten?
12933	What is your favorite book?
12933	Which boat do you want?
12933	Who?
12933	Would you like to become a telegraph- operator?
12933	You are twenty- five now? 12933 You mean Walt Whitman?"
12933	You speak of death as a matter of course-- you are not afraid to die?
12933	A policeman passed us running and called back,"I say, Hawkins, is that you?
12933	Alone?
12933	And did I want to buy a bull calf?
12933	And is n''t that so?
12933	And to whom do we owe it that he did leave-- Justice Shallow or Ann Hathaway, or both?
12933	Are these remains of stately forests symbols of a race of men that, too, have passed away?
12933	Assertive?
12933	Besides, who was there to take up his pen?
12933	Brown?"
12933	But it is all good-- I accept it all and give thanks-- you have not forgotten my chant to death?"
12933	But still, should not England have a fitting monument to Shakespeare?
12933	But who inspired Dorothy?
12933	But why should I tell about it here?
12933	Ca n''t you go with me?"
12933	Cawn''t ye hadmire''i m on that side of the wall as well as this?"
12933	Could it be possible that these rustics were poets?
12933	Dark Mother, always gliding near with soft feet, Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest welcome?
12933	Did Mademoiselle Mars use it?
12933	Did you ever hear of him?"
12933	Do you know the scene?"
12933	Do you not know what books are to a child hungry for truth, that has no books?
12933	Does she protest, and find fault?
12933	Edison?"
12933	Edison?"
12933	Genius has its times of straying off into the infinite-- and then what is the good wife to do for companionship?
12933	Had Gavroche ever seen them?
12933	Have n''t you noticed that men of sixty have no clearer vision than men of forty?
12933	He answered back,"What t''ell is the matter with you fellows?"
12933	He brings to bear an energy on every subject he touches( and what subject has he not touched?)
12933	He evidently was acquainted with five different languages, and the range of his intellect was worldwide; but where did he get this vast erudition?
12933	Honeydew: Ay, Jarvis; but what will fill their mouths in the meantime?
12933	How can I get in?"
12933	How did she acquire this knowledge?
12933	How is any education acquired if not through effort prompted by desire?
12933	How?
12933	I did likewise, and was greeted with a resounding smack which surprised me a bit, but I managed to ask,"Did you run away?"
12933	I heard Old Walt chuckle behind me, talking incoherently to himself, and then he said,"You are wondering why I live in such a place as this?"
12933	I touched my hat and said,"Ah, excuse me, Mr. Falstaff, you are the bouncer?"
12933	In a voice full of defense the County Down watchman said:"Ah, now, and how did I know but that it was a forgery?
12933	Is it not too bad?
12933	Is not the child nearer to God than the man?
12933	Is not this enough?
12933	Is this much or little?
12933	Is this to his credit?
12933	Just below was the Stone pier and there stood Mrs. Gamp, and I heard her ask:"And which of all them smoking monsters is the Anxworks boat, I wonder?
12933	More than a thousand years before Christ, an Arab chief asked,"If a man die shall he live again?"
12933	Need I say that the girl who made the remark just quoted had drunk of life''s cup to the very lees?
12933	Next the public wanted to know about this thing--"What are you folks doing out there in that buckwheat town?"
12933	Of course, these girls are aware that we admire them-- how could they help it?
12933	Once they urged him to go with them to an exhibition at Kensington, but he smiled feebly as he lit his pipe and said,"An Art Exhibition?
12933	Philip asked the eunuch a needless question when he inquired,"Understandest thou what thou readest?"
12933	Proud?
12933	Say, did you know him?"
12933	So I put the question to him direct:"Did you see Buffalo Bill?"
12933	Stubborn?
12933	Then the preacher spoke and his voice was sorrowful:"Oh, but I made a botch of it-- was it sarcasm or was it not?"
12933	Then what have I done concerning which the public wishes to know?
12933	Then what?
12933	Then why a monument to Shakespeare?
12933	These things being true, and all the sentiments quoted coming from"good"but blindly zealous men, is it a wonder that the Artist is not understood?
12933	Tomorrow we go-- where?
12933	Victor Hugo has said something on this subject which runs about like this: Why a monument to Shakespeare?
12933	WILLIAM M. THACKERAY TO MR. BROOKFIELD September 16, 1849 Have you read Dickens?
12933	Was ever a Jones so honored before?
12933	Was ever woman more honestly and better praised than Dorothy?
12933	Were the waters troubled in order that they might heal the people?
12933	What architect has the skill to build a tower so high as the name of Shakespeare?
12933	What bronze can equal the bronze of"Hamlet"?
12933	What can bronze or marble do for him?
12933	What capital, were it even in London, could rumble around it as tumultuously as Macbeth''s perturbed soul?
12933	What do you mean by equity?
12933	What edifice can equal thought?
12933	What framework of cedar or oak will last as long as"Othello"?
12933	What is Pig Poetry?
12933	What is as indestructible as these:"The Tempest,""The Winter''s Tale,""Julius CÃ ¦ sar,""Coriolanus"?
12933	What is meant by''your share''?"
12933	What is the Whole Duty of Pigs?
12933	What monument sublimer than"Lear,"sterner than"The Merchant of Venice,"more dazzling than"Romeo and Juliet,"more amazing than"Richard III"?
12933	What moon could shed about the pile a light more mystic than that of"A Midsummer Night''s Dream"?
12933	When trouble, adversity or bewilderment comes to the homesick traveler in an American hotel, to whom can he turn for consolation?
12933	Where, one asks in amazement, did this remarkable man find the inspiration for carrying forward his great work?
12933	Who can recount the innumerable biographies that begin thus:"In his youth, our subject had for his constant reading, Plutarch''s Lives, etc."?
12933	Who can tell?
12933	Who could harm the kind vagrant harper?
12933	Who made the Pig?
12933	Who wrote it?
12933	Whom did he ever hurt?
12933	Why did he not learn at the feet of Sir Thomas Lucy and write his own epitaph?
12933	Why, do n''t you know?
12933	Will this convey the thought?
12933	Would the author be so kind as to change it?
12933	Would they have been so great had they not suffered?
12933	Yet love is life and hate is death, so how can spite benefit?
12933	now, wot you want?"
12933	where the mob surges, cursed with idle curiosity to see the graves of kings and nobodies?
43043	''Where blooms, O my father, a thornless rose?'' 43043 Dear kindred, whom the Lord to me has given, Must the strong tie that binds us now be riven?
43043	Est ce que nous sommes faits pour chercher le bonheur? 43043 Is it not?"
43043	Lisez les Chroniques--"de Froissart?"
43043	Oh, it is so, is it?
43043	Ruth,with all its merits, will not be an enduring or classical fiction-- will it?
43043	Villette,"Villette--have you read it?
43043	What are you doing?
43043	Will you read enough of this to give me your opinion of it?
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43043	And do you really think that sculpture and painting are to die out of the world?
43043	Are we to go on cherishing superstitions out of a fear that seems inconsistent with any faith in a Supreme Being?
43043	Are you really so occupied as to have absolutely no time to think of me?
43043	Are you really the better for having been here?
43043	But to whom am I talking?
43043	But where is not this same ego?
43043	But why do I say the drop?
43043	But, it may be said, how then are we to do anything towards the advancement of mankind?
43043	Can I have the remaining volumes of Strauss, excepting any part that you may choose to keep for your own use?
43043	Can you not drive over and see me?
43043	Combien doit- il payer?"
43043	Concerning the"tent- making,"there is much more to be said, but am I to adopt your rule and never speak of what I suppose we agree about?
43043	Did Mr. Bray convey to you my earnest request that you would write to me?
43043	Did you not think the picture of the Barroni family interesting?
43043	Did you notice the review of Foster''s Life?
43043	Do n''t you think my style is editorial?
43043	Do we not commit ourselves to sleep, and so resign all care for ourselves every night; lay ourselves gently on the bosom of Nature or God?
43043	Do you know Buckle''s"History of Civilization"?
43043	Do you know if Mr. Chapman has any unusual facilities for obtaining cheap classics?
43043	Do you know of this second sample of plagiarism by D''Israeli, detected by the_ Morning Chronicle_?
43043	Do you mean to_ do_ it?
43043	Do you stare?
43043	Do you think any one would buy my"Encyclopà ¦ dia Britannica"at half- price, and my globes?
43043	Do you think it worth my while to buy the_ Prospective_ for the sake of Wicksteed''s review-- is there anything new in it?
43043	Even the little housemaid Jeanne is charming; says to me every morning, in the prettiest voice:"Madame a- t- elle bien dormi cette nuit?"
43043	Evils, even sorrows, are they not all negations?
43043	Has A. sent you his book on the Sabbath?
43043	Have I confided too much in your generosity in supposing that you would write to me first?
43043	Have I, then, any time to spend on things that never existed?
43043	Have you any engagement for the week after next?
43043	Have you asked Mr. Hennell about it?
43043	Have you enjoyed its long shadows and fresh breezes?
43043	Have you ever seen a head of Christ taken from a statue, by Thorwaldsen, of Christ scourged?
43043	Have you known the misery of writing with a_ tired_ steel pen, which is reluctant to make a mark?
43043	Have you not alternating seasons of mental stagnation and activity?
43043	Have you seen any numbers of the_ Saturday Review_, a new journal, on which"all the talents"are engaged?
43043	Have you seen the review of Strauss''s pamphlet in the_ Edinburgh_?
43043	Have you seen them?
43043	He was charmed with her, as who would not be that has any taste?
43043	How are you and your dear husband and children?
43043	How do you go on for society, for communion of spirit, the drop of nectar in the cup of mortals?
43043	How do you like"Lelia,"of which you have never spoken one word?
43043	How do you look?
43043	How is it that I have only had one proof this week?
43043	How long will this continue?
43043	How shall I enable you to imagine mine, since you know nothing of the localities?
43043	How shall I send to you"Don Quixote,"which I have quite finished?
43043	How shall I thank you enough for sending me that splendid barrel of beet- root, so nicely packed?
43043	I am not well-- all out of sorts-- and what do you think I am minded to do?
43043	I do really like reading our Strauss-- he is so_ klar und ideenvoll_; but I do not know_ one_ person who is likely to read the book through-- do you?
43043	I have quiet and comfort-- what more can I want to make me a healthy, reasonable being once more?
43043	I shall soon send you a good- bye, for I am preparing to go abroad(?).
43043	I thought"Walden"[52]( you mean"Life in the Woods,"do n''t you?)
43043	I wish we could get the book out in May-- why not?
43043	If I do not see you, how shall I send your"Don Quixote,"which I hope soon to finish?
43043	If not, may I join you on Saturday the 4th, and invite M. d''Albert to come down on the following Monday?
43043	Is it allowable to say_ dogmatics_, think you?
43043	Is it not cheering to think of the youthfulness of this little planet, and the immensely greater youthfulness of our race upon it?
43043	Is it not so, honor bright?
43043	Is not the universe itself a perpetual utterance of the one Being?
43043	Is not the universe one great utterance?
43043	Is not this a true autumn day?
43043	May I trouble you to procure for me an Italian book recommended by Mr. Brezzi-- Silvio Pellico''s"Le mie Prigioni;"if not,"Storia d''Italia"?
43043	Qu''y a- t- il de plus?
43043	Shall I despatch them by rail or deposit them with Mr. Chapman, to be asked for by Mr. Bray when he comes to town?
43043	Shall you be as glad to see me as to hear the cuckoo?
43043	The other day Montaigne''s motto came to my mind( it is mentioned by Pascal) as an appropriate one for me--"Que sais- je?"
43043	The spirit of the sermon was not a whit more elevated than that of our friend Dr. Harris; the text,"What shall I do to be saved?"
43043	Think of Babylon being unearthed in spite of the prophecies?
43043	Think-- is there any_ conceivable_ alteration in me that would prevent your coming to me at Christmas?
43043	Was n''t that pretty?
43043	Was there ever anything more dreary than this June?
43043	We are growing old together-- are we not?
43043	What book is there that some people or other will not find abominable?
43043	What do you think of the progress of architecture as a subject for poetry?
43043	What has it brought you?
43043	What is anything worth until it is uttered?
43043	What is it to me that I think the same thoughts?
43043	What shall I be without my father?
43043	What would George Combe say if I were to tell him?
43043	When does the_ Prospective_ come out?
43043	When shall I attain to the true spirit of love which Paul has taught for all the ages?
43043	When will you come to me for help, that I may be able to hate you a little less?
43043	Why did not Scheffer paint him thus, instead of representing him as one of the three Magi?
43043	Will not business or pleasure bring you to London soon, and will you not come to see us?
43043	Will the fear of the critic, or the public, or the literary world, which spoils almost every one, never master you?
43043	Will you also send me an account of Mr. Chapman''s prices for lodgers, and if you know anything of other boarding- houses, etc., in London?
43043	Will you always remain equally natural?
43043	Will you always write to please yourself, and preserve the true independence which seems to mark a real supremacy of intellect?
43043	Will you ask Mr. Craig what he considers the best authority for the date of the apostolical writings?
43043	Will you be so kind as to send my books by railway,_ without_ the Shelley?
43043	Will you send the enclosed note to Mrs. C. Hennell?
43043	Will you tell me what you can?
43043	Will you try to get me Spenser''s"Faery Queen"?
43043	Would it not be better to take to tent- making with Paul, or to spectacle- making with Spinoza?
43043	Would not a parcel reach you by railway?
43043	Write and tell you that I join you in your happiness about the French Revolution?
43043	You and Carlyle( have you seen his article in last week''s_ Examiner_?)
43043	You know that George Sand writes for the theatre?
43043	You will write to me to- morrow, will you not?
43043	[ 47]"Gentlemen, do you know the story of the man who railed at the sun because it would not light his cigar?"
43043	[ Sidenote: Letter to Miss Sara Hennell, 25th June,(?)
43043	[ Sidenote: Letter to Miss Sara Hennell, end of June,(?)
43043	[ Sidenote: Letter to Mrs. Bray, Thursday, 14th(?)
43043	[ Sidenote: Letter to the Brays, Monday, 12th(?)
43043	_ Ã � propos_ of articles, do you see the_ Prospective Review_?
43043	de Phaisan, who comes into my room when I am ill, with"Qu''est ce que vous avez, ma bonne?"
43043	or Mr. Lewes''s?
43043	or is there some other reason for your silence?
43043	said he; and when I added, inquiringly,"The power lies there?"
43043	shall that never be sweet?"
43043	to think that the higher moral tendencies of human nature are yet only in their germ?