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18566Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest and only dreamed a wild dream of witch- meeting? 18566 What would a man do if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?"
18566''But wherewith shall I defend myself?
18566''What is he?''
18566...''Yes,''I told her;''but where would be my repose when they were always to be judging whether I was worth it or not?....
18566And was this the man?
18566What kind of a business in life, what manner of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his day and generation, may that be?
18566who rides yonder?''"
7876And why should it, when its purposes might be better served in another spot?
7876But now the surgeon put his mouth down to the man''s face and said,"Do you know that you are dying?"
7876How do you do?
7876On board the Rock Ferry steamer, a gentleman coming into the cabin, a voice addresses him from a dark corner,"How do you do, sir?"
7876The good woman either could not or would not speak a word of English, only laughing when S----- said,"Dim Sassenach?"
7876What is there to beautify us when our time of ruin comes?
7876When we quit a house, we are expected to make it clean for the next occupant; why ought we not to leave a clean world for the next generation?
7876Why did Christ curse the fig- tree?
7876are you all Saas''uach?"
37625And is it possible, after all, that there may be a flaw in the title- deeds?
37625As for the remainder,--the hundred pale abortions to be counted against one rosy- cheeked boy,--what shall we say or do?
37625For, if they are to have no immortality, what superior claim can I assert for mine?
37625I remembered Dean Swift''s retort to Sergeant Bettesworth on a similar announcement,--"Of what regiment, pray, sir?"
37625Or, let me speak it more boldly, what other long- enduring fame can exist?
37625What other fame is worth aspiring for?
37625Would fire burn it, I wonder?
37625[ 11] Shall I attempt a picture of this exhalation of modern ingenuity, or what else shall I try to paint?
37625but,"Why is he here?"
7879And his second duty?
7879A beautiful feature of the scene to- day, as the preceding day, were the vines growing on fig- trees(?)
7879After emerging from the gate, we soon came to the little Church of"Domine, quo vadis?"
7879Could not all that sanctity at least keep it thawed?
7879Did anybody ever see Washington nude?
7879How came that flower to grow among these wild mountains?
7879We heard Gaetano once say a good thing to a swarm of beggar- children, who were infesting us,"Are your fathers all dead?"
7879What would he do with Washington, the most decorous and respectable personage that ever went ceremoniously through the realities of life?
7880Yes,said he,"did you know who drew them?"
7880But how does this accord with what I have been saying only a minute ago?
7880Does his spirit manifest itself in the semblance of flame?
7880Has a man a flame inside of his head?
7880Have I spoken of the sumptuous carving of the capitals of the columns?
7880How then can the decayed picture of a great master ever be restored by the touches of an inferior hand?
7880I somewhat question whether it is quite the thing, however, to make a genuine woman out of an allegory we ask, Who is to we d this lovely virgin?
7880Is there such a rural class in Italy?
7880What shall we do in America?
7880Where should the light come from?
7880You feel as if the Saviour were deserted, both in heaven and earth; the despair is in him which made him say,"My God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
7877Do all your ideas forsake you?
7877Do you wish the floor to open and swallow you?
7877Does your voice frighten you?
7877Six feet,did I say?
7877But again, do I really believe it?
7877But how can anything characteristic be said or done among a dozen people sitting at table in full dress?
7877Do I believe in these wonders?
7877He looked after him, and exclaimed indignantly,"Is that a Yankee?"
7877If these aerolites are bits of other planets, how happen they to be always iron?
7877Of course; for how is it possible to doubt either the solemn word or the sober observation of a learned and sensible man like Dr.------?
7877Whence could it have come?
40529Ah, who shall lift that wand of magic power, And the lost clue regain? 40529 Are you''decapitated?''"
40529But what are we to do for bread and rice, next week?
40529What is the matter, then?
40529''Wo n''t you come along?''
40529Are you fond of brandy?
40529Did you feel shy about expressing an unfavorable opinion?
40529Horse, how are you to- day?''
40529How would you like some day to see a whole shelf full of books written by your son, with''Hathorne''s Works''printed on the backs?"
40529I jumped up and said:''How do you feel, old fellow; any better?''
40529Richard Davenport||(?)
40529So you are in great danger of having one learned man in your family.... Shall you want me to be a Minister, Doctor, or Lawyer?
40529Then, quickly stepping into the entry with a roll of manuscript in his hands, he said:''How in Heaven''s name did you know this thing was here?
40529What is to be done?"
7301Do you now perceive a corresponding difference,inquired I,"between the passages which you wrote so coldly, and those fervid flashes of the mind?"
7301''Who would risk publishing a book for_ me_, the most unpopular writer in America?''
7301Am I to bear all this, when yonder fire will insure me from the whole?
7301And if better for you, is it not so for me likewise?
7301Did Hester love her lover, and he love her, through those seven years in silence?
7301Did either of them ever repent their passion for its own sake?
7301Had either of them ever repented, though one was a coward and the other a condemned and public criminal before the law, and both had suffered?
7301Hast thou forgotten it?"
7301Is it a praiseworthy matter that I have spent five golden months in providing food for cows and horses?
7301Then quickly stepping into the entry with a roll of manuscript in his hands, he said:''How, in Heaven''s name, did you know this thing was there?
7301This was Hawthorne''s life; was it after all so valueless?
7301What do you think of my becoming an author, and relying for support upon my pen?
7301You have no family dependent upon you, and why should you''borrow trouble''?
7878Do all your ideas forsake you?
7878Do you wish the floor to open and swallow you?
7878Does your voice frighten you?
7878Six feet,did I say?
7878And why should it, when its purposes might be better served in another spot?
7878But again, do I really believe it?
7878But how can anything characteristic be said or done among a dozen people sitting at table in full dress?
7878But now the surgeon put his mouth down to the man''s face and said,"Do you know that you are dying?"
7878Do I believe in these wonders?
7878He looked after him, and exclaimed indignantly,"Is that a Yankee?"
7878How do you do?
7878If these aerolites are bits of other planets, how happen they to be always iron?
7878Of course; for how is it possible to doubt either the solemn word or the sober observation of a learned and sensible man like Dr.------?
7878On board the Rock Ferry steamer, a gentleman coming into the cabin, a voice addresses him from a dark corner,"How do you do, sir?"
7878The good woman either could not or would not speak a word of English, only laughing when S----- said,"Dim Sassenach?"
7878What is there to beautify us when our time of ruin comes?
7878When we quit a house, we are expected to make it clean for the next occupant; why ought we not to leave a clean world for the next generation?
7878Whence could it have come?
7878Why did Christ curse the fig- tree?
7878are you all Saas''uach?"
7881And his second duty?
7881Yes,said he,"did you know who drew them?"
7881A beautiful feature of the scene to- day, as the preceding day, were the vines growing on fig- trees(?)
7881After emerging from the gate, we soon came to the little Church of"Domine, quo vadis?"
7881But how does this accord with what I have been saying only a minute ago?
7881Could not all that sanctity at least keep it thawed?
7881Did anybody ever see Washington nude?
7881Does his spirit manifest itself in the semblance of flame?
7881Has a man a flame inside of his head?
7881Have I spoken of the sumptuous carving of the capitals of the columns?
7881How came that flower to grow among these wild mountains?
7881How then can the decayed picture of a great master ever be restored by the touches of an inferior hand?
7881I somewhat question whether it is quite the thing, however, to make a genuine woman out of an allegory we ask, Who is to we d this lovely virgin?
7881Is there such a rural class in Italy?
7881We heard Gaetano once say a good thing to a swarm of beggar- children, who were infesting us,"Are your fathers all dead?"
7881What shall we do in America?
7881What would he do with Washington, the most decorous and respectable personage that ever went ceremoniously through the realities of life?
7881Where should the light come from?
7881You feel as if the Saviour were deserted, both in heaven and earth; the despair is in him which made him say,"My God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
8088Friend,says one man,"how is the tide now?"
8088He said, sir,` What does he send me this damned stuff for?'' 8088 Is it an affectionate greeting?"
8088What may I call your name?
8088A friend asked him,"How doth your lordship?"
8088At parting, Eliza said to the girl,"What do you think I heard somebody say about you?
8088But who must be the giver of the feast, and what his claims to preside?
8088For the writing, perhaps; but would it be so for the reading?
8088For their friends to condole with them when they attained riches and honor, as only so much care added?
8088Have you seen Boston Light this morning?"
8088He asked the most direct questions of another young man; for instance,"Are you married?"
8088How many different scenes it sheds light on?
8088Is not this a beautiful morning?
8088Meditations about the main gas- pipe of a great city,--if the supply were to be stopped, what would happen?
8088One asked,--"Is she your daughter?"
8088Speaking of the widow, he said:"My wife has been dead these seven years, and why should not I enjoy myself a little?"
8088The black fellow asked,--"Do you want to see her?"
8088The dying exclamation of the Emperor Augustus,"Has it not been well acted?"
8088To put on bridal garments at funerals, and mourning at weddings?
8088Was this the Virginian Smith?
8088What moral could be drawn from this?
8088What were the contents of the burden of Christian in the Pilgrim''s Progress?
8088What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?
8088What would be its effect?
8088Who would buy, if the price were to be paid down?
8088Would it not be wiser for people to rejoice at all that they now sorrow for, and vice versa?
8088did you ever hear anything like that?"
8088do you suppose I''d give you good money?"
8089Did you hit it?
8089Is that a burden of sunshine on Apollo''s back?
8089What did you fire at?
8089Where''s the man- mountain of these Liliputs?
8089And what becomes of the birds in such a soaking rain as this?
8089And what delusion can be more lamentable and mischievous, than to mistake the physical and material for the spiritual?
8089And what is there to write about?
8089But how is he to accomplish it?
8089By the by, was there ever any rain in Paradise?
8089Can the tolling of the Old South bell be painted?
8089Did you ever behold such a vile scribble as I write since I became a farmer?
8089Did you know what treasures of wild grapes there are in this land?
8089How came these little birds out of their nests at night?
8089I am not quite so strict as I should be in keeping him out of the house; but I commiserate him and myself, for are we not both of us bereaved?
8089Is hope and an instinctive faith so mixed up with their nature that they can be cheered by the thought that the sunshine will return?
8089Is it a praiseworthy matter that I have spent five golden months in providing food for cows and horses?
8089Is not this consummate discretion?
8089Is truth a fantasy which we are to pursue forever and never grasp?
8089What could the little bird mean by pouring it forth at midnight?
8089What had I done, that it should bemaul me so?
8089What is the price of a day''s labor in Lapland, where the sun never sets for six months?
8089What should we do without fire and death?
8089When shall we be able to walk again to the far hills, and plunge into the deep woods, and gather more cardinals along the river''s margin?
8089Why should they meet destruction from the radiance that proves the salvation of other beings?
8089and am I not perfectly safe?
8089or do they think, as I almost do, that there is to be no sunshine any more?
8089what so miserable as to lose the soul''s true, though hidden knowledge and consciousness of heaven in the mist of an earth- born vision?
8090Am I then so changed?
8090Were you born in Uttoxeter?
8090And is it possible, after all, that there may be a flaw in the title- deeds?
8090And where are the graves of another daughter and a son, who have a better right in the family row than Thomas Nash, his grandson- in- law?
8090As for the remainder,--the hundred pale abortions to be counted against one rosy- cheeked boy,--what shall we say or do?
8090But were they more than shadows?
8090But, then, why does his wife, who died afterwards, take precedence of him and occupy the place next his bust?
8090Can not America and England hit upon some scheme to secure even greater advantages to both nations?
8090For, if they are to have no immortality, what superior claim can I assert for mine?
8090I remembered Dean Swift''s retort to Sergeant Bettesworth on a similar announcement,--"Of what regiment, pray, sir?"
8090If the site were ascertained, would not the pavement thereabouts be worn with reverential footsteps?
8090Is it a thing to scold the sufferer for?
8090Is it not a dream altogether?
8090Might not one or both of them have been laid under the nameless stone?
8090Or, let me speak it more boldly, what other long- enduring fame can exist?
8090Shall I attempt a picture of this exhalation of modern ingenuity, or what else shall I try to paint?
8090Should all pulpits and communion- tables have thenceforth a stain upon them, and the guilty one go unrebuked for it?
8090What had I to do with rebuking him?
8090What matters it though she called him by some other name?
8090What other fame is worth aspiring for?
8090Would fire burn it, I wonder?
8090Would not every town- born child be able to direct the pilgrim thither?
8090but,"Why is he here?"
6982And was this the sword?
6982Are you little Hubert Thompson?
6982Can anything be the matter with pussy?
6982DEAR SIR,--May I beg of you in any future edition of the Life of your father to leave out your passage upon my husband and spiritualism? 6982 Do I understand you to say, Mr. Hawthorne, that you actually use tobacco?"
6982Do you mean to say,demanded the latter,"that you passed the Lightning?"
6982How do you do?
6982How many gardeners have you got?
6982Pray, mamma, why does the sun rise in the east instead of in the west?
6982Pray, papa, why was King Alfred called''The Good''?
6982And once--"How are you?"
6982And what has become of the wayside inns, and what of the vetturinos?
6982Are there any other Borghese Gardens to come for me in the future, I wonder?
6982But the builder, and the grapes-- where were they?
6982Death had been rampant during the night; but what could be the cause?
6982Did the gift cost him nothing?
6982How would you"improve"your time?
6982If you were put down in the Garden of Eden, and told that you might stay there an hour and no more, what would you do?
6982Is history written in this way?
6982It is easy to compliment a friend upon his children, but how many of us will allow themselves to be caught and utilized by them in this fashion?
6982It was a massive tree before the Domesday Book was begun; Chaucer would not be heard of for four hundred years to come; and where was Shakespeare?
6982Later I took occasion to ask Bennoch the secret of his mirth; was the tale a fiction?
6982Oh, Byron, were you an Esquimau?
6982The hand that rests on her knee-- should the forefinger and thumb meet or be separated?
6982VII Life in Rock Park-- Inconvenient independence of lodgings-- The average man--"How many gardeners have you got?"
6982Was I related to the great Hawthorne?
6982Was it more beautiful or not?
6982What more could be asked?
6982What was left them in life?
6982What was suspected of America?
6982What was to be done?
6982What was to be the outcome?
6982What were legs of a triangle, and how, if there were any, could they be square?
6982What would one better do in such circumstances?
6982Where are Cheops, and the hanging gardens of Babylon?
6982Where will the world be when it comes again?
6982Which are the happiest years of a man''s life?
6982Who was Mrs. Blodgett?
6982Who would not have run upon such an announcement?
6982Who would not live in Florence if he could?
6982Who, then, was he?
6982Would we ever again behold the upper world and the sky?
6982Would you make sure of all these set sights in order that you might reply satisfactorily to the cloud of interviewers awaiting you outside the Garden?
8530But why do you fight with him so often?
8530Does the Pond look the same as when I was there? 8530 How came you out here?"
8530Is there no holier, happier land Among those distant spheres, Where we may meet that shadow band, The dead of other years? 8530 What is the use,"says one,"of burning your brains out in the sun, if you can do anything better with them?...
8530Why do they treat me so?
8530Would you have me a damned author?
8530''What, for instance?''
8530( Is it too fanciful to note that at this stage of the epistle"college"is no longer spelt with a large C?)
8530Ah, prophet, who spoke but now so sadly, what is this new message that we see brightening on your lips?
8530And what remains?
8530Another part of this letter shows the writer''s standing at college:--"Did the President write to you about my part?
8530Are not their windows darkened by the light of other days?
8530But what, in Heaven''s name, is the motive?
8530Collection of Voyages( Hakluyt''s?).
8530Could anything be more perfectly compensatory?
8530Could he have already connected the two things, the bloody footstep and this Anglo- American interest?
8530Did not this desire of setting things right stir ever afterward in Hawthorne''s consciousness?
8530Did the old, boyish association perhaps unconsciously supply him with a name for the Indian aunt of"Septimius Felton"?)
8530Do not you remember how we used to go a- fishing together in Raymond?
8530Do you know his books?
8530Does any one seriously suppose it to be for the amusement of making stories out of it?
8530Horse, how are you to- day?''
8530How can we call this weakness, which involved such strength of manly tenderness and sympathy?
8530How much of his own delicious personality could Thackeray have described without losing the zest of his other portraitures?
8530How much, we ask, is allegory in the poet''s own estimation, and how much real belief?
8530How will that do?
8530How would you like some day to see a whole shelf full of books, written by your son, with''Hawthorne''s Works''printed on their backs?"
8530I get my lessons at home, and recite them to him[ Mr. Oliver] at 7 o''clock in the morning.... Shall you want me to be a Minister, Doctor, or Lawyer?
8530I jumped up and said:''How do you feel, old fellow; any better?''
8530Imagine Dickens clearly accounting for himself and his peculiar traits: would he be able to excite even a smile?
8530Is antiquity, then, afraid to assert itself, even here in this stronghold, so far as to appear upon the street?
8530Is it not very significant, that he should have made so little of the story of Rip Van Winkle?
8530Is it safe, then, to stake the book entirely on this one chance?"
8530Is this not, in brief, what he conceives may yet be the story of his own career?
8530It is a natural question, why did not Hawthorne write an English romance, as well, or rather than an Italian one?
8530Looking at the end of the stick, the man bawled,''What little devil has had my goad?''
8530Mr. Wiley''s American series is athirst for the volumes of tales; and how stands the prospect for the History of Witchcraft, I whilom spoke of?"
8530Now will you write and say when you are to be expected?
8530One meets another near our house, and says,''Where did you meet Bill?''
8530Shall he not record it?
8530We live in the ugliest little old red farm- house you ever saw.... What shall you write next?
8530Were not these words, which I find in"Fanshawe,"drawn from the author''s knowledge of his own heart?
8530Were such a man once more to fall, what plea could be urged in extenuation of his crime?
8530What is the meaning of this added revelation of evil?
8530What more logical issue from the Christian idea, what more exquisitely tender rendering of it than this?
8530Where all the day the moonbeams rest, And where at length the souls are blest Of those who dwell in tears?
8530Where is the sneer concealed in this serious and comprehensive utterance?
8530Where, O where is the godmother who gave you to talk pearls and diamonds?...
8530Where, within the covers of the book, could the deluded man have found this doctrine urged?
8530Why did the Israelites complain so much at having to make bricks without straw?
8530Why, then, should further risk of this be incurred, by issuing the present work?
8530Will it solve the riddle of sin and beauty, at last?
8530Yet who can be to the present generation even what Scott has been to the past?"
8530Yet, on reflection, why should it?
8530who rides yonder?''"
8641Did not Hawthorne,I said,"predict something like this in an article in the''Atlantic Monthly''?"
8641Do I?
8641We know those who have reached the goal, but who can tell how many have fallen by the way?
8641What do I think of Wasson?
8641What hope is there for him,they said,"in such a profession?
8641And in what way could he deliver this message?
8641And who is that plainly dressed girl with the meekly determined look who goes back and forth so quietly and regularly?
8641And why is it?
8641Are the Rocky Mountains her monument; and shall the Falls of Niagara chant forever her requiem?"
8641At another time he came to me and said,"What deep problems of government are you thinking over there all by yourself?"
8641At the time of the Dred Scott decision, he exclaimed:"Is Liberty dead?
8641But did he contribute one great thought or one grand and salutary imagination to the world''s stock?
8641But how is he to persuade others to take an interest in these subjects?
8641But is not this effort a virtue in itself?
8641But why multiply these unpleasant examples of misrepresentation?
8641Can the descendant of five generations of New England clergymen have the same blood in his veins that warmed the hearts of Marshal Ney and Mirabeau?
8641Could a chief justice have decided the case better?
8641Did he lay a noble emphasis upon any great truth or order of truths and so recommend it effectually to the attention and consideration of mankind?
8641Did he realize the magnitude of the work before him-- one which thousands of patriotic men have since attempted and signally failed to accomplish?
8641Did this man of heroic nature lack the courage to face tragedy?]
8641Does he mean the spirit of the age?
8641Does he partially expose here a peculiarity in his literary procedure?
8641Does it so much as breathe upon them a salubrious air?
8641Had Judge Story already discovered a centrifugal and uncontrollable element in the man?
8641He walked out into the streets, and somebody said to him,''What think you of Athenian liberty?''
8641How could he make known to others what was in his full heart, except from the pulpit?
8641How could it be otherwise?
8641How could it happen that Hawthorne deceived himself?
8641How did these bare, bleak and barren rocks come to be inhabited?
8641How did they get there?"
8641How should this be, unless, indeed, the century as a whole is inferior, and prominence in it is no token of greatness?
8641If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, what should be said of unripe and superficial thinking?
8641If his friends did not agree with him he would reply with a mildly interrogative"Yes?"
8641In fine, does his work serve to enlarge the souls, enlighten the minds, direct the wills or quicken and inspire the better powers of man?
8641Is it not better for us to look at the matter in this way?
8641Is it possible that he was in the right, and men like Emerson, Ripley, and James Freeman Clarke in the wrong?
8641Is not all progress in this world accomplished as the frog escaped from the well, by jumping up three feet and falling back two?
8641Is not the very crown of character that which we derive from failure, penitence, and self- reproach?
8641Is the valley of the Mississippi her grave?
8641It is not likely the boy is a genius, and who is going to purchase his pictures?"
8641May not the career of any great man be compared to the course of a river?
8641My wife seized me by the arm, half terrified, and said,''Wendell, what are you going to do?''
8641Or did he even write a single sentence which one treasures up as an imperishable jewel?
8641Perpetual constraint and self- denial may strengthen character, but will human nature be better for it in the end?
8641Surely enough true civilization is and always has been an immediate necessity: a necessity like the feast of Tantalus: but how is it to be realized?
8641Then she wrote on the paper:"Where is my father?"
8641Was it an inherited public tendency from the spirit of intolerance which formerly persecuted the Quakers?
8641Was there a strange fatality in the name, so that Patrick Henry might say with added force,"Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace"?
8641Was this the summary and net result of their stroll in Walden woods?
8641Wasson''s direct influence during his life was limited to a very small circle; but who can tell how far it extended indirectly beyond this?
8641What answer can be made to such accusations?
8641What but a future candidate for the senate of the United States, or even for the presidency?
8641What does Emerson intend by trusting the time?
8641What else can we expect of them?
8641What good would a Webster''s dictionary have been at Harper''s Ferry?
8641When it is a question of motive, of moral consciousness, how are such charges to be refuted?
8641Who can doubt that this was a personal experience with him, as it has been with some others?
8641Who can remember the like of it?
8641Who indeed can explain it?
8641Who, looking on these things, does not acknowledge that man is indeed fearfully as well as wonderfully made?
8641Why does he consider Miss Fuller to have had a strong, coarse nature, and to have been morally unsound?
8641Will you come?"
8641With such an achievement at the age of twenty- six, what might not have been expected of his maturer years,--of the full fruition of his genius?
8641and that Alcott answered,"Waldo, why are you not here?
3673Do you think the porter and the cook have no experiences, no wonders for you? 3673 Is America a musical nation?"
3673Is there any virtue in a man''s skin that you must touch it?
36733 What is character?
3673A newspaper music column prints an incident( so how can we assume that it is not true?)
3673A painter paints a sunset-- can he paint the setting sun?
3673And if so, of what will it be composed?
3673And then-- what is the soul?
3673At such times, shall he not better turn to those greater souls, rather than to the external, the immediate, and the"Garish Day"?
3673But is Plato a classic or towards the remote?
3673But where is the bridge placed?--at the end of the road or only at the end of our vision?
3673But where is the definite expression of late- spring against early- summer, of happiness against optimism?
3673But where is the divine substance?
3673But, indeed, is not enough manifestation already there?
3673Can an inspiration come from a blank mind?
3673Can it DO this?
3673Can it be done by anything short of an act of mesmerism on the part of the composer or an act of kindness on the part of the listener?
3673Can music do MORE than this?
3673Can not some of the most valuable kinds of utility and inspiration come from humility in its highest and purest forms?
3673Can you read him today?
3673Carlyle would have Emerson teach by more definite signs, rather than interpret his revelations, or shall we say preach?
3673Could the art of music, or the art of anything have a more profound reason for being than this?
3673Could you journey, with equal benefit, if they were less so?
3673Does the progress of intrinsic beauty or truth( we assume there is such a thing) have its exposures as well as its discoveries?
3673Does the success of program music depend more upon the program than upon the music?
3673For does he not say that"wherever a man goes, men will pursue him with their dirty institutions"?
3673For does not Emerson tell them this when he says"What you are talks so loud, that I can not hear what you say"?
3673He would have found that painful,"for was he not a part with her?"
3673How far afield can music go and keep honest as well as reasonable or artistic?
3673How far can the composer be held accountable?
3673How many masterpieces have been prevented from blossoming in this way?
3673If Emerson''s manner is not always beautiful in accordance with accepted standards, why not accept a few other standards?
3673If Genius is the most indebted, how much does it owe to those who would, but do not easily ride with it?
3673If it does, what is the use of the music, if it does not, what is the use of the program?
3673If nature is not enthusiastic about explanation, why should Tschaikowsky be?
3673If so what?
3673If so why?
3673If there is a weakness here is it the fault of substance or only of manner?
3673In how far does it sustain the soul or the soul it?
3673Intuitions( artistic or not?)
3673Is Classicism a poor relation of time-- not of man?
3673Is Emerson or the English climate to blame for this?
3673Is a demagogue a friend of the people because he will lie to them to make them cry and raise false hopes?
3673Is a thing classic or romantic because it is or is not passed by that biologic-- that indescribable stream- of- change going on in all life?
3673Is his music American or African?
3673Is it a matter limited only by the composer''s power of expressing what lies in his subjective or objective consciousness?
3673Is it a part of the soul?
3673Is it all a bridge?--or is there no bridge because there is no gulf?
3673Is it not program- music raised to the nth power or rather reduced to the minus nth power?
3673Is it not the courage-- the spiritual hopefulness in his humility that makes this story possible and true?
3673Is it not this trait in his character that sets him above all creeds-- that gives him inspired belief in the common mind and soul?
3673Is it the composer''s fault that man has only ten fingers?
3673Is not our weak suggestion needed only for those content with their own hopelessness?
3673Is not the asking that it be made more manifest forgetting that"we are not strong by our power to penetrate, but by our relatedness?"
3673Is that a doctrine?
3673Now all of these translucent axioms are true( are not axioms always true?
3673On the other hand is not all music, program- music,--is not pure music, so called, representative in its essence?
3673Or is it enough to let the matter rest on the pleasure mainly physical, of the tones, their color, succession, and relations, formal or informal?
3673Or is it limited by any limitations of the composer?
3673Ruskin also says:"Suppose I like the finite curves best, who shall say I''m right or wrong?
3673Someone says:"Be specific-- what great fundamentals?"
3673Something that will help answer Alton Locke''s question:"What has Emerson for the working- man?"
3673The composer, the performer( if there be any), or those who have to listen?
3673Then the world may ask"Can the one true national"this"or"that"be killed by its own discoverer?"
3673Was man governing himself?
3673What does it all mean?
3673What is behind it all?
3673What is the source of these instinctive feelings, these vague intuitions and introspective sensations?
3673What part of substance is manner?
3673What part of these supplements are opposites?
3673What part of this duality is polarity?
3673What will you substitute for the mountain lake, for his friend''s character, etc.?
3673Whence cometh the wonder of a moment?
3673Where is the line to be drawn between the expression of subjective and objective emotion?
3673Who can be forever melancholy"with Aeolian music like this"?
3673Who knows but this pulpit aroused the younger Emerson to the possibilities of intuitive reasoning in spiritual realms?
3673Why must the scarecrow of the keyboard-- the tyrant in terms of the mechanism( be it Caruso or a Jew''s- harp) stare into every measure?
3673Will more signs create a greater sympathy?
3673Will you substitute anything?
3673Would you have the indefinite paths ALWAYS supplemented by the shadow of the definite one of a first influence?
3673Would you have the universal always supplemented by the shadow of the personal?
3673Would you have the youthful enthusiasm of rebellion, which Emerson carried beyond his youth always supplemented by the shadow of experience?
3673You may be near when his stern old aunt in the duty of her Puritan conscience asks him:"Have you made your peace with God"?
3673and if so who and what is to determine the degree of its failure or success?
3673design to establish a"course at Rome,"to raise the standard of American music,( or the standard of American composers-- which is it?)
7170THE SNOW IMAGEThe question now was, what next?
7170''And what would they have you do?''
7170''Did you not pinch Elizabeth Hubbard this morning?''
7170''Do you go through the trees or over them?''
7170''How did you go?''
7170''What attendants hath Sarah Good?''
7170''What meat did she give it?''
7170''Why did you go to Thomas Putnam''s last night and hurt his child?''
7170''Why did you not tell your master?''
7170''Would you not have hurt others, if you could?''
7170And if he accused her of that only, why should he suffer perpetual remorse on account of her death?
7170But if the wings of the archangel are torn and soiled in his conflict with sin, does it not add to the honor of the victory?
7170Can you tell me, sir?"
7170Did it occur to him that the lightning might strike in his own house?
7170Do not the characters in"Don Quixote"and"Wilhelm Meister"spring up as it were out of the ground?
7170Do not we all feel at times that the search for abstract truth is like a diet of sawdust or Scotch mist,--a"chimera buzzing in a vacuum"?
7170Do not we all require it?
7170Does not romance come originally from Roma,--as well as Romulus?
7170He also adds Goethe and Swedenborg, and remarks of them:"Were ever two men of transcendent imagination more unlike?"
7170Horse, how are you to- day?''
7170How can we possess clear and definite ideas of the grand mystery of Creation?
7170How did it happen that Hawthorne was an exception?
7170How far shall we agree with him?
7170I am perfectly aware that he has taken a good deal of interest in you, but when did he ever do anything for you without a_ quid pro quo_?
7170If Franklin Pierce was desirous of preserving the Union, why did he give Jefferson Davis a place in his Cabinet, and take him for his chief adviser?
7170If there is sometimes a melancholy tinge in their writings, may we wonder at it?
7170In his account of"Sunday at Home"he says:"Time-- where a man lives not-- what is it but Eternity?"
7170Is it not much the same in America?
7170Is it not perfectly natural that Everybody should understand Everybody''s business as well as or better than his own?
7170Is it possible that this is connected in a way with the rarefied atmosphere of Lenox, in which distant objects appear so sharply defined?
7170Is this not an induction from or corollary to the preceding?
7170Is this the consummation of your experiment?"
7170It may also be asked, why should Small have disposed so readily of this manuscript to Symmes after preserving it sedulously for more than forty years?
7170Matthew Arnold spoke of his commentaries on England as the writing of a man chagrined; but what could have chagrined Hawthorne there?
7170Perhaps he might have accomplished as much for Hawthorne; but how was Hawthorne in his retired and uncommunicative life to know of him?
7170Raphael''s tomb has been opened, and why should not Shakespeare''s be also?
7170The latter often happens in American life, and although it commonly results in more or less family discord, are we to condemn it for that reason?
7170The magnitude of the evil of course makes a difference; but do we not all live in a continual state of sinning, and self- correction?
7170The scientists tell us that all these happen according to natural laws: perfectly true, but WHO was it that made those laws?
7170Then what shall we say of the sympathetic relation between a mother and her child?
7170There are Dombeys and Shylocks in plenty, but who has ever met a Hamlet or a Rosalind in real life?
7170WHO is it that keeps the universe running?
7170Was it President Jackson, or Senator Benton, who said that fighting a duel was very much like making one''s maiden speech?
7170Was it through a natural attraction for the primeval granite that they landed on the New England coast?
7170Was the sword- fish roused to anger when the ship came upon him sleeping in the water; or did he mistake it for a strange species of whale?
7170Was there nothing more than the trick she had attempted upon Priscilla?
7170What New England girl would behave in the manner that Hawthorne''s son represents this one to have done?
7170What could Bridge do, in the premises?
7170What do we know of the boyhood of Franklin, Webster, Seward and Longfellow?
7170What do we know of the religious belief of Michel Angelo, of Shakespeare, or of Beethoven?
7170What do you think of my becoming an author, and relying for support upon my pen?
7170What is there outside of the universe?
7170What shall we now do for bread?"
7170What should he do; whither should he turn?
7170What young gentleman would have listened to such a communication as he supposes, and especially the reserved and modest Hawthorne?
7170When will parents learn wisdom in regard to their children?
7170Which of Shakespeare''s male characters can be measured beside George Washington?
7170Who besides Homer has been able to describe a chariot- race, and who but Hawthorne could extract such poetry from a farmer''s garden?
7170Who but his uncle could have written that inscription?
7170Who can describe it-- that clairvoyant sensibility, intangible, too swift for words?
7170Who can tell?
7170Who has depicted it, except Hawthorne and Raphael?
7170Who knows what a heart there may have been in William Symmes?
7170Why did he go out of his way to see so little and to miss so much?
7170Why should he not?
7170Why, as he was true to the Northern character in all things else, did he swerve from his Northern principles in this final scene?"
7170Would it have made a difference in the warp and woof of Hawthorne''s life, if he had happened to ride that day in the same coach with Longfellow?
7170Would it not be so among the dead?"
7170Would not the Count of Monte Beni be a cousin Italian, as it were, to the Count of Monte Cristo?
7170_ Fate_ is the spoken word which can not be recalled, and who can tell the good and evil consequences that lie hidden in it?
7170reduced to private life?
41368But why should n''t I let her know it, if I_ am_ mortified?
41368Am I a funny old man?
41368And dost thou remember what is to happen within those ten days?
41368And how art thou, belovedest?
41368And how does our belovedest little Una?
41368And how is that cough of thine, my belovedest?
41368And if thou art sick, why did she come at all?
41368And is not thy husband perfectly safe?
41368And what adequate motive can there be for exposing thyself to all this misconception?
41368And what delusion can be more lamentable and mischievous, than to mistake the physical and material for the spiritual?
41368And will it be necessary to wait so long?
41368Art thou ill at ease in any mode whatever?
41368Art thou likewise well?
41368Art thou magnificent?
41368Art thou magnificently well?
41368Art thou quite well now?
41368Art thou quite well?
41368Art thou sure that He made thee for me?
41368Art thou well to- day very dearest?
41368Belovedest, didst thou sleep well, last night?
41368Belovedest, when dost thou mean to come home?
41368But how are we to get home?
41368But how is he to accomplish it?
41368Can it be that little redheaded personage?
41368Can this be so?
41368Canst thou devote so much of thy precious day to my unworthiness?
41368Canst thou not use warm water?
41368Canst thou paint the tolling of the old South bell?
41368Canst thou say as much?
41368Canst thou tell me whether the"Miss Peabody"here mentioned, is Miss Mary or Miss Elizabeth Peabody?
41368Couldst thou send me ten dollars?)
41368Dear little wife, didst thou ever behold such an awful scribble as thy husband writes, since he became a farmer?
41368Dearest, I do not express myself clearly on this matter; but what need?--wilt not thou know better what I mean than words could tell thee?
41368Dearest, dost thou know that there are but ten days more in this blessed month of June?
41368Dearest, is thy absence so nearly over that we can now see light glimmering at the end of it?
41368Did Julian have a tooth?--or what was the matter?
41368Did Una remember me, when she waked up?--and has little Bundlebreech wanted me?--and dost thou thyself think of me with moderate kindness?
41368Did we not entirely agree in thinking"John"an undue and undesirable familiarity?
41368Did you pay a bill( of between one or two pounds) of Frisbie, Dyke& Co.?
41368Didst thou ever read any of her books?
41368Didst thou weary thy poor little self to death, yesterday?
41368Do not people offer to take thee to ride?
41368Does Bundlebreech walk yet?
41368Does Rosebud still remember me?
41368Does thy heart thrill at the thought?
41368Dost thou even think of me?
41368Dost thou ever feel, at one and the same moment, the impossibility of doing without me, and also the impossibility of having me?
41368Dost thou know that we are going to have a war?
41368Dost thou like this prospect?
41368Dost thou love me after all?
41368Dost thou love me at all?
41368Dost thou love me at all?
41368Dost thou love me at all?
41368Dost thou love me?
41368Dost thou love me?
41368Dost thou love me?
41368Dost thou love me?
41368Dost thou not believe me?
41368Dost thou not think it really the most hateful place in all the world?
41368Dost thou perceive how love widens my heart?
41368Dost thou rejoice that thou hast saved me from such a fate?
41368Dost thou remember that, the day after tomorrow, thou art to meet thy husband?
41368Dost thou think it a praiseworthy matter, that I have spent five golden months in providing food for cows and horses?
41368Hast thou made it of such immortal stuff as the robes of Bunyan''s Pilgrim were made of?
41368Hast thou thought of me, in my perils and wanderings?
41368How canst thou hope for any warmth of conception and execution, when thou art working with material as cold as ice?
41368How couldst thou be so imprudent?
41368How dost thou do?
41368How is it possible to wait so long?
41368How much must I reserve to pay Rebecca''s wages?
41368How would I have borne it, if thy visit to Ida Russel were to commence before my return to thine arms?
41368If he insists upon living by highway robbery, dost thou not think it would be well to make him share his booty with us?
41368Is it half over?
41368Is not this consummate discretion?
41368Naughtiest wife, hast thou been unwell for two months?
41368Now dost thou not blush to have formed so much lower an opinion of my business talents, than is entertained by other discerning people?
41368Now that the days are so long, would it not do to leave Boston, on our return, at ½ past 4?
41368Ownest, would there be anything amiss in exchanging that copy of Southey''s Poems for some other book?
41368Shall I know little Una, dost thou think?
41368Shall the whole sky be the dome of her cathedral?--or must she compress the Deity into a narrow space, for the purpose of getting at him more readily?
41368Should not she be of the party?
41368Shouldst thou not walk out, every day, round the common, at least, if not further?
41368Sweetest, what became of that letter?
41368TO MRS. HAWTHORNE_ Concord_, June 6th, 1844 Mine ownest, ownest love, dost thou not want to hear from thy husband?
41368TO MRS. HAWTHORNE_ Salem_, March 12th( Saturday), 1843 Own wifie, how dost thou do?
41368Then why does my Dove put herself into a fever?
41368Thou hast our home and all our interests about thee, and away from thee there is only emptiness-- so what have I to write about?
41368Was it a pleasant season likewise to thee?
41368What carest thou for any other?
41368What is the matter?--anything except her mouth?
41368What shall I do?
41368What shall I do?
41368What so miserable as to lose the soul''s true, though hidden, knowledge and consciousness of heaven, in the mist of an earth- born vision?
41368What wilt thou do in a rain- storm?
41368When am I to see thee again?
41368Where art thou?
41368Where dost thou think I was on Saturday afternoon?
41368Whom do I mean by this brilliant simile?
41368Whose fault was it, that it was left behind?
41368Why art thou not magnificent?
41368Why could not she have put the letter on my table, so that I might have been greeted by it immediately on entering my room?
41368Why did I ever leave thee, my own dearest wife?
41368Why did all the children have fever- fits?
41368Why dost thou-- being one and the same person with thy husband-- unjustly keep those delicate little instruments( thy fingers, to wit) all to thyself?
41368Why has not Dr. Wesselhoeft cured thy thumb?
41368Why was Horace jumped in a wet sheet?
41368Why was this world created?
41368Will not this satisfy thee?
41368Will thy father have the goodness to leave the letter for Colonel Hall at the Post Office?
41368Wilt thou consent?
41368Wilt thou not?
41368Wilt thou represent them as just landing on the wharf?--or as presenting themselves before Governor Shirley, seated in the great chair?
41368Wilt thou think it best to go back to Lisbon?
41368Wouldst thou like to have her follow Aunt Lou and Miss Rodgers into that musty old Church of England?
41368Wouldst thou not like to stay just one little fortnight longer in Boston, where the sidewalks afford dry passage to thy little feet?
41368Yet what can be done?
6926And what_ was_ your name?
6926And you do n''t know who I am, yet?
6926Do you really think it blasphemy?
6926Is Ellen here?
6926Oh, but if Una is going, that would be a divided cherry, would it not?
6926That is the simplest way, is it not?
6926There!--I_ thought_--but you understand how-- if I had made a mistake-- Could anything have been worse if you had_ not_ been? 6926 Well, what had we better do with them?"
6926Where can the little sleeve be which I finished, and wished to sew in here, my love?
6926Where could Zenobia have found her ever- fresh, rich flower?
6926Where else are the little door- yards that hold their glint of sunlight so tenaciously, like the still light of wine in a glass? 6926 Whose mother?"
6926Wo n''t you go?
6926''No,''persisted the wicked Ambassador;''but what do you think of the style?''
6926''Whose broth is this?''
6926''Whose jelly is this?''
6926Am I not eminently well, round, and rubicund?
6926And why do you suppose it was so long?
6926Another note from Lord Houghton is extant, saying:-- DEAR MR. HAWTHORNE,--Why did not you come to see us when you were in London?
6926Are they not the American eagle and the American flag?
6926As the door opened, I heard a voice say,"Where is the man?"
6926Bright good and lovely to devote his only whole day in London to me?
6926But how am I to tell you what I saw from them?
6926But later she writes on"the eighteenth day of perfect weather,"and where can the weather seem so perfect as in England?
6926But we really will not wait so long for number five?
6926But why attempt to put into ink such a magnificent setting as this?
6926But would it not be wiser to drop the question of right, and receive it as a free- will offering from us?
6926By what right do you drink from my flagon of life?
6926Can there be wrong, hate, fraud, injustice, cruelty, war, in such a lovely, fair world as this before my eyes?
6926Can you believe it?
6926Can you think of a happier life, with its rich intellectual feasts?
6926Did you ever know of such pitiful evasions?
6926Do you know anything about him?
6926Do you know how very grand the judges are when in acto?
6926Do you know that they are then kings, and when the Queen is present they still have precedence?
6926Do you know?"
6926Do you remember adding that"a premium should be offered for men of fourscore, as, with one foot in the grave, they would be less likely to run away"?
6926Do you remember how you used to play with him at Southport, and how he sometimes beat you?
6926Do you see Mr. Hawthorne often?
6926Do you see"The Democratic Review"?
6926Do you still thump dear Mamma, and Fanny, and Una, and Julian, as you did when I saw you last?
6926Does Mrs. Hawthorne yet remember that she sent me a golden key to the studio of Crawford, in Rome?
6926Does n''t it seem as if Nature wore your livery and wished to show the joy of your heart in every possible form?
6926Has Hawthorne seen it?
6926Have you read Froude''s history, just published, from the period of the fall of Wolsey to the death of Elizabeth?
6926Have you seen Mr. Emerson''s"Nature"?
6926Have you seen"The Angel in the House"yet?
6926He did so rather pettishly, and said,"Well, what do you want me to look round for?"
6926He said,"Where is my sword to hold in my hand when I get out of my ship?"
6926His first question was,"Where is Elizabeth?"
6926His sad, sweetly resentful glance had conveyed to me the idea,"Must I still live, if I live beneath my rank, and as a leaser of villas?"
6926How can I convey to you an adequate idea of it?
6926How can I help it if they choose me for an interpreter?
6926How can I help it, if gentle souls, ill at ease elsewhere, wish to rest with you upon the margin of that sleepy stream?
6926How can seraphs be contented with less?
6926I again fiercely inquired,"WHO IS IT?"
6926I am, in haste, E, M. H. DEAR ELIZABETH,--Shall we go to the beach?
6926I made George a visit in the afternoon, in the midst of my battle with headache, and to my question of''How dost?''
6926I went to the door, and not opening it, in a voice of command asked,"Who is it?"
6926If a traveler caught the Sphinx humming to herself, would he not be inclined to sit down and watch her till she did it again?
6926If you have a copy of the"Valley of Solitude"[ one of my mother''s original allegories] will you send it?
6926Is Sophia gone out?"
6926Is it not a wonder that we should meet?
6926Is it not provoking that the author should not have even one penny a volume?
6926Is it not well that I kept fast hold of the white hand of Hope, dear Betty?
6926Is love appreciated?
6926Is not my supper good?
6926Is not that funny?
6926Is not this hot weather delightful?
6926Is there any chance of our seeing you this summer?
6926It is well worth reading; and your mother-- will she like to read it?
6926Lord, when shall we be done changing?
6926Lord, when shall we be done growing?
6926MY DEAR Miss SOPHIA,--Will you accept from my sister Elizabeth Hoar and me the few accompanying prints?
6926Miss Peabody, is that a_ bed?__ Oh,_ how beautifully everything looks!
6926Now have I not given you a fine feast of homage,--"flummery"Mr. Hawthorne calls it?
6926Of course Rome was here, for where did that proud queen not set her imperial foot?
6926Oh, when are we going to Salem?"
6926On such days can you sing anything but,"Oh, beautiful Love"?
6926Perhaps you have heard of Miss Charlotte Cushman, the actress?
6926Shall I tell you where I am?
6926She lifted her smiling face, which must have been very pretty in her youth, and said,"How do you do, Miss Peabody?"
6926So I looked over the books, and what do you think I saw?
6926Sophia writes to Mrs. Mann, then in Washington:--"Is Congress behaving any worse than usual?
6926Then Ada felt quite a different and new power seize her hand, rapidly writing:"Who?"
6926Was ever one so loved?
6926Was ever such a mischief?"
6926Was it not a burning shame that I was not there?
6926Was it not so?
6926Was it not sweet and heroic in her to keep so quiet for two hours?
6926Was it not too bad to disappoint her brother so?
6926Was not he a silly child?
6926Was not that a happy saying?
6926Was not that a pretty dress?
6926Was not that a shame?
6926Was not that delightful for Miss Burley''s ears?
6926Was not that impertinent?
6926Was not that pleasant to hear from him?
6926Was not that rare luck for us?
6926Was not that sweet?
6926What can he ask for more, having Mary for his own?
6926What could be added, in the way of adjective, that would enhance?
6926What is Longfellow about?
6926What is Rome to a frozen clod?
6926What is a garden without its currant bushes and fruit trees?
6926What would the learned and the gifted do if there was no humble one to make the bread that supports life?
6926When will you come back?
6926Whence come you, Hawthorne?
6926Where, oh where is the godmother who gave you to talk pearls and diamonds?
6926Which is the biggest?
6926Who and what is the author; and who buy and who read the audacious( I use mildest epithet) book?
6926Who dares to sneer at that?
6926Who does not feel, without a word to reveal the fact, the wondrous virtue of Catholic religious observance in the churches?
6926Who ever heard of an icicle glowing with emotion?
6926Who would not enjoy seeing a monarch come to so humble a contact with the bulwarks of his tower?
6926Why did not you send Stuart''s Athens by him?
6926Why did not you send the last number?
6926Why did you not express your opinion of The House of the Seven Gables, which I sent you?
6926Why not?
6926Why should not there be religious as well as Political correspondencies?
6926Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of his great allegory-- the world?
6926Will father also look into"Graham''s Magazine"for March, and see whether it contains"Earth''s Holocaust,"and if so, send it to us?
6926Will you ask your brother to dine with us to- morrow?
6926Will you not come hither the last week of this month, or the second week in June?
6926With such a father, and such a scene before her eyes, and with eyes to see, what may we not hope of her?
6926Wo n''t you come to town again?
6926Wo n''t you come to walk to- morrow afternoon with my mother, dear Elizabeth, and then I shall see you a few minutes?
6926Would Mrs. Tappan have responded to Mrs. Ward by a gentler assertion of right than Sophia''s to yourself?
6926Would not that be very terrible?
6926Yesterday we were all there, and met-- now, whom do you think?
4130929th, 1839--6 or 7 P.M._ Blessedest wife_, Does our head ache this evening?--and has it ached all or any of the time to- day?
41309All the time?--Or not at all?
41309Am I not very bold to say this?
41309Am I requiring you to work a miracle within yourself?
41309Am I writing nonsense?
41309And can she not do this?
41309And hast thou been very good, my beloved?
41309And how are your eyes, my blessedest?
41309And how do you do this morning?
41309And how many pages canst thou read, without falling asleep?
41309And is his heart indeed heavy?
41309And now have I anything to say to my little Dove?
41309And now if my Dove were here, she and that naughty Sophie Hawthorne, how happy we all three-- two-- one--(how many are there of us?)
41309And what wilt thou do to- day, persecuted little Dove, when thy abiding- place will be a Babel of talkers?
41309And why was my dearest wounded by that silly sentence of mine about"indifference"?
41309And will my Dove, or naughty Sophie Hawthorne, choose to take advantage of the law, and declare our marriage null and void?
41309And will not you rebel?
41309Are not these details very interesting?
41309Are there any east- winds there?
41309Are they not your own, as well as mine?
41309Are we not married?
41309Are we singular or plural, dearest?
41309Are you conscious of my invitation?
41309Are you quite sure that her own husband is the companion of her walk?
41309Art thou an old woman?
41309Art thou much changed by the flight of years, my poor little wife?
41309Art thou much changed in this intervening time?
41309Art thou not astonished?
41309Art thou not glad, belovedest, that thou wast ordained to be a heavenly light to thy husband, amid the dreary twilight of age?
41309Art thou very beautiful now?
41309Art thou very happy?
41309At length thou wilt pause, and say--"But what has_ thy_ life been?"
41309Beloved, have not I been gone a great while?
41309Belovedest, didst thou not bless this shower?
41309Belovedest, how dost thou do this morning?
41309Belovedest, how dost thou do?
41309Belovedest, if thou findest it good to be there, why wilt thou not stay even a little longer than this week?
41309Belovedest, is thy head quite well?
41309But why didst thou look up in my face, as we walked, and ask why I was so grave?
41309Can Sophie Hawthorne be prevailed upon to let me try it?
41309Canst thou remotely imagine how glad I was?
41309Dearest, art thou sure that thy delicatest brain has suffered no material harm?
41309Dearest, have I brought the tears into your eyes?
41309Dearest, how camest thou by the headache?
41309Dearest, is your heart at peace now?
41309Did we walk together in any such cold weather, last winter?
41309Did you dream what an angelic guardianship was entrusted to you?
41309Did you ever read such a foolish letter as this?
41309Did you lead the vessel astray, my Dove?
41309Did you not feel it?
41309Did you not know, beloved, that I dreamed of you, as it seemed to me, all night long, after that last blissful meeting?
41309Did you yield to my conjurations, and sleep well last night?
41309Didst thou expect me sooner?
41309Do know yourself by that name, dearest, and think of yourself as Sophie Hawthorne?
41309Do not you long to see me?
41309Do not you yearn to see me?
41309Do you not fear, my wife, to trust me to live in such a way any longer?
41309Do you not feel, dearest, that we live above time and apart from time, even while we seem to be in the midst of time?
41309Do you remember how we were employed, or what our state of feeling was, at this time last year?
41309Do you think the perverse little damsel would have vanished beneath my kiss?
41309Do you wish to know how your husband will spend the day?
41309Does Sophie Hawthorne keep up my Dove''s spirits?
41309Does it not appear at least seven years to my Dove, since we parted?
41309Does it seem a great while since I left you, dearest?
41309Does not"I,"whether spoken by Sophie Hawthorne''s lips or mine, express the one spirit of myself and that darlingest Sophie Hawthorne?
41309Does she still refuse my Dove''s proffer to kiss her cheek?
41309Does the joy compensate for the pain?
41309Does thine aunt say that thou lookest in magnificent health?--and that thou art very beautiful?
41309Dost thou dwell in the past and in the future, so that the gloomy present is quite swallowed up in sunshine?
41309Dost thou hoard it up, as misers do their treasure?
41309Dost thou love him?
41309Dost thou love me infinitely?
41309Dost thou love me?
41309Dost thou love me?
41309Dost thou love pigeons in a pie?
41309Dost thou not think she might be persuaded to withdraw herself, quietly, and take up her residence somewhere else?
41309Dost thou not think that there is always some especial blessing granted us, when we are to be divided for any length of time?
41309Dost thou not wonder at finding me scribbling between seven and eight o''clock in the morning?
41309Dost thou sleep well now- a- nights, belovedest?
41309Dost thou still love me, in all thy wanderings?
41309Dost thou sympathise from the bottom of thy heart?
41309Dost thou think it would?
41309Dost thou wear a day- cap, as well as a night cap?
41309For would not that imply that thou wouldst always hereafter be close to his bosom?
41309Has my Dove contributed anything?
41309Has my Dove flown abroad, this cold, bright day?
41309Has not each of us a right to use the first person singular, when speaking in behalf of our united being?
41309Hast thou also been gladdened by an uncouth scribbling, which thy husband dispatched to thee on Monday?
41309Have there not, to say nothing of shorter visits, been two eternities of more than a week each, which were full of blessings for us?
41309Have you been able to flit abroad on today''s east wind, and go to Marblehead, as you designed?
41309How could you disappoint me so?
41309How did you contrive to write it?
41309How do I know it?
41309How does Sophie Hawthorne do?
41309How have you borne it, my poor dear little Dove?
41309How is it that thou hast had no spiritual intelligence of my advent?
41309How is it with thine, mine ownest?
41309How long since didst thou begin to use spectacles?
41309How many times have you thought of me today?
41309How should I, save by my own heart?
41309How was it, dearest?
41309How would my Dove like to have her husband continually with her, twelve or fourteen months out of the next twenty?
41309I kiss you, dearest-- did you feel it?
41309I know not what else to say;--but even that is saying something-- is it not, dearest?
41309I wish there was something in the intellectual world analogous to the Daguerrotype( is that the name of it?)
41309Is it so with you?
41309Is not that queer to think of?
41309Is that impossible, my sweetest Dove?--is it impossible, my naughtiest Sophie Hawthorne?
41309Is the wind east?
41309Is there not a volume in many of our glances?--even in a pressure of the hand?
41309Is thy hair grown gray?
41309Is thy hair turned gray?
41309Is thy weariness quite gone?
41309Knowest thou any such art?
41309Little Dove, why did you shed tears the other day, when you supposed that your husband thought you to blame for regretting the irrevocable past?
41309May I go to sleep, belovedest?
41309Might it not be so?
41309Mine own Dove, need I fear it now?
41309Mine own wife, art thou very well?
41309Mine unspeakably ownest, dost thou love me a million of times as much as thou didst a week ago?
41309Mr. Gannet delivered a lecture at the Lyceum here, the other evening, in which he introduced an enormous eulogium on whom dost thou think?
41309My beloved, why should we be silent to one another-- why should our lips be silent-- any longer on this subject?
41309My dearest, how canst thou say that I have ever written anything beautiful, being thyself so potent to reproduce whatever is loveliest?
41309My dearest, was not that a sweet time-- that Sabbath afternoon and eve?
41309My dearest, why didst thou not write to me, yesterday?
41309My sweetest, dearest, purest, holiest, noblest, faithfullest wife, dost thou know what a loving husband thou hast?
41309Naughtiest, why do you say that you have scarcely seen your husband, this winter?
41309Naughty Sophie Hawthorne-- silly Dove-- will you let that foolish question bring tears into your eyes?
41309Now, dearest, dost thou comprehend what thou hast done for me?
41309October 11th-- ½ past 4 P.M. Did my Dove fly in with me in my chamber when I entered just now?
41309Of what sort, then?
41309Of whom dost thou dream?
41309Oh, dearest, have[ not] the moments of our oneness been those in which we were most silent?
41309Oh, naughtiest, why are you not here to welcome your husband when he comes in at eventide, chilled with his wintry day''s toil?
41309Or is it merely the defect in my own eyes, which can not behold the spiritual?
41309Or would his wife-- most preposterous idea!--deem it a sin against decorum to pay a visit to her husband?
41309Ownest wife, what dost thou think I received, just before I re- commenced this scribble?
41309Ownest, dost thou not long very earnestly to see thy husband?
41309Shall I tell thee?
41309Shall Sophie Hawthorne be there too?
41309Should we be the more ethereal, if we did not eat?
41309TO MISS PEABODY_ Boston_, February 7th, 1840--½ past 3 P.M._ Ownest Dove_, Can you reckon the ages that have elapsed since our last embrace?
41309The Spring is not acquainted with my Dove and me, as the Winter was;--how then can we expect her to be kindly to us?
41309Then is it not our home?
41309Then which of us has gained the most?
41309There are two pictures there by our friend( thy friend-- and is it not the same thing?)
41309To what use canst thou put so much love as thou continually receivest from me?
41309Was it Sophie Hawthorne or the Dove that called it so?
41309Was it Thursday that I told my Dove would be the day of my next appearance?--or Friday?
41309Was not this a sin against etiquette?
41309Was such a rhapsody as the foregoing ever written in the Custom House before?
41309Well, dearest, were ever such words as these written in a Custom- House before?
41309Were you not my wife in some past eternity?
41309Wert thou abroad in the sky and air?
41309What beautiful white doves those were, on the border of the vase; are they of mine own Dove''s kindred?
41309What do you think, Dearest, of the expediency of my making a caucus speech?
41309What is signified[ by] my nap of a whole year?
41309What is to be done?
41309What is to be done?
41309What or who could it have been that I so missed?
41309What possible good can it do for me to thrust my coal- begrimed visage and salt- befrosted locks into good society?
41309What thinks my Dove of this?
41309When a beam of heavenly sunshine incorporates itself with a dark cloud, is not the cloud benefitted more than the sunshine?
41309Which do I love the best, I wonder-- my Dove, or my little Wild- Flower?
41309Which wouldst thou prefer?
41309Why didst thou not scold me?
41309Why dost thou not frown at my nonsensical complaints, and utterly refuse thy sympathy?
41309Why has my Dove made me waste so much of my letter in this talk about nothing?
41309Why will not people let your poor persecuted husband alone?
41309Will kisses have any efficacy?
41309Will my Dove expect a letter from me so soon?
41309Will not my Dove confess that there is a little_ nonsense_ in this epistle?
41309Will not this be right, and for the best?
41309Will not you be glad when I come home to spend three whole days, that I was kept away from you for a few brief hours on Christmas eve?
41309Will she abide it?
41309Will she forgive me?
41309Will she pardon the neglect?
41309Will that satisfy her, do you think?
41309Will you have the kindness to see that these valuable consignments arrive at their destination?
41309Wilt thou again forgive him?
41309Wilt thou know thy husband''s face, when we meet again?
41309Wilt thou never be satisfied with making me love thee?
41309Wilt thou promise not to be troubled, should thy husband be unable to appreciate the excellence of Father Taylor?
41309Would not Sophie Hawthorne fight against it?--would not the Dove fold her wings, not in the quietude of bliss, but of despair?
41309Wouldst thou not have been ashamed of him?
41309Wouldst thou take it upon thyself, if possible?
41309You love me dearly-- don''t you?
41309and go with me wherever I went?
41309½ past 7 A.M.--Belovedest, art thou not going to be very happy to- day?
41309½ past 7 P.M._ Ownest Dove_; Did you get home safe and sound, and with a quiet and happy heart?
12632''What do you do there?'' 12632 ''You know something about Falstaff, eh?''
12632A wot, sir?
12632And so,he said,"you read Charles Lamb in America?"
12632Did the epigram still live in his memory?
12632Did you read the article on your friend De Quincey in the last Westminster? 12632 Do you hear that, Mary?"
12632Have I space to say that I am very truly yours? 12632 Have you any idea of any such person to whom you could recommend me?
12632Have you ever read these novels?
12632How did Guizot bear himself? 12632 How is that, sir?"
12632How''s missis, sir?
12632I am not a hard man, am I, Procter?
12632Is not Whipple coming here soon?
12632Miss me? 12632 Not a bad one, is it?"
12632P.S.--Can you contrive to send Mr. Willis a copy of the prose book? 12632 Think of reading in America?
12632Was it not yesterday we spoke together?
12632Was n''t it good of him,said the old man, in his tremulous voice,"to think of_ me_ before he had been in town twenty- four hours?"
12632Well, my son,says the fond mother, looking up from her knitting- work,"what have you got for us to- night?
12632What are you doing in America? 12632 Who is your fat friend?"
12632Who would risk publishing a book for_ me_, the most unpopular writer in America?
12632_ Who_ is going to elope?
12632''What ages?''
12632( Is that her real name?)
12632After all,--unless one could be Shakespeare, which( clearly) is not an easy matter,--of what value is a little puff of smoke from a review?
12632Ah, dear me, I suspect that both William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson will survive him; do n''t you?
12632Ah, my very dear friend, how can I ever thank you?
12632Am I to return Dr. Parsons''s?
12632And do you think it would be worth while?
12632And how do you like the undertaker?
12632And if I should be gone, will you let poor K---- have one?
12632And is he of any profession?
12632And will you also give him the time and place for Gad''s?
12632Are all people of black blood cruel, cowardly, and treacherous?
12632Are you acquainted with him?''
12632Are you equal to two nights running of good time?"
12632As I do n''t know Mr. Eytinge''s number in Guildford Street, will you kindly undertake to let him know that we are going out with the great Detective?
12632As I rose to take leave he said,--"Have I ever given you one of Lamb''s letters to carry home to America?"
12632B., how many?''
12632But what did he die of?"
12632But what have I to do with politics, or you?
12632But when did the Times do justice to any one?
12632But you will come this spring, will you not?
12632By the by, are they on foolscap?
12632By the way, are you not charmed at the Emperor''s marriage?
12632By the way, when_ will_ you finish the bridge?
12632Ca n''t you arrange it so that two or three or more sheets may be sent at once, on stated days, and so my journeys to the village be fewer?
12632Ca n''t you bring Whipple with you?"
12632Ca n''t you do it in the Transcript, and send her a copy?
12632Can you contrive to send a copy of your edition of"Atherton"to Mr. Hawthorne?
12632Could this be done with the Wonder- Book?
12632Did I ever tell you a pretty story of him, when he was in England after Strasburg and before Boulogne, and which I know to be true?
12632Did I tell you that I had been reading Louis Napoleon''s most charming three volumes full?
12632Did I tell you that they are going to engrave a portrait of me by Haydon, now belonging to Mr. Bennoch, for the Dramatic Works?
12632Did Mr. Whittier send his works, or do I owe them wholly to your kindness?
12632Did ever mortal preside with such felicitous success as did Mr. Quincy?
12632Did not he also like Dr. Holmes?
12632Did you ever spend a winter in England?
12632Did you get my last unworthy letter?
12632Do it, or not?"
12632Do they commit suicide in despair, or wrench open tight drawers and cupboards and hermetically sealed bottles for practice?
12632Do they live in the house where we breakfasted?....
12632Do they sell crabs, shrimps, winkles, herrings?
12632Do you ever reprint French books, or ever get them translated?
12632Do you know him?
12632Do you know one General G.?
12632Do you remember his name?
12632Do you think Mr. Hector Bossange could help me to that, or to any others not printed in the Memories?
12632Does he depend altogether upon literature, as too many writers do here?
12632For a title how would this do:''A Wonder- Book for Girls and Boys''; or,''The Wonder- Book of Old Stories''?
12632Had I noticed George Lafayette especially?"
12632Had he gone down in the drift, utterly exhausted, and was the snow burying him out of sight?
12632Has Mrs. Craig written to you to tell you of her marriage?
12632Has he not invited the world to enjoy the loveliness of its solitudes with him, and peopled its haunts for us again and again?
12632Have they ever been tried in America?
12632Have you happened to see Bulwer''s King Arthur?
12632Have you republished"Alton Locke"in America?
12632Have you seen Alexander Smith''s book, which is all the rage just now?
12632Have you seen Matthew Arnold''s poems?
12632Have you seen"Alton Locke"?
12632Have you seen_ Esmond_?
12632Have you such fancies in America?
12632He looked dismally perplexed, and turning to me said imploringly in a whisper,"For pity''s sake, what shall I write?
12632How can I thank you enough for all these enjoyments?
12632How could he help it?
12632I am writing on the 8th of May, but where is the May of the poets?
12632I asked Mrs. K----, the famous actress, who was at the experiment:"What do_ you_ say?
12632I asked him if he was sure it was n''t''cricketing''state of health?
12632I have rather a distaste to a double title?
12632I hope you may have met with the little touch of Radicalism I gave them at Birmingham in the words of Buckle?
12632I like all that, do n''t you?
12632I noticed that he gazed at them anxiously with fork upraised; then he whispered to me, with a look of anguish,"How shall I do it?"
12632I said,"is he dead?"
12632I suppose Mr. Ticknor tells you the book- news?
12632I trust, my dear Eugenius, that you have recognized yourself in a certain Uncommercial, and also some small reference to a name rather dear to you?
12632I wonder if you ever received a list of people to whom to send one or other of my works?
12632If you can not, will you defer our Boston dinner until the following Sunday?
12632If''The Scarlet Letter''is to be the title, would it not be well to print it on the title- page in red ink?
12632In one of his letters he says to me:--"Did not I suggest to you, last summer, the publication of the Bible in ten or twelve 12mo volumes?
12632In the mean while will you take the trouble to send the enclosed and my answer, if it be fit and proper and properly addressed?
12632Is American literature rich in native biography?
12632Is he a widower, or a bachelor, or a married man?
12632Is he young?
12632Is it Jones, or Smith, or----?
12632Is it any matter under which title it is announced?
12632Is it in woman''s heart not to love such a man?
12632Is it safe, then, to stake the fate of the book entirely on this one chance?
12632Is it so?
12632Is not Louis Napoleon the most graceful of our European chiefs?
12632Is not that delightful?
12632Is not this curious in your republic?
12632Is pickled salmon vended there?
12632Is there any complete edition of his Lectures and Essays?
12632Is this the end of all things?
12632Johnson, how many?''
12632Little Emily R---- read from her book with a chirping lisp:--"O, what''s the matter?
12632M----''s little dog too, Mrs. Bouncer, barked in the greatest agitation on being called down and asked by M----,"Who is this?"
12632Mary B---- began:--"Oft I had heard of Lucy Grey"; Nancy C---- piped up:--"''How many are you, then,''said I,''If there are two in heaven?''
12632May I ask you to give the enclosed to dear Dr. Parsons?
12632May I ask you to transmit the accompanying letter to Mrs. H----?
12632May I have a few copies of that engraving when you come to England?
12632May I inquire the name of the writer?
12632May I put in the story of Washington''s ghost?
12632My youth?
12632Need I say that I like him_ very_ much?
12632Now do n''t you in your own heart and soul quarrel with me for this long silence?
12632Now we have the book, do you remember through whom you sent the notices?
12632Now will you and Fields come and pass Sunday with us there?
12632Or of any such agent here?
12632Seven miles out are the Goodwin Sands,( you''ve heard of the Goodwin Sands?)
12632Shall I go on?''
12632Shall you republish his wife''s new edition?
12632So what is to be done?
12632Soon he burst out with,"Is my nose so d----y sharp as that?"
12632Sweet mother, is it so?
12632Tell me, too, what is become of Mr. Cooper, that other great novelist?
12632That would be an affliction; for what nations should be friends if ours should not?
12632The men taking their stand in exact line at the starting- post, the first tree aforesaid, received from The Gasper the warning,"Are you ready?"
12632The other President goes on nobly, does he not?
12632The oyster- cellars,--what do they do when oysters are not in season?
12632The oyster- openers,--what do_ they_ do?
12632Then quickly stepping into the entry with a roll of manuscript in his hands, he said:"How in Heaven''s name did you know this thing was there?
12632There are very interesting men in this place,--highly interesting, of course,--but it''s not a comfortable place; is it?
12632There was something hideous in the way this woman kept repeating,"Ye''ll pay up according, deary, wo n''t ye?"
12632This can never be the case, surely?
12632Turning to me, Wordsworth asked,"Do you know the meaning of this figure?"
12632Was it because of its fancied resemblance to St. Paul''s or the Abbey?
12632Was there ever such a night before in our staid city?
12632Were ever heard such cheers before?
12632Were not you charmed with the bits of sentiment and feeling that come out all through our hero''s Southern progress?
12632What becomes of all the riches of the soul, the piles and pyramids of precious thoughts which men heap together?
12632What blunder cauthed by chill delay( thee Doctor Johnthon''th noble verthe) Thuth kept my longing thoul away, from all that motht I love on earth?
12632What do you say to my_ acting_ at the Montreal Theatre?
12632What do you say to that profound reflection?
12632What do you say to_ that_?
12632What do you think of Mrs. Gamp?
12632What do you think of a"Fowl de poulet"?
12632What do you think of this incendiary card being left at my door last night?
12632What had become of him?
12632What has occurred since?
12632What if you insert the following?
12632What images do I associate with the Christmas music as I see them set forth on the Christmas tree?
12632What is it called?
12632What is the American opinion of that great experiment; or, rather, what is yours?
12632What is''t that ails young Harry Gill?"
12632What part was De Tocqueville taking in the fray?
12632What place can we fancy for such a reptile, and what do we learn from such a career?
12632What will they administer in such a case?
12632What, for instance, could be more heart- moving than these passages of his on the death of little children?
12632When he pronounced the lines:--"My name on earth was ever in thy prayer, And must thou never utter it in heaven?"
12632When shall you begin that_ bridge_?
12632When will you want it back?
12632Where are Shakespeare''s imagination, Bacon''s learning, Galileo''s dream?
12632Where is the sweet fancy of Sidney, the airy spirit of Fletcher, and Milton''s thought severe?
12632Where would I like to sit?
12632Who does not know Cobham Park?
12632Who knows but that I shall have to add Vienna and Rome to my whereabouts?
12632Who knows?
12632Who was it that thus summoned all this witchery, making such a tumult in young Hawthorne''s bosom?
12632Who was the Mr. Blackstone mentioned in"The Scarlet Letter"as riding like a myth in New England History, and what his arms?
12632Who was this mysterious young person that had crossed his boyhood''s path and made him hers forever?
12632Whose daughter was she that could thus enthrall the ardent young man in Salem, who knew as yet so little of the world and its sirens?
12632Why ca n''t you come and stay a day or two with us, and drink some spruce beer?"
12632Why do n''t you?
12632Why should n''t she have her paper, and I my pleasure, without your wicked, wicked sneers and imperence?
12632Will she succeed?
12632Will you call upon him sometimes?
12632Will you remember me cordially to Sumner, and say I thank him for his welcome letter?
12632Will you remember me to him most gratefully and respectfully?
12632Will you say everything for me to my many kind friends, too many to name?
12632Will you take care that it is duly honored?
12632Will you tell Fields, with my love,( I suppose he has n''t used_ all_ the pens yet?)
12632Will you write to me there, to the care of the Earl of Mulgrave, and tell me what you have done?
12632Would not dear Dr. Holmes have a sympathy with Mr. Dillon?
12632Would not you have been sorry if that pony had died?
12632You are enjoying your holiday?
12632You are not angry, are you?
12632You do n''t happen to have in Boston-- have you?--a copy of"Les MÃ © moires de Lally Tollendal"?
12632You know that his second wife( an excellent one) presented him lately with a little boy?
12632You remember what Mr. Hawthorne says of the appearance of his drowned heroine,--which is right?
12632You''ll excuse east- winds, wo n''t you, if they shake the flowers roughly when you first set foot on the lawn?
12632Your spear- grass is showing its points, your succulent grass its richness, even your little plant[?]
12632[ Is it lawful-- would that woman in the black gaiters, green veil, and spectacles, hold it so-- to send my love to the pretty M----?]
12632and are maturing schemes for coming here next summer?
12632and are still thinking sometimes of our Boston days, as I do?
12632and who is the author?
12632and will you see that those lodging- house people do not neglect him?
12632and will you, above all, do for him what he will not do for himself, draw upon me for what may be wanting for his needs or for his comforts?"
12632brimstone or brandy?
12632from a cousin; shall I secure this prize?
12632or a"Paettie de Shay"?
12632or shall I keep it till you come to fetch it?
12632or"Celary"?
12632or"Murange with cream"?
12632said I to the very queer small boy,''where do you live?''
12632what do I see?
12632what does this mean?
12632what''s the matter?
12632who shall lift that wand of magic power, And the lost clew regain?