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19367Why so?
19367And are not men prone to admire in Nature what they have been taught by Art to notice?
19367Do not most of those who look at a romantic landscape imagine themselves wandering among the scenes that are portrayed?
19367How came it that there was any breach between the old and the new?
19367How could the Christians be educated; and how, unless they were educated, could they appeal to the minds of educated men?
19367How dare they spend time on cherishing the painted veil called Life, when their desires are fixed on what it conceals?
19367In poem after poem he returns to the question, Is poetry an escape from life?
19367Is there any more distinctive mark of human quarrels than the eternal triviality of the immediate cause?
19367Must it lull the soul in a selfish security?
19367Thou art a dreaming thing, A fever of thyself: think of the earth; What bliss, even in hope, is there for thee?
19367Was Christianity to be founded barely on the Gospel precepts and on a way of life, or was it to seek to subdue the world by yielding to it?
19367What benefit canst thou do, or all thy tribe, To the great world?
19367What do men really quarrel about?
19367What haven?
19367What if this law be also the law of beauty?
19367What is the most romantic line in Virgil?
19367What was to be done?
19367Who can use the word"romantic"with more authority than Coleridge?
19367Why did not the Romans hand over their literature and teach it, as they handed over and taught their law?
19367Why should they paraphrase old verdicts?
47675''Who knocks?'' 47675 Am I really obliged,"asks the man,"to wear this tattered cloak?
47675Are we,she asks D''Erfeuil,"only to live for what society may say of us?
47675Did Heaven,he asks,"mean to warn me that tempests must always attend my steps?"
47675Do you not mean to learn Italian?
47675What chance have I of success?
47675Why are great powers a misfortune? 47675 Why,"he cries,"must you people, when you speak of a thing, immediately say,''it is stupid''or''it is clever,''''it is good''or''it is bad''?
47675''Who is there?''
47675A Frenchman in_ Corinne_ who calls a learned woman a pedant, receives the reply:"What harm is there in a woman''s knowing Greek?"
47675A vow she has made to God?
47675Am I compelled to swear that Polichinelle has no hump, to believe that Pierrot is an eminently honourable, and Harlequin a particularly serious man?
47675And what is_ Werther_?
47675And what respect for human life were men likely to have in the days when Napoleon yearly made a blood- offering of many thousands to his ambition?
47675And who is_ she_?
47675Are you happy?
47675Are you the man that is always prating about Hercules?
47675But surely art should be for all classes, should unite high and low?
47675But, it may be objected, has he really anything at all in common with Goethe and Rousseau?
47675By the eternal beard of my father, who doubted it?
47675Can I not dispense with these old rags?
47675Did he actually learn anything from them?
47675Do you see what a strange world it is?
47675Do you suppose we lived like brute beasts?
47675Does he love her, or does he only treat her as a man of honour must?
47675Does there float on the whirling torrent which carries us along with it any branch to which we dare refuse to cling?"
47675For virtue?
47675H. And what had you to do attacking them?
47675H. Is it my fault, man, that you have such a narrow- chested imagination?
47675H. That he?
47675H. Vice?
47675H. Where is Wieland?
47675Had they not a past of their own?
47675Have I given what I did not possess?
47675Have you ever seen virtue, Wieland?
47675Have you investigated into the inner significance of the action?
47675Have you traced its causes, divined its inevitability?
47675He feels that his thought and his words are inspired, and where is the boundary between that which is of him and that which is not of him?
47675His name for Frenchmen is_ les vainvifs_ and he asserts that all their actions are dictated by the consideration,_ Qu''en dira- t- on_?
47675How explain the fact that these devout men and women have brought down on themselves a fury of persecution unequalled in the annals of fanaticism?
47675How much in the way of confession may not the remainder of the book contain?
47675How then could a man with a nature like Obermann''s possibly choose a profession?
47675I wonder if God, who created us and our environment, did not die before He finished His work, if the world is not an_ opus posthumum_?
47675I?
47675If I had been a shepherd or a king, what should I have done with my shepherd''s crook or my crown?
47675If I had been a shepherd or a king, what should I have done with my staff or sceptre?
47675If I have no right of decision in the matter of my own death, who has given this right to society?
47675If this be so, if we are intended to imitate each other for ever and ever, why has each one of us been given a soul?
47675In the first place, who is_ he_?
47675Is it absolutely necessary for me either to blacken my face or hide it under this sheep''s mask?
47675Is it possible to fertilise one desert by means of another desert?"
47675Is not his a privileged nature?
47675Is there no help?"
47675Is there, in the dense darkness which surrounds us, any ray of light that we can afford to reject?
47675Is what others think and feel always to be our guiding star?
47675It is the question of the conditions of constancy which is treated of in_ Adolphe_--under what conditions is passion lasting or otherwise?
47675It was her desire to go to America, but that was impossible without a passport, and how was she to procure one?
47675May I not look up into any of their faces, or write on any hand,''I know you, fair mask!''?
47675Oh, if even this desire be a crime, why is it so intimately entwined with every fibre of my being that I can not renounce it and live?
47675Or will he, like Werther, some day cast it from him?
47675Oswald''s principal difficulty in coming to a decision about Corinne is expressed in the words:"Of what use would all that be at home?"
47675Possibly something in your heart rebels against profiting by laws which are the outcome of a Revolution to which you are antagonistic?
47675Speaking of England, Oswald asks Corinne:"How could you leave the home of chastity and morality and make fallen Italy the country of your adoption?"
47675The intelligent, refined Madame Émile de Girardin defended Balzac, answering very justly:"Is it Balzac''s fault that thirty is now the age of love?
47675This was the pantheism which Goethe indicated in the biting epigram:--"Was soll mir euer Hohn Ueber das All und Eine?
47675To the old questions, Why is man born?
47675To what end does it all lead?
47675W. What do you call splendid fellows?
47675What can we make out of a little girl who can do nothing but weep, love, sigh, smile, hope, tremble?
47675What do you mean?
47675What is it that keeps you apart?
47675What kind of life can be based upon a sudden fancy, or upon a lie, or upon a Yes wrung from a woman by fear?
47675What sort of a Hercules is the one you are for ever prating about, and what is it he fights for?
47675What woman could be more beautiful than Celuta?
47675What would you seek in the shades of the forest?
47675What''s the motto again?
47675What, then, is the value of fame?
47675What?
47675Which was"our own religion"?
47675Who else could surround you with the flame which radiates from me even when I do not love?
47675Who, then, are these two characters?
47675Why are we not consulted?
47675Why does he live?
47675Why does he not act?
47675Why have they prevented my being loved?
47675Why is he unhappy?
47675Will he be able to endure life?
47675Will he find in another woman more mind, more soul, more tenderness than in me?
47675You do not know that virtue for which my Hercules does everything, ventures all?
47675You seem to be unhappy, and how, indeed, should philosophy heal the sorrow of your soul?
47675is he faithful, or is he only too proud and too well- bred to show himself ungrateful and indifferent?
47675is not he a prophet hastening through life like a fugitive, a fleeting fire which illuminates, consumes, and vanishes?
47675what hast thou done with thy sister?
47675with so superior an intellect do you not penetrate to what is at the core of everything-- unhappiness?"
15931Are those her sails that glance in the sun Like restless gossamers? 15931 Dost thou reck That I am beautiful, Lord, even as you And your dear mother?"
15931Hernaniopened with an_ enjambement_"Serait ce déja lui?
15931If it were otherwise,he said,"do n''t you suppose that we would have tried Schiller''s''William Tell''?
15931In the mean time,he asks,"what have we got instead?
15931Seest thou not its blue waves above us?
15931What is the use,asked Pugin,"of praying for the Church of England in that cope?"
15931What was it attracted the thousands to the launch? 15931 ( Mais où sont les neiges d''antan?) 15931 And once more, what was that upon her breast--that bosom old-- that bosom cold"?
15931And where, in Fine, in all our English Verse, A Style more trenchant and a Sense more terse?"
15931And why does the picturesque tourist, in general, object to the substitution of naphtha launches for gondolas on the Venetian canals?
15931And why is it romantic?
15931Are we not good enough to paint ourselves?''
15931But the action, the story?
15931But wherefore this?
15931Consider, brethren, shall not we too one day be antiques and grow to have as quaint a costume as the rest?
15931Did she really utter the words of a charm, or did her sweet bedfellow dream them?
15931Did we see it, or imagine it?
15931Does he thereby also weaken it?
15931Down there, have you found any fair Laid in the grave with you?
15931For nature brings not back the Mastodon, Nor we those times; and why should any man Remodel models?
15931For--"Why take the style of those heroic times?
15931His scorn, his grief are as transcendent as his love; as, indeed, what are they but the_ inverse_ or_ converse_ of his love?"
15931How much of it is now done by them; done by anybody?
15931How, for example, can kings and queens who swear be tolerated?
15931Is Tennyson to be classed with the romantics?
15931Is death''s long kiss a richer kiss Than mine was wo nt to be-- Or have you gone to some far bliss And quite forgotten me?"
15931Mais où sont les oeuvres exécutées d''après ce modèle et ces principes?
15931Nay, was not the mariner, too, a spectre?
15931Or did he tell me, or did I only dream it?
15931Or who, in spite of"Balder Dead"and"Tristram and Iseult,"would classify Arnold''s clean- cut, reserved, delicately intellectual work as romantic?
15931The antique Venus is beautiful, admirable, no doubt; but what has spread over the figures of Jean Goujon that graceful, strange, airy elegance?
15931There can be nothing more poetical in its aspect than the city of Venice; does this depend upon the sea or the canals?
15931There is Hawker''s"Song of the Western Men,"which Macaulay and others quoted as historical, though only the refrain was old:"And shall Trelawney die?
15931This being reported to Ward, he asked,"What are mullions?
15931Was Geraldine really a witch, or did she only seem so to Christabel?
15931Was it a wound, or the mark of a serpent, or some foul and hideous disfigurement-- or was it only the shadows cast by the swinging lamp?
15931Was the malignant influence which Geraldine exerted over the maiden supernatural possession, or the fascination of terror and repugnance?
15931What care though striding Alexander past The Indus with his Macedonian numbers?
15931What care, though owl did fly About the great Athenian admiral''s mast?
15931What distinct image of the woman portrayed does one carry away from all this squandered wealth of words and tropes?
15931What does this dreamer of dreams and charming decorative artist in a London police court?
15931What has given them that unfamiliar character of life and grandeur, unless it be the neighbourhood of the rude and strong carvings of the Middle Ages?
15931What is the difference?
15931What is the matter with Morris''poetry?
15931What may not happen to a man alone on a wide, wide sea?
15931What was it that Christabel saw on the lady''s bosom?
15931When shall we learn to see it as it was?"
15931Where can you show, among your Names of Note, So much to copy and so much to quote?
15931Where have you seen a Parterre better grac''d, Or gems that glitter like his Gems of Paste?
15931Who can read the following stanza without thinking of Beatrice and the"Paradiso"?
15931Who has not found pleasure on the seashore in viewing the distant rock whitened by the billows?
15931Who has not spent whole hours seated on the bank of a river, contemplating its passing waves?
15931Why did Ruskin lament when the little square at the foot of Giotto''s Tower in Florence was made a stand for hackney coaches?
15931Why did our countryman Halleck at Alnwick Towers resent the fact that"the Percy deals in salt and hides, the Douglas sells red herring"?
15931Why else do the idiots in"MacArthur''s Hymn"complain that"steam spoils romance at sea"?
15931Why linger at the yawning tomb so long?
15931Why not have called the book, then,"A History of the Mediaeval Revival in England"?
15931Why were ye not awake?
15931Yet what Englishman will be satisfied with a definition of_ romantic_ which excludes Scott?
15931[ 14]"Shall gentle Coleridge pass unnoticed here, To turgid ode and tumid stanza dear?"
15931[ 33] Does not the quarrel of Richard and Philip in"The Talisman"remind one irresistibly of Achilles and Agamemnon in the"Iliad"?
15931[ 41]"Quel est Fouvrage littéraire,"asks Stendhal in 1823,[42]"qui a le plus réussi en France depuis dix ans?
15931_ Cf._"Christabel":"Is the night chilly and dark?
15931for who knoweth What thing cometh after death?"
15931shall I ever tell its cruelty, When the fire flashes from a warrior''s eye, And his tremendous hand is grasping it?"
15931what mortal hand Can e''er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand?"
15931wherefore all this wormy circumstance?
15447''Valancourt? 15447 Dost fear?
15447For me, thus nurtured, dost thou ask The classic poet''s well- conned task?
15447How will I come up? 15447 What are the lays of artful Addison, Coldly correct, to Shakspere''s warblings wild?"
15447What form rises on the roar of clouds? 15447 Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed o''er the head of your loved Lycidas?
15447[ 15]Pray,"inquires the author of"The Champion of Virtue"in her address to the reader,"did you ever read a book called,''The Castle of Otranto''?
15447[ 17]What would become of Chaucer,"he asks,"so maltreated and finally spelt according to modern rules of grammar and orthography?
15447[ 25] Will it be thought too trifling an observation that the poets of this group were mostly bachelors and_ quo ad hoc_, solitaries? 15447 [ 29] The maiden asks her buried lover:"Is there any room at your head, Sanders?
15447[ 46]Kennst dud as Land,"then already?
154471713- 21: Prior(?
15447And again"Can Kent design like Nature?.
15447And continents of sand, will turn his gaze To mark the windings of a scanty rill That murmurs at his feet?
15447And may not the philosophic moderns have gone too far in their perpetual ridicule and contempt of it?"
15447And was it any more classical than the time of Milton, for example, or the time of Landor?
15447And what are Virgil''s myrtles, dropping blood, to Tasso''s enchanted forest?.
15447And where is Emma''s joy, if Henry flies?
15447And who was he?''
15447Because my short- lived joy may cause her eternal sorrow, shall I reject those pleasures sought so long, desired so earnestly?
15447Born_ originals_, how comes it to pass that we die_ copies_?.
15447But call it a movement, or simply a drift, a trend; what had it done for literature?
15447But perhaps you have not read it?
15447But what was correct?
15447But,"Who now reads Cowley?"
15447Did Milton contribute nothing to the harmony and extent of our language?.
15447Do not you hear the fountain?
15447Do not you smell the orange flowers?
15447Does it begin_ in medias res_, as is proper, or_ ab ovo Ledae_, as Horace has said that an epic ought not?
15447Does it bring in the introductory matter by way of episode, after the approved recipe of Homer and Vergil?
15447Does the poet intrude personally into his poem, thus mixing the lyric and epic styles?
15447Dr. F. H. Hedge, in an article in the_ Atlantic Monthly_[9] for March, 1886, inquired,"What do we mean by romantic?"
15447From the context it obviously meant"rock,"but where did Chatterton get it?
15447Has it allegorical characters, contrary to the practice of the ancients?
15447He then repeated some ludicrous lines, which have escaped my memory, and said,''Is not that GREAT, like his odes?''.
15447How can I come to thee?"
15447How can I come up?
15447How can a man write poetically of serges and druggets?"
15447How far did any knowledge or love of the old romantic literature of England survive among the contemporaries of Dryden and Pope?
15447How was one to know, in reading a book, which school it belonged to?
15447If the"Dunciad,"and the"Essay on Man,"are classical, what is Keats''"Hyperion"?
15447In what sense was it classical?
15447Indeed how should it have been otherwise?
15447Is a Gothic cathedral ever really finished?
15447Is it the narrative of a single great action?
15447Is there any more to be had of equal beauty, or at all approaching it?"
15447Is there any room at your feet?
15447Is there anything known of the author or authors; and of what antiquity are they supposed to be?
15447Is"Faust"finished?
15447Is"Hamlet"explained?
15447Nay, nay, We departe not so soon: Why say ye so?
15447Now hear Prior, with his Venus and flames and god of love:"What is our bliss that changeth with the moon, And day of life that darkens ere''tis noon?
15447Or any room at your twa sides, Where fain, fain would I sleep?
15447Or may there not be something in the Gothic Romance peculiarly suited to the view of a genius and to the ends of poetry?
15447Pope was not a sentimental person, yet even Pope had written"The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to- day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?
15447Quaere_, seventeenth?]
15447The dust of controversy has long since settled, and what has its subsidence made visible?
15447The king is introduced in person, and when we hear him swearing"by my Halidome,"we rub our eyes and ask,"Can this be Scott?"
15447The moon shines clear:-- Dost fear to ride with me?
15447The"small voices and an old guitar, Winning their way to an unguarded heart"?
15447Thorpe?"
15447Though he, by rules unfettered, boldly scorns Formality and method, round and square Disdaining, plans irregularly great?.
15447Though the''Henriade''should be allowed to be free from any very gross absurdities, yet who will dare to rank it with the''Paradise Lost''?.
15447To furnish an answer to the question-- What is, or was, romanticism?
15447To him, they expose their difficulties and ask for an answer to the question, What is romanticism?
15447Was this caprice and absurdity in them?
15447What could her father do?
15447What is the result of this generalization?
15447What is there transcendently sublime or pathetic in Pope?.
15447What is true passion, if unblest it dies?
15447What must be done?
15447What yonder swings And creaks''mid whistling rain?"
15447Wheder wyle ye goo?
15447Where are thee manuscripts?
15447Whose dark ghost gleams in the red stream of tempests?
15447Why dost thou build the hall, son of the winged days?
15447Why dream of penetrating the darkness of our origin?
15447William Cole( March 9, 1765),"what was the origin of this romance?
15447[ 13]"What strange vamped comedies, farcical tragedies, or what shall I call them-- speaking pantomimes have we not of late seen?.
15447[ 17]"Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?"
15447[ 2] Was war aber dis romantische Schule in Deutschland?
15447dost fear?
15447have I not heard your voices Rise on the night- rolling breath of the gale?"
15447the dead can ride apace, Dost fear to ride with me?"
15447what have ye done?
48042Are you not pleased that your poems are going out to Canton?
48042But what do I represent? 48042 Do you not know,"answered the teacher,"that we are forbidden to do that?"
48042That terrible, incorruptible judge will say to Goethe: A mighty mind was given to thee, didst thou ever employ it to oppose baseness? 48042 Then thou art of the tribe of Asra?"
48042This is Freiligrath? 48042 Whence comes it that ye love thus?"
48042Why do you not give the preference to one of your own people?
48042[ 10][ 10] You know the meaning of these marks? 48042 [ 14][ 14] Dost know the ancient ballad?
48042[ 31][ 31] The three holy kings from the Eastern land Inquired in every city: Where is the road to Bethlehem, Ye boys and maidens pretty? 48042 [ 3][ 3] What means this lonely tear- drop Which dims mine eye to- day?
48042[ 7] 7: Are there not such things as learned Dogs, and horses too, who reckon? 48042 [ 7][ 7] Who was it sang this song?
48042( Sir THEODORE MARTIN) Why must he weep?
48042--What, where, upon what, with what am I to write?
48042?, evidently addressed to the King of Prussia:"Du weisst, was das bedeuten will?
48042?, evidently addressed to the King of Prussia:"Du weisst, was das bedeuten will?
48042A German, and a freeman-- who could have dreamt it?
48042A man once asked Arua ben Hezam of the tribe of Asra:"Is it true that ye love with a tenderness surpassing that of all other men?"
48042A still more striking instance is to be found in the typical poem of the lonely tear:--"Was will die einsame Thräne?
48042Affecting?
48042Als sein Landsmann, das Kamel?
48042Also fragen wir beständig, Bis man uns mit einer Handvoll Erde endlich stopft die Mäuler, Aber ist das eine Antwort?
48042Am I not right?
48042And besides, had not his son Maria Theresa''s promise to fall back on?
48042And even if he does exist, of what use is an eternal God to mortal man?
48042And is Freiligrath no poet?
48042And then he interrupts himself with a question:"But is there a God at all?
48042And what did the child think on the occasion?
48042And when they try, condemn, and execute himself, from his very grave is heard the question: Why?
48042And, first and foremost, why keep silence?
48042Are not apes all good comedians?
48042Are not nightingales good singers?
48042Are they the years of thy life?
48042Are you republicans or thralls?
48042Believe me, the independence you prize so highly is an uncertain possession; will you, can you retain it?
48042But the justification he offers is most peculiar:"What has gambling to do on the stage?"
48042But what, on closer investigation, is the spiritual substance of the poem?
48042But why write thus?
48042Canst work i''the earth so fast?"
48042Dangers?
48042Das also war dein Ziel auf Erden, Dem stürmten deine Lieder zu?
48042Der König sprach:''Du bist wohl ein Schwab?
48042Did not even the work of his old age, the second part of_ Faust_, end with the wish that he could see a free people on free soil?
48042Did the spirit of his works in any single point harmonise with the royal Prussian or the Austrian imperial spirit?
48042Do they tell of thirty- seven victories?
48042Do you know the proper place for my head?
48042Does the Prussian State no longer protect Christianity, morality, marriage?
48042Du wirst sie mir nicht streichen?
48042For how In what Left service long capacity?
48042For spiritual light or priestly superstition?
48042For the time is at hand when the royal cooks will ask each other:"For whom shall we be preparing dinner to- morrow?"
48042For what is the rock on which virtue splits nowadays?
48042Für Fürstenmacht, für Volkesrecht?
48042Für Geisteslicht, für Pfaffendunkel?
48042Hast du die Schmerzen gelindert Je des Beladenen?
48042Hast du die Thränen gestillet Je des Geängsteten?
48042Hast thou ever lightened the burden of the heavy laden?
48042He himself is, he declares, wiser than all the rest in France, as he was wiser than the rest in Germany; why?
48042He shouted:"Will you promise, while I am striving so to do, to stand by me, in prosperity and in adversity?
48042Heaven gave thee a tongue of fire, didst thou ever champion justice?
48042Hegel himself, who took an interest in the young man, had said to him:"How can any one bind himself to a man like that?"
48042Here, under my cloak, I bring thee thy strong sceptre and thy beautiful crown-- dost thou not recognise me, my Emperor?
48042How can a poet calumniate the word in which lies the germ of all the noblest deeds?
48042How characteristically did he feel joy, or grief, or sadness, or love, or enthusiasm, or cynicism?
48042How deeply did he penetrate into the life of his time?
48042How do you explain that?"
48042How many institutions still presented themselves as objects of veneration and faith to the normal mind of the period?
48042How would you set about it?
48042I ca n''t say_ you_, my heart is too full; canst_ thou_ think anything else possible?
48042I was born for danger; dangers, thick and dark, beset my path, yet I know no fear; are they not my destiny?
48042In Dingelstedt''s fine collection of poems,_ Nachtwächters Weltgang_, we find one with the heading:???
48042In Dingelstedt''s fine collection of poems,_ Nachtwächters Weltgang_, we find one with the heading:???
48042In Dingelstedt''s fine collection of poems,_ Nachtwächters Weltgang_, we find one with the heading:???
48042In what domain was it still possible for a German poet to display fresh, original understanding of nature?
48042Instead of this, what happens?
48042Is it for the power of the sovereign or the rights of the people?
48042Is it not dropsy, the result of all the water- drinking introduced by these new total abstinence associations?
48042Is it possible to be glad when one loves?
48042Is not God melancholy?
48042Is not strong party feeling the mother of all victory?
48042Is not the one in rags, the other clad in silk?
48042Is this justice?
48042Is this the end of all your passionate song?
48042Is your watchword slavery or freedom?
48042Ist der Freiligrath kein Dichter?
48042It may triumph the very day after the fall of Poland; and that would be enough to break one''s heart.... Can there be a God?
48042Liberty can and will triumph, sooner or later; but why not now?
48042My love for you makes me happy; what more could marriage give me, since it could not increase that love?
48042Nur offen wie ein Mann: Für oder wider?
48042On its first page stands: Took service With whom?
48042On what is your present bliss founded?
48042Or again, think of that extraordinarily witty poem"1649- 1793-?"
48042Pfui Freund!--Ein guter, Bürger-- Du?
48042Republikaner oder Knecht?
48042Sahid ben Agba one day asked an Arab:"Of what tribe art thou?"
48042Schreiben Esel nicht Kritiken?
48042Shame on you, my friend I Was this your aim in life?
48042Sind es siebenunddreissig Siege, die er abgekämpft dem Feind?
48042Sind es siebenunddreissig Wunden, die der Held trägt auf der Brust?
48042Sind''die Jahre, die du lebtest?
48042Singen nicht die Nachtigallen?
48042Speak out like a man: Are you for or against us?
48042Spielen Affen nicht Komödie?
48042Surely not on the 500 francs( Cotta''s monthly payment)?
48042The Russian asks Heine:"Are you a good Russian?"
48042The answer to the fourth question: What remains for the Estates to do?
48042The last incident was perhaps suggested by the ending of Brentano''s poem:"Wer hat dies''Lied gesungen?
48042The questions to which any work provides us with answers are such as the following: How far- sighted was the author?
48042The real Freiligrath?"
48042Then comes the end:"Kennst du das alte Liedchen?
48042There''s no disgrace in that, surely?"
48042They were: What did the Estates ask?
48042Thus are we for ever asking, Till at length our mouths securely With a clod of earth are fastened-- That is not an answer, surely?
48042Thus spake the king:"A Swabian art thou?
48042To outbid his friend, Dingelstedt wrote the poem"Hochwohlgeboren,"which begins:"Ein guter Bürger willst du werden?
48042To the question: What right had the Estates to make such a demand?
48042To the third question: What answer did they receive?
48042Und auch Pferde, welche rechnen?
48042Und die Parole: Sklave oder frei?
48042Und wen haben sie gemeint?
48042Was greift ihr zu den Schwertern nicht, Ihr Singer und Ihr Beter?
48042Was it any wonder that his pupils drew their own inferences?
48042Was it any wonder that the following generation drew its own logical conclusion?
48042Was it becoming in his position of life?
48042Was soll all der Schmerz, die Lust?
48042Was this the best way to improve matters?
48042Was werdet Ihr Posaunen nicht, Ihr ehr''nen Orgeltuben, Den jüngsten Tag ins Ohr zu schrein den Henkern und den Buben?
48042Wer besäng''den Löwen besser?
48042What answer did they receive?
48042What availeth its unrest-- Pain that findeth no release, Joy that at the best is dreary?
48042What can be the meaning of it?"
48042What does this mean?
48042What entwined hops and parsley in his wreath of laurel?
48042What good has it done me?
48042What had Goethe''s youthful attitude been but one of Titanic defiance?
48042What had he been, that Schiller whose writings had been put into their hands when they were children?
48042What have you to offer us?
48042What is it that constitutes a great writer?
48042What made him a slave of circumstances, a cowardly Philistine, a mere provincial?
48042What position, indeed, did he suppose himself to occupy, seeing he allowed himself such liberty of speech?
48042What remains for them to do?
48042What right had they to make such a request?
48042What set a night- cap on his lofty brow?
48042What was the good of making enemies for himself?
48042What was there remarkable about it?
48042What will my critics say to this, those critics who called me a bad patriot?
48042When Rahel is told this, she writes:"How can he know that I have feeling?
48042When men go out to fight sparrows with halberts and spears, and use cannons to shoot larks, he asks: Why?
48042When new prohibitory enactments are pasted on the notice- board at the town- hall, a little man comes and reads them and quietly asks: Why?
48042When the priests from their pulpits groan and howl at the sunlight, he asks: Why?
48042Where is your effort to keep pace with the times?
48042Wherefore?
48042Whilst he stood on guard that young man gave expression to the feelings of the day in the song:"Was kommt heran mit kühnem Gange?
48042Who can sing of lions better Than their countryman, the camel?
48042Who is God?
48042Why did Freiligrath take a pension?
48042Why endure?
48042Why grasp ye not your swords in wrath, O ye that sing and ye that pray?
48042Why revere?
48042Why should not you, too, at last think of making a settled position for yourself?...
48042Why trust?
48042Wilhelm Müller, the poet of the_ Griechenlieder_, sings of him with fervent enthusiasm:"Siebenunddreissig Trauerschüsse?
48042Willst du den Namen hör''n?
48042Wofür?
48042Would you gently stroke the crocodile coat- of- mail with your warm hand?
48042Wouldst thou know its name?
48042Write not asses criticisms?
48042You would never dream of erasing them-- four innocent little marks of interrogation?
48042[ 11] You ask me why he lies sleepless?
48042[ 14] We clung to each other- was it to pass the time, or was it in despair?
48042[ 1] What mean these thirty- seven minute- guns?
48042[ 1] Ye knights who have made ready to take part in the great battle of the day, lift your visors and speak clearly: On which side are you fighting?
48042[ 2]"Was, wo, worauf, womit soll ich schreiben?
48042[ 6]"_ Geibel_: Is this you?
48042[ 7]_ I_ honour thee?
48042_ Freiligrath_: Ja, willst du mich kennen?
48042be greater still?
48042ever stayed the tears of the distressed?
48042lieber Herr!"?
48042of attacking the great?
48042of thirty- seven wounds on the hero''s breast?...
48042warum er in Wuth die Spitzen am Hemde zerissen?
48042what achievements do I recall?
48042what do you say now?
48042when?
48042who could have looked for this awakening of the German lyre?
48042who would not, in course of time, esteem the influential courtier?
48042why in his rage he tears the lace from his pillow?
48042will you recognise me?