This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
| identifier | question |
|---|---|
| 3673 | Do you think the porter and the cook have no experiences, no wonders for you? 3673 Is America a musical nation?" |
| 3673 | Is there any virtue in a man''s skin that you must touch it? |
| 3673 | 3 What is character? |
| 3673 | A newspaper music column prints an incident( so how can we assume that it is not true?) |
| 3673 | A painter paints a sunset-- can he paint the setting sun? |
| 3673 | And if so, of what will it be composed? |
| 3673 | And then-- what is the soul? |
| 3673 | At such times, shall he not better turn to those greater souls, rather than to the external, the immediate, and the"Garish Day"? |
| 3673 | But is Plato a classic or towards the remote? |
| 3673 | But where is the bridge placed?--at the end of the road or only at the end of our vision? |
| 3673 | But where is the definite expression of late- spring against early- summer, of happiness against optimism? |
| 3673 | But where is the divine substance? |
| 3673 | But, indeed, is not enough manifestation already there? |
| 3673 | Can an inspiration come from a blank mind? |
| 3673 | Can it DO this? |
| 3673 | Can 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? |
| 3673 | Can music do MORE than this? |
| 3673 | Can not some of the most valuable kinds of utility and inspiration come from humility in its highest and purest forms? |
| 3673 | Can you read him today? |
| 3673 | Carlyle would have Emerson teach by more definite signs, rather than interpret his revelations, or shall we say preach? |
| 3673 | Could the art of music, or the art of anything have a more profound reason for being than this? |
| 3673 | Could you journey, with equal benefit, if they were less so? |
| 3673 | Does the progress of intrinsic beauty or truth( we assume there is such a thing) have its exposures as well as its discoveries? |
| 3673 | Does the success of program music depend more upon the program than upon the music? |
| 3673 | For does he not say that"wherever a man goes, men will pursue him with their dirty institutions"? |
| 3673 | For does not Emerson tell them this when he says"What you are talks so loud, that I can not hear what you say"? |
| 3673 | He would have found that painful,"for was he not a part with her?" |
| 3673 | How far afield can music go and keep honest as well as reasonable or artistic? |
| 3673 | How far can the composer be held accountable? |
| 3673 | How many masterpieces have been prevented from blossoming in this way? |
| 3673 | If Emerson''s manner is not always beautiful in accordance with accepted standards, why not accept a few other standards? |
| 3673 | If Genius is the most indebted, how much does it owe to those who would, but do not easily ride with it? |
| 3673 | If it does, what is the use of the music, if it does not, what is the use of the program? |
| 3673 | If nature is not enthusiastic about explanation, why should Tschaikowsky be? |
| 3673 | If so what? |
| 3673 | If so why? |
| 3673 | If there is a weakness here is it the fault of substance or only of manner? |
| 3673 | In how far does it sustain the soul or the soul it? |
| 3673 | Intuitions( artistic or not?) |
| 3673 | Is Classicism a poor relation of time-- not of man? |
| 3673 | Is Emerson or the English climate to blame for this? |
| 3673 | Is a demagogue a friend of the people because he will lie to them to make them cry and raise false hopes? |
| 3673 | Is 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? |
| 3673 | Is his music American or African? |
| 3673 | Is it a matter limited only by the composer''s power of expressing what lies in his subjective or objective consciousness? |
| 3673 | Is it a part of the soul? |
| 3673 | Is it all a bridge?--or is there no bridge because there is no gulf? |
| 3673 | Is it not program- music raised to the nth power or rather reduced to the minus nth power? |
| 3673 | Is it not the courage-- the spiritual hopefulness in his humility that makes this story possible and true? |
| 3673 | Is it not this trait in his character that sets him above all creeds-- that gives him inspired belief in the common mind and soul? |
| 3673 | Is it the composer''s fault that man has only ten fingers? |
| 3673 | Is not our weak suggestion needed only for those content with their own hopelessness? |
| 3673 | Is not the asking that it be made more manifest forgetting that"we are not strong by our power to penetrate, but by our relatedness?" |
| 3673 | Is that a doctrine? |
| 3673 | Now all of these translucent axioms are true( are not axioms always true? |
| 3673 | On the other hand is not all music, program- music,--is not pure music, so called, representative in its essence? |
| 3673 | Or is it enough to let the matter rest on the pleasure mainly physical, of the tones, their color, succession, and relations, formal or informal? |
| 3673 | Or is it limited by any limitations of the composer? |
| 3673 | Ruskin also says:"Suppose I like the finite curves best, who shall say I''m right or wrong? |
| 3673 | Someone says:"Be specific-- what great fundamentals?" |
| 3673 | Something that will help answer Alton Locke''s question:"What has Emerson for the working- man?" |
| 3673 | The composer, the performer( if there be any), or those who have to listen? |
| 3673 | Then the world may ask"Can the one true national"this"or"that"be killed by its own discoverer?" |
| 3673 | Was man governing himself? |
| 3673 | What does it all mean? |
| 3673 | What is behind it all? |
| 3673 | What is the source of these instinctive feelings, these vague intuitions and introspective sensations? |
| 3673 | What part of substance is manner? |
| 3673 | What part of these supplements are opposites? |
| 3673 | What part of this duality is polarity? |
| 3673 | What will you substitute for the mountain lake, for his friend''s character, etc.? |
| 3673 | Whence cometh the wonder of a moment? |
| 3673 | Where is the line to be drawn between the expression of subjective and objective emotion? |
| 3673 | Who can be forever melancholy"with Aeolian music like this"? |
| 3673 | Who knows but this pulpit aroused the younger Emerson to the possibilities of intuitive reasoning in spiritual realms? |
| 3673 | Why 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? |
| 3673 | Will more signs create a greater sympathy? |
| 3673 | Will you substitute anything? |
| 3673 | Would you have the indefinite paths ALWAYS supplemented by the shadow of the definite one of a first influence? |
| 3673 | Would you have the universal always supplemented by the shadow of the personal? |
| 3673 | Would you have the youthful enthusiasm of rebellion, which Emerson carried beyond his youth always supplemented by the shadow of experience? |
| 3673 | You may be near when his stern old aunt in the duty of her Puritan conscience asks him:"Have you made your peace with God"? |
| 3673 | and if so who and what is to determine the degree of its failure or success? |
| 3673 | design to establish a"course at Rome,"to raise the standard of American music,( or the standard of American composers-- which is it?) |
| 51426 | Dost thou still haunt the brink Of yonder river''s tide? 51426 In your intercourse with the dwellers in the great city, have you alighted on Mr. Edward Palmer, who studies with Dr. Beach, the Herbalist? |
| 51426 | Is thy brow clear again, As in thy youthful years? 51426 Nor king, nor duke? |
| 51426 | Then how does he come by his English? |
| 51426 | What bird wilt thou employ To bring me word of thee? 51426 What season didst thou find? |
| 51426 | Where chiefly shall I look To feel thy presence near? 51426 Where is the finch, the thrush I used to hear? |
| 51426 | Who is the speaker? |
| 51426 | Who sings the praise of woman in our clime? 51426 ''Ca n''t we study up something?'' 51426 ''Why should I? 51426 *****Is''t then too late the damage to repair? |
| 51426 | A fellow- sufferer from the same affliction, who lived in Cohasset, was asked, the other day, what in the world he took for it? |
| 51426 | Along the neighboring brook May I thy voice still hear? |
| 51426 | And is fear the foundation of that worship? |
| 51426 | And may I ever think That thou art by my side? |
| 51426 | And was that ugly pain The summit of thy fears? |
| 51426 | Are not the Fates more kind Than they appear? |
| 51426 | But as I am, equally with you, an admirer of Cowper, why should I not prove a sort of unnecessary addition to your neighborhood possibly? |
| 51426 | But as I did not, will you allow me to seek you out, when next I come to Concord? |
| 51426 | But is not their whole process marred by leaving out common sense, by which mankind are generally governed? |
| 51426 | But what do I, or does any friend of mine in America care for a journal? |
| 51426 | Ca n''t you ask her to write it for me? |
| 51426 | Ca n''t you cut it into three or four, and omit all that relates to time? |
| 51426 | Did they wait for his Counsell?" |
| 51426 | Do I exercise the faith in the divine care and protection which I ought to do? |
| 51426 | Do I not withhold more than is meet from pious and charitable uses? |
| 51426 | Do you wish to swap any of your''wood- notes wild''for dollars? |
| 51426 | Does a man deserve to be rewarded for refraining from murder? |
| 51426 | Does anybody still think of coming to Concord to live? |
| 51426 | Does that execrable compound of sawdust and stagnation L. still prose about nothing? |
| 51426 | Dost thou, indeed, fare well, As we wished here below? |
| 51426 | Have I done well to get me a shay? |
| 51426 | Have I not been proud or too fond of this convenience? |
| 51426 | He at once recognized his Concord friend, greeted him cordially with"How do you do, my little rebel?" |
| 51426 | He can keep them as a literary_ curio_, and in his old age amuse himself with thinking,''How could ever I have liked these?''" |
| 51426 | He has a vast many Talents,--is it an easy thing for so Wise a man to become a Fool for Christ? |
| 51426 | His deeds may never be forgotten; but is this greatness? |
| 51426 | How camest thou there? |
| 51426 | How old should you think he was? |
| 51426 | I mean new people? |
| 51426 | I vow-- you-- what noise was that? |
| 51426 | Indeed, what Greek would not be proud to claim this fragment as his own? |
| 51426 | Is anything going on about it now? |
| 51426 | Is fear the ruling principle of our religion? |
| 51426 | Is hope a less powerful incentive to action than fear? |
| 51426 | Is it a bargain? |
| 51426 | Is it not rather the mother of superstition? |
| 51426 | Is the greatest virtue merely negative? |
| 51426 | May he not have a prospect of doubling his Wealth and Honours, if crowned with Success? |
| 51426 | May we depend on you? |
| 51426 | Should I not be more in my study, and less fond of diversion? |
| 51426 | Should we not be likely to find the truth, in all moral subjects, were we to make more use of plain reason and common sense? |
| 51426 | Some have asked,''Can not reward be substituted for punishment? |
| 51426 | Thoreau?'' |
| 51426 | Was I not present to thee, likewise?" |
| 51426 | Was the Lord first consulted in the affair? |
| 51426 | What Demonstration has he given of being so entirely devoted to the Lord? |
| 51426 | What about your book( the''Week'')? |
| 51426 | What do you think of following out your thought in an essay on''The Literary Life?'' |
| 51426 | What images can be more natural, what sentiments of greater weight and at the same time more noble and exalted than those with which they abound? |
| 51426 | What sun shines for thee now? |
| 51426 | When a political pharmacopoeia has the command of both ingredients, wherefore employ the bitter instead of the sweet?'' |
| 51426 | When asked why he did not stop the trespasser, he replied,"Could not the poor man have a tree?" |
| 51426 | Where was George Minott? |
| 51426 | Who can predict his comings and goings? |
| 51426 | Who wonders that the flesh declines to grow Along his sallow pits? |
| 51426 | Why did not Emerson try it in England? |
| 51426 | Will you finish the poem in your own way, and send it for the''Dial''? |
| 51426 | Will you not send me some other records of the_ good week_?" |
| 51426 | Wo n''t you send them again? |
| 51426 | Would it be no advantage to his Estate to win the place? |
| 51426 | Yet what could a companion do at present, unless to tame the guardian of the Alps too early? |
| 51426 | You will see that they apply to himself:"--"Brother, where dost thou dwell? |
| 51426 | and I wonder-- you-- if Henry''s been to see George Jones yet? |
| 51426 | and that nutmeg- grater of a Z. yet shriek about nothing? |
| 51426 | do you make the Lord your Guide and Counselor in ye affair? |
| 51426 | or does it rather consist in the performance of a thousand every- day duties, hidden from the eye of the world?" |
| 51426 | or that his life, To social pleasure careless, pines away In dry seclusion and unfruitful shade? |
| 51426 | so great a man to become a Little Child? |
| 51426 | so rich a man to crowd in at the Strait Gate of Conversion, and make so little noise?... |
| 51426 | the reply was,"Why are you_ not_ here?" |
| 51426 | you-- does he look as if he were two years younger than I?''" |