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Much else went on—word after word—and theme playing with theme.

"It makes a good play. Did you know that, Horace? A capital play—with fire and feeling—oh!

It is a sad game to play." Then asked, "You know what hetchel is?

Bannan in Warrie's room playing cribbage.

The spirit has played me against it." Yet asked, "What news with you?

Judith Grace Bassat, Peter Bishop, Cynthia Hill, Kevin Kelleher, Leigh Morfit, Peter and Paula Ingle,

"He did not play Macbeth much.

He rather affected the plays which involved intellect—the more subtle by-playings—Iago-ish characters

And again, "We are players in a play: this is all part of the play, to be welcomed along with the rest

Peter relentless, "We cannot help that."

and Paula Ingle, and Peter Bishop.

It was a brilliant play of wit and eloquence.

It is a great thing to let life play to such measure—spontaneity."

Lusty fire in stove; the flickering flame playing on objects all over the room.

and then, "I have seen the play often; have even seen Booth in it.

Siddons' book about actors, plays?

Hackett did not play it often.

I have seen him many times—liked him best in the plays he plays least, or now not at all—did play in

Scovel once told me of an old play she had heard of or seen—a play in which much hangs upon the saying

It has its part to play in the drama.

They had played Raff's "Lenore" Symphony among other things.Evening, 8:00.

The whole subject, Beethoven, and the playing absolutely without note.

But the average pianist plays by sight only, and has no ears.

He listened intently while Anna played a fine air (and played it finely) on the piano.

and played around the chair.

He spoke of the Richard as "a favorite play" of his.

Were the Shakespeare plays the best acting plays? W. said: "That's a superstition—an exaggeration."

They played the devil with it over there.

O'Connor takes the view that there is something behind the Shakespeare plays—that the play's not the

while play has in it the vehemence of faith.

Ed has a violin which he plays round the house.

W. told Ed: "Play your violin: play it as much as you choose: I like it: when I am tired I will tell

Ed at first played in the next room. I advised him to play down stairs.

O'Connor, is veritably a Peter the Hermit, a Luther."

—the play of his imagination quite fine.

But I, for my part—we—must not play the game with that end in view.

He often plays with his penknife, opening and shutting as he talks.

Lust, whiskey, such things, played heavy cards in his game of life.

I doubt whether I would ever care for the play." Better today.

Tom, don't play with fire."

Peter's. It is grand, grand—O how grand!

They were reviving a whole series of old English plays: very good, staple plays: I saw a good many of

In the plays—the historical plays especially—Bacon sees the basilisk in all his nature and proportions.I

There is much in the plays that is offensive to me, anyhow: yes, in all the plays of that period: a grandiose

Kennedy came along and put in a demurrer, W. resuming: "The Shakespeare plays are essentially the plays

his rank aftera time familiar, contemporaneity; you willsurely see the lambent spiritualflames that play

"Oncere I to charge you give play your self.

He presents you the elements of good and evil in himself in vitalfusion and play; your part to how the

Sin, repentance, fear,Satan, hell, Creation had resulted play important parts. in a tragedy in which

Death is the right hand of God, and evil a also. plays necessary part Nothing is discriminated against

Bush played some for us—from Wagner, Schumann. And in due time we followed Bucke.

My memory plays me the devil's own trips." Will "try" to "have it made ready tomorrow."

s fire throwing out flames and odor (the flame playing its game of hide-and-seek on the western wall)

Described minutely 'The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish,' then: "A very good play was founded on this story many

In Strasbourg a Prussian band plays magnificently every day at a certain hour but as yet no one has been

parades: the good-natured banter everywhere of Cleveland Democrats and Harrison Republicans: the bands playing

It is a great thing to let life play to such measure—spontaneity."

The attempt to trace identity between Bacon and the plays is too thin.

me—grown more into pressure that I can't shake off—that there's a great grave mystery lurking in the plays—unseen

Told W. about the play last night, "The Rivals," and he went warmly into discussion of the old Park Theatre

"It is my final belief that the Shakespearean plays were written by another hand than Shaksper'sShakespeare's—I

W. discussed with Harned some legal features involved in the plays.

There is much in the plays that is offensive to me, anyhow: yes, in all the plays of that period: a grandiose

The first thing necessary is the thought—the rest may follow if it chooses—may play its part—but must

by others, as if risen by instinct from all quarters of the wind, till a magic stream was in full play

out and up the street and then north through Fourth to the railroad—and it continued its reach and play

Someone was sure Peter Doyle was seen somewhere in the crowd, but I saw nothing of him till we had got

The beard combed and not quite freely flowing and playing as of old, but the lips very sweet, not set—and

He said: "You are my right bower: I can't play the game without you." Wednesday, March 27, 1889

His imagination flames and plays up, up, up. It is a grand height!

Century in his mail and a letter from Charlie at Burlington—also letter from Peter Eckler enclosing money

After a pause, "I wish you would write Peter Eckler for me—Peter Eckler, 35 Fulton St.

I find he has no enthusiasm over the best piano playing.

fellows, across the sea and here—there can be no ban: use your judgment—use Kennedy's—let it have its play

After all he had his part to play: he stood for unification, condensation, compactness, nationality—not

Now I rest myself with saying, back of all the plays is a something unrevealed, perhaps the profoundest

You know, I did not get as far as Donnelly's cipher: yet the plays are I am sure full of mysteries in

Thought Symonds' "Democratic Art" was "somewhat like the play 'Our American Cousin'—in which the only

Some years ago I debated with myself whether it was not the thing to play stoic with all the ills—to

were offensive to him: there was something crude, powerful, drastic, in the Shakes-speareShakespeare plays

issued in a different shape—quite square I should like to have it—so as to give your long lines full play

Shakespeare had it—putting his enemies into verse—into a play, what-not.

He spoke of the Richard as "a favorite play" of his.

"It is typical: the most likely, conclusive of the Shakespeare plays."

Then Shakespeare was to palm the plays off as his own? Was that the idea?

Harned said: "The Plays are so great won't they stand alone for all time?"

Were the Shakespeare plays the best acting plays? W. said: "That's a superstition—an exaggeration."

Scovel once told me of an old play she had heard of or seen—a play in which much hangs upon the saying

—"Eddy is off to-nighttonight: takes a music lesson once a week: is very fond of music—his violin: plays

if there was not "something" in Eddy and if that "something" could not "be brought out by the free play

apologized—"of course"—here again a reflecting moment—"as to the last point—the highest flights—the latest plays—in

however, is gloomy, looks upon the people with something like despair: does so especially in his maturer plays

His memory had "played" him "tricks before," "but never one equal to this."

I picked up a picture from the box by the fire: a Washington picture: W. and Peter Doyle photoed together

C. 1865—Walt Whitman & his rebel soldier friend Peter Doyle."

so called, took a form that could be explained if not justified: the memory is a strange creature—plays

me, I get nearer to them, than any others: they have no axe to grind, no wires to pull, no game to play

When he heard I was going out to see Peter Montgomerie tonight, he would have me take papers—putting

Farrell wishes me to ask if you will not find an early opportunity to write a line to Peter Eckler of

How often I have heard him argue that the plays were no defense of feudalism—that no man who meant to

Yes, that the writer of the plays, whoever, could have been no friend of the great figures even of feudal

To William O'Connor that was the spirit which moved the writer of the plays."

Alluded to Castle with considerable affection—"he plays, I see—and who else, do you know?"

W. himself very philosophical over it, said, "This is not the first time I have been played with—I could

Lychenheim sent W. back by Ed a book of the play. Wednesday, August 7, 1889

And so "I sit here, let the elements play about me—see what they will bring about."

In the play, talk, walk, the same air, carried along without a break."

had written me that Bob was wrong about Bacon: "take my word for it, Shakespeare never wrote those plays

Then as to the plays, "Don't be too sure, Doctor—don't be too sure!

early days, Julius was always the name and there was a hilarious common joy and wit about the whole by-play

and play of the men which attracted me."

"There was a time, Horace, when that fellow was among the good of the heap—for some years he played good

parts—played them well—say two or four years—Caesar, for instance.

The whole subject, Beethoven, and the playing absolutely without note.

It has its part to play in the drama.

Told him of Montaigne's cat, whose playing induced M.Montaigne to remark: "She amuses me: who knows but

They had played Raff's "Lenore" Symphony among other things.Evening, 8:00.