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Search : PETER MAILLAND PLAY
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A Defence of the Christian Doctrines of the Society of Friends

  • Date: After 1838; 1825
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Anonymous
Text:

as it is now; It could as easily have unfolded to him, the counsel of God, as to bid him send for Peter

ordained the use of instrumental means, was it any reason, why Cornelius should reject the teaching of Peter

If when Peter came, Cornelius had said to him, I have the Light in myself–this is all-sufficient for

Robert Southey

  • Date: After 1847; February 1851; September 25, 1847
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Anonymous
Text:

Coleridge was to himself throughout his life, what the Spectre was to the hero of one of Calderon's plays

The Slavonians and Eastern Europe

  • Date: August 1849 or later; August 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Anonymous
Text:

Peter the Great, (1689-1725,) founding the Russian Empire by his genius, had chalked out for his successors

in which all the characters have perished, without leaving a seed behind;—while on its surface is played

Longfellow's Poets and Poetry of Europe

  • Date: After December 1, 1846; December 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Anonymous
Text:

had no niche with its holy image; and because the naked Dryads of Paganism were permitted there to play

Nay, often he plays on the poetic strings with so rich and jewel-loaded a hand, that the sparkling mass

disturbs, if not the playing, yet our hearing of it."

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 | Bucke, R.M. | Burroughs, John
Text:

1921), nature writer, literary critic, and author of Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person (1867); Peter

Whitman and World Cultures

  • Creator(s): Caterina Bernardini
Text:

myths—the interminable ballad-romances of the Middle Ages—the hymns and psalms of worship—the epics, plays

The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires

  • Date: 1890 or later; 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | C.F. Volney
Text:

NEW YORK: PETER ECKLER, 35 F ULTON TREET 26 THE RUINS OF EMPIRES. family against family, tribe against

To suppose that this product of the play of the organs, born with them, matured with them, and which

Lafontaine, born about 1621

  • Date: 1853 or later; 1853
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Charles Knight | Unknown
Text:

good family, inherited some property,—wrote fables in verse— somewhat like Æsop's—also wrote poems & plays—lived

Mrs. Siddons as Lady Macbeth

  • Date: After February 1, 1878; February 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | George Joseph Bell
Text:

They know that no critic could, by reading a play, evolve a portrait of the man whom an original actor

Yet this by-play of the great actress was such that the audience, looking at her, forgot to listen to

They contain acting editions of the plays in which she appeared, edited by Mrs. Inchbald.

Siddons play this part you scarcely can believe that any acting could make her part subordinate.

The notes on this play will now be given, only so much of each scene being quoted as is necessary to

His earliest printed plays

  • Date: 1844 or later; date unknown; after 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | George Walter Thornbury | unknown author
Text:

1 His earl ies t printed plays 1597 Romeo & Juliet Richard 3d & Richard 2d Chapman's trans. of Homer,

1596—his sone son Hamnet died, in the 12th year of his age. 1598 To this year, only five of his plays

"To be or not to be" is taken almost verbatim from Plato— —To the Iliad, every one of his best plays

—"What Pope says of some of the Plays of Shakespeare is probably true of all—that they were pieces of

His earliest printed plays

The Vanity and the Glory of Literature

  • Date: After April 1, 1849; April 1849; Date unknown
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Henry Rogers
Text:

his discourses and in those of much better theologians, if we should ultimately allow the text to play

which in fact they derive, in nine instances out of ten, from the light of genius which he brought to play

in all liberal education, as the masters of language and models of taste, these venerable authors play

A Sermon Preached in the Central Reformed Protestant Dutch Church

  • Date: After July 27, 1851; 1851
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Jacob Brodhead
Text:

In the summer of the next year, Director Peter Minuit purchased from the aborigines, the whole of Manhattan

Whitman's pre-Leaves of Grass Marginalia on British Writers

  • Creator(s): Kenneth M. Price
Text:

"Whitman's Anthology of English Literature," Library Notes [Duke University] 50 (1982), 33-34, and Peter

Whitman Reads New York

  • Creator(s): Kevin McMullen
Text:

calls out to "you precedents," and vows to connect with them, and he describes "[o]ne generation playing

its part and passing on, / And another generation playing its part and passing on in its turn."

Introduction to Whitman's Annotations and Marginalia

  • Creator(s): Matt Cohen
Text:

Van Egmond, Peter. "Bryn Mawr College Library Holdings of Whitman Books." 20 (June 1974): 41-50.

Report of the Special Committee

  • Date: After March 26, 1849; 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Thomas P. Teale
Text:

Naval Hospital, granted by Peter Minuet, first Director General and Governor of New Netherlands.

"To all people to whom this present writing shall come: Peter, Elmohar, Job, Marquiquos, and Shamese,

grant, bargain and sell unto the said Monsier Machiell Hainelle, Thomas Lambertse, John Lewis and Peter

limits before described, unto the said Monsier Machiell Hainelle, Thomas Lambertse, John Lewis and Peter

Louch, Samuel § his mark Davis, John Garland The mark of § PETER, L.S. The mark of O ELMOHAR, L.S.

Elias Hicks Contemporaries

  • Date: After 1870
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown
Text:

years old many of the characters living in 1870 (runs up to 1870) — Swedenborg........1668 1772 104 Peter

Wednesday Evening, June 10

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; 31 May 1856; 10 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown
Text:

The keel-boatmen were great sticklers for "fair-play," and would permit of no interference with either

Henry 8th

  • Date: Undated
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown
Text:

it—the affair of Leisler (1691) printer of the "Weekly Journal," (1735)—the trial of its printer, John Peter

Cultural Geography Scrapbook

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; Date unknown; 1847; 1855; 20 June 1857; 15 August 1857; unknown; 01 October 1857; 13 October 1857; 14 October 1858; 10 October 1858; 15 October 1858; 1849; 09 January 1858; 19 July 1856; 14 March 1857; 06 October 1856; 13 July 1859; 17 February 1860; 12 December 1856; 21 March 1857; 1848; 08 December 1855; 17 August 1857; 05 April 1857; 1857; 26 December 1857; 06 December 1857; 31 January 1857; 28 January 1858; 14 November 1856; 25 May 1857; 07 April 1857; 10 May 1856; 1856; 18 April 1857; 20 May 1857; 25 April 1857; 08 December 1857; 27 December 1856; 12 June 1857; 28 March 1857; 29 March 1857; 25 January 1857; July 1847; 28 November 1858; 21 February 1858; January 9, 1858; December 11, 1857; October 2, 1857; September 12, 1857; 20 December 1856; 05 December 1857; December 26, 1857; January 1, 1858; July 26, 1858; October 26, 1856; October 11, 1857; 30 August 1857; November 2, 1858; January 6, 1858; August 26, 1856; September 16, 1857; 29 December 1857; 07 November 1858; 15 July 1857; 18 December 1857; 20 August 1858; 17 December 1857; 27 January 1858; 20 March 1857; July, August, September, 1849; 26 April 1857; 08 August 1857; November 8, 1858; 26 September 1857; 24 October 1857; 27 July 1857; 26 July 1857; 19 July 1857; 10 August 1857; 25 October 1857; 06 April 1857; 13 June 1857; 11 May 1857; 27 September 1858; 1852; 08 February 1857; 16 March 1859; 28 August 1856; 23 September 1858; 19 November 1858; 29 January 1859; 3 January 1856; 29 August 1856; 31 December 1858; 24 October 1860; 19 April 1858; 4 December 1858; 27 December 1857; 6 December 1857; 17 January 1858; 24 April 1858; 27 December 1858; 25 August 1856; 26 August 1856; 17 January 1857; 11 April 1848; 18 April 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Under the name of Peter Parley he is very favorably known to the masses of society, and his writings

Peters whom we have reason to suspect is the same astronomer who is mixed up with the difficulty of the

Peters for his service and investigations in this branch of astronomical science.

Peter's, Kennebec, Monongahela, Rock, Kaskaskia, Green, Licking, Neuse, Big Black, St.

Peter's; Des Moines; Missouri; St. Francis; Arkansas; Red. 5.

Neibelungen-leid

  • Date: After 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

warrior, king, full of courage—the usual type‑hero, as seen, duly followed, in all modern novels and plays

Slavery

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—Here, at least if nowhere else if anywhere over the whole world, shall be fair play.

225 775 6000 1000 400 32-5-32 3 5 the same right to come that we have, and on the same terms.— Fair play

alarmed about the union of these states; , like all good and noble feelings, it is susceptible of being played

unerringly signified which is the their knowledge of a bogus article from solid gold : The men who played

the great parts in these plays dramas have all, without one single exception, been set aside, without

med Cophósis

  • Date: Between 1852 and 1854
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—Work of some sort Play?

weapons or helmets—all emblematic of peace—shadowy—rapidly approaches and pauses sweeping by— if in a play—let

Talbot Wilson

  • Date: Between 1847 and 1854
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Great latitude must be allowed to others Bring Play your muscle, and it will be lithe as willow and gutta

Whitman and His Poems," first published in the United States Review : "Every move of him has the free play

Poem incarnating the mind

  • Date: Before 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

isolated, perfect and sound, is isolated all all things and all other beings as an audience at the play-house

fire. / From the cinder-strew'd threshold I follow their movements, / The lithe sheer of their waists plays

"Summer Duck"

  • Date: Between 1852 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

. / And acknowledge the red yellow and white playing within me, / And consider the green and violet and

Oliver Goldsmith

  • Date: Around 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

known & better off —then prosperous received sums of £200, £300, £600 &c for his poems, histories & plays

Our own account of this poem, "the German Iliad"

  • Date: 1854 or later
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Peter and St. Michael and the Virgin Mary.— 2 Before the vesper hour, lo!

This list of one week's

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; 16 May 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

C., assignor to himself and Peter Hannay. Gas generators. James A.

One Thousand Historical Events

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Dizzy shock, 1067 16 David played on his harp to drive away Saul's melancholy.

Peter crucified, and St. Paul beheaded. Judge, 66 51 Destruction of Jerusalem.

Time rough, 1348 35 Peter the Cruel came to the throne.

Dutch book, 1697 100 Peter the Great engaged in ship-building.

Dutch pipe, 1699 5 Battle of Narva—Peter the Great defeated.

The Nibelungen

  • Date: 1850 or later; 1850
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The Nibelungen vast passions of man, with play of heat & cold & storm, like undercurrents, or volcanos

Comparison between Homer's Iliad

  • Date: Undated
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Comparison between Homer's Iliad Shakespeare's plays & Leaves of Grass Transcribed from digital images

women

  • Date: Between about 1854 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the poem later titled "I Sing the Body Electric": "The march of firemen in their own costumes—the play

—the vocal performer to make far more of his song, or solo part, by by-play, attitudes, expressions,

edition of The bugle calls in the ballroom—the dancers gentlemen lead out go for their partners—the playing

The fingers of the pianist playing lightly and rapidly over the keys. illustration a man placing his

Review—

  • Date: 23–24 May, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Review— fifes like a tho the thousand whistles of the fifes, (playing Lannigan's ball) so ro with inexpressible

identical with the

  • Date: Before or early in 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

anticipating the description in the following lines: "The march of firemen in their own costumes—the play

Sweet flag

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast" (p. 71).

Out from Behind this Mask

  • Date: About 1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The passionate, teeming play this cur- curtain tain hid!)

The Play-Ground

  • Date: About 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The Play‑Ground.

For there are merry children, the village children come— The cheeriest things on earth, I see them play—I

This manuscript is a draft of the early poem "The Play-Ground," nearly as it appeared in the Brooklyn

The Play-Ground

Annotations Text:

This manuscript is a draft of the early poem "The Play-Ground," nearly as it appeared in the Brooklyn

Bill Guess

  • Date: March 20, 1854
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.— Peter — —large, strong boned youn young fellow, driver.—should guess he weigh ed s 200 180 .

Returning to my pages' front once

  • Date: Between 1871 and 1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The passionate, teeming play this curtain hid!)

far. Amongst this

  • Date: Between 1844 and 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

On the back of the leaf is a draft of Whitman's early poem "The Play-Ground," which was published in

The title "The Play-Ground" is written vertically along the left side of this leaf, presumably labeling

On the reverse of this leaf is a draft of Whitman's poem "The Play-Ground." far. Amongst this

Annotations Text:

On the back of the leaf is a draft of Whitman's early poem "The Play-Ground," which was published in

The title "The Play-Ground" is written vertically along the left side of this leaf, presumably labeling

from digital images of the original.; On the reverse of this leaf is a draft of Whitman's poem "The Play-Ground

The Unexpress'd

  • Date: About 1889 or 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

After the cycles, poems, singers, plays, Vaunted Ionia's, India's—Homer, Shakspere Shakespeare — all

halt in the shade

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.— wood-duck on my distan le around. purposes, nd white playing within me the tufted crown intentional

Annotations Text:

I believe in those winged purposes, / And acknowledge the red yellow and white playing within me, / And

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays, John Hay Library, Brown University

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Text:

The Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays is composed of approximately 250,000 volumes of American

and Canadian poetry, plays, and vocal music dating from 1609 to the present day.

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays

Specimen Days

  • Date: about 1880
Text:

Whitman saw in New York in the 1850s, and who Whitman mentions in the section of Specimen Days entitled Plays

Sweet flag

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Text:

Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast."

Bill Guess

  • Date: March 20, 1854
Text:

This manuscript contains notes about the characters and physical traits of three men: Bill Guess, Peter

What lurks behind Shakespeare's historical plays?

  • Date: 1884
Text:

fol.00003xxx.00465S.b.89What lurks behind Shakespeare's historical plays?

[manuscript], ca. 1884What lurks behind Shakespeare's historical plays?

leaveshandwritten; A late-stage manuscript of Whitman's essay What lurks behind Shakespeare's historical plays

What lurks behind Shakespeare's historical plays?

Two or three memories

  • Date: December 13, 1883
Text:

Whitman referred to Mario in Specimen Days & Collect, published in 1882-1883, in the passages entitled Plays

Notebook, 1868-1870

  • Date: about 1868-1870
Text:

several notes that scholars have identified as autobiographical comments on Whitman's relationship with Peter

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