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Look at this sturdy child of Nature playing with his mother: Hanging clothes on a rail near by, keeping

They limp, and halt, and start, and leap, and fairly tumble; then mount and play fantastic tricks, sparkle

Peter, yet discern in every error its basis or contingent of truth.

What play of Shakspeare, represented in America, is not an insult to America, to the marrow in its bones

and Fanny Kemble in Fazio, "a rapid-running, yet heavy-timber'd, tremendous, wrenching, passionate play

Fanny Kemble (1809-1893) was a popular English actress and author of plays, poems, and memoirs concerning

.; Fanny Kemble (1809-1893) was a popular English actress and author of plays, poems, and memoirs concerning

Until you are content to pick poetry out of his pages almost as you pick it out of a Greek play in Bohn

A good deal of this is the result of theory playing its usual vile trick upon the artist.

But the Philistines have been too strong; and, to say truth, Whitman has rather played the fool.

animal—and left people to infer that he was some such inspired brute as Jove infurried (sic) , when he played

Every move of him has the free play of the muscle of one who never knew what it was to feel that he stood

William Wycherley (1641-1716) was an English playwright whose plays juxtaposed deep-seated Puritanism

William Wycherley (1641-1716) was an English playwright whose plays juxtaposed deep-seated Puritanism

Grundy is a character from Thomas Morton's play Speed the Plough (1798); by the nineteenth century her

Grundy is a character from Thomas Morton's play Speed the Plough (1798); by the nineteenth century her

is a rational animal, and not like the beasts, which have no sense; and all effort on his part to play

a passage remarkable for its nobility: "With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, I play

not marches for accepted victors only, I play Marches for conquer'd and slain persons.

Bucke, his intimate friend and truly able biographer, who plays Boswell to Whitman's Johnson, reports

Peter Bayne. Among Whitman's personal friends were Bryant and Longfellow.

In his philosophy justice attains its proper dimensions: "I play not a march for victors only: I play

Tennyson;" "Slang in America;" "Father Taylor and Oratory;" "What lurks behind Shakespeare's Historical Plays

while admitting that the venerable and heavenly forms of chiming versification have in their time played

caste, joyfully enlarging, adapting itself to comprehend the size of the whole people, with the free play

The passionate, teeming plays this curtain hid!)

Baconian theory; and more important, to find that he is convinced that the great series of historical plays

"That you are here—that life exists, and identity; That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute

some playing, some slumbering? Who are the girls? who are the married women?

To play at pastoral may be for a while the fashion, if the shepherds and shepherdesses are permitted

stand open and ready; The dried grass of the harvest-time loads the slow-drawn wagon; The clear light plays

dry and flat Sahara appears, these cities, crowded with petty grotesques, malformations, phantoms, playing

The term is taken from the play A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1718) by Susanna Centlivre, English dramatist

The term is taken from the play A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1718) by Susanna Centlivre, English dramatist

arising out of a life of depression and enervation as their result; or else that class of poetry, plays

John Esten Cooke is a Virginian, who early joined the rebellion, in which his State played so prominent

Of course we do not select those which are the most transcendental or the most bold:— "I play not a march

for victors only…I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.

cuts, First-rate to ride, to fight, to hit the bull's-eye, to sail a skiff, to sing a song, or to play

for his picture would answer equally well for a "Bowery boy," one of the "killers," "Mose" in the play

Philosopher (1762), the poem The Deserted Village (1770), the novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), and the play

Philosopher (1762), the poem The Deserted Village (1770), the novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), and the play

I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

What play of Shakespeare represented in America, is not an insult to America, to the marrow in its bones

He sees eternity less like a play with a prologue and denouement…he sees eternity in men and women…he

The most renowned poems would be ashes…orations and plays would be vacuums.

or not he is considered among his friends to be of a sane mind,—whether he is in earnest, or only playing

Even when his expression torments you, the great, surcharged soul that throbs and plays underneath, looks

loosed to the eddies of the wind, A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms, The play

to the open piano and struck with grandeur the opening chords of the Tannhaser overture; having played

prose is verse, and all that is not verse is prose," a line from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1670), a play

prose is verse, and all that is not verse is prose," a line from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1670), a play

Jourdain, in the play of Racine, was surprised to learn from his erudite master in philosophy that for

The character Monsieur Jourdain appears in a play by Molière (1622 - 1673) Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme .

.; The character Monsieur Jourdain appears in a play by Molière (1622 - 1673) Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

Nature plays "for Seasons, not Eternities," as must "All those whose stake is nothing more than dust;

robin, lark, and thrush, singing their songs—the flitting bluebird; For such the scenes the annual play

me over the gaps of the bridge, through impediments, safely aboard"), and would enjoy the stir and play

activity, nor "that other shape of personality dearer far to the artist-sense (which likes the strongest play

dry and flat Sahara appears, these cities, crowded with petty grotesques, malformations, phantoms, playing

rush generally upon it, at least the strong men do—the actors and actresses are all there in their play

you sons of———. " Such the wild scene, or a suggestion of it rather, inside the play-house that night

most flagrant, the idle and unnecessary dislike of the poet to "old romance," to "novels, plots, and plays

ready, The dried grass of the harvest-time loads the slow- drawn slow-drawn wagon, The clear light plays

more of soft astral, but dazzling and fierce, With war's flame flames , and the lambent lightnings playing

All, he says, is sweet—smell, taste, thought, the play of his limbs, the fantasies of his mind; every

The most renowned poems would be ashes, orations and plays would be vacuums.

muscular build, his antecedents here being a race of farmers and mechanics, silent, good-natured, playing

dry and flat Sahara appears, these cities, crowded with petty grotesques, malformations, phantoms, playing

religion, and the democratic adjustments, all these swarms of poems, literary magazines, dramatic plays

He could no more have written the idylls of the King , or a play of Shakespeare than he could have written

arising out of a life of depression and enervation, as their result; or else that class of poetry, plays

Have the old forces played their parts? Are the acts suitable to them closed?"

famously remaked, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play

famously remaked, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play

Suppose, however, he undertook to play the part in a cutaway coat, a plug hat, corduroy trowsers, and

and feelings and ideas that they have taken at second-hand from some one else; custom and convention play