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"The strength that I have is easily played out."

Then again, "I feel thoroughly worn out tonight—as if, in the play of the sailors, I had been paddled

reasons for it—some innate, some political: the anti habit is more or less active in all of it: it plays

Donnelly has made lately a remarkable discovery—that the two folio editions of the plays following the

I asked W.: "There was Nicholas Bacon: what part did he perform in the mystery of the plays?"

Have you the idea that Nicholas was somehow intimately, dynamically, a party to the production of the plays

it is the danger of all us fellows who play with pens: we must all have a care—it is an easy trap to

suggested: "How would you like it for us to arrange to have him come over to see you in the fall, while he plays

To an expression of mine, that Shakespeare was great, but that half his greatness was in the play of

"Take this," he said, "to peter Montgomerie—perhaps it would interest him—or even you by the way."

W. thought that "surely the greatest farce they had ever played in."

If this and that and the other, then Shakespeare did not write the plays!

troubling myself with Faustian problems: I have heard all the Fausts, I may say: Gounod's, others: Faust plays

W. said: "He wrote his plays in trilogies (I have a friend—he always amuses me—calls them trillogies)

She found that he was a distant relative of Bill's—a friend: was playing her face right along: using

It is a complete narrative of Bacon's life and times, regularly underlying the text of the plays, and

servant, Henry Percy, acknowledges to Queen Elizabeth his own authorship of Richard Second and the other plays

sympathy with the Jack Cades or Wat Tylers, would have sent its author at once to the block, and the play

He soars and plays way beyond them all." Would he have anything about Lincoln in the new volume?

I said: "You didn't need to play Emerson: he was on your side without it."

W. said in a fiery voice: "Who the hell talked about playing anybody?"

They played the devil with it over there.

interfusing atmosphere, so to speak, of the Shakespearean, or, as he positively insists, the Baconian, plays

"O'Connor makes much more of that factor in the Plays than I do: warms up a good deal more about it:

"I can now see one of those Italian players: he played E flat cornet, I think they called it: very bright

This man would come to the crucial passages with immense gusto—would often play solo interludes, whatnot

He admitted "Francesca da Rimini" was "much of a play"—adding—"I knew Boker—met him: he had the look

Then he continued: "That made a wonderful good play in its time, did n'tdidn't it?"

Is it necessary to know who wrote the Plays? "No! nor is it.

Warrie went up with me (playing cards with Harry in the kitchen)—W. on the bed.

At times he plays with you with a deliberate, baffling sportiveness."

We heard the best plays, operas, in that way. My early life especially was full of it.

"I remember how well Harry Placide rendered this—he played the character.

for me: never doubted or gone off—that I can count on him in all exigencies: and I think affection plays

Magnificent playing in cricket match on grounds—a patient—Rev.

I asked W. if Ingersoll's part in that was not as necessary as his own—necessary to the play of speech

for something to suggest an acknowledgment to these men, but that 'something' had never come into play

"It is a surprising hubbub he makes, indeed—it reminds me of little children playing with jackstraws

Gleams from the electric light out at the corner would play on his beard occasionally.

You will find his spirit always right—that he's in earnest—that he is not playing his life away."

towards the floor—"was honest—that his integrity was beyond any corrupting influence: that he would play

Tom is not only straight but shrewd: he is a past master in the engineering of corporations: Doctor played

"He did not play Macbeth much.

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

Described the old theatres inimitably—the pit—"There's no doubt the old actors played to the pit, not

Told Brinton more definitely about some of the plays Hamblin "excelled in."

And yet not a shred—not a sign—of one of the greatest of history's great—the writer of plays that have

I do not know that I really care who made the plays—who wrote them.

book—that slanders, flings, hatreds, jealousies, constitute the staple of his motive in making the plays

ShaksperShakespeare the actor as a person and how much less is known of the person Shakespeare of the plays

Did you ever notice—how much the law is involved with the plays?

And there was the other Barrett, too—the play from Boker—'Francesca Da Rimini' he calls it—I mainly held

Then deploring his memory "which plays me crooked more than ever it did before." Friday, May 9, 1890

all then laughingly going their ways again: no scheme, no reward: just the finer human impulse at play

"no" he continued: "I seemed to hear something: it was like a distant rain: my ear, it may be, is playing

And again, "As I have always said, there's an element, margin, play, of uncertainty in every photo: it

said W., "I did, but what I shall say will be short enough: it will not make much of a break in the play

I like that—more than like it: it is few but mighty," playing on a current phrase.

impression of their majesty and beauty: the Canadian Falls especially seeming to testify to the elemental play

s home.Shall long know this day, for its play upon the sense of the sublime.No letter for either of us

In this position the light of the fire played in his beard and upon his face, with a revelation and an

yet After the cycles, poems, singers, plays,Vaunted Ionia's, India's—Homer, Shaks-pere—all times, dotted

Their company is now in the city—have 'A Possible Case'—a play of some sort, of which I know nothing.

Tom, don't play with fire."

were originally Democrats but when the time came we went over with a vengeance: it was no role, no play

Monday, August 20, 1888.W. spent today depressed—physically "played-out like," as he said.

They are not parts of a play—acts one, two, three—or chapters of a romance—that they need to be put together

changes of seasons, why should not they, too, become elemental—finally form a part in the natural play

Think of it—the games they play—the travesty!

To them life is but a game—a play, a frolic, devil-take-the-hindmost business. Who can get on top?

I find my memory sometimes playing me tricks—working a little rusty: I may be saying to myself, 'it was

all—would personally have been as well satisfied if the game had been declared off at any stage of the play

"And about redistributing the poems—giving them new titles: did n'tdidn't that play hob with your scheme

"I suppose there will be an account in to-morrow'stomorrow's papers of the opening of the play house

the notes of a Scotchman—a gentleman: barrister: something or other: going into the pit, seeing the play

Garrick-Garrick was the first to break through the old bonds—he would have insisted that Garrick should play

Hamlet wearing small clothes and a periwig, as it had once to be played.

And then he went into child-like playing over them.