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W Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 26 February [1878]
very new in affairs— I get along —Still think of coming to W. for a month or so W W Walt Whitman to Peter
Peter Doyle to Walt Whitman, 20 January 1878
complain of)—Very hot here to-day—bad for yellow fever if prevalent, & continuous— W W Walt Whitman to Peter
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
All work seem'd seemed play to him.
Temperature agreeable even to a still or idle person—no wind, a good deal smoky, birds chirping, children playing
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.