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Search : PETER MAILLAND PLAY

1584 results

Whitman on Grant

  • Date: 26 July 1885
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

yesterday and turned into the unpretentious thoroughfare called Mickle Street, a freckle faced urchin playing

soldier who traversed camp and field as the conquering head of the army while the Camden poet was playing

sonnet I wrote originally for Harper's: " As one by one withdraw the lofty actors From that great play

Sweet flag

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Text:

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

Assurances.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

limitless, in vain I try to think how limitless, I do not doubt that the orbs and the systems of orbs play

Assurances.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

limitless, in vain I try to think how limitless, I do not doubt that the orbs and the systems of orbs play

Assurances

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

limitless—in vain I try to think how limitless; I do not doubt that the orbs, and the systems of orbs, play

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 28 August 1882

  • Date: August 28, 1882
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
Text:

I have been much played out this summer, especially the last month.

A Protest

  • Date: 13 August 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

That game is played out.

Walt Whitman to Thomas P. Sawyer, August 1863

  • Date: August 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Well, Tom, it looks as though secesh was nearly played out—if they lose Charleston, as I believe they

Justus F. Boyd to Walt Whitman, 18 September 1864

  • Date: September 18, 1864
  • Creator(s): Justus F. Boyd
Text:

very pleaseant City They have two or three Theaters going now I was to one of them last evening they Played

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 8 November 1890

  • Date: November 8, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

to me once in N Y, anent old French Revo)—A bad head and belly ache as I end this—the children are playing

Walt Whitman to Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 24 July 1875

  • Date: July 24, 1875
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

enough to realize the deep criticism of Jefferson on Walter Scott's writings, (& many of the finest plays

Monday, May 14, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

The contention reminds me of an incident that occurred in a play in one of the New York theaters in my

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

There was one play (I forget its name) in which Placide carried along a rather odd scene.

Thursday, November 22, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

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.

John M. Binckley to Leander Holmes, 4 November 1867

  • Date: November 4, 1867
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
Text:

Courts, the latter being a species of power incident to the Legislative power of the United States. 1 Peters

Canter , 1 Peters, 542.

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 3, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In the course of the afternoon, Peter Brown, the lately married blacksmith, came over to Thorne's to

"I am told," said Peter, "that there is a fine herd of deer which some of our folks have several times

Simpson, Louis (1923–2012)

  • Creator(s): Schneider, Steven P.
Text:

In his poetry and prose, Simpson has played an influential role in the ongoing "dialogue" between post-World

Saturday, June 28, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

I would not swear I had not acknowledged, for sometimes my poor memory plays me tricks in self-condemnation

Walt Whitman to Harry Stafford, 10 September [1882]

  • Date: September 10, 1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

are over home—I wish I was there with you all— —As I finish my letter a lady opposite is singing & playing

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 4 December 1866

  • Date: December 4, 1866
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

One of my fellow clerks has taken a seat for me, & made me a present of it—the play is "Queen Elisabeth

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 21 November 1889

  • Date: November 21, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

Ignatius Donnelly's The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in the So-Called Shakespeare Plays.

Long Islander

  • Creator(s): Karbiener, Karen
Text:

.: Peter Smith, 1972. Long Islander

Literary Notices

  • Date: 26 August 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Volume I: 1834–1846 (New York: Peter Lang, 1998).

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 4[–5] March [1872]

  • Date: March 4–5, 1872
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Sun Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 4[–5] March [1872]

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 28 March [1873]

  • Date: March 28, [1873]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

papers—he comes & sits a few minutes every morning before going to work—he has been very good indeed—he & Peter

Tuesday, January 14, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Buchanan has a great idea of making money—has written plays, novels.

It is for her Browning writes plays—makes a part for her—to fit her.

Henry Latchford to Walt Whitman, 28 May 1889

  • Date: May 28, 1889
  • Creator(s): Henry Latchford
Text:

When he makes "any kind of a decent deal" at all he just plays with millions—the other fellows witnessing

considerable of the "play" but somewhat less of the millions.

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 25 May 1865

  • Date: May 25, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

beautiful flag )—the great drum corps of sixty or eighty drummers massed at the heads of the brigades, playing

whistling fifes—but they sounded very lively—(perhaps a band of sixty drums & fifteen or twenty fifes playing

Menken, Adah Isaacs (ca. 1835–1868)

  • Creator(s): Stansell, Christine
Text:

Menken played a deposed prince.

Masters, Edgar Lee (1868?-1950)

  • Creator(s): Britton, Wesley A.
Text:

His initial success was followed by a prolific series of poems, novels, and plays.

Hughes, Langston (1902–1967)

  • Creator(s): Britton, Wesley A.
Text:

In a 1946 essay Hughes expressed his belief that, since Whitman had played with slave children in his

Ashton, J. Hubley (1836–1907)

  • Creator(s): Bawcom, Amy M.
Text:

In January 1865, in his capacity as Assistant Attorney General of the United States, Ashton played a

"Orange Buds by Mail from Florida" (1888)

  • Creator(s): Baldwin, David B.
Text:

cooped up and paralytic in his Camden, New Jersey, home, Whitman's isolation and winter loneliness play

Thursday, April 30, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

I barely manage to keep afloat—there is no margin to play with.

Walt Whitman and Warren Fritzinger by Dr. John Johnston, 1890

  • Date: 1890
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

for a full hour, facing the golden sunset, in the cool evening breeze, with the summer lightning playing

Walt Whitman and Warren Fritzinger by Dr. John Johnston, 1890

  • Date: 1890
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

for a full hour, facing the golden sunset, in the cool evening breeze, with the summer lightning playing

Cluster: Leaves of Grass. (1871)

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 4 January 1888

  • Date: January 4, 1888
  • Creator(s): Ernest Rhys
Text:

Dressed as Portia, when a Shakespeare masquerade (in which everyone took some part from the plays) was

North British Review

  • Date: 7 September 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Charles Kingsley’s “Saint’s Tragedy,” Matthew Arnold’s “Merope,” and several lately issued anonymous plays

The Hottest Day

  • Date: 14 August 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The theatres were played out. Ice-cream gardens did a heavy business.

Walter M. Rew to Walt Whitman, [1890–1892]

  • Date: 1890–1892; Unknown
  • Creator(s): Walter M. Rew | Unknown author
Text:

These plays are: (1) The Troubador—who nurses wounded heroes during the war of the Rebellion (2).

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 11–13 January 1889

  • Date: January 11–13, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

from Hamlin Garland, Mass—I still read the "Greek Poets"—S's attempt to explicate the "Prometheus" play

Saturday, January 5, 1889.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

"Speaking of diplomats, did you ever see the play Diplomacy?

Years ago Barrymore was in Philadelphia playing it; he sent me over a lot of tickets: we all went—had

The plot of the play was about a perfumed glove—so trivial, almost silly—yet was a successful study throughout

delicate—very delicate: French, in fact: no one but the French can hit high water mark in such things: the play

Wednesday, May 30, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

"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

Sidney H. Morse to Walt Whitman, 14 March 1888

  • Date: March 14, 1888
  • Creator(s): Sidney H. Morse
Annotations Text:

See Jonathan Mitchel Sewall (1748–1808), Epilogue to Joseph Addison's 1713 play Cato, written for a 1778

production of the play in Portsmouth, New Hampshire: "No pent-up Utica contracts your powers, / But

Minnie Vincent to Walt Whitman, 11 December 1873

  • Date: December 11, 1873
  • Creator(s): Minnie Vincent
Annotations Text:

poetry and historical fiction, and he coined the phrase "The pen is mightier than the sword" in his play

August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue (1761–1819) was a German author who wrote sentimental plays and

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 7 August 1888

  • Date: August 7, 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 6, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Peter Brown was indeed much injured.

sure that the course of 'justice'—were the people allowed to remain with the unquestionable belief of Peter

Brooklyniana, No. 4

  • Date: 28 December 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

For instance, in 1625, the Dutch governor, Peter Minnet, Peter Minnet (alternately Minuit) was appointed

Songs Oversea

  • Date: 21 October 1876
  • Creator(s): McCarthy, J. H.
Text:

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

Days with Walt Whitman: Walt Whitman in 1884

  • Date: 1906
  • Creator(s): Edward Carpenter
Text:

Walt talked about Shakespeare, the Bacon theory, the greatness of the historical plays, the "dragon-rancours

"I will not be positive about Bacon's connection with the plays, but I am satisfied that behind the historical

and far, far reaching, giving weight and permanent value to what would otherwise have been only two plays

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