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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.

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

"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

"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

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

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

Peter Rosenquest, who has been for nearly a generation in the employ of the firm.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Menken played a deposed prince.

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

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

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

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

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

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

by New York University Press from 1961 to 1984 and later supplemented by two additional volumes by Peter

, organized into thirty–seven topics, chronologically arranged (e.g., "Opera Lover," "The 1856 ," "Peter

Peter Lang, 1998–2003; 1 vol. U of Iowa P, 2004. ———. The Walt Whitman Archive . Ed.

political, and other contests surrounding these poems, and the constitutive role these poems have played

or remain in the same room with you, littleyou know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing

Calamus  as a cluster of poems focused on the love between men, “live oak, with moss” played a crucial

Brown and other soldiers he met and cared for in the Washington hospitals, as well as with Peter doyle

Coviello, Peter. “Intimatenationality: anonymityand attachment inWhitman.”

It is obvious therefore that these materials play a certain part in our well-being, and that if they

Young gentlemen will not play ball, or pitch quoits, or wrestle and tumble, or any other similar thing

Things in the asylum is quite lively now the Dances and Plays is in full blast now, And they make the

this it is a very pleasant quiet Sunday—as I sit here by my open window, a lady nearly opposite is playing

All work seem'd seemed play to him.

Ignatius Donnelly will lecture on "The Authorship of Shakespeare's Plays" at the Academy of Music, on

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

democracy.Some critical interest (e.g., Howard Waskow, John Schwiebert) has focused on the roles readers play

Christian (1870–1950) Jan Christian Smuts was an influential South African leader and prime minister who played

All work seem'd seemed play to him.

of my book the ensuing summer —stereotyped—( positively last appearance for the season &c) as the play

should be observed toward President Arthur, who has in some respects, the most perplexing part to play

There is some humorous play in the sketch.

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?

periodical pretends to cater to; but only, instead, put in to do the poet harm, the dull insults of Peter

Bayne—Peter Bayne, the purblind devotee of weak superstition, whose essays in criticism, marked by such

in his age, his poverty, his infirmity, no friend of his could desire a worthier tribute than fair play

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

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

"The Whitman Club in Boston has petered out. It failed because I sat down on it.

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

taken in 1877, then Whitman may have been referring to this image when he wrote from Philadelphia to Peter

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

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

and i was lame and he said if i would get a pint of the best whiskey and put 2 teaspoonfuls of salt peter