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think so: maybe: hardly: there were other elements in the story—venom, jealousies, opacities: they played

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)

books about me: not cumbersome—light: carried them in my pocket: Shakespeare, for instance—one of the Plays

respects the most characteristic—I carried it most: I would buy a cheap second-hand book—tear out the play

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

—the play of his imagination quite fine.

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

The tangerines and a book beside him: he played with them. I was happy. He seemed so well.

I heard this in a play: "a walking shadow ending in nothing." W. asked me: "Don't you like it?

"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.

—"Eddy is off to-nighttonight: takes a music lesson once a week: is very fond of music—his violin: plays

if there was not "something" in Eddy and if that "something" could not "be brought out by the free play

apologized—"of course"—here again a reflecting moment—"as to the last point—the highest flights—the latest plays—in

however, is gloomy, looks upon the people with something like despair: does so especially in his maturer plays

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.

"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

Yet the instant the old man sat down and commenced to play everybody would listen—I, too, and Jeff—all

'What might cure Henry may be fatal to Camille': that is a line in a novel or a play somewhere."

I doubt whether I would ever care for the play." Better today.

or afterward to some supper party or carousal made by the young fellows for me, but what amid the play

Tom, don't play with fire."

He is the kind of a man who might play with riches and die poor—though he's mighty comfortable fixed,

In Strasbourg a Prussian band plays magnificently every day at a certain hour but as yet no one has been

Was it a play for an autograph? W.: "I was half tempted to answer it: but I won't write a word."

time for me (in a letter, or when he comes): say it for me: it 'sit's the sort of fire no man can play

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

His memory had "played" him "tricks before," "but never one equal to this."

I picked up a picture from the box by the fire: a Washington picture: W. and Peter Doyle photoed together

C. 1865—Walt Whitman & his rebel soldier friend Peter Doyle."

so called, took a form that could be explained if not justified: the memory is a strange creature—plays

far, and wonderful it is, too: I have seen Marie Wainwright—liked her very much: seen her in Boker's play—Francesca

a good, faithful fellow: and there was a musi-musician cian, too: I used to run round and hear him play

with him, & a mild orgie, just for a basis, you know, for talk & interchange of reminiscences & the play

right relation of man himself, & all his body, by which I mean all that he is, & all its laws & the play

of them, to Nature & its laws & the play of them.

He played a bit with his big penknife. Finally he broke out: "God bless you all, whoever you are!

I looked into half a dozen pages of the preface and the beginning of each of the three plays, in no case

It was at that time, in Washington, that I got to know Peter Doyle—a Rebel, a car-driver, a soldier:

W. said again: "Hugo's immortal works were the dramas, the plays, the poems: least accessible, yet greatest

They had played Raff's "Lenore" Symphony among other things.Evening, 8:00.

As they said in the play I used to go and hear when I was a young fellow there in New York—'let these

Siddons' book about actors, plays?

Hackett did not play it often.

I have seen him many times—liked him best in the plays he plays least, or now not at all—did play in

Scovel once told me of an old play she had heard of or seen—a play in which much hangs upon the saying

It has its part to play in the drama.

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

Then spoke tenderly of Peter Doyle. "I wonder where he is now? He must have got another lay.

He listened intently while Anna played a fine air (and played it finely) on the piano.

He rides less in his chair now to the river—more out in the open, where the boys play ball, the game

The little girl on his lap played with his big hand, his beard—finally, murmuring something, slid down

and played around the chair.

Described minutely 'The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish,' then: "A very good play was founded on this story many

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

Harry, I should say, was one of the greatest actors ever was—not tragic, but in such characters as Sir Peter

He played in 'London Assurance'—Oh! what is the character there?

touches then, wit—flashes of satire—delicate ironies, the vivid effects peculiar to the time, the play

, audience—which would not be what it was to the modern play-goers.

As the boy played with his beard, he said: "Never mind—he is only trying to discover what kind of a critter

Said some one had sent him "Willie Winter's pamphlet about the plays—the address delivered at the playhouse

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

passage or more about Rachel—why it was she was so aroused when going to her room and reading aloud her plays

In shirt sleeves—looked fine—fanned himself from time to time—then would take out his knife—plays with

We discussed thereupon the part suggestiveness plays in art and literature anyway.

March" ode (Nineteenth Century) with the preface: "I have not your Swinburne ear" and this delightful play

mechanics, &c—I quoting the University professor, Young men—learn to do something well—even if it is only playing

I believe in unplugging the day—in inviting freedom—in having the boys play their ball, people go to

The whole subject, Beethoven, and the playing absolutely without note.

by and by the capital will go west—somwhere along the Mississippi—the Missouri: that is the natural play

Every pianist should learn to sing and play the violin; then their ears would hear more critically the

But the average pianist plays by sight only, and has no ears.

pretense of the Bacon Shakespeare fellows that they yet held a card—that there was still a card to be played—a

start with—and all because the writer wanted to be sharp—epigrammatic; for the sake of the epigram he played

Emersonianism leads straight to it, and it is dangerous, Horace—dangerous from the start—it is a playing

I interposed— "How O'Connor would play with Edward Emerson's 'or words to that effect' if he were here

W. responding laughingly— "Yes he would: it would be a sight to dwell upon: he would play Edward sick