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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.

of my doubts of Shakespeare is in the fact that no two men seem to agree as to what he meant by the plays

senses: it is the great gorge, the canyon, the pass, we meet in the Rockies: it is the sea in its play

remarked, "Holmes is smart enough not to commit himself: he does not seem to take an absolute stand; plays

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

I had found on floor book Rhys had wished me to have, a pamphlet by-play entitled "The Great Cockney

Life’s drama is played there, on a miniature scale, and tears and laughter succeed each other just as

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rejection of false identity ("the sham that was proposed to me" in 1860, originally "the costume, the play

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

Tammany Hall, founded in 1786, was the New York City headquarters of the Democratic Party that played

.; Tammany Hall, founded in 1786, was the New York City headquarters of the Democratic Party that played

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

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

Well, Tom, it looks as though secesh was nearly played o u t-if they lose Charleston, as I believe they

Late in 1865 Whitman met a veteran of the Confederate Army, Peter Doyle, now a streetcar conductor in

Instead ofthat, the Book is the product ofthe largest universal law & play of things, & of that sense

The truth is, Peter, that I am here at present times mainly in the midst of female women, some of them

I also read the Peter Bayne article. 30(It was copied in full here at once, & circulated quite largely

Smith (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 445; John Marenbon, The Philosophy of Peter Abelard

The phrase "not wisely, but too well" is from the Shakespeare play Othello , Act Five, Scene Two.

See The Plays of William Shakspeare , ed. Samuel Maunder (London: J.W.

.; The phrase "not wisely, but too well" is from the Shakespeare play Othello, Act Five, Scene Two.

See The Plays of William Shakspeare, ed. Samuel Maunder (London: J.W.

Two issues that are of increasing critical interest concern the role played by sentimentality in shaping

In the summer of the next year, Director Peter Minuit purchased from the aborigines, the whole of Manhattan

Kaplan's point is borne out by a brief and informative biography of Peter Doyle, Martin G.

Murray's "'Pete the Great': A Biography of Peter Doyle" (1994), which sketches Whitman's relationship

"'Pete the Great': A Biography of Peter Doyle." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 12 (1994): 1-51. 

of Lucrece (1594), and 154 sonnets, this Renaissance poet and playwright remains best known for his plays

, which include histories, comedies, tragicomedies (the so-called problem plays), tragedies (most notably

While he recognized and acknowledged Shakespeare's poems and plays as masterpieces, he at the same time

Shakespeare's works, reading and rereading them and even carrying a copy of the Sonnets or one of the plays

Indeed, Whitman memorized long passages from Shakespeare's plays (especially from Richard II), then "

proposition in the two-volume The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in the So-Called Shakespeare Plays

Bacon-authorship proposal had been launched first in book form—Was Lord Bacon the Author of Shakespeare's Plays

The theory gained prominence through Delia Bacon's The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakespeare Unfolded

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

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

—Here, at least if nowhere else if anywhere over the whole world, shall be fair play.

225 775 6000 1000 400 32-5-32 3 5 the same right to come that we have, and on the same terms.— Fair play

alarmed about the union of these states; , like all good and noble feelings, it is susceptible of being played

unerringly signified which is the their knowledge of a bogus article from solid gold : The men who played

the great parts in these plays dramas have all, without one single exception, been set aside, without

A brief review of how Whitman's attitudes evolved makes clear the significant role slavery plays in his

Peter the Great, (1689-1725,) founding the Russian Empire by his genius, had chalked out for his successors

in which all the characters have perished, without leaving a seed behind;—while on its surface is played

I am a dance—Play up, there! the fit is whirling me fast!

in my dream all the dreams of the other dreamers, And I become the other dreamers. 3 I am a dance—Play

all the dreams of the other dream- ers dreamers , And I become the other dreamers. 3 I am a dance—Play

I am a dance—play up there! the fit is whirling me fast!

I am a dance—play up there! the fit is whirling me fast!

. ☞ The best Companies played here last season to good business.

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

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Once more I enforce you to give play to yourself— and not depend on me, or on any one but yourself, Once

They bathed in the surf, danced, told stories, ate and drank, amused themselves with music, plays, games

They bathed in the surf—danced—told stories—ate and drank—amused themselves with music, plays, games,

They bathed in the surf—danced—told stories—ate and drank—amused themselves with music, plays, games,

A company of strolling musicians stopped and played some pieces for us.

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

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

finds the revision rather pointless because he feels that for all the poet's supposed intimacy with Peter

How my thoughts play subtly at the spectacles around! How the clouds pass silently overhead!

How my thoughts play subtly at the spectacles around! How the clouds pass silently overhead!

How my thoughts play subtly at the spectacles around! How the clouds pass silently overhead!

How my thoughts play subtly at the spectacles around! How the clouds pass silently overhead!

The most renown'd poems would be ashes, orations and plays would be vacuums.

The most renown'd poems would be ashes, orations and plays would be vacuums.

To go to battle—to hear the bugles play and the drums beat!

To go to battle—to hear the bugles play and the drums beat!

loos'd to the eddies of the wind, A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms, The play

From the cinder-strew'd threshold I follow their movements, The lithe sheer of their waists plays even

I believe in those wing'd purposes, And acknowledge red, yellow, white, playing within me, And consider

the common air that bathes the globe. 18 With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, I play

not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons.

loos'd to the eddies of the wind, A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms, The play

From the cinder-strew'd threshold I follow their movements, The lithe sheer of their waists plays even

I believe in those wing'd purposes, And acknowledge red, yellow, white, playing within me, And consider

the common air that bathes the globe. 18 With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, I play

not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons.

Whitman plays with the conventional meaning of the word "prudence" by employing the vocabulary of finance—good