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Search : PETER MAILLAND PLAY

1584 results

Review. Leaves of Grass (1856)

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

What play of Shakspeare, represented in America, is not an insult to America, to the marrow in its bones

Poem of Walt Whitman, an American.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

stand open and ready, The dried grass of the harvest-time loads the slow-drawn wagon, The clear light plays

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

I play not a march for victors only, I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.

colored lights, The steam-whistle, the solid roll of the train of approaching cars, The slow-march played

Poem of Salutation.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

some playing, some slum- bering slumbering ? Who are the girls? Who are the married women?

Poem of the Daily Work of the Workmen and Workwomen of These States.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The most renowned poems would be ashes, ora- tions orations and plays would be vacuums.

Broad-Axe Poem.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

cherished for them- selves themselves , They fill their hour, the dancers dance, the musi- cians musicians play

Poem of the Body.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

under-hold, the hair rumpled over and blinding the eyes; The march of firemen in their own costumes, the play

what was expected of heaven or feared of hell, are now consumed, Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play

Poem of Many in One.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the praise of things, In the dispute on God and eternity he is silent, He sees eternity less like a play

Sun-Down Poem.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

never told them a word, Lived the same life with the rest, the same old laughing, gnawing, sleeping, Played

play the part that looks back on the actor or actress!

Play the old role, the role that is great or small, according as one makes it!

Faith Poem.

  • Date: 1856
  • 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

Poem of Apparitions in Boston, the 78th Year of These States.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I love to look on the stars and stripes, I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

Night Poem.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Poem of the Propositions of Nakedness.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Let priests still play at immortality! Let death be inaugurated!

Burial Poem.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

his own part, witty, sensitive to a slight, ready with life or death for a friend, fond of women, played

Poem incarnating the mind

  • Date: Before 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

isolated, perfect and sound, is isolated all all things and all other beings as an audience at the play-house

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

"Summer Duck"

  • Date: Between 1852 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

. / And acknowledge the red yellow and white playing within me, / And consider the green and violet and

identical with the

  • Date: Before or early in 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

anticipating the description in the following lines: "The march of firemen in their own costumes—the play

Sweet flag

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast" (p. 71).

halt in the shade

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.— wood-duck on my distan le around. purposes, nd white playing within me the tufted crown intentional

Annotations Text:

I believe in those winged purposes, / And acknowledge the red yellow and white playing within me, / And

An English and an American Poet

  • Date: October 1855
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt
Text:

What play of Shakspeare, represented in America, is not an insult to America, to the marrow in its bones

'Leaves of Grass'—An Extraordinary Book

  • Date: 15 September 1855
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

In his philosophy justice attains its proper dimensions: "I play not a march for victors only: I play

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: September 1855
  • Creator(s): Norton, Charles Eliot
Text:

Of course we do not select those which are the most transcendental or the most bold:— "I play not a march

for victors only…I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.

Walt Whitman and His Poems

  • Date: September 1855
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt
Text:

Every move of him has the free play of the muscle of one who never knew what it was to feel that he stood

wound cuts, First rate to ride, to fight, to hit the bull's eye, to sail a skiff, to sing a song, or play

Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 23 July 1855
  • Creator(s): Dana, Charles A.
Text:

He sees eternity less like a play with a prologue and denouement…he sees eternity in men and women…he

The most renowned poems would be ashes…orations and plays would be vacuums.

Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

He sees eternity less like a play with a prologue and denouement . . . . he sees eternity in men and

I play not a march for victors only . . . . I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.

The most renowned poems would be ashes . . . . orations and plays would be vacuums.

Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast.

I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

Preface. Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

He sees eternity less like a play with a prologue and denouement . . . . he sees eternity in men and

rapport with in the sight of the daybreak or a scene of the winter woods or the presence of children playing

Leaves of Grass, "I Celebrate Myself,"

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

eddies of the wind, A few light kisses . . . . a few embraces . . . . a reaching around of arms, The play

stand open and ready, The dried grass of the harvest-time loads the slow-drawn wagon, The clear light plays

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

I play not a march for victors only . . . . I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.

lights, The steam-whistle . . . . the solid roll of the train of approaching cars; The slow-march played

Leaves of Grass, "Come Closer to Me,"

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The most renowned poems would be ashes . . . . orations and plays would be vacuums.

Leaves of Grass, "To Think of Time . . . . To Think Through"

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

own part, Witty, sensitive to a slight, ready with life or death for a friend, Fond of women, . . played

Leaves of Grass, "I Wander All Night in My Vision,"

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast.

Leaves of Grass, "The Bodies of Men and Women Engirth"

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

underhold—the hair rumpled over and blinding the eyes; The march of firemen in their own costumes—the play

what was expected of heaven or feared of hell are now consumed, Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play

Leaves of Grass, "Clear the Way There Jonathan!"

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

med Cophósis

  • Date: Between 1852 and 1854
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—Work of some sort Play?

weapons or helmets—all emblematic of peace—shadowy—rapidly approaches and pauses sweeping by— if in a play—let

Talbot Wilson

  • Date: Between 1847 and 1854
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Great latitude must be allowed to others Bring Play your muscle, and it will be lithe as willow and gutta

Whitman and His Poems," first published in the United States Review : "Every move of him has the free play

Bill Guess

  • Date: March 20, 1854
Text:

This manuscript contains notes about the characters and physical traits of three men: Bill Guess, Peter

Bill Guess

  • Date: March 20, 1854
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.— Peter — —large, strong boned youn young fellow, driver.—should guess he weigh ed s 200 180 .

A Sermon Preached in the Central Reformed Protestant Dutch Church

  • Date: After July 27, 1851; 1851
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Jacob Brodhead
Text:

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

Letters from Paumanok

  • Date: 14 August 1851
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

And the dark and glistening water formed an under-tone to the play of vehement color up above.

Have you not, in like manner, while listening to the well-played music of some band like Maretzek's,

Sweet flag

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Text:

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

Letter IX

  • Date: 16 December 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Thoughts of the boundless Creation must have expanded my mind, for it certainly played the most unconscionable

Number VII

  • Date: 25 November 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The fountain is playing, and so let us stroll about here a few minutes.

The fountain here plays more frequently than any of the other fountains—at least it is always playing

Number III

  • Date: 28 October 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

A very large majority never entered a theatre or read a play, or saw a piano or any thing worthy to be

that these people might be very intelligent, and very manly and womanly, without ever having seen a play

Letters from a Travelling Bachelor–No. II

  • Date: 21 October 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

See Peter Ross and William Smith Pelletreau, A History of Long Island: From Its Earliest Settlement to

Whitman quotes a conversation between Horatio and Hamlet in Shakespeare's play: "Thrift, thrift, Horatio

Annotations Text:

.; Whitman quotes a conversation between Horatio and Hamlet in Shakespeare's play: "Thrift, thrift, Horatio

Walt Whitman to the Editors of The Daily Crescent, 9 December 1848

  • Date: December 9, 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The play and performances generally were well sustained.....Exhibitions of various kinds—pictures and

Walt Whitman to the Editors of The Daily Crescent, 25 November 1848

  • Date: November 25, 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I should not be much surprised if a dash of Lynch law were to come in play, then, unless the police muster

Walt Whitman to the Editors of The Daily Crescent, 28 October 1848

  • Date: October 28, 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

beauty of the latter place, this fine autumn weather, is the fountain, which they are now allowing to play

the place, who used to count upon walking there during the intermissions, as much as on seeing the play

Walt Whitman to the Editors of The Daily Crescent, 12 October 1848

  • Date: October 12, 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The band played a complimentary tune, and the folks stared at the old hero; but there was no hurrahing

Macready still "goes it s'rong" at the Astor Place; to-night he plays Hamlet—his best performance.

Annotations Text:

William Macready (1793–1873) was a British stage actor, who played Shakespearean roles, including Richard

Walt Whitman to the Editors of The Daily Crescent, 9 October 1848

  • Date: October 9, 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William Macready (1793–1873) was a British stage actor, who played Shakespearean roles, including Richard

Walt Whitman to the Editors of The Daily Crescent, 4 October 1848

  • Date: October 4, 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William Macready (1793–1873) was a British stage actor, who played Shakespearean roles, including Richard

Walt Whitman to the Editors of The Daily Crescent, 2 October 1848

  • Date: October 2, 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Collins continues at the Broadway; Esmeralda at the Park; Hamblin is playing a round of tragedy characters

Annotations Text:

William Macready (1793–1873) was a British stage actor, who played Shakespearean roles, including Richard

Chanfrau (1824–1884) was an actor and theatre manager who, in 1848, played the part of the Bowery b'hoy

Mose in Benjamin Baker's (1818–1890) hit play A Glance at New York in 1848.

Walt Whitman to the Editors of The Daily Crescent, 26 September 1848

  • Date: September 26, 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Forrest played all last week at the Broadway to crowded and applauding houses. Mr.

He is very popular, and really plays better than any Irish comedian at present among us.

Barrett, who will probably play together.

Whichever house they don't play in should forthwith checkmate them by engaging Charlotte Cushman, who

Annotations Text:

Chanfrau (1824–1884) was an actor and theatre manager who, in 1848, played the part of the Bowery b'hoy

Mose in Benjamin Baker's (1818–1890) hit play A Glance at New York in 1848.

an English actor who gained renown throughout New York for his portrayal of Jemmy Twitcher in the play

He played an "English pickpocket" and his performance was considered a "unique and laughable personation

By 1845, Sefton had played Jemmy Twitcher 360 times in New York City.

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