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several notes that scholars have identified as autobiographical comments on Whitman's relationship with Peter

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

9Doyle, Peter.

humility's book]1868poetryhandwritten2 leaves; A draft of a poem on the verso of an 1868 draft letter to Peter

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

The Nibelungen vast passions of man, with play of heat & cold & storm, like undercurrents, or volcanos

Bolton Comfort is a character from the play The Irish Heiress: A Five Act Comedy by Dion Boucicault,

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

Bolton Comfort is a character from the play The Irish Heiress: A Five Act Comedy by Dion Boucicault,

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

Conrad, Peter. The Art of the City. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1984. Jackson, Kenneth T., ed.

Whitman's former tone from the "Sun-Down Papers—From the Desk of a Schoolmaster" (1840-1841), where he played

The physique, of course, partakes largely of all this play of causes and effects.

lead and the appetite of gain—even those whose career is the career of prostitution, "pleasure" and play—are

for those inquirers who indeed think that the proper study for mankind is man, with all the strange play

life involves a fine and robust condition of manhood, with every faculty of body and mind in full play

Much of it is to be looked for through a diffusion of more general information upon the subtle play of

would seem as if all the running and walking feats we ever have here in America were mere child's play

should be opened, and the door also, so that the room may become filled with good fresh air—for the play

determination to strive for them, not for a little while merely, but for a long while, at work or play

Indeed, merely to move is a pleasure; the play of the limbs in motion is enough.

Drenching the stomach with it just before, or during a hearty meal, plays the mischief with the digestion

In one of the feet there are thirty-six bones, and the same number of joints, continually playing in

Yet they are always squeezed into boots not modeled from them, nor allowing the play and ease they require

the theatre of Bacchus, in Athens, where the tragedies of Sophocles and the other Greek poets were played

Walter Scott, Daniel Webster, Dean Swift, and hundreds of persons of lesser note, are instances of the play

Because we think a clear and deeply based popular appreciation of the truth, with all its play of causes

See also Whitman's description of "youngsters playing 'base,' a certain game of ball," in an article

Recchia (New York: Peter Lang, 1998), 477. the same may be said of cricket—and, in short, of all games

Boys should be encouraged to play the game.

In country places it is often played with flat stones, or with horse-shoes.

Most of our American cities have grounds where it is regularly played.

See also Whitman's description of "youngsters playing 'base,' a certain game of ball," in an article

training, this error, at least, has become exploded—and he will look on all health and all illness as a play

form for his walking style—but always go with head erect and breast expanded—always throwing open the play

Gluttony, sloth or inebriety must not even once be allowed to dull the perceptions, reverse the play

The full condition of power is attained by him—and the marvellous marvelous effects play invisibly out

At the hinder lower corner of each saddlecloth is a gay, red tassel, which swings to and fro, and plays

The great fountain is playing, and round it is a ring of pleased faces of old and young, watching the

while admitting that the venerable and heavenly forms of chiming versification have in their time played

caste, joyfully enlarging, adapting itself to comprehend the size of the whole people, with the free play

The passionate, teeming plays this curtain hid!)

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

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

conclusions which he draws therefrom, and the remedies which his long experience suggests, come into useful play

warrior, king, full of courage—the usual type‑hero, as seen, duly followed, in all modern novels and plays

Nature's amelioration blessing all" (section 4).This purposive, unified, divine, and beneficent nature plays

In Democratic Vistas, written just a few years earlier, the naturans aspect of nature again plays a major

, He shall be lawless, rude, illiterate—he shall be one condemn'd by others for deeds done; I will play

, He shall be lawless, rude, illiterate—he shall be one condemn'd by others for deeds done; I will play

He shall be lawless, rude, illiterate, he shall be one condemn'd by others for deeds done, I will play

He shall be lawless, rude, illiterate, he shall be one condemn'd by others for deeds done, I will play

without making preparations on a scale in some degree commensurate with the greatness of the stake he plays

This view seems to play out Werner's notion that this "feudal element" was so important that Whitman

And if, as Miller suggests, the muse plays a different tune to the older poet, Whitman never loses sight

count great, O soul, to penetrate the themes of mighty books, Absorbing deep and full from thoughts, plays

There is some humorous play in the sketch.

Paul, and experienced the virtuoso playing of the French violinist Henry Vieuxtemps and the Norwegian

They know that no critic could, by reading a play, evolve a portrait of the man whom an original actor

Yet this by-play of the great actress was such that the audience, looking at her, forgot to listen to

They contain acting editions of the plays in which she appeared, edited by Mrs. Inchbald.

Siddons play this part you scarcely can believe that any acting could make her part subordinate.

The notes on this play will now be given, only so much of each scene being quoted as is necessary to

After supper talk or play cards until bed time.

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

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

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

He laughed when I mentioned Zola in connection with French "delicacy, finesse—an exquisite play"—his

Lust, whiskey, such things, played heavy cards in his game of life.

letter of a literary man but of a man: a man simply possessed of the first impulse to help make fair play

Garland sends me copy of his new play "Under the Wheel"; W. says he has had no copy.

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

He's got that theory—it plays the devil.

of our life in America is indescribably grand, splendid—the life of the people—the masses—the real play

As we approached along the Avenue a band struck up, playing by lamplight, the new moon shining overhead

Everyone manifestly glad to see him back—talk & laughter, band playing all the time—now "Home, Sweet

Has been reading some of the Shakespeare plays. Not a word to either of us today from Wallace.

To think of the great times we have had together—the almost boundless fun, wit, humor, by-play, what-not

It was a holy peace—a quiet passing understanding—my memory meanwhile drowsily playing with all the events