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Search : PETER MAILLAND PLAY

1584 results

Lent

  • Date: 6 March 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The number forty seems to have played an important part in theological history.

"Legend of Life and Love, A" (1842)

  • Creator(s): McGuire, Patrick
Text:

Allen sees the grandfather in this story as a variation on the cruel father theme that plays through

"Leaving it to you to prove and define": "Poets to Come" and Whitman's German Translators

  • Creator(s): Walter Grünzweig | Vanessa Steinroetter
Text:

Whitman played an important role in the friendship of the two men.

'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

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: The Sesquicentennial Essays

  • Date: 2007
  • Creator(s): Belasco, Susan | Folsom, Ed | Price, Kenneth M.
Text:

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

Miller Jr., Colleen Lamos, Wayne Koestenbaum, and John Peter.

See also Peter, “Postscript (1969),” 165–66; and James E.

Peter also discusses canto 26 (“Postscript [1969],” 170).

Bellis, Peter J. “Whitman in 1855: Against Representation.”

Leaves of Grass. The Poems of Walt Whitman [Selected]

  • Date: 1886
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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!

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

I love to look on the Stars and Stripes, I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

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

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, "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, "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, "Clear the Way There Jonathan!"

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

I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

Leaves of Grass 7

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • 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

Leaves of Grass 4

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the openings, and the pink turf, Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white, and gold—the play

Leaves of Grass, 1881–82 edition

  • Creator(s): Renner, Dennis K.
Text:

Whitman explains the function of the "Passage to India" cluster in this way: "As in some ancient legend-play

Leaves of Grass, 1876, Author's Edition

  • Creator(s): Keuling-Stout, Frances E.
Text:

he unceremoniously exited Washington for Camden, which left him separated from his intimate friend, Peter

Leaves of Grass 16

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the openings, and the pink turf, Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white, and gold—the play

Leaves of Grass (1891–1892)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

- ing playing within me.

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

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

The passionate teeming plays this curtain hid!)

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

Leaves of Grass (1881–1882)

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

- ing playing within me.

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

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

The passionate teeming plays this curtain hid!)

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

Leaves of Grass (1871)

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

some playing, some slumbering? Who are the girls? who are the married women?

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

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

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

Let the priest still play at immortality! Let death be inaugurated!

Leaves of Grass (1867)

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

some playing, some slumbering? Who are the girls? who are the married women?

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

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

to hear the bugles play, and the drums beat! To hear the crash of artillery!

Let the priest still play at immortality! Let death be inaugurated!

Leaves of Grass (1860–1861)

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I play not here marches for victors only—I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.

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

to hear the bugles play, and the drums beat! To hear the artillery!

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

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

Leaves of Grass (1856)

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

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

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!

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

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

Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

1991), 28-103; Jay Grossman, " Manuprint " ( Walt Whitman Quarterly Review , 37.1 [2019], 46–65); and Peter

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.

Play up there! the fit is whirling me fast.

I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.

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.

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 15 March 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
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

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 7 July 1860
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

William Wycherley (1641-1716) was an English playwright whose plays juxtaposed deep-seated Puritanism

Annotations Text:

William Wycherley (1641-1716) was an English playwright whose plays juxtaposed deep-seated Puritanism

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: 26 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Grundy is a character from Thomas Morton's play Speed the Plough (1798); by the nineteenth century her

Annotations Text:

Grundy is a character from Thomas Morton's play Speed the Plough (1798); by the nineteenth century her

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: February 1882
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

is a rational animal, and not like the beasts, which have no sense; and all effort on his part to play

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: 13 November 1881
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

a passage remarkable for its nobility: "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.

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: September 1887
  • Creator(s): Lewin, Walter
Text:

Bucke, his intimate friend and truly able biographer, who plays Boswell to Whitman's Johnson, reports

Peter Bayne. Among Whitman's personal friends were Bryant and Longfellow.

Lawrence, Kansas

  • Creator(s): Schroeder, Steven
Text:

Its history from 1854 to the time of Whitman's visit was a crucible for the struggle that played such

The Latest and Grandest Humbug

  • Date: 8 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

The Late Riots

  • Date: 15 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Last Evening

  • Date: 12 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

[New York: Peter Lang Publishers, 1998], 1: 222).

The whole of this manœuvre is about as bungling and poorly worked a game as we ever saw played.

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

Lafontaine, born about 1621

  • Date: 1853 or later; 1853
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Charles Knight | Unknown
Text:

good family, inherited some property,—wrote fables in verse— somewhat like Æsop's—also wrote poems & plays—lived

Kivas Tully to Walt Whitman, 4 August 1880

  • Date: August 4, 1880
  • Creator(s): Kivas Tully
Text:

Peter immediately west of Three Rivers, so that vessels drawing 20 feet of water can ascend the river

Justus F. Boyd to Walt Whitman, 18 September 1864

  • Date: September 18, 1864
  • Creator(s): Justus F. Boyd
Text:

very pleaseant City They have two or three Theaters going now I was to one of them last evening they Played

Julius Bing to Walt Whitman, 21 January 1869

  • Date: January 21, 1869
  • Creator(s): Julius Bing
Text:

Immense Caravanserais starting from all lands for several centuries, inspire by rapt men—Peter the Hermit

Popes, Bishops; Christ Peter the Hermit Walter the Pennyless Godefroi de Bouillon Richard Coeur de Lion

Saviour's tomb Columbus was its immaculate conception and a new world thus linked with old Palestine Peter

Joyce, James (1882–1941)

  • Creator(s): Moore, Andy J.
Text:

echoes and phrases from "Song of Myself": "I have heard the melodious harp / On the streets of Cork playing

Journalism, Whitman's

  • Creator(s): Killingsworth, M. Jimmie
Text:

punishment, temperance, slavery, and health issues; and literature and the arts, including reviews of plays

Josie Morse to Walt Whitman, 22 November 1875

  • Date: November 22, 1875
  • Creator(s): Josie Morse
Text:

Whitman pasted this letter together with a letter he received from Peter Doyle.

John Newton Johnson to Walt Whitman, 3 April [1875]

  • Date: April 3, [1875]
  • Creator(s): John Newton Johnson
Text:

out of money— we put my boo flag) on top our house fap flap we will bin bring big fiddles too, for play

John Newton Johnson to Walt Whitman, 16 September 1877

  • Date: September 16, 1877
  • Creator(s): John Newton Johnson
Text:

.☞ They scared me tho' , and made me think "God" would rather do so than not—to "play the Devil with"

John Newton Johnson to Walt Whitman, 14 March [1878]

  • Date: March 14, 1878
  • Creator(s): John Newton Johnson
Text:

Temperature agreeable even to a still or idle person—no wind, a good deal smoky, birds chirping, children playing

John M. Binckley to Ulysses S. Grant, 15 August 1867

  • Date: August 15, 1867
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
Text:

States a good and valid Title in fee to said Lot. 2; That the proposed conveyance of Lot 64, from Peter

Wright, to which reference is made in a Deed of said Lot from Henry Thalimer to the said Peter, dated

John M. Binckley to Leander Holmes, 4 November 1867

  • Date: November 4, 1867
  • Creator(s): John M. Binckley | Walt Whitman
Text:

Courts, the latter being a species of power incident to the Legislative power of the United States. 1 Peters

Canter , 1 Peters, 542.

John H. Johnston to Walt Whitman, 30 November 1891

  • Date: November 30, 1891
  • Creator(s): John H. Johnston
Text:

Giacosa —the Shakspear of Italy—whose Play on Wed. night at the Standard Theater Sarah Bernhard Bernhardt

Annotations Text:

The French actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923) starred in stage productions of popular French plays in

She had roles in plays by Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas and played males roles, including Shakespeare's

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 4 May 1890

  • Date: May 4, 1890
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Annotations Text:

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

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, [29 September 1878]

  • Date: September 29, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | John Burroughs
Text:

All work seem'd seemed play to him.

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