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Search : PETER MAILLAND PLAY

1584 results

The Hottest Day

  • Date: 14 August 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The theatres were played out. Ice-cream gardens did a heavy business.

Horace L. Traubel to Walt Whitman, 10 June 1891

  • Date: June 10, 1891
  • Creator(s): Horace L. Traubel
Annotations Text:

King Edward VII, Gordon-Cumming was confronted and pressured to sign a document that he would not play

Horace Greeley

  • Date: 19 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

A Hoosier's Opinion Of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 11 August 1860
  • Creator(s): Howells, William Dean
Text:

animal—and left people to infer that he was some such inspired brute as Jove infurried (sic) , when he played

Holy Bible—illuminated: Harpers' edition

  • Date: 21 October 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

His earliest printed plays

  • Date: 1844 or later; date unknown; after 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | George Walter Thornbury | unknown author
Text:

1 His earl ies t printed plays 1597 Romeo & Juliet Richard 3d & Richard 2d Chapman's trans. of Homer,

1596—his sone son Hamnet died, in the 12th year of his age. 1598 To this year, only five of his plays

"To be or not to be" is taken almost verbatim from Plato— —To the Iliad, every one of his best plays

—"What Pope says of some of the Plays of Shakespeare is probably true of all—that they were pieces of

His earliest printed plays

Herbert Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 9 November 1886

  • Date: November 9, 1886
  • Creator(s): Herbert Gilchrist
Text:

such an one should be clothed in pretty dress has been my first consideration— & cudos necessarily plays

Herbert Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 29 April 1883

  • Date: April 29, 1883
  • Creator(s): Herbert Gilchrist
Text:

You play a prominent part in this picture—seated at table bending over a nosegay of flowers, poetizing

Herbert Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 16 August 1882

  • Date: August 16, 1882
  • Creator(s): Herbert Gilchrist
Text:

Wednesday afternoon I played the delightful game of lawn-tennis with them and their friends & the following

day I was asked to go and play tennis at the Rectory two miles off.

Herbert Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 15 January 1882

  • Date: January 15, 1882
  • Creator(s): Herbert Gilchrist
Text:

here in London very good-naturedly volunteered to stand to me for a picture of Consuelo & Hayden playing

Henry Latchford to Walt Whitman, 28 May 1889

  • Date: May 28, 1889
  • Creator(s): Henry Latchford
Text:

When he makes "any kind of a decent deal" at all he just plays with millions—the other fellows witnessing

considerable of the "play" but somewhat less of the millions.

Henry 8th

  • Date: Undated
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown
Text:

it—the affair of Leisler (1691) printer of the "Weekly Journal," (1735)—the trial of its printer, John Peter

Helena de Kay Gilder to Walt Whitman, 20 November 1880

  • Date: November 20, 1880
  • Creator(s): Helena de Kay Gilder | Richard Watson Gilder
Annotations Text:

Helena Modjeska (1840–1909) was a well-known Polish actress, particularly famous for playing Shakespearean

Heine, Heinrich (1797–1856)

  • Creator(s): Grünzweig, Walter
Text:

Peter Uwe Hohendahl and Sander L. Gilman. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1991. 199–223.

[Having by his domestic infelicities]

  • Date: 10 February 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

to upbraid womankind, it is to the credit of Shakspeare and the women of his time, that in all his plays

Hartmann, C. Sadakichi (ca. 1867–1944)

  • Creator(s): Roche, John F.
Text:

Sadakichi (ca. 1867–1944) Like the character he played in the 1924 film The Thief of Bagdad, Whitman

Sadakichi Hartmann played court magician to successive bohemian circles.

Harry Buxton Forman to Walt Whitman, 7 May 1891

  • Date: May 7, 1891
  • Creator(s): Harry Buxton Forman
Annotations Text:

The play was given its first performance on May 7, 1886, in the Grand Theatre, Islington, London, by

Harper’s Magazine for June

  • Date: 15 May 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Under the masks of another century we recognize the same human nature which is playing about us to-day

Harned, Thomas Biggs (1851–1921)

  • Creator(s): Mattausch, Dena
Text:

news and the Shakespeare controversy, agreeing that the Stratford actor was not the author of the plays

Peter Van Egmond. Hartford: Transcendental Books, 1972. Traubel, Horace.

Hannah Whitman Heyde to Walt Whitman, 4 March [1873]

  • Date: March 4, [1873]
  • Creator(s): Hannah Whitman Heyde
Text:

the same here I only want you to be well again I do like that young fellow that is so kind to you, Peter

Hannah Whitman Heyde to Walt Whitman, 22 September [1891]

  • Date: September 22, [1891]
  • Creator(s): Hannah Whitman Heyde
Annotations Text:

Walt's favorite brother, Jeff played the piano and had a lively sense of humor.

Hamlin Garland to Walt Whitman, [June 1889]

  • Date: [June 1889]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Hamlin Garland
Annotations Text:

Fragments of three plays are held in the Hamlin Garland Collection at the University of Southern California

He published only one play, entitled "Under the Wheel: A Modern Play in Six Scenes."

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

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 9, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

appearance, which had been uttered several days previous, when Master Caleb gave his flock a holiday, for Peter

just as gleesome, commemorated the bestowal, that morning, of another holiday, for the hanging of Peter

of the stream, to see, reclining there in the sunshine, the shape of the now wan and pallid-faced Peter

with wild and ghastly visage, and with the phrenzied contortions of a madman in his worst paroxysm, Peter

Peter Brown, although he has quite a family of little children, finds time, now and then, to utter eloquent

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 1, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

A poem that has been attributed to Walt Whitman, titled " The Play-Ground " and signed "W.," appears

the master has given us a holiday, next Thursday, because he is going to Peter Brown's wedding!

Peter bid me go and seek him out, and deliver to him a message, written on paper.

"And now you have all of my story—and I must go, for it is time Peter Brown received his answer."

What were Peter's thoughts about? Nothing more or less than love .

Annotations Text:

'"; A poem that has been attributed to Walt Whitman, titled "The Play-Ground" and signed "W.," appears

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 5, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Arrow-Tip, suppose you and Peter Brown take the Bend at Oak Creek for your station?"

"I am as weak as a baby," said Peter.

—"They tell me in the village that Peter Brown is murdered by Arrow-Tip!"

"Well, then," continued the other, "the plain truth is, that the Indian would have killed Peter, and

But Peter, having a very thick skull, his life was saved. I saw it myself.

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 4, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Who could be more happy than Peter Brown's bride?

On the day of the hunting-party, he came there, and though Peter himself was absent, he was invited by

he cried, "Peter Brown is murdered, in the forest, by the Indian, Arrow-Tip!"

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 6, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Peter Brown was indeed much injured.

sure that the course of 'justice'—were the people allowed to remain with the unquestionable belief of Peter

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 8, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

at this unfortunate juncture that Arrow-Tip was heedless enough to attempt seizing the weapon at Peter's

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 3, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In the course of the afternoon, Peter Brown, the lately married blacksmith, came over to Thorne's to

"I am told," said Peter, "that there is a fine herd of deer which some of our folks have several times

The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier

  • Date: June 2, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

It happened on the Thursday, when Peter Brown's wedding took place, that Master Caleb and Quincy stole

The Great Bamboozle!—A Plot Discovered!

  • Date: 28 March 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

The Gospel of Walt Whitman

  • Date: October 1878
  • Creator(s): Stevenson, Robert Louis
Text:

Until you are content to pick poetry out of his pages almost as you pick it out of a Greek play in Bohn

A good deal of this is the result of theory playing its usual vile trick upon the artist.

But the Philistines have been too strong; and, to say truth, Whitman has rather played the fool.

"Good-Bye, my Fancy!"

  • Date: 5 September 1891
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Fanny Kemble (1809-1893) was a popular English actress and author of plays, poems, and memoirs concerning

Annotations Text:

.; Fanny Kemble (1809-1893) was a popular English actress and author of plays, poems, and memoirs concerning

Good-Bye My Fancy

  • Date: 12 September 1891
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

and Fanny Kemble in Fazio, "a rapid-running, yet heavy-timber'd, tremendous, wrenching, passionate play

The Good Gray Poet

  • Date: 1866 (republished 1883)
  • Creator(s): William Douglas O'Connor
Text:

I play Alphonso neither to genius nor to God.

Here in my knowledge is an estimable family which, when the baby playing on the floor kicked up its skirts

This is one of the central ideas which rule the myriad teeming play of his volume, and interpret it as

a law of Nature interprets the complex play of facts which proceeds from it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749–1832)

  • Creator(s): Round, Phillip H.
Text:

.: Peter Smith, 1972. 139–141. ———. Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts. Ed. Edward F.

Gilder, Jeannette L. (1849–1916)

  • Creator(s): Roberson, Susan L.
Text:

newspapers; edited several books, including Authors at Home (1888); and wrote a novel, a couple of plays

German-speaking Countries, Whitman in the

  • Creator(s): Grünzweig, Walter
Text:

based on "new developments in the human nervous system" (Das dritte Reich, 1900; Die Suchenden, 1902; Peter

years later in France with Bertz, Bazalgette, and others as active participants—Whitman continued to play

George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 9 June 1862

  • Date: June 9, 1862
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Text:

Sogering too has he, well they will have good times in Baltimore for it seems to me this war is about played

George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 25 February 1863

  • Date: February 25, 1863
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Text:

There is a lot of dead beats that get off by playing sick, but a chap that eats as much and looks as

George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 22 January 1863

  • Date: January 22, 1863
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Text:

storm here for the last 48 hours, raining and blowing like great guns, but it appears to be about played

George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 2 April 1863

  • Date: April 2, 1863
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Annotations Text:

Jeff added that George looked healthy but "played out as regards clothes..."

George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 18 June 1864

  • Date: June 18, 1864
  • Creator(s): George Washington Whitman
Text:

Sometimes we are rather short of grub, and sometimes pretty well played out with hard work, but as long

Gems from Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Elizabeth Porter Gould | Walt Whitman and Elizabeth Porter Gould
Text:

step they wend, they never stop, Successions of men, Americanos, a hundred millions, One generation playing

its part and passing on, Another generation playing its part and passing on in its turn, With faces

The Furtive Hen and the Cat Whose Tail Was Too Long: On Whitman's Traces

  • Date: 2020
  • Creator(s): Corona, Mario
Text:

A fairly rare circumstance, which calls our attention both to the synaesthetic play of text and paratext

With humorous fair play the critic finally avows to have "no intention of regularly criticising this

Fun “Out West”

  • Date: 3 September 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

legislation, has at least the merit of being more harmless than quite a good many of the “fantastic tricks” played

Friday, September 28th, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Tom, don't play with fire."

Friday, September 13, 1889

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

Their company is now in the city—have 'A Possible Case'—a play of some sort, of which I know nothing.

Friday, October 3, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

yet After the cycles, poems, singers, plays,Vaunted Ionia's, India's—Homer, Shaks-pere—all times, dotted

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