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I quoted Bucke again: I am head and ears in Bacon—Bacon wrote the plays—in a few years it will be proved

If this and that and the other, then Shakespeare did not write the plays!

It is a sad game to play." Then asked, "You know what hetchel is?

How often I have heard him argue that the plays were no defense of feudalism—that no man who meant to

Yes, that the writer of the plays, whoever, could have been no friend of the great figures even of feudal

To William O'Connor that was the spirit which moved the writer of the plays."

Bannan in Warrie's room playing cribbage.

Ed has a violin which he plays round the house.

W. told Ed: "Play your violin: play it as much as you choose: I like it: when I am tired I will tell

Ed at first played in the next room. I advised him to play down stairs.

O'Connor, is veritably a Peter the Hermit, a Luther."

—the play of his imagination quite fine.

attitude, his official mock heroic indignation, is not creditable to him—rather a blot on his record: a play

He said Sunday: "The assurance O'Connor displays in his reference to Bacon as the author of the Plays

that: he was among the noblest of men—scholarly, democratic: democratic—not exactly as we are wont to play

I think he has made Apollo (and his English fellow) too idle, a god of glorious play merely, whereas

parades: the good-natured banter everywhere of Cleveland Democrats and Harrison Republicans: the bands playing

"no" he continued: "I seemed to hear something: it was like a distant rain: my ear, it may be, is playing

returns to the one force, element—whatever it is called: all life is a witness to the basic part so played

been a great worry to the fellows: and to me, too: a puzzle: the Sonnets being of one character, the Plays

Try to think of the Shakespeare plays: think of their movement: their intensity of life, action: everything

hell-bent to get along: on: on: energy—the splendid play of force: across fields, mire, creeks: never

He regarded the Plays as being "tremendous with the virility that seemed so totally absent from the Sonnets

I suppose you know that is a performance, a play, all in music and singing, in the Italian language,

besides she is a tall and handsome lady, and her actions are so graceful as she moves about the stage, playing

Ed has a violin which he plays round the house.

to roll in the grass: to cry out: to play tom fool with yourself in the free fields?

W. told Ed: "Play your violin: play it as much as you choose: I like it: when I am tired I will tell

Ed at first played in the next room. I advised him to play down stairs.

and Paula Ingle, and Peter Bishop.

It was a brilliant play of wit and eloquence.

It is a great thing to let life play to such measure—spontaneity."

Lusty fire in stove; the flickering flame playing on objects all over the room.

and then, "I have seen the play often; have even seen Booth in it.

I've played enthusiastic long enough—sacrificed enough, for that principle—and the world no better or

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

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

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

said W., "I did, but what I shall say will be short enough: it will not make much of a break in the play

The little speech he had printed—the eight short lines—were played with, stumbled over—not lamentably

It was a brilliant play of wit and eloquence.

impression of their majesty and beauty: the Canadian Falls especially seeming to testify to the elemental play

s home.Shall long know this day, for its play upon the sense of the sublime.No letter for either of us

Bucke has Peter Doyle and Harry Stafford letters from W. Saturday, October 25, 1890

It is a great thing to let life play to such measure—spontaneity."

Laughter over the "tricks" his "memory plays" him.W. said, "I have a letter from a Mrs. Putnam.

Picture of W. and Peter Doyle: the two sitting gazing into each other's eyes, a picture which O'Connor

Lusty fire in stove; the flickering flame playing on objects all over the room.

Sat with W. in his dark room, with the flickering light of the fire playing through the half-open stove

I told him how Bucke and his brother had played vociferous games of backgammon in the library, and I

and then, "I have seen the play often; have even seen Booth in it.

I think Booth did not insist upon that scene—it is not imperative—he did not always play it—probably

have never had an answer from Johnston or a line from the N.Y. printer—guess their enthusiasm has petered

is interesting to know, that the high official type, in this wealthy town with its 65,000 people, plays

We heard the best plays, operas, in that way. My early life especially was full of it.

Thought Symonds' "Democratic Art" was "somewhat like the play 'Our American Cousin'—in which the only

And so "I sit here, let the elements play about me—see what they will bring about."

it is the danger of all us fellows who play with pens: we must all have a care—it is an easy trap to

I have sometimes thought, put this nature into general play; as here on this special field—and by and

To an expression of mine, that Shakespeare was great, but that half his greatness was in the play of

And as to Ingersoll's contention that Shakespeare's plays were impersonal—non-personal—more absolutely

The warmer weather is evidently playing on him. A reporter from the Press came while I was there.

Either feels or plays to feel much chagrined over Gilder's note.With Bucke to the Contemporary Club;

W. after "that hidden something back of the plays—unwritten: what is it?

background, atmosphere, out of which he emerges, into which and in which he flings and bathes, and plays

break—exquisite melody of speech, fire of life, possible only in fortunate hours, as if by some unpredictable play

I asked W. if Ingersoll's part in that was not as necessary as his own—necessary to the play of speech

Speaking of a paper in which he is "taboo"—his name even ignored—"It is one of the games played—but a

believe, that among other qualifications to be one day assured, America has a dramatic future—a glorious play-future

lap—ruminating—not reading: often, with the stove door open, the embers therein flashing warmth into his face—playing

Buchanan has a great idea of making money—has written plays, novels.

It is for her Browning writes plays—makes a part for her—to fit her.

Scovel once told me of an old play she had heard of or seen—a play in which much hangs upon the saying

At this point, looking out of the window, I saw a bright, beautiful baby playing inside the window opposite—remarking