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were offensive to him: there was something crude, powerful, drastic, in the Shakes-speareShakespeare plays

deserted, fall from his high place, sink into total obscurity: but on the stage, at the moment, while the play

Whitman,These last days have been so crowded with work and play that there has been no fair chance to

importance in a day—amputations, blood, death are nothing to him—you will see a group absorbed in playing

He often plays with his penknife, opening and shutting as he talks.

my first tries with the lute—in that book I am just like a man tuning up his instrument before the play

They had played Raff's "Lenore" Symphony among other things.Evening, 8:00.

The whole subject, Beethoven, and the playing absolutely without note.

But the average pianist plays by sight only, and has no ears.

He listened intently while Anna played a fine air (and played it finely) on the piano.

and played around the chair.

Peter's. It is grand, grand—O how grand!

They were reviving a whole series of old English plays: very good, staple plays: I saw a good many of

In the plays—the historical plays especially—Bacon sees the basilisk in all his nature and proportions.I

There is much in the plays that is offensive to me, anyhow: yes, in all the plays of that period: a grandiose

Kennedy came along and put in a demurrer, W. resuming: "The Shakespeare plays are essentially the plays

"That's a little of Maurice's stage-play," he said: "he will go: Bucke knows, as we all know, that the

said at once: "At least as potential: at least, at least: there may be more reasons some days for playing

He smiled sadly: "I'd give a lot to be able to play a game of foot and a half with you this minute."

me, I get nearer to them, than any others: they have no axe to grind, no wires to pull, no game to play

William, who couldn't write his name, was the author of reams of plays of the most astonishing quality

couldn't be weak if he tried: he has no resources of the pettifying order—no idiocy—in him: even his play

while play has in it the vehemence of faith.

nothing of Tannhäuser: I only know some of its friends—like you, for example: I know some bits of it played

towards the floor—"was honest—that his integrity was beyond any corrupting influence: that he would play

Tom is not only straight but shrewd: he is a past master in the engineering of corporations: Doctor played

Look at our stage: in fact we have no stage at all: a jumble of plays packed together without logic or

It occurs to me we have so far not had one American play—not one.

He said: "You are my right bower: I can't play the game without you." Wednesday, March 27, 1889

It's a feeble copy of the British Micawberism: British humbug about British fair play, British liberty

were originally Democrats but when the time came we went over with a vengeance: it was no role, no play

W. said: "I guess the economics play a part: that's rather your cue than mine: I have heard about Glasgow

reasons for it—some innate, some political: the anti habit is more or less active in all of it: it plays

Donnelly has made lately a remarkable discovery—that the two folio editions of the plays following the

I asked W.: "There was Nicholas Bacon: what part did he perform in the mystery of the plays?"

Have you the idea that Nicholas was somehow intimately, dynamically, a party to the production of the plays

Young Kersley and Danney came for me in a carriage at 1, and bro't me back at 5; enjoy'd the ride, the play

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

all then laughingly going their ways again: no scheme, no reward: just the finer human impulse at play

chief figure in a box with Childs, Dayton and self on the eve of the 24th inst at the opening of my play

think so: maybe: hardly: there were other elements in the story—venom, jealousies, opacities: they played

troubling myself with Faustian problems: I have heard all the Fausts, I may say: Gounod's, others: Faust plays

W. said: "He wrote his plays in trilogies (I have a friend—he always amuses me—calls them trillogies)

books about me: not cumbersome—light: carried them in my pocket: Shakespeare, for instance—one of the Plays

respects the most characteristic—I carried it most: I would buy a cheap second-hand book—tear out the play

all—would personally have been as well satisfied if the game had been declared off at any stage of the play

"And about redistributing the poems—giving them new titles: did n'tdidn't that play hob with your scheme

—the play of his imagination quite fine.

W. thought that "surely the greatest farce they had ever played in."

The tangerines and a book beside him: he played with them. I was happy. He seemed so well.

I heard this in a play: "a walking shadow ending in nothing." W. asked me: "Don't you like it?

"I suppose there will be an account in to-morrow'stomorrow's papers of the opening of the play house

the notes of a Scotchman—a gentleman: barrister: something or other: going into the pit, seeing the play

Garrick-Garrick was the first to break through the old bonds—he would have insisted that Garrick should play

Hamlet wearing small clothes and a periwig, as it had once to be played.

—"Eddy is off to-nighttonight: takes a music lesson once a week: is very fond of music—his violin: plays

if there was not "something" in Eddy and if that "something" could not "be brought out by the free play

apologized—"of course"—here again a reflecting moment—"as to the last point—the highest flights—the latest plays—in

however, is gloomy, looks upon the people with something like despair: does so especially in his maturer plays

Then he continued: "That made a wonderful good play in its time, did n'tdidn't it?"

Is it necessary to know who wrote the Plays? "No! nor is it.

"Speaking of diplomats, did you ever see the play Diplomacy?

Years ago Barrymore was in Philadelphia playing it; he sent me over a lot of tickets: we all went—had

The plot of the play was about a perfumed glove—so trivial, almost silly—yet was a successful study throughout

delicate—very delicate: French, in fact: no one but the French can hit high water mark in such things: the play

Yet the instant the old man sat down and commenced to play everybody would listen—I, too, and Jeff—all

'What might cure Henry may be fatal to Camille': that is a line in a novel or a play somewhere."

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

or afterward to some supper party or carousal made by the young fellows for me, but what amid the play

Tom, don't play with fire."

He is the kind of a man who might play with riches and die poor—though he's mighty comfortable fixed,

In Strasbourg a Prussian band plays magnificently every day at a certain hour but as yet no one has been

Was it a play for an autograph? W.: "I was half tempted to answer it: but I won't write a word."

time for me (in a letter, or when he comes): say it for me: it 'sit's the sort of fire no man can play

interfusing atmosphere, so to speak, of the Shakespearean, or, as he positively insists, the Baconian, plays

"O'Connor makes much more of that factor in the Plays than I do: warms up a good deal more about it:

"I can now see one of those Italian players: he played E flat cornet, I think they called it: very bright

This man would come to the crucial passages with immense gusto—would often play solo interludes, whatnot

His memory had "played" him "tricks before," "but never one equal to this."

I picked up a picture from the box by the fire: a Washington picture: W. and Peter Doyle photoed together

C. 1865—Walt Whitman & his rebel soldier friend Peter Doyle."

so called, took a form that could be explained if not justified: the memory is a strange creature—plays

far, and wonderful it is, too: I have seen Marie Wainwright—liked her very much: seen her in Boker's play—Francesca

a good, faithful fellow: and there was a musi-musician cian, too: I used to run round and hear him play

with him, & a mild orgie, just for a basis, you know, for talk & interchange of reminiscences & the play

right relation of man himself, & all his body, by which I mean all that he is, & all its laws & the play

of them, to Nature & its laws & the play of them.

He played a bit with his big penknife. Finally he broke out: "God bless you all, whoever you are!

I looked into half a dozen pages of the preface and the beginning of each of the three plays, in no case

It was at that time, in Washington, that I got to know Peter Doyle—a Rebel, a car-driver, a soldier:

W. said again: "Hugo's immortal works were the dramas, the plays, the poems: least accessible, yet greatest