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"Take this," he said, "to peter Montgomerie—perhaps it would interest him—or even you by the way."

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

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

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)

She found that he was a distant relative of Bill's—a friend: was playing her face right along: using

It is a complete narrative of Bacon's life and times, regularly underlying the text of the plays, and

servant, Henry Percy, acknowledges to Queen Elizabeth his own authorship of Richard Second and the other plays

sympathy with the Jack Cades or Wat Tylers, would have sent its author at once to the block, and the play

He soars and plays way beyond them all." Would he have anything about Lincoln in the new volume?

I said: "You didn't need to play Emerson: he was on your side without it."

W. said in a fiery voice: "Who the hell talked about playing anybody?"

They played the devil with it over there.

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

He admitted "Francesca da Rimini" was "much of a play"—adding—"I knew Boker—met him: he had the look

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.

Warrie went up with me (playing cards with Harry in the kitchen)—W. on the bed.

At times he plays with you with a deliberate, baffling sportiveness."

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

"I remember how well Harry Placide rendered this—he played the character.

for me: never doubted or gone off—that I can count on him in all exigencies: and I think affection plays

Magnificent playing in cricket match on grounds—a patient—Rev.

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

for something to suggest an acknowledgment to these men, but that 'something' had never come into play

"It is a surprising hubbub he makes, indeed—it reminds me of little children playing with jackstraws

Gleams from the electric light out at the corner would play on his beard occasionally.

You will find his spirit always right—that he's in earnest—that he is not playing his life away."

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

"He did not play Macbeth much.

He rather affected the plays which involved intellect—the more subtle by-playings—Iago-ish characters

Described the old theatres inimitably—the pit—"There's no doubt the old actors played to the pit, not

Told Brinton more definitely about some of the plays Hamblin "excelled in."

And yet not a shred—not a sign—of one of the greatest of history's great—the writer of plays that have

I do not know that I really care who made the plays—who wrote them.

book—that slanders, flings, hatreds, jealousies, constitute the staple of his motive in making the plays

ShaksperShakespeare the actor as a person and how much less is known of the person Shakespeare of the plays

Did you ever notice—how much the law is involved with the plays?

And there was the other Barrett, too—the play from Boker—'Francesca Da Rimini' he calls it—I mainly held

Then deploring his memory "which plays me crooked more than ever it did before." Friday, May 9, 1890

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

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

And again, "As I have always said, there's an element, margin, play, of uncertainty in every photo: it

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

I like that—more than like it: it is few but mighty," playing on a current phrase.

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

In this position the light of the fire played in his beard and upon his face, with a revelation and an

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

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

Tom, don't play with fire."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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