The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical ProseSelection includes The Portrait of Mr W.H., Wilde's defence of Dorian Gray, reviews, and the writings from 'Intentions' (1891): 'The Decay of Lying, 'Pen, Pencil, Poison', and 'The Critic as Artist'. |
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... Death of the Duke of Wellington' are worthy of a place beside Thomson's 'Rule Britannia',10 that Edgar Allan Poe, Disraeli and Mr Alfred Austin11 are artists of note whom we may affiliate on Byron,12 and that if Sappho13 and Milton 'had ...
... Death of the Duke of Wellington' are worthy of a place beside Thomson's 'Rule Britannia',10 that Edgar Allan Poe, Disraeli and Mr Alfred Austin11 are artists of note whom we may affiliate on Byron,12 and that if Sappho13 and Milton 'had ...
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... death in the desolate house amid the sands of the Helder,3 we seem to see him, to know him, almost to hear the low music of his voice. He is a dreamer, as the common phrase goes, and yet he is poetical in this sense, that his theorems ...
... death in the desolate house amid the sands of the Helder,3 we seem to see him, to know him, almost to hear the low music of his voice. He is a dreamer, as the common phrase goes, and yet he is poetical in this sense, that his theorems ...
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... death by the soldiers of the country he so much admired, on the night of his marriage with a peasant girl, the very failure of his life lending him a certain melancholy grace and dramatic interest. On the whole, then, this is a ...
... death by the soldiers of the country he so much admired, on the night of his marriage with a peasant girl, the very failure of his life lending him a certain melancholy grace and dramatic interest. On the whole, then, this is a ...
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