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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... fancy, and winged it with paradox'. Or Lord Illingworth in A Woman of No Importance, insouciantly remarking that the 'intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all'. For Wilde ...
... fancy, and winged it with paradox'. Or Lord Illingworth in A Woman of No Importance, insouciantly remarking that the 'intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all'. For Wilde ...
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... Fancy Ball. Where there is loveliness of dress, there is no dressing up. And so, were our national attire delightful in colour, and in construction simple and sincere; were dress the expression of the loveliness that it shields, and of ...
... Fancy Ball. Where there is loveliness of dress, there is no dressing up. And so, were our national attire delightful in colour, and in construction simple and sincere; were dress the expression of the loveliness that it shields, and of ...
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... fancy Ariel praising Caliban16 for a jest: and, in that he has read the Commination Service17 over the critics, let all men thank him, the critics themselves indeed most of all, for he has now relieved them from the necessity of a ...
... fancy Ariel praising Caliban16 for a jest: and, in that he has read the Commination Service17 over the critics, let all men thank him, the critics themselves indeed most of all, for he has now relieved them from the necessity of a ...
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... literary criticism, and we fancy that many of the poets about whom he writes so eloquently would be not a little surprised at the qualities he finds in their work. Byron, for instance, who spoke with such contempt of what.
... literary criticism, and we fancy that many of the poets about whom he writes so eloquently would be not a little surprised at the qualities he finds in their work. Byron, for instance, who spoke with such contempt of what.
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