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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... feel itself alive.' Wilde's Gilbert will later appropriate this very sentence in 'The Critic as Artist'. And Wilde himself would echo it in his letter to the Home Secretary from Reading Gaol after he had been totally deprived of books ...
... feel itself alive.' Wilde's Gilbert will later appropriate this very sentence in 'The Critic as Artist'. And Wilde himself would echo it in his letter to the Home Secretary from Reading Gaol after he had been totally deprived of books ...
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... feel quite sure that Mr Whistler has been himself always true to the dogma he seems to lay down, that a painter should paint only the dress of his age and of his actual surroundings; far be it from me to burden a butterfly5 with the ...
... feel quite sure that Mr Whistler has been himself always true to the dogma he seems to lay down, that a painter should paint only the dress of his age and of his actual surroundings; far be it from me to burden a butterfly5 with the ...
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... feels that as nature is but a thought of his, so he himself is but a passing thought of God. This conception, of the power of a mere metaphysical abstraction over the mind of one so fortunately endowed for the reception of the sensible ...
... feels that as nature is but a thought of his, so he himself is but a passing thought of God. This conception, of the power of a mere metaphysical abstraction over the mind of one so fortunately endowed for the reception of the sensible ...
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... feeling, knowing that every mood has its own quality and charm and is justified by its mere existence. He has taken the sensationalism of Greek philosophy and made it a new method of art criticism. As for his style, it is curiously ...
... feeling, knowing that every mood has its own quality and charm and is justified by its mere existence. He has taken the sensationalism of Greek philosophy and made it a new method of art criticism. As for his style, it is curiously ...
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... feeling, of which Keats speaks, is familiar to all who have heard Salvini,9 Sarah Bernhardt,10 Ristori, or any of the great artists of our day, and it is a feeling that one cannot, I think, gain merely by reading the passage to oneself ...
... feeling, of which Keats speaks, is familiar to all who have heard Salvini,9 Sarah Bernhardt,10 Ristori, or any of the great artists of our day, and it is a feeling that one cannot, I think, gain merely by reading the passage to oneself ...
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