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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... looks down at the tide of war.' Is Helen a mere shadow in a song? No: she is real. The world will always remember of Wilde, that the life which began to be such a brilliant success in the decisive moment when, as he said in De Profundis ...
... looks down at the tide of war.' Is Helen a mere shadow in a song? No: she is real. The world will always remember of Wilde, that the life which began to be such a brilliant success in the decisive moment when, as he said in De Profundis ...
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... look through any collection of modern pictures in London, from Burlington House to the Grosvenor Gallery,8 without feeling that the professional model is ruining painting, and reducing it to a condition of mere pose and pastiche. Are we ...
... look through any collection of modern pictures in London, from Burlington House to the Grosvenor Gallery,8 without feeling that the professional model is ruining painting, and reducing it to a condition of mere pose and pastiche. Are we ...
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... looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets. There is not, for instance, a single delicate line, or delightful proportion in the dress of the Greeks, which is not echoed exquisitely ...
... looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets. There is not, for instance, a single delicate line, or delightful proportion in the dress of the Greeks, which is not echoed exquisitely ...
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... looks simply for the life; and yet, how well the great actors have appreciated that marvellous music of words which in Shakespeare, at any rate, is so vital an element of poetic power, if, indeed, it be not equally so in the case of all ...
... looks simply for the life; and yet, how well the great actors have appreciated that marvellous music of words which in Shakespeare, at any rate, is so vital an element of poetic power, if, indeed, it be not equally so in the case of all ...
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... looks over the list of contributors to Mr Edward Carpenter's Chants of Labour, is the curious variety of their several occupations, the wide differences of social position that exist between them, and the strange medley of men whom a ...
... looks over the list of contributors to Mr Edward Carpenter's Chants of Labour, is the curious variety of their several occupations, the wide differences of social position that exist between them, and the strange medley of men whom a ...
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