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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... Philosophers in the British empiricist tradition, blinded by 'facts' and 'experience', Jowett believed, had failed to recognize that such elements themselves implied an unacknowledged metaphysics. 'We do not consider,' Jowett remarked ...
... Philosophers in the British empiricist tradition, blinded by 'facts' and 'experience', Jowett believed, had failed to recognize that such elements themselves implied an unacknowledged metaphysics. 'We do not consider,' Jowett remarked ...
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... . Repeatedly invoking Plato's image of the philosopher in The Republic as 'the spectator of all time and of all existence' – he would do so in 'The Rise of the Historical Criticism', in 'The English Renaissance of Art', in.
... . Repeatedly invoking Plato's image of the philosopher in The Republic as 'the spectator of all time and of all existence' – he would do so in 'The Rise of the Historical Criticism', in 'The English Renaissance of Art', in.
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... galantes.2 But Sebastian, the grave young Dutch philosopher, is charmingly drawn. From the first glimpse we get of him, skating over the watermeadows with his plume of squirrel's tail and his fur muff, Mr Pater's Imaginary Portraits.
... galantes.2 But Sebastian, the grave young Dutch philosopher, is charmingly drawn. From the first glimpse we get of him, skating over the watermeadows with his plume of squirrel's tail and his fur muff, Mr Pater's Imaginary Portraits.
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