Oscar Wilde, a Critical Study

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M. Secker, 1912 - 212 strán (strany)

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Strana 166 - Blind mouths ! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learnt aught else the least That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs ! What recks it them ? What need they ? They are sped ; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their
Strana 42 - to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery
Strana 188 - example of fine poetry, and show that it does perform in itself this dual function of language. Let us examine the first stanza of Blake's " The Tiger " :— " Tiger ! Tiger ! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry
Strana 41 - In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree : Where Alph the sacred river ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery
Strana 198 - The chief advantage that would result from the establishment of Socialism, is, undoubtedly, the fact that Socialism would relieve us from that sordid necessity of living for others which in the present condition of things, presses so hardly upon almost everybody. In fact, scarcely anyone at all escapes.
Strana 47 - In fancy I can almost hear him now, exclaiming " Harp ? Harp ? Lyre ? Pen and ink, boy, you mean ! Muse, boy, Muse. Your nurse's daughter, you mean ! Pierian spring ? Oh aye ! the cloister pump, I suppose.
Strana 78 - What has Oscar in common with Art except that he dines at our tables and picks from our platters the plums for the pudding that he peddles in the provinces? Oscar—the amiable, irresponsible, esurient Oscar—with no more sense of a picture than he has of the fit of a coat—has the courage of the opinions . . . of others!
Strana 163 - We tore the tarry rope to shreds With blunt and bleeding nails ; We rubbed the doors, and scrubbed the floors And cleaned the shining rails : And rank by rank, we soaped the plank, And clattered with the pails.
Strana 189 - c'est supprimer les trois quarts de la jouissance du poème qui est faite du bonheur de deviner peu à peu. Le suggérer, voilà le rêve.
Strana 195 - Not that I love thy children, whose dull eyes See nothing save their own unlovely woe, Whose minds know nothing, nothing care to know,— But that the roar of thy Democracies, Thy reigns of Terror, thy great Anarchies, Mirror my wildest passions like the sea And give my rage a brother

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