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Nineteenth Century and After - Page 37
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Intentions: The Decay of Lying, Pen, Pencil and Poison, The Critic as Artist ...

Oscar Wilde, Percival Pollard - 1905 - 300 pages
...information from which never, * even in his most meditative moments, can he thoroughly free himself. •Sil " The loss that results to literature in general from...Lying and poetry are arts — arts, as Plato saw, no unconnected with each other — and they require the most careful study, the most disinterested...
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Decorative Art in America: A Lecture

Oscar Wilde - 1906 - 356 pages
...open scroll, all is still instinct with beautiful life. —Lecture on the English Renaissance. 188a. Lying and poetry are arts— arts, as Plato saw, not...most careful study, the most disinterested devotion. — The Decay of Lying. Rhyme, that exquisite echo which in the Muse's hollow hill creates and answers...
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Intentions. The soul of man under socialism

Oscar Wilde - 1909 - 360 pages
...acquired an amount of useful information from which never, even in his most meditative moments, can he thoroughly free himself. ' The loss that results to...are wrong. Lying and poetry are arts — arts, as V Plato saw, not unconnected with each other — and they require the most careful study, the most...
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The Writings of Oscar Wilde, Volume 10

Oscar Wilde - 1907 - 272 pages
...acquired an amount of useful information from which never, even in his most meditative moments, can he thoroughly free himself. "The loss that results to...*born poet.' But in both cases they are wrong. Lying andpoetry are arts — arts, as Plato saw, not unconnected with each other — and they require the...
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Intentions: The decay of lying; Pen, pencil, and poison; The critic as artist

Oscar Wilde - 1909 - 280 pages
...acquired an. amount of useful information from which never, even in his most meditative moments, can he thoroughly free himself. "The loss that results to...talking about a *born liar,' just as they talk about a 'bom poet.' But in both cases they are wrong. Lying and poetry are arts — arts, as Plato saw, not...
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The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman - 1959 - 276 pages
...novels which are so life-like that no one can possibly believe in their probability. The Decay of Lying. People have a careless way of talking about a " born liar," just as they talk about a born poet. Lying and poetry are arts — arts as Plato saw, not unconnected with each other — and they require...
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The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman - 1959 - 276 pages
...novels which are so life,like that no one can possibly believe in their probability. The Decay of Lying. People have a careless way of talking about a " born liar," just as they talk about a bom poet. Lying and poetry are arts — arts as Plato saw, not unconnected with each other — and...
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Art Theory and Criticism: An Anthology of Formalist, Avant-Garde ...

Sally Everett - 1995 - 302 pages
...acquired an amount of useful information from which never, even in his most meditative moments, can he thoroughly free himself. "The loss that results to literature in general from his false ideal of our time can hardly be over-estimated. People have a careless way of talking about...
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Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary

Hugo Ball - 1996 - 356 pages
...literature of our age is undoubtedly the decay of Lying as an art, a science, and a social pleasure." "Lying and poetry are arts — arts as Plato saw, not unconnected with each other. . . ." "Many a young man starts in life with a natural gift for exaggeration, which, if nurtured in...
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De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings

Oscar Wilde - 1999 - 324 pages
...acquired an amount of useful information from which never, even in his most meditative moments, can he thoroughly free himself. 'The loss that results to...wrong. Lying and poetry are arts - arts, as Plato saw,8 not unconnected with each other and they require the most careful study, the most disinterested...
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