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id: 16895
title: Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions. Volume 2 (of 2)
author: Harris, Frank
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  "It was a great pity," he said, "that Wilde ever got into prison, a "I have been telling my friend," said Oscar to the warder, "how good you "Oscar Wilde," I said to him, "is just about to face life again: he is This letter is the most characteristic thing Oscar Wilde ever wrote, a "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" is far and away the best poem Oscar Wilde This summer of 1897 was the harvest time in Oscar Wilde''s Life; and his Could Oscar Wilde have won and made for himself a new and greater life? imprisonment, Mrs. Wilde undertook to allow Oscar Â£150 a year for life, heard I was in Paris, she asked me to present Oscar Wilde to her. "You see he knows me, Frank," said Oscar, with the childish pleasure of "Yes," said Oscar, "I am afraid that''s the truth, Frank; he is the son


id: 16894
title: Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions. Volume 1 (of 2)
author: Harris, Frank
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  Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas About 1893 321 The first part of life''s voyage was over for Oscar Wilde; let us try 1885, when Whistler gave his famous _Ten o''clock_ discourse on Art. This lecture was infinitely better than any of Oscar Wilde''s. heart or head or soul could have brought a young man to Oscar Wilde''s Half an hour later I was told that Oscar Wilde had called. By this time people expected a certain sort of book from Oscar Wilde A year or so after the first meeting between Oscar Wilde and Lord "Only Queensberry," said someone, "swearing he''ll stop Oscar Wilde Queensberry; "no English jury would give Oscar Wilde a verdict against Mr. Carson read another letter from Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred case Sir Edward Clarke asked Oscar Wilde whether he was guilty or not, of a man of genius like Oscar Wilde.


id: 18917
title: Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series
author: Black, William
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  Goldsmith, who appears to have been a most good-natured and compliant people''s money with the most charming air in the world, Goldsmith good-naturedly said one day, "You had better, Mr. Goldsmith, let me Griffiths and hack-writing for the _Critical Review_, Goldsmith characteristics of Goldsmith''s writing at this time--the grace and Johnson replied, "Why, sir, I hear that Goldsmith, who is a very great we find Johnson saying, "Dr. Goldsmith is one of the first men we now Johnson came back with the money, Goldsmith "called the woman of the again." When Goldsmith told this story in after-days, Johnson was "Goldsmith," said Johnson to It was Johnson himself, moreover, who told the story of Goldsmith and Goldsmith would be the best person to write Johnson''s biography. Johnson, writing on July 4, answered as follows:--"Of poor dear Dr. Goldsmith there is little to be told, more than the papers have made


id: 7993
title: Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography
author: Irving, Washington
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  "You had better, Mr. Goldsmith, let me take care of your money," said Mrs. Milner one day, "as I do for some of the young gentlemen."--"In truth, boy," replied poor Goldsmith, with infinite good-humor; "I shall be richer a great measure, by the good-humored kindness of Goldsmith, who was always In this year Goldsmith became personally acquainted with Dr. Johnson, BOSWELL--DINNER OF DAVIES--ANECDOTES OF JOHNSON AND GOLDSMITH being called upon to give as a toast the ugliest man she knew, she gave Dr. Goldsmith, upon which a lady who sat opposite, and whom she had never met "I received one morning," says Johnson, "a message from poor Goldsmith that The comedy of The Good-Natured Man was completed by Goldsmith early in About this time Goldsmith''s friend and countryman, Lord Clare, was in great "Sir," said he to Boswell, "Goldsmith would no more have asked me to have talking." "Sir," replied Johnson, "Goldsmith knows nothing--he has made up Goldsmith and Johnson, with several other literary characters.


id: 38251
title: Oscar Wilde
author: Ingleby, Leonard Cresswell
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  Perhaps of all Oscar Wilde''s plays "The Woman Of No Importance" provoked This, the third of Oscar Wilde''s plays in their order of production, is Sir Robert Chiltern, Lady Chiltern (his wife), Lord Goring, and Mrs publisher quoted by Mr Sherard in his "Life of Oscar Wilde." This story told me that Oscar Wilde, of whom men, even then, had many things Some have said that there are no fairy stories like Oscar Wilde''s, but Like every verse writer of his time Oscar Wilde had felt the wondrous very few, that an artist friend of Oscar Wilde, whose work is the We all know where the artistic life did lead Oscar Wilde upon his Then Wilde''s prose goes on to tell how the young man turns and These lines were written by Oscar Wilde''s master in English prose, As Oscar Wilde said of himself, he was indeed a "lord of language."


id: 41532
title: Swift
author: Stephen, Leslie
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  In 1751 Lord Orrery published _Remarks upon the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift_. character; and remains, till this day, by far the best account of Swift''s Dublin (London, 1808); and _The Closing Years of Dean Swift''s The year after his first arrival at Temple''s, Swift went back to Ireland Temple died January 26, 1699; and "with him," said Swift at the time, "all _Sentiments of a Church of England Man_ Swift professes to conceal his "I have a letter from Dean Swift," says Arbuthnot in letter to Pope next year gives a sufficient picture of Swift''s feelings. afterwards Mrs. Delany, says in the same way that Swift calls himself "her brethren in England." As Swift had already said in the third letter, no Swift says, never thought of Ireland except when there was nothing else friend in the best and worst times," Swift writes a series of letters,


