item: #1 of 8 id: 14062 author: Wilde, Oscar title: Miscellanies date: None words: 90858 flesch: 69 summary: So do not mind what art Philadelphia or New York is having, but make by the hands of your own citizens beautiful art for the joy of your own citizens, for you have here the primary elements of a great artistic movement. The art which has fulfilled the conditions of beauty has fulfilled all conditions: it is for the critic to teach the people how to find in the calm of such art the highest expression of their own most stormy passions. keywords: art; artist; arts; beauty; blue; book; century; colour; course; criticism; day; design; dress; edition; effect; england; english; expression; fact; february; form; gazette; god; good; greek; hand; history; house; idea; joy; keats; laws; lecture; life; literature; london; look; love; mall; mall gazette; man; matter; men; method; modern; mrs; music; myrrhina; nature; new; page; painter; painting; pall; people; picture; poetry; point; polybius; principles; public; regards; right; school; sense; sir; spirit; subject; things; thought; time; value; vol; whistler; wilde; woman; work; world; young cache: 14062.txt plain text: 14062.txt item: #2 of 8 id: 16894 author: Harris, Frank title: Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions. Volume 1 (of 2) date: None words: 71768 flesch: 76 summary: How could I verify this impression, I asked myself, so as to warn him effectually? I decided to give a lunch to him, and on purpose I put on the invitations: To meet Mr. Oscar Wilde and hear a new story. Mr. Oscar Wilde was the son of Sir William Wilde ... keywords: alfred; book; case; clarke; class; court; day; douglas; edward; england; english; evidence; fact; frank; good; house; judge; jury; justice; lady; left; letter; life; london; lord; love; man; men; mind; miss; money; new; oscar; oscar wilde; oxford; people; place; play; public; queensberry; school; self; sir; story; street; success; talk; thought; time; travers; trial; way; wilde; william; world; years cache: 16894.txt plain text: 16894.txt item: #3 of 8 id: 16895 author: Harris, Frank title: Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions. Volume 2 (of 2) date: None words: 82268 flesch: 80 summary: Are you talking of Oscar Wilde? she exclaimed. He went so far as to say that Oscar Wilde should be treated with all possible consideration, that certain prison rules which pressed very hardly upon him should be interpreted as mildly as possible. keywords: alfred; ballad; book; boy; course; day; days; douglas; english; eyes; face; frank; friend; good; heart; help; hotel; kind; letter; life; little; london; lord; love; man; matter; men; mind; moment; money; months; morning; nature; new; night; oscar; oscar wilde; paris; passion; people; pity; place; play; prison; reading; room; ross; soul; talk; things; thought; time; truth; want; way; wilde; work; world; years cache: 16895.txt plain text: 16895.txt item: #4 of 8 id: 32849 author: Saltus, Edgar title: Oscar Wilde: An Idler's Impression date: None words: 2455 flesch: 85 summary: Subsequently that ceremony must have been contemplated, for Mrs. Wilde was kind enough to invite me. After it, Mrs. Wilde said that he was mad and had been for three years, quite mad as the poor woman expressed it. keywords: copies; man; oscar; street; wilde cache: 32849.txt plain text: 32849.txt item: #5 of 8 id: 36017 author: Ransome, Arthur title: Oscar Wilde, a Critical Study date: None words: 45952 flesch: 71 summary: For six weeks Wilde walked in silence, but one evening at the end of that time, he heard the man walking behind him say: Oscar Wilde, I am sorry for you. The copyright of this book in Russia is the property of the Scorpion Press, Moscow TO ROBERT ROSS NOTE I wish to thank Mr. Robert Ross, Wilde's literary executor, who has helped me in every possible way, allowed me to read many of the letters that Wilde addressed to him, and given much time out of a very busy life to the verification, from documents in his possession, of the biographical facts included in my book. keywords: art; artist; attitude; book; character; conversation; criticism; day; death; end; example; eyes; good; intentions; life; literature; love; man; men; moment; nature; new; people; personality; play; poems; poetry; power; prison; profundis; prose; public; salomé; set; soul; speech; sphinx; stage; story; success; talk; theatre; things; thought; time; truth; use; way; wilde; work; world; writing; years cache: 36017.txt plain text: 36017.txt item: #6 of 8 id: 38251 author: Ingleby, Leonard Cresswell title: Oscar Wilde date: None words: 67185 flesch: 76 summary: The Athenæum's_ critic wrote, The mantle of Mr Gilbert has fallen on the shoulders of Mr Oscar Wilde, who wears it in jauntiest fashion. Lady Hunstanton too, who prattles away about everybody and everything and gets mixed up in all her statements, as for instance, when referring to somebody as a clergyman who wanted to be a lunatic, she is uncertain if it was not a lunatic who wanted to be a clergyman, but who at anyrate wore straws in his hair or something equally odd, is drawn with a fidelity to nature that shows what a really great student of character Oscar Wilde was. keywords: 8vo; act; art; artist; author; beauty; book; cheveley; chiltern; cloth; crown; day; dead; death; dorian; english; face; friend; gold; good; goring; head; heart; herod; house; husband; king; lady; letter; life; lines; look; lord; love; man; men; mother; mrs; nature; net; new; night; note; oscar; picture; piece; place; play; poem; poet; point; prison; prose; reading; robert; room; salomé; scene; sir; stage; story; thing; time; tragedy; view; way; wife; wilde; windermere; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 38251.txt plain text: 38251.txt item: #7 of 8 id: 38916 author: Grolleau, Charles title: The Trial of Oscar Wilde, from the Shorthand Reports date: None words: 38002 flesch: 73 summary: The clerk at the enquiry office stated that Mr. Wilde was not on the premises. You say positively that Mr. Wilde committed sodomy with you at the Savoy? WITNESS.--Yes. keywords: alfred; art; atkins; book; burton; case; charles; court; day; douglas; edward; english; evidence; gentleman; judge; jury; letters; life; little; lord; love; man; mavor; men; mind; money; nature; oscar; paris; parker; place; rooms; sir; sir edward; soul; street; taylor; thought; time; trial; way; wilde; witness.--"i; witness.--"yes; wood; work; years cache: 38916.txt plain text: 38916.txt item: #8 of 8 id: 921 author: Wilde, Oscar title: De Profundis date: None words: 17884 flesch: 78 summary: For prison life with its endless privations and restrictions makes one rebellious. They will know nothing of life till they do,--and natures like his can realise it. keywords: art; christ; day; god; great; greek; heart; life; love; man; moment; nature; people; pleasure; prison; sorrow; soul; things; time; world cache: 921.txt plain text: 921.txt