Decorative Art in America: A LectureBrentano's, 1906 - 294 páginas |
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Decorative Art in America: A Lecture, Together with Letters, Reviews and ... Oscar Wilde Visualização completa - 1906 |
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ABODE OF ARTISTS actor admirable æsthetic appeared Art in America beautiful Boston Browning Century Charles charming colour copies costume Critic as Artist Decay of Lying Decorative Art Dorian Gray DRAMATIC CRITICS Dress to Art edition editor England English poetess English Renaissance essay expression exquisite eyes February French George Keats grave Greek Hester House of Pomegranates Ideal Husband Joaquin Miller John Keats Lady Langtry lecture letter literary literature London Lord Houghton Mary merely models modern never Note obedient servant Oscar Wilde painter painting Pall Mall Budget Pall Mall Gazette Paris perfect personality Picture of Dorian play pleasure poems poet poetry portrait prose published puppets Salomé Sarah Bernhardt Severn Shamrock Shelley song sonnet Sonnet on Blue Soul stage Theatre thing tion translation verses vulgar Weekly Sun Whistler Whistler's Ten O'Clock Wilde's Woman's World words write wrote
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Página 206 - Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also His coat : now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be...
Página 210 - I think of green fields; I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have known from my infancy — their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with a superhuman fancy.
Página 103 - ... the sphere of Art and the sphere of Ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.
Página 210 - The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.
Página 208 - And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night: he took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.
Página 67 - Forget-me-not, — the blue-bell, — and, that queen Of secrecy, the violet : what strange powers Hast thou, as a mere shadow ! But how great, When in an Eye thou art, alive with fate...
Página 122 - By its deliberate rejection of Nature as the ideal of beauty, as well as of the imitative method of the ordinary painter, decorative art not merely prepares the soul for the reception of true imaginative work, but develops in it that sense of form which is the basis of creative no less than of critical achievement.
Página 56 - ... wrote To one he loved in secret, and apart. And now the brawlers of the auction mart Bargain and bid for each poor blotted note, Ay ! for each separate pulse of passion quote The merchant's price. I think they love not art Who break the crystal of a poet's heart That small and sickly eyes may glare and gloat. Is it not said that many years ago, In a far Eastern town, some soldiers ran With torches through the midnight, and began To wrangle for mean raiment, and to throw Dice for the garments...
Página 128 - Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Página 131 - There are many advantages in puppets. They never argue. They have no crude views about art. They have no private lives. We are never bothered by accounts of their virtues, or bored by recitals of their vices; and when they are out of an engagement they never do good in public or save people from drowning; nor do they speak more than is set down for them. They recognise the presiding intellect of the dramatist, and have never been known to ask for their parts to be written up.