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Alan Cardew • Lord Byron: The Perils and Glories of a Classical Education
You have filled them with a madness for pleasure. They have gone down into the depths. You led them there.
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
There was the madness of pride in every word he uttered.
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
It was a principle with Mr Bulstrode to gain as much power as possible, that he might use it for the glory of God. He went through a great deal of spiritual conflict and inward argument in order to adjust his motives, and make clear to himself what God’s glory required. But, as we have seen, his motives were not always rightly appreciated. There we
... See moreGeorge Eliot • Middlemarch
the effect of a subdued unchangeable sceptical smile, of all expressions the most tyrannous over a susceptible mind, and, when accompanied by adequate silence, likely to create the reputation of an invincible understanding, an infinite fund of humour – too dry to flow, and probably in a state of immovable crust, – and a critical judgment which, if
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Of all people in the world the English have the least sense of the beauty of literature."
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
Apart from his dinners and his coursing, Mr Vincy, blustering as he was, had as little of his own way as if he had been a prime minister: the force of circumstances was easily too much for him, as it is for most pleasure-loving florid men; and the circumstance called Rosamond was particularly forcible by means of that mild persistence which, as we
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