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And now it was that the unpopularity resulting from Captain Wilde's official employment manifested its most baleful effects. Had he possessed at this crisis the same general good-will he had enjoyed four years before, he might have bid defiance to the rage of his enemies, and have escaped, in spite of all the suspicious circumstances by which he stood environed.
He presumed that he need not add that he referred to young Mr Troubridge, to whose exceptional skill as a seaman and a navigator they all owed so much! These remarks were greeted with so much enthusiasm that it was with the utmost difficulty I succeeded in making it understood to Wilde's manifest relief that for certain good and sufficient reasons I must decline to accept the proffered office.
It will secure the happiness and prosperity of a continent yes, a hemisphere!" "Oh," said Hawberk. "And eventually," I continued more quietly, "it will secure the happiness of the whole world." "And incidentally your own happiness and prosperity as well as Mr. Wilde's?" "Exactly," I smiled. But I could have throttled him for taking that tone.
His very cocksureness is filched from Darwin's morality of strength based on the survival of the fittest. And what did Bergson do with it? Touched it up with a bit of James' pragmatism, rosied it over with the eternal hope in man's breast that he will live again, and made it all a-shine with Nietzsche's 'nothing succeeds like excess " "Wilde's, you mean," corrected Ernestine.
She goes familiarly amongst her acquaintance by the name of the Dragoon. A cold shiver passes visibly down Mr. Wilde's back; unfortunately Miss Nevill perceives it, and makes up her mind instantly. "I would not deprive you of so charming a companion," she says, smiling sweetly at him, and passes her arm through that of the French vicomte.
The quality of Oscar Wilde's is scarcely disputed. There is the more reason to dwell on Mr. Bernard Shaw's plays, because they have not even in the twentieth century been fully accepted by that queer folk, the theatre-going public. But I never yet heard of anyone who saw You Never can Tell, and was not amused by it.
Sir Edward Clarke, interposing, said: "That's not Mr. Wilde's, Mr. Gill." Mr. Gill: "I am not aware that I said it was." Sir Edward Clarke: "I thought you would be glad to say it was not." Mr. Gill insisted that Mr. Wilde should explain the poem in "Praise of Shame." Mr.
The music of "Salome," for instance, is not even commensurable with Wilde's drama. It was the evacuation of an obsessive desire, the revulsion from a pitiless sensuality that the poet had intended to procure through this representation.
The above account was printed, though not published, in 1911, and in 1914 Shaw published his recollection of what took place at this consultation. Readers may judge from the comparison how far my general story is worthy of credence. He was one of the few men of letters who really appreciated Oscar Wilde, though he did not rally fiercely to Wilde's side until the world deserted Oscar in his ruin.
Captain Wilde's temper was more than usually mild and lenient; and he was probably the most wretched being on his own plantation during the last two years of his life, a day seldom passing that he was not compelled to inflict some sort of punishment upon his negroes.
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