The Pictvre of Dorian GrayCharterhouse Press, 1904 - 334 páginas |
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... canvas , reveals himself . The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown in it the secret of my own soul . " Lord Henry laughed . " And what is that ? " he asked . " I will tell you , " said Hallward ...
... canvas , reveals himself . The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown in it the secret of my own soul . " Lord Henry laughed . " And what is that ? " he asked . " I will tell you , " said Hallward ...
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... on the platform and resumed his pose . Lord Henry flung himself into a large wicker arm- chair , and watched him . The sweep and dash of the In brush on the canvas made the only sound that 34 THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY .
... on the platform and resumed his pose . Lord Henry flung himself into a large wicker arm- chair , and watched him . The sweep and dash of the In brush on the canvas made the only sound that 34 THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY .
Página 35
... canvas . Lord Henry came over and examined the picture . It was certainly a wonderful work of art , and a wonderful likeness as well . " My dear fellow , I congratulate you most warmly , " he said . " It is the finest portrait of modern ...
... canvas . Lord Henry came over and examined the picture . It was certainly a wonderful work of art , and a wonderful likeness as well . " My dear fellow , I congratulate you most warmly , " he said . " It is the finest portrait of modern ...
Página 39
... canvas and color ? I will not let it come across our three lives and mar them . " Dorian Gray lifted his golden head from the pillow , and with palid face and tear - stained eyes looked at him , as he walked over to the deal painting ...
... canvas and color ? I will not let it come across our three lives and mar them . " Dorian Gray lifted his golden head from the pillow , and with palid face and tear - stained eyes looked at him , as he walked over to the deal painting ...
Página 133
... canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins ; that the painted image might be seared with the lines of suffer- ing and thought , and that he might keep all the deli- cate bloom and loveliness of his then just conscious boyhood ...
... canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins ; that the painted image might be seared with the lines of suffer- ing and thought , and that he might keep all the deli- cate bloom and loveliness of his then just conscious boyhood ...
Términos y frases comunes
afraid Alan Alan Campbell answered Lord Henry artist asked Aunt Agatha Basil Hallward beauty Campbell canvas color cried Dorian curious Dartmoor dead dear boy delightful door Dorian Gray dreadful Duchess Euston Road everything exquisite eyes face fancy fascinating feel felt Ferrol forget girl gold hair hand Harry hideous horrible knew Lady Narborough laughed lips live looked Lord Henry Wotton marriage married monstrous mother murmured never night once one's orphreys OSCAR WILDE painted painter passed passion picture play pleasure portrait Prince Charming rage of Caliban romance round secret seemed Selby sense shook Sibyl Vane sighed smile sorry soul stirred stood strange suddenly talk tell terrible terror thing thought to-night told turned valet voice walked watched wild woman women wonderful young youth
Pasajes populares
Página xiv - The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass.
Página 121 - Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, Which mannerly devotion shows in this ; For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, And palm to palm is holy palmers
Página 274 - that is one of the great secrets of life - to cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul.
Página 7 - Hallward, looking him straight in the face, "every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas* reveals himself. The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown in it the secret of my own soul.
Página 72 - The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grandperes ont toujours tort.
Página 26 - Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind, and poisons us. The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification.
Página 3 - There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Página 162 - ... you. You find me consoled, and you are furious. How like a sympathetic person! You remind me of a story Harry told me about a certain philanthropist who spent twenty years of his life in trying to get some grievance redressed, or some unjust law altered— I forget exactly what it was.
Página 34 - Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last for ever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
Página xiii - There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.