It was argued with great ability by Serjeant Wilde and Mr. Sugden, who received fees in this case to an amount previously unknown to the Bar.
The Serjeants were present (the five petitioners), and Wilde prompting Follett all the time.
Beleeue me noble Lord, I am a stranger heere in Gloustershire, These high wilde hilles, and rough vneeuen waies, Drawes out our miles, and makes them wearisome.
Strong Enobarbe Is weaker then the Wine, and mine owne tongue Spleet's what it speakes: the wilde disguise hath almost Antickt vs all.
Take good Cominius With thee awhile: Determine on some course More then a wilde exposture, to each chance That starts i'th' way before thee Corio.
Then comes she to me, And (with wilde lookes) bid me deuise some meanes To rid her from this second Marriage, Or in my Cell there would she kill her selfe.
For there is not a more fearefull wilde foule then your Lyon liuing: and wee ought to looke to it Snout.
Let them pull all about mine eares, present me Death on the Wheele, or at wilde Horses heeles, Or pile ten hilles on the Tarpeian Rocke, That the precipitation might downe stretch Below the beame of sight; yet will I still Be thus to them.
But they were also seriously impressed by Flaubert, by Oscar Wilde and all the rest who told them that a work of art was in another universe from ethics and social good.
Oscar Wilde was its god; but he was somewhat more mystical, not to say monstrous, than the average of its dried and decorous impudence.
Shaw's humane voice and hearty manner were so obviously more the things of a great man than the hard, gem-like brilliancy of Wilde or the careful ill-temper of Whistler.
Was tha mone fvl and thene se vnstumich, than hlip hju over et wilde hef, tha stjurar to hropande that hja alle skolde vrgan, sahwersa hja hiri navt anbidda nilde.
Thera ther in da hage marka saton, ther anna Twisklanda palon, wrdon Saxmanna heton, uthawede hja immer wepned weron vr that wilde kwik and vrwildarda Britne.
To fara wrdon er ak tha selva wrigga fonden, mar vsa ethla havon alle krylwalda vrbarnath and alsanaka after et wilde kwik jaged, that ther fe mar resta.
That bisawd-vs, and likt vs bal to, men Nearchus teld vs, sin kening wilde tha othera keninggar tana that i weldiger were, sa tha keninggar fon Thyris er wesen hede.
Wilde observes that stone hammers, and not unfrequently stone anvils, have been employed by smiths and tinkers in some of the remote country districts until a comparatively recent period.
Sir William Wilde informs us that in Ireland[48] “stone hammers, and not unfrequently stone anvils, have been employed by country smiths and tinkers in some of the remote country districts until a comparatively recent period.
Wilde mentions one in the museum of the Royal Irish Academy, 10 3∕4 inches long, which is said to have been recently in use.
Sir William Wilderegards the triangular as the primary form, and the leaf-shaped and lozenge-shaped as the last.
Oscar Wilde once remarked that only superficial people disliked the superficial.
The damned wantlessness of the poor," about which Oscar Wilde complained, the cry for a little more fodder, gives way to an insistence upon the chance to be interested in life.
If disobedience is man's original virtue, as Oscar Wilde suggested, it was an extraordinarily virtuous century.
Two recent writers of English dramatic prose have stood out from their fellows in respect of the sheer beauty of their style--I need scarcely name Oscar Wilde and J.
But Oscar Wilde was not content with this vague expectancy.
Footnote 1: This method of heightening the tension would have been somewhat analogous to that employed by Oscar Wilde in Lady Windermere's instructions to her butler, cited on p.
Among them would be one of those; profound sayings which Wilde now and then threw off in his lightest moods, like opals among soap-bubbles.
It is impossible to say whether Wilde seriously believed that "psychology" entered into the matter at all, or whether he was laughing in his sleeve in putting forward this solemn plea.
As one reads it, one feels how right Oscar Wilde was when he said that Mr. Kipling had seen many strange things through keyholes.
He has succeeded in interesting us largely by inventing himself as a public figure, as Oscar Wilde and Stevenson did before him.
He is not content with witty conversation about life, as Wilde was: he has an actual comic vision of human society.
It fell to the lot of Sir Thomas Wilde to reply for the Crown, in Oxford's case, as in that of Frost; and he discharged the responsible duty with his usual clearness and cogency.
Sir Thomas Wilde vigorously and contemptuously crushed under foot the mischievous sophistries of the medical evidence.
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