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Oscar Wilde" has established this fact with curious erudition and completeness.
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the dullest had to admit that his elocution was excellent, and the manner of
New York especially, he had a certain success, the success of sensation and of
came to his lecture dressed to caricature him in "swallow tail coats, knee
buttonholes and each man carried a huge sunflower as he limped along." That
had not noticed the rudeness. The chief Boston paper gave him due credit:
"Everyone who witnessed the scene on Tuesday evening must feel about it very
pray, at least left the Music Hall with feelings of cordial liking, and, perhaps
fire on the students' heads Oscar presented a cast of the Hermes (then recently
Still he persevered and after leaving the States visited Canada, reaching
I have been told that this was merely a return of money she had advanced; but
again and again most generously, though Willie was always her favourite.
Oscar returned to England in April, 1883, and lectured to the Art Students at
who accused him of plagiarism:--"Picking from our platters the plums for the
delivered in New York only a year before, and with Whistler's well-known
phrases as "artists are not to copy beauty but to create it . . . . a picture
Whistler gave his famous "Ten o'clock" discourse on Art. This lecture was
Whistler was a master of all his resources: he was not only witty, but he had
never was an artistic period. There never was an Art-loving nation." Again
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