The first stone : on reading the unpublished parts of De profundis

T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson) Crosland

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FIRST STONi:883-f ' T. W. H. C^OSLAND I READING E UNPUBLISHED PARTS IJ.: /^NDIS' THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIAOF LOS ANGELES iigiTizea inele iniemeiiniemei,Arcniveoy in 2007 with funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation ittp://www.arcliive.org/details/firststoneonreaclOOcrosiala First StoneThe ^ ' Scnnetitnes a horrible marionette atid\jDome8\ out [amokesl its cigarette Upon the steps like a live thing. The Harlot's House, ' is noble or tJie reverse, according to the dignityGrief and andworthiness tJie object lamented, the grandeurof the mind enduring it.'of Modern Painters. The First Stone By T. W. H. Crosland On Reading The Unpublished Parts Of 'De Profundis' London Published by the Author Fourteen Conduit Street 1912 ?R Foreword «Tr^E PROFUNDIS' is everybody's book. One's isI J opinion of it does not alter the fact that it read and admired who have nothingby people but loathing for ' The Picture of Dorian Gray,"" and little but amused contempt for 'Intentions.' It was put before 'the world as an explanation ' and accepted more or less as an expression of contrition. With the ex- ception of a very occasional row of periods, there is nothing about indicate that it is fragmentaryit to a or incomplete work, or that it has been edited into its present form by the simple process of omitting quite half of what the author really wrote. In his preface *Mr.

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• Langue: English

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