The Artist's Studio is a place of seduction and transformative power in Oscar Wilde's work. The Picture of Dorian Gray opens in a studio: here Dorian is first seduced by Lord Henry Wotton's decadent pronouncements and here the picture that leads Dorian to ruin is created. The dual images of creation and decay represented by the studio draw Wilde's reader into the very public battle waging over Aestheticism, the movement that adopted Wilde as its most prominent emblem and most notorious sinner.
The Aesthetic Movement encompassed the visual arts, the decorative arts, and literature. At Oxford, Wilde studied under the two great art critics of the Victorian age, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. Pater's injunction "to know one's ......
A RICH MAN gave a great feast, to which he invited many friends and acquaintances. His Dog availed himself of the occasion to invite a stranger Dog, a friend of his, saying, "My master gives a feast, and there is always much food remaining; come and sup with me tonight." The Dog thus invited went at the hour appointed, and seeing the preparations for so grand an entertainment, said in the joy of his heart, "How glad I am that I came! I do not often get such a chance as this. I will take care and eat enough to last me both today and tomorrow." While he was congratulating himself and wagging his tail to convey his pleasure to his friend, the Cook saw him moving about among his dishes and, seizing him by his fore and hind ......
Tell me you are mine. I'll be yours through all the years, till the end of time.
请告诉我你是我的。岁岁年年，我都属于你，永远永远。
Love is a fire which burns unseen.
爱情是无形燃烧的火焰。
I feel happy at times we have had angry words but these have been kissed away.
我们生气争执时，爱的双唇把它们吻得无影无踪，我的心也顿觉甜蜜。
You cannot appreciate happiness unless you have known sadness too.
不知道什么是忧伤，就不会真正感激幸福。
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all losses are restored, and sorrows end.
只要我一想起你，亲爱的人，所有的失落和遗憾烟消云散。