Chapter 11
type of on or Oxford days, a type t o combine someture of tinction and perfect manner of a citizen of to to be of te describes as to quot;make t by ty.quot; Like Gautier, ;ted.quot;
And, certainly, to self , test, of ts, and for it all ts seemed to be but a preparation. Fas is really fantastic becomes for a moment universal, and dandyism, tempt to assert te modernity of beauty, ion for icular styles t from time to time ed, es of t ried to reproduce tal co him only half-serious fopperies.
For, oo ready to accept tion t immediately offered to le pleasure in t t really become to t to imperial Neronian Rome tyricon once in o be someter elegantiarum, to be consulted on tting of a necktie, or t of a cane. to elaborate some neualizing of ts realization.
ten, and ice, been decried, men feeling a natural instinct of terror about passions and sensations t seem stronger t tence. But it appeared to Dorian Gray t true nature of tood, and t t to starve to submission or to kill tead of aiming at making ts of a neuality, of for beauty o be t ceristic. As ory, ed by a feeling of loss. So muco suctle purpose! tions, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, ion infinitely more terrible t fancied degradation from o escape; Nature, in te to feed and giving to t ts of the field as his companions.
Yes: to be, as Lord o recreate life and to save it from t anism t is s curious revival. It o s service of tellect, certainly, yet it o accept any tem t e ex