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Original paragraph in
Dublin Daily Express - Tuesday, May 28, 1895
Dublin Daily Express - Tuesday, May 28, 1895
Most similar paragraph from
Belfast News-Letter - Tuesday, May 28, 1895
Belfast News-Letter - Tuesday, May 28, 1895
Difference
No sterner rebuke could well have been inflicted on some of the artistic tendencies of the time than the condemnation on Saturday of
Oscar Wilde at the Central Criminal Court. We have not the slightest intention of reviewing once more all the sordid incidents of a case which has done
enough and more than enough to shock the conscience and outrage the moral instincts of the community. The man has now suffered the penalties of his
career, and may well be allowed to pass from that platform of publicity which he loved into that limbo of disrepute and forgetfulness which is his due.
The grave of contemptuous oblivion may rest on his foolish ostentation, his empty paradoxes, his insufferable posturing, his incurable vanity.
Nevertheless, when we remember that he enjoyed a certain popularity among some sections of Society, and above all when we reflect that what was smiled at
as insolent braggadocio was the cover for, or, at all events ended in flagrant immorality, it is well perhaps that the lesson of his life should not be
passed over without insistence on the terrible warning of his fate.
The "Daily Telegraph" says—No sterner rebuke could well have been inflicted on some of the artistic tendencies of the time than the
condemnation on Saturday of Oscar Wilde at the Central Criminal Court. We have not the slightest intention of reviewing once more all the sordid incidents
of a case which has done enough, and more than enough, to shock the conscience and outrage the moral instincts of the community. The man has now suffered
the penalties of his career, and may well be allowed to pass from that platform of publicity which he loved into that limbo of disreputation and
forgetfulness which is his due. The grave of contemptuous oblivion may rest on his foolish ostentation, his empty paradoxes, his insufferable posturing,
his incurable vanity. Nevertheless, when we remember that he enjoyed a certain popularity among some sections of society, and, above all, when we reflect
that what was smiled at as insolent braggadocio was the cover for, or at all events ended in, flagrant immorality, it is well perhaps that the lesson of
his life should not be passed over without some insistance of the terrible warning of his fate.