[BOOK][B] The Works of Oscar Wilde: What never dies. A romance, by Barbey D'Aurevilly. Translatedinto English by Sebastian Melmoth (Oscar Wilde)-v. 14. Essays and …

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If pity, the sweet and desolate pity exhaled in every line of the poem entitled" The Ballad of
Reading Gaol," could have softened the wasted, wandering life of him who elected to be
called Sebastian Melmoth, and paved the arduous, almost impossible, road whereon the
Sisyphus-like task of regeneration was to have been attempted, it happily cannot be
gainsaid that in Paris, the city of light and learning, there was no lack of heartfelt
commiseration showered upon the ill-fated Napoleon of epigram. And pure and honest …
If pity, the sweet and desolate pity exhaled in every line of the poem entitled" The Ballad of Reading Gaol," could have softened the wasted, wandering life of him who elected to be called Sebastian Melmoth, and paved the arduous, almost impossible, road whereon the Sisyphus-like task of regeneration was to have been attempted, it happily cannot be gainsaid that in Paris, the city of light and learning, there was no lack of heartfelt commiseration showered upon the ill-fated Napoleon of epigram. And pure and honest wielders of the pen, men with talent and position, albeit of another race and speaking another tongue, did not disdain to welcome the solitary giant, bent beneath the weight of former vice and perversion, accumulated by his own hand, self-murdered by the miserable mania that had seized and gripped him fast, despite the efforts of his reasoning self. In all men, but more especially in those of strongly developed intellect, there are two beings, 1
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