The English Renaissance of Art, by Oscar Wilde, Part 1
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Wilde and Whistler
Wilde always admitted that, relying on an old and intimate friendship, he asked the artist's assistance on one occasion for a lecture he had failed to prepare in time. Here will be found the origin of Whistler's charges of plagiarism against the author. How far they are justified, the reader can decide for himself. I would only point out once more that all the works by which Wilde is known throughout Europe were written after the two friends at Quarled.
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