Word: clinging
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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Although Mr. Longfellow is credited with the opinion that Oscar Wilde is destined to make his mark as a poet, and although others have declared him to be a young man of grand poetic promise, we still cling to the popular judgment of the man and his work as being essentially the true one thus far. And notwithstanding that we deprecate, as much as any, all unmannerly gibes and epithets as tending to our own harm the most, still we claim that Mr. Wilde is a proper subject for reasonable satire and even ridicule, in all that...