The line appears in Wilde’s 1892 play Lady Windermere’s Fan, where the character Lord Darlington reflects on the contrast between human struggles and hope for something better ....
He is hard to make out at first glance, but sitting among the bowler-hatted students is OscarWilde, soon to be one of the most recognisable figures in Victorian society.
OscarWilde, born in Dublin in 1854, became one of the sharpest literary voices of the Victorian era, known for wit, paradox, social satire, and the philosophy of aestheticism ....