All 10 Uses of
temperament
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume; there was a real joy in that—perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims….†
Chpt 3
- He felt that the eyes of Dorian Gray were fixed on him, and the consciousness that amongst his audience there was one whose temperament he wished to fascinate, seemed to give his wit keenness, and to lend colour to his imagination.†
Chpt 3
- Still, there are certain temperaments that marriage makes more complex.†
Chpt 6 *
- But the artistic temperament that they create, or at any rate reveal, is still more to me.†
Chpt 9
- Basil would have helped him to resist Lord Henry's influence, and the still more poisonous influences that came from his own temperament.†
Chpt 10
- The hero, the wonderful young Parisian, in whom the romantic and the scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a kind of prefiguring type of himself.†
Chpt 11
- …possess that element of strangeness that is so essential to romance, he would often adopt certain modes of thought that he knew to be really alien to his nature, abandon himself to their subtle influences, and then, having, as it were, caught their colour and satisfied his intellectual curiosity, leave them with that curious indifference that is not incompatible with a real ardour of temperament, and that indeed, according to certain modern psychologists, is often a condition of it.†
Chpt 11
- Had he something of her temperament in him?†
Chpt 11
- Yet one had ancestors in literature, as well as in one's own race, nearer perhaps in type and temperament, many of them, and certainly with an influence of which one was more absolutely conscious.†
Chpt 11
- With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so.†
Chpt 18
Definition:
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(temperament as in: it is her temperament) usual mood and tendencies