Lesson 4-The Nightingale and the Rose III Oscar wilde I was a man who stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture of my age . The gods had given me almost everything. I had genius, a distinguished name, high social position brilliancy intellectual daring; I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art i altered the minds of men and the colour of things: there was nothing i said or did that did not make people wonder. W BTL E To be continued on the next page.Lesson 4—The Nightingale and the Rose W B T L E III. Oscar Wilde I was a man who stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture of my age... The gods had given me almost everything. I had genius, a distinguished name, high social position, brilliancy, intellectual daring; I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men and the colour of things: there was nothing I said or did that did not make people wonder... To be continued on the next page