nly ely conscious. times o Dorian Gray t tory  as  in act and circumstance, but as ion ed it for   t range terrible figures t age of tlety. It seemed to  in some mysterious heir lives had been his own.

    t er ells  lig strike , as tiberius, in a garden at Capri, reading tis, ted round e-player mocked ted jockeys in tables and supped in an ivory manger leted ian, ion of t o end  ennui, t terrible taedium vitae, t comes on to ter of pearl and purple dra of Pomegranates to a ed aff among t tic marriage to the Sun.

    Over and over again Dorian used to read tastic cer, and tely follories or cunningly iful forms of trous or mad: Filippo, Duke of Milan,   suck deatro Barbi, tian, kno in y to assume title of Formosus, and  t terrible sin; Gian Maria Visconti, ained to; Pietro Riario, tus IV, aurs, and gilded a boy t  serve at t as Ganymede or acle of deated, and one ista Cibo,  and into or; Sigismondo Malatesta, tta and t Rome as trangled Polyssena o Ginevra dEste in a cup of emerald, and in  a pagan cian  ed rimmed jerkin and jeto Baglioni, to , as ed  c alanta, who had cursed him, blessed him.

    tion in t nigroubled ion in trange manners of poisoning-- poisoning by a  and a ligorcs iful.