He had, to a morbid excess, that desire to rise which is vulgarly called ambition, but no wish for the esteem or the love of his species; only the hard wish to succeed— not shine, not serve— succeed, that he might have the right to despise a world... The Caxtons: A Family Picture - Side 308af Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1874Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1851 - 256 sider
...had, to a morbid excess, that desire to rise which is vulgarly called ambition, but no wish for the esteem or the love of his species ; only the hard...to despise a world which galled his self-conceit. " We have suggested the influence of his aims and vicissitudes upon his literature. It was more conspicuous... | |
| Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1851 - 380 sider
...a morbid excess, that desire to rise which is vulgarly called ambition, but no wish for •" ^ the esteem or the love of his species; only the hard wish to succeed—not shine, not serve—succeed, that he might have the right to despise a world which galled... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 298 sider
...morbid excess, that desire to rise which is vulgarly called ambition, but no wish for the esteem of the love of his species ; only the hard wish to succeed...to despise a world which galled his self-conceit. TALES OF MYSTERY. 1. What ho ! what ho ! this fellow Is dancing mad He hath been bitten by the Tarantula.... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 308 sider
...ambition, but no wish for the esteem of the love of his species: only the hard wish to succeed—not shine, not serve— succeed, that he might have the right to despise a world which galled his self-ooncoit. 'TALES OF MYSTERY. what ho! what ho! this fellow is dancing mad ' lie hath been bitten... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 556 sider
...morbid excess, that desire to rise which is vulgarly called ambition, but no wish for the esteem of the love of his species ; only the hard wish to succeed...to despise a world which galled his self-conceit. THE UNPARALLELED ADVENTURE OF ONE HANS PFAALL. With a heart of furious fancies, Whereof I am commander,... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1856 - 364 sider
...susceptibility; and, what was more remarkable in a proud nature, little or nothing of the true point of honour. He had, to a morbid excess, that desire to rise which...nervous life in him seemed to crave. Such were the the savage Scandinavian, or the ruthless Frank, lay the germs of a Sidney or a Bayard. What would the... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1857 - 560 sider
...morbid excess, that desire to rise which is vulgarly called ambition, but no wish for the esteem of the love of his species ; only the hard wish to succeed — not shine, not serve — succeed, that be migbt have the right to despise a world which galled his self-conceit THE UNPARALLELED ADVENTURE... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1865 - 578 sider
...morbid excess, that desire to rise which is "ulgarly called ambition, but no wish for the esteem of the love of his species ; only the hard wish to succeed...to despise a world which galled his self-conceit. ' We have suggested the influence of his aims and vicissitudes upon his literature. It was more conspicuous... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1871 - 556 sider
...morbid excess, that desire to rise which is vulgarly called ambition, but no wish for the esteem of the love of his species ; only the hard wish to succeed — not shine, not servt — succeed, that he might have the right to despise a world which galled his self-conceit. THE... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1874 - 644 sider
...had, to a morbid excess, that desire to rise which is vulgarly called ambition, but no wish for the esteem or the love of his species ; only the hard wish to succeed — not shine, nor serve — succeed, that he might have the right to despise a world which galled his self-conceit.... | |
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