 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - English fiction - 1849 - 360 pages
...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 his self-conceit, and enjoy the pleasures which the redundant nervous life in him seemed to crave. Such were the more... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 298 pages
...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-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 pages
...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 pages
...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-conceit. THE UNPARALLELED ADVENTURE OF ONE HANS PFAALL. With a heart of furious fancies, Whereof I am commander,... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1855 - 420 pages
...no apparent wish for fame, or esteem, or the love of his species; only the hard wish to succeed, not shine, not serve,—succeed, that he might have the...to despise a world which galled his self-conceit, and enjoy the pleasures which the redundant nervous life in him seemed to crave. Such were the more... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1856 - 364 pages
...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 his selfconceit, and enjoy the pleasures which the redundant nervous life in him seemed to crave. Such were the the... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1857 - 560 pages
...now, to his Maker, God." The influence of Mr. Poe's aims and vicissitudes upon his literature, wai more conspicuous in his later than in his earlier...Nearly all that he wrote in the last two or three years — including much of his best poetry, — was in some sense biographical; in draperies of his... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1865 - 578 pages
...esteem of the love of his species ; only (he hard wish to succeed— not shine, not serve — succeed, that he might have the right to despise a world which galled his self-conceit. THE UNPARALLELED ADVENTURE OP ONE HANS PFAALL. With a heart of furious fancies, Whereof I am commander,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1871 - 556 pages
...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 UNPARALLELED ADVENTURE OF ONE HANS PFAALL, With a heart of furious fancies, Whereof I am commander,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1874 - 644 pages
...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. ' " Now, this is dastardly, and what is worse, it is false. It is very adroitly done, with phrases... | |
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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... 
