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 - 136. oldalszerző: Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1854Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
| Arthur Hobson Quinn - 1997 - 872 oldal
...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 despise a world which galled his self-conceit." Griswold enclosed this passage in quotation marks in the Tribune article, but omitted them when he... | |
| John MacLachlan Gray - 2007 - 316 oldal
...to a morbid excess, that which is vulgarly called ambition, the hard wish to succeed not serve, but succeed that he might have the right to despise a world which galled his self-conceit. We must omit any particular criticism of Mr. Poe's works. As a writer of tales he was scarcely surpassed... | |
| 1850 - 632 oldal
...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. u LAUGH AND GET FAT P BV JOHN KK.NYON. Luck we motives to laugh : Arc not all things, алт. thing,... | |
| Ian Malcolm Walker - 1997 - 437 oldal
...morbid excess, that desire to rise which is vulgarly called ambition, but no wish for the esteem or love of his species; only the hard wish to succeed...to despise a world which galled his self-conceit. '2 We have suggested the influence of his aims and vicissitudes upon his literature. It was more conspicuous... | |
| 1850 - 514 oldal
...had. to a morb,d excess. that desire to rise which is vulgarly called ambltion, but no wish for the esteem or the love of his species ; only the hard wish to sacceed — not shine, not serve— succeed, that he might have the right to despise a world which... | |
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