 To write, I say. There are ten thousand men who, if the book were once written, would laugh at the notion of being disturbed by its publication during their life, and who could not even conceive why they should object to its being published after their...  Graham's Magazine - Page 241848Full view - About this book
 | Eliza Cook - English periodicals - 1849 - 432 pages
...during their life, and who could not even conceive tcAy they should object to its heing published after their death. But to write it — there is the rub....man dare write it. No man ever will dare write it. THE true philosophical act is annibilation of self; this is the real heginning of all philosopby; Dll... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1857 - 628 pages
...during their life, and who could not even conceive why they should object to its being published after their death. But to write it — there is the rub....shrivel and blaze at every touch of the fiery pen. XLIL All that the man of genius demands for his exaltation is moral matter in motion. It makes no difference... | |
 | American literature - 1859 - 616 pages
...during their life, and who could not even conceive why they should object to its being published after their death. But to write it — there is the rub. No man dare write it. No man evef will dare write it. No man could write it, even if he dared. The paper would shrivel and blaze... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1881 - 588 pages
...during their life, and who could not even conceive why they should object to its being published after their death. But to write it — there is the rub....dare write it. No man ever will dare write it. No man eovld write it, even if he dared. The paper would shrivel ,ind blaze at every touch of the fiery pen.... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - American literature - 1883 - 542 pages
...during their life, and who could not even conceive why they should object to its being published after their death. But to write it — there is the rub....shrivel and blaze at every touch of the fiery pen. COL — TRAVELS. When and pavoneggiarsi about the celebrated personages whom they have " seen " in... | |
 | Annie Besant - Free thought - 1883 - 488 pages
...they should object to its being published after their death. But to write it — there is the rob. No man dare write it. No man ever will dare write...shrivel and blaze at every touch of the fiery pen." Without dwelling on the modification and consequent logical derangement to which Poe subjects his own... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 462 pages
...even conceive why they should object to its being published after their death. But to write it—there is the rub. No man dare write it. No man ever will...shrivel and blaze at every touch of the fiery pen. XLH All that the man of genius demands for his exaltation is moral matter in motion. It makes no difference... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1908 - 356 pages
...they should object to its being pub- Vv lished after their death. But to write it — there is ,! J the rub. No man dare write it. No man ever will dare...shrivel and blaze at every touch of the fiery pen. XLII All that the man of genius demands for his exaltation is moral matter in motion. It makes no difference... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - North American review - 1919 - 898 pages
...finish his. Poe, who also died tragically young, throws out a sinister hint in these last words : " No man could write it, even if he dared. The paper...shrivel and blaze at every touch of the fiery pen." Baudelaire's Confessions are meant to express his most inmost convictions, his most sacred memories,... | |
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