 | Society of ancient Scots - 1821 - 226 páginas
...laid of certain habits, which strongly marked his future character through life. He had early felt some stirrings of .ambition, but they were the blind...gropings of Homer's Cyclops round the walls of his cave. He loathed the situation in which fortune had placed him ; but was without any other direct aim or... | |
 | Joseph Clinton Robertson - 1822 - 414 páginas
...laid of certain habits, which strongly marked his future character through life. He had early felt some stirrings of ambition, but they were the blind...gropings of Homer's Cyclops round the walls of his cave. He loathed the situation in which fortune had placed him ; but was without any other direct aim or... | |
 | 1824 - 312 páginas
...afterwards within the limits of innocence. The great misfortune of my life was the want of aim. I had felt early some stirrings of ambition, but they were...enter the temple of fortune, was the gate of niggardly economy, or the path of little chicaning bargain-making1. The first is so contracted an aperture, I... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - 1826 - 226 páginas
...was to want an aim. I had felt early some stirrings of ambition, but they were the blind groupings of Homer's Cyclops round the walls of his cave. I...enter the temple of Fortune, was the gate of niggardly economy, or the path of little chicaning bargain-making. The first is so contracted an aperture, I... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1826 - 272 páginas
...line of innocence. The great misfortune of my life was to want an aim. I had felt early some stirnngs of ambition, but they were the blind gropings of Homer's...of his cave. I saw my father's situation entailed upon me perpetual labor. The only two openings by which I could enter the temple of Fortune, was the... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1826 - 734 páginas
...years afterwards within the line of innocence. The great misfortune of my life was to want an aim. I saw my father's situation entailed on me perpetual labour. The only two openings hy which 1 could enter the temple of Fortune, were the gate of niggardly economy, or the path of little... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1828 - 324 páginas
...years afterwards within the line of innocence. The great misfortune of my life was to want an aim. I saw my father's situation entailed on me perpetual labour. The only two openings by which 1 could enter the temple of Fortune, were the gate of niggardly economy, or the path of little chicaning... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1830 - 340 páginas
...fond of it" line of innocence. The great misfortune of my life was to want an aim. I saw my lather's situation entailed on me perpetual labour. The only...openings by which I could enter the temple of fortune, were the gate of niggardly economy, or the path of little chicaning bargainmaking. The first is so... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1831 - 484 páginas
...afterwards wit li in the line of innocence. The great misfortune of my life was to want an aim. I had felt early some stirrings of ambition, but they were the blind gropings of Homer's Cyclop round the walls of his cave. I saw my fathei's situation entailed on me perpetual labour. The... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1831 - 338 páginas
...misfortune of my life was to want an aim. I saw my father's situation entailed on me perpetual labor. The only two openings by which I could enter the temple of Fortune, were the gate of niggardly economy, or the path of little chicaning bargain-making. The first is so... | |
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The great misfortune of my life was — to want an aim. I had felt early some stirrings of ambition, but they were the blind gropings of Homer's Cyclops round the walls of his cave. 
