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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. "
The works of Robert Burns; with an account of his life, and a criticism on ... - Página 45
de Robert Burns - 1800
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The Life and Works of Robert Burns, Volume 2

Robert Burns - 1896 - 462 páginas
...out the line of Innocence.— The great misfortune of my life was, never to have AN AIM. — I had felt early some stirrings of Ambition, but they were...saw my father's situation entailed on me perpetual labor. — The only two doors by which I could enter the fields of fortune were the most niggardly...
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The Life and Works of Robert Burns, Volume 4

Robert Burns - 1896 - 656 páginas
...direction. He had neither the business disposition nor the business capacity. As lie tells us himself : ' 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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A Primer of Burns

Sir William Alexander Craigie - 1896 - 244 páginas
...striking image in the letter to Dr. Moore, where the poet compares his early stirrings of ambition to "the blind gropings of Homer's Cyclops round the walls of his cave." No less picturesque in its own way is the one already quoted from this letter, where he describes himself...
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The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical ..., Volume 4

John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 542 páginas
...life," says Burns, "was to want an aim. I had felt early some stirrings of amK.'ll l: I BUKNS. bition, but they were the blind gropings of Homer's Cyclops round the walls of his cave. I saw my father's condition entailed on me perpetual labor. The only openings by which I could enter the temple of Fortune...
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Thoughts for the People

James McKillop - 1898 - 218 páginas
..." The great misfortune of my life," he says, " was to want an aim. I had felt early some strivings of ambition, but they were the blind gropings of Homer's Cyclops round the walls of his cave." Yet some have striven to maintain that his ability was such as to have enabled him to hold any office...
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Robert Burns in Stirlingshire

William Harvey - 1899 - 180 páginas
...great misfortune of my life was never to have an aim. I had felt early some stirrings of ambition, tut they were the blind gropings of Homer's Cyclops round...situation entailed on me perpetual labour. The only two doors by which I could enter the fields of fortune were— the most niggardly economy, or the little...
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Essay on Burns: With the Cotter's Saturday Night and Other Poems from Burns

Thomas Carlyle - 1900 - 250 páginas
...above, are the following sentences: "The great misfortune of my life was never to have an aim. I had felt early some stirrings of ambition, but they were...saw my father's situation entailed on me perpetual labor. The only two doors by which I could enter the fields of fortune were — the most niggardly...
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Carlyle's Essay on Burns: With The Cotter's Saturday Night and Other Poems ...

Thomas Carlyle - 1906 - 250 páginas
...above, are the following sentences: "The great misfortune of my life was never to have an aim. I had felt early some stirrings of ambition, but they were...saw my father's situation entailed on me perpetual labor. The only two doors by which I could enter the fields of fortune were — the mos* niggardly...
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A Grammar of Late Modern English, for the Use of Continental ..., Parte 2

Hendrik Poutsma - 1914 - 728 páginas
...Sicily, strayed into the cave of Polyphemos, the giant Cyclops. BREWER, Read. Handb., 11566. I had felt early some stirrings of ambition, but they were...gropings of Homer's cyclops round the walls of his cave. BURNS, Letter to Dr. Moore, (53a). A little cyclops, with one eye | Staring to threaten and defy. WORDSWORTH,...
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Robert Burns

Thomas Finlayson Henderson - 1904 - 246 páginas
...aim," and his father's dislike only made him more careless of finding one. Even thus early he had " stirrings of ambition," but they " were the blind...gropings of Homer's Cyclops round the walls of his cave." For years he had to concentrate his main attention merely on the completion of his " daily tale of...
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