 | Thomas Finlayson Henderson - 1904 - 250 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... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1907 - 176 páginas
...lights and shades in my character. . . . The great misfortune of my life was never to have an aim. I had felt early some stirrings of ambition, but they were...gropings of Homer's Cyclops round the walls of his cave." (Letter of Burns to Dr. Moore.) 1f 40. — " preestablished harmony " : The German philosopher Leibnitz... | |
 | George Iles - 1908 - 202 páginas
...years afterward within 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...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 52 is... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1910 - 706 páginas
...afterwards within 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...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... | |
 | John Alexander Joyce - 1910 - 156 páginas
...afterwards within 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 father's situation entailed on me perpetual labor. The... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1911 - 444 páginas
...afterwards within 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...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... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1910 - 250 páginas
...above, are the following sentences: "The great misfortune of my Me 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... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - 1914 - 730 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,... | |
 | WILLARD C. GORE - 1915 - 390 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... | |
 | Ralph Knight - 1959 - 246 páginas
...to point me out the line of innocence. The great misfortune of my We 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 economy,... | |
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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. 
