 | Robert Burns - 1881 - 700 Seiten
...hewever, " within the line of innoeenee.'3 " The great misfortune of my life was to want an ami. I had felt early some stirrings of ambition, but they were the blind gropings of Homer's Cyelops round the walls of his eave." The farm had been so unproduetive as to involve the whele family... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1882 - 380 Seiten
...about this time he began to see the dangerous impetuosity of my brother's passions, as •want an aim. I saw my father's situation entailed on me perpetual...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... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1883 - 586 Seiten
...of ambition, but they were the blind gropings of Homer's Cyclops round the walls of his cave. . . . 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... | |
 | Thomas W. Handford - 1885 - 456 Seiten
...the line of innocence. " The great misfortune of my life," he continues, " 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 was the gate of niggardly... | |
 | M. S. Gairdner - 1886 - 96 Seiten
...1882), quoting Rev. James Gray, p. 246. J " The great misfortune of my life was to want an aim. I had felt early some stirrings of ambition, but they were...gropings of Homer's Cyclops round the walls of his cave." — Burns's letter to Dr. Moore — Currie, vol. i., p. 48. necessity for strict economy made the family... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1887 - 730 Seiten
...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... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1894 - 258 Seiten
...even a half-result. Born poor, he remained poor until the end. ' I had felt early,' he tells us, ' some stirrings of ambition, but they were the blind...gropings of Homer's Cyclops round the walls of his cave. The only two openings by which I could enter the temple of fortune, were the gate of niggardly economy,... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1896 - 710 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1896 - 710 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1896 - 520 Seiten
...point me 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...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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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. 
