 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 728 pages
...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...enter the temple of fortune was the gate of niggardly economy, or the path of little chicaning bargainmaking. The first is so contracted an aperture, I never... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 538 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 pages
...with many. You remember Bums said that the great misfortune of bis life was to vrant an aim. He had felt early some stirrings of ambition, but they were...gropings of Homer's Cyclops round the walls of his cave. We read, also, that following the advice given him by Mr. Robinson, he commenced to learn Latin, but... | |
 | John Mackay Wilson - Scotland - 1857 - 292 pages
...gloom and unhappiness, seeking for my proper sphere. But, alas! these efforts of uneasy misery are but the blind gropings of Homer's Cyclops round the walls of his cave." I again began to experience, as on a former occasion, the o'ermastering power of a mind larger beyond... | |
 | Charles C. B. Seymour - Biography - 1858 - 1454 pages
...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 gates of niggardly economy, or the path of little chicaning bargain-making. The first is so... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1859 - 530 pages
...afterwards within the line of innocence. The great misfortune of my life was to want ah aim. I had felt early some stirrings of ambition, but they were...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... | |
 | Robert Burns - English letters - 1859 - 736 pages
...however, " 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...gropings of Homer's Cyclops round the walls of his cave." The farm had been eo unproduetive as to involve the whole family in distress; and although William... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1859 - 284 pages
...life was to want an aim. I had felt early some stirrings of ambition, but they were the blind gropinga of Homer's Cyclops round the walls of his cave. I 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... | |
 | 1860 - 782 pages
...to his views in Life, he continues — " 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. The only two openings, by which J could enter the temple of Fortune, were the gate of niggardly economy,... | |
 | 1868 - 838 pages
...he was very ambitious we have cumulative evidence in his acts and in his words. He tells us : "I had felt early some stirrings of ambition, but they were the blind gropings of Homer's Cyclops round the wills of his cave." Situated as he was, with his want of fortune, friends, or education, and in a country... | |
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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. 
