 | Robert Burns - English letters - 1859 - 736 pages
...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 farm had been eo unproduetive as to involve the whole family in distress; and although William... | |
 | 1860 - 782 pages
...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 only two openings, by which J could enter the temple of Fortune, were the gate of niggardly economy,... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1868 - 688 pages
...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. I saw my father's situation entailed on me perpetual labour. The only two openings by which I could enter... | |
 | Children's literature, English - 1868 - 510 pages
...beat with love for old Scotland. The wild stirrings of his ambition, which he so nobly compared to the blind gropings of Homer's Cyclops round the walls of his cave, raised him above the common level. His story is a melancholy one. His early days dark and clouded ;... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1871 - 420 pages
...I were totally misplaced in some frolic of Nature, and wander onwards in gloom and unhappiness from my proper sphere. But, alas ! these efforts of uneasy...began to experience, as on a former occasion, the overmastering power of a mind larger beyond comparison than my own ; but I felt it my duty to resist... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1871 - 516 pages
...misfortune of my life was to want an aim. I had early felt some stirrings of ambition, but they were the blind gropings of Homer's Cyclops round the walls of his cave. With a strong appetite for sociability, as well i?om native hilarity, as from a pride of observation... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1875 - 630 pages
...misfortune of my life was to want an aim. I had felt early some stirrings of emulation; but they were the blind gropings of Homer's Cyclops round the walls of his cave. I saw my father's situation entailed on me perpetual labour. The only two openings by which I could enter... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 870 pages
...his life, as in his writings. The wild stirrings of his ambition — which he so nobly compared to ֱ 5)+6 % H N j Z> ' JB\Lg ?e G 0 1 k Ou F$nZ \ — the precocious maturity of his passions and his intellect, his manly frame, that led him to fear... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1876 - 540 pages
...misfortune of my life was to want an aim. I had early felt some stirrings of ambition, but they were the blind gropings of Homer's Cyclops round the walls of his cave. With a strong appetite for sociability, as well from native hilarity, as from a pride of observation... | |
 | Daniel Dunglas Home - Spiritualism - 1878 - 482 pages
...prophets, God-possessed." Fox's struggles towards the light resembled, in the fine language of Burns, " the blind gropings of Homer's Cyclops round the walls of his cave." It is his fortune to have been always either over-praised or unjustly depreciated. Reasons equally... | |
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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. 
