 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1879 - 428 pages
...in his life, as in his writmgs. 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 ' — the precocious maturity of his passions and his intellect, his manly frame, that led him to fear... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1880 - 858 pages
...life," he. continues, " was to want an aim. I had felt early some stirrings of ambition, but they were deeply on the things of God. They now likewise observed the fasts o saw my father's situation entailed on me perpetual labour. The only two openings by which I could enter... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English literature - 1880 - 182 pages
...Ambition early made itself felt in him : '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 whioh I could enter the temple of fortune were the gate of niggardly economy,... | |
 | Thomas W. Handford - Biography - 1885 - 456 pages
...life," he continues, " 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 labor. The only two openings by which I could enter... | |
 | M. S. Gairdner - Poets, Scottish - 1886 - 96 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." — Burns's letter to Dr. Moore — Currie, vol. i., p. 48. necessity for strict economy made the family... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1887 - 730 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... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - English poetry - 1894 - 248 pages
...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 - Poets, Scottish - 1896 - 710 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... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - Poets, Scottish - 1896 - 710 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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1896 - 520 pages
...misfortune of my life was never to have 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 doors by which I could enter... | |
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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. 
