 | Sir William Alexander Craigie - 1896 - 244 pages
...striking image in the letter to Dr. Moore, where the poet compares his early stirrings of ambition to "the blind gropings of Homer's Cyclops round the walls of his cave." No less picturesque in its own way is the one already quoted from this letter, where he describes himself... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 544 pages
...Burns, "was to want an aim. I had felt early some stirrings of amK.'ll l: I BUKNS. bition, but they were the blind gropings of Homer's Cyclops round the walls of his cave. I saw my father's condition entailed on me perpetual labor. The only openings by which I could enter... | |
 | James McKillop - 1898 - 218 pages
...my life," he says, " was to want an aim. I had felt early some strivings of ambition, but they were the blind gropings of Homer's Cyclops round the walls of his cave." Yet some have striven to maintain that his ability was such as to have enabled him to hold any office... | |
 | William Harvey - Stirlingshire (Scotland) - 1899 - 180 pages
...misfortune of my life was never to have an aim. I had felt early some stirrings of ambition, tut 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... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1900 - 248 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 labor. The only two doors by which I could enter... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1900 - 250 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 labor. The only two doors by which I could enter... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - English language - 1914 - 728 pages
...giant Cyclops. BREWER, Read. Handb., 11566. 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, Letter to Dr. Moore, (53a). A little cyclops, with one eye | Staring to threaten and defy. WORDSWORTH,... | |
 | Thomas Finlayson Henderson - Literary Criticism - 1904 - 246 pages
...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 Finlayson Henderson - Literary Criticism - 1904 - 250 pages
...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 - Authors, Scottish - 1907 - 176 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." (Letter of Burns to Dr. Moore.) 1f 40. — " preestablished harmony " : The German philosopher Leibnitz... | |
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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. 
