 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1868 - 688 pages
...hald, To thole the winter's sleety dribble, An' cranreuch caukl ! But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane, Jn proving foresight may be vain : , The best laid schemes...lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy. i Still thou art blest, compar'd wi' me I The present only Unicheth thee : But, Och ! I backward cast... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Taylor - 1868 - 292 pages
...were poets, and all poets were Burns-es, and all Bums-es had sung, " But, mousie, thou art not alane, In proving foresight may be vain ; The best laid schemes o mice an' men Gang aft a-gley, An' lea'e us naught but grief and pain For promised joy," it wouldn't mend the matter ; it wouldn't turn back the... | |
 | Thomas Crampton - 1868 - 136 pages
...trouble, But house or hald, To thole the winter's sleety dribble, An' cranreuch cauld ! POET8 AND POETRY. But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain ; The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley, And lea'e us nought but grief and pain, For promis'd joy. Still thou art blest,... | |
 | Woodland - Animals - 1868 - 186 pages
...thy trouble, But * house or hauM t To thole | the winter's sleety dribble, And cranreuch § cauld ; But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane || In proving foresight may be vain : The best-laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley,l And lea'e us nought but grief and pain For promised... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1868 - 312 pages
...trouble, But house or hald, To thole the winter's sleety dribble, An' cranreuch cauld ! But, llousie, thou art no thy lane,} In proving foresight may be vain : The best uid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, An' Ica'c us nought but grief and pain, For promis'd... | |
 | 1869 - 1098 pages
...France. But the kings and diplomatists have done well to lay to heart the homely wisdom of Burns: " The best laid schemes o' mice an" men Gang aft a-gley, An' leave us nonght but grief and pain For promised loy." Louis Phillippe's throne fell miserably to pieces... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Bible - 1870 - 550 pages
...reflection, when, apostrophising the "wee sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie," he thus moralised his song:— "But, mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain : The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief an' pain, For promised... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 432 pages
...reflection, when, apostrophising the "wee sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie," he thus moralised his song:— "But, mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain : The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief an' pain, For promised... | |
 | Ontario. Council of Public Instruction - English language - 1871 - 506 pages
...out, for a' thy trouble, But house or hald, To thole the winter's sleety dribble And cranreuch cauld ? But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain : The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley, And lea'e us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy. Still thou art blest,... | |
 | Oliver Optic - Adventure stories - 1871 - 380 pages
...world. I wished that he might recall, if he had ever heard of it, the Scotch poet's proverb, that 15 " The best laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft a-gley, An' lea'e us nought but grief and pain For promised joy." This bit of romance was not likely to end in a marriage, thanks to the... | |
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