| Francis Wayland - 1835 - 494 pągines
...thou art not alone, In proving foresight may be vain : The best laid schemes of mice and men Gang oft agley, And leave us nought but grief and pain For promised joy." BURNS, on turning up a Mouse's nest. Besides, a man, acting from uncontrolled self-love, knows of no... | |
| Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo - 1842 - 330 pągines
...thou art no thy lane Improving foresight may be vain, The best laid schemes of mice and men Gang oft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy." Poor Robin had to experience this, alas ! fatally. It was one bright morning in the waning year, that... | |
| Francis Wayland - 1858 - 442 pągines
...thou art not alone, In proving foresight may be vain. The best laid schemes of mice and men Gang oft agley, And leave us nought but grief and pain for promised joy." BURNS, On turning up a Mouse's Nest. Besides, a man, acting from uncontrolled self-love, knows of no... | |
| Henry Flagg French - 1859 - 410 pągines
...seeing, that there is a liberal flow through all the pipes, even in the now dry soil. And then, again, " The best laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley." and drains will get obstructed, by one or other of the various means suggested in another place. It is... | |
| Pierre Munroe Irving - 1864 - 476 pągines
...eternal yesterday. Alas ! I must say, in the bitterness of my spirit, " The best laid schemes of mice and men Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain For promised joy ; " for the pleasure which I anticipated has been turned into a perpetual " grief and pain." I indulge... | |
| John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pągines
...haply err, The scene preserves ns character. GEORGE COMRE. — Doctor Syntax, Chap. II. SCHEMES.— The best laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And lea'e us nought bat grief and pain, For promised joy. BURNS. — To a Moose, Verse 7. SCHOLAR. —... | |
| Washington Irving - 1864 - 468 pągines
...eternal yesterday. Alas ! I must say, in the bitterness of my spirit, " The best laid schemes of mice and men Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain For promised joy ; " for the pleasure which I anticipated has been turned into a perpetual " grief and pain." I indulge... | |
| Pierre Munroe Irving - 1864 - 456 pągines
...eternal yesterday. Alas ! I must say, in the bitterness of my spirit, " The best laid schemes of mice and men Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain For promised joy ; " for the pleasure which I anticipated has been turned into a perpetual " grief and pain." I indulge... | |
| John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pągines
...Bur, 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 leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy. Still thou art blest, compared wi' me ! The present only toucheth thee : But, och ! I backward cast... | |
| Francis Jacox - 1870 - 434 pągines
...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 joy." As the good friar in Shakspeare has it,— " A greater power than we can... | |
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