 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1894 - 688 páginas
...a great ambition. Amidst his varied labors on the farm, as a beardless boy, he felt — " E'en then a wish, I mind its power, A wish that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave my breast : That I for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some useful plan or book could... | |
 | Cassell and Company, ltd - 1894 - 562 páginas
...longing for the power of poetic expression found utterance in the memorable lines :— " E'en then a wish, I mind its power, A wish that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave niy breast, That I for poor auld Scotland's sake Some usefu' plan or beuk could... | |
 | 1913 - 752 páginas
...whiskey — these were his themes. And the main impulse of it all was this same patriotism : "E'en then a wish, I mind its power, A wish that to my latest hour Has stirred within my breast, That I for puir auld Scotland's sake Some usefu' plan or book might make,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1895 - 300 páginas
...quits him ; it is the little happy-valley of his careworn heart. In the gloom of his own affliction, he eagerly searches after some lonely brother of the...(I mind its power), A wish, that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave my breast, — That I, for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some usefu' plan or book... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1895 - 88 páginas
...quits him ; it is the little happy-valley of his careworn heart. In the gloom of his own affliction, he eagerly searches after some lonely brother of the...(I mind its power), A wish, that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave my breast, — That I, for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some usefu' plan or book... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 656 páginas
...and clearing The tither stocked raw4, Wi' claivers6, an' haivers', Wearing the day awa : Ev'n then a wish (I mind its power), A wish that, to my latest hour, Shall strongly heave my breast ; That I for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some usefu' plan, or book could... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1895 - 512 páginas
...shearing and clearing The tither stocked raw,* Wi' claivers, an' haivere,* Wearing the day awa; Ev'n then a wish (I mind its power), A wish that, to my latest hour, Shall strongly heave my breast ; That I for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some usef u' plan, or beuk could... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1896 - 304 páginas
...quits him; it is the little happy-valley of his careworn heart. In the gloom of his own affliction, he eagerly searches after some lonely brother of the...(I mind its power), A wish, that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave my breast, — That I, for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some usefu' plan or book... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1896 - 800 páginas
...quits him ; it is the little happy valley of his careworn heart. In the gloom of his own affliction, he eagerly searches after some lonely brother of the...early feelings, and they abode with him to the end : . . . (From Essays.) OVER THE ANDES DID the reader ever hear of San Martin's march over the Andes... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1896 - 126 páginas
...quits him ; it is the little happy-valley of his careworn heart. In the gloom of his own affliction, he eagerly searches after some lonely brother of the...other name from the oblivion that was covering it! 15 These were early feelings, and they abode with him to the end. "a wish, (I mind its power,) A wish,... | |
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A wish (I mind its power), A wish, that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave my breast, — That I, for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some usefu' plan or book could make, Or sing a sang at least. 
