 | Francis Wayland - Christian ethics - 1835 - 494 pages
...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... | |
 | Gift books - 1842 - 330 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...Vicistitude. 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... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1873 - 964 pages
...art no thy lane, 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. " Still thou art blest, compared wi' me ! The piesent only toucheth thee ; But, och ! I backward cast... | |
 | Arthur Hamilton (novelist.) - 1878 - 314 pages
...with a more than seraphic requiem for him who had passed away. CHAPTER III. " The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft agley, And leave us nought but grief and pain For promised joy." BURNS. WE will now pause a while in order to give our reader a fuller description of Grubbum. He sits... | |
 | George Sexton - Theism - 1880 - 176 pages
...: " 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 leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy." "A man's heart," says Solomon, " deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps." That this is... | |
 | George Sexton - Theism - 1880 - 176 pages
...: " 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 leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy." "A man's heart," says Solomon, " deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps." That this is... | |
 | William Gordon Stables - 1882 - 418 pages
...remarked in a thoughtful manner, " and it is your own darling poet that says, " ' The best-laid schemes o mice and men Gang aft agley, And leave us nought but grief and pain For promised joy.' " Rory finished the quotation with a bit of a sigh, that caused McBain to say, — "What is the matter... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - Quotations, English - 1882 - 914 pages
...undeserved dignity. in. Merchant of Venice. Act II. Sc. 9. DISAPPOINTMENT. The best-laid schemes o' mice an' ike a low swift song. And all things grow calm as the strain floats along. j>. x. BUBNS — To a Mouse. St. 7. From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty... | |
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The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft agley And leave us nought but grief and pain For promised joy. 
