 | 1876 - 520 pages
...to these questions, I made every provision last summer that I deemed necessary to their settlement. But " the best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft a-gley! " Having to leave for Europe just as the worms were entering the ground to pupate, I gave full and... | |
 | Mary Catherine Rowsell - 1876 - 274 pages
...cure set to work again, and scratched away at the ' De Peccato , as if for dear life. CHAPTER VII. The best laid schemes o, mice and men Gang aft a-gley, And leave us naught but grief and pain, For promised joy. BURNS. MONSIEUR LE MEDECIN did not forget to... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1877 - 326 pages
...dribble And cranreu.h cauld ! But, Moitsie, 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, compared wi' me ! The present... | |
 | 1877 - 362 pages
...Think what ie now, and what hath been. SCOTT, Lay of the Loft Miustrd, canto vi et. 2. Schemes. — The best laid SCHEMES o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley ; And leave us naught but grief and pain For promised joy.— BURNS, To a Mouse. Schoolmaster. — Let the... | |
 | John Young (Poet) - 1877 - 184 pages
...game—Botany. On that occasion, however, he had to subscribe to the truth of Robin's couplet— " The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft agley!" And yet I dare avow, on the part of my friend, that the " promised joy" of the botanist, even if fulfilled,... | |
 | Arthur Hamilton (novelist.) - 1878 - 314 pages
...filling earth and sky 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... | |
 | George Washington Cullum - 1879 - 428 pages
...Indians and a light corps of Canada militia. On the 25th Hampton thought to grasp his coveted laurels ; but " The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley ; And leave us naught but grief and pain For promised joy." Hampton dispatched Colonel Purdy and the light... | |
 | Duchess - 1879 - 384 pages
...into his bosom, and turning away towards his own quarters is seen no more that night. CHAPTER XVIII. " The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley, . And lea'e us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy." — BURNS. ALL next day Lilian treats him as... | |
 | Henry W. Jameson - 1880 - 108 pages
...illative ; And yet, adversative. 28. Examples for Practice. " It is the east, and Juliet is the sun." " The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley, And lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promised joy." COPULATIVES. ADVERSATIVES. DISJUNCT IV US. ILLATIVES.... | |
 | Robert Read (of Leicester.) - 1881 - 446 pages
...was, £10,000 per annum for the first 15 years, £20,000 per annum in the second quindecennial period. The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft agley ; and the shareholders of the company were fain, when the subscribed capital was gone, to surrender their lease... | |
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The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley, And lea'e us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy. 
