 That wee bit heap o' leaves an' stibble Has cost thee mony a weary nibble! Now thou's turn'd out, for a' thy trouble, But house or hald, To thole the winter's sleety dribble, An' cranreuch cauld! But Mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight...  The Works of Robert Burns - Stran 222avtor: Robert Burns - 1840 - 820 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1876 - 626 strani
...stibble, Has cost thee mony a weary nibble ! Now thou's turn'd out, for a' thy trouble, But bouse or bald, To thole the winter's sleety dribble, An' cranreuch cauld ! But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane, In provint* foresight may be vain : The best laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft a-gley, An' lea'e us... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1877 - 116 strani
...Till, crash ! the cruel coulter past Out thro' thy cell. Tli at wee bit heap o' leaves an' stibble ILis cost thee mony a weary nibble ! Now thou's turn'd...house or hald, , To thole the winter's sleety dribble, Au' cranreuch cauld ! But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain : The best-laid... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 strani
...hasty, Wi' bickering brattle! I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee, Wi' murd'ring pattle! (1. 1-6) 63 And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we o an' pain. For promis'd joy! (1. 39-42) EnRP; FaFP; FF; FM; GoTS; GTBS; GTBS-P; HAP; HelP; InPS; NAEL-2;... | |
 | John Steinbeck - 1994 - 148 strani
..."best laid schemes." The poem tells of an unfortunate field mouse whose home is flattened by a plow: But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight...men Gang aft a-gley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promised joy. As fully articulated only at the beginning and the end, their dream is the... | |
 | Bryan S. Turner, Peter Hamilton - 1994 - 496 strani
...a mouse' in which the precariousness of nature and social life is expressed in the observation that 'The best laid schemes o' mice an' men, / Gang aft a-gley, / An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, / For promis'd joy'. Social life is characterised by its risk, by the instability of social... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 strani
...cell. 50 That wee-bit heap o' leaves an' stibble Has cost thee monie a weary nibble! Now thou's tum'd out, for a' thy trouble. But house or hald, To thole...foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes o' mice and men, Gang aft agley, 40 An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy! Still, thou art... | |
 | Stephen Adams - 1997 - 260 strani
...the fourteenth century, but now linked to the name of its most skilled writer: But Mousie, thou an no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain: The...men Gang aft a-gley. An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promised joy. One seven-line iambic pentameter stanza, rhyme royal, rhymed ababbcc, appears... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 strani
...destroyed a complete world, wrecked the hopes and plans of a 'sleeket, cowran', tim'rous beastie'. The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy! (To a Mouse) His linking here of 'the best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men'... | |
 | John McRae - 1998 - 172 strani
...cell. That wee bit heap o' leaves an' stibble, Hast cost thee monie a weary nibble! Now thou's turned out, for a' thy trouble, But house or hald, To thole...no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain: The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd... | |
 | Dafydd ab Hugh - 2000 - 256 strani
...face. Alas, as the Scottish poet Bobbie Burns wrote, a verse that came back to O'Brien again and again: 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, An' lea'e us naught but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy! — And... | |
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