 | Thomas N. Brown - Evolution (Biology) - 1858 - 368 pages
...on natural history, led the forester to some very definite conclusions about his share in the work. He was certain the rascal had acquainted himself by...laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft agley." CHAPTER IIL THE QUAREY. THE hour has come when Hugh Miller must gird himself in earnest for the real business... | |
 | Thomas N. Brown - Authors, Scottish - 1858 - 340 pages
...on natural history, led the forester to some very definite conclusions about his share in the work. He was certain the rascal had acquainted himself by...themselves with the philosophic reflection that "the best-laid schemes o* mice and men gang aft agley." CHAPTER III. THE QUARRY. THE hour has come when... | |
 | Thomas N. Brown - Authors, Scottish - 1858 - 340 pages
...on natural history, led the forester to some very definite conclusions about his share in the work. He was certain the rascal had acquainted himself by...for his master's cattle was a copy. Thus speedily conftmnded and brought to nought was this humble memento of the joys and companionships of youth, and... | |
 | mrs. B R Green - 1874 - 360 pages
...boy's popgun. Well, Lady Graham was sowing the whirlwind, yet she herself might reap the fruits. " The best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft a-gley." CHAPTER VII. Heartwell. — If you would train a maid to live in town \ Breed her not in the country. Master... | |
 | John Walker Vilant Macbeth - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1875 - 558 pages
...Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it." Burns puts mice and men as dissimilars: " The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft agley." CHAPTER XVIII. FIGURES OF RHETORIC. PART THIRTEENTH. Sound Resembling Sense, or Onomatopy. — Interrogation,... | |
 | Charles Wheeler Denison, George B. Herbert - 1880 - 462 pages
...of an illusory picture. Never was a man more taken by surprise than Lee. He found to his severe cost that " The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley." He schemed for the massing of his legions on our weak points; hoping, with his infuriate charges, to... | |
 | Henry Seebohm - 1882 - 372 pages
...untoward accident was a heavy blow to all of us. We realised to the full the truth of Burns's proverb, that " the best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft a'-gley." The Captain's hopes were totally frustrated. The good ship was wrecked for that year at least irretrievably,... | |
 | Alexander Sutherland - Canada - 1882 - 252 pages
...but it did not seem to afford nearly so mueh amusement to the poor fellow who had so suddenly proved that " The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft agley." Meanwhile the liberated calf went sailing composedly down the river, to seek a safer landing place... | |
 | Henry Seebohm - Birds - 1882 - 364 pages
...untoward accident was a heavy blow to all of us. We realised to the full the truth of Burns's proverb, that " the best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft a'-gley." The Captain's hopes were totally frustrated. The good ship was wrecked for that year at least irretrievably,... | |
 | Elbridge Streeter Brooks - Adventure and adventurers - 1885 - 346 pages
...in the recent days of our own great rebellion — June 19, 1864. But a well-known poet has told us that " The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley," and this even the over-confident conspirators discovered. For, before they could reach the castle on... | |
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... the best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft agley. 
