 | Thomas Carlyle - 1855 - 572 pages
...the oblivion that was covering it! These were early feelings, and they abode with him to the end. • a wish, (I mind its power,) A wish, that to my latest...sake, Some useful plan or book could make, Or sing a sang at least. The rough bur Thistle spreading wide Amang the bearded bear, I turn'd my weeding-clips... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1855 - 562 pages
...haivers, Wearing the day awa. E'en then, a wish, I mind its pow'r, A wish that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave my breast, That I for poor auld Scotland's sake Some usefu' plan or beuk could make, Or sing a sang at least. The rough burr-thistle, spreading wide Amang... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...him, as if he could do so little for his country, and yet would so gladly have done all." — Carlyle. A WISH (I mind its power), A wish, that to my latest...sake, Some useful plan or book could make, Or sing a sang at least. The rough bur Thistle spreading wide Amang the bearded bear, I turned the weeder-clips... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 448 pages
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 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 728 pages
...merits.' To only a more general purport of the same character is his thrilling verse — Even 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 uscfu' plan or beuk could... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 538 pages
...haivers, Wearing the day awa. n. Ev'n then, a wish, I mind it's pow'r, A wish that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave my breast, That I, for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some uscfu' plan or book cou'd make, Or sing a sang at least. The rough burr-thistle, spreading wide Amang... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 556 pages
...that was covering it ! These were early feelings, and they abode with him to the end : ... A wish (1 mind its power), A wish, that to my latest hour Will...sake, Some useful plan or book could make, Or sing a sang at least. The rough bur Thistle spreading wide Amang the bearded bear, I turn'd my weeding-clips... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 604 pages
...they his standing at a higher, or at a lower altitude abode with him to the end. a WBh, (I mind Hi d nn a mere calculation ; a matter, as all others now are, of Expediency wake, Or sing ,1 sang at least. The rough bur Thistle spreading wide Amang the bearded bear, 1 larn'd... | |
 | 1857 - 336 pages
...Scotchman. There was much the same feeling as kindled the early aspirations of Burns : — "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 sako Some usefu' plan or book could... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 448 pages
...which, bethinking him of the undefined aspirations of his boyhood, ho said to himself— " Even then a wish, I mind its power, A wish that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave my breast, That I, for puir auld Scotland's sake, Some usefu' plan or book could... | |
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Some useful plan or book could make, Or sing a sang at least. 
