 See yonder poor, o'erlabour'd wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a brother of the earth To give him leave to toil ; And see his lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful, though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn.  Chambers' Edinburgh Journal - Page 2521848Full view - About this book
 | Robert Burns - 1909 - 692 pages
...adorn, — Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn ! " See yonder poor, o'erlabour'd wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a brother...him leave to toil ; And see his lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful, though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn. " If I'm designed... | |
 | Henry Morton Stanley - 1909 - 616 pages
...some here, and some there, and what you think ought to be done will be done in the Lord's good time. "See, yonder, poor, o'er-laboured wight, So abject,...begs a brother of the earth To give him leave to toil ! " I have often quoted those lines of Burns to myself, on my travels in Manyuema, when I saw the trembling... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1909 - 474 pages
...inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. See yonder poor o'erlabor'd wight So abject, mean & vile, Who begs a brother of the earth To give him leave to toil; And see his lordly fellow worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful tho a weeping wife, And helpless children mourn. If... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1910 - 706 pages
...adorn, Mail's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn ! See yonder poor, o'eriabour'd wi<jht, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a brother of the...him leave to toil ; And see his lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful, tho' a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn. If I'm design'd... | |
 | Benjamin Orange Flower - 1910 - 648 pages
...love adorn, Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! " See yonder poor, o'erlabored wight, So abject, mean and vile, Who begs a brother of the earth 10 give him leave to toil; And see the lordly fellow worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful though... | |
 | Benjamin Orange Flower - 1910 - 636 pages
...love adorn, Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! " See yonder poor, o'erlabored wight, So abject, mean and vile, Who begs a brother of the earth 10 give him leave to toil; And see the lordly fellow worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful though... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1911 - 674 pages
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 | Henry Morton Stanley - 1911 - 624 pages
...you think ought to be done will be done in the Lord's good time. "See, yonder, poor, o'er-Iaboured wight, So abject, mean, and vile! Who begs a brother of the earth To give him leave to toil!" I have often quoted those lines of Burns to myself, on my travels in Manyuema, when I saw the trembling... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1910 - 250 pages
...of love adorn, Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! See yonder poor, o'erlabor'd wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a brother...him leave to toil ; And see his lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful, tho' a weeping wife And helpless off-spring mourn. If I'm design'd... | |
 | 1842 - 700 pages
...their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter ;" and of the " wight," whom the poet calls " Abject, mean, and vile ; Who begs a brother of the earth To give him leave to toil !" Such spectacles are very common, and of increasing frequency throughout the country. They are bringing... | |
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