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
| A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 pages
...Makes countless thousands mourn ! " See yonder poor, o'erlabour'd wight, So abject, mean, and Tile, 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. " If I'm designed... | |
| Frederick Richard Chichester (earl of Belfast.) - 1851 - 336 pages
...there, and wishing them all a good evening, she departed. CHAPTER VI See yonder poor o'er labour'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. BURNS. MANY circumstances contributed to render that a happy evening to the... | |
| 1851 - 208 pages
...connected " — PEINTEES' DELEGATES' ADDEESS. ON LABOUIL— (concluded}. "See, yonder potr o'er laboured wight, so abject, mean and vile, Who begs a brother of the earth to give him leave to toil," — BUENS. THE chief evils under which men generally suffer are not natural evils, but evils arising... | |
| John Aikin - 1852 - 792 pages
...adorn, Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn ! VIII. " 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 set his lordly fellow worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful, though a weeping wife And helpless offspring... | |
| Robert Burns - 1853 - 400 pages
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| Mark Antony Lower - 1854 - 308 pages
...rank and its concomitant wealth. To what bad passions does he pander in such effusions as this : — " See yonder poor o'erlaboured wight, So abject, mean,...him leave to toil ; And see his lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn ; Unmindful though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn ! " Happily... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pages
...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, though a weeping wife And helpless onspring mourn. If I'm design'd... | |
| Robert Burns - 1854 - 520 pages
...love adorn, Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. VIII. See yonder poor, o'erlaborM 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 offspring mourn. If Fm design'd... | |
| 1854 - 456 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...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... | |
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