 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
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...adorn, Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn ! See yonder poor, o'erlabor'd wiglu, 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, though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn. If I'm design'd... | |
 | 1857 - 336 pages
...social inequality, but not strong enough to raise him above it to a magnanimous contentment : — " See yonder poor, o'erlaboured wight, So abject, mean,...a brother of the earth To give him leave to toil. "If I'm designed yon lordling's slave By nature's law designed, Why was an independent wish E'er planted... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 pages
...strong enough to raise him above it to a magnanimous contentment : — " 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. " If I 'm design'd yon lordling's slave, By nature's law design'd, Why was an independent wish i *... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1857 - 566 pages
...no name." CHAPTER XIX. " See yonder poor o'er-labor'd wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who hegs n brother of the earth To give him leave to toil ; And see his lordy fellow-worm The poor petition spurn." BURNS. WORK failed me about the end of June 1828 ; a-id,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 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 offspring mourn. If I'm designed... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1859 - 284 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 offspring mourn. " If I 'm design'd... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 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 offspring mourn. If I'm design'd... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1859 - 580 pages
...hour Of light no likeness was bequeathed— no name." CHAPTER XIX. " 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." — BDENS. WORK foiled me about the end of June 1828 ; and, acting on the... | |
 | James Ballantine - 1859 - 634 pages
...heard an " idle hand " reading that saddest of all Burns' poems : — " See yonder poor o'er-labonred 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." It is indeed... | |
 | John N. Crawford - 1903 - 442 pages
...man's the gowd for a' that," and that a peasant was as good as a lord. 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. And so he worked... | |
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