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
| 1845 - 440 pages
...thousands mourn ! VIII. See yonder poor, o'erlahour'd wight, So ahject, mean, and vile, Who hegs a hrother of the earth To give him leave to toil ; And see his lordly fellow-worm The pour petition spurn, Unmindful tho' a weeping wife AnJ helpless offspring mourn. IX. If I'm design'd... | |
| 1846 - 436 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... | |
| William Howitt - 1847 - 524 pages
...heaven-erected face The smiles of love adorn, Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. " See yonder poor o'erlaboured wight, So abject, mean...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.... | |
| Robert Burns - 1849 - 906 pages
...of those stanzas : — " See yonder poor o'erlauour'd wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs л 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 offspring mourn. If... | |
| Robert Burns - 1850 - 508 pages
...adorn, Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn ! vm " See yonder poor, o'erlabour'd wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a brother...earth To give him leave to toil ; And see his lordly fdlow-worm The poor petition spurn. Unmindful, tho' a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn. IX.... | |
| 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... | |
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