 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's Edinburgh Journal - Page 2521848Full view - About this book
 | Mark Antony Lower - 1854 - 284 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 - 776 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 - 524 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 - 430 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... | |
 | 1854
...meat."—"RENT EOLL." " We want public souls. We wait* them."—Dn. SOUTH. " 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." BURNS. SAYS... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1854
...love 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, tho' a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn. Yet let not this... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 222 pages
...love adorn, Man's inhumanity to man, Makes countless thousands mourn ! " See yonder poor, o'er-laborM wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a brother of the earth To give him leave to toil; And see hjs lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful, tho' a weeping wife And helpless offspring... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 222 pages
...love adorn, Man's inhumanity to man, Makes countless thousands mourn ! " See yonder poor, o'er-laborM wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a brother of the earth To give him leave to toil ; And see hjs lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful, tho' a weeping wife And helpless offspring... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1854 - 537 pages
...bequeathed,— no name." CHAPTEK XIX. "See yonder poor o'er-labor'd wight, So abject, mean, and Tile, Who begs a brother of the earth To give him leave to toil ; And see his lordy fellow-worn The poor petition spurn." BURNS. WORK failed me about the end of June 1828 ; and,... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1854 - 537 pages
...whole hour Of U( t no likeness was bequeath p.), - no name." CHAPTER XIX. "8*e yonder poor o'er-labor'd wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a brother of the oartb To give him leave to toil ; And see his lordy fellow-worm The poor petition spurn." Bonus. WORK... | |
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