 | Mark Antony Lower - 1854 - 308 pages
...in such effusions as this : — " See yonder poor o'erlaboured wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a brother of the earth, To give him leave to...lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn ; Unmindful though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn ! " Happily for the peace of society, such sentiments... | |
 | Hugh Miller - Education - 1854 - 600 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,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 252 pages
...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 - 252 pages
...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... | |
 | William John Grayson - Labor - 1855 - 122 pages
...THE SLAVE. '' PART SECOND. SEE yonder poor o'erlaboured wight, So abject, mean and vile, Who befrs a brother of the Earth To give him leave to toil,...tho' a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn. BURNS. WHERE Hireling millions toil, in doubt and fear, For food and clothing, all the weary year;... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1855 - 562 pages
...Makes countless thousands mourn ! "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...lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful, though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn. "If I'm design'd yon lordling's slave — By Nature's... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...Makes countless thousands mourn ! " See yonder poor o'erlabored wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a brother of the earth To give him leave to toil...lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn. " If I 'm designed yon lordling's slave, — By... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 612 pages
...larks, refus'd to sing ? My winding brooks to prattle at my feet ? Dr. Woleot's Peter Pindar. If I 'm design'd yon lordling's slave — By nature's law...Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind ? Burns't Poems. Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its List fetters off; and who shall... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...Makes countless thousands mourn ! " See yonder poor o'erlabored 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.... | |
 | Hugh Miller - Education - 1855 - 570 pages
...bequeathed,— no name." CHAPTER XIX. " See yonder poor o'er-labor'd wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a 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 ; and,... | |
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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, tho' a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn. 
