 | John D. Post - 1842 - 314 Seiten
...adorn — Man's inhumanity to man, Makes countless thousands mourn. 8. See yonder poor, o'erloaded wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a brother of the earthh To give him leave to toil ; And see his lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful,... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames, Benjamin Lundy - 1843 - 598 Seiten
...gloomy face of nature gar, Giv'st beauty to the sun, and pleasure to the day. ROBERT BURNS. I'm designed yon lordling's slave, By Nature's law design'd, Why was an independent wish Ere planted in my mind 1 If not, why am I subject to His cruelty or scorn 1 Or why has man the will and power To make his... | |
 | Patrick MacDonell - 1843 - 88 Seiten
...the galling load" which the selfish condition of society had doomed him to surfer. If I'm designed yon lordling's slave* By Nature's law design'd, Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind ? If not, why am I subject to His cruelty and scorn, Or why has man the will... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1844 - 706 Seiten
...love adorn, Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn t ' 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 ;t And see his lordly fellmo-mmn The poor petition spurn, Unmindful, though a weeping wife And helpless... | |
 | John Wilson - 1845 - 248 Seiten
...love adorn, Man's inhumanity to man, Makes countless thousands mourn ! " See yonder poor, o'er-labor'd wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a brother...tho' a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn." But we shall suppose that " brother of the earth " rotten, and forgotten by the " bold peasantry, their... | |
 | 1845 - 440 Seiten
...to the pitiable condition thus described by our national poet : — ' See yonder poor o'er-labonred wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a brother of the earth To give him leave to toil :' this man will apply with far stronger hope of receiving relief to one who he knows was once reduced... | |
 | 1845 - 440 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | William Howitt - 1847 - 524 Seiten
...love adorn, Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. " See yonder poor o'erlaboured wight, So abject, mean and vile, Who begs a brother...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.... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 Seiten
...on the stage of this world', he is to sink into oblivion", and to lose his consciousness foreverv? If I'm design'd yon lordling's slave', By nature's law design'd', Why was an independent wish' E'er planted in my minds? If not, why am I subject to His crue'lty\ or scornv? Or, why hath man the... | |
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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. 
