 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1847 - 704 Seiten
...petition spurn, Unmindful, though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn. • If I 'm desicn'd 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 or scorn \ Or why has man the will... | |
 | 1848 - 876 Seiten
...heart of Robert Burns there broke the never-to-be-forgotten verse — ' See yonder poor, o'erlaboured wight. So abject, mean, and vile. Who begs a brother...him leave to toil ; And see his lordly fellow-worm Tho poor petition spurn, Unmindful though a weeping wife And helpless off spring mourn* — • it... | |
 | 1848 - 874 Seiten
...never-to-be-forgotten verse — ' Bee yonder poor, o'erlaboured wight, 80 abject, mean, anJ vile, Who begH a brother of the earth To give him leave to toil ;...lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful thoiiRh a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn '— it never occurred to him, as a possible form... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1849 - 906 Seiten
...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... | |
 | A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 Seiten
...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...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 Nature's... | |
 | John Aikin - 1850 - 764 Seiten
...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. IX. «If I'm design'd yon lordling's slavey— By nature's law design'd,— Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind > If not,... | |
 | Frederick Richard Chichester (earl of Belfast.) - 1851 - 336 Seiten
...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...see his lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn. BURNS. MANY circumstances contributed to render that a happy evening to the little party she had left... | |
 | 1851 - 208 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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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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. 
