 | Adolph Charles Babenroth - 1922 - 420 Seiten
...this man, Burns calls attention to the overworked laborer who finds it necessary to beg a brother man to give him leave to toil, And see his lordly fellow-worm...tho' a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn. Burns was himself oppressed by anxiety over his children. In a letter to Mrs. Dunlop (1793) he quotes... | |
 | Adolph Charles Babenroth - 1922 - 424 Seiten
...overworked laborer who finds it necessary to beg a brother man to give him leave to toil, And see bis lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful,...tho' a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn. Burns was himself oppressed by anxiety over his children. In a letter to Mrs. Dunlop (1793) he quotes... | |
 | 1930 - 802 Seiten
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 | 1903 - 602 Seiten
...wrongs with a tender sympathy, he with a burning passion, as follows : " 'See yonder poor o'er labored 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 tho' a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn. "... | |
 | Andrew Herbert Dakers - 1923 - 254 Seiten
...thinking, went to the achievement of a point of view such as that stated in Man was Made to Mourn : 1 80 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 mind ? If not, why am I subject to His cruelty, or scorn ? Or why has Man the will... | |
 | Charles E. Tomlinson - 1925 - 102 Seiten
...feelings must out. There is the grand dirge, " Man was Made to Mourn," wherein we have this thought : — 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 mind ? A patriot indeed, nevertheless he went beyond nationality in his great love... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1926 - 734 Seiten
...adorn, — Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn 1 " See yonder poor, o'erlabour'd wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a brother...tho' a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn. " If I'm design'd yon lordling's slave, By Nature's law design'd, Why was an independent wish E'er... | |
 | Clara Linklater Thomson - 1914 - 82 Seiten
...adorn — Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn ! " See yonder poor o'er laboured wight, So abject, mean and vile, Who begs a brother...tho' a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn. " If I'm designed yon lordling's slave — By nature's law designed — Why was an independent wish... | |
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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. 
