| Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...heaven-erected face The smiles of love adorn, Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. See yonder poor, o'erlabour'd wight; So abject, mean,...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. Yet... | |
| United States - 1854 - 400 pages
...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...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."... | |
| American poetry - 1854 - 456 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...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.... | |
| Robert Burns - 1854 - 520 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...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... | |
| Mark Antony Lower - 1854 - 308 pages
...To what bad passions does he pander in such effusions as this : — " 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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 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...earth, To give him leave to toil : And see his lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful, though a weeping wife And helpless onspring mourn.... | |
| John Wilson - 1854 - 252 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 - 252 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 - 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,... | |
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