 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1831 - 484 pages
...helpless offepring mourn. DC. 1 1f 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...His cruelty or scorn ? Or why has man the will and pow'r To make his fellow mourn ? "Yet, let not this, too much, my son, Disturb thy youthful breast... | |
 | 1831 - 426 pages
...designti yon lordling's slave,— Why was an independent wish E'er plamed in my mind? If not, why am 1 subject to His cruelty or scorn! Or why has man the will and pow"r. To make his fellow mourn ? X. Yet let not this, too much, mj son. Disturb thy youthful breast... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful, 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 E er planted in my mind ? If not, why am I subject to His cruelty or scorn ? Or why has man the will... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1835 - 440 pages
...AnJ helpless offspring mourn. IX. 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 suhject to His cruelty or scorn ? Or why has man tee will and pow'r To make his fellow mourn ? X. Yet... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1836 - 1062 pages
...noble verses in which he has inculcated independence? — who can answer this 1 — ' If I'm to be yon lordling's slave. By nature's law designed. Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind ?' The calm rapture with which Morison repeated these lines touched the poet both as a man and a genius... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - English fiction - 1836 - 470 pages
...much of that is my own opinion," replied the poet, " time will show." " If I'm to be your Iordling*s slave, By nature's law designed, Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind V" "Stuff, stuff!" said Hugh Heddles, head of the firm of Heddles, Treddles, Warp, Waft, and Company,... | |
 | J H Hedley - 1836 - 352 pages
...wife And helpless offspring mourn. If I'm to be 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 1 subject to His cruelty or scorn? Or why has man the will and power To make his fellow mourn? Yet,... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 716 pages
...Nature's law design'd, Why was an independent wish Ere planted in my mind? If not, why am I subjoct to His cruelty or scorn ? Or why has man the will and power To m«ke his fellow mourn 7 Then let из pray that come it may, AB come it shall for a' that, That sense... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - Scotland - 1837 - 628 pages
...mourn. If I'm design'd yon lordKng's slaveBy Nature's laws design'd— Why was an independent wish Б er planted in my mind ? If not, why am I subject to His cruelty and scorn , Or why has man the will and power To make his fellow mourn ?" • " I had an old grand-uncle,"... | |
 | Thomas Branagan, Julius Rubens Ames - Charity organization - 1839 - 404 pages
...yon lordling's slave, By nature's law design'd, Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind 1 If not, why am I subject to His cruelty, or scorn ? Or why has man the will and pow'r To make his fellow mourn ? I recollect seeing a compilation, entitled, " Biographical Account... | |
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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 and pow'r To make his fellow mourn? 
