“We cannot give a notion of the plan and contents of this little volume better than by copying some passages from the Preface”
WorkWilliam Thom
Rhymes and Recollections of a Handloom Weaver
William Thom (1798–1848)
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Documented 1845
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Thom’s Poems.
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“The self-portraiture herein attempted is not altogether Egotism neither, inasmuch as the main lineaments of the sketch are to be found in the separate histories of a thousand families in Scotland”
“It is no small share in the end and aim of the present little work, to impart to one portion of the community a glimpse of what is sometimes going on in another”
“The miserably rich look upon the miserably poor with distrust and dread, scarcely giving them credit for sensibility sufficient to feel their own sorrows.”
“The poor, in turn, foster a hatred of the wealthy as a sole inheritance—look on grandeur as their natural enemy, and bend to the rich man’s rule in gall and bleeding scorn.”
“I write no more either than what I knew—and not all of that—so Feeling has left Fancy little to do in the matter.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Thom’s Poems." New-York Daily Tribune, 22 August 1845.