I. phrasal
1. obsolete : to regard favorably : esteem
I am not look'd on in the world — Shakespeare
2. : to look upon
people who now look on him as a reactionary — F.D.Roosevelt
the average American … too often looks on books as furniture — John Barkham
II. intransitive verb
: to be a spectator : observe , watch
the world looks on and laughs — Mark Pattison