 November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The short'ning winter-day is near a close ; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh ; The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose : The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 2611809Full view - About this book
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...SATURDAY NIGHT. " The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping...tree : Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher through To meet their dad, wi' flichterin noise and glee. His wee-bit ingle, blinkin bonilie, His clean... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1824 - 292 pages
...their repose ; The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping...weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. in. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee-things,... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - English essays - 1824 - 340 pages
...THE COUNTRY. " The toil-worn cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes :...weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend." BURNS. THERE are, perhaps, some among my readers who are accustomed to laugh at the idea of a country... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - American literature - 1824 - 292 pages
...CHAPTER II. " The toil-worn Cotter from his labour goes — This night his weekly moil is at an end ; Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping...rest to spend ; And weary o'er the moor his course doth homeward bend." Burnt1 Colter's Saturday Night. OUR sketch, commences at the opening of the year... | |
 | 1824 - 486 pages
...their repose ; The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, Th it night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, Ah! tho' his own worth unknown, far And weary, o'er the moor, his course happier there I ween ! does... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - American literature - 1824 - 294 pages
...CHAPTER II. " The toil-worn Cotter from his labour goes— This night his weekly moil is at an end ; Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend ; x And weary o'er the moor his course doth homeward bend.'' Burns' Coffer's Saturday Night. OUR. sketch,... | |
 | Saturday night - 1824 - 968 pages
...This night his weekly moil is at nn end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping tne morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his couise does homeward bend. B At length his lonely cot appears in riew, Beneath the shelter of an aged... | |
 | Agriculture - 1825 - 538 pages
...seek their repose : The toil-worn Cottager from labour goes, This night his weekly toil ig at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping...to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does homeward bend. At length his lonely Cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged ,,. ***'•... | |
 | Henry Phillips - Emblems - 1825 - 414 pages
...with fruit. " The toil-worn cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end ; Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend." •. Burns. Etymologists disagree respecting the derivation of the word Saturday. Some suppose it to... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - Poetry - 1826 - 226 pages
...their repose; The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes ; This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping...to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does haincward bend. TV expectant wee things, toddlin, stacher through To meet their dad, wi' flichterin... | |
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