 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 680 pages
...toil-worn cotter frae his labor goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, las mattocks and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and...to spend, And weary, o'er the moor his course does homeward bend. III. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ;... | |
 | 1872 - 862 pages
...a cottage anywhere. Scotland was the first object of the revelation — but after all the world. " At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree. 'I'll' expectant wet thingi, toddlin,' staoher through To meet their dad, wi' flichterin" noise an'... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 pages
...interests, or breathe a lofty devotional spirit " The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his...aged 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 pages
...interests, or breathe a lofty devotional spirit. " The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his...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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...blackening trains o' craws to their repose ; The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his...appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; The expectant wee-things, toddlin', stacher3 thro' To meet their dad, wi' flichterin'4 noise an'... | |
 | John Wilson - 1845 - 266 pages
...black'ning trains o' craws to their repose ; The toil worn Cottar frae his labor goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his...weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend." That one single stanza is in itself a picture, one may say a poem, of the poor man's life. It is so... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - 396 pages
...kiss ? See also Bums' Cotter's Saturday JVtght, where the children are BO beautifully described : — At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath...an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacker thro' To meet their dad, wi' flichterin noise an' glee. His wee bit ingle, blinkin bonnily,... | |
 | 1845 - 480 pages
..."The Cottar's Saturday Night," and the following verses doubtless pourtray the poet's father: — •1 At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' exuectant wee-things, toddlin stacher thro' To meet their Dad, wi' flichterm' noise an' glee. His wee... | |
 | 1845 - 440 pages
...hlack'ning trains o' craws to their repose : The toil-worn Culler frae his lahour goes, This uight his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and hi* hoes, * Dr Younir. BURNS' WORKS. Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, At.d weary, o'er the... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...blackening trains o' craws to their repose : The toil-worn cotter frae his labor goes, — This night his weekly moil is at an end, — Collects his spades,...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 tree ; Th'... | |
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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... 
