 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 - Page 2591809Full view - About this book
 | James Anderson - 1722 - 440 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 hanieward Iv.na. / III. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the fhcker of an aged tree... | |
 | 1809 - 530 pages
...repose . The toil-wom Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping...; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher thro' To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin noise an' glee. His wee bit ingle, blinkin bonnily, His clean hearth-stane,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 446 pages
...to 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. III. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - 1808 - 326 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...appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; The' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher through To meet their Dud, wi' flitcherin noise an' glee.... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1808 - 338 pages
...and his hoes, Hoping the morn in eafe and reft to fpend, And weary, o'er the moor, his courfe dpes hameward bend, At length his lonely cot appears in view. Beneath the fhelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, ftacher through s To meet their Dad, wi'... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...their repose: The toil-worn Cotter firae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping...At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath tin: shelter of an aged tree ; His wee bit ingle, blinkin bonnily, His clean hearth-stane, bis thriftie... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1809 - 510 pages
...repose : The toil-worn Cotter frae his labour goes, . • . This night his weekly moi' is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping...weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend." (Currie's Burns, Vol. III. p. 174.) In this description, there is an obvious resemblance to the opening... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 500 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. III. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 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...morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the muir, his course does hameward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter... | |
 | 1845 - 624 pages
...in the generally-understood sense of that expression? — that night, on the evening of which he ' Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping...to spend, And weary o'er the moor his course does homeward bend.' " Should such time ever come, our labourer may date his account settled with rational... | |
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