 | James Anderson - 1722 - 440 էջ
...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...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 էջ
...Cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and...weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee-things,... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - 1808 - 330 էջ
...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...weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. ••. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; The' expectant... | |
 | 1809 - 530 էջ
...pcrufe the following ftanzas without feeling the force of tendernefs and truth. Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and...weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. ' At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree; . ' Th' expectant... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1809 - 518 էջ
...Cotter frae his labour goes, . • . This night his weekly moi' is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and...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... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 էջ
...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 the morn in ease and...weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath tin: shelter of an aged tree ; His wee bit ingle,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 500 էջ
...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...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 էջ
...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, And weary, o'er the muir, his course does hameward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter... | |
 | 1845 - 624 էջ
...generally-understood sense of that expression? — that night, on the evening of which he ' Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 338 էջ
...Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary, o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath...aged tree; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher through To meet their dad, wi' flichterin noise and glee. His wee-bit ingle, blirikin bonilie, His... | |
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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 is... 
