 No mercenary bard his homage pays ; With honest pride, I scorn each selfish end : My dearest meed, a friend's esteem and praise : To you I sing, in simple Scottish lays, The lowly train in life's sequester'd scene ; The native feelings strong, the guileless...  Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott: Two Lives - Page 82by James White - 1858 - 278 pagesFull view - About this book
 | British poets - 1822 - 270 pages
...lowly train in life's sequester'd scene ; The native feelings strong, the guileless ways ; What A**** in a cottage would have been ; Ah! tho' his worth...; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh; The toil-worn Cottet- frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 418 pages
...lowly train in life's sequester'd scene ; The native feelings strong, the guileless ways ; What A**** in a cottage would have been ; Ah ! tho' his worth unknown, far happier there, I ween ; . n. November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The short'ning winter-day is near a close ; The miry... | |
 | Saturday night - 1824 - 968 pages
...Aiken in a cottage would have beeu ; Ak! tho' his own worth unknown, far happier there I ween ! VOL. I. November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh; The short'ning...retreating frae the pleugh ; The black'ning trains o'craws to their repose ; The toil-worn Cotter frac his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...The native feelings strong, the guileless ways^ What A**** in a cottage would have been ; Ah ! though his worth unknown, far happier there, I ween. November...near a close ; The miry beasts retreating frae the plengh ; The black' ning trains o' craws to their repose . The toil-worn cotter frae his labour goes,... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - 1826 - 226 pages
...The native feelings strong, the guileless ways; What A**** in a cottage would have been; Ah! though his worth unknown, far happier there, I ween. November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh; The shortening winter-day is near a close; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh; The blackening trains... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1826 - 272 pages
...lowly train in life's sequester'd scene; The native feelings strong, the guileless ways ; What A**** in a cottage would have been ; Ah ! tho' his worth unknown, far happier there, I ween. n. November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The short'ning winter-day is near a close • The miry... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 404 pages
...lowly train in life's sequester'd scene ; The native feelings strong, the guileless ways ; What A**** in a cottage would have been ; Ah ! tho' his worth...ween. November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The shortening winter-day is near a close ; The miry beasts retreating frae the pleugh ; The blackening... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1831 - 484 pages
...lowly" train in life's sequcster'd scene ; The native feelings strong, the guileless ways : What A'**** in a cottage would have been; Ah '. tho' his worth unknown, far happier there, I ween. II. November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The shorfning winter-day is near a close; The miry beasts... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1834 - 370 pages
...lowly train in life's sequester'd scene ; The native feelings strong, the guileless ways ; What Aiken in a cottage would have been ; Ah ! tho' his worth unknown, far happier there, I ween ! II. November chill blaws loud wi' angry sugh ; The short' ning winter-day is near a close ; The miry... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1840 - 872 pages
...What Aiken in a cottage would have been ; Ah ! tho' his worth unknown, far happier there, I ween ! ii. h Cotter's Saturday Night' is a noble and pathetic picture of human manners, mingled with a fine religious... | |
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