Cottar's

"Willie brew'd a peck o 'Maut" ever made a drunkard, but it is certain that his "Cottar's Saturday Night" has converted sinners, edified the godly, and made some erect family altars.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

He had sat smoking with me in the library late the same night, turning over the pages of the tattered volume, and quoting bits, in broad vernacular, from "Tam o 'Shanter" and "The Cottar's Saturday Night."

The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton Ian Hay 1914

It was long after that Burns described "The Cottar's Saturday Night"; but he was only describing a condition which was already in vogue, and which was having tremendous influence in England as well as in Scotland:

The Greatest English Classic 1912

Robert Burns was right in finding the secret of Scotia's power in such scenes as those of "The Cottar's Saturday Night."

The Greatest English Classic 1912

But fate sent the change that was needed, in the shape of a little winter campaign on the Border, which, after the manner of little campaigns, flashed out into a very ugly war; and Cottar's regiment was chosen among the first.

The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900

The conduct of Robert Burns, alas, too often disappoints the lover of his Cottar's Saturday Night and other moral pieces.

Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown Andrew Lang 1878

“Cottar's Saturday Night,” and we can well appreciate the testimony which he bore to the hallowed power and sacred influences of the devotional exercises of his boyhood's home, when he penned the immortal words: ” “From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs,

Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874

Whatever be our religious opinions, or whatever be our views on questions of ecclesiastical polity and church order, no Scotsman who desires the happiness and honour of his country could avoid a deep regret at the very idea of Burns '“Cottar's Saturday Night” having become a thing of the past; and yet we must not shrink from inquiry into the true state of the case.

Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874

I met a fine old fellow, who might have sat as the father in 'The Cottar's Saturday

Essays of Travel Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

Horace is drawing from nature, like Burns in his more elaborate picture of the "Cottar's Saturday Night."

Horace Theodore Martin 1862