| Book - 1841 - 164 páginas
...doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. O Caledonia, stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood ! Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand... | |
| Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 páginas
...vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. II. O Caledonia ! stern and wild,1 Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath...and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand... | |
| 1841 - 586 páginas
...from youth to age—MILTON, honourable and honoured ' Caledonia, stern and wild, Meet nurse of the poetic child, Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires;' name—Milton, scholar, philosopher, poet, patriot, Christian! Need I recall to... | |
| Susan Ferrier - 1841 - 448 páginas
...brought tears into her eyes as they pictured home, and her heart responded to the well-known lines, — " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood! Land of the mountain and the flood ! Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand... | |
| 1852 - 590 páginas
...sermons on each Sabbath," he could not renew, except faintly, his acquaintance with the country as the " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood." Yet his health " kept up very well ;" and in strength and safety he arrived in Leeds on the 1st of... | |
| lord William Pitt Lennox - 1841 - 898 páginas
...that they may be spared — ' That hideous sight — a naked human heart." KO CHAPTER XII. TOUR IN SCOTLAND. O Caledonia, stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child 1 Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain, and the flood ! WALTER SCOTT. KAVENSWORTH... | |
| Eliza Robbins - 1842 - 352 páginas
...Minstrel in Scott's Lay, breaks out, at the thought of his beloved country, into this apostrophe : " 0 Caledonia, stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand... | |
| James Wilson (M.D., of Malvern.) - 1842 - 246 páginas
...his singing his pass-word. When walking among the pine trees I am sure he fancied himself in the— " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood," He was going on very satisfactorily, when he went roaming, with some other wild fellows, to the frontier... | |
| 1843 - 350 páginas
...doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,— Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 páginas
...doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. 0 Chambers Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy nigged strand... | |
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