...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...

...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...

...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 seemed to have now attained the height of his wishes ; he was in possession...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. 0 Caledonia ! »tern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of...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...

...but an imperfect estimate of the infinite beauty which he " who worships nature," will find in this " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, — Land of the mountain and the flood." Ere long — if fate forfend not — thou and I will make its pilgrimage together. " We'll mark each...

...blood they owe them. Hence the spectre of tyranny which all the poor Scotch see overshadowing the " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood." Poor men thmk that long ere now the law, if justly made, would have given a permanent tenure of the...