 | Edward Rupert Humphreys - 1854 - 486 pages
...Can e'er untie the filial hand, That knits me to thy rugged strand? Still as I view each well known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, —...love them better still, Even in extremity of ill. 152 EXORCISE XI. The same passage, continued. But Thou, O Caledonia ! who art so very wild ; Thou Queen... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1854 - 582 pages
...respects so touchingly applicable to the closing scenes of the life of their gifted author : — " Still as I view each well-known scene, Think what...bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams were left ; 310 A VISIT TO ABBOTSFORD AND ITS VICINITY. And thus I love them better «till, Even in extremity... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1854 - 584 pages
...the life of their gifted author : — " Still as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, aud what hath been. Seems as to me of all bereft, | Sole friends thy woods and streams wers left ; 310 A VISIT TO ABBOTSFORD AND ITS VICINITY. And thus I lore them better still, Even in... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 pages
...the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still, as I view each well-known scene,...still, Even in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's streams still let me stray, Though none should guide my feeble way; Still feel the breeze down Ettrick break,... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1855 - 914 pages
...the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still, as I view each well-known scene,...still, Even in extremity of ill By Yarrow's streams still let me stray, Though none should guide mv feeble way ; Still feel the breeze down Ettrick break,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 pages
...the flood, Land of my sires I what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand! Still, as I view each well-known scene,...still, Even in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's streams still let me stray, Though none should guide my feeble way; Still feel the breeze down Ettrick break,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 440 pages
...the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still, as I view each well-known scene,...better still, Even in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's stream still let me stray, Though none should guide my feeble way ; Still feel the breeze down Ettrick... | |
 | Walter Scott - Poetry, English - 1857 - 342 pages
...the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still, as I view each well-known scene,...friends thy woods and streams were left ; And thus I^love them better still, Even in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's streams still let me stray, Though... | |
 | David George Goyder - Phrenologists - 1857 - 652 pages
...the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ? Still, as I view each well-known scene,...Sole friends thy woods and streams were left ; And tbus I love thee better still, Even in extremity of ill.' While Scotland has thus eloquently been described,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still as I view each well-known scene,...of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams are left ; And thus I love thee better still Even in extremity of ill. SCOTT. 15. ODE TO ELOQtTEHCE.... | |
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Caledonia ! stern and wild, 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 ! Still, as I view... 
