 | Literature - 1825 - 426 pages
...Manners of the Romans. By George Watterston. Sketches of Connecticut, forty years since. 1 vol. 12mo. Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand. SCOTT. O'Halloran ; or the Insurgent Chief. An Irish Historic Tale of 1798. By the author of "The Wilderness,"... | |
 | James Mitchell - Scotland - 1825 - 798 pages
...&C. 11 Land of brown heath anil shaggy wood. Land of the mountain and the flood. Land of my sire» ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand !" WALTKR SCOTT. " It a the chief glory of Scotsmen that, next to Ood and their parents, they love... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 434 pages
...renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse...! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band Scott. Still, as I view each well known scene, ' '• Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems... | |
 | Charlotte Anne Eaton - 1826 - 426 pages
...beautiful lines that I have heard you repeat a hundred times, with such enthusiasm — spouting after them O Caledonia ! stern and wild ! Meet nurse for a poetic...Land of the mountain and the flood ! Land of my sires ! "No," exclaimed Caroline, "but now I exclaim," O Italy ! serene and mild ! Meet nurse for a romantic... | |
 | Charlotte Anne Eaton - 1826 - 276 pages
...lines that I have heard you repeat a hundred times, with such enthusiasm — spouting after them 0 Caledonia ! stern and wild! Meet nurse for a poetic...heath and shaggy wood ! Land of the mountain and the nood ! Land of my sires ! " No," exclaimed Caroline, " but now I exclaim," O Italy ! serene and mild... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 pages
...dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence lie sprung. Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. II. 0 (Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires! wh.it mortal hand Can e'er untie tbe filial band. That knits me lo thy rugged strand ! Still, as I... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1827 - 412 pages
...generally and decidedly mountainous country : it is, as one of its greatest poets has described it, a Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood. The smooth beautiful face of the Saxon is not more dissimilar to the harsh and strongly marked visage... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - Children's poetry - 1828 - 408 pages
...Minstrel, in Scott's Lay, breaks out, at the thought of his beloved country, into this apostrophe : " O Caledonia, stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand !" Personification is the investing of qualities, or things inanimate, with the character of persons,... | |
 | Richard Biddle, American - 1830 - 138 pages
...she would not thrill with enthusiasm, when "auldlang syne," recalled the recollection of that — " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood; or that she could ever cease to exclaim — " /„•';•'/ of my sires, what mortal hand Can e'er... | |
 | Richard Biddle - 1830 - 172 pages
...she would not thrill with enthusiasm, when " auld lang syne," recalled the recollection of that— " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood ;" or that, she could ever cease to exclaim — " Land of my sires wbat mortal hand, Can e'er untie... | |
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O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood... 
