 | 1838 - 480 pages
...shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. O Caledonia I stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand I Still, as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems as, to me, of... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 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...flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er unite the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still, as I view each well-known scene,... | |
 | 1838 - 908 pages
...shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. O Caledonia I stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land...Land of the mountain and 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... | |
 | William Beattie - 1838 - 336 pages
...sufficiently apparent in the storm-scene so forcibly delineated in the fore-ground of the picture. SCOTLAND. " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood — Land of the mountain and the flood 1" " 'Twas here the Son of Fingal towered along, And midst his mountains rolled the flood of song ;... | |
 | Ann Fraser Tytler - Europe - 1838 - 354 pages
...hand the spring of human feelings, binding us still more closely to the land of our fathers, to the " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood." Then seating himself by me, he continued, in a low voice, which I alone could hear, ' Oh ! what does... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - Bibliography - 1838 - 742 pages
...by no " dun umbrage" over cliff or rock ; and you would hardly suppose that you were entering the " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the MOUNTAIN and the FLOOD," as Scott so magnificently expresses it.* But where all is new, in scenery and in inhabitants, you naturally... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...understand the feeling of the bard, when, in the fervour of a patriot's enthusiasm, he exclaims, — " ' O, Caledonia ! stern and wild ! Meet nurse for a poetic...the flood — Land of my sires — what mortal hand Shall e'er untie the filial band That binds me to thy rugged strand :" ' " Had that bard himself, the... | |
 | Margaret Richardson - 1839 - 236 pages
...; That when my soul this frame hath burst, My pains, and sorrows,-r-all may cease. N SCOTLAND. " Oh Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...and the flood : Land of my sires, what mortal hand Can«'er nnl.ii: the filial band, That knits me to thy nigged strand," SCOTT. Scotland ! — thou land... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1865 - 1236 pages
...the dog, whatever its breed and for whatever purpose intended. AUTUMN DAYS IN SCOTLAND. BY HORVAL. " O Caledonia, stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...wood, Land of the mountain and the flood. Land of my tires ! what mortal hand Can c't'r untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand? " SCOTT.... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. VOL. II.— T Oh Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...band That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still, as 1 view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems as, to me, of all bereft,... | |
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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... 
