 | Gem book - 1846 - 398 pages
...renown, And, 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...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ! SCOTT. THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION. Glorious monument Of all that patriot hearts should struggle for... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 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...mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits mo to thy rugged strand ? Still, as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Tracts - 1846 - 282 pages
...doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung ! Oh Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, No. 95. Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged... | |
 | Roland Percie (fict.name.) - 1846 - 702 pages
...Abbey," said Lady Mary, " you see I am determined you shall take a pleasing recollection away of our ' Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood.' " " We cannot say ' shaggy wood,' " said Roland, " in looking on this beautiful scene." It was six... | |
 | English literature - 1837 - 174 pages
...worth; Such objects to no transient ties, No frail and fleeting sympathies, Must evermore give birth. " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, " Land of the mountain and the flood," As thy own bard hath sung; " What shall untie the filial band " Which knits unto thy rugged strand"... | |
 | Book - English poetry - 1847 - 206 pages
...renown, And, 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...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ? 96 ADDRESS TO A MUMMY. Still as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been,... | |
 | Book - English poetry - 1847 - 216 pages
...renown, And, 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...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ? 96 ADDRESS TO A MUMMY. Still as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been,... | |
 | Robert Turnbull - Scotland - 1847 - 396 pages
...excellencies of his native country. O Caledonia, stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land ^f brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ! " Scotland," as one of her own sons has expressed it, " is a wee bit country," but possessed of "... | |
 | 1847 - 490 pages
...Magazine, and the popular lines of Scott, the " Wizard oftheNorth," beginning with the couplets, " О Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood." Their influence was great upon me, and I yearned to get among the Buchanans and the Camerons, the clan... | |
 | British and foreign sailors' society - 1847 - 614 pages
...separated from that country for many years, I can yet apply to it the language of the northern bard — ' ' Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain...the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e're untie that filial band Which binds me to thy rugged strand ? ' ' But the particular point to which... | |
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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... 
