 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1844 - 362 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 σελίδες
...have known a better DAY ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. Scott. 10. 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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 σελίδες
...doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, nnhonoured, 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 61ial band That knits me to thy rugged strand... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 σελίδες
...doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 382 σελίδες
...dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. n. 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... | |
 | 1845 - 1270 σελίδες
...6ne combination of all the features mentioned by Scott in his description of national landscape : " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood." Geology. — The principal rocks are whinstone and slate. There are two quarries of the latter within... | |
 | Bernard Barton - 1845 - 280 σελίδες
...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... | |
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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! 
