 | British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...doubly dying, sjiall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand! Still, as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, •Seems as, to me,... | |
 | Mary Jane Mackenzie - 1820 - 312 pages
...fortnight had been delightful. He was in the most brilliant spirits. The anticipation of visiting the Land of brown heath, and shaggy wood ; Land of the mountain, and the flood, Deemed to have inspired him ; and thougli he talked more of Burns, and Beattie, and Walter Scott, than... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American literature - 1821 - 536 pages
...— as whose dues not wh>-n poetical description is named, — to the haunt of the northern muse, ' Stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child, Land...heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the Tflood,' must remember that compared with some of ours, Scottish livers are but brooks, and Scottish... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American literature - 1821 - 542 pages
...poetical description is named, — to the haunt of the northern muse, ' Stern and wild, Meet nurse fur a poetic child, Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood,' must remember that compared with some of ours, Scottish rivers are but brooks, and Si ottish forests... | |
 | English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...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...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems as to me, of... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 354 pages
...doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. II. O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still, as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems as, to me, of... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - American literature - 1824 - 292 pages
... AL HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY .' CKCMMIHATTITCIC FORTY TEARS SINCE. " Land of my sires ! — What mortal hand Can e'er untie...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ?" SCOTT. HARTFORD : OLIVER D. COOKE & SOJVS. 1894. HMKUDOOUBBEUUIUCr DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT, ss.... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - American literature - 1824 - 294 pages
...3 3433 07603912 6 ,i or FORTY TEARS SINCE. - Land of in£.aKW.'V-mi-m < 5;tal ham] Can e'er untie the 'filial band* That knits me to thy rugged strand ':" HARTFORD: OUTER D. COOKK & . ! May 1913 1824. Mw / DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT, ss. United States of... | |
 | Henry John George Herbert Earl of Carnarvon - Muslims in literature - 1825 - 468 pages
...Moslem King and people to report The hostile summons of the Spanish Court. CANTO IV. THE GUERILLA. Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ! SCOTT. For the first fervour of their zeal inspired The mountaineers, the presence of their chief,... | |
 | Archibald Crawfurd - 1825 - 340 pages
...was the dear land of his sires, and well might he have exclaimed, in the language of our bard, — " Land of brown heath, and shaggy wood ! Land of the...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ?" Lewis stood wrapped in thought, while his misfortunes rushed across his imagination. Was he ever... | |
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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, land of my sires! 
