 | 1826 - 434 ページ
...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...of the mountain and the flood, ^ Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band Scott. Still, as I view each well known scene, '... | |
 | Charlotte Anne Eaton - 1826 - 276 ページ
...beautiful 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... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1828 - 408 ページ
...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...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 !" Personification... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 ページ
...sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung. O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child 1 Land of brown heath 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 ! Still, as I... | |
 | William Cox - 1833 - 268 ページ
...prime, showing the deep and rooted feelings of the man, &e well as the inspiration of the poet : " O Caledonia ! stern and wild ! Meet nurse for a poetic...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 !" Mankind owes... | |
 | 1838 - 448 ページ
...and left them with regret ; nor was Scotland forgotten. " O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nnrse for a poetic child Land of brown heath, and shaggy wood ! Land of the mountain and the flood !" Many an hour we mused by thy Yarrow's stream, and bifeathed thy Ettrick breeze. We held mental communication... | |
 | 1833 - 642 ページ
...appropriate to the day, the immortal Sir Walter Scott's soul-stirring invocation to country, beginning: " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood; Land of my sires,1' &c. &c. The unanimous thanks of the meeting were voted to Lord Kenyon, for the very able manner... | |
 | 1835 - 272 ページ
...to the land of their fathers, their heroes, and their martyrs, so exquisitely expressed by the poet. 0 Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...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 nigged strand ! Each emigrating... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1835 - 380 ページ
...dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. II. O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...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 ? Still, as I... | |
 | 1835 - 284 ページ
...to the land of their fathers, their heroes, and their martyrs, so exquisitely expressed by the poet. 0 Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the apod, Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged... | |
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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! what mortal hand can e'er untie the filial band, that knits me to thy rugged strand! 
