| 1847 - 490 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 and 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... | |
| Walter Scott - 1848 - 754 ページ
...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...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... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1848 - 330 ページ
...go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. O Caledonia ! stem and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of...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... | |
| 1848 - 530 ページ
...scale, and of a much sterner character, than English scenes. Well may the Scotch muse exclaim — " О Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Laud of the mountain and the flood ! " We usually speak of Scotch people as if they were all alike... | |
| 1856 - 604 ページ
...not "Auld lang syno," " Roslin Castle," and still more, the sacred, venerable, and ancient melodies "Caledonia, stern and wild. Meet nurse for a poetic child ; Land of brown heath and shnggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood ?" And have you not in the enthusiasm of the moment,... | |
| Joseph Guy - 1849 - 118 ページ
...own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, 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 view... | |
| Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1850 - 364 ページ
...: Per flammas tua pone seqvi vestigia, teqve Eriperc, aut tecum dent mihi fata morí. Caledonia. О 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... | |
| David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1850 - 292 ページ
...dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung ! " O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet muse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy...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,... | |
| N. Leitch - 1851 - 234 ページ
...And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour'd, and uusuug. 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 rugged strand; Still as I view... | |
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