 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 ページ
...dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence lie sprung. Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. II. 0 (Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires! wh.it mortal hand Can e'er untie tbe filial band. That knits me lo thy rugged strand ! Still, as I... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1827 - 412 ページ
...generally and decidedly mountainous country : it is, as one of its greatest poets has described it, a Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood. The smooth beautiful face of the Saxon is not more dissimilar to the harsh and strongly marked visage... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1827 - 416 ページ
...and decidedly mountainous country : it is, as one of its greatest poets has described it, a I , rind of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood. The smooth beautiful face of the Saxon is not more dissimilar to the harsh and strongly marked visage... | |
 | 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...Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand !" Personification is the investing of qualities, or things inanimate, with the character... | |
 | 1828 - 814 ページ
...go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. Land of brown beath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood,...Can e'er untie 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 ページ
...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...Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the Glial band That knits me to thy rugged strand! Still, as I view each well-known scene, Think what is... | |
 | Richard Biddle - 1830 - 172 ページ
...she would not thrill with enthusiasm, when " auld lang syne," recalled the recollection of that— " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood ;" or that, she could ever cease to exclaim — " Land of my sires wbat mortal hand, Can e'er untie... | |
 | 1830 - 1006 ページ
...female infantile flesh and blood may —might — must — have felt many mysterious emotions from the " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood. " " I have been thinking lately a good deal of Mary Duff. How very odd that I should have been so utterly,... | |
 | Richard Biddle, American - 1830 - 138 ページ
...she would not thrill with enthusiasm, when "auldlang syne," recalled the recollection of that — " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood; or that she could ever cease to exclaim — " /„•';•'/ of my sires, what mortal hand Can e'er... | |
 | 524 ページ
...the reigns of Henry V. and VI. of England, and James I. of Scotland, many of them went over to the " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood — Land of the mountain and the flood" — and settled there as mechanics and manufacturers in those towns and villages which had been so... | |
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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! 
