This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles,... The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: Bart - Page 67by Walter Scott - 1866 - 740 pagesFull view - About this book
| Walter Scott - Minstrels - 1805 - 334 pages
...Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentered all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And,...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... | |
| Walter Scott - Scottish poetry - 1805 - 344 pages
...Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentered all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And,...whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood,... | |
| 1806 - 310 pages
...his titles,, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, pov/er and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living,...whence he sprung, Unwept,, unhonoured, and unsung. MAG1CK. T HE last extract we shall at present makeirom this amusing production is n note upon the 5th... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1806 - 362 pages
...Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentered all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And,...sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. II. O Caledonia ! stem and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 788 pages
...Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentered all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown. And,...whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. After introducing the ballads of three different bards, he finely concludes with the following hymn... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 796 pages
...Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Cespite those titles, power, anil pelf, he wretch, concentered all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown. And,...dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence lie sprung, Unwept, unhonourcd, and unsung. After introducing the ballads of three different bards,... | |
| Henry Smithers - Poetry, English - 1807 - 254 pages
...Boundless his wealth as wish can claim; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch concenter'd all in self, Living shall forfeit fair renown, And...down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. i n. O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of... | |
| Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Education - 1809 - 516 pages
...minstrel raptures swell, High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can frame j Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch...doubly dying shall go down To the vile dust, from which he sprung^ Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. In this poem there are many beautiful strokes in the... | |
| Charles Jared Ingersoll - United States - 1810 - 186 pages
...despise themselves.' Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within...whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. T racter, Enterprise, public spirit, intelligence, faction and love of country are natural to such... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1812 - 362 pages
...Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentered all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And,...nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires f what mortal hand Can e'er untie... | |
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