 | John Galt - Greece - 1813 - 472 pages
...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...mountain and the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal band ,J y»- i Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! THE Royal Scots,... | |
 | John Galt - 1813 - 412 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...mountain and the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal baud Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! THE Royal Scots, or Royal... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1868 - 602 pages
...Scott, which tell touchingly of the past and the present of the Queen's feelings and experience: — " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, — Land of the...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 has been, —... | |
 | England - 1830 - 990 pages
...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 Alary Duff. How very odd that I should have been so utterly,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1819 - 322 pages
...dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Pnwept, unhonoured, and unsung. II. 0 Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of hrown heath and shaggy wood', Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 272 pages
...doubly 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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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! 
