 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | William Cox - New York (N.Y.) - 1833 - 268 pages
...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...Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand !" Mankind owes Scott a debt of gratitude which it can never liquidate. The untiring... | |
 | Children's periodicals - 1838 - 448 pages
...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... | |
 | English literature - 1833 - 642 pages
...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - Waverley novels. Selections - 1833 - 418 pages
...multiplicity of objects so calculated to invite poetic, romantic, or picturesque description, as the " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood! Land of the mountain and the flood ! and, although these have met with their share of attention, local and general manners have been too... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 358 pages
...hard, Young people at his time of life should be able To come off handsomely in that regard. (1) [" Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood," &c. Lay of the Last Minstrel.] He was now growing up like a green tree, able For love, war, or ambition,... | |
 | Mr. Forsyth - Characters and characteristics in literature - 1833 - 354 pages
...multiplicity of objects so calculated to invite poetic, romantic, or picturesque description, as the 'Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood !' and, although these have met with their share of attention, local and general manners have been... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - Poets, English - 1833 - 364 pages
...hard, Young people at his time of life should be able To come off handsomely in that regard. (1) [" Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, ' Land of the mountain and the flood," &c. xx. He was now growing up like a green tree, able For love, war, or ambition, which reward Their... | |
 | 1833 - 448 pages
...furnishes objects more calculated to invite poetic, romantic, or picturesque description, than the " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood !" and although these have met with some share of attention, local and general manners and customs... | |
 | Walter Scott - Waverley novels. Selections - 1833 - 412 pages
...multiplicity of objects so calculated to invite poetic, romantic, or picturesque description, as the " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood ! and, although these have met with their share of attention, local and general manners have been too... | |
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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! 
