 | English poetry - 1826 - 434 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,...down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 pages
...mark him well; For him uo minstrrl raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Bouudless his wealth as wish can claim; Despite those titles,...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 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,...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, Land... | |
 | Daniel Weir - Greenock (Scotland) - 1829 - 162 pages
...own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand ! If such there...down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung." NOTES. NOTE 1, page 2, line G. THE derivation of tbc name GUI-KNOCK is from... | |
 | John Macray - 1829 - 102 pages
...Boumdlesshis wealth as wish can claim; Despite those titles, power, aud pelf. The wretch, concenter'd all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown. And,...dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he v, j, Unwept, unhonour'd, and ur,. O Caledonia ! stern and wiii, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 pages
...own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd As home his footsteps he hath lurn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand? If such there...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 child! Land of brown... | |
 | John Hobart Caunter - 1830 - 254 pages
...Despite those titles, power and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit his renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung Unwept, unhonour'd and unsung." Lay of the Last Minstrel. NOTE 5. STANZA XLIII. How oft by her plucked out,... | |
 | Religion - 1853 - 1142 pages
...swell. High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, Despite his titles, power and pelf, The wretch concentred all...whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung." — Scott. Had there been no home for Washington to love, and in which was laid the foundation of his... | |
 | William Lloyd Garrison - African Americans - 1832 - 278 pages
...a foreign strand ! If such there breathe, go, mark him well ; For him no Minstrel raptures swull ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless...-down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, nnhonored, and unsung.' Whose bosom does not thrill with pleasurable emotion whenever he listens to... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand ! Living, he forfeits fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and nnsung. — Sir Walter Scott. acts. AN eclipse of the moon is noticed by Josephus,... | |
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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, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those... 
