 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 396 pages
...swell. High tho' his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth, as wish can claim ; Despite these titles, power, and pelf, The wretch concentred all...from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung ! Scott. In fine, for all passages where there is no passion expressed, or which are not marked by... | |
 | Book - English poetry - 1847 - 206 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. O Caledonia, stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! 12 2) 28 I screamed, and — lo! — Infinity Came down and settled over me; (1. 39—40) 29 unhonour'd, and unsung. BLPA; EnRP; FaFP; FaPoR; FPL; GN; NOBE; OBEV; OBNC; OHFP; OPP; OxBS; TrGrPo;... | |
 | Tristan Jones - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 276 pages
...own, my native land!" Whose heart hath ne're 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. Sir Walter Scott Patriotism (I. "In Nominatus") Hit and Miss Mid-September... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - Business & Economics - 1995 - 166 pages
...Boundless his wealth as a 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, unhonor'd, and unsung.58 I suspect that the outcry from your constituents over the proposed exit tax—... | |
 | Victor Rabinowitz - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 376 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. This poem troubled me a great deal. My father never intended to return to his... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - Business & Economics - 1996 - 164 pages
...Boundless his wealth as a 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, unhonor'd, and unsung. 58 I suspect that the outcry from your constituents over the proposed exit tax—even... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...Who never to himself hath said. This is my own, my native land! 10028 The Lay of the Last Minstrel unhonoured, and unsung. 10029 Letter toJ.G. Lockhart, 1S30 All men who have turned out worth anything... | |
 | Robert Jewett - Bible - 1999 - 238 pages
...looks on with disgust, he hears her citing the lines of Sir Walter Scott describing future judgment: The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall...down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. He contemptuously laughs at this warning and moves into the second stage of... | |
 | David Savage - Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - 1999 - 258 pages
...Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentrated all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And...from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung. I enjoyed it. I thought the joke was on the letter writer and on the man who had got the quote out... | |
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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... 
