 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 Seiten
...Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. II. O Caledonia ! stern and wild,1 Meet nurse for a poetic child ! at upward curl'd, The eye, that seem'd to scorn the world. That lip had Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand... | |
 | lord William Pitt Lennox - 1841 - 898 Seiten
...heart." KO CHAPTER XII. TOUR IN SCOTLAND. O Caledonia, stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child 1 Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain, and the flood ! WALTER SCOTT. KAVENSWORTH seemed to have now attained the height of his wishes ; he was in possession... | |
 | James Wilson (M.D., of Malvern.) - 1842 - 246 Seiten
...mile, by his singing his pass-word. When walking among the pine trees I am sure he fancied himself in the— " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood," He was going on very satisfactorily, when he went roaming, with some other wild fellows, to the frontier... | |
 | 1843 - 350 Seiten
...sprung,— Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. 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 ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 Seiten
...liberally-shed blood they owe them. Hence the spectre of tyranny which all the poor Scotch see overshadowing the " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood." Poor men thmk that long ere now the law, if justly made, would have given a permanent tenure of the... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1844 - 362 Seiten
...but an imperfect estimate of the infinite beauty which he " who worships nature," will find in this " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, — Land of the mountain and the flood." Ere long — if fate forfend not — thou and I will make its pilgrimage together. " We'll mark each... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 Seiten
...sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. 0 Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! rs Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy nigged strand... | |
 | Bernard Barton - 1845 - 280 Seiten
...worth, Such objects to no transient ties, No frail and fleeting sympathies, Must evermore give birth. " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood ! Land of the mountain and the flood ! " As thy own Bard hath sung, " What shall untie the filial band Which knits unto thy rugged strand... | |
 | 1845 - 1270 Seiten
...6ne combination of all the features mentioned by Scott in his description of national landscape : " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood." Geology. — The principal rocks are whinstone and slate. There are two quarries of the latter within... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 382 Seiten
...sprung, Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. n. 0 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 ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand... | |
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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! 
