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... The poetical works of sir Walter Scott - Strona 12autor: sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882 - Liczba stron: 823Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
| John Galt - 1813 - Liczba stron: 412
...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 - Liczba stron: 602
...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...each well-known scene, — Think what is now and what has been, — Seems as to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams are left ; And then... | |
| Walter Scott - 1819 - Liczba stron: 322
...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...sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial hand, That knits me to thy rugged strand! Still, as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now,... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1821 - Liczba stron: 536
...— 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... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - Liczba stron: 354
...doubly dying, shall go 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...of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams are left ; And thus I love them better still, Even in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's stream still let... | |
| Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1824 - Liczba stron: 292
... AL HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY .' CKCMMIHATTITCIC FORTY TEARS SINCE. " Land of my sires ! — What mortal hand Can e'er untie...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ?" SCOTT. HARTFORD : OLIVER D. COOKE & SOJVS. 1894. HMKUDOOUBBEUUIUCr DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT, ss.... | |
| Archibald Crawfurd - 1825 - Liczba stron: 340
...was the dear land of his sires, and well might he have exclaimed, in the language of our bard, — " Land of brown heath, and shaggy wood ! Land of the...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ?" Lewis stood wrapped in thought, while his misfortunes rushed across his imagination. Was he ever... | |
| Henry John George Herbert Earl of Carnarvon - 1825 - Liczba stron: 468
...Moslem King and people to report The hostile summons of the Spanish Court. CANTO IV. THE GUERILLA. Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ! SCOTT. For the first fervour of their zeal inspired The mountaineers, the presence of their chief,... | |
| 1825 - Liczba stron: 426
...Manners of the Romans. By George Watterston. Sketches of Connecticut, forty years since. 1 vol. 12mo. Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand. SCOTT. O'Halloran ; or the Insurgent Chief. An Irish Historic Tale of 1798. By the author of "The Wilderness,"... | |
| 1826 - Liczba stron: 434
...doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band Scott. Still, as I view each well known scene, ' '• Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems... | |
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