 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
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - Liczba stron: 776
...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...Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires I what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand! Still, as I... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - Liczba stron: 660
...footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand ? Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.* Canto vi. St. 2. O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a...shaggy wood ; Land of the mountain and the flood. Marmion. Canto ii. St. 27. 'T is an old tale, and often told. * Unwept, unnoted, and forever dead.... | |
 | Charles Williams - 1856 - Liczba stron: 396
...Shepherd, and the popular lines of Scott, the ' Wizard of the North,' beginning with the couplets, " ' 0 Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood.' " At this period indeed he felt there was a powerful charm in the sight of Loch Lomond, the scent of... | |
 | Ferdinand De Wilton Ward - 1856 - Liczba stron: 340
...eloquent Dr. Wardlaw ! CHAPTER XXIX. Excursion to Lochs Lomond and Katrine, and thence to Stirling. 0 Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...and shaggy wood ; Land of the mountain and the flood ! A BEAUTIFUL morning was that of July 17th, as it rose upon the city of Glasgow; one more desirable... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - Liczba stron: 474
...unhonoured, and unsung. 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 ! SIB WALTER SCOTT. VI. BRUCE TO HIS ARMY. IN the year 1314... | |
 | Frederick Earle Emmons, Thomas Waterman Huntington - 1928 - Liczba stron: 454
...the rising sun, For at dawning to assail ye Here no bugles sound reveille.' SIR WALTER SCOTT. HEATHER "O Caledonia! stern and wild! Meet nurse for a poetic...shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood." SCOTT, Lay of the Last Minstrel. It may be that four-fifths of Scotland is unfit for cultivation but... | |
 | Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson - 1907 - Liczba stron: 282
...the grandeur of loch, mountain, could give expression to the true patriot's feeling in the lines: — "O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!" And so, annually, there is a stream, of every kindred and people, making the pilgrimage to Abbotsford,... | |
 | 1870 - Liczba stron: 420
...evinced. Yet I came back to my own New England with a fonder love and a higher appreciation than ever. "Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand !'' Be it that no palm trees wave her*1, no orange blossoms fling their fragrance to the breeze ; be... | |
 | Lowry Nelson - 2010 - Liczba stron: 333
...doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung. O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood. Here we have a whole nexus of motifs: the wanderer in danger of losing native roots, nostalgia for... | |
 | John Carrington - 2003 - Liczba stron: 344
...ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand!. . . O Caledonia! Stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand! ('Patriotism') Occasionally, as in the last lines here, the tone approaches the bombastic. At his best... | |
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