 | 1840 - 368 pages
...shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. VOL. II.— T Oh Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still, as 1 view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems as, to me, of... | |
 | Martha Pearce Rouch, Primogenita - 1840 - 146 pages
...dear Sally was located, — one which might be apostrophized in the beautiful language of the Poet, " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, " Land of the mountain and the flood, — " LAND of my SIRES" So might Sally add ; she would scarcely perhaps enter into the sentiment so expressed, but the same... | |
 | Isabella Steward - 1840 - 938 pages
...the parlour, and lay the cloth. We must look lively, and. welcome the young Geraldine " CHAPTER X. Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires t whut mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knis me to thy rugged strand I Scott. OUR evening... | |
 | Book - 1841 - 164 pages
...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...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ? Still as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems as to me of all... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pages
...vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. II. O Caledonia ! stern and wild,1 Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath...the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still, as I view each well-known scent;, Think what is now, and what hath bceu, Seems as, to me,... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1841 - 448 pages
...brought tears into her eyes as they pictured home, and her heart responded to the well-known lines, — " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood! Land of the mountain...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ? " But her feelings arose to rapture when Lochmarlie burst upon her view, in all the grandeur, beauty,... | |
 | 1841 - 586 pages
...from youth to age—MILTON, honourable and honoured ' Caledonia, stern and wild, Meet nurse of the poetic child, Land of brown heath and shaggy wood,...of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires;' name—Milton, scholar, philosopher, poet, patriot, Christian! Need I recall to recollection star-searching... | |
 | lord William Pitt Lennox - 1841 - 898 pages
...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... | |
 | 1852 - 590 pages
...sermons on each Sabbath," he could not renew, except faintly, his acquaintance with the country as the " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood." Yet his health " kept up very well ;" and in strength and safety he arrived in Leeds on the 1st of... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1842 - 352 pages
...Minstrel in Scott's Lay, breaks out, at the thought of his beloved country, into this apostrophe : " 0 Caledonia, stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand !"' Personification is the investing of qualities, or things inanimate, with the character of persons,... | |
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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! 
