 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...: Per flammas tua pone seqvi vestigia, teqve Eripere, aut tecum dent mihi fata mori. Caledonia. О Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...Can e'er untie 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... | |
 | Religion - 1832 - 852 pages
...and romantic scenery of Wales. He travelled in Scotland ; and amid his glowing admiration of the ' Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood,1 the ' simple lives ' of her ' hardy sons of rustic toil ' led him to feel with her own bard,... | |
 | 1805 - 752 pages
...Land T.. ¡:id of brown-heath and fliaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, f • •* • Land of my Sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, ' That knits me to thy rugged ftrand." P. 161, • Whether the Minflrel be fuppofed to utter thefe fentimeñts, or Mr. Scott... | |
 | 1850 - 806 pages
...upon Ben An rouses the respondent voices of Benvenue) the strains of a mountain poetry worthy of the ' Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood.' But we must return to the book before us. Its object is ' to give to the Gael, or Highlanders of Scotland,... | |
 | Henry Smithers - Poetry, English - 1807 - 254 pages
...doubly dying shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. i n. 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 view... | |
 | Christiane Derobert-Ratel - Aix-en-Provence (France) - 1809 - 590 pages
...on which stood the remains of the school in which he had received the early part of his education. O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ? \ Lay of the Last Minstrel, p. ] 70. Amongst the ladies there is a frankness of character... | |
 | Sir John Carr - Scotland - 1809 - 328 pages
...which stood the remains of the school in which he had recei- _'d the early part of his education. - 128 O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy woodLand of the mountain and the flood ; Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial... | |
 | Elizabeth Isabella Spence - Scotland - 1811 - 268 pages
...THE WEDDING DAY, &c. THE SECOND EDITION. : IN TWO VOLUMES— VOL. I. » Caledonia ! stern and wild, Land of brown heath, and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and tbe flood. LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. O nature! a' thy shews an' form«. To feeling, pensive hearts... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1812 - 362 pages
...dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. * II. O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires f what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thv rugged strand ! Still, as I... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 pages
...doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. II. O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...Can e'er untie 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, 6 Seems... | |
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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! 
