 | Charlotte Anne Eaton - 1826 - 426 pages
...enthusiasm — spouting after them 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 ! "No," exclaimed Caroline, "but now I exclaim," O Italy ! serene and mild ! Meet nurse for a romantic... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 pages
...Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. II. 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! wh.it mortal hand Can e'er untie tbe filial band. That knits me lo thy rugged strand ! Still, as I... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1827 - 416 pages
...decidedly mountainous country : it is, as one of its greatest poets has described it, a I , rind of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood. The smooth beautiful face of the Saxon is not more dissimilar to the harsh and strongly marked visage... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. Land of brown beath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood,...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,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scottish poetry - 1831 - 582 pages
...Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. II. O Caledonia! stern and wild. Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain...Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the Glial band That knits me to thy rugged strand! Still, as I view each well-known scene, Think what is... | |
 | Scotland - 1830 - 1016 pages
...infantile flesh and blood may i— might — must — have feltmany mysterious emotions from the " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood." "I have been thinking lately a good deal of Mary Duff. How very odd that I should have been so utterly,... | |
 | Richard Biddle - 1830 - 172 pages
...not thrill with enthusiasm, when " auld lang syne," recalled the recollection of that— " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood ;" or that, she could ever cease to exclaim — " Land of my sires wbat mortal hand, Can e'er untie... | |
 | Richard Biddle, American - 1830 - 138 pages
...would not thrill with enthusiasm, when "auldlang syne," recalled the recollection of that — " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood; or that she could ever cease to exclaim — " /„•';•'/ of my sires, what mortal hand Can e'er... | |
 | 1857 - 504 pages
...afford more pleasure than a whole thicket full of pheasants." There spoke a true son of " The land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood." But those who dwell amid the tamer, although not less beautiful scenery, of England, may find a pleasure... | |
 | William Cox - New York (N.Y.) - 1833 - 268 pages
...inspiration of the poet : " O Caledonia ! stern and wild ! Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand !" Mankind owes Scott a debt of gratitude which it can never liquidate. The untiring admiration of... | |
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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! 
