 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...Unwept, nnhonoured, and unsung. O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain...of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the 61ial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ? Still, as I view each well-known scene, Think what... | |
 | 1845 - 384 pages
...fact.] " Hail ! Scotia, stern and wild, Meet nurse for the romantic child ; Laiid of the tartan and the wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires." SCOTT. THE departure of Seymour from Bolsover occurred in the month of July. Before the end of that... | |
 | Scotland - 1845 - 1270 pages
...combination of all the features mentioned by Scott in his description of national landscape : " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood." Geology. — The principal rocks are whinstone and slate. There are two quarries of the latter within... | |
 | Sierra Club - Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) - 1911 - 414 pages
...by his love of the mists, clouds and fogs and all out-of-doors life. He was born in that " 'Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood. . . . ' and his fellow townsman, Sir Walter might have added " 'Land of engineers and much east wind.'... | |
 | England - 1880 - 840 pages
...I am come back not only to the land of beautiful natural characteristics, not only to the ' Land of brown heath and shaggy wood. Land of the mountain and the flood '— (applause) — but I am come back to that which is better still, to the land which has that prerogative... | |
 | 1902 - 668 pages
...the average Highlander, especially if an exile, would revel in pictorial reminders of the " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood," the Norwegian in the scenery of his rugged Fjords, trie Dutchman in the flat and foggy picturesqueness... | |
 | Lowry Nelson - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 333 pages
...Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung. 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. Here we have a whole nexus of motifs: the wanderer in danger of losing native roots, nostalgia for... | |
 | Alan Cairns - History - 1999 - 310 pages
...Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand.1 The invulnerability of such sentiments to time, place, and culture is suggested by the works... | |
 | John Carrington - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 344 pages
...wandering on a foreign strand!. . . 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! ('Patriotism') Occasionally, as in the last lines here, the tone approaches the bombastic. At his best... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - Literary Collections - 2003 - 258 pages
...Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung, 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! Still as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems as, to me, of all... | |
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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! 
