...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...

...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...

...you forget shops, ledgers, gaslights, troublesome customers, and conjure up before the mind's eye " Caledonia, stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...child, Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of mountain and the flood?" And have you not, in the enthusiasm of the moment, exclaimed : " Breathes...

...you forget shops, ledgers, gaslights, troublesome customers, and conjure up before the mind's eye " Caledonia, stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...child, Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of mount-tin and the flood ?" And hare you not, in the enthusiasm of the moment, exclaimed : "Breathes...

...Wishart perished again at the stake ? or with patriotism as the mountain breezes swept across the " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood (" I don't dispute it. Do vou notice amongst the characteristics of the present exhibition that Scotland's...

...deserves the name of land, As but th' offscouring of the British sand, and now of our rugged northern " land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood." The scene of the murder of the Mac lans — " murder most foul, as in the best it is ; but this most...

...deserves the name of land, As but th' offscouring of the British sand, and now of our rugged northern " land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood." The scene of the murder of the Mac lans — " murder most foul, as in the best it is ; but this most...

...revival in Scotland during the present century is one of the facts on which the historian of that ' Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood ;' cannot fail to dwell as the interpreter of many of its Intellectual , social, aiid moral, as well...

...douhly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, 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 flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand...

...its physical character — character of its people — love of country, etc. ; such as Scott's — O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...shaggy wood — Land of the mountain and the flood, Or— Dear to my spirit, Scotland, thou hast been Since infant years, in all thy glens of green ; *...