| John William Carleton - 1865 - 1236 páginas
...AUTUMN DAYS IN SCOTLAND. BY HORVAL. " 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 tires ! what mortal hand Can c't'r untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand?... | |
| Margaret Richardson - 1839 - 236 páginas
...sorrows,-r-all may cease. N SCOTLAND. " Oh 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, what mortal hand Can«'er nnl.ii: the filial band, That knits me to thy nigged... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 páginas
...patriot's enthusiasm, he exclaims, — " ' 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 — what mortal hand Shall e'er untie the filial band That binds me to thy rugged... | |
| Isabella Steward - 1840 - 938 páginas
...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... | |
| Martha Pearce Rouch, Primogenita - 1840 - 146 páginas
...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... | |
| 1840 - 378 páginas
...unhonour'd, and unsung. Vol. II.— T Oh 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 ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand... | |
| Chauncy Hare Townshend - 1840 - 430 páginas
...must all meet together in one region, in order to verify the picture I had formed in my own mind of the " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, " Land of the mountain andthe flood." Here, these elements, elsewhere dispersed, are actually found in combination. Castletown... | |
| 1852 - 590 páginas
...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... | |
| Book - 1841 - 164 páginas
...sprung, 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 and the flood ! Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand... | |
| 1841 - 586 páginas
...age—MILTON, honourable and honoured ' Caledonia, stern and wild, Meet nurse of the poetic child, Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires;' name—Milton, scholar, philosopher, poet, patriot, Christian! Need I recall to... | |
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