| William Hamilton Maxwell - 1852 - 362 páginas
...but an imperfect estimate of the infinite beauty which he " who worships nature," will find in this " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood,— Land of the mountain and the flood." Ere long—if fate forfend not—thou and I will make its pilgrimage together. " We'll mark each memorable... | |
| William Herbert - 1853 - 234 páginas
...doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. O Caledonia ! stern and wild ; Meet nurse for a poetic...and the flood, Land of my sires ! What mortal hand L_ Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still, as I view each well-known... | |
| Walter Scott - 1854 - 892 páginas
...vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung. II. О Caledonia ! stem and wild,1 Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath...mountain and the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal liand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still, as I view each well-known... | |
| 1853 - 486 páginas
...June 28, 1863. Entomological Localities. By JW DOUGLAS, Esq. (Continued from page 3690). SCOTLAND. " O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Laud of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band... | |
| 1853 - 428 páginas
...aloft to mock The storm's career, the lightning's shock," resembles " Auld Scotia's hills and dales," " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood," We owe Scotland much; — much as scholars, as teachers, as men ; for our fireside delights, our institutions... | |
| William Hamilton Maxwell - 1853 - 368 páginas
...but an imperfect estimate of the infinite beauty which he " who worships nature," will find in this Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, — Land of the mountain and the flood. Ere long — if fate forfend not — thou and I will make its pilgrimage together. "We'll mark each... | |
| 1854 - 502 páginas
...evokes the spirit of a peasant literature, and fires the geuius of its "native wood notes wild ?" — " 0 Caledonia, stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...the flood — Land of my sires ! what mortal hand, Shall e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand." Whether the peculiar scenery... | |
| 1854 - 606 páginas
...What hill or vale or river, But in this fond enthusiast heart Has (blind a place forever? R. CHAMBERS. Land of brown heath and shaggy wood. Land of the mountain...and the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Con e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ! SCOTT. Land of my fathers ! though... | |
| 1854 - 430 páginas
...love of country, &c. Such as Scott's O, Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse of a poetic child ; Lund of brown heath and shaggy wood,— Land of the mountain and the flood. Or, Gray's Dear to my spirit, Scotland, thou hast been Since infant years in all thy glens of green;... | |
| Heberden Milford - 1854 - 344 páginas
...aloud (as if for an instant startled from his reverie), Recte faciendo securus I CHAPTER VI. " .[.and of brown heath and shaggy wood — Land of the mountain and the flood." SCOTT. As Murdoch and Katherine, on their marriage trip, journeyed on to the Eternal City, a thousand... | |
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