| Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - 1801 - 368 pàgines
...: Per flammas tua pone seqvi vestigia, teqve Eripere, aut tecum dent mihi fata mori. Caledonia. О Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...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 ! Still,... | |
| 1832 - 852 pàgines
...and romantic scenery of Wales. He travelled in Scotland ; and amid his glowing admiration of the ' Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood,1 the ' simple lives ' of her ' hardy sons of rustic toil ' led him to feel with her own bard,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1805 - 340 pàgines
...doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. II. O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...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! Still,... | |
| 1850 - 806 pàgines
...upon Ben An rouses the respondent voices of Benvenue) the strains of a mountain poetry worthy of the ' Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood.' But we must return to the book before us. Its object is ' to give to the Gael, or Highlanders of Scotland,... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1806 - 362 pàgines
...down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. II. O Caledonia ! stem and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of...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 ! Still,... | |
| Henry Smithers - 1807 - 254 pàgines
...doubly dying shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. i n. O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires I what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ? Still... | |
| Christiane Derobert-Ratel - 1809 - 590 pàgines
...on which stood the remains of the school in which he had received the early part of his education. O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...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 ? \ Lay... | |
| Sir John Carr - 1809 - 328 pàgines
...which stood the remains of the school in which he had recei- _'d the early part of his education. - 128 O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy woodLand of the mountain and the flood ; Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial... | |
| Walter Scott - 1811 - 254 pàgines
...Unwept, uiihouuured, MI n. D Caledonia! stem and wild, Meet nnrse for a poetie ehild ! Land of hrown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial hand, That knits me to thy rngged strand ! Still,... | |
| Elizabeth Isabella Spence - 1811 - 268 pàgines
...THE WEDDING DAY, &c. THE SECOND EDITION. : IN TWO VOLUMES— VOL. I. » Caledonia ! stern and wild, Land of brown heath, and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and tbe flood. LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. O nature! a' thy shews an' form«. To feeling, pensive hearts... | |
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