 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 272 pàgines
...renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung, II. O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet...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, as I... | |
 | British melodies - 1820 - 280 pàgines
...doubly dying, sjiall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...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, as I... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1821 - 536 pàgines
...— as whose dues not wh>-n poetical description is named, — to the haunt of the northern muse, ' Stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child, Land...heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the Tflood,' must remember that compared with some of ours, Scottish livers are but brooks, and Scottish... | |
 | 1822 - 418 pàgines
...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...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 as I view... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 354 pàgines
...Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Depite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concenter'd all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And,...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, as I... | |
 | 1826 - 434 pàgines
...doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...of the mountain and the flood, ^ Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band Scott. Still, as I view each well known scene, '... | |
 | Charlotte Anne Eaton - 1826 - 426 pàgines
...beautiful lines that I have heard you repeat a hundred times, with such enthusiasm — spouting after them O Caledonia ! stern and wild ! Meet nurse for a poetic...Land of the mountain and the flood ! Land of my sires ! "No," exclaimed Caroline, "but now I exclaim," O Italy ! serene and mild ! Meet nurse for a romantic... | |
 | Charlotte Anne Eaton - 1826 - 276 pàgines
...lines that I have heard you repeat a hundred times, with such enthusiasm — spouting after them 0 Caledonia ! stern and wild! Meet nurse for a poetic...heath and shaggy wood ! Land of the mountain and the nood ! Land of my sires ! " No," exclaimed Caroline, " but now I exclaim," O Italy ! serene and mild... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 pàgines
...dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence lie sprung. Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. II. 0 (Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires! wh.it mortal hand Can e'er untie tbe filial band. That knits me lo thy rugged strand ! Still, as I... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1828 - 408 pàgines
...Minstrel, in Scott's Lay, breaks out, at the thought of his beloved country, into this apostrophe : " O Caledonia, stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...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 !" Personification... | |
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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 ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand... 
