 | Alfred Haviland - 1855 - 208 pàgines
...poetry which so frequently characterises the shepherd and hunter, recalling the words of Scott : — " O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood."* In tracing the effect of the physical condition of a country on man, we must not limit ourselves to... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pàgines
...he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand ? Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.* Canto vi. St. 2. O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...shaggy wood ; Land of the mountain and the flood. Marmion. Canto ii. St. 27. 'T is an old tale, and often told. * Unwept, unnoted, and forever dead.... | |
 | Charles Williams - 1856 - 396 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Ferdinand De Wilton Ward - 1856 - 344 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 pàgines
...doubly 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...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... | |
 | David George Goyder - 1857 - 652 pàgines
...doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung. ' 0 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 440 pàgines
...doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. 2 0 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... | |
 | Richard Dawes - 1857 - 272 pàgines
...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 ; *... | |
 | David George Goyder - 1857 - 680 pàgines
...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...strand ? Still, as I view each well-known scene, Think wliat is now, and what hath been, Seems as, to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1858 - 952 pàgines
...uuliouor'd, and unsung. | II. v) Caledonia! stern an 1 wild,1 Meet nurse for a poetic child ! _/and of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain...band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still, us I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems as, to me, of all bereft,... | |
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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... 
