 | Book - 1847 - 206 lehte
...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 child ! Land of...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ? 96 ADDRESS TO A MUMMY. Still as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been,... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 216 lehte
...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 child ! Land of...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ? 96 ADDRESS TO A MUMMY. Still as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been,... | |
 | Robert Turnbull - 1847 - 396 lehte
...excellencies of his native country. O Caledonia, stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land ^f brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ! " Scotland," as one of her own sons has expressed it, " is a wee bit country," but possessed of "... | |
 | British and foreign sailors' society - 1847 - 614 lehte
...separated from that country for many years, I can yet apply to it the language of the northern bard — ' ' Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain...the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e're untie that filial band Which binds me to thy rugged strand ? ' ' But the particular point to which... | |
 | 1847 - 490 lehte
...popular lines of Scott, the " Wizard oftheNorth," beginning with the couplets, " О Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown...shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood." Their influence was great upon me, and I yearned to get among the Buchanans and the Camerons, the clan... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 772 lehte
...down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. II. 0 Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of...the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand 1 StiH, as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems as, to me, of... | |
 | John Gibson (of Kilmarnock.) - 1851 - 192 lehte
...Celt, exiled from his heathery home, the most intense and rapturous delights. " O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ? " Some years ago, opposite the custom-house, on the quay of Greenock, (yclept " the Queen of Clyde,")... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 lehte
...go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. 0 Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of...the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! SIR WALTER SCOTT. VI. BRUCE TO HIS ARMY. IN the year 1314 the weak and worthless Edward II. invaded... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 lehte
...case." Hearts is parsed like bottom, and depends on the preposition of, as above. 9. () Caledonia! stern hyphen should be omitted; as ! — \Y. SCOTT. 3. How shall I speak of the old man, the bequeather of the fatal legacy to St. Leon,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 lehte
...go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhououred, and unsung. 0 Caledonia ! stern r invulnerable life, Your strength, your speed, your...(and the silence came), Here let the billows stiffen ) Ъ it knits me to thy rugged strand 1 Still as I view each well-known ясепе, Think what is now,... | |
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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... 
