 | Henry John George Herbert Earl of Carnarvon - 1825 - 468 sider
...Court. CANTO IV. THE GUERILLA. 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 ! SCOTT. For the first fervour of their zeal inspired The mountaineers, the presence of their chief,... | |
 | 1825 - 426 sider
...Manners of the Romans. By George Watterston. Sketches of Connecticut, forty years since. 1 vol. 12mo. Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand. SCOTT. O'Halloran ; or the Insurgent Chief. An Irish Historic Tale of 1798. By the author of "The Wilderness,"... | |
 | James Mitchell - 1825 - 798 sider
...&C. 11 Land of brown heath anil shaggy wood. Land of the mountain and the flood. Land of my sire» ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand !" WALTKR SCOTT. " It a the chief glory of Scotsmen that, next to Ood and their parents, they love... | |
 | Francis S. Higginson - 1825 - 586 sider
...coolly premeditated, and deliberate murder ! " CHAPTER XXIX. " Land of my sires ! what mortal band Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand 1 " WALTER SCOTT. Sir Henry Mortimer, whose agitation had been extreme during the time he was speaking,... | |
 | 1826 - 434 sider
...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 Scott. Still, as I view each well known scene, ' '• Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 sider
...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 view each well-known scene, Think what is now. and what hatb been, Seems as, to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams are left; And thus I... | |
 | 1828 - 814 sider
...Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. Land of brown beath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires — what mortal hand Can e'er untie...Seems as, to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods anil streams were left ; And thus I love them better still, Even in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's stream... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1828 - 408 sider
...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 !" Personification is the investing of qualities, or things inanimate, with the character of persons,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 sider
...wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the Glial band That knits me to thy rugged strand! Still, as...of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams are left; And thus I love them better still, Even in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's stream slid let... | |
 | Richard Biddle, American - 1830 - 138 sider
...wood, Land of the mountain and the flood; or that she could ever cease to exclaim — " /„•';•'/ of my sires, what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That binds me to thy rugged strand ?" And if a future Scotch tourist should find amongst her descendants,... | |
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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... 
