 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 sider
...nurse for a poetic child ! 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 rugged strand ! SIB WALTER SCOTT. VI. BRUCE TO HIS ARMY. IN the year 1314... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 342 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...friends thy woods and streams were left ; And thus I^love them better still, Even in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's streams still let me stray, Though... | |
 | David George Goyder - 1857 - 652 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...Sole friends thy woods and streams were left ; And tbus I love thee better still, Even in extremity of ill.' While Scotland has thus eloquently been described,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 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...of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams are left ; And thus I love thee better still Even in extremity of ill. SCOTT. 15. ODE TO ELOQtTEHCE.... | |
 | David George Goyder - 1857 - 680 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...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... | |
 | 1857 - 818 sider
...nurse for a poetic child ! . Land of brown heaih 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 ihy rugged strand !" It were too long a task to undertake any minute examination of the castle itself,... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - 1916 - 1604 sider
...a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, 20 Land of the mountain and the flood, 'broth heir mingling beamings darted Through clouds of circumambient...battlements around Looked o 'er the immense of Heaven. 45 10 25 Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems as to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and... | |
 | Robert Bridges - 1916 - 368 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 ! . . . 412 Heroism 413 Ay, tear his body limb from limb, Bring cord, or axe, or flame : He only knows,... | |
 | 1917 - 506 sider
...WHERE THE SILVER WATERS FLOW "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...filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand!" HO COULD fail of a chance like this! — an opportunity to appear on the printed page just as one is,... | |
 | James Champlin Fernald - 1917 - 364 sider
...memory is to me Of a land beyond the sea, Where the waves and mountains meet. LONGFELLOW Amalfi, st. 1. Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand! APPENDIX 1. RULES FOR THE SPELLING OF ENGLISH WORDS, p. 315. 2. PRONOUNS AND ANTECEDENTS, p. 317. 3.... | |
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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... 
