 | Charles Williams - 1856 - 396 sider
...popular lines of Scott, the ' Wizard of the North,' beginning with the couplets, " ' 0 Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of...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... | |
 | David George Goyder - 1857 - 680 sider
...go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung. ' 0 Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of...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
...description : " U Caledonia 1 stern and wild Meet nurse for a poetic child ! . Land of brown heaih and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood,...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,... | |
 | Richard Dawes - 1857 - 272 sider
...character — character of its people — love of country, etc. ; such as Scott's — O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ; Land of...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 ; *... | |
 | 1859 - 374 sider
...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 brown...the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand! LOCHIEL'S WARNING. Wizard. — Lochiel ! Lochiel ! beware of the day, When the Lowlands shall meet... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1860 - 656 sider
...go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprang, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown...and the flood, Land of my sires! what mortal hand JL-ZT-JTZIIL.! • I EAT OP THS Oaai<B0 f. That knits me to thy rugged strand! Still, as I view each... | |
 | Alexander Wallace - 1862 - 230 sider
...There is no wonder that our forefathers fought and bled for such a land as this?" " O Caledonia, stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child. Land of brown...the flood — Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Shall e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ?" 4th. — What country teems... | |
 | John Lockhart (of Kirkcaldy.) - 1862 - 216 sider
...general aspect of Scotland 1 Of Scotland, which Sir Walter Scott apostrophizes as - Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of...shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood." — the Highlands consist, chiefly, of lofty and rugged mountains, interspersed with numerous lakes... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 sider
...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...and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Laud of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand... | |
 | Selections - 1863 - 192 sider
...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 ! \ Macaulay . ATTEND, all ye who list to hear our noble England's praise : I sing of the thrice-famous... | |
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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... 
