 | Book - 1847 - 216 oldal
...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...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,... | |
 | 1847 - 884 oldal
...child ! Land of brown heath and shn^srr wood ; Land of the mountain and the flood ; Land of my siren 1 what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy ragged strand ?' On the north of the town flows the beautiful Tweed, teyond which, and parallel with... | |
 | British and foreign sailors' society - 1847 - 614 oldal
...apply to it the language of the northern bard — ' ' Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 754 oldal
...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...love .them better still, Even in extremity of ill. ROSABELLE. 0 listen, listen, ladies gay ! No haughty feat of arms I tell ; Soft is the note, and sad... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 772 oldal
...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...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... | |
 | Joseph A. Nunes - 1848 - 272 oldal
...hath said, This is my own, my native land !" — or who cannot echo with truth his apostrophe — " ' Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand T " Elkton smiled scornfully, as he entered into a whispering conversation with Miss Moleskin ; but... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1850 - 364 oldal
...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...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 still let... | |
 | N. Leitch - 1851 - 234 oldal
...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...friends thy woods and streams were left; And thus I love thee better still, Even in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's stream still let me stray, Though none should... | |
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 oldal
...poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of ray sires, what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial...streams were left ; And thus I love them better still, Kven in extremity of ill. By Yarrow's stream still let me stray, Though none should guide my feeble... | |
 | John Gibson (of Kilmarnock.) - 1851 - 192 oldal
...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 !...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,")... | |
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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... 
