 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!  A physician's tale - Page 140by Heberden Milford - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - 1801 - 368 pages
...dent mihi fata mori. Caledonia. О 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... | |
 | 1832 - 852 pages
...romantic scenery of Wales. He travelled in Scotland ; and amid his glowing admiration of the ' Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood,1 the ' simple lives ' of her ' hardy sons of rustic toil ' led him to feel with her own bard,... | |
 | 1850 - 806 pages
...An rouses the respondent voices of Benvenue) the strains of a mountain poetry worthy of the ' Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood.' But we must return to the book before us. Its object is ' to give to the Gael, or Highlanders of Scotland,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1805 - 344 pages
...Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. 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... | |
 | Henry Smithers - 1807 - 254 pages
...Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. i n. 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 I what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand... | |
 | Christiane Derobert-Ratel - 1809 - 590 pages
...received the early part of his education. 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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1812 - 362 pages
...Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. * II. 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 f what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thv rugged strand... | |
 | John Galt - 1813 - 472 pages
...Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. 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 band ,J y»- i Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 pages
...Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. II. 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... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1868 - 602 pages
...which tell touchingly of the past and the present of the Queen's feelings and experience: — " 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... | |
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