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
| 1830 - 990 pages
...infantile flesh and blood may •—might— must — have felt many mysterious emotions from the " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood." "I have been thinking lately a good deal of Alary Duff. How very odd that I should have been so utterly,... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 272 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... | |
| Mary Jane Mackenzie - 1820 - 312 pages
...fortnight had been delightful. He was in the most brilliant spirits. The anticipation of visiting the Land of brown heath, and shaggy wood ; Land of the mountain, and the flood, Deemed to have inspired him ; and thougli he talked more of Burns, and Beattie, and Walter Scott, than... | |
| British melodies - 1820 - 280 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!... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1821 - 542 pages
...named, — to the haunt of the northern muse, ' Stern and wild, Meet nurse fur a poetic child, Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood,' must remember that compared with some of ours, Scottish rivers are but brooks, and Si ottish forests... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1821 - 536 pages
...named, — to the haunt of the northern muse, ' Stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child, Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the Tflood,' must remember that compared with some of ours, Scottish livers are but brooks, and Scottish... | |
| 1822 - 418 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 hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 354 pages
...Unwept, unhonour'd, 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... | |
| Henry John George Herbert Earl of Carnarvon - 1825 - 468 pages
...Moslem King and people to report The hostile summons of the Spanish 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... | |
| Archibald Crawfurd - 1825 - 340 pages
...the dear land of his sires, and well might he have exclaimed, in the language of our bard, — " 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... | |
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