...the parlour, and lay the cloth. We must look lively, and. welcome the young Geraldine " CHAPTER X. Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires t whut mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knis me to thy rugged strand I Scott. OUR evening...

...dear Sally was located, — one which might be apostrophized in the beautiful language of the Poet, " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, " Land of the mountain and the flood, — " LAND of my SIRES" So might Sally add ; she would scarcely perhaps enter into the sentiment so expressed, but the same...

...vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. II. O Caledonia ! stern and wild,1 \ scent;, Think what is now, and what hath bceu, Seems as, to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods...

...brought tears into her eyes as they pictured home, and her heart responded to the well-known lines, — " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood! Land of the mountain...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ? " But her feelings arose to rapture when Lochmarlie burst upon her view, in all the grandeur, beauty,...

...from youth to age—MILTON, honourable and honoured ' Caledonia, stern and wild, Meet nurse of the poetic child, Land of brown heath and shaggy wood,...of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires;' name—Milton, scholar, philosopher, poet, patriot, Christian! Need I recall to recollection star-searching...

...sermons on each Sabbath," he could not renew, except faintly, his acquaintance with the country as the " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood." Yet his health " kept up very well ;" and in strength and safety he arrived in Leeds on the 1st of...

...heart." KO CHAPTER XII. TOUR IN SCOTLAND. O Caledonia, stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child 1 Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain, and the flood ! WALTER SCOTT. KAVENSWORTH seemed to have now attained the height of his wishes ; he was in possession...

...Minstrel in Scott's Lay, breaks out, at the thought of his beloved country, into this apostrophe : " 0 Caledonia, stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand !"' Personification is the investing of qualities, or things inanimate, with the character of persons,...

...his singing his pass-word. When walking among the pine trees I am sure he fancied himself in the— " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood," He was going on very satisfactorily, when he went roaming, with some other wild fellows, to the frontier...

...doubly dying, shall 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...the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ? Scott. LAND of my fathers ! though no mangrove here, O'er thy blue streams, her flexile branches...