 | lord William Pitt Lennox - 1841 - 898 pagine
...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... | |
 | 1852 - 590 pagine
...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... | |
 | James Wilson (M.D., of Malvern.) - 1842 - 246 pagine
...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 732 pagine
...unhonoured, and unsung. n. O Caledonia 1 stern and wild, Meet nurse for ft poetic child ! Land of hrown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the...flood. Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er nntie the filial hand, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still, as I view each well-known scene.... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1844 - 362 pagine
...but an imperfect estimate of the infinite beauty which he " who worships nature," will find in this " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, — Land of the mountain and the flood." Ere long — if fate forfend not — thou and I will make its pilgrimage together. " We'll mark each... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pagine
...blood they owe them. Hence the spectre of tyranny which all the poor Scotch see overshadowing the " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood." Poor men thmk that long ere now the law, if justly made, would have given a permanent tenure of the... | |
 | Bernard Barton - 1845 - 280 pagine
...worth, Such objects to no transient ties, No frail and fleeting sympathies, Must evermore give birth. " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood ! Land of the mountain and the flood ! " As thy own Bard hath sung, " What shall untie the filial band Which knits unto thy rugged strand... | |
 | 1845 - 1270 pagine
...6ne combination of all the features mentioned by Scott in his description of national landscape : " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood." Geology. — The principal rocks are whinstone and slate. There are two quarries of the latter within... | |
 | 1845 - 384 pagine
...fact.] " Hail ! Scotia, stern and wild, Meet nurse for the romantic child ; Laiid of the tartan and the wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires." SCOTT. THE departure of Seymour from Bolsover occurred in the month of July. Before the end of that... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 282 pagine
...doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung ! Oh Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, No. 95. Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged... | |
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Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood... 
