...Saturday Night," and the " Prayer in the Prospect of Death," is surely an ample atonement. " Land of the brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood." She has, indeed, produced no Milton. Her bards have contented themselves with an humbler strain. Yet...

...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"...

...its physical character — character of its people — love of country, &c. ; such as Scott's — " 0, Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ; Land of hrown heath and shaggy wood — Land of the mountain and the flood." Or— " Dear to my spirit, Scotland,...

...For myself, sir, I confess that I love Scotland. I have reason to do so. I have trod the soil of the "Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood." I have looked up to the cloud-capt summit of Ben Lomond ; have glided among the fairy islets of Loch...

...shall go down To the vile dust, from whenee he sprung, Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung. O Caledonial stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land...Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires I what mortal hand Can e'er untie the nlial'band That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still as I view...

...doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonpur'd, and unsung. O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of ray sires, what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ? Still,...

...departure from simplicity. Being of Scottish descent, she was imbued with a peculiar love for the " Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of her sires." In her eighteenth summer she was married to Edmund B. Vass, Esq., also of Scottish ancestry,...

...Scotts, and fractions of Gait, reduced to their lowest terms, grew and multiplied, and covered the Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood — laying to its charge things that it knew not, and imputing to its zoology things that it grew not...

...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 memorable...

...Scotts, and fractions of Gait, reduced to their lowest terms, grew and multiplied, and covered the Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood— laying to its charge things that it knew not, and imputing to its zoology things that it grew not—a...