 | 1832 - 852 pages
...and 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
...upon Ben 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,... | |
 | Henry Smithers - 1807 - 254 pages
...dying shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. i n. O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...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 ? Still as I view... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1809 - 328 pages
...stood the remains of the school in which he had recei- _'d the early part of his education. - 128 O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy woodLand of the mountain and the flood ; Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial... | |
 | Elizabeth Isabella Spence - 1811 - 268 pages
...THE WEDDING DAY, &c. THE SECOND EDITION. : IN TWO VOLUMES— VOL. I. » Caledonia ! stern and wild, Land of brown heath, and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and tbe flood. LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. O nature! a' thy shews an' form«. To feeling, pensive hearts... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1812 - 362 pages
...dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. * II. O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...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 ! Still, as I... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1819 - 322 pages
...douhly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Pnwept, unhonoured, and unsung. II. 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, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1821 - 536 pages
...— as whose dues not wh>-n poetical description is named, — to the haunt of the northern muse, ' Stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child, Land...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... | |
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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... 
