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! Manderville; or, The Hibernian chiliarch - Page 207by Francis S. Higginson - 1825 - 564 pagesFull view - About this book
| Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - 1801 - 368 pages
...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 ! Still, as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems as, to me, of... | |
| Walter Scott - 1805 - 340 pages
...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! Still, as I view each well known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems as, to me, of... | |
| 1805 - 752 pages
...fliaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, f • •* • Land of my Sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, ' That knits me to thy rugged ftrand." P. 161, • Whether the Minflrel be fuppofed to utter thefe fentimeñts, or Mr. Scott himfelf,... | |
| Henry Smithers - 1807 - 254 pages
...brown heath and shaggy wood, 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 each well known scene, Think what is now, and what has been, Seems as to me of all... | |
| Christiane Derobert-Ratel - 1809 - 590 pages
...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 ? \ Lay of the Last Minstrel, p. ] 70. Amongst the ladies there is a frankness of character which forms... | |
| John Galt - 1813 - 472 pages
...and shaggy wood, > Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal band ,J y»- i Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! THE Royal Scots, or Royal Regiment of Foot, lays claim to a high degree of antiquity, and is believed... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1813 - 366 pages
...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 ! Still, as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, 6 Seems as, to me,... | |
| John Galt - 1813 - 412 pages
...brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal baud Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand ! THE Royal Scots, or Royal Regiment of Foot, lays claim to a high degree of antiquity, and is believed... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1868 - 602 pages
...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 ! Still as I view each well-known scene, — Think what is now and what has been, — Seems as to me,... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 272 pages
...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 ! Still, as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems as, to me, of... | |
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