 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, 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...  Poetical works. With illustr - Trang 39bởi sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1882Xem Toàn bộ - Giới thiệu về cuốn sách này
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 trang
...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...and what hath been, Seems as, to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams were left ; And thus I love them better still, Even in extremity... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 914 trang
...Caledonia ! stern and wild,1 Meet nurse for a poetic child 1 and of brown heath and shaggy wood, Ljiud of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires !...and what hath been, Seems as, to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams were left; And thus I love them better still, Even in extremity... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1855 - 768 trang
...the objective case." Hearts is parsed like bottom, and depends on the preposition of, as above. 2. O Caledonia ! stern and wild ; Meet nurse for a poetic...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ! — W. SCOTT. 3. How shall I speak of the old man, the bequeather of the fatal legacy to St. Leon,... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1855 - 786 trang
...the objective case." Hearts is parsed like bottom, and depends on the preposition of, as above. 2. O Caledonia ! stern and wild ; Meet nurse for a poetic...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ! — W. SCOTT. 3. How shall I speak of the old man, the bequeather of the fatal legacy to St. Leon,... | |
 | Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson - 1907 - 282 trang
...the grandeur of loch, mountain, could give expression to the true patriot's feeling in the lines: — "O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!" And so, annually, there is a stream, of every kindred and people, making the pilgrimage to Abbotsford,... | |
 | 1870 - 420 trang
...evinced. Yet I came back to my own New England with a fonder love and a higher appreciation than ever. "Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand !'' Be it that no palm trees wave her*1, no orange blossoms fling their fragrance to the breeze ; be... | |
 | Lowry Nelson - 2010 - 333 trang
...doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung. O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood. Here we have a whole nexus of motifs: the wanderer in danger of losing native roots, nostalgia for... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 2003 - 258 trang
...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...and what hath been, Seems as, to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams were left; And thus I love them better still, Even in extremity... | |
 | John Carrington - 2003 - 344 trang
...ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand!. . . O Caledonia! Stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand! ('Patriotism') Occasionally, as in the last lines here, the tone approaches the bombastic. At his best... | |
 | Scottish Natural Heritage, Centre for Mountain Studies - 2005 - 424 trang
...patriotism which epitomised his historically romantic ardour in the Lay of the Last Minstrel (1 805): Oh Caledonia! Stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic...the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand! And so it goes on to this day. Any reader could, I am sure, quote me a hundred favourite snatches of... | |
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