| English poetry - 1826 - 434 pages
...Boundless his wealth as wish can claim: Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentered all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And,...whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood. Land... | |
| Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 pages
...mark him well; For him uo minstrrl raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Bouudless his wealth as wish can claim; Despite those titles,...dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence lie sprung. Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. II. 0 (Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic... | |
| English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...Boundless his wealth as wish can claim : • Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentered all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And,...whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. Land of brown beath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires — what... | |
| Daniel Weir - Greenock (Scotland) - 1829 - 162 pages
...own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand ! If such there...down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung." NOTES. NOTE 1, page 2, line G. THE derivation of tbc name GUI-KNOCK is from... | |
| John Macray - 1829 - 102 pages
...Boumdlesshis wealth as wish can claim; Despite those titles, power, aud pelf. The wretch, concenter'd all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown. And,...dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he v, j, Unwept, unhonour'd, and ur,. O Caledonia ! stern and wiii, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land... | |
| Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 pages
...own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd As home his footsteps he hath lurn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand? If such there...down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. II. O Caledonia! stern and wild. Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown... | |
| John Hobart Caunter - 1830 - 254 pages
...Despite those titles, power and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit his renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung Unwept, unhonour'd and unsung." Lay of the Last Minstrel. NOTE 5. STANZA XLIII. How oft by her plucked out,... | |
| Religion - 1853 - 1142 pages
...swell. High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, Despite his titles, power and pelf, The wretch concentred all...down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung." — Scott. Had there been no home for Washington to love, and in which was... | |
| William Lloyd Garrison - African Americans - 1832 - 264 pages
...'Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, ' Who never to himself hath said, * John Neal. This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within...down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.' Whose bosom does not thrill with pleasurable emotion whenever he listens to... | |
| William Lloyd Garrison - African Americans - 1832 - 250 pages
...Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on p. foreign strand ! If such there breathe, go, mark him...down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.' Whose bosom does not thrill with pleasurable emotion whenever he listens to... | |
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