| Walter Scott - Minstrels - 1805 - 340 pages
...foreign strand ! If such there breathe, go, mark him well ; For him no Minstrel raptures swell ; x High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless...down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. II. O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 788 pages
...own my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand ! If such there...down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. After introducing the ballads of three different bards, he finely concludes... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1806 - 350 pages
...own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand ! If such there...down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. II. O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown... | |
| 1806 - 310 pages
...Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, pov/er and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And,...To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept,, unhonoured, and unsung. MAG1CK. T HE last extract we shall at present makeirom this amusing production... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 796 pages
...proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Cespite those titles, power, anil pelf, he wretch, concentered all in self, Living, shall forfeit...dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence lie sprung, Unwept, unhonourcd, and unsung. After introducing the ballads of three different bards,... | |
| Henry Smithers - Poetry, English - 1807 - 254 pages
...Boundless his wealth as wish can claim; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch concenter'd all in self, Living shall forfeit fair renown, And...from whence he sprung Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. i n. O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood,... | |
| Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Education - 1809 - 516 pages
...Boundless his wealth as wish can frame j Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch concentred all in self Living shall forfeit fair renown, And doubly dying shall go down To the vile dust, from which he sprung^ Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. In this poem there are many beautiful strokes in the... | |
| Charles Jared Ingersoll - United States - 1810 - 186 pages
...Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, power and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And,...down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung. T racter, Enterprise, public spirit, intelligence, faction and love of country... | |
| 1811 - 432 pages
...Despise these titles, power and pelf, The wretch concentred all in self, Living shall foifeit fuir renown, And doubly dying shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung Unwept, unhonored, and unsung. An Epigram. SK.VB Johnny to Paddy, " I can't for my life, " Conceive how a dumb... | |
| Walter Scott - Clans - 1811 - 310 pages
...titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentered all in self, X. 3 Living, shall forfeit fair reknown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung. II. O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown... | |
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