 | John Bell - 1791 - 546 pages
...M,DCCXLV. BT T. SMOLLET, MD MOURN, hapless Caledonia, mourn Thy banish'd peace, thy laurels torn I Thy sons, for valour long renown'd, Lie slaughter*d...smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees, afar, His all become the prey of war : Bethinks him of his babes and wife;... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1807 - 472 pages
...hapless Caledonia, mourn Thy banish' d peace, thy laurels torn ! Thy sons, for valour long renown 'd, Lie slaughter'd on their native ground ; Thy hospitable...smoky ruins sunk they lie, * The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war; Bethinks him of his babes and wife, Then... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...faithful lover's seldom found ; • A jilt's a common curse. THE TEARS OF SCOTLAND. [SMOLLETT.] 1746. MOURN, hapless Caledonia, mourn Thy banish'd peace,...smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war ; Bethinks him of his babe, and wife, Then... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...Thy sons, for valour long renown' d, Lie s langh ter'd on their native ground ; Thy hospitable roofe no more Invite the stranger to the door; In smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war ; Bethinks him, of his babes and wife,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...borne, [rise, Alessiah.'i cross far bhiing o'et the skies 1 $ 85. The Tears of Scotland. SMOLLET. MOURM, he might refine, No llecliabite more shuun'd the fumes of wine. Chaste were h valor long renown'd, Lie slaughter'*! on their native ground : Thy hospitable roofs no more Invite... | |
 | Robert Hartley Cromek - 1810 - 260 pages
...pathetic verses on the infamous depredations of the Duke of Cumberland, after the battle of Culloden. Mourn, hapless Caledonia, mourn Thy banish'd peace,...roofs no more Invite the stranger to the door ; In smoaky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty, 124 The wretched owner sees, afar, His all become... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 pages
...were committed in Scotland, after the battle of Culloden, and the suppression of the rebellion. I. « MOURN, hapless Caledonia, mourn Thy banish'd peace,...roofs no more Invite the stranger to the door; In smoaky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar s IT. His all become... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 308 pages
...Caledonia, mourn Thy banished peace, thy laurels torn ! Thy sons, for valour long renowned, Lie slaughtered on their native ground; Thy hospitable roofs no more...smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The wretched owner sees afar His all become the prey of war; Bethinks him of hi* babes and wife, Then... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 680 pages
...Thy banish'd peace, thv laurels torn! Thy sons, fur valour long rcnown'd, Lie .slauglitT'd on thrrir native ground; Thy hospitable roofs no more, Invite...smoky ruins sunk they lie, The monuments of cruelty. The «retched owner sees afar His all become the' prey of war; Bethinks him of his babes and wife,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 680 pages
...smaller fry That nibble round, I pity and defy. THE TEARS OF SCOTL4XD. • Written in the Year 1746. MOURN, hapless Caledonia, mourn Thy banish'd peace,...sons, for valour long renown'd, Lie slaughter'd on theirnative ground: Thy hospitable roofs no more, Invite the stranger to the door j In smoky ruins... | |
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MOURN, hapless Caledonia, mourn Thy banish'd peace, thy laurels torn ! Thy sons, for valour long renown'd, Lie slaughter'd on their native ground ; Thy hospitable roofs no more Invite the stranger to the door; In smoky ruins sunk they lie. The monuments... 
