| Matthew Forster Conolly - 1866 - 526 páginas
...shafts in Tollies hailed, In headlong charge their hors» amulad : Front, flank, and rear the squadron« sweep. To break the Scottish circle deep, That fought around their King. The Rtubbom spearmen still made good Their dark, impenetrable wood, Karh stopping where hi« kindred... | |
| John Murray (publishers.) - 1867 - 538 páginas
...Scotland was not in mourning in consequence. The loss of the English was about 500 of all ranks. " The English shafts in volleys hail'd, In headlong...thick the shafts as snow, Though charging knights as whirlwinds go, Though billmen ply the ghastly bow, Unbroken was the ring; The stubborn spearmen... | |
| English poetry - 1867 - 336 páginas
...round it toils, and bleeds, and dies, Our Caledonian pride ! The English shafts in volleys hail'd, 20 In headlong charge their horse assail'd; Front, flank,...their King. But yet, though thick the shafts as snow, 25 Though charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the... | |
| John Murray (publishers.) - 1867 - 546 páginas
...Scotland was not in mourning in consequence. The loss of the English was about 500 of all ranks. " The English shafts in volleys hail'd, In headlong charge their horse assail'd; Iront, flank, and rear the squadrons sweep To break the Scottish circle deep That fought around their... | |
| Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 páginas
...field by the monk.] But as they left the darkening heath, More desperate grew the strife of death. The English shafts in volleys hail'd, In headlong...squadrons sweep, To break the Scottish circle deep, 1 He thinks of the nun, Constance, whom he had seduced from her convent. and afterwards left to the... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1870 - 632 páginas
...force : The English shafts in volleys hailed, In headlong charge their horse assailed. Front, ¡buk. and rear, the squadrons sweep, To break the Scottish...around their king. But yet though thick the shafts as enow, Though charging knighte Jike whirlwinds go, Though billmcn ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1870 - 798 páginas
...in volleys hailed, In headlong charge their horse assailed ; Front, flank, and rear, the sqnadrons sweep, To break the Scottish circle deep, That fought around their King. Bnt yet, thongh thick the shaf1s as snow, Thongh charging knights like whirlwinds go, Thongh hill-men... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1871 - 266 páginas
...the strife of death. The English shafts in vollies hailed, 1 n headlong charge their horse assailed : Front, flank, and rear, the squadrons sweep, To break...Scottish circle deep, That fought around their king. Hut yet, though thick the shafts as snow Though charging knights like whirlwinds go. Though bill-men... | |
| Philip George and son, ltd - 1872 - 344 páginas
...the strife of death. The English shafts in volleys hailed, In headlong charge their horse assailed ; Front, flank, and rear the squadrons sweep To break...around their king : But yet, though thick the shafts as sno\v, Though charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though billmen ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1872 - 848 páginas
...the strife of death. The English shafts in volleys hail'd, In headlong charge their horse aeeail'd ; Front, flank, and rear, the squadrons sweep To break...the Scottish circle deep, That fought around their Ring. But yet, though thick the shafts as enow, Though charpng knights like whirlwinds go, Though bill-men... | |
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