 | Charles Dickens - 1870 - 632 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pàgines
...the strife of death. The English shafts in volleys hail'd, In headlong charge their horse assail'd: Front, flank, and rear, the 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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1870 - 798 pàgines
...they left the dark'ning heath, More desperate grew the strife of death. The English shafts 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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1871 - 266 pàgines
...dark'ning heath, Wore desperate grew the strife of death. The English shafts in vollies hailed, 1 n headlong charge their horse assailed : Front, flank,...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 pàgines
...they left the darkening heath, More desperate grew the strife of death. The English shafts in volleys hailed, In headlong charge their horse assailed ;...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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1873 - 502 pàgines
...English shafis in volleys hail'd, In headlong charge their horse assail d ; Front, flank, and rear, their squadrons sweep To break the Scottish circle deep,...Though charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though hill-men ply ihe ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spear-mi'n still make good Their... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1873 - 486 pàgines
...foot who rushed over the outworks. Yet still the standard floated in the midst of a brave band who— "Though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging...whirlwinds go, Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Still fought around their King." All who came near that close-serried ring of steadfast Saxon strength... | |
 | 1873 - 466 pàgines
...grew the strife of death. The English shafts in volleys hail'd, The horse in headlong charge assail'd, Front, flank, and rear the squadrons sweep To break...Scottish circle deep, That fought around their king; Though thick the English shafts as snow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though billmen... | |
 | James Grant - 1873 - 594 pàgines
...attempts to break their dense array. Well has Scott written of this — "The English shafts in volleys hailed, In headlong charge their horse assailed ;...Front, flank, and rear, the squadrons sweep, To break that Scottish circle deep Which fought around the king. " But yet, though thick the shafts as snow.... | |
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Front, flank, and rear, the squadrons sweep To break the Scottish circle deep, That fought around their King. But yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, 10 Unbroken was the... 
