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 billmen ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring;... Bentley's Miscellany - Página 5801842Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1880 - 326 páginas
...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...Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he... | |
| James Grant - 1899 - 602 páginas
...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. Though charging...bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; л ' ' The stubborn spear-men still made good Their dark, impenetrable wood ; Each stepping where... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1880 - 826 páginas
...like \vhirlwiuda blow, flweep, To break the Scottish circle deep. That fought around their king. po. Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their d:irk impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1890 - 612 páginas
...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...Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spear-men still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he... | |
| Robert Yelverton Tyrrell - 1890 - 534 páginas
...Though thick the English shafts as snow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though bill men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring. The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark, impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he... | |
| William Ernest Henley - 1891 - 404 páginas
...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...Unbroken was the ring; The stubborn spear-men still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he... | |
| William Ernest Henley - 1891 - 394 páginas
...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...Unbroken was the ring; The stubborn spear-men still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1891 - 300 páginas
...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...Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spear-men still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he... | |
| Francis Barton Gummere - 1892 - 516 páginas
...the squadrons sweep To break the Scottish circle deep That fought about their king. 1 Btow. 2884 ff. But yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging...Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood The instant that he fell.... | |
| David Hoekzema - 1893 - 368 páginas
...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...Unbroken was the ring; The stubborn spear-men still made good Each stepping where his comrade stood , The instant that he fell. No thought was there of... | |
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