| William Hamilton Maxwell - Fishing - 1844 - 374 pages
...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...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... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...and rear, the squadrons sweep, To break the Scottish circle deep, That fought around their king. Rut yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging...bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Kach stepping where his comrade... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...break the Scottish circle deep, That fought around their king. But yet, though thick the shafts aa y Co ڢ$ ; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade... | |
| James Miller - East Lothian (Scotland) - 1844 - 540 pages
...and rear, the squadrons sweep. T<> break the 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 deal the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring : The stubborn spear-men still made good Their dark impenetrable... | |
| Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...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...bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; 1 In Northumberland. In the battle fought at this place in 1513, James IV. was defeated and slain,... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1845 - 556 pages
...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...billmen ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade... | |
| A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 pages
...and rear, their squadrons sweep, To break the Scottish circle deep, That fought around their king ; But yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging...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... | |
| 1850 - 880 pages
...the Scottish circle deep, That fought around their king ; But yet, though thick the shaft« as mow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds go. Though...bill-men ply the ghastly blow. Unbroken was the ring. " The stubborn spearmen silll made good Their dark Impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - 1851 - 536 pages
...flank, and rear, the squadrons sweep To break the Scottish circle deep, That fought arouud their king. , But yet, though thick the shafts as snow. Though charging knights like whirlwinds go Though tollmen ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1851 - 532 pages
...flank, and rear, the squadrons sweep To break the Scottish circle deep, That fought arouud their king. But yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds go Though billmeu ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark... | |
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