 | Walter Scott - Poetry, English - 1857 - 428 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 2 1 [MS. — " But still upon the darkening heath."] a [MS.... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1858 - 952 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...knights like whirlwinds go. Though bill-men ply the gluistly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spear-men still made good* Their dark impenetrable... | |
 | James Miller (of Haddington, Scotland.) - Dunbar, Scotland - 1859 - 352 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 knights like whirlwinds go, The king at length overpowered, surrendered to John Copeland, after having knocked out two of that... | |
 | Walter White - Borders Region (Scotland) - 1859 - 498 pages
...monarch, defying all attempts — " To break the Scottish circle deep, That fought around their King. But yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds g<\ Though billmen ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen still made good... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 580 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... | |
 | Choice poems - 1862 - 368 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 spear-men still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1862 - 578 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... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 530 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 knights like whirlwinds got 10 Though billmen ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen still made... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1863 - 564 pages
...That fought around their king : But yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging knights hke whirlwinds go, Though billmen ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade... | |
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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 billmen ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring;... 
