 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 sider
...and horn, Earl Douglas had the bent ; A captain mov'd with mickle pride, The spears to shivers sent They clos'd full fast on ev'ry side, No slackness...many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground. O Christ ! it was a grief to see, And likewise for to hear The cries of men lying in their gore, And... | |
 | 1818 - 492 sider
...described in the ballad, that we cannot help inserting it for the gratification of the poetical reader- . With that there came an arrow keen, Out of an English...Earl Douglas to the heart A deep and deadly blow. . . .. Who never spoke more words than these, • Fight on, my merry men all; For why? my life is at... | |
 | 1822 - 788 sider
...At the lint flight of arrows sent. Full threescore Scots they slew. 1 They closM full fiut on e»'ry g, screech-owl, cricket — Mr. Thomas Incle of London,...called the Achilles. Yarico — ^grfsdttjuemedendo — Knirlith bow, Which struck Rarl Douglas to the: heart, A deep and deadly blow.' .rn-Ms was wounded... | |
 | Richard Brathwaite - 1822 - 236 sider
...maduerunt cruore ac imbribiis. Ut dedas, ait Dvglasius, Te ducaní súbito, They clos'd full fast on every side, No slackness there was found, And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground. Oh, Christ ! it was a grief to see, And likewise for to hear, The groans of men lying in their gore,... | |
 | 1823 - 414 sider
...were good and true; At the first flight of arrows sent, Full threescore Scots they slew. They closed full fast on ev'ry side, No slackness there was found;...Earl Douglas to the heart, A deep and deadly blow. -/Eneas was wounded after the same manner by an unknown hand in the midst of a parley. Has inter voces,... | |
 | 1824 - 284 sider
...At the first flight of arrows sent, Full threescore Scots they slew. They clos'd full fast on every side. No slackness there was found, And many a gallant...Earl Douglas to the heart A deep and deadly blow.' j£neas was wounded after the same manner by an unknown hand in the midst of a parley. Has inter voces,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1824 - 278 sider
...At the first flight of arrows sent, Full threescore Scots they slew. They clos'd full fast on every side,, No slackness there was found, And many a gallant...arrow keen • Out of an English bow, Which struck Enrl Douglas to the heart A deep and deadly blow.' jEneas was wounded after the same manner by an unknown... | |
 | Charles Waterton - 1825 - 350 sider
...colonists lost the day ; and there, they carried all before them : — " They closed full fast, on every side No slackness there was found ; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground." Here, in fine, stood a noted regiment ; there, moved their great captain ; here, the fleets fired their... | |
 | Stephen Reynolds Clarke - 1826 - 494 sider
...armour bright ; Full twenty hundred Scotish spears All marching in our sight." • WaUingham. U itb that there came an arrow keen Out of an English bow,...Earl Douglas to the heart A deep and deadly blow. The ballad goes on to relate also the death of Percy, from the hand of Sir Hugh Montgomerie : Who past... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1828 - 432 sider
...Our English archers bent their bows, Their hearts were good and true ; At the first flight of arrows sent, Full threescore Scots they slew. " They clos'd...Earl Douglas to the heart, A deep and deadly blow." yEneas was wounded after the same manner by an unknown hand in the midst of a parley. Has inter voces,... | |
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They closed full fast on every side, No slackness there was found; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground. 
