 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...with mickle pride, The spears to shivers sent They clos'd full fast on ev'ry side, No slackness there was found ; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping...it was a grief to see, And likewise for to hear The cries of men lying in their gore, And scalter'd here and there. At last these two stout earls did meet,... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 348 pages
...arrows sent, Full threescore Scots they slew. They clos'd fall fast on ev'ry side, No slackness thfre was found • And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground. With that there came an arrow keen Out of an English bow, Which struck earl Douglas to the heart, A... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 340 pages
...arrow? sent, Full threescore Scots they slew. They clos'd full fast on ev'ry side, No slackness there was found ; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground. With that there came an arrow keen Out of an English bow, Which struck Earl Douglas to the heart A... | |
 | Rowland Freeman - 1821 - 450 pages
...thickness there was found:. And many a ball that mounted high, Ne'er lighted on the ground. In truth, it was a grief to see, And likewise for to hear, The cries of odds that offer'd were,. And slighted every where. At last, Sir Horace took the field, A batter... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...arrows sent. Full threescore Scots they slew. 1 They closM full fiut on e»'ry side, No slackness there Mr. Thomas Incle of London, in the good ship called the Achilles ' With that there came an arrow keen Out of an Knirlith bow, Which struck Rarl Douglas to the: heart,... | |
 | Richard Brathwaite - English poetry - 1822 - 236 pages
...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,... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 450 pages
...arrows sent, Full threescore Scots they slew. They clos'd full fast on ev'ry side, No slackness there was found ; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground. With that there came an arrow keen Out of an English bow, Which struck Earl Douglas to the heart A... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 284 pages
...arrows sent, Full threescore Scots they slew. They clos'd full fast on every side. No slackness there was found, And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground. • With that there came an arrow keen Out of an English bow, Which struck Earl Douglas to the heart... | |
 | Charles Waterton - America - 1825 - 350 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1828 - 432 pages
...arrows sent, Full threescore Scots they slew. " They clos'd full fast on ev'ry side, No slackness there was found ; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground. " With that there came an arrow keen Out of an English bow, Which struck Earl Douglas to the heart,... | |
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They clos'd full fast on every side, No slackness there was found ; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground. 
