 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1831 - 906 pagina’s
...iron tempest, reeled and staggureil like sinking ships. Suddenly and sternly recovering, they cloned on their terrible enemies ; and then was seen with...crowded columns, sacrifice their lives to gain time for th* mass to open out on such a fair field ; in v.,in did the mass itself bear up, and, fiercely striving,... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1836 - 348 pagina’s
...battalions, struck by the iron tempest, reeled and staggered like sinking ships : suddenly and sternly recovering, they closed on their terrible enemies ; and then was seen with what strength and majesty a British soldier fights. In vain did Soult, by voice and gesture, animate his... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1839 - 900 pagina’s
...battalions, struck by the iron tempest, reeled, and staggered like sinking ships. But suddenly and sternly recovering, they closed on their terrible enemies,...with what a strength and majesty the British soldier tights. In vain did Símil, by voice and gesture, animate his Frenchmen ; in vain did the hardiest... | |
 | sir William Francis P. Napier - 1840 - 798 pagina’s
...battalions, struck by the iron tempest, reeled and staggered like sinking ships. But suddenly and sternly recovering they closed on their terrible enemies ;...majesty the British soldier fights. In vain did Soult with voice and gesture animate his Frenchmen ; in vain did the hardiest veterans break from the crowded... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - 1840 - 740 pagina’s
...battalions, struck by the iron tempest, reeled and staggered like sinking ships. But suddenly and sternly recovering they closed on their terrible enemies ;...majesty the British soldier fights. In vain did Soult with voice and gesture animate his Frenchmen ; in vain did the hardiest veterans break from the crowded... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1840 - 918 pagina’s
...seen with infantry what a strength and majesty the British soldier fights. gams yie ^ ^.^ ^.^ S^jt ^y voice and gesture animate his Frenchmen ; in vain...veterans, extricating themselves from the crowded column, sacrifice their lives to gain time and space for the mass to open out on such a fair field... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1841 - 894 pagina’s
...terrible cne%, my : and then was seen with what a strength and majesty the Brih ish soldier tights. In vain did Soult by voice and gesture animate his...veterans, extricating themselves from the crowded column, sacrifice their lives to gain time and space for the mass to open out on such a fair field... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1843 - 524 pagina’s
...History of the Peninsular War, " they closed on their terrible enemy ; and then was seen with what strength and majesty the British soldier fights. In...veterans, extricating themselves from the crowded column, sacrifice their lives to gain time and space for the mass to open out on such a fair field... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1843 - 1252 pagina’s
...enemy; and then was infantry seen wjth what a strength and majesty the British gams the _ " . day. soldier fights. In vain did Soult by voice and gesture...veterans, extricating themselves from the crowded column, sacrifice their lives to gain time and space for the mass to open out on such a fair field... | |
 | Andrew Redman Bonar - 1845 - 472 pagina’s
...battalions, struck by the iron tempest, reeled an) staggered like sinking ships. Snddenly and stern) recovering, they closed on their terrible enemies and then was seen with what a strength and maje^ the British soldier fights. " In vain did Soult, by voice and gesture, an mate his Frenchmen... | |
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In vain did Soult with voice and gesture animate his Frenchmen, in vain did the hardiest veterans break from the crowded columns and sacrifice their lives to gain time for the mass to open out on such a fair field ; in vain did the mass itself bear up,... 
