The Quarterly Review, Volume 177William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1893 |
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... English army consisted in its axemen - was shieldless at Hastings , and hence could not have formed the shield - wall even had he desired it . Before these decisive words the Reviewer's theory of an extended shield - wall vanishes like ...
... English army consisted in its axemen - was shieldless at Hastings , and hence could not have formed the shield - wall even had he desired it . Before these decisive words the Reviewer's theory of an extended shield - wall vanishes like ...
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... English Housecarls with their . . . huge battle - axes , ' accustomed to fight in the close array of the shield - wall ' ( ii . 469 ) . We almost hesitate to waste our own and our readers ' time on a writer who , professing to vindicate ...
... English Housecarls with their . . . huge battle - axes , ' accustomed to fight in the close array of the shield - wall ' ( ii . 469 ) . We almost hesitate to waste our own and our readers ' time on a writer who , professing to vindicate ...
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... English right , " as he terms it - where " the ascent is easiest in itself , " was allotted to " the least trustworthy portion of the English army , " to " the sudden levies of the southern shires . " this assumption , we hasten to add ...
... English right , " as he terms it - where " the ascent is easiest in itself , " was allotted to " the least trustworthy portion of the English army , " to " the sudden levies of the southern shires . " this assumption , we hasten to add ...
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