 | Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 pàgines
...ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen still made good, Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant...that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 792 pàgines
...ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant...he- fell. No thought was there of dastard flight; Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and... | |
 | Matthew Forster Conolly - 1866 - 526 pàgines
...The Rtubbom spearmen still made good Their dark, impenetrable wood, Karh stopping where hi« kindred stood The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight. Linked in the Denied phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble — squire like knight, Aa fearlessly and... | |
 | Ebenezer Forsyth - 1867 - 148 pàgines
...ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark, impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant...noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded Kinf;. Then skilful Surrey's... | |
 | John Murray (publishers.) - 1867 - 546 pàgines
...the ghastly bow, Unbroken was the ring; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood The instant...noble, squire like knight. As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded king."— ¿farmwn, canto vi.... | |
 | G. Dowse - 1908 - 104 pàgines
...ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; is The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant...that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight; so Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly... | |
 | 1908 - 318 pàgines
...ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring; The stubborn spear- men still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant...that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and... | |
 | Arthur Granville Bradley - 1908 - 516 pàgines
...bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring. No thought was there of dastard flight, Linked in the serried phalanx tight; Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well, Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded king." Night alone, as Scott says,... | |
 | Edwin Brockholst Livingston - 1910 - 740 pàgines
...flank, and rear, the squadrons sweep To break the Scottish circle deep, That fought around their king. ! No thought was there of dastard flight, Link'd in...like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well.4 This Magister Alexander Livingston was the grandfather of the'John Livingston, the younger,... | |
 | 1911 - 242 pàgines
...The stubborn spear-men still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, The instant that he fell. 120 No thought was there of dastard flight ; Link'd in...noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing 125 O'er their thin host and wounded King. Then skilful Surrey's... | |
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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 ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spear-men still made good... 
