 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...  The castles and abbeys of England - Pàgina 67per William Beattie - 1844 - 10 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Paton Ker - 1925 - 402 pàgines
...The Lay needs no apology ; Marmion includes the great tragedy of Scotland in the Battle of Flodden : The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable...Link'd 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... | |
 | William Paton Ker - 1925 - 402 pàgines
...The Lay needs no apology ; Marmion includes the great tragedy of Scotland in the Battle of Flodden : The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable...Link'd 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... | |
 | 1914 - 600 pàgines
...ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark inpenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant...that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight; Link 'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and... | |
 | Henry Rider Haggard - 1928 - 756 pàgines
...lessening circle, and again and again we beat them back. "The stubborn spearsmen still made good The dark impenetrable wood; Each stepping where his comrade stood The instant that he fell," as I think the "Ingoldsby Legends" beautifully puts it. It was a splendid thing to see those brave... | |
 | Esmé Wingfield-Stratford - 1928 - 594 pàgines
...indomitable patriotism, as of Wallace's columns of Falkirk, and of the Scottish spearmen, who, at Flodden, " Still made good Their dark, impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade fell." But as if it were not enough for Scotland to have one Border, she had also, on the North, the... | |
 | John Bayley - 1971 - 384 pàgines
...helmes they to-hewen and to-shrede ; Out brest the blode, with sterne stremes rede. (The Knight's Tale) The stubborn spear-men still made good Their dark...where his comrade stood The instant that he fell. (Marmion) In such cases the poetic art removes actuality to the level of incantation : not vision but... | |
 | A. J. Youngson - 2001 - 468 pàgines
...Tho' charging knights like whirlwinds go, Tho ' bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring: The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark, impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrades stood The instant that he fell. As a distinguished critic observed, 'Scott is with his countrymen,... | |
 | Mark Adkin - 2001 - 504 pàgines
...Though charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable...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... | |
 | H. Rider Haggard - 2002 - 316 pàgines
...lessening circle, and again and again we beat them back. "The stubborn spearmen still made good The dark impenetrable wood; Each stepping where his comrade stood The instant that he fell,"1 as I think the "Ingoldsby Legends" beautifully puts it. It was a splendid thing to see those... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 2003 - 258 pàgines
...whirlwinds go, Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring; The stubborn spear-men stilt made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping...Link'd 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... | |
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