 | Acrostics - 1865 - 260 pàgines
...wave, The bells would ring in Notre Dame.' 0. ' The gift of Cceur de Lion's hand.' 7. ' This Htubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood,...where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell.' 8. ' See yonder tree, within whose trunk Decay a darkened cell hath sunk.' 9. ' Her look composed and... | |
 | Beauties - 1865 - 96 pàgines
...charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spear-men still made good Their dark...impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The Battle of Flodden. The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight; — Link'd in... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1866 - 656 pàgines
...charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spear-men still made good Their dark...noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Till alter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded King. Then skilful Surrey's... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 792 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 pàgines
...charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though hill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen still made good, Their dark...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... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 pàgines
...charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring. 191 The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark,...that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearless and... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1912 - 368 pàgines
...Though charging knights like whirlwinds g0, Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring; The stubborn spear-men still made good Their dark...where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell." Allow that Scott's " light horseman sort of stanza," as he himself called it, is not in the " grand... | |
 | Vere Henry Collins - 1914 - 198 pàgines
...charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spear-men still made good Their dark...where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. 120 No thought was there of dastard flight ; Link'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like... | |
 | Charles Wesley Emerson - 1915 - 138 pàgines
...Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. VIII. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Link'd in...tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, O'er their thin host and wounded king. Then skilful Surrey's sage commands Led back from strife his... | |
 | Arthur Hassall - 1920 - 600 pàgines
...broidered full fair A foot of the fairest fowl that ever flew on wing. The Close of the Battle of Flodden. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Link'd in...noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well : Till utter darkness closed her wing, O'er their thin host and wounded King. EUROPEAN. 1613. Death... | |
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Front, flank, and rear, the squadrons sweep 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... 
