 | 1842 - 694 pàgines
...stepping where his comrade stood The moment 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 well.' Numbers finally triumphed over valour ; • down went many a noble crest, cloven was many a plumed... | |
 | 1842 - 682 pàgines
...stepping where his comrade stood The moment 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 well.' Numbers finally triumphed over valour; 'down went many a noble crest, cloven was many a plumed helmet,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 732 pàgines
...ghastly hlow, Unhroken was the ring ; The stuhhorn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrahle wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant...Linked in the serried phalanx tight. Groom fought like nohle, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their... | |
 | William Beattie - 1843 - 422 pàgines
...field, for in the words of the poet — The stubborn spearmen still made good Thcir dark impenctrable 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... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1843 - 1154 pàgines
...knights like whirlwinds go, Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring; ****««* 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pàgines
...blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Kach stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that...her wing O'er their thin host and wounded king. Then ekilful Surrey's sage commands I/ed back from strife his shattered bands ; And from the charge they... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 484 pàgines
...Though billmen ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where...phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like kuight, As fearlessly and well ; < Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded... | |
 | William Beattie - 1844 - 404 pàgines
...doubted the event of the field, for in the words of the poet — " The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood Each stepping where his...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... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1844 - 374 pàgines
...Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen still made good, Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where...instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard fightLinked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire, like knight, As fearlessly... | |
 | James Miller - 1844 - 536 pàgines
...Though bill-men deal 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 instant that he fell." — Marmion, Canto vi. These brave men fought against fearful odds till their number was gradually... | |
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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... 
