 | John Murray (publishers.) - 1867 - 546 pàgines
...go, Though billmen ply the ghastly bow, Unbroken was the ring; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where...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... | |
 | Ebenezer Forsyth - 1867 - 148 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...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1867 - 336 pàgines
...blow, Unbroken was the ring; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, 30 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, 35 As fearlessly... | |
 | John Murray (publishers.) - 1867 - 538 pàgines
...go, Though billmen ply 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 that he fell. Ko thought was there of dastard flight; Link'd in the serried phalanx tight. Groom fought like noble,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 398 pàgines
...Though charging knights like whirlwinds go Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring, Each stepping where his comrade stood. The instant...darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded kins. Then skilful Surrey's sage commands Led back from strike his shattered bands; And from the charge... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 536 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | 1868 - 736 pàgines
...battalion broken. As Sir Walter Scott says of Flodden — " 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 ; Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell." If the leading files, men and horses,... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1868 - 456 pàgines
...down the brave men, slaughtering on all sides, yet still unable to break through to the standard. " Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded King." Man by man the noble Saxons were hewn down as the Normans cut their way through them, no more able... | |
 | A. P. A. - 1869 - 226 pàgines
...numbers bring One sigh responsive to the string." 1. "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." 2. " But there was in his troubled eye A gloomy fire ; and on his brow, Now sudden flushed — and... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1869 - 244 pàgines
...Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, 10 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. 15 No thought was there of dastard flight; Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble,... | |
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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... 
