 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1869 - 488 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... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1870 - 632 pàgines
...Though billmcn ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring. Tlie stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where...Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like nublo, equire like knig As fearlessly and well. The arrows fell faster, the lances pressed closer,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1870 - 798 pàgines
...Thongh hill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen still made good, Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where...flight ; — Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fonght like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Till ntter darkness closed her wing... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 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 knigh As fearlessly... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1909 - 992 pàgines
...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,...fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing O'ertheirthinhostandwounded King. Then skilful Surrey's sage commands Led backfrom strife his shatter'd... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1910 - 968 pàgines
...Though billmen ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen still made good e All further colloquy — and so — farewell. [Exit MANFRED. Abbot. f r< >m strife his shattered bands ; And from the charge the}' drew. As mountain-waves from wasted... | |
 | Edwin Brockholst Livingston - 1910 - 740 pàgines
...Scottish circle deep, That fought around their king. ! 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.4 This Magister Alexander Livingston was the grandfather of the'John Livingston, the younger,... | |
 | Robert Sangster Rait - 1911 - 406 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...closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded king." CHAPTER VI THE REFORMATION FLODDEN was not less decisive a victory than Bannockburn. The King was slain,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1911 - 280 pàgines
...blow, Unbroken was the ring , The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood,1 Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant...her wing O'er their thin host and wounded King. Then skillful Surrey's sage commands Led back from strife his shattered bands ; And from the charge they... | |
 | 1911 - 242 pàgines
...dark impenetrable wood, The instant that he fell. 120 No thought was there of dastard flight ; Link'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble,...fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing 125 O'er their thin host and wounded King. Then skilful Surrey's sage commands Led back from strife... | |
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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... 
