 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pàgines
...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...stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1858 - 952 pàgines
...thick the shafts as snow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds go. Though bill-men ply the gluistly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spear-men...impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, • M?. — " Ever the stubborn spears made good Their dark impenetrable wood ; Each s .и jitepp'd... | |
 | Walter White - 1859 - 498 pàgines
...yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds g<\ Though billmen ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn...stepping where his comrade stood The instant that he fell." But all in vain, for before midnight — " Tweed's echoes heard the ceaseless plash, While many... | |
 | James Miller (of Haddington, Scotland.) - 1859 - 352 pàgines
...; which, with more credibility, may be imputed to the Steward, who was heir-apparent to the crown. Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spear-men still...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1860 - 656 pàgines
...like whirlwinds go, Though bill-men plie the ghastly blow, The stubborn spearman still made good Ihe dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood. The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight; Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 pàgines
...yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though billmen ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn...stepping where his comrade stood The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like... | |
 | Selection, Thomas Oliphant (of Edinburgh) - 1862 - 346 pàgines
...yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though billmen ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn...stepping where his comrade stood The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 578 pàgines
...yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though billmen ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn...stepping where his comrade stood The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight; Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like... | |
 | Choice poems - 1862 - 368 pàgines
...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...stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1863 - 564 pàgines
...yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging knights hke whirlwinds go, Though billmen ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn...stepping where his comrade stood The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like... | |
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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 ring;... 
