 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; The stubborn spear-men still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood,...  Bentley's Miscellany - Página 5801842Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Robert Clarke (schoolmaster.) - 1855
...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 noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly as well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded king ; Then skilful... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 746 páginas
...spear-men still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight...noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded King. Then skilful Surrey's... | |
 | 1856
...flank and rear, the squadrons sweep To break the Scottish circle deep That fought around their king." "No thought was there of dastard flight, Link'd in...noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well; Till utter darkness closed her wine O'er their thin host and wounded king.' " Tweed's echoes heard... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - 1856 - 447 páginas
...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 noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well. MARMXON. ONCE more upon the charger's back ! once more among the trumpets ! A year had passed since... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 384 páginas
...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 noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well; Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded lung. Then skilful Surrey's sage... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857
...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 noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded King. ' Then skilful Surrey's... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1857
...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 noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded King. Then skilful Surrey's... | |
 | David Hunter Strother - 1857 - 300 páginas
...Flodden Field, were uppermost in his mind : "No thought was there of dastard flight, Linked in that serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well." They are brave verses, although they seem to have no especial applicability to the subject. In the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1858 - 840 páginas
...Disorder')!, gain'd the Scottish lamls.— Day dawns on Flodden'i drearr side. 160 151 "be instant that he felL No thought was there of dastard flight ; Link'd in the serried phiilaiix tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858
...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 noble, squire like knight,— As fearlessly as well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded king; Then skilful Surrey's... | |
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