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
| Henry William Herbert, Horace Smith - 1840 - 1020 páginas
...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. Marmion. A YEAR had passed since Cromwell, invested with his new dignity of lord-lieutenant, landed... | |
| Henry William Herbert - 1840 - 370 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. Marmion. A YEAR had passed since Cromwell, invested with his new dignity of lord-lieutenant, landed... | |
| William Howitt - 1840 - 560 páginas
...comrade stood, The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight; Linked in the sorricd 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... | |
| Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 páginas
...still made good 6 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... | |
| Walter Scott - 1845 - 380 páginas
...spear-men still make 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... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1841 - 638 páginas
...still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant th*t he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ;...noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well."* Nor did they cease fighting when James bit the dust with an English arrow sticking in his body, »nd... | |
| William Beattie - 1842 - 398 páginas
...spearmen 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. The Scottish army, however, dispirited by the loss of their king and his principal chiefs, abandoned... | |
| 1842 - 504 páginas
...spearmen 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... | |
| Archibald Alison - 1843 - 1154 páginas
...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;...noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded King. Then skill'd Napoleon... | |
| William Beattie - 1844 - 404 páginas
...spearmen 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...; Link'd in the serried phalanx tight Groom fought like-noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well." The Scottish army, however, dispirited by... | |
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