 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....  Kilsyth: A Parish History - Página 70por Peter Anton - 1893 - 320 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1851 - 532 páginas
...where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Liuk'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like 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, and... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1851 - 536 páginas
...where his comrade stood, The instant that hi- fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Liuk'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like 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, and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1854 - 892 páginas
...winds blow 150 CASTO TI. 161 Tbc instant that he fell. Ko thought was there of dastard flight ; Link'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; ТШ attcr darkuess closed her wing O'er their tlun host and wounded King, Then skilful Surrey's... | |
 | Robert Clarke (schoolmaster.) - 1855 - 190 páginas
...English shafts in vollies hail'd, In headlong charge their horse assailed, Front, flank, and rear, their squadrons sweep, To break the Scottish circle deep...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... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - 1856 - 460 páginas
...</M#IM Ctesar. BOOK CHAPTER I. DUNBAR. And Dunbar field resound thy praises loud. MILTON.S SONKBIB. The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable...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... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - 1896 - 466 páginas
...JlditUS ('tutor. A BOOK IV. CHAPTER I. DUUBAE. 4nd Dunbar field resound thy praises loud. MILTON'S Soirai The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable...flight; Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom foutrht like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well. ONCE more upon the charger's back !... | |
 | 1856 - 796 páginas
...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,...fearlessly and well; Till utter darkness closed her wine O'er their thin host and wounded king.' " Tweed's echoes heard the ceaseless plash, To gam the... | |
 | David Hunter Strother - 1857 - 312 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... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 páginas
...English shafts in vollies hailed, In headlong charge their horse assailed ; Front, flank, and rear, their squadrons sweep, To break the Scottish circle deep,...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... | |
 | James Miller (of Haddington, Scotland.) - 1859 - 352 páginas
...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,...As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed the wing O'er their thin host and wounded king, Then did their loss the Scottish know, Their king,... | |
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