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
| A. P. A. - 1869 - 226 páginas
...numbers bring One sigh responsive to the string." 1. "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." 2. " But there was in his troubled eye A gloomy fire ; and on his brow, Now sudden flushed — and... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1870 - 798 páginas
...Bnt yet, thongh thick the shaf1s as snow, Thongh charging knights like whirlwinds go, Thongh hill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The...flight ; — Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fonght like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Till ntter darkness closed her wing... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1870 - 632 páginas
...charging knighte Jike whirlwinds go, Though billmcn ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring. Tlie stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable...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,... | |
| England - 1871 - 836 páginas
...Scotch fighting and falling in stubborn despair : — " 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." — Scoit. Thus, " in tho serried phalanx," fell ten thousand men of Scotland; fell the flower of the... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1871 - 266 páginas
...Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. ?Jo thought was there of dastard flight ; — Linked in the serried phalanx tight, ijroom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her... | |
| Henry Major - 1873 - 168 páginas
...English shafts in vollies hailed, In headlong charge their horse assailed ; Front, flank, and rear, tbeir 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... | |
| Walter Scott - 1874 - 660 páginas
...spear-men still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Kach stepping where his comrade stood, The instaut that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight...fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing U'er their thin host and wounded king. Then skilful Surrey's sage commands Led back from strife his... | |
| National portrait gallery - 1874 - 568 páginas
...fough,t like subalterns, captains like privates; that, pn,ce ^engaged, every man was his own general. '.i Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought...noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well." This, as Mr. Kinglake himself shows, was the kin,d .of fighting which went on about the Sandbng Battery.... | |
| Henry Major - 1875 - 268 páginas
...around their king ! But yet though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds gor Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was...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 - 1877 - 742 páginas
...their king. But yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds ^ ., Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was...phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knigli:. As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded... | |
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