 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
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 páginas
...good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood The instant that he fell. 15 No thought was there of dastard flight; Linked in...fearlessly and well; Till utter darkness closed her wing 20 Led back from strife his shattered bands; And from the charge they drew, As mountain-waves, from... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1877 - 436 páginas
...men gathered closer :; closer as darkness fell. " No thought was there of dastard flight ; I.ink'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble,...fearlessly and well — Till utter darkness closed her win£ O'er their thin host and wounded king." And as for James — " He saw the wreck his rashness... | |
 | National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) - 1875 - 418 páginas
...fought like subalterns, captains like privates; that, once engaged, every man was his own general. " Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought...noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well." This, as Mr. Kinglake himself shows, was the kind of fighting which went on about the Sandbag Battery.... | |
 | 1877 - 812 páginas
...where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; LJnk'd In the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well." Many hours of exhausting strife had now passed, and the hard-earned advantage was on the side of the... | |
 | New reader - 1879 - 392 páginas
...instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; — Linked in the serried phalanx14 tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight,...fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her whig O'er their thin host and wounded king. Then skilful Surrey's sage commands Led back from strife... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1879 - 378 páginas
...for children of the words italicised in the following passages :— " No thought was there of distant flight; Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight." As day declines, nature recovers from this languor and exhaustion; the insects again flutter across the... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1880 - 326 páginas
...the strife of death. The English shafts in volleys hailed, In headlong charge their horse assailed ; Front, flank, and rear, the squadrons sweep To break...fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wmg O'er their thin host and wounded king. Then skilful Surrey's sage commands Led back from strife... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1880 - 474 páginas
...the strife of death. The English shafts in volleys hailed, In headlong charge their horse assailed ; Front, flank, and rear, the squadrons sweep, To break...tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearless and as well : Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded king. A... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 páginas
...their King. But yet, though thick the shafts as snow. Though charging knights like whirlwinds SCOTT. 39 Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was...Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought likenoble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing 0 er their... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 824 páginas
...their king. But yet, though thick the shafts as snow. Though charging knights like whirlwinds Thoneh bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring...flight ; Linked in the serried phalanx tight. Groom fonght like uoblc, squire like knight. As fearlessly and well : Till utter darkness clof»ed her win?... | |
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