 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1842 - 718 ページ
...battle of Flodden Field, that the latter may serve instead of a translation of the passage : — " But yet though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging...bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark im|ienetrable wood. Each stepping where hi- comrade... | |
 | William Beattie - 1842 - 398 ページ
...for in the words of the poet — The stubborn 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... | |
 | 1862 - 512 ページ
...ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark unpenetrable 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... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1843 - 1154 ページ
...adequately directed, was destined in the end to take the lead in the deliverance of Europe. " " But yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 732 ページ
...ghastly hlow, Unhroken was the ring ; The stuhhorn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrahle wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant...Linked in the serried phalanx tight. Groom fought like nohle, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 ページ
...and rear, the squadrons sweep, To break the Scottish circle deep, That fought around their king. Rut yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging...bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Kach stepping where his comrade... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1844 - 374 ページ
...and rear, the squadrons sweep, To break the Scottish circle deep, That fought around their king. But yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging...bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen still made good, Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 484 ページ
...and rear the squadrons sweep To break the Scottish circle deep, That fought around their king : But yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging...billmen ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade... | |
 | William Beattie - 1844 - 404 ページ
...for in the words of the poet — " The stubborn 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... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1845 - 556 ページ
...and rear, the squadrons sweep To break the Scottish circle deep, That fought around their king. But yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging...billmen ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade... | |
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But yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though billmen ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood... 
