 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 ページ
...blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Kach stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that...her wing O'er their thin host and wounded king. Then ekilful Surrey's sage commands I/ed back from strife his shattered bands ; And from the charge they... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 484 ページ
...ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood The instant...phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like kuight, As fearlessly and well ; < Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1844 - 374 ページ
...blow, Unbroken was the ring ; 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 fightLinked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire, like knight, As fearlessly... | |
 | William Beattie - 1844 - 432 ページ
...stood The instant that he fell : No thought was there of dastard flight ; 1 .in], M in the serricd phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well. The Scottish army, however, dispirited by the loss of their king and his principal chiefs, abandoned... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 ページ
...flower of the Scottish nobility. The stubborn spear-men 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
...ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; 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 ; Liiik'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fonght like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 772 ページ
...blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spear-men still make good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. No thought was there cf dastard flight: Link'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight,... | |
 | 1849 - 468 ページ
...said by the Author of MAKMION — The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant...O'er their thin host and wounded King. Then skilful Surrey 's sage commands Led back from strife his shattered bands ; And from the charge they drew, As... | |
 | 1850 - 880 ページ
...blow. Unbroken was the ring. " The stubborn spearmen silll made good Their dark Impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant...tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, A« fearlessly and well." The reverend gentleman resumed his seat amidst much applause. Tho Rev. TF... | |
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To break the Scottish circle deep, That fought around their King. 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 spearmen still made good... 
