 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 914 ページ
...low. They melted from the field us snow, When stream* are swoln anil south winds blow ISO CAjrro vi. 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... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - 1856 - 460 ページ
...praises loud. MILTON.S SONKBIB. The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant...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 ページ
...thy praises loud. MILTON'S Soirai The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant...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 ページ
...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 ページ
...blow, Unbroken was the ring ; 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... | |
 | James Clement Moffat - 1856 - 300 ページ
...the picture of the ruined but still resisting and impenetrable fragment of the Scottish army, as " Utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded king ;" And from which the English troops withdrew, » " As mountain waves from wasted lands, Sweep back... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 ページ
...blow, Unbroken was the ring; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, 30 Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant...darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded lung. Then skilful Surrey's sage commands Led back from strife his shattered bands; And from the charge... | |
 | David Hunter Strother - 1857 - 312 ページ
...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 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...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1858 - 952 ページ
...151 "be instant that he felL No thought was there of dastard flight ; Link'd in the serried phiilaiix tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight,...and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er thsir tlu'n host and wounded King Then skilful Surrey's sage commands Led back from strife his shatter'd... | |
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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... 
