 | James Orange - 1840 - 534 trang
...the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring : The stubborn still made good Their dark impregnable 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 trang
...blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spear-men still made good 6 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 380 trang
...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 of dastard flight : Link'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1841 - 638 trang
...where his comrade stood, The instant th*t 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 well."* Nor did they cease fighting when James bit the dust with an English arrow sticking in his body, »nd... | |
 | 1862 - 512 trang
...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... | |
 | William Beattie - 1842 - 398 trang
...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... | |
 | 1842 - 694 trang
...stepping where his comrade stood The moment 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 well.' Numbers finally triumphed over valour ; • down went many a noble crest, cloven was many a plumed... | |
 | 1842 - 682 trang
...stepping where his comrade stood The moment 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 well.' Numbers finally triumphed over valour; 'down went many a noble crest, cloven was many a plumed helmet,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - 732 trang
...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... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1843 - 1154 trang
...knights like whirlwinds go, Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring; ****««* 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... | |
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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... 
