 | Charles MacFarlane - 1851 - 536 pages
...where his comrade stood, The instant that hi- fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Liuk'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, and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 pages
...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; — Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1854 - 892 pages
...as snow, When streams are swoln and south winds blow 150 CASTO TI. 161 Tbc instant that he fell. Ko thought was there of dastard flight ; Link'd in the...noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; ТШ attcr darkuess closed her wing O'er their tlun host and wounded King, Then skilful Surrey's... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - Fishing - 1853 - 368 pages
...front only a few hours before." The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dmk impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant...that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight — Linked in the serried phalanx tight. Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1854 - 412 pages
...retard the enemy; but so closely were the columns on the opposite sides intermingled, that it was * "But yet, though thick the shafts as snow, Though...well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their t>"" host and wounded king. Then skill'd Napoleon's sage commands Led back from strife his shatter'd... | |
 | Walter Scott - Flodden, Battle of, England, 1513 - 1855 - 424 pages
...spear-men still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Eaeh stepping where his eomrade stood, The iustant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight...the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, sqnire like knight, As fearlessly and well; Till utter darkness elosed her wing O'er their thin host... | |
 | Robert Clarke (schoolmaster.) - 1855 - 190 pages
...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 ; Linked in the serried phalanx tight ; Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 418 pages
...spear-men still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The iustant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Link'd in the serried phalanx tight, (iroom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her... | |
 | 1856 - 796 pages
...flank and rear, the squadrons sweep To break the Scottish circle deep That fought around their king." "No thought was there of dastard flight, Link'd in...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... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - Great Britain - 1896 - 466 pages
...thy praises loud. MILTON'S Soirai 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; Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom foutrht like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and... | |
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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, The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Linked in the... 
