 | 1850 - 862 pages
...good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood. The instant that he (ell. No thought was there of dastard flight : — Linked...noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well." The reverend gentleman resumed hie Feat amidst much applause. sie 317 The Rev. TF NEWMAN, of Shortwood,... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1851 - 532 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 ; Liuk'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and... | |
 | 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...her wing O'er their thin host and wounded king. Then skillful Surrey's sage commands Led back from strife his shattered bands ; And from the charge they... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 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...her wing O'er their thin host and wounded king.» Of all the border battles that of Flodden was most fatal. Beside ten thousand common men, the flower... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1854 - 892 pages
...winds blow 150 CASTO TI. 161 Tbc instant that he fell. Ko thought was there of dastard flight ; Link'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like 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... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1854 - 412 pages
...charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though billmen 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... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1854 - 416 pages
...charging knights like whirlwinds Though billmeu 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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
