 | Matthew Forster Conolly - 1866 - 526 páginas
...dastard flight. Linked in the Denied phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble — squire like knight, Aa fearlessly and well, Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded r The battle having been undecided when night came on, Surrey then drew back his forces; for the Scottish... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 páginas
...Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearless and as well : Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded king. * * * A yet more stirring passage is that of the death-scene of the hero, which closes thus : — The... | |
 | John Murray (publishers.) - 1867 - 546 páginas
...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,...her wing O'er their thin host and wounded king."— ¿farmwn, canto vi. Adjoining Coldstream is Lees (Sir J. Marjoribanks). [A road on rt leads to Dunse,... | |
 | Ebenezer Forsyth - 1867 - 148 páginas
...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,...darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded Kinf;. Then skilful Surrey's sage commands Led back from strife his shatter'd bands ; And from the... | |
 | John Murray (publishers.) - 1867 - 538 páginas
...impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood The instant that he fell. Ko thought was there of dastard flight; Link'd in the serried phalanx tight....fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wins O'er their thin host and wounded king." — Marmion, canto vi. Adjoining Coldstream is Lees (Sir... | |
 | English poetry - 1867 - 336 páginas
...impenetrable wood, 30 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, 35 As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded King.... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 536 páginas
...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,...darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and weunded King. Then skilful Surrey's sage commands Led back from strife his shatter' d bands; And from... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 398 páginas
...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,...darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded kins. Then skilful Surrey's sage commands Led back from strike his shattered bands; And from the charge... | |
 | 1868 - 736 páginas
...was lost ; not a battalion broken. As Sir Walter Scott says of Flodden — " No thought was there of dastard flight, Link'd in the serried phalanx tight,...noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell." If the leading files, men and horses,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1869 - 244 páginas
...where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. 15 No thought was there of dastard flight; Linked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble,...fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing 20 O'er their thin host and wounded King. Then skilful Surrey's sage commands Led back from strife... | |
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... snow, Though charging knights like whirlwinds go, Though bill-men ply the 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... 
