 | Henry William Herbert - 1840 - 370 pàgines
...? Julius C&sar. CHAPTER I. The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that...noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well. Marmion. A YEAR had passed since Cromwell, invested with his new dignity of lord-lieutenant, landed... | |
 | William Howitt - 1840 - 560 pàgines
...blow, Unbroken was the ring. The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood. Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that...thought was there of dastard flight; Linked in the sorricd phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Till utter... | |
 | 1840 - 378 pàgines
...blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen 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... | |
 | James Orange - 1840 - 534 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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,...skilful Surrey's sage commands Led back from strife his shatter 'd bands ; And from I he charge they drew, As mountain-waves, from wasted lands, Sweep back... | |
 | William Beattie - 1842 - 398 pàgines
...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 - 504 pàgines
...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 ; 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... 
