 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1866 - 656 pàgines
...where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. N~o thought was there of dastard flight ; Link'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble,...squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Till alter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded King. Then skilful Surrey's sage commands... | |
 | Matthew Forster Conolly - 1866 - 526 pàgines
...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... | |
 | John Murray (publishers.) - 1867 - 546 pàgines
...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,...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 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,...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 pàgines
...stepping where his comrade stood The instant that he fell. Ko thought was there of dastard flight; Link'd in the serried phalanx tight. Groom fought like noble,...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 pàgines
...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 - 398 pàgines
...ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring, Each stepping where his comrade stood. The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight;— Linked In...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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 536 pàgines
...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,...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... | |
 | 1868 - 736 pàgines
...battalion broken. As Sir Walter Scott says of Flodden — " 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 ; Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell." If the leading files, men and horses,... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1868 - 456 pàgines
...down the brave men, slaughtering on all sides, yet still unable to break through to the standard. " Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded King." Man by man the noble Saxons were hewn down as the Normans cut their way through them, no more able... | |
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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 ; Link'd in the... 
