 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 Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood,...  Marmion - Стр. 182авторы: Walter Scott - 1889 - Страниц: 300Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Henry William Herbert - 1896 - Страниц: 466
...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... | |
 | James Clement Moffat - 1856 - Страниц: 300
...the picture of the ruined but still resisting and impenetrable fragment of the Scottish army, as " Utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded king ;" And from which the English troops withdrew, » " As mountain waves from wasted lands, Sweep back... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - 1856 - Страниц: 460
...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 and... | |
 | David Hunter Strother - 1857 - Страниц: 312
...Flodden Field, were uppermost in his mind : "No thought was there of dastard flight, Linked in that serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well." They are brave verses, although they seem to have no especial applicability to the subject. In the... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - Страниц: 394
...stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, 30 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 and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - Страниц: 364
...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 - 1857 - Страниц: 428
...Melts from the mountain blue. 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 and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1858 - Страниц: 952
...«catu-r'd banda, Disorder')!, gain'd the Scottish lamls.— Day dawns on Flodden'i drearr side. 160 151 "be instant that he felL No thought was there of dastard flight ; Link'd in the serried phiilaiix tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - Страниц: 310
...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... | |
 | James Miller (of Haddington, Scotland.) - 1859 - Страниц: 352
...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...noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed the wing O'er their thin host and wounded king, Then did their loss the... | |
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