 Front, flank, and rear, the squadrons sweep 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...  Archaeologia Aeliana, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity - الصفحة 321894عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 512
...ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark unpenetrable 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 - 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 732
...ghastly hlow, Unhroken was the ring ; The stuhhorn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrahle wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant...Linked in the serried phalanx tight. Groom fought like nohle, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their... | |
 | William Beattie - 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 422
...field, for in the words of the poet — The stubborn spearmen still made good Thcir dark impenctrable 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... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 1154
...knights like whirlwinds go, Though bill-men 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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 484
...Tilmouth upon Tweed. But, as they left the darkening heath, More desperate grew the strife of death. The English shafts in volleys hailed, In headlong...phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like kuight, As fearlessly and well ; < Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 374
...claim to immortality — " More desperate grew the strife of death — The English shafts in vollies hailed, In headlong charge their horse assailed ;...instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard fightLinked in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire, like knight, As fearlessly... | |
 | William Beattie - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 404
...left wing being victorious, he yet doubted the event of the field, for in the words of the poet — " The stubborn spearmen still made good Their dark impenetrable...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... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 556
...his person : — " The English shafts in volleys hail'd, In headlong charge their horse assail'd ; Front, flank, and rear, the squadrons sweep To break...that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight ; Liiik'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fonght like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 540
...at this place in 1513, James IV. was defeated and slain, with the flower of the Scottish nobility. The stubborn spear-men still made good Their dark...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 - 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 772
...go, Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow, Unbroken was the ring ; The stubborn spear-men still make good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where...stood, The instant that he fell. No thought was there cf dastard flight: Link'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight,... | |
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