 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1869 - 244 pages
...Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. 15 No thought was there of dastard flight; Linked in the...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... | |
 | A. P. A. - 1869 - 226 pages
...numbers bring One sigh responsive to the string." 1. "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." 2. " But there was in his troubled eye A gloomy fire ; and on his brow, Now sudden flushed — and... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1869 - 488 pages
...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... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...dastard flight ; — Link'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knigh As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed...skilful Surrey's sage commands Led back from strife his shatter'd bands ; And from the charge they drew, As mountain-waves, from wasted lands, Sweep back to... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1870 - 632 pages
...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 nublo, equire like knig As fearlessly and well. The arrows fell faster, the lances pressed closer,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1870 - 798 pages
...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 fonght like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Till ntter darkness closed her wing... | |
 | Edward Charlton - 1871 - 190 pages
...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,...host and wounded King. Then skilful Surrey's sage command Led back from strife his shatter'd bands ; And from the charge they drew, As mountain-waves... | |
 | Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - 1871 - 664 pages
...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,...closed her wing O'er their thin host and wounded king. 12. Then skilful Surrey's sage commands Led back from strife his shattered bands ; And from the charge... | |
 | England - 1871 - 836 pages
...Scotch fighting and falling in stubborn despair : — " 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." — Scoit. Thus, " in tho serried phalanx," fell ten thousand men of Scotland; fell the flower of the... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1871 - 266 pages
...Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. ?Jo thought was there of dastard flight ; — Linked in the serried phalanx tight, ijroom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well ; Till utter darkness closed her... | |
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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... 
