 | B. J. Wallace, Albert Barnes - 1853 - 714 pages
...history, with its ten years' experience in Asia, of " Most disastrous chancei, Of moving accidents by flood and field; Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach. Rough quarries, rocks and hills whose tops touch Heaven;" is great enough, without bringing in " The... | |
 | 1853 - 254 pages
...society was full of wild enterprise and improbable incident ;" as Othello tells, " Of moving accidents by flood and field ? Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery." throw aside all traditional stories, and... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1853 - 408 pages
...society was full of wild enterprise and improbable incident;" as Othello tells, " Of moving accidents by flood and field ; Of hair-breadth 'scapes i" the imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery." Whether or not the story is to be relied... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 444 pages
...very moment that he bade me tell it. Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field ; Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery ; of my redemption thence, And portance in... | |
 | James Pycroft - 1854 - 336 pages
...would read of — battles, sieges, fortunes ; — of most disastrous chances, i Of moving accidents, by flood and field ; Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach ; — .... of antres vast and deserts idle, Kough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heada touch heaven... | |
 | James Pycroft - 1854 - 610 pages
...and would read of- — battles, sieges, fortunes; — of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field ; Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach ; — of antres vast and desarts idle, llouiih quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven;... | |
 | Elisha Jarrett Lewis - 1855 - 508 pages
...every season, each one has a long list of adventures to relate, not perhaps — " Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i the imminent deadly breach ;" but of many mishaps and hardships encountered during the campaign on the filthy marshes, the most... | |
 | Charles Rogers - 1856 - 336 pages
...accomplished swordsman, which might easily be discovered from his happy but threatening manner of holding his cane, when sallying from his own domicile towards...brave doings on the tented field, ' at Minden and at Dettingen,' particularly when seated round a bowl of his favourite cold punch, made with limes from... | |
 | 1856 - 924 pages
...contain an account of chivalrous adventures — " of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents, by flood and field ; Of hair-breadth scapes i" the imminent deadly breach." And yet the narrative is equable and tranquil, the language mild, melodious, and flowing; and the coloring... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 824 pages
...very moment that he bade me tell it Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances ; Of moving accidents by flood and field ; Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery ; of my redemption thence, And portance. In... | |
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