 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1834 - 408 pages
...the life of Smith will not suffer in comparison with that of any other man. Those who love to read " of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by...hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach," may here be abundantly gratified. 11. — Comprehensive Commentary. Vol. I. WE have looked over the... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 346 pages
...Emilia. — Comedy of Errors. I ran it through, ev'n from my boyish days To the very moment that she bad me tell it, Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery. — Othello. An old man, broken with the storms... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1835 - 158 pages
...my life From year to year : the battles, sieges, fortunes, That I hnd pist. I ran it through, e'en from my boyish days To the very moment that he bade...accidents by flood and field ; Of hairbreadth 'scapes in th' imminent deadly breach ; Or being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery ; of my redemption... | |
 | Louisa Sidney Stanhope - 1835 - 304 pages
...sit, and and pour into the attentive ear of his young master, such details of war and chivalry, such " Disastrous chances, Of moving accidents, by flood,...hair-breadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach;" that the young spirit, glowing and ardent, would catch the thrill, and pant for the hour to prove it.... | |
 | Edmund Spencer - 1836 - 826 pages
...fate introduced to the house of my relative the brave Pole, who, like Othello, spokt — — — " Of most disastrous chances ; Of moving accidents by...being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery." — And the lovely daughter of his host thought " it was pitiful, wondrous pitiful ;" and gave him,... | |
 | Edmund Spencer - 1836 - 388 pages
...appeared, that fate introduced to the house of my relative the brave Pole, who, like Othello, spoke " Of most disastrous chances ; Of moving accidents by...being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery." — And the lovely daughter of his host thought " it was pitiful, wondrous pitiful ;" and gave him,... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1836 - 534 pages
...the story of my life, From year to year ; the battles, sieges, fortunes, That I have passed. I run it through, even from my boyish days, To the very moment that he bade me tell it. Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances ; Of moving accidents, by flood and field ; '• Of hairbreadth 'scapes... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 534 pages
...the story of my life, From year to year ; the battles, sieges, fortunes, That I have passed. I ran it through, even from my boyish days, To the 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... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 pages
...story of my life, From year to year ; the battles, sieges, fortunes, That I have past. I run it thro', even from my boyish days, To the 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... | |
 | John Pitman - 1836 - 88 pages
...her commander had deserted, and brought her in safety around the Cape of Good Hope.§ We might tell " Of moving accidents, by flood and field : Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach ;" of Hopkins, Talbot, Whipple, Thomas ; of Barton, Cornell ; of our Greenes and Olneys ; and of others,... | |
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I spake 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 my travels... 
