 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 642 lapas
...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 i' the imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery ; of my redemption... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1826 - 384 lapas
...interesting narrative of the sufferings of the ciew, which realizes literally the poet's pictures . " Of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field ; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery ; of their redemption thence, And with it all... | |
 | William Enfield - 1827 - 412 lapas
...ran it through, ev'n 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 in th' imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slav'ry ; of my redemption... | |
 | 1829 - 590 lapas
...who expects a sober book of travels, will be apt to imagine that he has stumbled on a romance, full of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes, &c. For all this, indeed, he prepares us in his preface : — ' It has been my fate,' says he, ' to... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1829 - 618 lapas
...befal a fearless adventurer, should sit down to tell with somewhat more than a traveller's veracity, ' of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents, by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes.' Such characters are rare in all ages and in all nations. But we verily believe, that the French have... | |
 | 1829 - 586 lapas
...expects a sober book of travels, will be apt to imagine that he has stumbled on a romance, full of moat disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes, &c. For all this, indeed, he prepares us in his preface : — ' ft has been my fate,' says he, ' to... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1899 - 540 lapas
...ran it through, ev'n from my boyish days To the very moment that she bade 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. Otketlt. An old man. broken with tne storms of... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 638 lapas
...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 i'the imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery ; of my redemption... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1830 - 426 lapas
...my frequently too boisterous, and sometimes dangerous, activity. On such occasions, she would tell " Of most disastrous chances, ' Of moving accidents by flood and field • ' Of antres vast, and deserts idle ; ' And of the cannibals that each other eat, ' The anthropophagi, and... | |
 | Edward Boys - 1831 - 292 lapas
...disguise, we drew very cosily round the fire, and I amused them with my history : "Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances, " Of moving accidents by flood and field, " Of hair-breadth 'scapes ;" which seemed to excite so lively an interest, that Julie entered into the spirit of the plot, with... | |
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To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i... 
