 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 lapas
...ran it through, e'en from my boyish days 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 breadths 'scapes in the imminent deadly breach : Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold... | |
 | Joseph Snowe - 1839 - 590 lapas
...entertained the maiden and her aged sire with relations of the battles he had been in : and " He spoke of most disastrous chances. Of moving accidents by flood and field ; Of hair-breadth 'scapes i" the imminent deadly breach;" until, like Desdemona, " She gave him for his pains a world of sighs,... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Bird - 1839 - 258 lapas
... OF ROBIN DAY. BY THE AUTHOR OF •CALAVAR," "NICK OP THE WOODS," &c. - Of most disastrous chances ; Of moving accidents by flood and field ; Of hair-breadth 'scapes V the imminent deadly breach ; ' Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery ; of my redemption... | |
 | Davy Dreamy (pseud.), Flit pseud - 1839 - 186 lapas
...hours in the recital. Whether it was that Colonel Wilson, like Othello, spoke much and effectually " Of most disastrous chances. Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breath 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach ;" or that Davy, who only disputed and talked of... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1840 - 442 lapas
...DAVENPORT, AUTHOR OF "THB LIFK OP ALT PASHA," " HISTORY OF THE BASTIhE,' ifcC, &.c. " 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." — SHAKSPBARB.... | |
 | Hannah Maria Jones - 1833 - 454 lapas
...climes. Of his own eventful life, too, he had so much to tell her — like Othello, he could speak " Of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents, by flood and field ; Of hair-breadth scapes i" th' imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe — " Of all, in short, that make... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce - 1840 - 516 lapas
...expects a sober book of travels, will be apt to imagine that lie 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 have... | |
 | Diary - 1840 - 616 lapas
...youthful attachment for a sexagenarian peer, or a gouty millionaire ! CHAPTER II. " Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes."—OTHELLO. " Oh qu'il arrive d'étranges choses dans les voyages, et qu'il serait bien plus... | |
 | Peter Hamilton Myers - 1840 - 118 lapas
... ENSENORE A POEM. ' — — — of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery It was my hint to speak." SHAKSPEABE. " — —... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1840 - 754 lapas
...he cannot have from within, and after perhaps a few years has to deliver no unvarnished tale — " Of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadtli scapes i' the imminent deadly breach, Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to... | |
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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... 
