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... The Savage - Page 289by John Robinson, Piomingo - 1810 - 312 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Crabbe - English poetry - 1899 - 540 pages
...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... | |
| English literature - 1829 - 586 pages
...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... | |
| William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 638 pages
...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 - Authors - 1830 - 426 pages
...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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1831 - 522 pages
...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'lhe imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent fur, And sold to slavery ; of my redemption... | |
| Scotland - 1831 - 1070 pages
...much more brief. Mr Bennet recounted his valorous deeds among the rural rioters,— " Wherein he spoke of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field ; Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach," and gave to his encounters much more of the " pride, pomp, and circumstance... | |
| Edward Boys - France - 1831 - 292 pages
...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... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...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' thej imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery ; of my redemption... | |
| James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 pages
...most disastrous chances; v Of moving accidents, by flood and field; Of hair-breadth 'scapes in the imminent deadly breach; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery; of my redemption thence; And, with it, all my travels' history. All these to hear Would Desdemona seriously... | |
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