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
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 642 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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 554 pages
...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 - Anecdotes - 1826 - 384 pages
...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 - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...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... | |
| Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...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 in the imminent deadly breach; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery; of my redemption... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...most disastrous chances; , 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; — Of battles bravely, hardly fought; of victories, For which the conquerer... | |
| William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 542 pages
...of most disastrous chinees, Of moving accidents, by flood, and field ; Of hair-breadth 'scapes i'lhc imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery ; of my redumption thence, And portance* in my travel's history : Wherein of antres1 vast, and deserts... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 442 pages
...breeding , Which, like the courser's hair, hath yet but life. And not a serpent's poison. Id. I spoke of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field ; Of hairbreadth 'scapes in the imminent deadly breach. Id. He is a curer of souls, and you a curcr of bodies : if yon should... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1829 - 618 pages
...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 - 590 pages
...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... | |
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