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| Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1835 - 158 pages
...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 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, and field ; Of hair-breadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach;" that the young spirit, glowing and ardent, would catch the thrill, and... | |
| Edmund Spencer - Germany - 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 flood and field : Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery." — And the... | |
| Anita K. Stoll - Comparative literature - 1993 - 168 pages
...Desdémona, hablándole de sus percances, accidentes, esclavitud, rescate y encuentros con la muerte: . . . most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood...being taken by the insolent foe; And sold to slavery, and my redemption thence, And with it all my travel's history... (I.iii. 134-39)' Muley también habla... | |
| Carol Thomas Neely - Drama - 1985 - 300 pages
...Othello, describes, when closely examined, what he has suffered rather than what he has done; he speaks of "moving accidents by flood and field; / Of hair-breadth...taken by the insolent foe; / And sold to slavery, and my redemption hence" (I.^.135-38), and of his subsequent enslavement by Desdemona, whom he entertained... | |
| Bernard Benstock - Dublin (Ireland) - 1994 - 194 pages
...ran it through, even 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 hairbreadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach, Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery, of my redemption... | |
| Mitchell Greenberg - European drama - 1994 - 266 pages
...ran it through, even from my boyish days To th'very moment that he bade me tell it, Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hairbreadth scrapes i' th'imminent deadly breach, Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery, of my... | |
| Virginia Mason Vaughan - Drama - 1996 - 262 pages
...love. Othello's description of his courtship characterizes the military adventures he has endured : most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood...being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery. (I-3-l33-37) As many commentators have noted, this is the stuff of chivalric romance.51 Othello's narrative... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 324 pages
...ran it through, even from my boyish days To th'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'th 'imminent deadly breach, Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery ; of my redemption... | |
| Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 438 pages
...past, 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 And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence, And portance in my traveller's history, Wherein of antres vast and deserts... | |
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