 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 pages
...it through, even from my boyish days, To the very moment that he made me tell it vV herein I spoke of most disastrous chances; Of moving accidents, by...hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach; 0 being taken by the insolent foe, A.id sold to slavery: of my redemption thence, Vud portance* in... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
