 | Bela Bates Edwards - Theology - 1834 - 408 pages
...the life of Smith will not suffer in comparison with that of any other man. Those who love to read " of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by...hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach," may here be abundantly gratified. 11. — Comprehensive Commentary. Vol. I. WE have looked over the... | |
 | Jacob Halls Drew - 1834 - 556 pages
...love of the marvellous, lead the majority of readers to attach value to those lives only which consist 'Of moving accidents by flood and field, ' Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach.' Extraordinary events alone claim their attention : those minor circumstances which chiefly exhibit... | |
 | John James Halls - Egypt - 1834 - 534 pages
...FIELD OFFICER. " The story of my life, The battles, sieges, fortunes I had pass'd. Wherein 1 spake of most disastrous chances ; Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair.breadth 'scapes i'th' Imminenldeadly breach." SHAKSPKARI. 2. In 3 vols. post 8vo. RECOLLECTIONS OF A NAVAL LIFE ; BY... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 340 pages
...ran it through, ev'n from my boyish days To the very moment that she bad 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 icld to slavery. — Othello. TALE II. THE PARTING HOUR.(i) MINUTELY... | |
 | 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,...hair-breadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach;" that the young spirit, glowing and ardent, would catch the thrill, and pant for the hour to prove it.... | |
 | Harry Harewood - Sports - 1835 - 384 pages
...sportsman feels, when, by sparkling fire on a winter's night, he recounts th^ exploits of the day ; telling of most " disastrous chances, of moving accidents by flood and field, of hairbreadth 'scapes, of the imminent deadly breech," &c. These are thy pleasures, Shooting ! and as thou art so delightful,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery." — And the lovely daughter of his host thought " it was pitiful, wondrous pitiful... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 534 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...deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery ; of my redemption thence, And portance l in my travel's history : Wherein of antres... | |
 | Edmund Spencer - Germany - 1836 - 388 pages
...appeared, that fate introduced to the house of my relative the brave Pole, who, like Othello, spoke " Of most disastrous chances ; Of moving accidents by...deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery." — And the lovely daughter of his host thought " it was pitiful, wondrous pitiful... | |
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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... 
