 I 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 hair-breadth 'scapes i...  The Living Age - Page 1611904Full 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 - 540 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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