...DAVENPORT, AUTHOR OF "THB LIFK OP ALT PASHA," " HISTORY OF THE BASTIhE,' ifcC, &.c. " 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." — SHAKSPBARB....

...climes. Of his own eventful life, too, he had so much to tell her — like Othello, he could speak " 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 — " Of all, in short, that make...

...expects a sober book of travels, will be apt to imagine that lie 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 have...

...had passed, "even from his boyish days." He no doubt entertained his kinsman with full many a tale 11 Of most disastrous chances ; Of moving accidents by flood and field ; Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach." Our hero now left Paris for the South of France. It was on this journey,...

...kind of life. The romantic note is developed when he goes on to tell of his wooing: Wherein I spake 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...

...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...

...colonisation, civilisation, and mercantile operations ; and they tell, too, of marvellous adventures, " Of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach." A NATURALIST'S WANDERINGS IN THE EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO: a Narrative of...

...artfully overblown commonplaces he chooses in order to depict his putatively Othello-like adventurous past ('of most disastrous chances, /Of moving accidents by flood and field; /Of hair-breadth scapes', Othello 1. 3. 134ff.; on hyperbole in Othello, see Serpieri 1978b): Have I not in my time heard lions...

...appena Desdemona ha raggiunto la sua cadenza in Do 134, Otello raccoglie il ricordo: "Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, / Of moving accidents by flood and field, / Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' th' imminent deadly breach" . L'orchestra riflette tutto ciò in sei battute di indaffarate figurazioni,...

...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 (I.iii, 131-35) Though Othello first told this story at Brabantio's request,...