 | Davy Dreamy (pseud.), Flit pseud - 1839 - 186 Seiten
...hours in the recital. Whether it was that Colonel Wilson, like Othello, spoke much and effectually " Of most disastrous chances. Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breath 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach ;" or that Davy, who only disputed and talked of... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1840 - 442 Seiten
...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.... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1840 - 478 Seiten
...DAVENPORT, AUTHOR OF "THE LIFE OF ALI PASHA," " HISTORY OF THE BASTILE,' dro &o. " Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances. Of moving accidents by flood and field; Of hair-breadth scapes 1' the imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe. And sold to slavery."— SHAKSFEABE.... | |
 | James Chapman - 378 Seiten
...ran it through, even from my boyish days, To the very moment that he bade me tell it. Wherein 1 spoke of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field : Of hair-breadth 1scapes in the imminent deadly breach: Of being taken by the insolent foe, Aud sold to slavery ; of... | |
 | Thomas Clarke Luby - 1880 - 560 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | L. C. Knights - 1979 - 326 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1885 - 1098 Seiten
...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 Travel... | |
 | Jane Adamson - 1980 - 316 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1884 - 1022 Seiten
...afterwards that he had probably heard of Othello's method, and was at that moment acting out a story " of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth scapes ¡' the imminent deadly breach, Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery." How much depends... | |
 | Keir Elam - 1984 - 360 Seiten
...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... | |
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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... 
