 | Francis S. Higginson - Northern Ireland in literature - 1825 - 586 pages
...$}tl)muatt Cht'luircJu OB, 'att Ghtltatxfi: A TALE. BY FRANCIS S. HIGGINSON, RN " Wherein I spake of moat 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Portugal. [Appendix.], Joseph Donaldson - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1827 - 568 pages
...AND FRANCE; BY A SERGEANT OF THE ' • REGIMENT OF INFA " I will a round unvarnished tale deliver— Of moving accidents by flood and field. Of hair•breadth 'scapes in the imminent deadly breach. And with it all my travel's history." Shakespeare. EDINBURGH : WILLIAM TAIT, 78, PRINCE'S STREET;... | |
 | 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...field; Of hair-breadth 'scapes in the imminent deadly breach; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery; of my redemption thence; — Of battles... | |
 | 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...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 fight you go against... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
