 | 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,... | |
 | 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, and field ; Of hair-breadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach;" that the young spirit, glowing and ardent, would catch the thrill,... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1836 - 534 pages
...run 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,...'• Of hairbreadth 'scapes in the imminent deadly breach; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery ; of my redemption thence ; — Of... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 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, 30* And sold to slavery; of my redemption thence ;— Of... | |
 | 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 flood and field : Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery." — And the... | |
 | 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 flood and field : Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery." — And the... | |
 | 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 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... | |
 | 1837 - 418 pages
...bright as Desdemona's, when they were lighted with love and wonder, listening to Othello telling " Of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth scapes i' th' imminent deadly breach." Her father had read Shakspeare, and she was also familiar with the... | |
 | John Kay - Scotland - 1838 - 402 pages
...ministering to his wants, and sometimes sitting at his bedside, receiving with greedy ears his stories " Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes in the imminent deadly breach." . . . . " His story being done, She gave him for his pains a world of sighs." One day, one... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 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... | |
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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... 
