 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...ran it through, e'en 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 breadths 'scapes in the imminent deadly breach : Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - English poetry - 1838 - 752 pages
...it tbrough, e'en from my hoyish days To the very moment that she hade me tell it : Wherein I spake , on orient wings, The cheering dawn of light propitious brings ! All Na being taken by th' insolent foe And sold to slavery. OUatla, act l. sc. 3. An old man, broken with... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1839 - 342 pages
...ran it through, ev'n from my boyish days To the very moment that she bad 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. — Othello. An old man, broken with the storms... | |
 | Joseph Snowe - Folklore - 1839 - 590 pages
...entertained the maiden and her aged sire with relations of the battles he had been in : and " He spoke of most disastrous chances. Of moving accidents by flood and field ; Of hair-breadth 'scapes i" the imminent deadly breach;" until, like Desdemona, " She gave him for his pains a world of sighs,... | |
 | Thomas Clarke Luby - Catholic emancipation - 1880 - 560 pages
...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 - Literary Criticism - 1979 - 326 pages
...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... | |
 | England - 1885 - 1098 pages
...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... | |
 | Jane Adamson - Drama - 1980 - 316 pages
...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... | |
 | Keir Elam - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 360 pages
...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... | |
 | Julian Budden - Music - 1988 - 648 pages
...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,... | |
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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... 
