 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...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 escapes in the imminent deadly breach,. Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery ; of... | |
 | Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - English literature - 1812 - 372 pages
...the present race in naval skill, so will they be eminently fitted to surpass them in descriptions " of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood, and field; Of hair-lrtadth 'scapes, >• Of living taken iy the insolent foe" — and such-like adventures, to which... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1820 - 260 pages
...ran it through, cv'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 th' insolent foe And sold to slavery. Othello, Act I. Scene 3. An old man, broken with... | |
 | George Crabbe - English poetry - 1823 - 486 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 th' insolent foe And sold to slavery. Othello. Act I. Scene 3. An old man, broken with... | |
 | Curiosities and wonders - 1824 - 458 pages
...the course then of our iSRt'brial labours in " The Cabinet of Curiosities," we shall speak — — " Of most disastrous chances ; Of moving accidents by flood and field ; Of hair breadth 'scapes i' th' imminent deadly breach ; Of antres vast, and deserts idle ; Rough quarries,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George Crabbe - English poetry - 1899 - 540 pages
...ran it through, ev'n from my boyish days To the very moment that she bade 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. Otketlt. An old man. broken with tne storms of... | |
 | Richard Warner - Authors - 1830 - 426 pages
...sedative to my frequently too boisterous, and sometimes dangerous, activity. On such occasions, she would tell " Of most disastrous chances, ' Of moving accidents by flood and field • ' Of antres vast, and deserts idle ; ' And of the cannibals that each other eat, ' The anthropophagi, and... | |
 | Virginia Historical Society - Virginia - 1833 - 112 pages
...unaccustomed to indite history. Lapse of time, and lapse of life are fast extinguishing the traditions " Of most disastrous chances, " Of moving accidents, by flood and field ; "Of hair-bread til scapes," — and all the hazards of border life and frontier adventure. Yet many of... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 340 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 icld to slavery. — Othello. TALE II. THE PARTING HOUR.(i) MINUTELY... | |
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scapes i' the imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery ; of my redemption thence, And portance in my travels... 
