| John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1844 - 900 pages
...the story of my life, From year to year ; the battles, sieges, fortunes, That I have passed. I run it through, even from my boyish days, To the very...accidents, by flood and field ; Of hairbreadth 'scapes in the imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery ; of my redemption... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1844 - 554 pages
...Othello, Oth. Her father lov'd me ; oft invited me ; Still question'd me the story of my life , From year to year; the battles, sieges, fortunes, That...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... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...year ; the battles, sieges, fortunes, That I have past. I ran it through, cv'n from my boyish dura, us seem, By that sweet ornament which truth doth give...that sweet odour which doth in it live. The canker-bl th' imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery ; of my redemption... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1844 - 364 pages
...Othello. Oth. Her father loved me ; oft invited me ; Still question'd me the story of my life, From year to year ; the battles, sieges, fortunes, That...my boyish days, To the very moment that he bade me teH it : Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents, by flood and field ; Of hair-breadth... | |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - 564 pages
...brilliant — full to overflow, of the very material which his passionate nature most desires — of those "disastrous chances Of moving accidents by flood and...being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery — " Ay, indeed ! and something worse than slavery : of being hurried to the highest towers of Moloch,... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...loved me ; oft invited me ; Still question'd me the story of my life, From year to year ; the hattles, sieges, fortunes, That I have pass'd. I ran it through,...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,... | |
| William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...questioned me the story of my life, From year to year; the battles, sieges, fortunes, That I have passed. I ran it through, even from my boyish days To the...And sold to slavery; of my redemption thence, And with it all my travel's history ; Wherein of antres vast, and deserts wild, Rough quarries, rocks,... | |
| William Gilmore Simms - American literature - 1845 - 448 pages
...full to overflow, of the very material which his passionate nature most desires — of those • " disastrous chances Of moving accidents by flood and...being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery — " Ay, indeed ! and something worse than slavery : of being hurried to the highest towers of Moloch,... | |
| Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1846 - 340 pages
...daughter with. 3. Her father lov'd me ; oft invited me ; Still questioned me the story of my life, From year to year ; the battles, sieges, fortunes, That...accidents, by flood, and field ; Of hair-breadth 'scapes in the imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery ; of my redemption... | |
| Anna Eliza Bray - 1846 - 436 pages
...April 1st, AD 17i9. COURTENAY OF WALREDDON. CHAPTER I. Still question'd me the story of my life From year to year; the battles, sieges, fortunes, That...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 'scapes... | |
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