| John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 750 pages
...Emilia. Ihid, act v. =c. 6. I ran it through, e'en from my hoyish days To the very moment that she hade me tell it: Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents, hy flood and field ; Of being taken hy th' insolent foe And sold to slavery. Othella, act i. sc. 3.... | |
| Robert Montgomery Bird - American literature - 1839 - 258 pages
... OF ROBIN DAY. BY THE AUTHOR OF •CALAVAR," "NICK OP THE WOODS," &c. - Of most disastrous chances ; Of moving accidents by flood and field ; Of hair-breadth 'scapes V the imminent deadly breach ; ' Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery ; of my redemption... | |
| 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,... | |
| Davy Dreamy (pseud.), Flit pseud - 1839 - 186 pages
...hours in the recital. Whether it was that Colonel Wilson, like Othello, spoke much and effectually " Of most disastrous chances. Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breath 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach ;" or that Davy, who only disputed and talked of... | |
| William Wordsworth - Literary Collections - 1985 - 84 pages
...Esthwaite Water, was drowned while bathing in June 1 779. 279-82 An echo of Othello, 1. Hi. 134-5, 'Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, / Of moving accidents by flood and field'. advert refer. 282-7 A major change has taken place in Wordsworth's thinking since The Pedlar and Tintern... | |
| Julian Budden - Music - 1988 - 648 pages
...veneziano. Non appena Desdemona ha raggiunto la sua cadenza in Do 134, Otello raccoglie il ricordo: "Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, / Of...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,... | |
| Peter J. Manning - English poetry - 1990 - 338 pages
...To numerous accidents in flood or field," echoes Othello's description of his wooing of Desdemona: "Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, / Of moving accidents by flood and field" (I, iii, 133-34). The text within the text opens a recess within Wordsworth's words, another puzzle... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 180 pages
...130 That I have passed. I 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,...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... | |
| Anita K. Stoll - Comparative literature - 1993 - 168 pages
...Desdémona, hablándole de sus percances, accidentes, esclavitud, rescate y encuentros con la muerte: . . . 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, and my redemption... | |
| Bernard Benstock - Dublin (Ireland) - 1994 - 194 pages
...fortunes. That I have passed. 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,...accidents by flood and field, Of hairbreadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach, Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery, of my redemption... | |
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