10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MISVENTURE»
Discover the use of
misventure in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
misventure and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote
... at my misventure, in meeting with you, while you was in search of adventures."
" All things do not equalh' succeed, observed the knight ; it was the misfortune of
you and your companions, Mr. Bachelor Alonzo Lopez, to travel in the night, with
...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Tobias George Smollett,
1792
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The history and adventures of the renowned Don uixote; ...
Had I been wise, I should have left iny- master, long ago; but this was my fate and
, irny misventure: I cannot do otherwise; but follow him I must: we are of the same
town; I phaveeateni of his bread; I have an affefition for him; hereturnfs my love, ...
Miguel de Cervantes-Saavedra, Tobias George Smollett,
1770
... And Blanche was listening with a cheek quite pale, Her warm heart beating,
and her eyes dilated, Carryl was cut short by a sound of wail, From one in strange
misventure implicated. What sound this was, what scene, and who the man too.
4
The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha
Why need you go about this rueful misventure? It is main dark, and there is never
a living soul sees us ; we have nothing to do but to sheer off, and get out of
harm's way, though we were not to drink a drop these three days. Who ' is there to
...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, John Gibson Lockhart,
1856
5
On Some Deficiencies in Our English Dictionaries: Being the ...
Burke Misunderstood, adj. Burke Misuse, v. a. R ,, sb. Palmer Misventure, sb.
Carlyle Miswrite, v. a. Kingsley Mite, sb. D Mitrous, adj. Huddesford Mitigate, v. a.
W, De Q Mitigation, sb. Burke Mitre, sb. D den Mitred, adj. IDryden Mix, v. a. make
, ...
Richard Chenevix Trench,
1857
6
Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review
In the case of misventure, the loss must fall most heavily, if not entirely, upon their
creditors, rather than on themselves. This temptation conquered, it becomes
easier to trace the subsequent progress of the young merchant. Caution in the ...
7
Aristodemus: A Tragedy ...
Few are the barks that steer on to the last Without a rub ; yet that which walked
the seas For twenty years unscathed, should not chide fortune For one
misventure. Lao. Yet, the bought pilot might she justly chide That ran her on the
rqpks at last, ...
8
The history and adventures of the renowned don Quixote: from ...
... have been to aggrieve me in such a manner, as that I shall never cease to
grieve at my misventure, in meeting with you, while you was in search of
adventures."* " All things do not equally succeed," observed the knight ; it was the
misfortune ...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Quixote de la Mancha (don, fict.name.),
1833
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The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote
... and the grievances you have redressed for me, have been to aggrieve me in
such manner, as that I shall never cease to grieve at my misventure, in meeting
with you, while you was in search of ad- * Knights engaged themselves, by oath,
...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Tobias Smollett, Martin C. Battestin,
2003
10
Collected Early Poems of Ezra Pound
Him, whom it pleased for our great bitterness To come to earth to draw us from
misventure, Who drank of death for our salvacioun, Him do we pray as to a Lord
most righteous And humble eke, that the young English King He please to
pardon, ...
Ezra Pound, Michael John King,
1982