 King Henry, making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle smoke, and...  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 1431841Full view - About this book
 | David Erskine Baker - English drama - 1812 - 422 pages
...one of . them was stopped, did light on the thatch, where, being thought at first but an idle smoke, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled...the very ground. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabrique, wherein nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks ; only... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1812 - 778 pages
...one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch, where, being thought at first but an idle smoke, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled...an hour, the whole house to the very ground. This Wits the fatal period of that virtuous fabrique, wherein nothing did perish hut ^ood and straw, and... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - English drama - 1812 - 444 pages
...of " them was stopped, did light on " the thatch .where, being thought " at first but an idle smoke, and " their eyes more attentive to the " show, it kindled inwardly, and " ran round like a train, consum" ing, within less than an hour, " the whole house to the very "ground. This was the fatal pe""... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 564 pages
...at his entry, some of the paper or other stuff, wherwith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle smoak,...the very ground. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabrick, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks." From... | |
 | Thomas Cromwell - NEH British History Preservation Project - 1996 - 1821 - 314 pages
...and cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the stuff wherewith one was stopped did light on the thatch, where, being thought at first but an idle...kindled inwardly and ran round like a train, consuming in less than an hour the whole house, to the very ground. This was the fatal period of that virtuous... | |
 | Thomas Kitson Cromwell - Surrey (England) - 1821 - 300 pages
...and cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the stuff wherewith one was stopped did light on the thatch, where, being thought at first but an idle...kindled inwardly and ran round like a train, consuming in less than an hour the whole house, to. the very ground. This was the fatal period of that virtuous... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Actors - 1825 - 1010 pages
...at fiis entry, some of the paper or other stuff, wherwith one of them was stopped, did light on the clusion follows by easy consequence. There are perhaps...fills up time upon the stage ; but the general system • ;rluou« fabrick, wherein yet nothing did perish but woo 1 and slram, and a few forsaken cloal... | |
 | John Nichols - Great Britain - 1828 - 700 pages
...consisted principally of wood :—taking the words of Sir Henry Wotton, in a Letter to a Friend, " it kindled inwardly, and ran round like a train, consuming,...less than an hour, the whole house to the very ground ;" and in a letter from Mr. Chamberlain to Sir Ralph Winwood, dated the twelfth of July 1613, in which... | |
 | Thomas Allen - Surrey (England) - 1829 - 524 pages
...at his entry, some of the paper, or other stuff, wherwith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle smoak,...the very ground. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabrick, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks ; only... | |
 | English drama - 1831 - 232 pages
...one of them was stopped, did light in the thatch ; where, being thought at first but an idle smoke, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled...than an hour, the whole house to the very ground." Dr. Johnson suggested that the present Prologue and Epilogue were written by Ben Jonson ; in which... | |
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