| David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 422 páginas
...hour, the whole house to the very ground. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabrique, wherein nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken...his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him, if he had not, by the benefit of a provident wit, put it out with bottled ale." Of this... | |
| David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 444 páginas
...of that virtuous fabrique, " wherein nothing did perish but " wood and straw, and a few for" saken cloaks ; only one man " had his breeches set on fire, " that would perhaps have broiled " him, if he had not, by the be" nefit of a provident wit, put it "out with bottled ale." Of... | |
| 1812 - 778 páginas
...that virtuous fabrique, wherein nothing did perish hut ^ood and straw, and a few forsaken eloaks ; only one man had his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him, if he had not, by the benefit of a provident wit, put it out with bottled ale.' Of this... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1813 - 564 páginas
...it.2 The exhibitions at the Globe seem to have been calculated chiefly for the lower class of people;3 the guards with their embroidered coats, and the like...perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks." From a letter of Mr. John Chamberlaine's to Sir Ralph Winwood, dated July 8, 16)3, in which this accident... | |
| Thomas Cromwell - 1821 - 314 páginas
...their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly and ran round like a train, consuming in less than an hour the whole house, to the very ground....perish but wood and straw and a few forsaken cloaks." It was rebuilt, however, in the next year, in a style of decoration far more costly. Contiguous were... | |
| Thomas Kitson Cromwell - 1821 - 300 páginas
...their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly and ran round like a train, consuming in less than an hour the whole house, to. the very ground....perish but wood and straw and a few forsaken cloaks." It was rebuilt, however, in the next year, in a style of decoration far more costly. Contiguous were... | |
| Thomas Allen - 1829 - 518 páginas
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| Thomas Allen - 1829 - 526 páginas
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| Thomas Allen - 1831 - 390 páginas
...at first but an idle smoak, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly, and rart round like a train, consuming within less than an...his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him, if he * Reliq. Wotton, p. 425, edit. 1685. had not, by the benefit of a provident wit,... | |
| John Payne Collier - 1831 - 526 páginas
...an hour, the * whole house to the very grounds. This was the ' fatal period of that virtuous fabric, wherein yet ' nothing did perish but wood and straw,...his breeches ' set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him, if * he had not, by the benefit of a provident wit, put ' it out with bottle ale *. '... | |
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