 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 - Página 141editado por - 1841Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1812 - 778 páginas
...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 - 1812 - 444 páginas
...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 páginas
...shot off 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...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 a letter... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 574 páginas
...shot off 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...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 one man... | |
 | Thomas Kitson Cromwell - 1821 - 300 páginas
...house ; 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...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 Cromwell - 1821 - 314 páginas
...house; 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...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 - 1825 - 1010 páginas
...shot ofl* at fiis entry, some of the paper or other stuff, wherwith one of them was stopped, did light the conclusion follows by easy consequence. There...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 - 1828 - 700 páginas
...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 - 1829 - 524 páginas
...shot off 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...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 one man... | |
 | 1831 - 232 páginas
...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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