 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...  The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment - Page 2601832Full view - About this book
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 422 lehte
...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... | |
 | 1812 - 778 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...wherwith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle smoak, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 578 lehte
...wherwith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle smoak, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled...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... | |
 | Thomas Kitson Cromwell - 1821 - 300 lehte
...wherewith one was stopped did light on the thatch, where, being thought at first but an idle smoak, and 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. This was the fatal period of that virtuous... | |
 | Thomas Cromwell - 1821 - 314 lehte
...wherewith one was stopped did light on the thatch, where, being thought at first but an idle smoak, and 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. This was the fatal period of that virtuous... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1825 - 1010 lehte
...wherwith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle smoak, ome incidents that might be spared, as in other poets...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 lehte
...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... | |
 | 1831 - 232 lehte
...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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