 | David Erskine Baker - English drama - 1812 - 444 pages
...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 " their eyes more attentive to the " show, it kindled inwardly, and " ran round like a train,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1812 - 778 pages
...cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or other stuff whe-reV itk 34S with 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 inwardly, and ran round like a train,... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - English drama - 1812 - 422 pages
...certain cannons being shot off l(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 their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly, and ran round like a train,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 564 pages
...certain cannons being 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...kindled inwardly, and ran round like a train, consuming within less than an hour the whole house to the very ground. This was the fatal period of that virtuous... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 572 pages
...certain cannons being 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...kindled inwardly, and ran round like a train, consuming within 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
...certain cannons being shot ofl* at fiis entry, some of the paper or other stuff, wherwith one of them ated with another, and the conclusion follows by easy...poets there is much talk that only fills up time upon within less than an hour the whole house to the very ground. This was the fatal period of that •... | |
 | Thomas Allen - Surrey (England) - 1831 - 390 pages
...certain cannons being 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...more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly, and rart round like a train, consuming within less than an hour the whole house to the very ground. This... | |
 | 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 inwardly, and ran round like a train, consuming, within less than an hour, the whole house to the very ground." Dr. Johnson suggested that the present... | |
 | John Payne Collier - English drama - 1831 - 526 pages
...Boswell, iii. 67. ' 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 their eyes more attentive to the ' show, it kindled inwardly, and ran round like a ' train,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1832 - 424 pages
...some of the paper, or other stuff wherewith one of them did light on the thatch, where being thonght at first but an idle smoak, and their eyes more attentive...kindled inwardly, and ran round like a train, consuming within less than an hour the whole bouse to the very ground. " This was the fatal period of that vertuons... | |
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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... 
