 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 had his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him, if he had not, by the benefit of a provident...  The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare - Page 67by William Shakespeare - 1821Full view - About this book
 | David Erskine Baker - English drama - 1812 - 422 pages
...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 - English drama - 1812 - 444 pages
...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... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1812 - 778 pages
...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 pages
...greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous. Now King Henry making a Masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry,...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 Kitson Cromwell - Surrey (England) - 1821 - 300 pages
...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 Cromwell - NEH British History Preservation Project - 1996 - 1821 - 314 pages
...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 - Surrey (England) - 1829 - 524 pages
...greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous. Now King Henry making a masque at the cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry,...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 CHAP. If. with a bottle of... | |
 | Thomas Allen - Surrey (England) - 1831 - 390 pages
...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 - English drama - 1831 - 526 pages
...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 *. '... | |
 | Thomas Allen - London (England) - 1839 - 606 pages
...attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly, and ran round like atrain, consuming within less lhaii an hour the whole house to the very ground. This was...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 a bottle of ale.' From... | |
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