 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 506 pages
...than an hour, the whole house to the very ground. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw,...few forsaken cloaks : only one man had his breeches sot on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him, if he had not, by the benefit of a provident wit,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 670 pages
...wood and straw, and a few forsaken ck«k only one man had his breeches set on fire, that would perl* have broiled him, if he had not, by the benefit of a proviis wit, put it out with bottle ale." Here, then, is a described, " representing some principal... | |
 | Philip Massinger, John Ford - English drama - 1869 - 746 pages
...Globe in a letter to his nephew, concludes thus:—" This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw,...cloaks; only one man had his breeches set on fire, tbat would perhaps have broiled him, if he had not, by the benefit of a provident wit, put it out with... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Henry Norman 1814-1886 Hudson - History - 1872 - 542 pages
...than an hour the whole house to the very ground. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric ; wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks." Some of the circumstances here specified clearly point to the play which has come down to us as Shakespeare's.... | |
 | Karl Elze - 1874 - 462 pages
...than an hour, the whole house to the very ground. This was the fatal period to that virtuous fabric ; wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw,...his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have brojjed him, if he had not, by the benefit of a provident wit, put it out with bottle ale.' l That... | |
 | 1874 - 370 pages
...than an hour , the whole house to the very ground. This was the fatal period of that oirtuous fabric ; wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few for saJcen cloaks; only one man had Ms breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him, if... | |
 | Philip Massinger, John Ford - English drama - 1875 - 746 pages
...in a letter to his nephew, concludes thus :— " This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw,...forsaken cloaks; only one man had his breeches set on flre, that would perhaps have broiled him, if he had not, by thebenrfltof a provident wit, put it out... | |
 | James Robinson Planché - Clothing and dress - 1879 - 528 pages
...greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous." In contradiction to the ballad, however, he asserts that "nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few...would, perhaps, have broiled him if he had not, by benefit of a provident wit, put it out with bottled ale,'' l The masque continued to be at the same... | |
 | 1877 - 636 pages
...than an hour, the whole house to the very ground. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw,...; only one man had his breeches set on fire, that perhaps had broiled him, if he had not, by the benefit of a provident wit, put it out with bottle ale."... | |
 | Karl Elze - 1877 - 442 pages
...did perish but wood and straw, and a fciv forsaken eloaks; only one man had his breeches set on ßre, that would perhaps have broiled him, if he had not, by the bencfit of a provident mit, put it out with bottle nie! l Dass übrigens der angerichtete Schaden keineswegs... | |
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... 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 within less than an hour the whole house to the very ground.... 
