 | William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson - 1880 - 204 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.... | |
 | Archaeology - 1885 - 310 pages
...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,...his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broyled him, if he had not by the benefit of a provident wit, put it out with bottle ale.* From a letter... | |
 | Great Britain - 500 pages
...inwardly and ran round like a train, consuming in less than an hour the whole House to the very ground ; nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks, and one man had his breeches set on fire." Another letter : " But it was a great marvel and grace of... | |
 | Joseph Cundall - Dramatists, English - 1886 - 162 pages
...and ran round like a train, consuming within less than an hour the whole house to the very grounds. forsaken cloaks ; 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 bottled... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1887 - 530 pages
...than an hour the whole house to the very ground This was the falal period of that virtuous fabric, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw,...on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him, if he bad not, by the benefit of a provident wit, put it out with bottle ale." From all which it would seem... | |
 | New England - 1891 - 836 pages
...in His infinite mercy did permit all to escape uninjured, A chronicle expounding the event saith : " Nothing did perish but wood and straw and a few forsaken...his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broyled him if he had not by the benefit of a provident wit -put it out with a mug of ale." The players... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1887 - 210 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.... | |
 | 1888 - 266 pages
...of the theatre. Sir Henry Wotton concludes his description of the conflagration as follows : — " This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabrick,...his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broyled him, if he had not by the benefit of a provident wit, put it out with a bottle of ale." This,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Great Britain - 1891 - 246 pages
...an hour the whole House to the very ground. ' This was the fatal period of that virtuous Fabrique; wherein yet nothing did perish, but Wood and Straw,...his Breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broyled him, if he had not by the benefit of a provident wit put it out with Bottle-Ale.' Reliquiae... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - London (England) - 1891 - 640 pages
...inwardly and ran round like a tram, consuming in less than an hour the whole house to the very ground ; nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks and one man had his breeches set on fire. — Sir Henry Wotton to Sir Edmund Bacon, July 2, 1613. The... | |
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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.... 
