 King Henry making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain chambers 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 Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare - Page 67by William Shakespeare - 1821Full view - About this book
 | George Herbert Cowling - Music - 1913 - 170 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, 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... | |
 | Alexander Cargill - Dramatists, English - 1916 - 230 pages
...Wolsey's House, and certain Canons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the Thatch,...within less than an hour the whole House to the very grounds.' It is not known if Shakespeare was a witness of this disaster, nor to what extent he personally... | |
 | Joseph Quincy Adams - London (England) - 1917 - 560 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, 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,... | |
 | Arthur Symons - English drama - 1919 - 282 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, 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,... | |
 | 1919 - 926 pages
...292), thinks the play was not Shakespeare's King Henrg VIII. 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 around like a train,... | |
 | Basil Brown - Gesta Grayorum - 1921 - 398 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, where, being thought at first but an idle smoke, and their eyes being more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly, and ran round like a train,... | |
 | Sidney Lee - Dramatists, English - 1922 - 878 pages
...Wolsey's House, and certain Canons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the Thatch,...the show, it kindled inwardly, and ran round like a tram, consuming within less than an hour the whole House to the very grounds. This was the fatal period... | |
 | Edmund Kerchever Chambers - Actors - 1923 - 586 pages
...James, i. 253. * L. Pearsall Smith, Letters of Wotton, ii. 32. of the paper, or other stufi, 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,... | |
 | Edwin Beresford Chancellor - Amusements - 1925 - 520 pages
...and certain chambers (cannon) 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,...kindled 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1925 - 184 pages
...house, and certain chambers 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,... | |
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