 This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric, 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...  London - Page 278edited by - 1843Full view - About this book
 | David Erskine Baker - 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...; 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 564 pages
...than an hour the whole house to the very ground. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabrick, wherein yet nothing did 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 572 pages
...than an hour the whole house to the very ground. 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 hud his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broyled him, if he had not by the benefit of... | |
 | Thomas Cromwell - 1821 - 314 pages
...than an hour the whole house, to the very ground. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabrick, wherein yet nothing did 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 Kitson Cromwell - 1821 - 300 pages
...than an hour the whole house, to. the very ground. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabrick, wherein yet nothing did 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... | |
 | John Payne Collier - 1831 - 526 pages
...at the ' Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being * Shakespeare by Boswell, iii. 67. '• shot off at his entry, some of the paper, or other...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... | |
 | John Payne Collier - 1831 - 534 pages
...an hour, the ' whole house to the very grounds. This was the ' fatal period of that virtuous fabrie, wherein yet ' nothing did perish but wood and straw,...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... | |
 | 1832 - 424 pages
...an hour the whole bouse to the very ground. " This was the fatal period of that vertuons fabrique, wherein yet nothing did perish, but wood and straw,...; only one man had 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... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1836 - 340 pages
...than an hour the whole house to the very ground. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabrick, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw,...cloaks: only one man had 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... | |
 | Thomas Allen - 1839 - 606 pages
...lhaii an hour the whole house to the very ground. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabrick, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw,...; 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 a bottle... | |
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