 | David Erskine Baker - English drama - 1812 - 422 pages
...house, and certain cannons being shot off l(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,... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - English drama - 1812 - 444 pages
...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,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1812 - 778 pages
...certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or other stuff whe-reV itk 34S with 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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 564 pages
...it.2 The exhibitions at the Globe seem to have been calculated chiefly for the lower class of people;3 the guards with their embroidered coats, and the like...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. This... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 578 pages
...greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous. Now King Henry making a Masque at the Cardinal Wolsey'a house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry,...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. This... | |
 | Thomas Cromwell - NEH British History Preservation Project - 1996 - 1821 - 314 pages
...at the Cardinals's house; and cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the stuff wherewith one was stopped did light on the thatch, where, being...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. This was... | |
 | Thomas Kitson Cromwell - Surrey (England) - 1821 - 300 pages
...at the Cardinals's house ; and cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the stuff wherewith one was stopped did light on the thatch, where, being...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. This was... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Actors - 1825 - 1010 pages
...King Henry making a Masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, tnd certain cannons being shot ofl* at fiis res, a beginning, a middle, and an end ; one event...that might be spared, as in other poets there is much ran round like a train, consuming within less than an hour the whole house to the very ground. This... | |
 | Thomas Allen - Surrey (England) - 1829 - 524 pages
...of London in the time of Queen Elizabeth, alludes to it as existing in 1598, but it was probably not BOOK II. built long before 1596. It was an hexagonal...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. This... | |
 | John Payne Collier - English drama - 1831 - 526 pages
...Shakespeare by Boswell, iii. 67. ' 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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King Henry making a Masque at the cardinal Wolsey's 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... 
