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A Dictionary of Old English Plays, Existing Either in Print Or in Manuscript ... - Page 11
by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1860 - 296 pages
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare - 1890 - 620 pages
...truth, within a while, to make greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous. Now King Henry, making a mask at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons...off at his entry, some of the paper or other stuff where with one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch, where, being thought at first but an idle...
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History of King Henry the Eighth

William Shakespeare - 1891 - 236 pages
...forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and majesty. . . . Now, King Henry making a mask at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons...off at his entry, some of the paper, or other stuff where with one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch, where, being thought at first but an idle...
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The Highway of Letters and Its Echos of Famous Footsteps

Thomas Archer - English literature - 1893 - 560 pages
...life or limb, for Sir Henry Wotton thus describes the catastrophe : — "King Henry, making a mask at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons...being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or stuff wherewith one of them was stopped did light on the thatch, where, being thought at first but...
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The Looker-on: Musical, Dramatic, Literary ..., Volume 1

William Hansell Fleming - Drama - 1895 - 324 pages
...performance of "King Henry VIII." This event is described by Sir Henry Wo tton : "King Henry, making a mask at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons...being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or stuff wherewith one of them was stopped did light on the thatch, where, being thought at first but...
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Echoes of the Playhouse: Reminiscences of Some Past Glories of the English Stage

Edward Robins - Actors - 1895 - 390 pages
...make greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous. Now King Henry making a mask at the Cardinal Wolsef s house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or other stun" wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch, where, being thought at first but...
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English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 9

Henry Morley - English literature - 1895 - 508 pages
...Georges and darter, the guards with their embroidered coats, and the like : sufficient in truth, within a while, to make greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous. Now King Henry, making a mask at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper,...
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Echoes of the Playhouse: Reminiscences of Some Past Glories of the English Stage

Edward Robins - Actors - 1895 - 390 pages
...Georges and Garter, the guards with their embroidered coats and the like : sufficient, in truth, within a while, to make greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous. Now King Henry making a mask at the Cardinal Wolsey' s house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the...
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Bygone Southwark

Mrs. Edmund Boger - Southwark (London, England) - 1895 - 326 pages
...embroidered cloaks, and the like ; sufficient in truth within awhile to make greatness very familar, if not ridiculous. Now King Henry making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, * Apparently the original name of Shakespeare's play of Henry VIII. and certain cannons being shot...
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The Plays of Shakspeare, Volume 12

William Shakespeare - 1897 - 398 pages
...Georges and Garter, the guards with their embroidered coats, and the like : sufficient in truth, within a while, to make greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous. Now King Henry, making a mask at the Cardinal Wolsey's house. and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper,...
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The Plays of Shakespeare, Volume 17

William Shakespeare - 1897 - 402 pages
...Georges and Garter, the guards with their embroidered coats, and the like : sufficient in truth, within a while, to make greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous. Now King Henry, making a mask at the Cardinal WoLsey's house. and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper,...
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