| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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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