 | David Erskine Baker - English drama - 1812 - 444 pages
...of that virtuous fabrique, " wherein nothing did perish but " wood and straw, and a few for" saken cloaks ; only one man " had his breeches set on fire,...perhaps have broiled " him, if he had not, by the be" nefit of a provident wit, put it "out with bottled ale." Of thi8 piece I here is no other account... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - Dramatists, English - 1812 - 418 pages
...ground. This was the fatal pe" wherein nothing did perish but " wood and straw, and a few for" saken cloaks ; only one man " had his breeches set on fire, " that would perhaps have broiled "nefit of a provident wit, put it " him, if he had not, by the be" out with bottled ale." Of this piece... | |
 | 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 - NEH British History Preservation Project - 1996 - 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 - Surrey (England) - 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... | |
 | Thomas Allen - Surrey (England) - 1829 - 524 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,...not, by the benefit of a provident wit, put it out CHAP. If. with a bottle of ale." From a letter of Mr. John Chamberlaine's to Sir Ralph Winwood, dated... | |
 | Thomas Allen - Surrey (England) - 1831 - 390 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,...on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him, if he * Reliq. Wotton, p. 425, edit. 1685. had not, by the benefit of a provident wit, put it out CHAP. It.... | |
 | English periodicals - 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,...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 ale. The rest... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - Anecdotes - 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,...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 ale." Notwithstanding... | |
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... and their eyes 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 was the fatal period of that virtuous fabrick, wherein yet nothing did perish but... 
