 | England - 1892 - 946 pages
...hour, the whole house to the very ground. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric, wherein nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken...him, if he had not, by the benefit of a provident roo. January, 1892. x 2 wit, put it out with bottled ale." Thomas Lorkin, in a letter addressed to... | |
 | Great Britain - 1892 - 980 pages
...fabric " but the virtuous fabric itself and a few forsaken cloaks. " Only one man," Sir Henry remarks, " had his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have...not, by the benefit of a provident wit, put it out by bottle ale." " Henry VIII." is interesting as being the epilogue of that great series of English... | |
 | Walter Thornbury - London (England) - 1893 - 672 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 a bottle of ale." From... | |
 | Thomas Archer - English literature - 1893 - 560 pages
...than an hour, the whole house to the very grounds. This was the fatal period to that virtuous fabric, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw,...cloaks; only one man had his breeches set on fire, that perhaps had broiled him, if he had not, by the benefit of a provident wit, put it out with bottled... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - London (England). - 1893 - 656 pages
...than an hour the whole house to the very ground. This was the fatal period of j that virtuous fabrick, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw,...forsaken cloaks ; only one man had his breeches set on fa, that would perhaps have broyled him, if he tad not, by the benefit of a provident wit, put it out... | |
 | Mrs. Edmund Boger - Southwark (London, England) - 1895 - 326 pages
...than an hour, the whole house to the very ground. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric, 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 a bottle of ale." It is... | |
 | William Hansell Fleming - Drama - 1895 - 324 pages
...grounds. This was the fatal period to that virtuous fabric, wherein 26 in yet nothing did perish but wood, straw, and a few forsaken cloaks; only one man had his breeches set on fire, that perhaps had broiled him if he had not, by the benefit of a ready wit, put it out with bottled ale."... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English drama - 1895 - 566 pages
...than an hour the whole house to the very ground. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric ; wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks." Some of the circumstances here specified clearly point to the play which has come down to us as Shakespeare's.... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - 1898 - 526 pages
...than an hour the whole House to the very grounds. This was the fatal period of that vertuous 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[d] ale.' John Chamberlain... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - Literary Criticism - 1898 - 536 pages
...an hour the whole House to the very grounds. This was the fatal period of that vertuous 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 bottlefd] ale. ' John... | |
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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... 
