 | Anthony B. Dawson, Paul Yachnin - Drama - 2001 - 240 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, and a few forsaken cloaks. ' Whether Wotton was an eyewitness or whether he was merely reporting the incident second hand is not... | |
 | Colin Butler - Drama - 2005 - 217 pages
...ran round like a train, consuming within less than an hour the whole house to the very grounds. . . . [O]nly one man had 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.22 "Chambers"... | |
 | A. W. Ward, A. R. Waller - Literary Criticism - 1969 - 428 pages
...' (on the roof over the galleries). The house was burned to the ground within less than an hour. ' Yet nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks.' Another contemporary statement says that the escape of the audience was marvellous, 'having but two... | |
 | Archaeology - 1885 - 316 pages
...inwardly and ran round like a train, consuming in less than an hour the whole House to the very ground ; nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks, and one man had his breeches set on fire." Another letter : " But it was a great marvel and grace of... | |
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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... 
