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| Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall - Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1801 - 674 pages
...slept in everlasting gloom, Started with terror and surprise, When light first flash'd upon her eyes: So London's sons in nightcap woke, In bedgown woke...shouts were heard mid fire and smoke. And twice ten hundred voices spoke, " The Playhouse is in flames." And lo! where Catherine Street extends, A fiery... | |
| 700 pages
...slept in everlasting gloom, Started with terror and surprise, When light first flush'd upon her eyes: So London's sons in nightcap woke, In bedgown woke...shouts were heard mid fire and smoke, And twice ten hundred voices spoke, " The Playhouse is in flames." And lo! where Catherine Street extends, A fiery... | |
| James Smith, Horace Smith - English poetry - 1812 - 154 pages
...slept in everlasting gloom, Started with terror and surprize, When light first flash'd upon her eyes : So London's sons in nightcap woke, In bedgown woke...shouts were heard mid fire and smoke And twice ten hundred voices spoke, " The Playhouse is in flames." And lo ! where Catherine Street extends A fiery... | |
| 1812 - 532 pages
...slept in everlasting gloom, Started with terror and surprize, When light first flash'd upon her eyes; So London's sons in nightcap woke, In bedgown woke...shouts were heard mid fire and smoke, And twice ten hundred voices spoke, " The Playhouse is in flames. " And lo ! where Catherine Street extends A fiery... | |
| James Smith, Horace Smith - English poetry - 1812 - 158 pages
...slept in everlasting gloom, Started with terror and surprize, When light first flash'd upon her eyes : So London's sons in nightcap woke, In bedgown woke...dames, ... For shouts were heard mid fire and smoke, ty' And twice ten hundred voices spoke, ' .^C _,y'-if : " The Playhouse is in flames." ''''..>&& '... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1813 - 540 pages
...amusing specimens of the misapplication of the style and metre of Mr. Scott's admirable romances. ' So London's sons in nightcap woke, In bedgown woke...shouts were heard mid fire and smoke And twice ten hundred voices spoke, " The Playhouse is in flames." And lo ! where Catherine Street extends, A fiery... | |
| James Smith, Horace Smith - 1813 - 472 pages
...slept in everlasting gloom, Started with terror and surprise, When light first flash'd upon her eyes : So London's sons in night-cap woke, In bed-gown woke...shouts were heard 'mid fire and smoke^ And twice ten hundred voices spoke, " The Playhouse is in flames." And lo ! where Catherine Street extends, A fiery... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1813 - 544 pages
...specimens of the misapplication of the style and metre of Mr Scott's admirable romances. ' So London's suns in nightcap woke, In bedgown woke her dames, For shouts were heard mid fire and smoke And twice ten hundred voices spoke, " The Playhouse is in flames." And In ! where Catherine Street extends, A fiery... | |
| 1813 - 670 pages
...following passage describes ' the burning,' and makes a palpable hit at his partiality for Scotch names. In bedgown woke her dames, For shouts were heard mid fire and smoke, And twice ten hundred voices spoke, ' As Chaos which, by heavenly doom, Had slept in everlasting gloom, Started with... | |
| England - 1840 - 876 pages
...slept in everlasting gloom, Started with terror and surprise When light first flash'd upon her eyes, So London's sons in nightcap woke, In bedgown woke...shouts were heard 'mid fire and smoke, And twice ten hundred voices spoke— ' The playhouse is in flames.' " The volumes give some of his letters, which... | |
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