 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...scaffolds contributed exceedingly. The conflagration was so universal, and the people so astonished, that from the beginning, I know not by what despondency or fate, they hardly stn-red to quench it, so that * Esther strangely used for the " interior." there was nothing heard... | |
 | British history - 1855 - 482 pages
...already quoted. He wrote thus. " The conflagration was so universal, and the people so astonished, that from the beginning, I know not by what despondency or fate, they hardly stirred to quench it ; so that there was nothing heard or seen but crying out and lamentation; running... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1855 - 446 pages
...J. Butler. 515. FIRE OF LONDON — The conflagration was so universal, and the people so astonished, that from the beginning, I know not by what despondency or fate, they hardly stirred to quench it ; so that there was nothing heard or seen but crying out and lamentation, running... | |
 | 1857 - 498 pages
...Southwark, to see the conflagration. "It was," he Bays, "so universal, and the people so astonished, that from the beginning, I know not by what despondency or fate, they hardly stirred to quench it, so that there was nothing heard or seen but crying out and lamentations, running... | |
 | Francis Lancelott - Queens - 1858 - 552 pages
...orders to give." Evelyn remarks : " The conflagration was so universal, and the people so astonished, that from the beginning, I know not by what despondency or fate, they hardly stirred to quench it, so that there was nothing heard or seen but crying out and lamentation — running... | |
 | William Hone - 1859 - 882 pages
...scaffolds contributed exceedingly. The conflagration was so universal, and the people so astonish'd, that from the beginning, I know not by what despondency...stirr'd to quench it, so that there was nothing heard or scene but crying out and lamentation, running about like distracted creatures, without at all attempting... | |
 | John William Clayton - Great Britain - 1859 - 464 pages
...vividly describes the Great Fire : " The conflagration was so universal, and the people so astonished that, from the beginning, I know not by what despondency or fate, they hardly stirred to quench it, so that there was nothing heard or seen but crying out and lamentation, and running... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Authors, English - 1862 - 346 pages
...so astonish' d, that from the beginning, I know not by what de* Evelyn, vol. i., p. 372. spondency or fate, they hardly stirr'd to quench it, so that there was nothing heard nor seen but crying out, and lamentations, running about like distracted creatures, without at all... | |
 | Charles Selby - Great Britain - 1864 - 374 pages
...what despondency or fate, they hardly stirred to quench it ; so that there was nothing heard or seen but crying out and lamentation ; running about like...distracted creatures, without at all attempting to save eren their own goods ; such a strange consternation was there upon them, so as it burned, both in breadth... | |
 | 1864 - 884 pages
...conflagration.'' Evelyn says of the fire : " The conflagration was so universal, and the people so astonished, that from the beginning, I know not by what despondency or fate, they hardly stirred to quench it; so that there was nothing heard or seen but crying out and lamentation, running... | |
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... but crying out and lamentation, running about like distracted creatures, without at all attempting to save even their goods : such a strange consternation there was upon them... 
