 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - London (England) - 1891 - 646 pages
...the house, burned it down to the ground in less than two hours, with a dwelling-house adjoining; and it was a great marvaile and fair grace of God that...so little harm, having but two narrow doors to get out.—Chamberlaim to Sir Ralph Winwood, July 8, 1613. The Globe, the glory of the Bank ! Which though... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - London (England). - 1893 - 656 pages
...the ground in less than two hours, with a dwellinghouse adjoyning ; and it was a great marvaile and a fair grace of God that the people had so little harm, having but two narrow doors to get out." In 1613 was entered in the Stationers' books, " A doleful Ballad of the General Conflagration of the... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1895 - 496 pages
...it to the ground in less than two hours, with a dwelling-house adjoining, and it was a great marvel and fair grace of God that the people had so little harm, having but two narrow doors to get out." Ben Jonson was, perhaps, among those who escaped, for he may speak literally and not only with poetic... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1897 - 398 pages
...it to the ground in less than two hours, with a dwelling-house adjoining, and it was a great marvel and fair grace of God that the people had so little harm, having but two narrow doors to get out." Ben Jonson was perhaps among those who escaped, for he may speak literally and not only with poetic... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1897 - 402 pages
...it to the ground in less than two hours, with a dwelling-house adjoining, and it was a great marvel and fair grace of God that the people had so little harm, having but two narrow doors to get out." Library, that he " saw " also this one amoiicr the fiery god's misdeeds. " But 0, those reeds I Thy... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1897 - 406 pages
...it to the ground in less than two hours, with a dwelling-house adjoining, and it was a great marvel and fair grace of God that the people had so little harm, having but two narrow doors to get out." Library, that he " saw " also this one amonsr the fiery god's misdeeds. " But 0, those reeds ! Thy... | |
 | Comparative linguistics - 1911 - 558 pages
...the house, burn'd it down to the ground in less than two hours, with a dwelling house adjoining, and it was a great marvaile and fair grace of God, that the people had so little härm, having but two narrow doors to get out".1) Unless the Elizabethan playgoer were content to remain... | |
 | William John Lawrence - English drama - 1912 - 320 pages
...the house, burn'd it down to the ground in less than two hours with a dwelling house adjoyning ; and it was a great marvaile and fair grace of God that...harm, having but two narrow doors to get out." ' This curious restriction of the number of entrances was due to the continuance of the inn-yard and bear-baiting... | |
 | Comparative linguistics - 1912 - 568 pages
...the house, burn'd it down to the ground in less than two hours, with a dwelling house adjoining, and it was a great marvaile and fair grace of God, that...so little harm, having but two narrow doors to get out".1) Unless the Elizabethan playgoer were content to remain standing throughout the performance... | |
 | William John Lawrence - Theater - 1913 - 324 pages
...the house, burn'd it down to the ground in less than two hours, with a dwelling house adjoining, and it was a great marvaile and fair grace of God, that...so little harm, having but two narrow doors to get out."2 1 Cf. JD Wilson, Lift in Shakespeare' i England, p. 92, contemporary record of a riot in Moore-fields,... | |
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... which fell out by a peal of chambers, (that I know not upon what occasion were to be used in the play) the tampin or stopple of one of them lighting in the thatch that... 
