 | Joseph Quincy Adams - London (England) - 1917 - 560 pages
...earlier. 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. 1 The Reverend Thomas Lorkin writes from London to Sir Thomas Puckering under the date of June 30,... | |
 | Joseph Quincy Adams - London (England) - 1917 - 560 pages
...earlier. 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.1 1 Ralph Winwood, Memorials oj A 'fairs of State (ed. 1 725), HI, 469. The Reverend Thomas Lorkin... | |
 | 1919 - 926 pages
...put it out with bottle ale." "It was a marvel and fair grace of God," declares the pious Winwood, " that the people had so little harm, having but two narrow doors to get out." This fire, which occasioned the irreparable loss of manuscript copies of Shakespeare's play, caused a great... | |
 | Edmund Kerchever Chambers - Actors - 1923 - 586 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...little harm, having but two narrow doors to get out.' Nor was poetic chronicles of the disaster lacking. On the day after the fire took place, two ballads... | |
 | John Nichols - Great Britain - 1828 - 690 pages
...lighting in the thatch that covered the house, burned it down to the ground in less than two hours ; and it was a great marvaile and fair grace of God that...little harm, having but two narrow doors to get out." VVinwood's Mem. vol. III. p. 469. 1 Sir Julius Caesar, the son of Caesar Adelmar, Physician to Queen... | |
 | J. R. Mulryne, Margaret Shewring, Andrew Gurr - Architecture - 1997 - 208 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...little harm, having but two narrow doors to get out. A Sonnett upon the pittiful burneing of the Globe playhowse in London Now sitt the downe, Melpomene,... | |
 | William John Lawrence - Theater - 1913 - 322 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's England, p. 92, contemporary record of a riot in Moore-fields,... | |
 | Archaeology - 1885 - 316 pages
...cloaks, and one man had his breeches set on fire." Another letter : " But it was a great marvel and grace of God that the people had so little harm, having but two narrow doors to get out " — no life was lost. In those times, and even down to my own, anything a little extraordinary was... | |
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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... 
