 | John Payne Collier - English drama - 1831 - 526 pages
...an hour, the * whole house to the very grounds. This was the ' fatal period of that virtuous fabric, wherein yet ' nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few ' forsaken cloaks : only one man had his breeches ' set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him, if * he had not,... | |
 | 1832 - 428 pages
...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 verluous fabrique, wherein yet nothing did perish, but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks ;... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 pages
...thought at first but an idle smoke, it kindled inwardly, and ran round like a train, consuming within an hour the whole house to the very ground. This was the fatal period of that virtuous J'abrick." Speaking in deeds, and dcedlrii in his tongne.— Shakiprarc. „, U My houndi ire bred... | |
 | English periodicals - 1832 - 424 pages
...an hour the whole bouse to the very ground. " This was the fatal period of that vertuons fabrique, wherein yet nothing did perish, but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks ; only one man had his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broyled him, if he had not, by... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - Anecdotes - 1836 - 340 pages
...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....perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks: only one man had his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broyled him, if he had not by the... | |
 | Thomas Allen - London (England) - 1839 - 606 pages
...attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly, and ran round like atrain, consuming within less lhaii an hour the whole house to the very ground. This was...perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks ; only one man had his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him if he had not by the... | |
 | 1838 - 406 pages
...thought at first but an idle smoke, it kindled inwardly, and ran round like a train, consuming, within an hour, the whole house to the very ground. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric." The sneer with which this is related shows the coming puritanism of the writer. The cannons... | |
 | 1841 - 754 pages
...show, it kindled inwardly, and ran round like a train, consuming, within less than an hour, the whnle house to the very ground. ' This was the fatal period of that vertuous fabriqnc, wherein nothing did perish bnt wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks ; only... | |
 | Thomas Allen - London (England) - 1839 - 604 pages
...their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly, and ran round likeatrain, consuming within less than an hour the whole house to the very ground....perish but wood and straw, and a. few forsaken cloaks; only one man had his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him if he had not by the... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1841 - 710 pages
...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 fabrique, wherein nothing did perish bat wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks ; only one man had... | |
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This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks ; only one man had his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him, if he had not by the benefit of a provident... 
