 Having staid, and in an hour's time seen the fire rage every way, and nobody, to my sight, endeavouring to quench it, but to remove their goods, and leave all to the fire, and having seen it get as far as the Steele-yard, and the wind mighty high and...  Time's Telescope - Page 2181826Full view - About this book
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 566 pages
...the city, and every thing, after so long a drought, proving combustible, even the very stones of the churches, and among other things the poor steeple by which pretty Mrs. lives, and whereof my old schoolfellow Elborough is parson, taken fire in the very top, and there burned till it fell down:... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 964 pages
...fire rage every way, and nobody, to my sight, endeavoring to quench it, but to remove their goods, ering the sharp sleet Against the window-panes; St. Agnes' moon Steel- [240 yard, and the wind mighty high and driving it into the city, and every thing, after so... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1917 - 648 pages
...fire rage every way ; and nobody, to my sight, endeavouring to quench it, but to remove their goods, and leave all to the fire ; and having seen it get as far as the Steel-yard, and the wind mighty high, and driving it into the city ; and everything after so long a... | |
 | Hutton Webster - History, Modern - 1917 - 414 pages
...rage every way, and nobody endeavoring to quench it, but endeavoring, instead, to remove their goods and leave all to the fire, and having seen it get as far as the Steelyard, and the wind mighty high and driving it into the City; and everything, after so long a drought,... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - English literature - 1917 - 536 pages
...fire rage every way, and nobody, to my sight, endeavoring to quench it, but to 40 remove their goods, and leave all to the fire, and having seen it get as far as the Steel-yard, and the wind mighty high and driving it into the City, and every thing, after so long a... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - English literature - 1918 - 986 pages
...fire rage every way, and nobody, to my sight, endeavoring to quench it, but to 40 remove their goods, and leave all to the fire, and having seen it get as far as the Steel-yard, and the wind mighty high and driving it into the City, and every thing, after so long a... | |
 | Walter George Bell - Fires - 1920 - 468 pages
...fire rage every way, and nobody, to my sight, endeavouring to quench it, but to remove their goods, and leave all to the fire ; and, having seen it get as far as the Steelyard, and the wind mighty high and driving it into the City ; and everything, after so long a... | |
 | Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) - Meteorology - 1920 - 910 pages
...[onto the leads] to look up^n the stars. Sept. 2nd. The wind mighty high and driving it [the fire] into the City ; and every thing, after so long a drought, proving combustible . . . the wind carries it into the City . . . [the fire] still encreasing, and the wind great . . .... | |
 | Walter George Bell - Fires - 1920 - 584 pages
...to remove their goods, and leave all to the fire ; and, having seen it get as far as the Steelyard, and the wind mighty high and driving it into the City ; and everything, after so long a drought, proving combustible, even the very stones of the churches ...... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - 1923 - 366 pages
...sight, endeavouring to quench by which pretty Mrs. lives, and whereof my it, but to remove their goods, and leave all to the fire, and having seen it get...churches, and among other things the poor steeple old schoolfellow Elborough is parson, taken fire in the very top, and there burned till it fell down:... | |
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