 | William Shakespeare - 1909 - 236 pages
...than an hour the whole house to the very ground. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw,...his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him, if he had not, by the benefit of a provident wit, put it out with bottle ale." From all... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - Dramatists, English - 1909 - 566 pages
...an hour the whole House to the very grounds. This was the fatal period of that vertuuus fabrique ; wherein yet nothing did perish, but wood and straw...man had his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps havebroyled him, if he had not by the benefit of a provident wit put it out with bottle[d] ale.' John... | |
 | Jean Jules Jusserand - English literature - 1909 - 668 pages
...than an hour the whole house to the very grounds. This was the fatal period of this virtuous fabric, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw and a few forsaken cloaks " 2 — to say nothing of, houses performances took place even in winter, but they were less frequent... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1910 - 558 pages
...' (on the roof over the galleries). The house was burned to the ground within less than an hour. ' Yet nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks.' Another contemporary statement says that the escape of the audience was marvellous, 'having but two... | |
 | 1913 - 92 pages
...an hour the whole house to the very ground. This was the fatal period of that vertuous f abrique ; wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks." (Letter of Sir Henry Wotten, July 2, 1613.) This destruction of the famous playhouse was noted in several... | |
 | Joseph Quincy Adams - London (England) - 1917 - 560 pages
...wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle smoke, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled...his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him, if he had not, by the benefit of a provident wit, put it out with bottle ale. 1 John Chamberlain,... | |
 | Joseph Quincy Adams - Dramatists, English - 1923 - 720 pages
...wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle smoke, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled...his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him, if he had not, by the benefit of a provident wit, put it out with a bottle of ale. Perhaps,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1925 - 184 pages
...than 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,...his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him, if he had not by the benefit of a provident wit put it out with bottle ale.' There are... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1925 - 184 pages
...than 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,...his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him, if he had not by the benefit of a provident wit put it out with bottle ale.' There are... | |
 | Edwin Beresford Chancellor - Amusements - 1925 - 520 pages
...inwardly and ran round like a train, consuming in less than an hour the whole house to the very ground; nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks, and one man had his breeches set on fire."1 There are one or two interesting points in this letter.... | |
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This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabrick; 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... 
