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" King Henry making a mask at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch, where, being thought at first but an idle smoke, and... "
The Book of table-talk [ed. by C. MacFarlane]. - Page 112
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Old and New London: a Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places ...

Walter Thornbury - London (England) - 1893 - 672 pages
...Now King Henry making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or other stuff, wherewith...light on the thatch, where, being thought at first but idle smoak, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly, and ran round like a train,...
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The Highway of Letters and Its Echos of Famous Footsteps

Thomas Archer - English literature - 1893 - 560 pages
...the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or stuff wherewith one of them was stopped did light...thatch, where, being thought at first but an idle smoke, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly and ran round like a train, consuming,...
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Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters. With an Historical Sketch of the ...

Henry Norman Hudson - English drama - 1895 - 566 pages
...Now King Henry making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or other stuff wherewith...thatch, where, being thought at first but an idle smoke, and their eyes being more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly, and ran round like a train,...
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English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 11

Henry Morley - English literature - 1895 - 516 pages
...Now King Henry, making a mask at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper, or other stuff wherewith...thatch, where, being thought at first but an idle smoke, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly, and ran round like a train,...
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The Looker-on: Musical, Dramatic, Literary ..., Volume 1

William Hansell Fleming - Drama - 1895 - 324 pages
...the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or stuff wherewith one of them was stopped did light...thatch, where, being thought at first but an idle smoke, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly and ran round like a train, consuming,...
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Bygone Southwark

Mrs. Edmund Boger - Southwark (London, England) - 1895 - 326 pages
...Shakespeare's play of Henry VIII. and certain cannons being shot off at this entry, some of the papers or other stuff, wherewith one of them was stopped,...light on the thatch, where being thought at first but idle smoak, and their eyes being more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly and ran round like...
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Echoes of the Playhouse: Reminiscences of Some Past Glories of the English Stage

Edward Robins - Actors - 1895 - 390 pages
...Cardinal Wolsef s house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or other stun" 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 inwardly, and ran round like a train,...
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English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 9

Henry Morley - English literature - 1895 - 508 pages
...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...inwardly, and ran round like a train, consuming, within an hour, the whole house to the very grounds. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric, wherein...
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The Temple Shakespeare, Volume 14

William Shakespeare - 1895 - 194 pages
...Notes, was published in 1874 (Williams & Norgate). being shot off at his entry,* some of the paper, and other stuff, wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch," &c. (iii.) John Chamberlain, in a letter to Sir Ralph Winwood (vide Win wood's Memorials'), dated July...
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Shakspere and His Predecessors

Frederick Samuel Boas - English drama - 1896 - 578 pages
...Now King Henry making a masqne at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or other stuff wherewith...of them was stopped did light on the thatch where . . . it kindled inwardly, and ran round like a train, consuming, within less than an hour, the whole...
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