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The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the ... - Page 69
by William Shakespeare - 1813
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King Richard III: With The Tragedie of Richard, Duke of Yorke ... ; [and ...

William Shakespeare - 1897 - 406 pages
...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 their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly, and ran round like a train,...
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The Plays of Shakspeare, Volume 12

William Shakespeare - 1897 - 398 pages
...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 their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly, and ran round like a train,...
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The Plays of Shakespeare, Volume 17

William Shakespeare - 1897 - 402 pages
...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 their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly, and ran round like a train,...
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A Life of William Shakespeare

Sir Sidney Lee - 1898 - 536 pages
...House, and certain Canons being shot off at his entry, borne of the paper or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the Thatch,...within less than an hour the whole House to the very grounds. This was the fatal period of that vertuous fabrique ; wherein yet nothing did perish, but...
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A Life of William Shakespeare

Sir Sidney Lee - 1898 - 526 pages
...Wolsey's House, and certain Canons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the Thatch,...within less than an hour the whole House to the very grounds. This was the fatal period of that vertuous fabrique; wherein yet nothing did perish, but wood...
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William Shakespeare: A Critical Study, Volume 2

Georg Brandes - 1898 - 450 pages
...House, and certain canons being shot off at his entrance, some of the paper, or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch,...within less than an hour the whole House to the very grounds." The emphatic and thrice repeated assertion of the prologue that all that is about to be represented...
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A Life of William Shakespeare

Sir Sidney Lee - 1898 - 530 pages
...Wolsefs House, and certain Canons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the Thatch,...within less than an hour the whole House to the very grounds. This was the fatal period of that vertuous fabrique; wherein yet nothing did perish, but wood...
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King Henry the Eighth

William Shakespeare - Great Britain - 1899 - 216 pages
...House, and certain Canons being shot off at his entry, some of the Paper, or other stuff, wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the Thatch,...within less than an hour the whole House to the very grounds." 2 (3) Edmond Howes, in his continuation of Stow's Chronicle, states that the burning of the...
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A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne, Volume 2

Sir Adolphus William Ward - English drama - 1899 - 792 pages
...trumpet : chambers discharged.') ' Some of the paper,' the account continues, 'or other stuff 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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A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne, Volume 2

Sir Adolphus William Ward - English drama - 1899 - 792 pages
...trumpet : chambers discharged.') ' Some of the paper,' the account continues, 'or other stuff 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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