 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 422 psl.
...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,...than an hour, the whole house to the very ground. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabrique, wherein nothing did perish but wood and straw,... | |
 | 1812 - 778 psl.
...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,...than an hour, the whole house to the very ground. This Wits the fatal period of that virtuous fabrique, wherein nothing did perish hut ^ood and straw,... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 444 psl.
...eyes more attentive to the " show, it kindled inwardly, and " ran round like a train, consum" ing, within less than an hour, " the whole house to the very "ground. This was the fatal pe"" riod of that virtuous fabrique, " wherein nothing did perish but " wood and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 564 psl.
...thatch, where being thought at first but an idle smoak, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly, and ran round like a train, consuming...less than an hour the whole house to the very ground. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabrick, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 574 psl.
...thatch, where being thought at first but an idle smoak, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly, and ran round like a train, consuming...less than an hour the whole house to the very ground. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabrick, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1825 - 1010 psl.
...thatch, where being thought at first but an idle smoak, and their eyes more attentive to the show, ther poets there is much talk that only fills up time upon the stage ; but the general system This was the fatal period of that • ;rluou« fabrick, wherein yet nothing did perish but woo 1 and... | |
 | Thomas Allen - 1829 - 524 psl.
...thatch, where being thought at first but an idle smoak, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly, and ran round like a train, consuming...less than an hour the whole house to the very ground. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabrick, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw,... | |
 | 1831 - 232 psl.
...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,...than an hour, the whole house to the very ground." Dr. Johnson suggested that the present Prologue and Epilogue were written by Ben Jonson ; in which... | |
 | John Payne Collier - 1831 - 526 psl.
...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,...within less 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... | |
 | Thomas Allen - 1831 - 390 psl.
...at first but an idle smoak, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly, and rart 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 fabrick, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw,... | |
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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 one of them was stopped did light on the thatch; where, being thought at first but an idle... 
