| Joseph Quincy Adams - 1917 - 560 páginas
...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 wit, put it out with bottle ale. 1 John Chamberlain, writing to Sir Ralph Winwood, July 8, 1613, refers to the accident thus: The burning... | |
| Joseph Quincy Adams - 1917 - 560 páginas
...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 wit, put it out with bottle ale.1 John Chamberlain, writing to Sir Ralph Winwood, July 8, 1613, refers to the accident thus: The... | |
| Joseph Quincy Adams - 1917 - 648 páginas
...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 wit, put it out with bottle ale.1 John Chamberlain, writing to Sir Ralph Winwood, July 8, 1613, refers to the accident thus: The... | |
| Maurice Jonas - 1918 - 460 páginas
...Fabrique, where yet nothing did perish but Wood and straw and a few forsaken cloakes. Only one man had his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broyled him if he had not by the benefit of provident witt put it out with bottle ale." Letter from Sir Henry Wotten to his nephew, Sir Edward... | |
| 1919 - 926 páginas
...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 wit put it out with bottle ale." "It was a marvel and fair grace of God," declares the pious Winwood, " that the people had so little... | |
| Basil Brown - 1921 - 394 páginas
...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 wit, put it out with bottle ale." — Reliquiae Wottonianae. It will be noticed Lorkin spoke of "Bourbage his company" and that Wotton... | |
| Basil Brown - 1921 - 398 páginas
...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 wit, put it out with bottle ale."—Reliquiae Wottonianae. It will be noticed Lorkin spoke of "Bourbage his company" and that Wotton... | |
| Edmund Kerchever Chambers - 1923 - 586 páginas
...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 wit put it out with bottle ale.' On 8 July John Chamberlain wrote to Sir Ralph Winwood : 1 ' The burning of the Globe, or play-house,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1925 - 184 páginas
...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 wit put it out with bottle ale.' There are other contemporary allusions to the famous fire, but the foregoing are the most precise.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1925 - 184 páginas
...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 wit put it out with bottle ale.' There are other contemporary allusions to the famous fire, but the foregoing are the most precise.... | |
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