 mid fire and smoke, And twice ten hundred voices spoke, "The Playhouse is in flames !" And lo ! where Catherine Street extends, A fiery tail its lustre lends To every...  Littell's Living Age - Page 1571889Full view - About this book
 | 1838 - 588 pages
...Started with terror and surprise, When light first flashed upon her eyes : So London's sons in niaht-cap woke, In bed-gown woke her dames ; For shouts were heard 'mid fire and smoke, And twice ten hundred voices spoke, ' The Playhouse is in flames !' 1 Marmiori' Caricatured. 145 And lo ! where Catherine-street... | |
 | England - 1840 - 880 pages
...slept in everlasting gloom, Started with terror and surprise When light first flash'd upon her eyes, So London's sons in nightcap woke, In bedgown woke...shouts were heard 'mid fire and smoke, And twice ten hundred voices spoke— ' The playhouse is in flames.' " The volumes give some of his letters, which... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1844 - 622 pages
...The burning is described with the mighty Minstrel's characteristic love of localities : — " Then London's sons in nightcap woke ! In bedgown woke her...shouts were heard 'mid fire and smoke, And twice ten hundred voices spoke, ' The Playhouse is in flames ! ' And lo ! where Catherine Street extends, A fiery... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 754 pages
...The burning is described with the mighty Minstrel's characteristic love of localities : — " Then London's sons in nightcap woke! In bedgown woke her...shouts were heard 'mid fire and smoke, And twice ten hundred voices spoke, ' The Playhouse is in flames!' And lo! where Catherine Street extends, A fiery... | |
 | James Smith, Horace Smith - Humor - 1851 - 272 pages
...slept in everlasting gloom, Started with terror and surprise When light first flash'd upon her eyes — So London's sons in nightcap woke, In bed-gown woke...shouts were heard 'mid fire and smoke, And twice ten hundred voices spoke — " The playhouse is in flames ! " And, lo ! where Catherine Street extends,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...in everlasting gloom, Started with terror and surprise, When light first flash'd upon her eyes — So London's sons in nightcap woke, In bedgown woke...shouts were heard mid fire and smoke, And twice ten hundred voices spoke, " The playhouse is in flames." And lo ! where Catherine Street extends, A fiery... | |
 | James Parton - English poetry - 1856 - 700 pages
...slept in everlasting gloom, Started with terror and surprise When light first flashed upon her eyes— So London's sons in night-cap woke, In bed-gown woke...shouts were heard 'mid fire and smoke, And twice ten hundred voices spoke— " The playhouse is in flames !" And, lo ! where Catharine street extends, A... | |
 | Amusing poetry - 1857 - 266 pages
...slept in everlasting gloom, Started with terror and surprise, When light first flash'd upon, her eyes ; So London's sons in night-cap woke, In bed-gown woke...shouts were heard 'mid fire and smoke, And twice ten hundred voices spoke, " The playhouse is in flames." ' And lo ! where Catherine Street extends, A fiery... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1857 - 800 pages
...in everlasting gloom, Started with terror and surprise, When light first flash'd upon her eyes — So London's sons in nightcap woke, In bedgown woke...shouts were heard mid fire and smoke, And twice ten hundred voices spoke, " The playhouse is in flames." And lo! where Catherine Street extends, A fiery... | |
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