 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
 | American wit and humor - 1859 - 338 pages
...and still. THE BURNING. 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... | |
 | James Smith - English poetry - 1860 - 460 pages
...slept in everlasting gloom, Started with terror and surprise When light first flashed 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,... | |
 | English poetry - 1861 - 304 pages
...Started with terror and surprise, When light first flash'd upon her eyes. So London's sons in nighteap woke, In bedgown woke her dames. For shouts were heard 'mid fire and smoke. And twiee ten hundred voiees spoke, " The Playhouse is in flames!" IM And then in the ti1ee of u dun shuts... | |
 | James Smith, Horace Smith - English poetry - 1871 - 444 pages
...slept in everlasting gloom, Started with terror and surprise When light first flashed 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 — u The playhouse is in flames !" And, lo ! where Catherine Street extends,... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...slept in everlasting gloom, Started with terror and surprise, When light first flash'd upon her eyes : ied 1796. 1584.— A EED, RED EOSE. O. my luve 's...rose, That's newly sprung in June ; O, my luve 's li hundred voices spoke, " The playhouse is in flames." And lo ! where Catherine Street extends, A fiery... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1874 - 458 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 summon'd firemen woke at call,... | |
 | Amusing poetry - 1874 - 332 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... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pages
...slept in everlasting gloom, Started with terror and surprise, When light first flashed upon hor 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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...in everlasting gloom, Started with terror and surprise When light first flashed 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,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 828 pages
...slept in everlasting gloom, Started with terror and surprise When light first flashed upon her eyes — ed in wrath, and thunder'd from afar ? Where was the...slumber'd till the host Of blood-stain'd Pharaoh left th hundred voices spoke, " The playhouse is in flames I " And lo ! where Catherine Street extends, A fiery... | |
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