 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
 | Gleanings - 1882 - 548 pages
...everlasting gloom, Started with terror and surprise When light first flashed upon her eyes — So London sons in night-cap woke, In bed-gown woke her dames...shouts were heard 'mid fire and smoke, And twice ten hundred voices spoke — "The playhouse is in flames !" And, lo .' where Catherine Street extends,... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1883 - 454 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, And hied them... | |
 | James Parton - English poetry - 1884 - 734 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 I" And, lo 1 where Catharine street extends,... | |
 | Henry Morley - Literary Criticism - 1885 - 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... | |
 | English wit and humor - 1886 - 300 pages
...slept in everlasting glo.'m, 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,... | |
 | English literature - 1887 - 428 pages
...everlasting gloom, Started with terror and surprise When light first flashed upon her eyes— So London sons in night-cap woke, In bed-gown woke her dames ; For shouts were heard 'mid fire and smoke, To every window-pane ; Blushes each spout in Martlet Court, And Barbican, moth-eaten fort, And Covent... | |
 | Richard Halkett - American literature - 1889 - 766 pages
...the elder brother, was in his father's office, and in conjunction with Horace, adopted a suggestion of Mr. Ward, secretary of Drury Lane, to write an...the best. " So London's sons in nightcap woke, In bed -«own woke her dames; For shouts were heard 'mid tire and smoke. 642 THE BOOKMART. And twice ten... | |
 | English poetry - 1902 - 270 pages
...slept in everlasting gloom, Started with terror and surprise When light first llash'd upon her eyes : So London's sons in nightcap woke, In bedgown woke her dames ; For shouts were heard 'mid f1re and smoke, And twice ten hundred voices spoke, ' The playhouse is in flames ! ' And lo ! where... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1903 - 888 pages
...slept in everlasting gloom, Started with terror and surprise, When light first flashed upon her eyes: hundred voices spoke, ' The playhouse is in flames. ' And !o ! where Catherine Street extends, A fiery... | |
 | J. A. Stanley Adam, Bernard C. White - English poetry - 1912 - 620 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 bedgown woke...shouts were heard 'mid fire and smoke, And twice ten hundred voices spoke — " The playhouse is in flames ! " 1 Henry VII's Chapel, Westminster. 2 Better... | |
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