God grant my eyes may never behold the like, now seeing above 10,000 houses all in one flame : the noise, and cracking, and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people, the fall of towers, houses, and churches... National history and views of London with its environs, 2 vols - Pàgina 461837Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Thomas Otway - 1926 - 344 pàgines
...houses, and churches, was like a hideous storm; and the air all about so hot and inflamed, that at the last one was not able to approach it, so that they were forced to stand soil, and let the flames burn on, which they did, for near two miles in length and one in breadth.... | |
| 1851 - 644 pàgines
...houses, and churches, was like a hideous storm ; and the air all about so hot and inflamed, that at the last one was not able to approach it ; so that they...still, and let the flames burn on, which they did for near two miles in length, and one in breadth. These calamitous events, however, made but little impression... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1879 - 820 pàgines
...towers, houses, and churches, was like an hideous storme, and the air all about so hot and inflam'd, that at last one was not able to approach it, so that they were forc'd to stand still, and let the flames burn on, wch they did for neere two miles in length and one... | |
| Ernest F. Henderson - 2004 - 468 pàgines
...houses, and churches, was like an hideous storme, and the aire all about so hot and inflam'd that at the last one was not able to approach it, so that they were forc'd to stand still and let ye flames burn on, which they did for neere two miles in length and one... | |
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