 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
 | Robert Chambers - 1832 - 846 pàgines
...Towers, Houses, and Churches, was like an hideous storme, and the aire 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 ye flames burn on, wch they did for neere two miles in length and one... | |
 | Richard Brindley Hone - 1833 - 414 pàgines
...houses and churches, was like an 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. The clouds also of smoke were dismal, and reached upon... | |
 | Charles Frederick Partington - 1834 - 682 pàgines
...hurry ot the people, the fall of towers, houses, and churches, was like an hideous storme, and the air all about so hot and inflamed, that at last one was...upon computation, neere fifty miles in length. Thus I left it this afternoone burning, a resemblance of Sodom, or the last day. London was, but is no more."... | |
 | 1834 - 560 pàgines
...hurry of pyeple — the fall of towers, houses, and churches, was like a ..ladeous storm ; and the air all about so hot and inflamed, that at last one was...still and let the flames burn on, which they did for near two miles in length and one in breadth. The clouds of smoke were dismal, and reached upon computation,... | |
 | William Hone - 1835 - 876 pàgines
...towers, houses, and churches, was like an hideous storme, and the aire 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 bum on, which they did for neere two miles in length and one... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 954 pàgines
...towers, houses, and churches, was like an hideous storme, and the aire 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, which they did for neere two miles in length and... | |
 | George Godwin - 1838 - 368 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 near two miles in length and one in breadth.' 2 It has been calculated that 1 He proposed, ' by cutting... | |
 | William Hone - 1839 - 874 pàgines
...the Temple weslso that they were forc'd to stand still and ward, nor than the entrance ot Smithfield let the flames burn on, which they did for neere two...length and one in breadth. The clouds of smoke were disni, ill, and reach'd upon computation neer fifty miles in length. Thus I left it this aftemoone... | |
 | Thomas Allen - 1839 - 512 pàgines
...towers, houses, and churches, was like an hideous storme, and the aire all about so hot and inflam'd that at last one was not able to approach it, so that they *ere forc'd to stand still and let the flames burn on, which they did for neere two miles in length... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 478 pàgines
...the hurry of people, the fall of towers, houses, and churches, was like an hideous storm, and the air all about so hot and inflamed that at last one was...still and let the flames burn on, which they did for near two miles in length and one in breadth. The clouds also of smoke were dismal, and reached, upon... | |
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