 We staid till, it being darkish, we saw the fire as only one entire arch of fire from this to the other side of the bridge, and in a bow up the hill for an arch of above a mile long: it made me weep to see it.  Walks in London - Page 426by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 511 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1901 - 660 pages
...flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary fire. Barbary and her husband away before us. We staid till, it being darkish, we saw the fire as only one entire arch of fire from this to the other side the bridge, and in a bow up the hill for an arch of above a mile long : it made me weep to see it.... | |
 | Mary E. Palgrave - 1901 - 374 pages
...Three Cranes," and stay there till it is " dark almost," and " see the fire grow " — till we behold " the fire as only one entire arch of fire from this to the other side the bridge, and in a bow up the hill for an arch of above a mile long." " It made me weep to see it,"... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1902 - 408 pages
...flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary fire. Barbary and her husband away before us. We staid till, it being darkish, we saw the fire as only one entire arch of fire from this to the other side the bridge, and in a bow up the hill for an arch of above a mile long : it made me weep to see it.... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1902 - 408 pages
...city, in a most horrid, malicious, bloody flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary fire. We stayed till, it being darkish, we saw the fire as only one entire arch of fire from this to the other side the bridge, and in a bow up the hill for an arch of above a mile long ; it made me weep to see it.... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1902 - 464 pages
...a most horrid malicious, bloody flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary fire. . . . We staid till, it being darkish, we saw the fire as only one entire arch of fire from this to the other side the bridge, and in a bow up the hill for an arch of above a mile long: it made me weep to see it."... | |
 | 1903 - 706 pages
...the City, in a most horrid, malicious, bloody flame, not like the flame of an ordinary fire. We staid till, it being darkish, we saw the fire as only one...other side of the bridge, and in a bow up the hill in an arch of above a mile long; it made one weep to see it." The great Wren was appointed surveyorgeneral... | |
 | Walter Besant - 1903 - 584 pages
...flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary fire. Barbara and her husband away before us. We staid till, it being darkish, we saw the fire as only one entire arch of fire from this to the other side the bridge, and in a bow up the hill for an arch of above a mile long : it made me weep to see it.... | |
 | William Peacock - 1903 - 408 pages
...flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary fire. Barbary and her husband away before us. We stayed till, it being darkish, we saw the fire as only one entire arch of fire from this to the other side the bridge, and in a bow up the hill for an arch of above a mile long ; it made me weep to see it The... | |
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - 1904 - 452 pages
...flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary fire. Barbary and her husband away before us. We stayed till, it being darkish, we saw the fire as only one entire arch of fire from this to the other side the bridge, and in a bow up the hill for an arch above a mile long : it made me weep to see it. The... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1905 - 860 pages
...flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary fire. Barbary ' and her husband away before us. We stayed till, it being darkish, we saw the fire as only one entire arch of fire from this to the other side the bridge, and in a bow up the hill for an arch of above a mile long : it made me weep to see it The... | |
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