 | sir William Smith - 1873 - 280 pages
...— So London's sons in nightcnp woke, In bedgown woke her dames : For shouts were heard 'mid tire and smoke, And twice ten hundred voices spoke — " The playhouse is in dames ! " (HS) 11. In November, 1640, met that renowned Parliament which, in spite of many errors and... | |
 | Amusing poetry - 1874 - 332 pages
...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...A fiery tail its lustre lends To every window pane ; 1 Forty- four years have elapsed since these lines were written ; and some of our very young readers... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1874 - 458 pages
...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 her...hundred voices spoke, " The playhouse is in flames !" .*....•• The summon'd firemen woke at call, And hied them to their stations all : Starting from... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pages
...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..." And lo ! where Catherine Street extends, A fiery tale its lustre lends To every window-pane : Blushes each spout in Martlet Court, And Barbican, moth-eaten... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 pages
...everlasting gloom, Started with terror and surprise When light first flashed upon her eyes, — So London's sons in nightcap woke, In bedgown woke her...! where Catherine Street extends, A fiery tail its luster lends To every window-pane ; Blushes each spout in Martlet Court, And Barbican, moth-eaten fort,... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...in everlasting gloom, Started with terror and surprise, When light first flashed upon her eyes : So vested with purpureal gleams ; Climes which the sun, who tale its lustre lends To every window-pane : Blushes each spout in Martlet Court, And Barbican, moth-eaten... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 860 pages
...Started with terror and surprise, When light first flashed upon her eyes : So London's sons in night -cap woke, In bed-gown woke her dames, For shouts were...flames." And lo ! where Catherine Street extends, A fiery tale its lustre lends To every window-pane : Blushes each spout in Martlet Court, And Barbican, moth-eaten... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 828 pages
...in everlasting gloom, Started with terror and surprise When light first flashed upon her eyes — So in wrath, and thunder'd from afar ? Where was the...their trembling coast ; Then bade the deep' in wild c I " And lo ! where Catherine Street extends, A fiery tail its lustre lends To every window-pane ; Blushes... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 pages
...everlasting gloom, Started with terror and surprise When light first flashed upon her eyes, — So London's sons in nightcap woke, In bedgown woke her dames ; For shouts were heard mid fire nnd smoke, And twice ten hundred voices sjioke, — "The playhouse is in flames !" And, lo ! where... | |
 | William Michael Rossetti - 1878 - 510 pages
...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...Street extends, A fiery tail its lustre lends To every window-pane ; Blushes each spout in Martlet Court, And Barbican, moth-eaten fort, And Covent Garden... | |
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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... 
