 | England - 1845 - 478 Seiten
...seen the like since the foundation of it, nor to be outdone till the universal conflagration of it. All the sky was of a fiery aspect, like the top of...burning oven, and the light seen above forty miles round about for many nights. God grant mine eyes may never behold the like, who now saw above ten thousand... | |
 | 1845 - 952 Seiten
...moveables of all sorts, and tents erecting to shelter both people and what goods they could get away All the sky was of a fiery aspect, like the top of...burning oven, and the light seen above forty miles round about for many nights. God grant mine eyes may never behold the like, who now saw above ten thousand... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1845 - 508 Seiten
...would be destroyed by fire.— See marginal note in Pepys^ vol. iii. p. 106. tracted creatures. * * All the sky was of a fiery aspect, like the top of a burning oven, and the light seen for above forty miles round for many nights. God grant that mine eyes may never behold the like, who... | |
 | John Thomas Smith - 1846 - 484 Seiten
...not seen the like since the foundation of it, nor be outdone till the universal conflagration of it. All the sky was of a fiery aspect, like the top of a burning oven, and the light was seen above forty miles round for many nights. God grant mine eyes may never behold the like, which... | |
 | Edward Feilde - 1847 - 210 Seiten
...universal that from the beginning, by a strange despondency, the people hardly stirred to quench it. All the sky was of a fiery aspect, like the top of a burning oven, and the light was seen above forty miles round for many nights: "God grant, (says an eye-witness), mine eyes may... | |
 | William Evans, Thomas Evans - 1847 - 500 Seiten
...had not seen the like since the foundation of it, nor to be outdone till the universal conflagration. All the sky was of a fiery aspect like the top of a burning oven; the light [being] seen above forty miles round about for many nights. The poor inhabitants were dispersed... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 Seiten
...had not seen the like since the foundation of it, nor be outdone till the universal conflagration. All the sky was of a fiery aspect, like the top of a burning oven, the light seen above forty miles round about for many nights. God grant my eyes may never behold the... | |
 | Bits - 1847 - 88 Seiten
...the like since the foundation of it, nor be outdone till the universal conflagration. All the skie was of a fiery aspect, like the top of a burning oven, the light seene above forty miles round about for many nights. God grant my eyes may never behold the... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1848 - 410 Seiten
...nothing heard or seen but crying out and lamentation, and running about like distracted creatures. * * All the sky was of a fiery aspect, like the top of a burning oven, and the light seen for above forty miles round for many nights. God grant that mine eyes may never behold the like, who... | |
 | Anne (Aunt.) - 1849 - 440 Seiten
...Diary," gives the following graphic account of this awful calamity, of which he was an eye-witness. " All the sky was of a fiery aspect, like the top of a burning oven, and the light seen about forty miles round, for many nights. God grant mine eyes may never behold the like, who now saw... | |
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God grant mine eyes may never behold the like, who now saw above ten thousand houses all in one flame ; the noise and cracking and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children... 
