 | Elizabeth Cartwright Penrose - 1854 - 602 Seiten
...to the same place, and saw the fire still raging furiously. It was then catching St. Paul's church. All the sky was of a fiery aspect, like the top of a burning oven. The light was seen at forty miles' distance, and not by night only, but also by day ; and the smoke,... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 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... | |
 | British history - 1855 - 482 Seiten
...the world had not seen since the foundation of it, nor to be outdone till the conflagration of it. All the sky was of a fiery aspect, like the top of a burning oven ; and the light seen for about forty miles round for many nights. God grant mine eyes may never see the like, who now saw... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1855 - 446 Seiten
...not seen the like since the foundation of it, nor will 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... | |
 | John Timbs - 1855 - 818 Seiten
...he tells us that it made the atmosphere as light as day "for ten miles round about; . .all the skie was of a fiery aspect, like the top of a burning oven, the light seen above forty miles round about. Above 10,000 houses all in one flame; the noise and cracking... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1856 - 590 Seiten
...the devouring flame, and by noon of the next day, John Evelyn, who was a spectator of it, writes, " All the sky was of a fiery aspect, like the top of a burning oven. God grant my eyes may never behold the like, now seeing above 10,000 houses all in one flame : the... | |
 | 1857 - 498 Seiten
...moveables of all sort, 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... | |
 | 1842 - 790 Seiten
...noon of the next day it had got too be terrible to behold. One who saw it writes thus about it : " All the sky was of a fiery aspect, like the top of a burning oven. God grant my eyes may never behold the like, now seeing above ten thousand houses all in one flame... | |
 | Francis Lancelott - 1858 - 552 Seiten
...shared the same fate, and the scene was appalling. "All the sky," proceeds the author just quoted, " was of a fiery aspect, like the top of a burning oven, and the light seen for about forty miles round for many nights. God grant may eyes may never behold 724 QUEEN OF CHARLES... | |
 | Francis Lancelott - 1858 - 604 Seiten
...shared the same fate, and the scene was appalling. " All the sky," procceds the author just quoted, " was of a fiery aspect, like the top of a burning oven, and the light scen for about forty miles round for many nights. God grant may eyes may never behold the like, now... | |
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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... 
