 | British history - 1855 - 482 pages
...extract from the Diary of Evelyn, from which, you remember, we have already quoted. He wrote thus. " The conflagration was so universal, and the people...nothing heard or seen but crying out and lamentation; running about like distracted creatures, without at all attempting to save even their own goods, such... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1855 - 446 pages
...good, under the conduct and administration of a perfect mind. — J. Butler. 515. FIRE OF LONDON — The conflagration was so universal, and the people...nothing heard or seen but crying out and lamentation, running about like distracted creatures, without at all attempting to save even their goods. Such a... | |
 | 1857 - 498 pages
...the afternoon ot this day to the Bankside in Southwark, to see the conflagration. "It was," he Bays, "so universal, and the people so astonished, that...there was nothing heard or seen but crying out and lamentations, running about like distracted creatures, without at all attempting to save even their... | |
 | Francis Lancelott - Queens - 1858 - 552 pages
...only no man knew what remedy to apply, nor the magistrates what orders to give." Evelyn remarks : " The conflagration was so universal, and the people...nothing heard or seen but crying out and lamentation — running about like distracted creatures, without at all attempting to save even their goods —... | |
 | Francis Lancelott - Queens - 1858 - 604 pages
...only no man knew what remedy to apply, nor the magistrates what orders to give." Evelyn remarks : " The conflagration was so universal, and the people...astonished, that from the beginning, I know not by what despondeney or fate, they hardly stirred to quench it, so that there was nothing heard or scen but... | |
 | John William Clayton - Great Britain - 1859 - 464 pages
...and refresh himself, having been up all night." Evelyn also thus vividly describes the Great Fire : " The conflagration was so universal, and the people...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... | |
 | William Hone - 1859 - 882 pages
...scaffolds contributed exceedingly. The conflagration was so universal, and the people so astonish'd, that from the beginning, I know not by what despondency or fate, they hardly stirr'd to quench it, so that there was nothing heard or scene but crying out and lamentation, running... | |
 | 1864 - 884 pages
...foretold a stroke sudden, swift, and fiery, as was the conflagration.'' Evelyn says of the fire : " The conflagration was so universal, and the people...nothing heard or seen but crying out and lamentation, running about like distracted creatures, without at all attempting to save even their goods, such a... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 pages
...scaffolds contributed exceedingly. The conflagration was so universal, and the people so astonish' d, that from the beginning, I know not by what despondency or fate, they hardly stirr'd to quench it, so that there was nothing heard or seene but crying out and lamentation, running... | |
 | Henry Hart Milman - 1868 - 588 pages
...was so universal, ami ' the people so astonished, that, from the beginning, I ' know not, but from what despondency, or fate, they ' hardly stirred to...nothing ' heard or seen but crying out and lamentation ; running c a"bout like distracted creatures, without attempting to CHAP. * save even their goods ;... | |
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The conflagration was so universal, and the people so astonished, that from the beginning, I know not by what despondency or fate, they hardly stirred to quench it, so that there was nothing heard or seen but crying out and lamentation, running about... 
