 | England - Great Britain - 1845 - 478 pages
...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 a burning oven, and the light seen above forty miles round about for many nights. God grant mine eyes may never behold... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1845 - 508 pages
...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... | |
 | John Thomas Smith - Literary landmarks - 1846 - 484 pages
...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... | |
 | William Evans, Thomas Evans - 1847 - 496 pages
...calamitous spectacle ! such as haply the world had not seen the like since the foundation of it, nor to be outdone till the universal conflagration. All the...dispersed about St. George's Fields and Moorfields, as far ils Highgate, and several miles in circle; some under tents, some under miserable huts and hovels,... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...moveables of all sorts, and tents erecting to shelter both people and what goods they could get away. Oh the miserable and calamitous spectacle ! such as...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 like, now... | |
 | Edward Feilde - 1847 - 210 pages
...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),... | |
 | Bits - Anthologies - 1847 - 88 pages
...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 like, now... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - Queens - 1848 - 410 pages
...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... | |
 | Anne (Aunt.) - Christian life - 1849 - 440 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...the like since the foundation of it, nor be outdone till the universal conflagration. All the skie the Lord Stanley, which shrunk at the stroke, and seene above 40 miles round about for many nights. God grant my eyes may never behold the like, now... | |
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God grant my eyes may never behold the like, now seeing above 10,000 houses all in one flame ; the noise and cracking and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children... 
