 I cannot blame him : at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shak'd like a coward.  Hudibras, a Poem - Page 101by Samuel Butler - 1819Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 578 pages
...heaven. Hot. And you in hell, as often as lie hears Owen Glendower spoke of. Glend. I cannot blame him : at my nativity, The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, " Of burning cressets2; and, at my birth, The frame and the foundation of the earth Shak'd like a coward. Hot. Why,... | |
 | Francis Douce - Gesta Romanorum - 1807 - 552 pages
...hour till evening. See Scot's Discovery of witchcraft, B. xv. ch. 3. ACT HI. Scene 1. Page 487. GLEN. The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes Of burning cressets. • A cresset light was the same as a beacon light, but occasionally portable. It consisted of a wreathed... | |
 | Francis Douce - Gesta Romanorum - 1807 - 560 pages
...hour till evening. See Scot's Discovery of witchcraft, B. xv. ch. 3. ACT HI. Scene 1. Page 487. GLEN'. The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes Of burning cressets. A cresset light was the same as a beacon light, but occasionally portable. It consisted of a wreathed... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...heav'n. Hot. And you in hell, as often as he hears Owen Glendower spoke of. Glen. I blame him not ; at my nativity, The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, O! burning cressets ; know that at my birth, Tiie fram? and the foundation of the earth Snook like... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 458 pages
...heaven. Hot. And you in hell, as often as be hears Owen Glendower spoke of. Glend. I cannot blame him : at my nativity, The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ;* and, at my birth, The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shak'd like a coward. Hot. Why, so... | |
 | John Robinson, Piomingo - National characteristics, American - 1810 - 328 pages
...Hotspur. And you in hell, as often as he hears Owen Glendower spoke of. Glend. I cannot blame him: at my nativity, The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward. Hot. Why so it would... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 544 pages
...heaven. Hot. And you in hell, as often as he hears Owen Glendower spoke of. Glend. I cannot blame him : at my nativity, The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets;9 and, at my birth, The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shak'd like a coward. Hot.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 454 pages
...heaven. Hot. And you in hell, as often as he hears Owen Glendower spoke of. Glend. I cannot blame him : at my nativity, The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ;* and, at my birth, The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shak'd like a coward. Hot. Why, so... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Dilke - English drama - 1814 - 434 pages
...represented in Douce's '•' Illustrations of Shakspeare." They are used poetically in "Henry IV." " At my nativity, The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cresnits." Ant. Collect your spirits, madam; what do you see? Dost not behold a ghost ? Look, look... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...my lord in hand, And I must know it, else he loves me not. Prodigies ridiculed. I cannot blame him : at my nativity, The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets: and, at my birth. The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shak'd like a coward. Hat. Why so it would... | |
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