 Prison completely wrapt in flames. It exhibited a sublime sight, and we might be said there to stand in a central point, from whence London offered on every side, before, as well as behind us, the picture of a city sacked and abandoned to a ferocious...  From 1772 to 1780 - Page 324by Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - 1815Full view - About this book
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - Great Britain - 1836 - 502 pages
...was occupied by the Troops. On approaching it, we beheld the King's Bench Prison completely enveloped in flames. It exhibited a sublime Sight, and we might...the fires, the Blaze reflected in the Stream of the z2 Thames, and the irregular firing which was kept up both in St. George's Fields, as well as towards... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - Great Britain - 1837 - 516 pages
...Fields ; and were informed, that a considerable number of the rioters had been killed on Blackfriars Bridge, which was occupied by the troops. On approaching...presenting to the view every recollection, which the classic descriptions in Virgil, or in Tacitus, have impressed on the mind in youth, but which I so... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - Great Britain - 1884 - 486 pages
...was occupied by the troops. On approaching it, we beheld the King's Bench Prison completely enveloped in flames. It exhibited a sublime sight, and we might...George's Fields as well as towards the quarter of the Mansion House and the Bank ; all these sounds or images combined left scarcely anything for the imagination... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - Great Britain - 1900 - 652 pages
...flames. It exhibited a sublime sight, and we might be said there to stand in a central point, from which London offered on every side, before, as well as behind...presenting to the view every recollection, which the classic descriptions in Virgil, or in Tacitus, have impressed on the mind in youth, but which I so... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee - Great Britain - 1900 - 642 pages
...flames. It exhibited a sublime sight, and we might be said there to stand in a central point, from which London offered on every side, before, as well as behind...presenting to the view every recollection, which the classic descriptions in Virgil, or in Tacitus, have impressed on the mind in youth, but which I so... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1901 - 454 pages
...was occupied by the troops. On approaching it, we beheld the King's Bench Prison completely enveloped in flames. It exhibited a sublime sight, and we might...was kept up both in St. George's Fields, as well as toward the quarter of the Mansion House and the bank , — all these sounds or images, combined, left... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1902 - 428 pages
...was occupied by the troops. On approaching it, we beheld the King's Bench Prison completely enveloped in flames. It exhibited a sublime sight, and we might...was kept up both in St. George's Fields, as well as toward the quarter of the Mansion House and the bank , — all these sounds or images, combined, left... | |
 | John Paul De Castro - Gordon Riots, 1780 - 1926 - 370 pages
...the King's Bench Prison completely wrapped in flames. It exhibited a sublime sight — we stood at a central point from whence London offered on every...George's Fields, as well as towards the quarter of the Mansion House and the Bank ; — all these combined left scarcely anything for the imagination to supply... | |
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