 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1867 - 482 pages
...being acted with mighty state and reverence by the friars of this house, had theaters for the severall scenes, very large and high, placed upon wheels, and...eminent parts of the city, for the better advantage of sliectators ; and contain'd the story of the New Testament, composed into old English Rithme, as appeareth... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1867 - 488 pages
...Coventry plays as " being acted with mighty state and reverence by the friars of this house, who had theatres for the several scenes, very large and high,...wheels and drawn to all the eminent parts of the city," and he referred to the Cotton MS. for authority as to the nature of their plays. The series known as... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1867 - 492 pages
...Coventry plays as " being acted with mighty state and reverence by the friars of this house, who had theatres for the several scenes, very large and high,...wheels and drawn to all the eminent parts of the city," and he referred to the Cotton MS. for authority as to the nature of their plays. The series known as... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1868 - 578 pages
...pageants, "acted with mighty state and reverence by the friars of this house [the Grey Friars], had theatres for the several scenes, very large and high,...eminent parts of the city for the better advantage of spectators ; and •contained the story of the New Testament composed into old English rhyme, as appeareth... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1868 - 410 pages
...which pageants being acted with mighty state and reverence by the friars of this house, had theaters for the several! scenes, very large and high, placed...eminent parts of the city, for the better advantage of spectators ; and contain'd the story of the New Testament, composed into old English Rithme, as appeareth... | |
 | George Adlard - 1870 - 386 pages
...one of the ancient fairs ; and the Gray Friars, or Friars Minors of the above City, had, as Dngdale relates, 'Theatres for the several scenes very large...drawn to all the eminent parts of the City, for the my Lord's neighbours there : who understanding among them the thing that could not "be hidden from... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1870 - 642 pages
...being acted with mighty state and reverence by the friars of this house, had theaters for the severall scenes, very large and high, placed upon wheels, and...eminent parts of the city, for the better advantage of spectators ; and contain'd the story of the Kcw Testament, composed into old English Rithme, as appeareth... | |
 | George Adlard - 1870 - 402 pages
...above City, had, as Dugdnle relates, ' Theatres for the several scenes very large and high, placed npon wheels, and drawn to all the eminent parts of the City, for the my Lord's neighbours there: who understanding among them the thing that could not be hidden from any:... | |
 | Archaeology - 1871 - 546 pages
...and sometimes in churchyards. In the Corpus Christi plays there were theatres for the several scenes, large and high, placed upon wheels, and drawn to all...the city for the better advantage of the spectators. " The ancient stage," says Strutt, " consisted of three several platforms raised one above another.... | |
 | Archaeology - 1871 - 542 pages
...and sometimes in churchyards, in the Corpus Christi plays there were theatres for the several scenes, large and high, placed upon wheels, and drawn to all the eminent parts of the city for the belter advantage of the spectators. " The ancient stage," says Strutt, " consiste! of three several... | |
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... being acted with mighty state and reverence by the friars of this house, had theaters for the several! scenes, very large and high, placed upon wheels, and drawn to all the eminent parts of the city, for the better advantage of spectators : and contain'd... 
