 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Massachusetts - 1872 - 594 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 New Testament, composed into old English Rithme, as appeareth... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 730 pages
...and reverence by the friars of this house, had theaters for the severall scenes, very large and nigh, placed upon wheels, and drawn to all the 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... | |
 | William Hugh Logan - English drama - 1873 - 384 pages
...Friars of this house, had theatres for the several scenes [or, pajiont clothes, as they were called] very large and high, placed upon wheels, and drawn to all the emment parts of the city for the better advantage of spectators." — Dngda.le. t A covering overhead.... | |
 | 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, " consiste! of three several platforms raised one above another.... | |
 | William D'Avenant - 1873 - 386 pages
...Friars of this nouse, had theatres for the several scenes [or, pajiont clothes, as they were called] very large and high, placed upon wheels, and drawn...eminent parts of the city for the better advantage of spectators. " — Dugdale. and trade of your river belongs to your selves ; but give a stranger leave... | |
 | William D'Avenant - 1873 - 384 pages
...Friars of this house, had theatres for the several scenes [or, pajiont clothes, as they were called] very large and high, placed upon wheels, and drawn...eminent parts of the city for the better advantage of spectators. " — Dugdale. and trade of your river belongs to your selves ; but give a stranger leave... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - Drama - 1874 - 486 pages
...which pageants being acted with mighty state and reverence by the friers 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 contained the story of the New Testament, composed in old English rithme, as appeareth... | |
 | Literature - 1875 - 1012 pages
...mighty state and reverence. Theatres for the several scenes, very large and high, placed on wheels, were drawn to all the eminent parts of the city, for the better advantage of spectators. The story of the Old and New Testament, composed in the old English Rithme, as appcareth... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - English drama - 1876 - 552 pages
...Corpus-Christi Day; which pageants, being acted with mighty state and reverence by the friars of this house, had theatres for the several scenes very large and high,...of the spectators, and contained the story of the New Testament, composed in old English rhyme." An ancient manuscript of the same is now to be seen... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - English drama - 1876 - 568 pages
...reverence by the friars of this house, had atros for the several scenes very large and i. ] 'laced upon wheels, and drawn to "all the eminent parts of...of the spectators, and contained the story of the New Testament, composed in old English rhyme." An ancient manuscript of the same is now to be seen... | |
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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... 
