 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 484 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... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1888 - 876 pages
...benefit thereto : which pageants being acted with mighty state and reverence by the Grey Friars, had theatres for the several scenes, very large and high, placed upon wheels, and drawn to all the eminent part: of the city, for the better advantage of spectators, and contained the story ot the Old and New... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1889 - 384 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, placed upon wheels and drawn to all the eminent par(s of the city," and he referred to the Cotton MS. for authority as to the nature of their plays.... | |
 | Robert Laneham - Ballads, English - 1890 - 302 pages
...This appears to have heen one of the ancient fairs ; and the Grey Friars, or Friars Minors, of that City, had, as Dugdale relates, " Theatres for the...drawn to all the eminent parts of the city, for the hetter advantage of the spectators ; and contained the story of the Old and New Testament, composed... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1891 - 800 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 Rithmc, as appcarcth... | |
 | Edward Walford, George Latimer Apperson - Archaeology - 1892 - 322 pages
...lapse. It recalled much of Dugdale's description of its predecessors. There were the " pageants," " very large and high, placed upon wheels, and drawn...city for the better advantage of the spectators." Those of the bricklayers, the carpenters, and the Druids were especially successful. The dresses of... | |
 | 1892 - 428 pages
...to have been one of the anoient fairs; and the Grey Friars, or Friars Minors, of that City, had, äs Dugdale relates, «Theatres for the several scenes very large and high, placed upon wheels, and drawu to all the eminent parts of the city, for the better advantage of the speotators; and contained... | |
 | William James Rolfe - Authors - 1896 - 304 pages
...told by Dugdale, they were " acted with mighty state and reverence by the friars of this house, 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." There were... | |
 | William James Rolfe - 1896 - 312 pages
...told by Dugdale, they were " acted with mighty state and reverence by the friars of this house, 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." There were... | |
 | Manners and customs - 1897 - 1030 pages
...informs us that it recalled much of Dugdale's description of its predecessors. " There were the pageants very large and high, placed upon wheels, and drawn to all the eminent parts of the city for the bettor advantage of the spectators. Those of the bricklayers, the carpenters, and the Druids were especially... | |
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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... 
