 At length, on the sixth day, the conflagration was stayed at the foot of Esquilise, by pulling down an immense quantity of buildings, so that an open space, and, as it were, void air, might check the raging element by breaking the continuity. But ere...  The Lost City!: Drama of the Fire Fiend! Or Chicago, as it Was, and as it Is ... - Page 299by Frank Luzerne - 1872 - 316 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Cornelius Tacitus - 1854 - 484 pages
...Destruction of Troy,' assimilating the present disaster to that catastrophe of ancient times." 3 40. At length, on the sixth day, the conflagration was stayed at the foot of Esquilise, by pulling down an immense quantity of buildings, so that an open space, and, as it were,... | |
 | Christopher James Riethmüller - 1868 - 118 pages
...fuel upon the burning mass, and prevent, by threats and curses, all attempts to extinguish the flames. On the sixth day, the conflagration was stayed at the foot of Mount Esquiline ; but only to break out anew in the house of Tigellinus, the favourite of Nero, and,... | |
 | Frank Luzerne - 1872 - 318 pages
...the lower portion of the city, then mounted to the highest, then again ravaging the lower it bafiled every effort to extinguish it, and raged for five...amusement. ******** Of the fourteen sections into which Home was divided, four only were standing entire ; three were levelled with the ground and in the seven... | |
 | James Washington Sheahan, George Putnam Upton - 1871 - 480 pages
...authorized them;' whether they did it that they might plunder with less restraint or with orders given. " At length, on the sixth day the conflagration was stayed at the foot of Esquilse, by pulling down an immense quantity of buildings, so that an open space, and as it were,... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 730 pages
...The Destruction of Troy,' assimilating the present disaster to that catastrophe of ancient times." At length, on the sixth day, the conflagration was stayed at the foot of Esquilme, by pulling down an immense quantity of buildings, so that an open space, and, as it were,... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 714 pages
...The Destruction of Troy,' assimilating the present disaster to that catastrophe of ancient times." At length, on the sixth day, the conflagration was stayed at the foot of Esquiline, by pulling down an immense quantity of buildings, so that an open space, and, as it were,... | |
 | Charles Francis Horne - 1905 - 440 pages
...sang The Destruction of Troy, assimilating the present disaster to that catastrophe of ancient times." At length, on the sixth day, the conflagration was stayed at the foot of Esquilise, by pulling down an immense quantity of buildings, so that an open space, and, as it were,... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 466 pages
...'The Destruction of Troy,' assimilating the present disaster to that catastrophe of ancient times." At length, on the sixth day, the conflagration was stayed at the foot of Esquiliae, by pulling down an immense quantity of buildings, so that an open space, and, as it were,... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge, Francis Whiting Halsey - 1909 - 276 pages
...'The Destruction of Troy,' assimilating the present disaster to that catastrophe of ancient times." At length, on the sixth day, the conflagration was stayed at the foot of EsquilliaB, by pulling down an immense quantity of buildings, so that an open space, and, as it were,... | |
 | Julian Julian - 1914 - 170 pages
...his own gardens. He likewise reared temporary houses for the reception of the forlorn multitude ... At length, on the sixth day, the conflagration was stayed at the foot of Esquiliae, by pulling down an immense quantity of buildings, so that an open space, and, as it were,... | |
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