 When we could endure no more upon the water, we to a little alehouse on the Bankside over against the Three Cranes, and there stayed till it was dark almost, and saw the fire grow; and, as it grew darker, appeared more and more; and in corners and upon...  The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 2371825Full view - About this book
 | Margaret Gaskin - 2006 - 472 pages
...borrow wholesale from Samuel Pepys's diary entry for 2nd September: . . . saw the fire grow; and as it grew darker, appeared more and more, and in corners...in a most horrid, malicious, bloody flame, not like an ordinary fire. But where Pepys, once the 1666 fire had done its worst, had looked out from the tower... | |
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