 | American literature - 1849 - 606 pages
...suggestion of Pepys, that he should pull the houses down, and thus endeavor to stop the fire, he cried, " Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent ; people will not...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." Carts laden with furniture, sick persons carried away in their beds, thousands of halfclothed men,... | |
 | John Thomas Smith - Literary landmarks - 1846 - 484 pages
...last met my lord mayor in Cannon Street, like a man spent, witfi a handkerchief about his head. To the king's message he cried, like a fainting woman, ' Lord, what can I do ? I am spent. The people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses, but the fire overtakes us faster than... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1848 - 466 pages
...message, he cried, like a fainting woman, 1 St. Lawrence Poultney, of which Thomas Elborough was curate. " Lord! what can I do ? I am spent: people will not...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." That he needed no more soldiers; and that, for himself, he must go and refresh himself, having been... | |
 | 1849 - 588 pages
...suggestion of Pepys, that he should pull the houses down, and thus endeavor to stop the fire, he cried, " o Carts laden with furniture, sick persons carried away in their beds, thousands of halfclothed men,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 588 pages
...should pull the houses down, and thus endeavor to stop the fire, he cried, "Lord ! what can I do? 1 am spent ; people will not obey me. I have been pulling...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." Carts laden with furniture, sick persons carried away in their beds, thousands of halfclothed men,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1915 - 558 pages
...Campden House kept his mayoralty that " silly man," as Pepys calls him, Sir Thomas Bindworth, who " cried, like a fainting woman, ' Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent ; people will not obey me ' "in the midst of the Great Pire. Mr. McMurray has collected good store of diversified detail of the... | |
 | Humphry William Woolrych - 1852 - 334 pages
...mayor in Canning street, like a man spent, with a handkercher about his neck. To the King's message,2 he cried, like a fainting woman, 'Lord! what can I...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it.' That he needed no more soldiers; and that, for himself, he must go and refresh himself, having been... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1854 - 508 pages
...At last met my Lord Mayor in Canning Street, like a man spent, with a handkercher about his neck. To the King's message, he cried, like a fainting woman,...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." That he needed no more soldiers ; and that, for himself, he must go and refresh himself, having been... | |
 | Francis Lancelott - Queens - 1858 - 552 pages
...advised to intercept the progress of the flames, by pulling down some of the houses ; but he answered, " Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent, people will not...but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it." By eight in the morning it had reached London Bridge, " and there dividing, left enough to burn down... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1858 - 556 pages
...the lord mayor, and give him this command. In Cannon-street he encounters the lord mayor, who cries, like a fainting woman, " Lord ! what can I do ? I am spent. People will not obey me." He had been pulling down houses. He did not want any soldiers. He had be*en up all night, and must... | |
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Lord! what can I do? I am spent: people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it. 
