Walks Through Bath: Describing Every Thing Worthy of Interest, Including Walcot and Widcombe, and the Surrounding Vicinity , Also an Excursion to Clifton and Bristol Hot-wellsMeyler and son, 1819 - 329 pages |
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... fashionable world . From her superior knowledge and facility in the French and Italian lan- guages , her great taste for the arts of poetry and music , and considerable personal attraction , the Margravine was viewed as one of the most ...
... fashionable world . From her superior knowledge and facility in the French and Italian lan- guages , her great taste for the arts of poetry and music , and considerable personal attraction , the Margravine was viewed as one of the most ...
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... fashionable world , is now got rid of in the mind of the traveller by his arrival at SMALLBERRY - GREEN , ( 8 m . f . ) This little village becomes important to the inquisitive mind of the passenger , who learns , that Spring - Grove ...
... fashionable world , is now got rid of in the mind of the traveller by his arrival at SMALLBERRY - GREEN , ( 8 m . f . ) This little village becomes important to the inquisitive mind of the passenger , who learns , that Spring - Grove ...
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... fashionable world upon the death of the above noble- man , in consequence of the interference of the House of Lords to protect their privileges of bestowing the title upon the legal heir . The right of succession , it should seem ...
... fashionable world upon the death of the above noble- man , in consequence of the interference of the House of Lords to protect their privileges of bestowing the title upon the legal heir . The right of succession , it should seem ...
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... fashionable city offer to his attention . Immediately upon his right is the new road , that turns off to Oxford and Cheltenham . In proceeding onwards , a neat row of houses , called Lambridge , is to be seen , with long gardens ...
... fashionable city offer to his attention . Immediately upon his right is the new road , that turns off to Oxford and Cheltenham . In proceeding onwards , a neat row of houses , called Lambridge , is to be seen , with long gardens ...
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... fashionable nature , with a broad pavement , carriage - way , and a large green promenade , also en- closed with iron rails . This prelude is prepossessing , and every progressive step strengthens the impression of the respectability ...
... fashionable nature , with a broad pavement , carriage - way , and a large green promenade , also en- closed with iron rails . This prelude is prepossessing , and every progressive step strengthens the impression of the respectability ...
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Page 146 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden -flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Page 76 - Looking tranquillity ! it strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
Page 146 - Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain...
Page 111 - THE tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit the ground ; 'Twas therefore said by ancient sages, That love of life increased with years So much, that in our latter stages, When pains grow sharp, and sickness rages, The greatest love of life appears.
Page 204 - Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of death?
Page 198 - VOL 10 — 17 257 clouded his perspicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and, at once, exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit.
Page 153 - And pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel and robes of country brown.
Page 108 - That all whisperers of lies and scandal, be taken for their authors. 11. That all repeaters of such lies, and scandal, be shunned by all company ; — except such as have been guilty of the same crime. NB Several men of no character, old women and young ones of questioned reputation, are great authors of lies in these places, being of the sect of levellers.
Page 153 - Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn ; Now lost to all; her friends, her virtue fled, Near her betrayer's door she lays her head...
Page 28 - His name was Bolus. Benjamin Bolus, though in trade, (Which oftentimes will genius fetter) Read works of fancy, it is said, And cultivated the belles lettres.