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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... Nature , tir'd with thought , was sunk to rest , And all my senses were by sleep possest ; Sweet sleep , that soft and balmy comfort brings , Alike to beggars and despotic kings ; " I dreamt of peace I never felt before , I dreamt my ...
... Nature , tir'd with thought , was sunk to rest , And all my senses were by sleep possest ; Sweet sleep , that soft and balmy comfort brings , Alike to beggars and despotic kings ; " I dreamt of peace I never felt before , I dreamt my ...
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... NATURE and ART had united in rendering one of the most beautiful , accomplished , and superior females of her day . It is thus a cele- brated bard invoked " Old Time , " to ward off his dire effects upon her lovely person : - Know ...
... NATURE and ART had united in rendering one of the most beautiful , accomplished , and superior females of her day . It is thus a cele- brated bard invoked " Old Time , " to ward off his dire effects upon her lovely person : - Know ...
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... nature such exhaustless treasure yields , A simpling ! It happen'd on the self - same morn so bright , The nimble pupils of Sir Sampson Wright , * A simpling , too , for plants , called thieves , proceeded ; · Of which the nation's ...
... nature such exhaustless treasure yields , A simpling ! It happen'd on the self - same morn so bright , The nimble pupils of Sir Sampson Wright , * A simpling , too , for plants , called thieves , proceeded ; · Of which the nation's ...
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... nature , ) that the " property " has not been disturbed . SIMPSON - GREEN , ( 13 m . 4 f . ) Here are only a few straggling houses and the sign of the Magpies ; but , the country on both sides of the traveller is pleasant , though ...
... nature , ) that the " property " has not been disturbed . SIMPSON - GREEN , ( 13 m . 4 f . ) Here are only a few straggling houses and the sign of the Magpies ; but , the country on both sides of the traveller is pleasant , though ...
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... NATURE and ART , and particularly to the lovers of taste and ele- gance , This ancient city , How wanton sits she , amidst Nature's smiles ! Nor from her highest turret has to view But golden landscapes and luxuriant scenes : it rises ...
... NATURE and ART , and particularly to the lovers of taste and ele- gance , This ancient city , How wanton sits she , amidst Nature's smiles ! Nor from her highest turret has to view But golden landscapes and luxuriant scenes : it rises ...
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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.