A Guide to the Knowledge of Bath, Ancient and ModernLongman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green, 1864 - 350 pages |
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Abbey Church Abbot Akeman ancient Antiquities appears Avon Bath Abbey Bathan Batheaston Bathford Bathwick Berton Bishop Bishop of Bath Bladud Borough Walls Bridge Bristol building called century Chamberlain-Thomas Slater Chapel CHAPTER Charity chief city of Bath Corporation Dipl elected fashion foundation friends G. H. Tugwell hath Henry hill history of Bath Holloway honour horse houses inhabitants J. H. Spry John de Villula John Wiltshire Kelston King King's Lady land lease London Lord master Mayor ment Mineral Water Hospital Minerva monastery monks Mons Badonicus municipal myth Nash North Gate opened Palmer parish Parliament party passed period person Phillott Pickwick Piozzi poor present Prior Park Pump Room Queen Ralph Allen reign resort restored Richard Nash river Roman Royal Saxon shew society Solsbury South stone Street things Thomas tion town visitor Walcot Wilberforce William William Tudor
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Page 309 - tis no matter; honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on? how then? Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is honour? a word. What is that word, honour? air. A trim reckoning! — Who hath it? he that died o
Page 199 - For him not enough at a ball to preside, The unwary and beautiful nymph would he guide : Oft tell her a tale, how the credulous maid By man, by perfidious man, is betrayed : Taught Charity's hand to relieve the distrest, While tears have his tender compassion exprest ; But alas ! he is gone, and the city can tell How in years and in glory lamented he fell.
Page 196 - Immortal Newton never spoke More truth, than here you'll find, Nor Pope himself e'er penn'da joke More cruel on mankind. '' The picture placed the busts between Gives satire its full strength ; Wisdom and Wit are little seen. But Folly at full length.
Page 182 - 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 203 - English, bad pronunciation, old sayings, and common proverbs; which are so many proofs of having kept bad and low company. For example: if, instead of saying that tastes are different, and that every man has his own peculiar one...
Page 204 - Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.
Page 186 - From the pump-room the ladies, from time to time, withdraw to a female coffeehouse, and from thence return to their lodgings to breakfast. The gentlemen withdraw to their coffee-houses, to read the papers, or converse on the news of the day, with a freedom and ease not to be found in the metropolis. People of fashion make public breakfasts at the assembly-houses, to which they invite their acquaintances, and they sometimes order private concerts ; or, when so disposed, attend lectures...
Page 205 - Chigi for a little mind, from the moment that he told him he had wrote three years with the same pen, and that it was an excellent good one still. A certain degree of exterior seriousness, in looks and motions, gives dignity, without excluding wit and decent cheerfulness, which are always serious themselves. A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffling activity of the body, are strong indications of futility.
Page 309 - Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour ? A word. What is that word honour ? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who bath it ? He that died o
Page 303 - The Duchess of Marlborough, Congreve, and Lady Rich, are the only people whose faces I know, whose names I ever heard, or who, I believe, have any names belonging to them...