Famous Houses of Bath & District ...Meehan, 1901 - 228 páginas |
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Abbey afterwards ancient architect architecture Ashton Court Badminton BATH RESIDENCE BATHFORD Bave Beau Nash beautiful became Beckford Boswell Bristol built Burney Chapel Chudleigh Circus Clevedon CLEVEDON COURT daughter death died Draycot Duchess Duke of Beaufort Dyrham Earl early Elizabeth erected famous Fanny Burney father Fonthill front Gardens Guildhall hall Hannah Henry Inigo Jones interesting JANE AUSTEN John Johnson King Kingston known Lady Betty Lansdown living London Longleat Lord manor mansion married Mary Godwin MICHAEL'S CHURCH Milsom Street Miss Linley MONTACUTE HOUSE Nassau House obtained Orange Grove Parade parish Pickwick Pierrepont Street Piozzi present Prior Park Pulteney Bridge Queen Charlton Ralph Allen Roman Royal says Shelley Sheridan Shockerwick side sister situated Somerset South Wraxall stay in Bath stone Theatre Thomas Thrale visit to Bath visited Bath visitor Walcot Walks Weymouth House WILLIAM PITT Wiltshire Wood
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Página 211 - I am going a long way With these thou seest — if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt) — To the island-valley of Avilion ; Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly ; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
Página 66 - Which poured their warm drops on the sunny ground — So, without shame, I spake: — "I will be wise, And just, and free, and mild, if in me lies Such power, for I grow weary to behold The selfish and the strong still tyrannise Without reproach or check.
Página 86 - Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing ; and to give you an unquestionable proof, Madam, that I am in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellow-citizen, your footman; I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us.
Página 90 - Cold is that hand, which, living, was stretched forth At Friendship's call, to succour modest worth. Here lies James Quin — Deign, reader, to be taught Whate'er thy strength of body, force of thought, In Nature's happiest mould however cast, To this...
Página 152 - Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a...
Página 210 - The most excellent Historic of the Merchant of Venice. With the extreame crueltie of Shylocke the lewe towards the sayd Merchant, in cutting a iust pound of his flesh : and the obtayning of Portia by the choyse of three chests.
Página 96 - Yet, all brilliant as he was, I saw him growing worse, and offered to go, which, for the first time I ever remember, he did not oppose ; but, most kindly pressing both my hands, "Be not," he said, in a voice of even tenderness, "be not longer in coming again for my letting you go now.
Página 42 - That a visit of ceremony at coming to Bath, and another at going away, is all that is expected or desired by ladies of quality and fashion — except impertinents.
Página 84 - They hold a Parnassus fair every Thursday, give out rhymes and themes, and all the flux of quality at Bath contend for the prizes. A Roman vase dressed with pink ribbons and myrtles receives the poetry, which is drawn out every festival ; six judges of these Olympic games retire and select the brightest compositions, which the respective successful acknowledge, kneel to Mrs. Calliope Miller, kiss her fair hand, and are crowned by it with myrtle, with — I don't know what.
Página 145 - The peeping Fan in modern times shall rise, Through which unseen the female ogle flies; This shall in temples the sly maid conceal, And shelter love beneath devotion's veil. Gay France shall make the Fan her artist's care, And with the costly trinket arm the fair.