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 sider |
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... admirable specimen of architecture in the little monumental chapel of Prior Bird , who died in 1525. This oratory consists of two arched divi- sions , impost , entablature , and octangular but- tresses , all elaborately ornamented with ...
... admirable specimen of architecture in the little monumental chapel of Prior Bird , who died in 1525. This oratory consists of two arched divi- sions , impost , entablature , and octangular but- tresses , all elaborately ornamented with ...
Side 78
... admiring senate- that all our consequence and pretensions are in an instant lost sight of by that awful monitor -DEATH ! General Wade , one of the representatives of the City , in the year 1725 , gave a very elegant altar - piece ...
... admiring senate- that all our consequence and pretensions are in an instant lost sight of by that awful monitor -DEATH ! General Wade , one of the representatives of the City , in the year 1725 , gave a very elegant altar - piece ...
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... admirable specimen of modern architecture , and the uniformity which may be formed of Bath - stone . The above houses are all the production from one quarry , in which not the least flaw or variety of colour 98 WALKS THROUGH BATH .
... admirable specimen of modern architecture , and the uniformity which may be formed of Bath - stone . The above houses are all the production from one quarry , in which not the least flaw or variety of colour 98 WALKS THROUGH BATH .
Side 98
... admired buildings in Bath reflect greater credit upon the talents of the various architects than this part of the ... admirable specimen of modern architecture , and the uniformity which may be formed of Bath - stone . The above houses ...
... admired buildings in Bath reflect greater credit upon the talents of the various architects than this part of the ... admirable specimen of modern architecture , and the uniformity which may be formed of Bath - stone . The above houses ...
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... admired : and Earl Manvers has also made carriage - roads to this new entrance , over part of the North and South Parade , and also from Stall - Street , at a considerable sacrifice of his land and houses , in order that " this old spot ...
... admired : and Earl Manvers has also made carriage - roads to this new entrance , over part of the North and South Parade , and also from Stall - Street , at a considerable sacrifice of his land and houses , in order that " this old spot ...
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Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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?
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.