The New Bath Guide; Or, Useful Pocket Companion: For All Persons Residing at Or Resorting to this Antient City. Giving an Account of the First Discovery of Its Medicinal Waters by King Bladud; ... To which is Added, the Life, Character, &c. of Richard Nash, ...R. Cruttwell, 1799 - 80 pages |
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Page 42 - Diffus'd its heavenly beam ; Think on the wretch whose distant lot This friendly aid denies ; Think how in some poor lonely cot He unregarded lies ! Hither the helpless stranger bring, Relieve his heartfelt woe, And let thy bounty, like this spring, In genial currents flow : So may thy years from grief and pain, And pining want, be free ; And thou from Heaven that mercy gain, The poor receive from thee.
Page 66 - If social virtues make remembrance dear, Or manners pure on decent rule depend; To His remains consign one grateful tear, Of youth the Guardian, and of all the Friend. Now sleeps Dominion ; here no Bounty flows, Nor more avails the festive scene to grace, Beneath that hand which no discernment shews, Untaught to honour, or distinguish place.] LIFE THOMAS PARNELL, DD ARCHDEACON OF CLOGHER.
Page 7 - Sudatories, conftrueled upon elegant Plans, with Floors fufpended upon SquareBrick Pillars, and furrounded with tubulated Bricks, for the equal Conveyance of Heat and Vapour.
Page 59 - Alfred the Great, AD 879, on this summit erected his standard against Danish invaders ; to him we owe the origin of juries, and the creation of a naval force. Alfred, the light of a benighted age, was a philosopher, and a Christian ; the father of his people, and the founder of the English monarchy and liberties.
Page 5 - ... himself to the glorious luminary, and praying that the wrath of Heaven against him might be averted, part of the drove of pigs, as if seized with a frenzy, ran down the side of the hill into an alder moor, till they reached the spot of ground where the hot springs of Bath now boil up, and from thence returned covered with black mud. The Prince being of a thoughtful turn, and very...
Page 64 - ... 3. That gentlemen of fashion never appearing in a morning before the ladies in gowns and caps, show breeding and respect.
Page 26 - The conftant rambling about of the younger part of the company is very enlivening and cheerful. In the morning the rendezvous is at the Pump-Room...
Page 65 - ... 8. That the elder ladies and children be content with a second bench at the ball, as being past or not come to perfection. 9. That the younger ladies take notice how many eyes observe them.
Page 31 - The bifliop having been at Bath imagined as he one night lay meditating in bed, that he faw the Holy Trinity, with angels afcending and descending by a ladder, near to which was a fair olive-tree fupporting a crown.
Page 26 - Ceremony, beyond the usual rules of politeness, is totally exploded ; every one mixes in the rooms upon an equality ; and the entertainments are so wisely regulated, that, although there is never a cessation of them., neither is there...