Bath, Old and New: A Handy Guide and a HistorySimpkin, Marshall & Company, 1888 - 294 pagina's |
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Pagina 3
... side of the river , under the pretext that the acorns were finer and more plentiful than in the spot where the animals then grazed . This was acceded to , and Bladud passed the river at a shallow , conducting his pigs to the hills which ...
... side of the river , under the pretext that the acorns were finer and more plentiful than in the spot where the animals then grazed . This was acceded to , and Bladud passed the river at a shallow , conducting his pigs to the hills which ...
Pagina 6
... side so as to describe an outline somewhat pentagonal , and stretching in length from east to west about 400 yards , and 380 yards in the broadest parts from north to south . From subse- quent discoveries , these walls appear to have ...
... side so as to describe an outline somewhat pentagonal , and stretching in length from east to west about 400 yards , and 380 yards in the broadest parts from north to south . From subse- quent discoveries , these walls appear to have ...
Pagina 9
... side treading upon spheres , supported this central ornament ; whilst beneath , on a level with their knees , were seen two he.mets each sur- mounted by the favourite bird of the Goddess of Wisdom.3 Aqua Solis , or Notices of Roman Bath ...
... side treading upon spheres , supported this central ornament ; whilst beneath , on a level with their knees , were seen two he.mets each sur- mounted by the favourite bird of the Goddess of Wisdom.3 Aqua Solis , or Notices of Roman Bath ...
Pagina 16
... side ; Flue - tile , wedge - shaped , with circular holes as if to admit a pipe ; pattern of Roman tesselated Pavement found under the new building of the Mineral Water Hospital ; pattern of Pavement found under the Bluecoat School ...
... side ; Flue - tile , wedge - shaped , with circular holes as if to admit a pipe ; pattern of Roman tesselated Pavement found under the new building of the Mineral Water Hospital ; pattern of Pavement found under the Bluecoat School ...
Pagina 31
... sides of the broad acclivity of Lansdown ( which rises to the north ) , in groups of streets , squares , parades , circuses , and crescents , they present to the eye an appearance singularly imposing , graceful , and beautiful ...
... sides of the broad acclivity of Lansdown ( which rises to the north ) , in groups of streets , squares , parades , circuses , and crescents , they present to the eye an appearance singularly imposing , graceful , and beautiful ...
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Bath, Old and New: A Handy Guide and a History with Map and Illus Robert Edward Myhill Peach Volledige weergave - 1891 |
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Abbey afterwards aisle altar ancient arch architect Bath stone Bath Waters Bathwick beautiful Bishop Bishop of Bath Bladud building built called centre century chancel chapel character charity choir church citizens Clayton and Bell College Corporation crown douche east edifice Edward elegant erected established exhibited feet former freestone gallery Harington Hill honour Hospital Hungerford inscription institution Ionic order John John de Villula Kelston King King's Bath Lansdown late Lord Lyncombe mansion Maperton memory Messrs Mineral Water Nash nave occupied octagonal original ornamented parish Philip Bennet portion possession present Prior Park Pulteney Pump Room Queen Ralph Allen reign removed reredos restoration road Roman Baths Royal School Smollett south side springs square stone Street tesselated Thermę tion tower Walcot walls Ward and Hughes Warner whilst whole Widcombe window wing Wood
Populaire passages
Pagina 244 - Right under the Pump-room windows is the King's Bath ; a huge cistern, where you see the patients up to their necks in hot water. The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen, with chip hats, in which they fix their handkerchiefs to wipe the sweat from their faces ; but truly, whether it is owing to the steam that surrounds them, or the heat of the water, or the nature of the dress, or to all these causes together, they look so flushed and so frightful, that I always turn my eyes another...
Pagina 238 - Oxford and in the country at the close of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century.
Pagina 235 - All the means of action — The shapeless masses — the materials — Lie everywhere about us. What we need Is the celestial fire to change the flint Into transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius ! The rude peasant sits At evening in his smoky cot, and draws With charcoal uncouth figures on the wall.
Pagina 139 - ... according to the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England, and...
Pagina 11 - E'er draw thy sad, thy mindful tears. No, Freedom, no ; I will not tell How Rome, before thy weeping face, With heaviest sound, a giant-statue, fell, Push'd by a wild and artless race From off its wide ambitious base, When Time his northern sons of spoil awoke, And all the blended work of strength and grace, With many a rude repeated stroke, And many a barbarous yell, to thousand fragments broke.
Pagina 267 - Cornwall ; and his temper and affections so public, that no accident which happened could make any impressions in him ; and his example kept others from taking any thing ill, or at least seeming to do so. In a word, a brighter courage, and a gentler disposition, were never married together to make the most cheerful and innocent...
Pagina 244 - ... ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen, with chip hats, in which they fix their handkerchiefs to wipe the sweat from their faces; but, truly, whether it is owing to the steam that surrounds them, or the heat of the water, or the nature of the dress, or to all these causes together, they look so flushed, and so frightful, that I always turn my eyes another way...
Pagina 198 - To hint how she frown'd when I dared to advise, And sigh'd when she saw that I did it with zeaL True, true, silly leaves, so she did, I allow, She...
Pagina 243 - Hottogon, and Bloody Buildings, and Harry King's Row ; and I have been twice in the bath with mistress, and na'ra smoak upon our backs, hussy.
Pagina 233 - Bath, especially the upper side of it ; but the avenues to it are mean, dirty, dangerous, and indirect. Its communication with the baths is through the yard of an inn, where the poor trembling valetudinarian is carried in a chair, betwixt the heels of a double row of horses, wincing under the curry-combs of grooms and...