Bath, Old and New: A Handy Guide and a History

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Simpkin, Marshall & Company, 1888 - 294 pagina's

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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...

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