Society at Royal Tunbridge Wells in the Eighteenth Century--and AfterE. Nash, 1912 - 298 pagina's |
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Society at Royal Tunbridge Wells in the Eighteenth Century--and After Lewis Saul Benjamin Volledige weergave - 1912 |
Society at Royal Tunbridge Wells in the Eighteenth Century--and After Lewis Saul Benjamin Volledige weergave - 1912 |
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A. M. Broadley admirable agreeable Amsinck amusing arrival ball Bath and Tunbridge Beau Beau Nash beautiful Bladud bridge Brighton Burr called Ceremonies Chapel charming Cumberland dance Defoe delightful drink the waters Duchess Duchess of Marlborough Duke Earl eighteenth century Elizabeth Montagu entertainment Eridge ev'ry face fashionable Fops gentleman Gilbert West give Grace guineas Honour Kent King Lady Lady Sunderland letter lived lodgings London look Lord North manner Manor Master miles Miss morning Mount Ephraim Mount Sion Nash never night Pantiles pass person physicians play pleasant pleasure pretty Prince Princess Queen resort Richard RICHARD NASH Richard Tyson Rooms ROYAL TUNBRIDGE Rusthall Samuel Derrick Samuel Richardson season Speldhurst springs stay Sussex thing tion town verses visitors Walks watering-place William wrote
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Pagina 181 - First rode the doctor on a tall steed, decently caparisoned in dark grey ; next, ambled Mrs Rolt on a hackney horse; . . . then followed your humble servant on a milk-white palfrey. I rode on in safety, and at leisure to observe the company, especially the two figures that brought up the rear. The first was my servant, valiantly armed with two uncharged pistols...
Pagina 177 - most emphatically, and I leave you to interpret what it meant. He has made a friendship with one person here, whom I believe you would not imagine to have been made for his bosom friend. You would, perhaps, suppose it was a bishop...
Pagina 177 - I have great joy in Dr. Young, whom I disturbed in a reverie. At first he started, then bowed, then fell back into a surprise; then began a speech, relapsed into his astonishment two or three times, forgot what he had been saying; began a new subject, and so went on. I told him your grace desired he would write longer letters; to which he cried
Pagina 187 - I first came down. . . . Yet she had been so many seasons here, that she obtained but a faint and languid attention; so that the smarts began to put her down in their list of hadbeens.
Pagina 190 - Another extraordinary old man we have had here, but of a very different turn ; the noted Mr. Whiston, showing eclipses, and explaining other phenomena of the stars, and preaching the millennium and anabaptism (for he is now, it seems, of that persuasion) to gay people, who, if they have white teeth, hear him with open mouths, though perhaps shut hearts ; and after his lecture is over, not a bit the wiser, run from him the more eagerly to C — r and W — sh, and to flutter among the loud-laughing...
Pagina 142 - That no gentleman give his ticket for the balls to any but gentlewomen.— NB Unless he has none of his acquaintance. 6.
Pagina 42 - ... there breathes mirth and pleasure; constraint is banished, familiarity is established upon the first acquaintance, and joy and pleasure are the sole sovereigns of the place. The company are accommodated with lodgings, in little, clean, and convenient habitations, that lie straggling and separated from each other, a mile and a half all...
Pagina 230 - Morris tomorrow," and therefore I am resolved to write to Mrs. Norris today, and trust him no longer. We took our places for Sevenoaks, intending to remain there all night in order to see Knole, but when we got there we chang'd our minds, and went on to Tunbridge Wells. About a mile short of the Wells the coach stopped at a little inn, and I saw, " Lodgings to let " on a little, very little house opposite. I ran over the way, and secured them before the coach drove away, and we took immediate possession...
Pagina 188 - L. is now seen with a very silly fellow or two, walking backwards and forwards unmolested—dwindled down from the new beauty to a very pretty girl ; and perhaps glad to come off so. For, upon my word, my dear, there are very few pretty girls here. And yet I look not upon the sex with an undelighted eye, old as I am ; nor with a very severe one — But modesty, humility, graciousness, are now all banished from the behaviour of these public-place frequenters of the sex...
Pagina 64 - Sidney's fire. Nor call her mother who so well does prove One breast may hold both chastity and love. Never can she, that so exceeds the spring In joy and bounty, be supposed to bring One so destructive. To no human stock We owe this fierce unkindness, but the rock; That cloven rock produced thee, by whose side Nature, to recompense the fatal pride Of such stern beauty, placed those healing springs Which not more help than that destruction brings.