Bath Under Beau NashE. Nash, 1907 - 321 pagina's |
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Pagina i
Lewis Saul Benjamin. Bath under Beau Nash HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY VERI TAS BOUGHT WITH MONEY RECEIVED FROM. Front Cover.
Lewis Saul Benjamin. Bath under Beau Nash HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY VERI TAS BOUGHT WITH MONEY RECEIVED FROM. Front Cover.
Pagina ii
Lewis Saul Benjamin. HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY VERI TAS BOUGHT WITH MONEY RECEIVED FROM LIBRARY FINES HARVARD COLLEGE JUN 10 1910 LIBRARY Eine Menly AU NASH.
Lewis Saul Benjamin. HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY VERI TAS BOUGHT WITH MONEY RECEIVED FROM LIBRARY FINES HARVARD COLLEGE JUN 10 1910 LIBRARY Eine Menly AU NASH.
Pagina xiii
... received at the hands of Mr. P. S. C. Brewer , the librarian of the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution ; Mr. Joseph Davis , the librarian of the Bath Reference Library , who generously placed at his disposal his manuscript ...
... received at the hands of Mr. P. S. C. Brewer , the librarian of the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution ; Mr. Joseph Davis , the librarian of the Bath Reference Library , who generously placed at his disposal his manuscript ...
Pagina 7
... received an instalment of his allowance , and that he left his debts unpaid , this gives an air of verisimilitude to the narrative , for , whatever the reason of his leaving Oxford , this at least is known to be true . " Since the ...
... received an instalment of his allowance , and that he left his debts unpaid , this gives an air of verisimilitude to the narrative , for , whatever the reason of his leaving Oxford , this at least is known to be true . " Since the ...
Pagina 13
... received many large wounds in his reputation . " Nash was once relating that he had been injured in his country's service to a company of ladies , who desired to know where he received the wound , and , as he did not answer , the ...
... received many large wounds in his reputation . " Nash was once relating that he had been injured in his country's service to a company of ladies , who desired to know where he received the wound , and , as he did not answer , the ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
amusements Anstey appeared Assembly ball Bath Guide Beau Nash beauty Bladud breakfast Bristol called Celia Fiennes charity coach Corporation Countess of Bristol Countess of Suffolk crown dance Description of Bath dress Duchess Duchess of Marlborough Duke eighteenth century Elizabeth Montagu entertainment epigram erected eyes fair fashion favour feet Fleming fortune friends gamester gaming gave Gentleman's Magazine gentlemen Goldsmith guineas Henrietta honour Hudibras Humphrey Clinker hundred James Quin Jests of Beau King known Lady letter lived lodgings London Lord Madam Marlborough morning Nash's never night occasion person play pleasure Pope Prince Princess Amelia Pump Room Queen Queen's Square Quin Ralph Allen Register of Folly RICHARD NASH shillings Smollett soon springs Street subscription sweet theatre thought Timothy Ginnadrake tion took town Tunbridge visitors walks waters Wiltshire Wood wrote young
Populaire passages
Pagina 150 - ... intoxicated with pride, vanity, and presumption. Knowing no other criterion of greatness, but the ostentation of wealth, they discharge their affluence without taste or conduct, through every channel of the most absurd extravagance; and all of them hurry to Bath, because here, without any further qualification, they can mingle with the princes and nobles of the land.
Pagina 15 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i...
Pagina 63 - Yet here no confusion — no tumult is known; Fair order and beauty establish their throne; For order, and beauty, and just regulation, Support all the works of this ample creation. For this, in compassion to mortals below, The gods, their peculiar favour to show, Sent Hermes to Bath in the shape of a beau: That grandson of Atlas came down from above To bless all the regions of pleasure and love; To lead the fair nymph thro...
Pagina 186 - You call a doctor an honourable man — a swindling quack who does not believe in the nostrums which he prescribes, and takes your guinea for whispering in your ear that it is a fine morning. And yet, forsooth, a gallant man, who...
Pagina 149 - Clerks and factors from the East Indies, loaded with the spoil of plundered provinces ; planters, negrodrivers, and hucksters, from our American plantations, enriched they know not how ; agents, commissioners and contractors, who have fattened in two successive wars on the blood of the nation ; usurers, brokers, and jobbers of every kind ; men of low birth and no breeding, have found themselves suddenly translated into a state of affluence, unknown to former ages : and no wonder that their brains...
Pagina 149 - Every upstart of fortune, harnessed in the trappings of the mode, presents himself at Bath, as in the very focus of observation.
Pagina 54 - That no gentleman give his ticket for the balls to any but gentlewomen. — NB Unless he has none of his acquaintance. 6.
Pagina 195 - I own that a desire of correcting your follies led me hither, I saw with indignation the errors of a mind that only sought applause from others; that easiness of disposition which, though inclined to the right, had not courage to condemn the wrong.
Pagina 150 - Bath; where a very inconsiderable proportion of genteel people are lost in a mob of impudent plebeians, who have neither understanding nor judgment, nor the least idea of propriety and decorum ; and seem to enjoy nothing so much as an opportunity of insulting their betters.
Pagina 112 - He said it would greatly our pleasure promote, If we all for Spring Gardens set out in a boat. I never as yet could his reason explain, Why we all sallied forth in the wind and the rain, For sure such confusion...