Bath Under Beau NashE. Nash, 1907 - 321 pagina's |
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Pagina viii
... things , Not to mention the sweet situation and air , What place , my dear mother , with Bath can compare ? Let Bristol for commerce and dirt be renown'd , At Sal'sbury pen - knives and scissors be ground ; The towns of Devizes , of ...
... things , Not to mention the sweet situation and air , What place , my dear mother , with Bath can compare ? Let Bristol for commerce and dirt be renown'd , At Sal'sbury pen - knives and scissors be ground ; The towns of Devizes , of ...
Pagina 11
... always whistled when his lordship's led- captain or toad - eater was absent , that the company might know when he said a good thing . * * " The Jests of Beau Nash . " The pageant to which reference has been made secured for 11 RICHARD NASH.
... always whistled when his lordship's led- captain or toad - eater was absent , that the company might know when he said a good thing . * * " The Jests of Beau Nash . " The pageant to which reference has been made secured for 11 RICHARD NASH.
Pagina 12
... things it appeared that his Majesty , walking incog . in the cloister , had overheard a poor man say to another , such a small sum would make me the happiest man in the world . The King , out of his royal compassion , privately inquired ...
... things it appeared that his Majesty , walking incog . in the cloister , had overheard a poor man say to another , such a small sum would make me the happiest man in the world . The King , out of his royal compassion , privately inquired ...
Pagina 23
... things have happened than that the belief in Bladud that once constituted part of the creed of every true Bath man , and on which Warner poured scorn , may yet be restored . The authentic history of Bath begins with the Romans , under ...
... things have happened than that the belief in Bladud that once constituted part of the creed of every true Bath man , and on which Warner poured scorn , may yet be restored . The authentic history of Bath begins with the Romans , under ...
Pagina 28
... thing . " Yet there were possibilities in the place , and Sir John was clear - sighted enough to see them , for if the revenues were properly applied , he said , " I would not doubt of a ruined church to make a reverent church , and of ...
... thing . " Yet there were possibilities in the place , and Sir John was clear - sighted enough to see them , for if the revenues were properly applied , he said , " I would not doubt of a ruined church to make a reverent church , and of ...
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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...