Walks Through Bath: Describing Every Thing Worthy of Interest, Including Walcot and Widcombe, and the Surrounding Vicinity , Also an Excursion to Clifton and Bristol Hot-wellsMeyler and son, 1819 - 329 pagina's |
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... feet : - " When Nature , tir'd with thought , was sunk to rest , And all my senses were by sleep possest ; Sweet sleep , that soft and balmy comfort brings , Alike to beggars and despotic kings ; " I dreamt of peace I never felt before ...
... feet : - " When Nature , tir'd with thought , was sunk to rest , And all my senses were by sleep possest ; Sweet sleep , that soft and balmy comfort brings , Alike to beggars and despotic kings ; " I dreamt of peace I never felt before ...
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... feet in length , and 42 feet 6 inches wide . It has also a recess , 21 feet by 12 feet 6 inches . To render it comfortable to in- valids , it has three fire - places . It was opened for Divine Service in 1795. On the right is Picca ...
... feet in length , and 42 feet 6 inches wide . It has also a recess , 21 feet by 12 feet 6 inches . To render it comfortable to in- valids , it has three fire - places . It was opened for Divine Service in 1795. On the right is Picca ...
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... feet above ground in height ; and , in thickness , sixteen feet at the base , and eight at the summit ; strengthened with five towers , rising at the angles , and having four portæ , or entrances , facing the cardinal points , which ...
... feet above ground in height ; and , in thickness , sixteen feet at the base , and eight at the summit ; strengthened with five towers , rising at the angles , and having four portæ , or entrances , facing the cardinal points , which ...
Pagina 42
... feet lower than the present one . It also received from the Romans the appropriate name of udara Ogua , or Warm Waters ; Thermæ Sudatæ , Aquæ Culidæ , Aquæ Solis , or simply Balnea ; while it was called Akemanrus Ceaster , i . e . the ...
... feet lower than the present one . It also received from the Romans the appropriate name of udara Ogua , or Warm Waters ; Thermæ Sudatæ , Aquæ Culidæ , Aquæ Solis , or simply Balnea ; while it was called Akemanrus Ceaster , i . e . the ...
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... feet in length , and 90 in depth ; and well calcu- lated to answer all the purposes for which it was designed . It was opened for the reception of patients in 1742 ; but an act of parliament was previously obtained in 1739 , declaring ...
... feet in length , and 90 in depth ; and well calcu- lated to answer all the purposes for which it was designed . It was opened for the reception of patients in 1742 ; but an act of parliament was previously obtained in 1739 , declaring ...
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Pagina 146 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden -flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Pagina 76 - Looking tranquillity ! it strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
Pagina 146 - Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain...
Pagina 111 - THE tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit the ground ; 'Twas therefore said by ancient sages, That love of life increased with years So much, that in our latter stages, When pains grow sharp, and sickness rages, The greatest love of life appears.
Pagina 204 - Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of death?
Pagina 198 - VOL 10 — 17 257 clouded his perspicacity. To every work he brought a memory full fraught, together with a fancy fertile of original combinations, and, at once, exerted the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit.
Pagina 153 - And pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel and robes of country brown.
Pagina 108 - That all whisperers of lies and scandal, be taken for their authors. 11. That all repeaters of such lies, and scandal, be shunned by all company ; — except such as have been guilty of the same crime. NB Several men of no character, old women and young ones of questioned reputation, are great authors of lies in these places, being of the sect of levellers.
Pagina 153 - Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn ; Now lost to all; her friends, her virtue fled, Near her betrayer's door she lays her head...
Pagina 28 - His name was Bolus. Benjamin Bolus, though in trade, (Which oftentimes will genius fetter) Read works of fancy, it is said, And cultivated the belles lettres.