Bath and Bristol, with the counties of Somerset and Gloucester, drawings by T.H. Shepherd, with historical and descriptive illustrations1829 |
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... nearly one hundred per cent . in the price of provisions , and one guinea per night was paid for a bed . Bath had previously been visited only by persons on account of its waters : " the plea- sures it afforded were merely rural , the ...
... nearly one hundred per cent . in the price of provisions , and one guinea per night was paid for a bed . Bath had previously been visited only by persons on account of its waters : " the plea- sures it afforded were merely rural , the ...
Side 14
... nearly three times the extent of the original City . The Crescent , Upper Assembly Rooms , and many public edifices , and private honses in various parts of the City , owe their origin to the son of Mr. Wood . Other architects have ...
... nearly three times the extent of the original City . The Crescent , Upper Assembly Rooms , and many public edifices , and private honses in various parts of the City , owe their origin to the son of Mr. Wood . Other architects have ...
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... nearly twenty editions having passed through the press since its first appearance in 1766. A new and elegant edition of this work , with embellishments , and notes , biographical , topographical , and descriptive , by Mr. Britton , is ...
... nearly twenty editions having passed through the press since its first appearance in 1766. A new and elegant edition of this work , with embellishments , and notes , biographical , topographical , and descriptive , by Mr. Britton , is ...
Side 19
... nearly in the centre , forming a most interesting object in the picture ; and surrounded in every direction by extensive ranges of elegant houses : beyond the Abbey Church appears the Circus , the Crescent , Marlborough Buildings , and ...
... nearly in the centre , forming a most interesting object in the picture ; and surrounded in every direction by extensive ranges of elegant houses : beyond the Abbey Church appears the Circus , the Crescent , Marlborough Buildings , and ...
Side 21
... nearly finished , and curiously carved with angels climbing up a ladder to heaven , agreeable to the visionary appearance by which he had been led to the undertaking . After his death the building was neglected , and we are informed ...
... nearly finished , and curiously carved with angels climbing up a ladder to heaven , agreeable to the visionary appearance by which he had been led to the undertaking . After his death the building was neglected , and we are informed ...
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Bath and Bristol, with the Counties of Somerset and Gloucester, Drawings by ... John Britton Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2016 |
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Abbey Church Adlestrop aisles ancient antiquity appearance arch architecture Avon BATH AND BRISTOL Bathwick beautiful Bishop Bishop of Bath bridge building built cathedral celebrated centre Chapel CHEDDER CLIFFS choir City of Bath colonnade COTHELSTONE Crescent Drawn by Tho Dundry Earl east edifice elegant eminence Engraved entrance erected extensive feet high Finsbury Square Finsbury Square London freestone front GLOUCESTER GLOUCESTERSHIRE Guildhall handsome Henry Henry VII hills houses hundred inhabitants Ionic order John John de Villula Jones King King-Weston King's Bath Lansdown Lansdown Hill lofty Mansion Mary Stall Mendip hills miles monument nave nearly noble numerous original ornamented parish Park picturesque pillars present Prior PULTENEY BRIDGE Pump Room Queen rebuilt reign rising river river Avon river Axe road roof royal Saxon scenery situated SOMERSETSHIRE spring statues stone streets surrounded Temple tower town transept various VIEW village Walcot walls William William Canynge Wood
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Side 29 - For if those temples are well built, it is requisite that they be converted from the worship of devils to the service of the true God...
Side 33 - 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...
Side 33 - ... the foundation of what had been done in 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 conversation.
Side 43 - ... my life draweth nigh unto hell. 3 I am counted as one of them that go down into the pit ; and I have been even as a man that hath no strength. 4 Free among the dead, like unto them that are wounded, and lie in the grave, who are out of remembrance, and are cut away from thy hand. 5 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in a place of darkness, and in the deep.
Side 52 - Egmont, the dignity of a Peer of Great Britain, by the title of Lord Lovell and Holland, Baron of Enmore, in the County of Somerset.
Side 24 - Or broods the nymph with watchful wing O'er ancient Badon's mystic spring, And speeds from its sulphureous source The steamy torrent's secret course, And fans th' eternal sparks of hidden fire, In deep unfathom'd beds below By Bladud's magic taught to glow, Bladud, high theme of Fancy's gothic lyre? Or opes the healing power her...
Side 28 - Lud Hudibras, Eighth king of the Britons from Brute ! A great philosopher and mathematician, Bred at Athens, And recorded the first discoverer and founder of these baths, Eight hundred and sixty-three years before Christ; That in, Two thousand five hundred and sixty-two years To the present year, One thousand six hundred and ninety-nine.
Side 27 - Oil ! pause awhile, whoe'er thou art, That drink'st this healing stream ; If e'er compassion o'er thy heart Diffus'd its heavenly beam ; " Think on the wretch whose distant lot This friendly aid denies ; Think how in some poor lonely cot He unregarded lies ! " Hither the helpless stranger bring, Relieve his heartfelt woe, And let thy bounty, like this spring, In genial currents flow ; " So may thy years from grief, and pain, And pining want, be free : And thou from heaven that mercy gain The poor...
Side 7 - About the end of the fifth, and beginning of the sixth centuries, the...
Side 1 - Bath and Bristol, with the counties of Somerset and Gloucester, displayed in a series of views ; including the modern improvements, picturesque scenery, antiquities, &c., from original drawings by Thos.