Historic Houses in Bath, and Their Associations, Volume 2Simpkin, Marshall, & Company, 1884 - Bath (England) |
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Abbey admirable afterwards Bath Batheaston Bathwick beautiful bequeath Bishop Bladud Bristol brother called century character Charles Church city of Bath Claverton Croscombe daughter death died Ditto Douche Duke Earl Edward elected eminent England father Fielding Fielding's Freemasonry gentleman George give gould Grand Lodge Graves Henry Henry Harington honour James John Harington Jones Kilvert King lady late letter literary lived London Lord Madame du Barry manner Manor House married master Melmoth MILSOM STREET Monkland Napier never occasion occupied parish Parliament Parr party peece person physician present Prior Park Pryn Prynne's published Pulteney Street Queen Ralph Allen Rauzzini Rector residence Richard Warner Roebuck Royal Sarah Fielding says sermon Sherston Sir John sister sonne spirit Swainswick Thomas Falconer Thomas Prynne Tom Jones took Unkle Waters Whigs Widcombe wife William Prynne William Sherston wine
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Page 87 - Our danger is at an end, but our disgrace will be lasting, and the month of June 1780 will ever be marked by a dark and diabolical fanaticism which I had supposed to be extinct, but which actually subsists in Great Britain perhaps beyond any other country in Europe.
Page 41 - ... his place among the colossi whose huge legs our living pettiness is observed to walk under, glories in his copious remarks and digressions as the least...
Page 34 - There can be no gainsaying the sentence of this great judge. To have your name mentioned by Gibbon, is like having it written on the dome of St. Peter's. Pilgrims from all the world admire and behold it.
Page 41 - I at least have so much to do in unravelling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.
Page 6 - House, he found himself so impatient that he sent for a parson. The doctor refused to perform the ceremony without license or ring ; the duke swore he would send for the archbishop.
Page 41 - Fielding lived when the days were longer (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings. We belated historians must not linger after his example; and if we did so, it is probable that our chat would be thin and eager, as if delivered from a camp-stool in a parrot-house. I at least have so much to do in...
Page 6 - The Scotch are enraged; the women mad that so much beauty has had its effect; and what is most silly, my Lord Coventry declares that now he will marry the other.
Page 44 - As a picture of manners, the novel of ' Tom Jones' is indeed exquisite : as a work of construction, quite a wonder. The by-play of wisdom, the power of observation, the multiplied felicitous turns of thought, the varied character of the great comic epic, keep the reader in a perpetual admiration and cariosity.
Page 36 - The following book is sincerely designed to promote the cause of virtue, and to expose some of the most glaring evils, as well public as private, which at present infest the country; though there is scarce, as I remember, a single stroke of satire aimed at anyone person throughout the whole.
Page 44 - As a picture of manners, the novel of "Tom Jones" is indeed exquisite : as a work of construction quite a wonder : the by-play of wisdom ; the power of observation ; the multiplied felicitous turns and thoughts ; the varied character of the great Comic Epic : keep the reader in a perpetual admiration and curiosity.