The Tunbridge Wells guide; or an account of the ancient and present state of that place [by J. Sprange.].1797 |
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Pàgina 154 - Thou hast thy walks for health as well as sport; Thy mount, to which the Dryads do resort, Where Pan and Bacchus their high feasts have made Beneath the broad beech, and the chestnut shade, That taller tree, which of a nut was set At his great birth, where all the Muses met.
Pàgina 141 - ... the juice of the dead bird brings forth feathers; and when it is grown to a perfect state, it takes up the nest in which the bones of its parent lie, and carries it from Arabia into Egypt, to a city called Heliopolis...
Pàgina 285 - The scourge of pride, though sanctify'd or great, Of fops in learning, and of knaves in state; Yet soft in nature, though severe his lay, His anger moral, and his wisdom gay. Blest satyrist ! who touch'd the mean so true, As show'd, Vice had his hate and pity too. Blest courtier! who could king and country please, Yet sacred...
Pàgina 141 - ... hundred years. And when the time of its dissolution draws near, that it must die, it makes itself a nest of frankincense, and myrrh, and other spices into which when its time is fulfilled it enters and dies.
Pàgina 90 - April in the fourth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Anne by the Grace of God of England, Scotland, France and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith &c and in the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and five.
Pàgina 141 - And shall we then think it to be any very great and strange thing for the Lord of all to raise up those that religiously serve him in the assurance of a good faith, when even by a bird he shows us the greatness of his power to fulfil his promise? 7 For he says in a certain place, Thou shalt raise me up and I shall confess unto thee.
Pàgina 24 - ... who so well does prove One breast may hold both chastity and love. Never can she, that so exceeds the Spring In joy and bounty, be suppos'd to bring One so destructive. To no human stock We owe this fierce unkindness, but the rock, That cloven rock produc'd thee, by whose side Nature, to recompense the fatal pride Of such stern beauty, plac'd those healing springs *, Which not more help than that destruction brings.
Pàgina 59 - ... pimples, and other external infirmities. More diseases, which have affinity with these, it may be used for, but I will content myself with this enumeration of the aforesaid ones, and pass to the time, manner, and order of taking the wa.
Pàgina 31 - This last, indeed, not only rivalled but despoiled, her predecessors, and triumphantly transferred their ornaments to herself; for many houses were brought from Southborough, Rusthall, and Mount Ephraim, to be rebuilt on Mount Sion ; and some, whole and entire as they were, were wheeled on sledges to be fixed in this new seat of favour." l One shop, the same authority records, was actually brought in this manner from Mount Ephraim, with a band playing inside it, and a company drinking success to...
Pàgina 264 - In the reign of James I. it was in the possession of John Salkeld, Esq.