The New Bath Guide: Or, Memoirs of the B-r-d Family: In a Series of Poetical Epistles..

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J. Dodsley ... J. Wilson & J. Fell ... and J. Almon ... London; W. Frederick, at Bath; W. Jackson, at Oxford; T. Fletcher & F. Hodson, at Cambridge; W. Smith, at Dublin; and the booksellers of Bristol, York, and Edinburgh., 1766 - Bath (England) - 104 pages
 

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Page 9 - Sounds both of Fiddles and Bells; I thought, like a Fool, that they only would ring For a Wedding, or Judge, or the Birth of a King; But I found 'twas for Me that the good-natur'd People Rung fo hard that I thought they would pull down the
Page 72 - talk a great deal, but they never fhould eat; And if that be the Fafhion, I never will give Any grand Entertainment as long as I live : For I'm of Opinion, 'tis proper to chear The Stomach and Bowels, as well as the Ear. Nor me did the charming Concerto of ABEL Regale like the
Page 16 - a glorious Sight to behold the Fair Sex All wading with Gentlemen up to their Necks, And view them fo prettily tumble and fprawl In a great fmoaking Kettle as big as our Hall: And To-Day many
Page 14 - For in TABITHA'S Chamber I heard fuch a Clatter, I could not conceive what the Deuce was the Matter : And, would you believe it ? I went up and found her In a Blanket, with two lufty Fellows around her, Who both feem'da going to carry her off in A
Page 54 - expreft: But alas! He is gone, and the City can tell How in Years and in Glory lamented he fell; Him mourn'd all the Dryads on CLAVERTON'S Mount; Him AVON deplor'd, Him the Nymph of the Fount, The
Page 73 - my dear Mother relate The Misfortunes that fall to the Lot of the Great! As Homeward we came—'tis with Sorrow you'll hear, What a dreadful Difafter attended the Peer : For, whether fome envious God had decreed That a
Page 7 - off, each his Cane at his Nofe, When JENNY came in, who had heard all their Profe : I'll teach them, fays fhe, at their next Confultation, To come and take Fees for the Good of the Nation. I could not conceive what the Devil
Page 10 - and to fwear, I proteft, my dear Mother, 'twas fhocking to hear The Oaths, of that reprobate gouty old Peer: " All the. Devils in Hell fure at once have concurr'd " To make fuch a Noife here as never was heard, " Some blundering Blockhead, while I am in Bed,
Page 63 - ilfaut, that the Varlet has bought " Of a Beggar, whofe Head he has fhav'd for a Groat: " Now fix'd to her Head does he frizzle and dab it; " Her Foretop's no more.—'Tis the Skin of a Rabbit.;—- " 'Tis a Muff.—'tis a Thing that by all is
Page 80 - Spirit, The Pillory took off his Ears. A Sum, my dear Mother,, far heavier yet, Captain CORMORANT won, when I learn'd Lanfquenet; Two Hundred I paid him, and Five am in Debt. For the Five, I had nothing to do but to

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