AUTHOR OF THE BEAUTIES OF LEAMINGTON; ORIGINAL WARWICK: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR BY E. HEAThcote, corn MARKET; MDCCCXXVI. PREFACE. To continue in a beaten track without any better reason than that it is customary to do so, is to preclude the improvement of Art, and to close the lattice against the illuminations of Genius, and the result of application: yet it requires a considerable share of exertion to work out an original line, and no small degree of fortitude to adhere to it when planned. Time alone can sanction the value of real merit: nor would we in this form meet the public eye, did we not anticipate Interest and Patronage for the NEW GUIDE, by its modestly presented claims of solid worth and tasteful attraction, as blending correct information with poetical embellishment, and so classifying minute description, as not to interfere with historical authenticity. Thus we candidly avow our hope to establish the celebrity of the small work, by offering superior advantages of information and amusement,-gravely with the venerable-pleasingly with the youngusefully to the un-informed-acceptably to the cheerful--and approvedly by the learned and scientific-thus amusing and gratifying the various circumstances and taste of every Class of Visitors, who attend for health or pleasure, the justly celebrated SPA OF LEAMINGTON. INVITATION: Addressed to every Place and Party to which the NEW GUIDE is introduced, by their respectful and obedient friend, Sarak Medley. Stranger, with that pensive mien, Pain, with thine attendant woes- Worth and Talent hand in hand, Beauty, here thy tender bloom |
