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Excerpt from More Famous Houses of Bath District: Being the Second Series of That Work
In a place where pleasure was the main business of life, intrigue, as a natural consequence, was the order qf every day. Ivo wonder, therefore, that the Bath and its perpetual comedy should have proved a favourite field for playwright and novelist. Hence the town and a multitude of her buildings, public and private, are immortalised by an endless chain of literary allusions. The connection may be with actual historical events and with personages really known to Biography, or with the imaginary characters of romance and stage plays; but, after all, in memories and associations qf this hind there is little deference in interest between History and Fiction. To collect these would be to fill several goodly volumes. They range from Restora tion chronicles, the diaries and memoirs of Grammont.
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