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Excerpt from At Prior Park, and Other Papers
In Bath - some definite, some doubtful; some of long Standing, others of more recent discovery. One of his occasional pieces was an impromptu in the Pump Room to a shadowy Miss H - land - a performance which preserves the name of that once popular physician and translator of 'persius, ' Dr. Thomas Brewster, who afterwards attended the philosopher Square; a second, entitled 'plain Truth, ' is the panegyric of another Cynthia of the minute, Miss Betty Dalston, apparently the sister of a local minor poet. At the then-secluded church of St. Mary, Charlcombe, Fielding married his first wife, Charlotte Cradock of Salisbury; from Bath, ten years later, with loving and lavish ceremonial, he brought her dead body to London for inter ment in the chancel vault of St. Martin's-in the-fields.1 Around Bath, rather than elsewhere, cluster most of the traditions connected with the composition of his greatest novel - that master.
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