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HBBSCHEL had been studying the stars with improved 

 telescope** for upwards of four yean before any of the 

 literary and high-placed people, who flocked 

 winter to Bath, knew that a man of genius lived 

 among them and was ft servant to their gaiety or 

 Beau Nash had been a better known figure 

 in tin -ir streets, a more respected man among a com- 

 munity <>f tops, idlers, and intriguers, and was deemed 

 more worthy of astatm in th.-ir pump-room or 

 pul .lie park. 1 The man among them, who was destined 

 to write hi name on the heavens and to live when 

 n an<l fops were all forgotten, attended 

 h meetings as an organist, their concerts as a 

 conductor, and their drawing-rooms as a teacher of 

 music to them or tl iren. They had not dis- 



covered that, by the irony of fate, a genius, head and 

 shoulders above them all, was toiling for bread one 

 half of the year, and slaving for fame or the welfare 

 >r the other half. He was really running 

 two races before th< ir eyes at the same time, the 



v t the east rod of the saloon, a posthumous marble statue of the 

 grat Nash, executed by Prince Hoare, at the expense of the corpora. 

 lion, b handsomely ensconced " (Granville (in 1839), Spa* 

 U.WM). 



