221. Holidays: Byron's Grand Tour
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221. Holidays: Byron's Grand Tour mentions The Village of Italy by Richard Lascelles, The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker by Tobias Smollett, A Discourse of Bath and the Hot Waters There, and The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer with timestamps, quotes, and episode context.
Lascelles says the point of being of travel, he says there are four reasons to do it. They are intellectual, social, political, and ethical.
You must know I find nothing but disappointment at Bath, which is so altered that I can scarcely believe it's the same place I frequented 30 years ag…
His most successful book is called A Discourse of Bath and the Hot Waters There.
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“Richard Lascelles writes a book called The Village of Italy, where he mentions the Grand Tour and outlines four reasons for travel: intellectual, social, political, and ethical.”
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“There's a brilliant book by Tobias Smollett called 'The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker', which features a character who finds disappointment at Bath.”
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“Thomas Guidott publishes a series of investigations into the waters of Bath, with his most successful book titled 'A Discourse of Bath and the Hot Waters There'.”
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“It's a Catholic thing, but it provides lots and lots of scope for fun along the way. So go along and you go on a pilgrimage. You're likely to hear all kinds of people telling you tales in rhyming couplets.”
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