The Thames: Or Graphic Illustrations of Seats, Villas, Public Buildings, and Picturesque Scenery, on the Banks of that Noble RiverVernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1811 - Thames River (England) |
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... whole body of the stream , being collected into a narrow space , rushes through with great rapidity , and gives a temporary depth to the shallows , or , by the power of the current , forces the barges over them . This machinery never ...
... whole body of the stream , being collected into a narrow space , rushes through with great rapidity , and gives a temporary depth to the shallows , or , by the power of the current , forces the barges over them . This machinery never ...
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... whole : the remainder is called Castle Street . The former , when its length , breadth , and the build- ings which form it are brought as it were into one view , may be considered as the finest street in Europe . It is not quite ...
... whole : the remainder is called Castle Street . The former , when its length , breadth , and the build- ings which form it are brought as it were into one view , may be considered as the finest street in Europe . It is not quite ...
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... whole , which represents the Resurrection ; but the beauty of the painting is much impaired . The altar - piece was painted by Isaac Fuller , an English history painter of no great name , about an hundred and fifty years ago . Beneath ...
... whole , which represents the Resurrection ; but the beauty of the painting is much impaired . The altar - piece was painted by Isaac Fuller , an English history painter of no great name , about an hundred and fifty years ago . Beneath ...
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... whole . It contains the bell which is so well known by the name of Great Tom of Oxford . The great Quadrangle , of which this superb range of building forms a part , is two hundred and sixty - four by two hundred and sixty - one in the ...
... whole . It contains the bell which is so well known by the name of Great Tom of Oxford . The great Quadrangle , of which this superb range of building forms a part , is two hundred and sixty - four by two hundred and sixty - one in the ...
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... whole . As we consider this place to be the most distinguished for beauty along the course of the river , we consider ourselves as called upon to give an enlarged description of it . Nuneham Courtenay , at the General Survey , belonged ...
... whole . As we consider this place to be the most distinguished for beauty along the course of the river , we consider ourselves as called upon to give an enlarged description of it . Nuneham Courtenay , at the General Survey , belonged ...
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Abbey adorned afterwards ancient appears arch banks beauty beneath Berkshire Bisham Abbey bridge building ceiling chamber chapel character charming choir church College Cooke Cookham Cricklade crowned decorated display distance distinguished Drawn Duke Earl Edward the Fourth elegant enriched entrance erected Eton College Fawley FAWLEY COURT feet garden Garter grotto ground grove HAMPTON COURT Henley Henley Bridge Henry the Eighth Henry the Seventh Hill honour hundred Inigo Jones King King's knights Lady landscape lawn Lord magnificence Maidenhead Bridge Majesty Marlow miles noble NUNEHAM COURTENAY object ornamented Owen Esq Oxford painted palace Park Place picture picturesque pleasing portrait possesses present Prince principal Queen racter reign represented residence rich rising river royal scene scenery seat seen Shiplake Lock silver situation spacious spire spot stone structure Taplow taste Thames Thames Head tion Titian tower town trees Twickenham Vandyck variety village William window WINDSOR CASTLE woods