The Thames: Or, Graphic Illustrations of Seats, Villas, Public Buildings and Picturesque Scenery on the Banks of that Noble River, Volume 1 |
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... The village spire , the busy town , The shelving bank , the rising down , The fisher's boat , the peasant's home , The woodland seat , the regal dome , In quick succession rise to charm The mind with virtuous feelings warm .
... The village spire , the busy town , The shelving bank , the rising down , The fisher's boat , the peasant's home , The woodland seat , the regal dome , In quick succession rise to charm The mind with virtuous feelings warm .
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THE part of the Thames and Severn Canal which is repre sented in the annexed engraving , passes beneath the road from Cirencester to Tetbury , and so on to Bath , and at a small distance from the first rising of the Thames , in the ...
THE part of the Thames and Severn Canal which is repre sented in the annexed engraving , passes beneath the road from Cirencester to Tetbury , and so on to Bath , and at a small distance from the first rising of the Thames , in the ...
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... form an high waving boundary to the right , and force the eye onwards over a rich country to Letchlade steeple , the town of Highworth , rising in the view , and Faringdon hill , which breaks the line of a remote horizon .
... form an high waving boundary to the right , and force the eye onwards over a rich country to Letchlade steeple , the town of Highworth , rising in the view , and Faringdon hill , which breaks the line of a remote horizon .
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IFLEY , the beautiful spot from whence this view is taken , is situated on an eminence rising from the Thames , about at mile and an half from Oxford , and commands , as the engraving is intended to display , every towering object in ...
IFLEY , the beautiful spot from whence this view is taken , is situated on an eminence rising from the Thames , about at mile and an half from Oxford , and commands , as the engraving is intended to display , every towering object in ...
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... another knoll of corresponding acclivity , but different form , and crowned with thicker shade , It falls more gently to the left , and continues in a succession of various undulating surface , to the rising woodlands of the park .
... another knoll of corresponding acclivity , but different form , and crowned with thicker shade , It falls more gently to the left , and continues in a succession of various undulating surface , to the rising woodlands of the park .
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| Title | The Thames: Or, Graphic Illustrations of Seats, Villas, Public Buildings and Picturesque Scenery on the Banks of that Noble River, Volume 1 The Thames: Or, Graphic Illustrations of Seats, Villas, Public Buildings and Picturesque Scenery on the Banks of that Noble River, William Bernard Cooke |
| Author | William Bernard Cooke |
| Publisher | Vernor, Hood & Sharpe and W.B. Cooke, 1811 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Mar 28, 2007 |
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