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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It has been very erroneously named Isis , till it is joined by the Thame or Tame , about fifteen miles below Oxford , when those who have supported this idle notion , allow it to assume the name of the Thames , supposed to be formed ...
It has been very erroneously named Isis , till it is joined by the Thame or Tame , about fifteen miles below Oxford , when those who have supported this idle notion , allow it to assume the name of the Thames , supposed to be formed ...
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Beneath is a picture of Christ bearing his Cross : the principal figure is supposed to be by Guido ; the accessory parts are evidently by a far inferior pencil . - The interior of the cloisters is decorated , or disgraced by ...
Beneath is a picture of Christ bearing his Cross : the principal figure is supposed to be by Guido ; the accessory parts are evidently by a far inferior pencil . - The interior of the cloisters is decorated , or disgraced by ...
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If devotion may be supposed to receive an added ardor from exterior circumstances , in this place of worship that effect cannot fail of being produced . The west window represents the Nativity , after the picture painted by Sir Joshua ...
If devotion may be supposed to receive an added ardor from exterior circumstances , in this place of worship that effect cannot fail of being produced . The west window represents the Nativity , after the picture painted by Sir Joshua ...
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The view of that part of the river where the supposed junction of the Thame and the Isis is formed , is perfectly correct as to the existing objects ; but the Thame , which rises in the county of Buckingham , and is a very inferior ...
The view of that part of the river where the supposed junction of the Thame and the Isis is formed , is perfectly correct as to the existing objects ; but the Thame , which rises in the county of Buckingham , and is a very inferior ...
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advancement towards that effect which their mature growth , it is supposed , will hereafter produce . But his lordship has done that which must be allowed to add to the possessional importance of the place - he has made several ...
advancement towards that effect which their mature growth , it is supposed , will hereafter produce . But his lordship has done that which must be allowed to add to the possessional importance of the place - he has made several ...
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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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