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... Oxford gardens , largely for this reason , that Oxford is a paradise of birds . Yet I suppose their chief distinction is the rarity of the shrubs and trees . The new part of Oxford , the Parks , the turning of fields into lawns in front ...
... Oxford gardens , largely for this reason , that Oxford is a paradise of birds . Yet I suppose their chief distinction is the rarity of the shrubs and trees . The new part of Oxford , the Parks , the turning of fields into lawns in front ...
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... Oxford is marked . We know of no monument of its age where leaves are so correctly and sympathetically copied from nature as in the canopy of St. Frideswide's tomb , not so many years ago recovered from its Puritan grave in Tom Quad ...
... Oxford is marked . We know of no monument of its age where leaves are so correctly and sympathetically copied from nature as in the canopy of St. Frideswide's tomb , not so many years ago recovered from its Puritan grave in Tom Quad ...
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... Oxford University Press . Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer by George Bourne . Gerald Duckworth . 1907 . Memories of the Months by Sir Herbert Maxwell ( 1843-1937 ) . Edward Arnold . More Translations from the Chinese by Arthur Waley ( 1889 ...
... Oxford University Press . Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer by George Bourne . Gerald Duckworth . 1907 . Memories of the Months by Sir Herbert Maxwell ( 1843-1937 ) . Edward Arnold . More Translations from the Chinese by Arthur Waley ( 1889 ...
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