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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... park , they form a kind of venerable inclosure , that gives the verdant area before the house the tranquil appearance which we have endeavoured to describe . Indeed , if it may be considered as a merit merely to pro- duce effect , these ...
... park , they form a kind of venerable inclosure , that gives the verdant area before the house the tranquil appearance which we have endeavoured to describe . Indeed , if it may be considered as a merit merely to pro- duce effect , these ...
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... park . The garden part of Nuneham , and which may be consi- dered as the pride of it , does not contain more than forty acres , but its command of country is very comprehensive , and the inlets of park scenery give an artificial extent ...
... park . The garden part of Nuneham , and which may be consi- dered as the pride of it , does not contain more than forty acres , but its command of country is very comprehensive , and the inlets of park scenery give an artificial extent ...
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... park is seen be- yond it ; and the eye , returning over the dark mass of the distant woods , in Berkshire , and the fertile intervening country , completes its view of the right hand picture . Its companion on the left , comprehends a ...
... park is seen be- yond it ; and the eye , returning over the dark mass of the distant woods , in Berkshire , and the fertile intervening country , completes its view of the right hand picture . Its companion on the left , comprehends a ...
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... park wood , when it takes its leave of them . This description comprehends the exterior features of the principal views from Nuneham , and we shall now proceed to trace the line of the garden , which , besides its own exten- sive ...
... park wood , when it takes its leave of them . This description comprehends the exterior features of the principal views from Nuneham , and we shall now proceed to trace the line of the garden , which , besides its own exten- sive ...
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... park , ascends into a thick grove of gloomy shade ; and , having made the circuit of an hill covered with stately trees , it returns to itself , and re - conducts to the house . But though , in its return- ing progress , the same ...
... park , ascends into a thick grove of gloomy shade ; and , having made the circuit of an hill covered with stately trees , it returns to itself , and re - conducts to the house . But though , in its return- ing progress , the same ...
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