The Thames: Or, Graphic Illustrations of Seats, Villas, Public Buildings and Picturesque Scenery on the Banks of that Noble River, Volume 1Vernor, Hood & Sharpe and W.B. Cooke, 1811 - England |
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... trees and buildings , which the eye cannot regard with indifference as a rural picture . All these various objects , with their accessory circum- stances , are seen in delightful succession and to the best ad- vantage , in the course of ...
... trees and buildings , which the eye cannot regard with indifference as a rural picture . All these various objects , with their accessory circum- stances , are seen in delightful succession and to the best ad- vantage , in the course of ...
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... trees that crowns it , is distinctly seen at the distance of eighteen miles ; and the eye , returning over the rich intermediate level , is relieved from its luxuriant same- ness by the airy spire of Abingdon . Such are the two dis ...
... trees that crowns it , is distinctly seen at the distance of eighteen miles ; and the eye , returning over the rich intermediate level , is relieved from its luxuriant same- ness by the airy spire of Abingdon . Such are the two dis ...
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... trees towards the meadows . Elms of the most luxuriant foliage , and feathering down to the turf be- neath them , form , in the bottom , an irregular boundary , that just admits the view of a verdant woody slope , beyond NUNEHAM ...
... trees towards the meadows . Elms of the most luxuriant foliage , and feathering down to the turf be- neath them , form , in the bottom , an irregular boundary , that just admits the view of a verdant woody slope , beyond NUNEHAM ...
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... trees that crown its shelving sides , which stretch down to the trees , whose thick masses of foliage enrich the bottom ; while Oxford appears through an opening in their upper branches . A little onward from beneath a venerable elm on ...
... trees that crown its shelving sides , which stretch down to the trees , whose thick masses of foliage enrich the bottom ; while Oxford appears through an opening in their upper branches . A little onward from beneath a venerable elm on ...
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... trees , connected by approaching si- militudes to the shrubs intermixed with them . It has also sufficient depth to ... tree , and the rose ; and enriched by an ele- giac inscription , from the Muse of Mason . In the back- ground of the ...
... trees , connected by approaching si- militudes to the shrubs intermixed with them . It has also sufficient depth to ... tree , and the rose ; and enriched by an ele- giac inscription , from the Muse of Mason . In the back- ground of the ...
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