The Thames: Or Graphic Illustrations of Seats, Villas, Public Buildings, and Picturesque Scenery, on the Banks of that Noble RiverVernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1811 |
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... appear that the origin of this popular error can now be traced ; it has , however , been adopted by poetical fiction , and has thereby ac- quired a kind of classical sanction . The autho- rities are all against it , neither can it be ...
... appear that the origin of this popular error can now be traced ; it has , however , been adopted by poetical fiction , and has thereby ac- quired a kind of classical sanction . The autho- rities are all against it , neither can it be ...
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... appear in the near horizon , when the stream continues its course till it flows beneath them and the heights of Taplow to Maidenhead , and in a few miles reaches Windsor . The magnifi cence of Windsor Castle , appearing on its brow on ...
... appear in the near horizon , when the stream continues its course till it flows beneath them and the heights of Taplow to Maidenhead , and in a few miles reaches Windsor . The magnifi cence of Windsor Castle , appearing on its brow on ...
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... appears , however , to have been fixed upon as a place of conference between Ethelred and the Danes in the year 1015 ; and that in seven years after- wards , in 1022 , Canute assembled here a council of the nation , when the laws of ...
... appears , however , to have been fixed upon as a place of conference between Ethelred and the Danes in the year 1015 ; and that in seven years after- wards , in 1022 , Canute assembled here a council of the nation , when the laws of ...
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... appear , which have the contrasted charms of distance , grandeur , and beauty . On the eastern side , the scene is broken into two dis- tinct views by the hills of Wettenham , at the distance of about five miles ; to the right of which ...
... appear , which have the contrasted charms of distance , grandeur , and beauty . On the eastern side , the scene is broken into two dis- tinct views by the hills of Wettenham , at the distance of about five miles ; to the right of which ...
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... appears on an elevated situation , and the entrance from thence to the family closet , being decorated with a semi - rotunda of Ionic columns , supporting a dome , produces the elegant form of a temple of that Order . A grove of fine ...
... appears on an elevated situation , and the entrance from thence to the family closet , being decorated with a semi - rotunda of Ionic columns , supporting a dome , produces the elegant form of a temple of that Order . A grove of fine ...
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Abbey adorned afterwards ancient appears arch banks beauty beneath Berkshire Bisham Abbey bridge building ceiling chamber chapel character charming choir church College Cooke Cookham Cricklade crowned decorated display distance distinguished Drawn Duke Earl Edward the Fourth elegant enriched entrance erected Eton College Fawley FAWLEY COURT feet garden Garter grotto ground grove HAMPTON COURT Henley Henley Bridge Henry the Eighth Henry the Seventh Hill honour hundred Inigo Jones King King's knights Lady landscape lawn Lord magnificence Maidenhead Bridge Majesty Marlow miles noble NUNEHAM COURTENAY object ornamented Owen Esq Oxford painted palace Park Place picture picturesque pleasing portrait possesses present Prince principal Queen racter reign represented residence rich rising river royal scene scenery seat seen Shiplake Lock silver situation spacious spire spot stone structure Taplow taste Thames Thames Head tion Titian tower town trees Twickenham Vandyck variety village William window WINDSOR CASTLE woods