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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... give rise to a river called Isis , and after having run a very large proportion of its course , should re - assume the name of the Thames . From its source it flows on in a rivulet cha- racter , till it reaches Cricklade in Wiltshire ...
... give rise to a river called Isis , and after having run a very large proportion of its course , should re - assume the name of the Thames . From its source it flows on in a rivulet cha- racter , till it reaches Cricklade in Wiltshire ...
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... give splendour to the prospect , and they scarce cease to be visible when the river reaches Runnymede , where was obtained by our ancestors by threat- ened arms the charter of those liberties , which every Briton now enjoys beneath his ...
... give splendour to the prospect , and they scarce cease to be visible when the river reaches Runnymede , where was obtained by our ancestors by threat- ened arms the charter of those liberties , which every Briton now enjoys beneath his ...
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... gives a description of the river , which will enliven and add importance to our own . My eye , descending from the hill , surveys Where Thames among the wanton vallies strays , Thames , the most lov'd of all the ocean's sons By his old ...
... gives a description of the river , which will enliven and add importance to our own . My eye , descending from the hill , surveys Where Thames among the wanton vallies strays , Thames , the most lov'd of all the ocean's sons By his old ...
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... give beauty and splendour to its banks ; and having passed the small retired village of Shepperton , and flowed through Walton Bridge , its Middlesex side is decorated with a long line of handsome man- sions that form the beauty of ...
... give beauty and splendour to its banks ; and having passed the small retired village of Shepperton , and flowed through Walton Bridge , its Middlesex side is decorated with a long line of handsome man- sions that form the beauty of ...
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... expanse of heaven , and keeps continually increasing on the eye , till a delightful range of rural scenery beyond gives a grateful relief to the uniform insipidity of protracted gloominess and shade . 1 Thames and Severe Canal . ! " how ...
... expanse of heaven , and keeps continually increasing on the eye , till a delightful range of rural scenery beyond gives a grateful relief to the uniform insipidity of protracted gloominess and shade . 1 Thames and Severe Canal . ! " how ...
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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