Rambles Round Eton and HarrowChatto and Windus, 1882 - 290 páginas |
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... picturesque old place . Many heavy " golden bream have been caught here , and sometimes the troller lights . upon a heavy Thames trout . The church is a small old - fashioned building , with heavy beams across , and the traveller is ...
... picturesque old place . Many heavy " golden bream have been caught here , and sometimes the troller lights . upon a heavy Thames trout . The church is a small old - fashioned building , with heavy beams across , and the traveller is ...
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... picturesque . The bridge is exceedingly beautiful , but the town itself is new , and perhaps hardly dates earlier than the bridge , which was built quite at the end of the last century . Maidenhead is the nearest station to the ...
... picturesque . The bridge is exceedingly beautiful , but the town itself is new , and perhaps hardly dates earlier than the bridge , which was built quite at the end of the last century . Maidenhead is the nearest station to the ...
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... picturesque sense , that swans are to the river . Their " pose pose " on the water is not so graceful as that of the sheldrake or pintail duck ; and the straight long neck rather re- minds one of a giraffe : indeed , we never hear words ...
... picturesque sense , that swans are to the river . Their " pose pose " on the water is not so graceful as that of the sheldrake or pintail duck ; and the straight long neck rather re- minds one of a giraffe : indeed , we never hear words ...
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... picturesque combinations of colour , and even shape , in these tumble - down abodes , squalor is by no means necessary for an artistic brush . The animals that Morland used to paint so truthfully are not such as we can dwell on with ...
... picturesque combinations of colour , and even shape , in these tumble - down abodes , squalor is by no means necessary for an artistic brush . The animals that Morland used to paint so truthfully are not such as we can dwell on with ...
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... and Hereford -which we can hardly help regretting , as such a building in such a place would have been marvellously picturesque , and it would , with the least care , have been quite as substantial as the one that has been built.
... and Hereford -which we can hardly help regretting , as such a building in such a place would have been marvellously picturesque , and it would , with the least care , have been quite as substantial as the one that has been built.
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Abbey ancient Author banks Beaconsfield beautiful beeches BESANT and JAMES Bisham Bisham Abbey bridge building built Burnham called Cashiobury celebrated century chancel chapel Charles charming church Cliveden cloth extra cloth limp COLLINS Colne Coloured Cookham course Crown 8vo delightful Demy 8vo Duke Earl Edgeware Edited Edward Elizabeth England English Eton fish formerly gilt Greenford Harefield Harrow Hedsor Henry High Wycombe Hughenden interesting island JAMES PAYN JAMES RICE John King King's Lady land lanes Langley lived London Lord Loudwater Lysons MACQUOID Maidenhead manor mansion Marlow Medmenham Middlesex miles Monken Hadley monuments numerous Illustrations OUIDA Oxhey parish picturesque pleasant Portrait Post 8vo Queen reign residence river road says scenes seat Slough Stoke Pogis swan Taplow Taplow Court Thames tion tower town trees trout Uxbridge vicar Vicar of Bray village Vols walk Watford Wharton WILKIE COLLINS William Windsor woods Wycombe Abbey yeoman
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