A Handbook for Travellers in Berks, Bucks, and Oxfordshire: Including a Particular Description of the University and City of Oxford, and the Descent of the Thames to Maidenhead and Windsor ...J. Murray, 1860 - 244 oldal |
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... passing through Hurst Park , and receiving the Emme brook on the way . Berkshire has two canals : 1 , the Wilts and Berks Canal , which commences in the river Thames just below Abingdon , and is carried through the Vale of the White ...
... passing through Hurst Park , and receiving the Emme brook on the way . Berkshire has two canals : 1 , the Wilts and Berks Canal , which commences in the river Thames just below Abingdon , and is carried through the Vale of the White ...
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... passing which , they enter the Upper Ward . On their rt . is the entrance of the Round Tower ; on their 1. a flight of steps leads through the wing of the Castle built by Elizabeth , to the magnificent Terrace , described fur- ther on ...
... passing which , they enter the Upper Ward . On their rt . is the entrance of the Round Tower ; on their 1. a flight of steps leads through the wing of the Castle built by Elizabeth , to the magnificent Terrace , described fur- ther on ...
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... passed , and then closed in to follow . " The whole length of the Terrace is thrown open on Saturday and Sun- day , and is enlivened on Sunday evenings by a band of music . The Queen occasionally walks on the Terrace from 4 to 5 on ...
... passed , and then closed in to follow . " The whole length of the Terrace is thrown open on Saturday and Sun- day , and is enlivened on Sunday evenings by a band of music . The Queen occasionally walks on the Terrace from 4 to 5 on ...
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... passing under George IV.'s Gateway , which crosses the site of the Upper Lodge , bought , as a resi- dence , by Queen Anne , as Princess of Denmark , when under the dis- pleasure of William III . , and after- wards inhabited for many ...
... passing under George IV.'s Gateway , which crosses the site of the Upper Lodge , bought , as a resi- dence , by Queen Anne , as Princess of Denmark , when under the dis- pleasure of William III . , and after- wards inhabited for many ...
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... ( passing Hurst , where Archbp . Laud was wont to preach ) is Bear Wood ( J. Walter , Esq . , M.P. , a large and beautiful park , retaining much of its wild forest character , interspersed with masses of rhodo- dendrons , which render it ...
... ( passing Hurst , where Archbp . Laud was wont to preach ) is Bear Wood ( J. Walter , Esq . , M.P. , a large and beautiful park , retaining much of its wild forest character , interspersed with masses of rhodo- dendrons , which render it ...
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Abbey Abbot Abingdon afterwards aisle ancient arches Aylesbury Banbury beautiful Berks Berkshire Bicester Bisham Bishop brasses bridge Bucks building built buried called Castle celebrated centy chancel chapel Charles church churchyard College contains court cross curious Dean Aldrich Duke Earl Edward Edward III Edward the Confessor effigy Elizabeth England Faringdon font formerly founded founder Frideswide garden gateway George Gothic ground Hall Hampden HANDBOOK Hedsor Henry II Henry VIII High Wycombe hill John Hampden King Lady London Lord Magdalen Maidenhead manor manor-house Mary meadows monument Newbury Norm Oxford Oxfordshire painted Park Perp picture picturesque Pope portraits Post 8vo Prince quadrangle Queen Railway reign remains remarkable restored river road royal Saxon Shefford side Sir John Sir Thomas spire Stanton Harcourt Stat stone Street Thames tomb tower town trees village walk wall William Windsor woods Woodstock
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211. oldal - ... college situated in a purer air; so that his house was a university in a less volume, whither they came, not so much for repose as study, and to examine and refine those grosser propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation.
210. oldal - Falkland ; a person of such prodigious parts of learning and knowledge, of that inimitable sweetness and delight in conversation, of so flowing and obliging a humanity and goodness to mankind, and of that primitive simplicity and integrity of life, that if there were no other brand upon this odious and accursed civil war, than that single loss, it must be most infamous and execrable to all posterity.
102. oldal - I have at the distance of half a mile, through a green lane, a forest (the vulgar call it a common) all my own, at least as good as so, for I spy no human thing in it but myself.
155. oldal - at the Mount of St Mary's, in the stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation.
25. oldal - There is an old tale goes, that Herne the hunter, Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest, Doth all the winter time, at still midnight, Walk round about an oak...
102. oldal - Both vale and hill are covered with most venerable beeches, and other very reverend vegetables, that, like most other ancient people, are always dreaming out their old stories to the winds...
97. oldal - Windsor's heights th' expanse below Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey, Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among Wanders the hoary Thames along His silver-winding way: Ah happy hills ! ah pleasing shade!
202. oldal - The king therefore, for her defence, Against the furious queen, At Woodstock builded such a bower, The like was never seen. Most curiously that bower was built Of stone and timber strong, An hundred and fifty doors Did to this bower belong.
161. oldal - This is the emblem of a good Tutor, or Fellow of a College, who is set to watch over the youth of the society, and by whose prudence they are to be led through the dangers of their first entrance into the world.
123. oldal - Nature shall join you; time shall make it grow A work to wonder at — perhaps a Stowe.