The Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journeying from Richmond to OxfordG. Newnes, 1897 - 284 pages |
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The Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journeying From Richmond to Oxford ... John Leyland No preview available - 2018 |
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Abbey Abingdon adorned ancient anglers arches backwater bank beautiful Berkshire Berkshire side Bisham Bisham Abbey boats Boulter's Lock Bray bridge Castle Caversham Chamber character charm Chertsey church Clifton Hampden Cliveden Cookham cottages curious Day's Lock delightful Dorchester Earl Edward Eton F. S. Catford famous ferry fishing Frith gardens George's Chapel Goring green Hall Hampton Court Hampton Wick Henley Henley Bridge Henry hereabout Hill Hudson & Kearns Iffley interesting Island Kearns Photo Kearns TONDON King Lady Little Wittenham Long Wittenham look lovely Maidenhead Mapledurham Marlow meadows Medmenham memorial mile mill monument noble Norman Nuneham oarsmen Oxford Oxfordshire Oxfordshire side Palace Pangbourne Park picturesque pleasant Pope pretty Queen reach Regatta Reigate Richmond river road round royal rustic scene Shiplake shore splendid stands stream Streatley structure Taunt Thames Tower town trees Tudor Twickenham village walk Wallingford walls Wargrave weir William Windsor Wittenham woods
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Page 97 - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace...
Page 102 - Camelot; And up and down the people go Gazing where the lilies blow Round an island there below, The island of Shalott. Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver Thro' the wave that runs for ever By the island in the river Flowing down to Camelot.
Page 153 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Page 6 - ... in her new principality of Ham. It delighted me, and made me peevish. Close to the Thames, in the centre of all rich and verdant beauty, it is so blocked up and barricaded with walls, vast trees, and gates, that you think yourself an hundred miles off and an hundred years back. The old furniture is so magnificently ancient, dreary, and decayed, that at every step one's spirits sink, and all my passion for antiquity could not keep them up.
Page 106 - 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...
Page 6 - ... opened by his father but once for the late lord Granville, you are locked out and locked in, and after journeying all round the house, as you do round an old French fortified town, you are at last admitted through the stable-yard to creep along a dark passage by the housekeeper's room, and so by a back door into the great hall.
Page 196 - twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon...
Page 33 - So terribly well, my lord, that I was afraid I should have lost all my actors : for I was not sure the king would not keep them to fill the posts at court, that he saw them so fit for in the play.
Page 104 - Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth, was first a Papist, then a Protestant, then a Papist, then a Protestant again.
Page 51 - Christ was the word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it ; And what the word did make it, That I believe and take it.