The New Oxford Guide: Or, Companion Through the University: Exhibiting Every Particular Worthy the Observation of the Curious ... To which is Added, a Tour to Blenheim, Ditchley, Heythrop, Nuneham, and Stow, ... Containing, an Accurate Description of Their Tapestry, Paintings, Sculptures, Temples, Gardens, and Other Curiosities. By a Gentleman of OxfordJ. Fletcher; W. Jackson; E. Newbery; and J. Bew, London, 1788 - 159 pages |
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... caft . A few detached fragments of them are difcernible at other places . The whole Town is about three miles in circumference . The principal street is the High - Street , running from Magdalen Bridge to Carfax Church . Its length and ...
... caft . A few detached fragments of them are difcernible at other places . The whole Town is about three miles in circumference . The principal street is the High - Street , running from Magdalen Bridge to Carfax Church . Its length and ...
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... caft by Hubert le Soeur a Frenchman , the fame who did the equestrian statue of Charles I. at Charing - Crofs . This room is , in reality , a part or continuation of the Bodleian Library . Under it are the Schools of the feveral ...
... caft by Hubert le Soeur a Frenchman , the fame who did the equestrian statue of Charles I. at Charing - Crofs . This room is , in reality , a part or continuation of the Bodleian Library . Under it are the Schools of the feveral ...
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... caft , is an admirable Hot - houfe ; where various plants , brought from the warmer climates , are raised . This Garden was inftituted by the Earl of Danby , above- mentioned , A. D. 1632 ; who having replenished it with - plants for ...
... caft , is an admirable Hot - houfe ; where various plants , brought from the warmer climates , are raised . This Garden was inftituted by the Earl of Danby , above- mentioned , A. D. 1632 ; who having replenished it with - plants for ...
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... caft , commands the new Bridge . This walk is shaded with hedges and lofty trees , which in one part grow wild , and in the other are cut and which disposed regularly . Here is a very venerable oak , is fuppofed to have exifted in the ...
... caft , commands the new Bridge . This walk is shaded with hedges and lofty trees , which in one part grow wild , and in the other are cut and which disposed regularly . Here is a very venerable oak , is fuppofed to have exifted in the ...
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... caft , has a fingular and most agreeable effect . The Gardens are extenfive , and laid out into two di vifions . The firft , or larger divifion , is chiefly thrown into open grafs lots . The north - wall is covered with a beautiful ...
... caft , has a fingular and most agreeable effect . The Gardens are extenfive , and laid out into two di vifions . The firft , or larger divifion , is chiefly thrown into open grafs lots . The north - wall is covered with a beautiful ...
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Page 104 - The Castle of BLENHEIM was founded by Queen ANNE, In the Fourth Year of her Reign, In the Year of the Christian /Era 1705. A Monument designed to perpetuate the Memory of the Signal Victory Obtained over the French and Bavarians, Near the Village of Blenheim, , On the Banks of the Danube...
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Page 104 - Obtained over the French and Bavarians, Near the Village of Blenheim, , On the Banks of the Danube, By JOHN Duke of MARLBOROUGH, The Hero not only of this Nation, but of this age; Whose Glory was equal in the Council and in the...
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Page 133 - Building, twelve feet by ten, the Ceiling is coved, and the whole painted green: the Front is covered with a Treillage of the fame colour...
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