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... noble beech - woods which gave its name to Buckinghamshire . These beeches are consecrated to the Muses . Let the careless and thoughtless reveller keep silence , and take his shoes from off his feet , for the place all around is ...
... noble beech - woods which gave its name to Buckinghamshire . These beeches are consecrated to the Muses . Let the careless and thoughtless reveller keep silence , and take his shoes from off his feet , for the place all around is ...
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... noble size ; and , growing in a soil well adapted for them , they form pictures that dwell in the memory of the ideals of the scenery of beechen woods . No one will readily for- get them who has wandered among those gloomy avenues just ...
... noble size ; and , growing in a soil well adapted for them , they form pictures that dwell in the memory of the ideals of the scenery of beechen woods . No one will readily for- get them who has wandered among those gloomy avenues just ...
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... noble strains of which seemed to ring in my ears as I stood upon the cliffs , and saw the pathless waters stretching , as it were , into eternity . In days gone by , the island obtained an un- enviable notoriety as the haunt of ...
... noble strains of which seemed to ring in my ears as I stood upon the cliffs , and saw the pathless waters stretching , as it were , into eternity . In days gone by , the island obtained an un- enviable notoriety as the haunt of ...
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... noble tower and spire . The church is thought to stand on the site of a more ancient building , in which it is possible that Guthrum's bones were interred . It is built of flint , with stone quoins and dressings , and consists of a ...
... noble tower and spire . The church is thought to stand on the site of a more ancient building , in which it is possible that Guthrum's bones were interred . It is built of flint , with stone quoins and dressings , and consists of a ...
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... noble church ; on the west is the rectory tower ; and on the south , the quaint old structure connected with the Guildhall . It is said that Archdeacon Pykenham intended . to build a house , the approach to which was to be through the ...
... noble church ; on the west is the rectory tower ; and on the south , the quaint old structure connected with the Guildhall . It is said that Archdeacon Pykenham intended . to build a house , the approach to which was to be through the ...
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