Monmouthshire. Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the Ancient and Present State of Tintern Abbey,: Including a Variety of Other Particulars, Deserving the Stranger's Notice, Relating to that Much-admired Ruin, and Its Neighborhood. : The Whole Never Before Published. : Collected from Original Papers and Unquestionable Authoritieshim, in the market place: sold also at all the towns in the county., 1806 - 116 pages |
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... building , thirty yards long , by 12 wide , -consisting of a nave only , without side - isles ; the whole too uninteresting to claim the traveller's attention .. This place , with the whole of the country higher up , I am led to believe ...
... building , thirty yards long , by 12 wide , -consisting of a nave only , without side - isles ; the whole too uninteresting to claim the traveller's attention .. This place , with the whole of the country higher up , I am led to believe ...
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... building ; by whose absurd labour the ground is covered over with a turf as even and trim as that of a bowling green , which gives the building more the air of an artificial ruin in a garden , than that of an ancient decayed abbey . How ...
... building ; by whose absurd labour the ground is covered over with a turf as even and trim as that of a bowling green , which gives the building more the air of an artificial ruin in a garden , than that of an ancient decayed abbey . How ...
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... buildings , of which we have no other information . 1 The inside of this monastery affords a fine specimen of that stile of architecture called Gothic ; its rich west window , still quite entire , is much admired , though perhaps ...
... buildings , of which we have no other information . 1 The inside of this monastery affords a fine specimen of that stile of architecture called Gothic ; its rich west window , still quite entire , is much admired , though perhaps ...
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... building ; by whose absurd labour the ground is covered over with a turf as even and trim as that of a bowling green , which gives the building more the air of an artificial ruin in a garden , than that of an ancient decayed abbey . How ...
... building ; by whose absurd labour the ground is covered over with a turf as even and trim as that of a bowling green , which gives the building more the air of an artificial ruin in a garden , than that of an ancient decayed abbey . How ...
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... building ever so beautiful , encom- passed as it is with shabby houses , it would make no appearance from the river . From a stand near the road it is seen to more advantage . But if Tintern Abbey be less striking as a distant object ...
... building ever so beautiful , encom- passed as it is with shabby houses , it would make no appearance from the river . From a stand near the road it is seen to more advantage . But if Tintern Abbey be less striking as a distant object ...
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