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... kind smile of welcome will greet us no more in this life . Joseph Arthur Gibbs was one of those rare natures who combine a love of outdoor life , cricket and sport of every kind , with a refined and scholarly taste for literature . He ...
... kind smile of welcome will greet us no more in this life . Joseph Arthur Gibbs was one of those rare natures who combine a love of outdoor life , cricket and sport of every kind , with a refined and scholarly taste for literature . He ...
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... kind about Shakespeare . I am indebted to Miss E. F. Brickdale for the pen - and - ink sketches , and to Colonel Mordaunt for his beautiful photographs . Three of the photographs , however , are by H. Taunt , of Oxford , and a similar ...
... kind about Shakespeare . I am indebted to Miss E. F. Brickdale for the pen - and - ink sketches , and to Colonel Mordaunt for his beautiful photographs . Three of the photographs , however , are by H. Taunt , of Oxford , and a similar ...
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... kind is deeply interesting , representing as it does the rude chiselling which hands that have long been dust in the village churchyard wrought with infinite pains . That oak roof , carved in rich tracery , resting for ages on arcades ...
... kind is deeply interesting , representing as it does the rude chiselling which hands that have long been dust in the village churchyard wrought with infinite pains . That oak roof , carved in rich tracery , resting for ages on arcades ...
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... kind , and to find that although they are obscure and unknown , they are on a small scale as interesting to the antiquarian as Knole , Hatfield , and other more famous mediaval houses . Some lattice windows , evidently at some time out ...
... kind , and to find that although they are obscure and unknown , they are on a small scale as interesting to the antiquarian as Knole , Hatfield , and other more famous mediaval houses . Some lattice windows , evidently at some time out ...
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... is too great a gulf fixed between all classes . Let all those who are fortunate enough to live in such a place as we have attempted to describe remember 11. ] VILLAGE POLITICS . 25 that a kind word 24 [ CH . A COTSWOLD VILLAGE .
... is too great a gulf fixed between all classes . Let all those who are fortunate enough to live in such a place as we have attempted to describe remember 11. ] VILLAGE POLITICS . 25 that a kind word 24 [ CH . A COTSWOLD VILLAGE .
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Ablington ancient ash tree barns beautiful Berkshire Bibury birds Burford BURFORD PRIORY charm Chedworth church Cirencester Coln colour Cotswold district Cotswold Hills Cotswold labourer Cotswold sheep Cotswold village cottages covert cricket deep delightful district doubtless earth England face Fairford farmers fields fish garden glorious Gloucestershire grass ground half hamlet hounds hundred hunting keeper killed land larvæ London look lovely Lunnon manor house may-fly miles never night Northleach old manor house old-fashioned once partridges passed Peregrine pheasant pleasant plough pounds quaint river River Coln Roman Sairy Jane sausingers scent season seen shillin's shooting silvery sport sportsman spring squire Stoke Poges stone Stow-on-the-Wold stwuns tell thou Tom Peregrine town trees trout stream turmut vale valley walls week whilst White Horse wild wind withybed wood yards