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The ruined abbeys of Yorkshire (1883)

Lefroy, William, 1836-1900 · London, Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday · leaf 19

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by quiet streams, that these ruins areworth visiting. As long as there is the merest ground-plan to be traced, their human interest appeals to menand women of every creed, but that of sheer stupidity. In York, where the very names of. streets aremonuments of antiquity, and the relics of… … BOOTHAM BAR, YORK. mestic buildings strike and impress us with their massand grand proportions, it is impossible quite to shutones eyes to all this. It is not only because they illus-trate a chapter or two in the history of architecture, stillless because most of them stand under picturesquely of…

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