...entablature and compartment cielings, in stucco, and all other cielings, cornices, and entabla' tures, in the numerous apartments of this villa, were conducted...one of the noblest derived to us from the ancients; uor perhaps can any space be found of the same magnitude, that will admit of a grander display of architecture....

...by the inscription placed by Lord Leicester over the entrance door of the great Hall at Holkham. " THIS SEAT, ON AN OPEN BARREN ESTATE, WAS PLANNED,...EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, By THOMAS COKE, EARL OF LEICESTER." Ver. 95.] The two extremes in parterres, which are equally faulty ; a boundless green, large and naked...

...by the inscription placed by Lord Leicester over the entrance door of the great Hall at Holkham. " THIS SEAT, ON AN OPEN BARREN ESTATE, WAS PLANNED,...EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, BY THOMAS COKE, EARL OF LEICESTER." Ver. 95.] The two extremes in parterres, which are equally faulty ; a boundless green, large and naked...

...by the inscription placed by Lord Leicester over the entrance door of the great Hall at Holkham. " THIS SEAT, ON AN OPEN BARREN ESTATE, WAS PLANNED,...PLANTED, BUILT, DECORATED, AND INHABITED, THE MIDDLE OT THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, BY THOMAS CoKE, EARL OF LEICESTER." Ver. 95.] The two extremes in parterres,...

...magnificent structure. Uver the entrance door of the hall is iii,- lollowing inscription: '• I'bis seat, on an open barren estate, was planned, planted, built, decorated, and inhabited, the middle ol the eighteenth century, by Thomas Coke, Karl ol Leicester." The park is supposed to contain about...

...same pantheon ; the whole entablature and compartment ceilings, in stucco, and all other ceilings, cornices, and entablatures, in the numerous apartments...PLANNED, PLANTED, BUILT, DECORATED, AND INHABITED, IN THE MIDDLE OP THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, BY THOMAS COKE, EARL OF LEICESTER." Imagination can scarcely...

...part of the country, before' the plastic hand of the earl of Leicester bad beautified it : "THIS SKAT, ON AN OPEN BARREN ESTATE, WAS PLANNED, PLANTED, BUILT, DECORATED, AND INHABITED, IN THB MIDDLE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, . BY THOMAS COKE, Imagination, can scarcely form an idea more...

...contradicted by the inscription placed by this lord Leicester over the entrance of Holkham : — ' This seat, on an open, barren estate, was planned, planted, built, decorated, and inhabited, in the middle of the eighteenth century.' ' Yet, how contradicted ? — Might not the same man have...

...recorded by an inscription over the door of the entrance hall of HOLKHAM HOUSE, which records that " This Seat, on an open barren estate, was planned, planted, built, decorated, and inhabited in the middle of the eighteenth century, by Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester." This magnificent seat,...

...recorded by an inscription overthe door of the entrance hall of HOLKHAM HOUSE, which records that " Tli'* Seat, on an open barren estate, was planned, planted, built, decorated, and inhabited in the middle of the eighteenth century, by Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester." This magnificent seat,...