 This seat, on an open barren estate, was planned, planted, built, decorated, and inhabited, the middle of the eighteenth century, by Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester.  History of Norfolk; or, excursions in the county - Página 163por Thomas Kitson Cromwell - 1819Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Thomas Cromwell - 1818 - 332 páginas
...entablature and compartment cielings, in stucco, and all other cielings, cornices, and entablatures, in the numerous apartments of this villa, were conducted...one of the noblest derived to us from the ancients; nor perhaps can any space be found of the same magnitude, that will admit of a grander display of architecture.... | |
 | Thomas Cromwell - 1818 - 368 páginas
...entablature and compartment cielings, in stucco, and all other cielings, cornices, and entablatures, in the numerous apartments of this villa, were conducted...one of the noblest derived to us from the ancients; nor perhaps can any space be found of the same magnitude, that will admit of a grander display of architecture.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 424 páginas
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 páginas
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 430 páginas
...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,... | |
 | John S. Skinner - 1827 - 434 páginas
...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... | |
 | John Chambers - 1829 - 888 páginas
...entablature and compartment ceilings, in stucco, and all other ceilings, cornices, and entablatures, in the numerous apartments of this villa, were conducted,...PLANNED, PLANTED, BUILT, DECORATED, AND INHABITED, IN THE MIDDLE OP THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, BY THOMAS COKE, EARL OF LEICESTER." Imagination can scarcely... | |
 | John Chambers - 1829 - 654 páginas
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 páginas
...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... | |
 | William White - 1836 - 832 páginas
...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,... | |
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