 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
 | James Edmund Vincent - 1907 - 482 páginas
...be magnificently housed. An inscription over the entrance to the Great Hall records the fact 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." It naturally does not record... | |
 | Anna Maria Wilhelmina Stirling - 1908 - 598 páginas
...state of repair. Over the doorway of the house, within, the following inscription was placed : — THIS SEAT, ON AN OPEN, BARREN ESTATE WAS PLANNED, PLANTED, BUILT, DECORATED, AND INHABITED Ye MIDDLE OF Ye EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BY THOMAS COKE, EARL OF LEICESTER. One characteristic must surely... | |
 | 1914 - 590 páginas
...texture, and of this use was made. An inscription over the entrance informs the visitor that " This sent, on an open, barren estate, was planned, planted, built, decorated, and inhabited in the middle of the eighteenth century by Thomas Coke, Karl of Leicester." Coke is said to have imagined... | |
 | 1914 - 578 páginas
...texture, and of this use was made. An inscription over the entrance informs the visitor that " This sent. on an open, barren estate, was planned, planted, built, decorated, and inhabited in the middle of the eighteenth century by Thomas Ooke, Earl of Leicester." Coke is said to have imagined... | |
 | 1914 - 586 páginas
...that '' This sent, 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." Coke is said to have imagined the whole in his own mind without assistance, the architect merely carrying... | |
 | Peter De Bolla - 2003 - 300 páginas
...Kedleston. 4 Lord Leicester, the owner, had the following inscribed on a tablet above his front door: "This seat, on an open barren estate, was planned, planted, built, decorated, and inhabited in the middle of the xv111th century byThos Coke, Earl of Leicester." Noticing this in fact strengthens... | |
 | 1870 - 268 páginas
...unequalled by anything similar to it in England." An inscription over the entrance door informs us, that, " This seat on an open barren estate was planned, planted, built, decorated, and inhabited in the middle of the 18th century by Thomas Coke Earl of Leicester." The library at Holkham contains... | |
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