The Quarterly Review, Volume 266, Issue 527John Murray, 1936 |
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... mansions wherein newly accumulated wealth could dispense its hospitality . True , some of the great houses still ... mansion among what were still fields and open spaces . It is impossible to say how sophistication gradually extended ...
... mansions wherein newly accumulated wealth could dispense its hospitality . True , some of the great houses still ... mansion among what were still fields and open spaces . It is impossible to say how sophistication gradually extended ...
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... mansion known in Victorian , Edwardian , and our present Georgian times for the successive splendour of its entertainments . It first swims into fashionable ken as Holdernesse House , then the town abode of the earls of that name , the ...
... mansion known in Victorian , Edwardian , and our present Georgian times for the successive splendour of its entertainments . It first swims into fashionable ken as Holdernesse House , then the town abode of the earls of that name , the ...
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... mansion , the finest in London , was erected on the site of an earlier one of the same name , belonging to the Earls of Dorchester . Although little is recorded of the older house during their régime , it is known to have been occupied ...
... mansion , the finest in London , was erected on the site of an earlier one of the same name , belonging to the Earls of Dorchester . Although little is recorded of the older house during their régime , it is known to have been occupied ...
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