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house close by ; while great sums were offered ( and taken ) for existing mansions wherein newly accumulated wealth could dispense its hospitality . True , some of the great houses still retained their hold here in the hands of their ...
house close by ; while great sums were offered ( and taken ) for existing mansions wherein newly accumulated wealth could dispense its hospitality . True , some of the great houses still retained their hold here in the hands of their ...
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house which Lord Chesterfield commissioned Isaac Ware to design for him , and in which , after interminable delays , he gave his house - warming in 1749. So far out of town was it and incidentally so near that part of Mayfair which had ...
house which Lord Chesterfield commissioned Isaac Ware to design for him , and in which , after interminable delays , he gave his house - warming in 1749. So far out of town was it and incidentally so near that part of Mayfair which had ...
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that the bulk of the house possessed a thoroughly late Georgian air , with its circular veranda - sheltered front and its plain and solid exterior . What made this the more marked was the classic addition designed by Cundy to serve as a ...
that the bulk of the house possessed a thoroughly late Georgian air , with its circular veranda - sheltered front and its plain and solid exterior . What made this the more marked was the classic addition designed by Cundy to serve as a ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 266 |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1936 |
| Original from | University of Iowa |
| Digitized | 14 Sep 2021 |
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