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An architect's sketch book (1912)

Peabody, Robert Swain, 1845-1917 · Boston, Houghton Mifflin · leaf 172

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s as little regardedas she who now cannot speak French. This foppery is describedin Sir Walter Scotts novel of The Monastery, where a courtgallant calls the cows the milky mothers of the herd and theyouth who tends them most bucolical juvenal. Indeed, theardor for classical erudition was so… … On the Design of Houses 85 Queene and not see that it is the expression of exactly thesame feelings as those which dictated the design of such greatmansions as Audley End or Wollaton. One is a Christian ro-mance of the Middle Ages embroidered with classical namesand ill-understood allusions to…

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