Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 118
, perhaps, by the secret inclinationsof the King, as ill adapted to the ritual of theRoman Church. The second, or warrantdesign, could not have been seriously put for-ward. No architect in his sober senses couldhave proposed to carry it out. It was possiblyintended to amuse the Court while Wren… … FIG. 183.—ST. BRIDES,FLEET STREET. (WREN.) ART IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND and humor of Charles II, who found himself between Rome andLondon, between his brother and the French Court, on the onehand, and the English people on the other, had a good deal to dowith the comedy of the warrant design.…
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