The English house, how to judge its periods and styles (1909)
Sparrow, Walter Shaw, 1862- · New York, J. Lane Co. · leaf 236
y many blunders make. And all this took place. English countrymansions were turned into Palladian hotels, vast,pompous, uncomfortable, each one a fortune tobuild and a large income to keep in repair.Unlucky is the man who inherits a home ofthis un-English kind. It needs so much moneythat its owner… … a KO X o < CL, oo OS ow < GOTHIC AND TUDOR HOMES 153 Pauls Cathedral is not better than the EnglishGothic churches which it attempted to surpass ;and the most comfortable homes in a Classicstyle, like those built by Robert Adam and hisbrother, do not excel many a house built duringthe…
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