Famous homes of Great Britain and their stories (1900)
Malan, Alfred Henry, editor · New York, G. P. Putnam's son; London, The Pall Mall magazine · leaf 97
72 Blenbeim ant) its flDemorieg Probably the Duchess was too* clever to be deceived byPopes cunning, by being addressed as Doctress in Divinity,and being told of Your Graces ghostly Father, Socrates. Atany rate. Pope had his revenge, and helped to perpetuate thepopular opinion of a woman at whose… … BLENHEIM PALACE. SOUTH FRONT Middle Ages, and the elms and cedars have a certain air ofeighteenth-century stateliness, so perhaps the orchids, with theirexotic delicacy, may be held typical of the decadent present.From the house many treasures, once part of its adornment,are now missed ; and while…
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