The imperial island; England's chronicle in stone; (1886)
Hunnewell, James Frothingham, 1832-1910 · Boston, Ticknor · leaf 477
antique character has been preserved, and mod-ern refinement has made them exquisite. A parlor containingfurniture in the style of Louis XV. and a more private roomhave recent papering of the so-called sesthetic sort; but theeffect throughout the house is like a revelation of a seat of thegentry in… … KNOLE HOUSE. 361 deal of it dates, although externally the style is chiefly modifiedTudor, and internally it is English Renaissance. Its gabled orembattled stone walls, gray and venerable, enclose an area offive acres which includes two main courts, five or six of smallersize, and buildings…
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