The imperial island; England's chronicle in stone; (1886)
Hunnewell, James Frothingham, 1832-1910 · Boston, Ticknor · leaf 499
forms. Slight suggestions of the earlier towers,once the most important objects in the seat of a lord, are givenby square cupolas at the angles, and the great hall appears inits latest use as a stately vestibule, with a hint of the old nationaltimber roof conveyed by beams across its flat… … HOLLAND HOUSE; HATFIELD. 375 life has made the chief apartments light and comfortable, whilethey still retain their antique style and stately picturesqueness.If Sir Thomas Audley was an incarnation of the greedy plun-derers of the Church in Henry VIII.s time, and this house insome degree was a…
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