Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932, Elgood, George Samuel, 1851- · London, New York and Bombay, Longmans, Green & Co. · leaf 162
e of thetaste or fashion of the day, when he borrowed straight from the Italianseverything except their marvellous discernment. One accepts the manyobelisks at Montacute as showing the reflection of Italian influence onthe Tudor mind ; to-day and new, they would be inadmissible. Themodern mind,… … accept nothing but the best and purest in this as in any other branchof fine art. There is one other possible way of accounting for the prevalence ofthese all-pervading obelisks. The name of the place is taken from aconical wooded hill {mons acutus). The same play on a word, a favouritefashion of…
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