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We select this Engraving as an illustration of the elaborate sculptural decoration employed in domestic architecture about three centuries since; but more particularly as a specimen of the embellishment of the ecclesiastical residences of that period. It represents a chimney-p...
We select this Engraving as an illustration of the elaborate sculptural decoration employed in domestic architecture about three centuries since; but more particularly as a spec...
3. Part 3This remarkable and providential supply is thus described: "When the dew that lay was gone up, behold _upon the face of the wilderness_ there lay a small _round_ thing, as _smal...
2. Part 2I was once talking to Anna Maria Porter about him, when she expressed her astonishment at the admiration I bestowed on him! She said, "I thought you was a Whig, and an aristocra...
4. Part 4_Congreve_ is said to have written his comedy of the _Old Bachelor_ and part of the _Mourning Bride_, in a grotto formed in a steep rocky hill in the grounds of Ham Hall, in Dov...