 This seat, on an open barren estate, was planned, planted, built, decorated, and inhabited, the middle of the eighteenth century, by Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester.  History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk, and the City and County of the ... - Page 602by William White - 1836 - 816 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Cromwell - 1818 - 368 pages
...of this part of the country, before the plastic hand of the Earl of Leicester had beautified it. " This seat, on an open barren estate, was planned, planted, built, decorated, and inhabited, the middle of the eighteenth century, by Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester." Imagination can scarcely... | |
 | Thomas Cromwell - 1818 - 332 pages
...of this part of the country, before the plastic hand of the Earl of Leicester had beautified it. " This seat, on an open barren estate, was planned, planted, built, decorated, and inhabited, the middle of the eighteenth century, by Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester." Imagination can scarcely... | |
 | Thomas Kitson Cromwell - 1819 - 676 pages
...of this part of the country, before the plastic hand of the Earl of Leicester had beautified it. " This seat, on an open barren estate, was planned, planted, built, decorated, and inhabited, the middle of the eighteenth century, by Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester." Imagination can scarcely... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 430 pages
...by the inscription placed by Lord Leicester over the entrance door of the great Hall at Holkham. " THIS SEAT, ON AN OPEN BARREN ESTATE, WAS PLANNED, PLANTED, BUILT, DECORATED, AND INHABITED, THE MIDDLE OT THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, BY THOMAS CoKE, EARL OF LEICESTER." Ver. 95.] The two extremes... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...by the inscription placed by Lord Leicester over the entrance door of the great Hall at Holkham. " THIS SEAT, ON AN OPEN BARREN ESTATE, WAS PLANNED, PLANTED, BUILT, DECORATED, AND INHABITED, THE MIDDLE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, BY THOMAS COKE, EARL OF LEICESTER." Ver. 95.] The two extremes... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 424 pages
...Holkham. " THIS SEAT, ON AN OPEN BARREN ESTATE, WAS PLANNED, PLANTED, BUILT, DECORATED, AND INHABITED, THE MIDDLE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, By THOMAS COKE, EARL OF LEICESTER." Ver. 95.] The two extremes in parterres, which are equally faulty ; a boundless green, large and naked... | |
 | John S. Skinner - 1827 - 434 pages
...magnificent structure. Uver the entrance door of the hall is iii,- lollowing inscription: '• I'bis seat, on an open barren estate, was planned, planted, built, decorated, and inhabited, the middle ol the eighteenth century, by Thomas Coke, Karl ol Leicester." The park is supposed to contain... | |
 | John Chambers - 1829 - 888 pages
...appearance of this part of the country, before the plastic hand of the earl of Leicester had beautified it: "THIS SEAT, ON AN OPEN BARREN ESTATE, WAS PLANNED,...PLANTED, BUILT, DECORATED, AND INHABITED, IN THE MIDDLE OP THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, BY THOMAS COKE, EARL OF LEICESTER." Imagination can scarcely form an idea... | |
 | John Chambers - 1829 - 654 pages
...part of the country, before' the plastic hand of the earl of Leicester bad beautified it : "THIS SKAT, ON AN OPEN BARREN ESTATE, WAS PLANNED, PLANTED, BUILT, DECORATED, AND INHABITED, IN THB MIDDLE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, . BY THOMAS COKE, Imagination, can scarcely form an idea more... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...contradicted by the inscription placed by this lord Leicester over the entrance of Holkham : — ' This seat, on an open, barren estate, was planned,...inhabited, in the middle of the eighteenth century.' ' Yet, how contradicted ? — Might not the same man have thought Through his young woods how pleased... | |
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