Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.

OBLIQUE GABLES IN WARWICK. PORCH WITH BOW-WINDOW UNDER, OUTSIDE WARWICK GATES. LORD LEICESTER'S HOSPITAL, WARWICK. COVENTRY GATEWAY. SPIRE OF ST. MICHAEL'S, COVENTRY. STREET IN COVENTRY. BABLAKE'S HOSPITAL, COVENTRY. GRAND CUPOLA AT ONE OF THE CHIEF ENTRANCES TO THE MAIN BUILDING. THE CHINESE SECTION. THE INDIAN COURT: THE PRINCE OF WALES EXHIBIT. THE CANADIAN TROPHY. INDIANS MAKING KASHMIR SHAWLS. TROPHY IN THE COURT OF THE DUTCH INDIES. WALKING TO ST. SYLVESTER'S. "SHE WAS ASLEEP." The history of England is written in living characters in the provincial towns of the kingdom; and it is this which gives such interest to places which have been surpassed commercially by great manufacturing centres and overshadowed socially by the attractions of London. The local nobility once held state little less than royal in houses whose beautiful architecture now masks a hotel, a livery-stable, a girls' school, a lawyer's office or a workingmen's club, and there are places where almost every cottage, every wooden balcony or overhanging oriel, suggests something romantic and antique. Even if no positive association is connected with one of these humbler specimens of English domestic architecture, you can fall back on the traditional home of love and poetry, the recollections of idyls and pastorals daily acted out by unconscious illustrators of the poets from one generation to another. Modern life engrafted on these old towns and villages seems prosaic and [Pg 394]unattractive, though practically it is that which first strikes the eye. New fronts mask old buildings, as new manners do old virtues; and if we come to the frame and adjuncts of daily life, we must confess that nineteenth-century trivialities are intrinsically no worse than medival trivialities. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 19093
Author: Various
Release Date: Aug 21, 2006
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Language: English