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TRAVELS IN SOUTH KENSING (The Aesthetic movement & the arts and crafts movement)
TRAVELS IN SOUTH KENSING - The Aesthetic movement & the arts and crafts movement Author:Conway Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: justice to his house by comparing it to the academy of Plato, where numbers .and geometrical figures, and sometimes moral virtues, were the subjects of disc... more »ussion; it would be more just to call it a. school and an exercise of the Christian religion. All its inhabitants, male and female, applied their leisure to liberal studies and profitable reading, although piety was their lirst care. No wrangling, no idle word, was heard in it; every one did his duty with alacrity, and not without a temperate cheerfulness." In Hi 7 2 the hall was arranged lor Non-conformist meetings. For ninety-seven years it was devoted to this purpose, and among those who preached here was Thomas Watson, who wrote the famous tract (Heaven Tul-m l/ tftorm) which converted Colonel Gardiner. It is not wonderful that its old splendors then began to depart. The Mercury of May 23, 1678, advertised a sale at Crosby Hall, where would be disposed of. among other things, " tapestry hangings, a good chariot, and a black irirl about fifteenyears of age." Then it became the office of the old East India Company; next a literary and scientific institute; next a wholesale wine warehouse; and at length came into the hands of its present proprietors, who have restored it to its original purpose by making it a banqueting-hall. They have preserved it, and stained its windows with portraits and pictures representing all its history. The decorations are in perfect keeping with the beautiful Gothic style of the building, and the colors seem to have expanded on it as a flower on its stem. One seems to be dining here in an older Guildhall and at a daily Lord Mayor's banquet, with ancient Shakspearian characters for company. It is particularly entertaining to observe what a rich frieze can be secured for a hall in England by a...« less
ISBN-13: 9780824024574 ISBN-10: 0824024575 Publication Date: 7/1/1978 Pages:234 Edition:Facsimile of 1882 ed Rating: