 | Edward Walford - History - 1884 - 628 pages
...made no inroads, was removed, with the approbation of the Lord Chancellor, when little more than a hundred winters had passed over it : when its features...perfection. Wanstead House was the most attractive object (of its kind) near London, and a national ornament." And the writer goes on to lament that the Government... | |
 | Edward Walford - London (England) - 1885 - 664 pages
...made no inroads, was removed, with the approbation of the Lord Chancellor, when little more than a hundred winters had passed over it : when its features...plantations in full luxuriance, and all around it smiling :E perfection. Wanstead House was the most attractive object (of its kind) near London, and a nationi... | |
 | William John Hardy, F. E. Robinson, William Paley Baildon - Berkshire (England) - 1908 - 432 pages
...time had made no inroads, was removed by permission of the Lord Chancellor, when little more than a hundred winters had passed over it, when its features...perfection." Wanstead House was the most attractive of its kind near London, and a national ornament. The writer goes on to lament that the government... | |
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... .at the sad catastrophe. Such, however, were its short and painful annals ; and, except the grotto, not one stone now remains upon another. The palace, destined to stand for ages, and on which time had made no inroads, was removed, with the approbation... 