Travels in South Kensington with Notes on Decorative Art and Architecture in England

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Moncure Daniel Conway. Travels in South Kensington with Notes on Decorative Art and Architecture in England

Travels in South Kensington with Notes on Decorative Art and Architecture in England

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ILLUSTRATIONS

PROLEGOMENA

THE SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM

DECORATIVE ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND

BEDFORD PARK

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Moncure Daniel Conway

Published by Good Press, 2021

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“COME,” said my friend, Professor Omnium, one clear morning, “let us take an excursion round the world!” My friend is a German, and he has such a calm familiarity with the unconditioned and the impossible, that a suggestion which, coming from another, would appear astounding, from him appears normal. This time, however, I look through his spectacles to see if his eyes have not a merry twinkle: they are quite serene. Visions of the Parisian play entitled Round the World in Eighty Days, thoughts of Puck and excursion tickets, rise before me, and I gravely pronounce the word “Impossible!”

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