Author: Charles LeverPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 808
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The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly
Author: Charles LeverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly
Author: Charles James LeverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly
Author: Charles James LeverPublisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 533
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This book tells the story of a remarkable man, Bishop of Down, in Ireland: a Liberal in politics, in an age when Liberalism lay close on the confines of disloyalty; splendidly hospitable, at a period when hospitality verged on utter recklessness; he carried all his opinions to extremes. He had great taste, which had been cultivated by foreign travel, and having an ample fortune, was able to indulge in many whims and caprices, by which some were led to doubt of his sanity; but others, who judged him better, ascribed them to the self-indulgence of a man out of harmony with his time, and contemptuously indifferent to what the world might say of him. He had passed many years in Italy, and had formed a great attachment to that country. He liked the people and their mode of life; he liked the old cities, so rich in art treasures and so teeming with associations of a picturesque past; and he especially liked their villa architecture, which seemed so essentially suited to a grand and costly style of living. The great reception rooms, spacious and lofty; the ample antechambers, made for crowds of attendants; and the stairs wide enough for even equipages to ascend them. No more striking illustration of his capricious turn of mind need be given than the fact that it was his pleasure to build one of these magnificent edifices in an Irish county!—a costly whim, obliging him to bring over from Italy a whole troop of stucco-men and painters, men skilled in fresco-work and carving,—an extravagance on which he spent thousands. Nor did he live to witness the completion of his splendid mansion. After his death, the building gradually fell into decay. Will his heirs care about his project and restore the house?
The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly / Horace Templeton
Author: Charles LeverPublisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434476812
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
The second volume of The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly and Horace Templeton. "
Original Illustrated Edition of Charles Lever's Novels...: The Bramleighs of Bishop's folly
Author: Charles LeverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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The Novels of Charles Lever: The Bramleighs of Bishop's folly
Author: Charles LeverPublisher:
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Category : Exiles
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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The Bramleighs of Bishop&'s Folly
Author: Charles James LeverPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465561552
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 915
Book Description
The Novels of Charles Lever: The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly. To which is added Diary and notes of Horace Templeton, esq.; with illus. by W. Cubitt Cooke [and others
Author: Charles LeverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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The Bramleigh's
Author: Charles James LeverPublisher:
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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Luttrell of Arran. Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly
Author: Charles James LeverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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