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 580 COMPARATIVE ARCHITECTURE. portions of quadrant form, often treated as colonnades, as at Stoke Park, Northants (No. 131 g) Castle Howard, Yorkshire (No. 25S c), Blenheim, Oxfordshire (No. 238 f), Latham Hall, Lancasliire,lMoor Park, Herts, and Kedlestone, Derbyshire (No. 258 f). The Jacobean gallery survived in a modified form, as at Castle Howard (No. 258), Chatsworth, and Holkham (No. 131 k), and many other examples. The publication, by the Earl of Burlington, of the designs of Inigo Jones, and of the drawings of the " Antiquities of Rome," by Palladio, in the early part of the century, are thus referred to by Pope in one of his epistles to the Earl of Burlington, ' ' You show us, Rome was glorious, not profuse, And ]3ompous buildings once were things of use. Yet shall, my lord, your just, your noble rules. Fill half the land with imitating fools ; Who random drawings from your sheets shall take, And of one beauty many blunders make ; Load some vain church with old theatric state, Turn arcs of triumph to a garden gate ; Shall call the winds through long arcades to roar. Proud to catch cold at a Venetian door." This passage suggests what really did happen, and well characterizes the style of architecture. There were many famous architects of this period, and as they were contem- poraries, practising at the same time, their names and principal works are given. The design of the buildings, not excepting the domestic class, was influenced by a passion for symmetry and grandeur, which almost entirely put aside as unworthy of consideration the comfort and convenience of the people who had to occupy them, a point remarked upon by Pope : — " 'tis very fine. But where d'ye sleep, or where d'ye dine? I find by all you have been telling That 'tis a house, but not a dwelling." Or the remark of Lord Chesterfield to General Wade may be quoted, viz., that the latter had better take a lodging opposite his Palladian mansion (by Lord Burlington), if he liked nothing but the front. The fact must not be overlooked, however, that at this time there grew up a national style, most of the less important houses for the middle class people being erected in the useful and modest Queen Anne ^nd Georgian type of square house. More- over, corridor planning did much for convenience and comfort in domestic architecture, and the fast developing trade of the joiner admitted of the elaboration of internal fittinjis.