Identifier: repositoryofarts726acke (find matches)
Title: The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics
Year: 1809 (1800s)
Authors: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834
Subjects: Fashion Art, Decorative
Publisher: London : Published by R. Ackermann ... Sherwood & Co. and Walker & Co. ... and Simpkin & Marshall ...
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ons in the park are veryextensive, and remarkable for theirbeautiful forms; and as there is alsoa considerable number of deer skip-ping about in all directions, the sceneis very pleasing. The house, though rather low, isa curious piece of architecture, beingin the Gothic style, with small win- dows. The interior contains a greatvariety of works of art, among whichare many fine specimens of antiquefurniture, highly interesting andvaluable. The paintings are verynumerous, but the greater part ofthem are family portraits. Here isalso a very valuable library of oldbooks. The present worthy proprietor,Sir Thomas B. Lennard, Bart, isrepresentative in Parliament forIpswich, in Suffolk; and, on properapplication, is always ready to allowvisitors the gratification of viewingthe pictures, and every other objectof curiosity which this seat contains.Among other privileges annexed tothe manor is this—that any person,however exalted in rank, can be ex-cluded from entering it in search of<rame.
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65 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF JAMES MONTGOMERY, ESQ. (Concluded In the year 1792, Mr. Montgome-ry left Wath for Sheffield, wherehe engaged himself with Mr. Gales,the publisher of a paper called theSheffield Register, a j ournal in whosecolumns the popular politics of theclay, then all in favour of the re-volutionary doctrines which distract-ed France, were espoused with morezeal than discretion. To this paperMontgomery contributed a numberof verses and essays—very few, how-ever, on political subjects; and wemay conjecture that many of these,as well as the other productions ofhis pen at this period, were not wor-thy of his future fame: for on the oc-casion to which we have before al-luded*, he observed, In the retirement of Fulneck, whereI had been educated, I was nearly asignorant of the world as those gold fishes,swimming about in the glass globe, onthe pedestal before us, are of what weare doing around them ; and when I tookthe rash step of rushing into it, I wasnearly as little prepa

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