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Article: Antiques.
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife,
Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray;
Along the cool sequester'd vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, 1751
The physical legacy of the first four kings George is one of elegant design and craftsmanship rarely achieved since. Proportion, harmony, order, and balance suffused the arts and architecture. Civilized and secular, Georgian society of the mid-eighteenth century believed in a measured code of genteel manners, oligarchical government, and aristocratic fashions. They were a polite people, and that is evident in their country houses and ...