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In which we the Dimensions find
Of that more sober Age and Mind,
When larger sized Men did stoop
To enter at a narrow loop;
As practising, in doors so strait,
To strain themselves through Heavens Gate. Andrew Marvell – Upon Appleton House, to My Lord Fairfax
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Ah, the good old days! When houses were reasonably sized!

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But all things are composed here
Like Nature, orderly and near: Andrew Marvell – Upon Appleton House, to My Lord Fairfax
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Here Marvell shifts from philosophical musings about human nature and what our dwelling-places say about us to straight-up praise of Nun Appleton, the house where his patron, Thomas Fairfax, lives

The nicest thing you could say about a 17th-century English country house, which were hugely expensive and constructed with the utmost artifice, is that it’s just “like Nature”

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