The pictures are innumerable; I think, four times as many as in the castle of Blenheim.
Into one of the galleries opens the king's bedchamber, ornamented above all the rest. The
bed-curtains are cloth-of-gold and so richly wrought that it requires some strength to draw
them. The tables, the chairs, the frames of the looking-glasses, are all plated over with silver.
The tapestry, representing the whole history of Nebuchadnezzar, is as fresh as if newly
woven. But the bed-curtains are exceedingly dirty, and look more like copper than gold.
The silver on the tables, chairs, and glass, looks as dull as lead. And, to complete all, King
Nebuchadnezzar among the beasts, together with his eagle's claws, has a large crown upon
his head and is clothed in scarlet and gold.
The Journal of John Wesley
The Journal of John Wesley
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