In
<cae1xxdgp1no8vmefjzwn75nbgmoxrwdxzdrfu+4o+gnsdyy...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 07/05/2013
   at 05:14 PM, John Gilmore <jwgli...@gmail.com> said:

>The Shakespearean epithet "aw[e]ful, pompous, and artificial" was
>adapted by Charles II, who used it, with highly complimentary intent,
>to describe his first impressions of Sir Christopher Wren's St Paul's
>Cathedral.

It is certainly true that Poul Anderson (z"l) wrote a reference to
that claim in "A Tragedy of Errors", but see
<http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/10/31/st-pauls-cathedral/>.
 
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