Description of Nuneham-Courtenay, in the county of OxfordPrivately printed, 1806 - 68 pagina's |
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Pagina 34
... flowers drawn upon vellum , in Indian ink , covered with a plate glass , and is executed with much freedom and tafte . Under thefe , Montagne , by Jannet , a cu- rious ancient portrait . Two clear and beautiful Marines , with fi gures ...
... flowers drawn upon vellum , in Indian ink , covered with a plate glass , and is executed with much freedom and tafte . Under thefe , Montagne , by Jannet , a cu- rious ancient portrait . Two clear and beautiful Marines , with fi gures ...
Pagina 45
... flower- garden ) were laid out and planted by Brown , contain thirty - eight acres , and from the " knoll on which the house is fituated , command an extenfive prospect over all the intervening flat , as far as the towers of Oxford . In ...
... flower- garden ) were laid out and planted by Brown , contain thirty - eight acres , and from the " knoll on which the house is fituated , command an extenfive prospect over all the intervening flat , as far as the towers of Oxford . In ...
Pagina 47
... flower - garden was formed by him , and he fuggefted the alterations on the north terrace ; so that in a very small space we have fpecimens of his genius in mufic , painting , and poetry , of his tafte in improving the beauties of ...
... flower - garden was formed by him , and he fuggefted the alterations on the north terrace ; so that in a very small space we have fpecimens of his genius in mufic , painting , and poetry , of his tafte in improving the beauties of ...
Pagina 51
... covered with rofes and honeyfuckles ; and the path , after being carried through a very thick and clofe part of the plantation , unites with the upper walk . D & THE THE FLOWER GARDEN Has no visible connection with the pleasure- 51 1.
... covered with rofes and honeyfuckles ; and the path , after being carried through a very thick and clofe part of the plantation , unites with the upper walk . D & THE THE FLOWER GARDEN Has no visible connection with the pleasure- 51 1.
Pagina 52
... flowers , is inscribed : " Si l'Auteur de la nature eft grand dans les grandes chofes , il est très grand dans les petites . ' Fronting the gate , and backed by a mafs of fhrubs , is a buft of Flora , with the following infcription ...
... flowers , is inscribed : " Si l'Auteur de la nature eft grand dans les grandes chofes , il est très grand dans les petites . ' Fronting the gate , and backed by a mafs of fhrubs , is a buft of Flora , with the following infcription ...
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Bart beautiful beſt bower Buft Caftle chimney coheir daughter and heir daughter of John daughter of Sir defigned died diſtance door Duchefs Duke Earl Harcourt eldeſt Ellen Hall fame Faunus feat fecond wife feen feet 6 high fhade fhall fhrubs fide figh firſt Flower-Garden flowers fmall following infcription fon of Sir friendſhip garden Garter Geoffrey Vere glade Goddeſs ground heir of Sir Horace Walpole houfe houſe John Evelyn King Kneller Knight Lady Landſcape with figures left fide liam Lord Grey Lord Harcourt Mafon Mary moſt north terrace Nuneham Nuneham-Courtenay o'er Oppofite Oxford Oxfordshire poffeffion portrait Pouffin prefent Princefs proſpect Queen recefs repreſented Richard rife Robert Harcourt ſeen ſhades ſhall ſhe Simon Harcourt Sir John Sir John Blaquiere Sir William ſpot Stanton Harcourt thee thefe theſe thofe Thomas thoſe three following pictures trees vafe Vandergucht Vernon Viſcount Walter Clark Warwickshire Whitehead whofe wife of Sir wood
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Pagina 53 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Pagina 58 - My love, my life, said I, explain This change of humour : pr'ythee, tell : That falling tear — What does it mean ? She sigh'd ; she smil'd : and to the flowers Pointing, the lovely moralist said : See, friend, in some few fleeting hours, See yonder, what a change is made. Ah me! the blooming pride of May, And that of beauty are but one: At morn both...
Pagina 16 - Huntington Library Quarterly, IV (1941), 303 ff. DECEMBER 9(?). SO-CALLED ONSLOW PORTRAIT MADE. This original picture of Milton I bought in the year 1729 or 30 and paid 20 guineas for it of Mr Cumberbatch, a gentleman of very good consideration in Chester, who was a relation and executor of the will of Milton's last wife who died a little while before that time. He told me it hung up in her chamber till her death and...
Pagina 48 - Her tree could shield her from the noontide blaze And from the tempest screen her little seat. Here with her Colin oft the faithful maid, Had led the dance, the envious youths among. Here when his aged bones in earth were laid. The patient matron turned her wheel and sung.
Pagina 32 - KING'S DRESSING ROOM. Over the chimney, a Turkifti army on its inarch in Egypt, by Wyck. On the fide, Elizabeth, daughter of Simon Earl Harcourt, wife of Sir William Lee, Bart. of Hartwell, Bucks ; by Mifs Read. Mary le Pel, wife of John Baron Hervey of Ichworth, eldeft fon of John firft Earl of Briftol, of that family ; painted at Paris, by la Tour. A very curious ancient picture, of the Court of Wards and Liveries, with portraits of the Officers, Servants, and other perfons there affembled : the...
Pagina 4 - Calvert Wright, fold it to John Robinfon, of London, Merchant (temp. Ol. Cromwell) Knighted in 1660, by King Charles II. and made Lieutenant of the Tower. . From the Robinfons it defcended to David Earl of Wemys (who married Mary, Daughter and coheir of Sir John Robinfon, Baronet,) from whom it was purchafed in the Year 1710, by Simon, firft Lord Harcourt, Lord High Chancellor of England.
Pagina 19 - Paris. On the other fide, the Nativity, by Bronzino. Under it, St. John preaching in the Wildernefs, by Albano ; from the collection of the Earl of Waldegrave. Mars, Venus, and Cupids, by Nicolo Pouflin, very capital; from the collection of Mr.
Pagina 48 - Courtenay to iu present site, s'io petitioned for leave to remain in her old habitation. Her request was complied with, and her cottage not pulled down till after her death. A poem WHS written on this subject by Whitehead, and placed on a seat beneath the tree.
Pagina 25 - Banneret 1497, grandfon of the former, fon of Sir John, and 'Anne daughter of Sir John Norris. He was Standard-bearer to King Henry VII. at the battle of Bofworth.
Pagina 64 - Who thinn'd, and who group'd, and who scattered those trees, Who bade the slopes fall with that delicate ease, Who cast them in shade, and who plac'd them in light, Who bade them divide, and who bade them unite. The ridges are melted, the boundaries gone: Observe all these changes, and candidly own I have...