Verse, 1764-1870, n.d.
File
MS. Eng. d. 3886
Comprises:
- (fols. ii-xi) an index of contents
- (fol. 1) hymn 'to Lady Fitzgerald by Lord Sandwich, on his finding her in company with Madin', 1764
- (fols. 2-3) 'Ode to Lord Temple' by William Wyndham Grenville, Sept. 1773
- (fols. 4-5) 'Ode for the year 1774' for Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt, by George Ridsdale
- (fols. 6-7) verse, for Elizabeth Harcourt, Viscountess Nuneham, commencing 'those charms, that in the gen'ral voice' by George Ridsdale, Dec. 1773
- (fol. 8) verse, for the Honourable Mrs Sedley, commencing 'will you (tho' true what sterne enforces that we must have our hobby horses)' by unidentified, n.d.
- (fol. 9) verse commencing 'I am not what I was, but quite the reverse' by unidentified, n.d.
- (fols. 10-11) verse, for Mrs Montagu, commencing 'new to the world at first the bashful maid' by Dean Marley, n.d.
- (fol. 12) verse titled 'On seeing the model of Mrs Montagu' by Samuel Johnson, n.d.
- (fol. 13) verse 'to the memory of John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer' commencing 'if e'er sincerity inscrib'd the stone' by unidentified, n.d.
- (fols. 14-15) verse titled 'On Happpiness' by Miss Wilmot, n.d.
- (fols. 16-17) verse titled 'A riddle' commencing 'I from a famous race am sprung' by the Hon. Mrs Walsingham, n.d.
- (fol. 18) verse, 'left in the flower garden at Nuneham', commencing 'welcome to this delightful cell' by General Johnston, 1786
- (fol. 19) verse titled 'Advertisement' commencing 'the King in his wisdom (it makes me quite frantic)' by unidentified, n.d.
- (fols. 20-1) verse commencing 'lady, hearken, enter not' by unidentified, Aug. 1794
- (fol. 22) verse titled 'On May morning new stile' commencing 'now the bright silver mug, Day's harbinger' by Frances Hay, n.d.
- (fol. 23) verse 'on hearing of the sudden death of the Reverend Mr Mason at the age of seventy two' by Frances Hay, [c.1797]
- (fol. 25) 'Epitaph on the most noble Douglas Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton Brandon &c 1799' by unidentified
- (fol. 26) verse, for Sir John Blaquiere, commencing 'what's angry Tisdal's secret aim' by unidentified, n.d.
- (fols. 27-32) letter to unidentified from Dr. Darwin concerning his intention to render Elizabeth Raffield's 'The Compleat English Housewife' into verse and enclosing specimens of 'plum pudding' in the forms of a song, a meditation, an ode, and an elegy, n.d.
- (fols. 33-4) 'Ode on the anniversary of her majesty's birth day most respectfully inscribed to the Earl of Harcourt' commencing 'hail britons, hail, the fair auspicious morn' by unidentified, n.d.
- (fol. 35) verse, 'collected from the Midsummer Night's Dream by Thomas Pitt', commencing 'ah me! for ought that ever I could know' by William Shakespeare, n.d.
- (fol. 36) verse commencing 'Sexton! oh lay beneath this sacred shrine' by Erasmus Darwin, n.d.
- (fol. 37) 'Inscription in a grove to the memory of Doctor Small by Doctor Darwin', n.d.
- (fol. 38) verse, for Elizabeth Harcourt, Viscountess Nuneham, commencing 'bright star of Britain, fairest of the fair', n.d.
- (fol. 39) 'Epitaph on the Countess of Denbigh' by Mary Elizabeth Nugent, Countess Temple, n.d.
- (fol. 40) verse 'On reading Mrs Piozzi's ancedotes - Mr Boswell's tour to the Hebrides - & other publications relative to the character of Dr Samuel Johnson' by unidentified, n.d.
- (fols. 41-2) 'An ode to science' by [Mark?] Akenside, n.d.
- (fol. 43) verse commencing 'come listen my friends to an old dog's new story' by unidentified, n.d.
- (fol. 44) verse commencing 't'other day as I walked in the park' by unidentified, n.d.
- (fol. 45) verse commencing 'a Tribe of holy priests in days of Yore' by unidentified, n.d.
- (fol. 46) verse commencing 'oh where is the sweetness that dwells on that lip' by Mary Tighe, in the hand of George Granville Harcourt, n.d.
- (fol. 47) verse commencing 'Willesby Pole has the mint, but need never attend' in the hand of George Granville Harcourt, n.d.
- (fol. 48) verse 'to a lady called from her activity Atlanta' in the hand of George Granville Harcourt, 1805
- (fol. 48r) verse titled 'To the same complaining on her birthday of the Sun's absence commencing 'Obscur'd his light, eclipsed his ray' by unidentified, 1805
- (fols. 49-50) verse commencing 'again reviving nature sheds' in the hand of George Granville Harcourt, n.d.
- (fol. 50) stanza, attributed to [Lady Byron?] commencing 'No, Lady, no - though Byron's hand' in the hand of George Granville Harcourt, n.d.
- (fols. 51-2) verse commencing 'for whom today shall minstrel bard' in the hand of George Granville Harcourt, n.d
- (fols. 53-4) verse titled 'To spring' by unidentified, n.d.
- (fols. 55-6) 'verses written New Years Day 1805' commencing 'old creeping time hath op'd the year' by unidentified, n.d.
- (fol. 57) verse commencing 'as near to my heart as the church to the steeple' by Thomas Pitt, n.d.
- (fol. 58) verse titled 'On the English' by unidentified, n.d.
- (fol. 59) verse commencing 'soft spirit of the genial shower' by George Richards, June 1806
- (fols. 60-1) verse titled 'Invitation to Nuneham' by George Richards, 1807
- (fols. 62-3) verse commencing 'the muse, who on the Chian sage' by George Richards, n.d.
- (fols. 64-5) verse titled 'The dead soldier' by George Richards, n.d.
- (fol. 66) verse titled 'Chivalry' by George Richards, n.d.
- (fols. 67) verse, for the Honourable Anne Seymour [Damer?], commencing 'go, humble muse, at Twickenham's Gothic Bower' by George Richards, Sept. 1808
- (fols. 69-70) verse titled 'Night bagshaws at Nuneham' by George Richards, n.d.
- (fols. 71-2) 'Ode to peace' by unidentified, n.d.
- (fol. 73) 'Epitaph on Prince Lee Boo' by Francis Haggitt, n.d.
- (fols. 74-5) verse commencing 'what tho' with me no muses deign to stray' by Francis Haggitt, Aug. 1808
- (fols. 75-6) 'Ode on the abolition of the slave trade' by unidentified, [c.1807?]
- (fol. 77) verse titled 'Tabby's purraby to her chicken' by William Robert Spencer, n.d.
- (fol. 78) verse commencing 'ah memory! remembrance! thou hast many a shrine around' by unidentified, n.d.
- (fol. 79) verse titled 'An ideal visit to Lady Harcourt's flower-garden after reading a description of Nuneham' by C. Dunsted, Jan. 1802
- (fols. 80-1) verse commencing 'while tuneful Greville sweetly sings' by unidentified, n.d.
- (fol. 82) 'A new song of old sayings' by unidentified, n.d.
- (fols. 83-4) verse commencing 'I find, dear Coz, you're come to town' by Mrs Kennicott, n.d.
- (fol. 85) verse, addressed to George Simon Harcourt, 2nd Earl Harcourt, commencing 'for twice fifteen long hours I've been deprived' by Mrs Kennicott, n.d.
- (fol. 86) 'Verses occassioned by a Poet, soi-disant Pindar, having (in a poem on the Bath Beauties) praised Lady Margaret Fordyce for nothing but a dimple' by unidentified, n.d.
- (fols. 87-8) verse 'written on hearing a cuckoo in the valley of St. Saba' commencing 'what sounds are those you rocks impart' by unidentified, n.d.
- (fol. 89) verse 'On the demolition of Pope's villa' commencing 'genius of Twit'nam! Tell me why' by unidentified, 1807
- (fol. 90) verse commencing 'disdain not a repaste' by unidentified, n.d.
- (fol. 91) verse commencing 'oft have we wonder'd why on Irish ground' by Sir Robert Dallas, n.d.
- (fol. 92) ode 'On the marriage of Lord Palmerston' by John Burgoyne, n.d.
- (fol. 93) verse titled 'Parody upon the vicar of Bray' by unidentified, n.d.
- (fol. 94) verse, addressed to Lady Caroline Lamb on the christening of her son, commencing 'grant heaven! sweet babe, thou may'st inherit' by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Oct. 1807
- (fols. 95-6) verse titled 'The old hag in a red cloak' by George Watson-Taylor, n.d.
- (fol. 97) charade, addressed to Catherine Maria Fanshawe, commencing 'my first is oft descried with longing eyes' by unidentified, n.d.
- (fol. 98r) epitaph, for a monument to the Seward family, commencing 'to him who asks why o'er this tablet spread' by Walter Scott, n.d.
- (fols. 98v-99) hymn titled 'Common Metre: prosperity and adversity' by Dr Darwin, n.d.
- (fol. 100) epigram, 'written on a window at Windsor by an Eton Scholar', commencing 'you may send, it ought shou'd ail ye', n.d.
- (fol. 101) verse commencing 'scholars are bookworms as tis said' by unidentified, n.d.
- (fols. 102-103r) verse commencing 'one morn I rose at break of day' by unidentified, 1810
- (fol. 103v) verse commencing 'why does the tear drop sparkle in my eye' by unidentified, 1811
- (fols. 104-5) verse, addressed to Elizabeth Harcourt, Countess Harcourt, titled 'Memory & hope' by R. N. French
- (fols. 106-7) verse titled 'A day of Lady Mary Coke, versified, from her own prose' by unidentified, n.d.
- (fol. 108) verse, addressed to Sarah Child-Villiers, Countess of Jersey, commencing 'when the vain triumph of the imperial Lord' by George Byron, 6th Baron Byron, [c.1814]
- (fols. 109-10) verse, addressed to Elizabeth Harcourt, Countess Harcourt, commencing 'ah! Never must the critic's eye' by Mrs Mildmay, n.d.
- (fol. 111) verse, addressed to Elizabeth Harcourt, Countess Harcourt, commencing 'from all the duties, all the cares of life' by unidentified, n.d.
- (fol. 112) verse, addressed to the infant child of Lord and Lady Anson, commencing 'sweet lovely infant smile on me' by unidentified, Sept. 1823
- (fol. 113) verse, addressed to George Richards, titled 'Nuneham' commencing 'yes, blooming health delighted roves' in the hand of Elizabeth Harcourt, Countess Harcourt, n.d.
- (fols. 114-19) verse, addressed to George Simon Harcourt, 2nd Earl Harcourt, 'occassioned by his saying that the antient way of spelling Catherine was with a K', commencing'and can his antiquarian eyes' by Catherine Maria Fanshawe, n.d.
- (fol. 120) charade commencing 'inscrib'd on many a learned page' by Catherine Maria Fanshawe, n.d.
- (fol. 121) verse, 'written at Brighthelmstone on Christmas Eve 1801 on hearing the Christmas carols sung in the night', commencing 'the night was calm, & deep repose' by Catherine Maria Fanshawe, n.d.
- (fols. 122-3) verse, 'composed while lying on a sick bed', commencing 'returning from the gates of death' by Catherine Maria Fanshawe, Jan. 1796
- (fol. 124) verse titled 'The gloves an heroic poem' by Lady Douglas, n.d.
- (fols. 126-7) prologue, 'on opening the threatre at Sydney Botany Bay' commencing 'from distant climes, o'er wide spread Seas we come' by [George?] Barrington, in the hand of Elizabeth Harcourt, Countess Harcourt, n.d.
- (fols. 128-9) verse titled 'The folly of atheism' by Dr Darwin, n.d.
- (fols. 130-1) verse commencing 'oh thou all great, all mercifull, all wise' by Mrs D., in the hand of Elizabeth Harcourt, Countess Harcourt, n.d.
- (fol. 132) verse titled 'A voice from the highlands' by Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere, n.d.
- (fol. 133) verse titled 'Receipt for a sallad' by Sydney Smith, n.d.
- (fol. 134) verse, addressed to Elizabeth Harcourt, Viscountess Nuneham, titled 'A nosegay' by John Willis, n.d.
- (fol. 135) verse titled 'The tear', in the hand of Elizabeth Harcourt, Countess Harcourt, n.d.
- (fol. 136) verse commencing 'and ere each day's revolving sun' by Lady Charoltte Bury, n.d.
- (fol. 137r) verse, in Latin, titled 'Zedekiah excacatus' by unidentified, n.d.
- (fols. 137v-138r) verse, in Latin, titled 'Angelus ad sepulchrum' by unidentified, n.d.
- (fol. 138r) verse titled 'Sanctum est vetus omne Póéma' by unidentified, n.d.
- (fol. 138v) verse, in Latin, titled 'Scriptorum chorus omnis amat nemus' by unidentified, n.d.
- (fols. 139-40) verse, in Latin, titled 'Alituum genus spiritus intus alit' by unidentified, n.d.
- (fols. 141-4) verse in Latin and Greek by unidentified, n.d.
- (fol. 145) verse, in Latin, addressed to George Granville Venables-Vernon, commencing 'Esto quicquid abrique serviabat' by Francis Wrangham, May 1826
- (fol. 146) latin translation of Montgomery's verse titled 'friend' by Francis Wrangham, n.d.
- (fol. 147r) two hymns, addressed to [William Venables-Vernon?], commencing Messiah! at this glad approach' and 'whee high the [heavenly?] temple stands' by Francis Francis Wrangham, n.d.
- (fol. 147v) verse commencing 'he who asks for [miners smitten?] stood' [in the hand of William Vernon Harcourt], n.d.
- (fol. 148) translation of Latin verse into English commencing 'this [gem?], twice destined to reward' by Francis Wrangham, n.d.
- (fol. 149) verse, in Latin, 'dictated by the Rev. W. Harcourt a few weeks before he died', titled 'Vota pro amico', in the hand of Edward William Harcourt, 1871
Dates
- 1764-1870, n.d.
Extent
152 Leaves
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MS. Eng. d. 3886
Repository Details
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