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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1805. Excerpt: ... STANTON HARCOURT. rTT,HE village of Stanton Harcourt, in Oxfordshire, lies about four miles west of Oxford, and thirty-two from Reading. It takes its name from the family of the Harcourts of Normandy, who settled here soon after the Conquest. The first Barony was granted to Sir Simon Harcourt, Lord High Chancellor in the reign of Queen Ann,.by the title of Baron Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt. The earldom was created in 1749. The mansion, which has a venerable appearance, is famous for a kitchen of apparently great antiquity, being constructed without a chimney, shutters being contrived beneath the eaves of the roof, for the purpose of letting out the smoke; the windows are supposed, from their form, to have been inserted about the time of Henry the Fourth. The chapel belonging to the mansion is no longer in use, but still retains its painted and gilded ornaments in the ceiling, in pretty good preservation. Mr. Pope was on a visit at this place in 1718, when he finished the translation of the fifth b'uk of the Iliad, which he commemorated by the following inscription, still preserved, on a pane of glass, in one of the windows: "In the year 1718 "ALEXANDER PoPE finished here the « fifth volume of HOMER." Near the house is the church, a small but neat building, in which are several monuments; among which, on a marble tablet, is the following epiiaph, written by Mr. Pope, on the two lovers, John and Sarah Drew, who were struck dead by lightning, as they were making hay in a field near the church: Think. Ireland's Thames. Think not, by rig'rous judgment seiz'd, A pair so faithful could expire; Victims so pure, Heav'n saw well pleas'd, And snatch'd them in celestial fire. Live well, and fear no sudden fate: When God calls virtue to the grave, Alike, 'tis ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1805. Excerpt: ... STANTON HARCOURT. rTT,HE village of Stanton Harcourt, in Oxfordshire, lies about four miles west of Oxford, and thirty-two from Reading. It takes its name from the family of the Harcourts of Normandy, who settled here soon after the Conquest. The first Barony was granted to Sir Simon Harcourt, Lord High Chancellor in the reign of Queen Ann,.by the title of Baron Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt. The earldom was created in 1749. The mansion, which has a venerable appearance, is famous for a kitchen of apparently great antiquity, being constructed without a chimney, shutters being contrived beneath the eaves of the roof, for the purpose of letting out the smoke; the windows are supposed, from their form, to have been inserted about the time of Henry the Fourth. The chapel belonging to the mansion is no longer in use, but still retains its painted and gilded ornaments in the ceiling, in pretty good preservation. Mr. Pope was on a visit at this place in 1718, when he finished the translation of the fifth b'uk of the Iliad, which he commemorated by the following inscription, still preserved, on a pane of glass, in one of the windows: "In the year 1718 "ALEXANDER PoPE finished here the « fifth volume of HOMER." Near the house is the church, a small but neat building, in which are several monuments; among which, on a marble tablet, is the following epiiaph, written by Mr. Pope, on the two lovers, John and Sarah Drew, who were struck dead by lightning, as they were making hay in a field near the church: Think. Ireland's Thames. Think not, by rig'rous judgment seiz'd, A pair so faithful could expire; Victims so pure, Heav'n saw well pleas'd, And snatch'd them in celestial fire. Live well, and fear no sudden fate: When God calls virtue to the grave, Alike, 'tis ...
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