POCKET COMPANION FOR OXFORD: OR, GUIDE THROUGH THE UNIVERSITY; CONTAINING AN ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF THE PUBLIC EDIFICES, THE BUILDINGS IN EACH OF AND ALL OTHER CURIOSITIES IN THE UNIVERSITY. WITH AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE FOUNDATION OF THE SEVERAL COLLEGES AND THEIR PRESENT STATE. To which are added, DESCRIPTIONS OF THE BUILDINGS, TAPESTRY, PAINTINGS, Blenheim, Ditchley, Heythrop, and Nuneham, THE SEATS OF His Grace the Duke of Marlborough, A NEW EDITION, Corrected, much enlarged, and adorned with a Plan of the University OXFORD: Printed for J. COOKE, near the Clarendon Printing-House. Gough adds 1806. [Price Two Shillings.] See! Oxford lifts her Head fublime, Nor wants there Græcia's better Part, 'Mid the proud Piles of antient Art ; Nor decent Doric to dispense New Charms 'mid old Magnificence; And here and there foft Corinth weaves Her dædal Coronet of Leaves; While, as with rival Pride, her Tow'rs invade the Sky. WARTON'S Ode. S. Collingwood, Printer, Oxford. |