A New Pocket Companion for Oxford: Or, Guide Through the University. Containing an Accurate Description of the Public Edifices, the Buildings in Each of the Colleges; the Gardens, ... To which are Added, Descriptions of ... Blenheim, Ditchley, Heythrop, Nuneham and Stow, ... A New Edition, Corrected, Much Enlarged, and Adorned with a Plan of the University and City, and Six Other PlatesJ. Cooke, 1798 - 152 pages |
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Page 105
... Inscription : To the Memory of Queen ANNE , Under whofe Aufpices JOHN Duke of MARLBOROUGH Conquered , And to whofe Munificence He and his Pofterity With Gratitude Owe the Poffeffion of BLENHEIM . A. D. MDCCXXVI . Over the marble Door is ...
... Inscription : To the Memory of Queen ANNE , Under whofe Aufpices JOHN Duke of MARLBOROUGH Conquered , And to whofe Munificence He and his Pofterity With Gratitude Owe the Poffeffion of BLENHEIM . A. D. MDCCXXVI . Over the marble Door is ...
Page 107
... near the eaftern limits of the new improvements . On one fide of this fountain , is the fubfequent Latin inscription ; and on the E thrie three other fides is the fame in three different languages TOUR TO BLENHEIM . 107.
... near the eaftern limits of the new improvements . On one fide of this fountain , is the fubfequent Latin inscription ; and on the E thrie three other fides is the fame in three different languages TOUR TO BLENHEIM . 107.
Page 130
... Inscription : When Epicurus to the World had taught , That Pleasure was the chiefeft good , His life he to his doctrine brought , And in a Garden's fhade , that fovereign good he fought . COWLEY . In In a more wild and retired part of ...
... Inscription : When Epicurus to the World had taught , That Pleasure was the chiefeft good , His life he to his doctrine brought , And in a Garden's fhade , that fovereign good he fought . COWLEY . In In a more wild and retired part of ...
Page 143
... Inscription in Monkish Latin Verse . Cur gaudes , Satana , muliebrem fumere formam ? Non facies voti casti me rumpere normam . Heus fugite in cellam ; pulchram vitate puellam ; Nam radix mortis fuit olim fœmina in hortis . Satan , why ...
... Inscription in Monkish Latin Verse . Cur gaudes , Satana , muliebrem fumere formam ? Non facies voti casti me rumpere normam . Heus fugite in cellam ; pulchram vitate puellam ; Nam radix mortis fuit olim fœmina in hortis . Satan , why ...
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