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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, STATUES,
PICTURES, HIEROGLYPHICS,

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,
SCULPTURES, TEMPLES, GARDENS, &C. AT

ARTHE

BLENHEIM AND NUNEHAM,

THE SEATS OF

BIR

HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH,
AND EARL HARCOURT.

A NEW EDITION,

Corrected, much enlarged, and adorned with a Plan of the University
and City, and Eight other Plates.

نا

OXFORD:

Printed for J. CoOKE, near the Clarendon Printing-Houfe.

1810.

[Price Three Shillings.]

See! Oxford lifts her Head fublime,
Majestic in the Mofs of Time;

Nor wants there Gracia'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.

Collingwood and Co. Oxford.

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Blenheim Castle, the Seat of his Grace the Duke of

Marlborough, near Woodstock

Botanic or Physic Garden

Brafen-Nose College

Christ-Church, Cathedral, and College

Hall

Chancellors, Vice-Chancellors, &c. Lift of

Library, and Collection of Pictures

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Lift of Chancellors, Vice-Chancellors, Heads of

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