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, ARTHE BLENHEIM AND NUNEHAM, THE SEATS OF BIR HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH, A NEW EDITION, Corrected, much enlarged, and adorned with a Plan of the University نا OXFORD: Printed for J. CoOKE, near the Clarendon Printing-Houfe. 1810. [Price Three Shillings.] See! Oxford lifts her Head fublime, Nor wants there Gracia's better Part, 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. |