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 feveral Colleges, and their prefent State. To which are added, Descriptions of the BUILDINGS, TAPESTRY, PAINTINGS, His Grace the Duke of MARLBOROUGH, A NEW EDITION, Corrected, much Enlarged, and Adorned with a PLAN of the UNIVERSITY and CITY, and Six other PLATES. OXFORD, Printed for D. PRINCE, and J. CooKE, near the Clarendon Printing-Houfe; and Sold by J. F. and C. RIVINGTON, in London. M DCC LXXXIII. See! Oxford lifts her Head fublime, Nor wants there Gracia's better Part, 'Mid the proud Piles of ancient Art; Nor decent Doric to dispense New Charms 'mid old Magnificence; And here and there soft Corinth weaves Her dædal Coronet of Leaves; While, as with rival Pride, her Tow'rs invade the Sky. Alban Hall All Saints Church All Souls College Arundel Marbles Aftronomical Obfervatory Balliol College Page 86 7 39 10 24 57 97 8 24 45 92 78 79 Blenheim Castle, the Seat of his Grace the Duke of Marlborough, near Woodstock Chancellors, Vice-chancellors, &c. Lift of Chrift-Church, Cathedral and College Hall Library, and Collection of Pictures 82 Clarendon Printing-Houfe Corpus Chrifti College Ditchley, the feat of the Right Honourable the Exeter College 21 73 109 63 General Defcription of Oxford, and it's Environs I Governors and Heads of Colleges and Halls, Lift of 89 Hertford College Heythrop the Seat of the Right Honourable the Jefus College Lincoln College Lifts of Chancellors, Vice-Chancellors, Heads of 46 115 65 67 92 26 88 75 Museum |