POCKET COMPANION FOR OXFORD: O R, Guide through the University. CONTAINING An accurate Defcription 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, Defcriptions of the BUILDINGS, TAPESTRY, PAINTINGS, His Grace, the Duke of MARLBOROUGH, The Right Honourable the Earls of LITCHFIELD, ShrewsBURY, and HARCOURT; and the MARQUIS of BUCK INGHAM. 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. M DCC LXXXIX. Gough Adds Orford, 8th 94 2. 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. |