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POCKET COMPANION

FOR

OXFORD:

OR,

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, their History and present State.

Adorned with a PLAN of the UNIVERSITY and CITY, and other PLATES.

To which are added,

Descriptions of the BUILDINGs, the TAPESTRY, PAINT-
INGS, SCULPTURES, TEMPLES, GARDENS, &c. at
BLENHEIM, DITCHLEY, and STOW,
The SEATs of

His Grace the Duke of MARLBOROUGH,
The Right Honourable the Earl of LITCHFIELD,
The Right Honourable the Earl TEMPLE.

A NEW EDITION, Corrected and much Enlarged.

OXFORD,

Printed for DANIEL PRINCE, near the Clarendon PrintingHoufe; and Sold by JoHN RIVINGTON, in St. Paul's

Church-Yard, London.

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See! Oxford lifts her Head fublime,

Majestic in the Moss of Time;

Nor wants there Gracia's better Part,

'Mid the proud Piles of ancient Art;

Nor decent Doric to difpenfe

New Charms 'mid old Magnificence;

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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.

Alban Hall

All Souls College

Balliol College

Blenheim Caftle, the Seat of his Grace the Duke
of Marlborough, near Woodstock

-it's Gardens and Park

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Chancellors, Vice-chancellors, &c. Lift of

Chrift-Church, Cathedral and College

Hall

Library, and Collection of Pictures 93

Clarendon Printing-House

Corpus Chrifti College

Ditchley, the feat of the Right Honourable the
Earl of Litchfield

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Lifts of Chancellors, Vice-Chancellors, Heads of

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