A New Pocket Companion for Oxford, Or Guide Through 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, Etc. at Blenkeim and NunehamJ. Cooke, 1810 |
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... elegant and useful improvements that have taken place , in pursuance of an Act of Parliament obtained in the 11th year of his present Majesty . - The nar- row and incommodious passage at East Gate has been opened , which renders this ...
... elegant and useful improvements that have taken place , in pursuance of an Act of Parliament obtained in the 11th year of his present Majesty . - The nar- row and incommodious passage at East Gate has been opened , which renders this ...
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... elegant modern structure , much in the style of many of the new Churches in London . It is beautified , both within and without , with Corinthian pilasters , and finished with an attic story and balustrade . There is no pillar in the ...
... elegant modern structure , much in the style of many of the new Churches in London . It is beautified , both within and without , with Corinthian pilasters , and finished with an attic story and balustrade . There is no pillar in the ...
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... elegant piece of architecture . The design is ascribed to Inigo Jones ; nor is it unworthy of that archi- tect . It was executed by Nicholas Stone , se- nior . In the centre over the arch is a bust of the Founder , Lord Danby . On the ...
... elegant piece of architecture . The design is ascribed to Inigo Jones ; nor is it unworthy of that archi- tect . It was executed by Nicholas Stone , se- nior . In the centre over the arch is a bust of the Founder , Lord Danby . On the ...
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... elegant sculpture . That on the right , in a kneeling posture , represents the Founder ; the next , William of Wykeham , the Founder of the two St. Mary Winton Colleges ; that in the middle , St. Mary Magdalen , to whom the College is ...
... elegant sculpture . That on the right , in a kneeling posture , represents the Founder ; the next , William of Wykeham , the Founder of the two St. Mary Winton Colleges ; that in the middle , St. Mary Magdalen , to whom the College is ...
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... the peal of eight , and other consider- able benefactions . The altar was built , in the present manner , about the year 1730. The design is elegant , ` and the workmanship well performed : besides the common 34 NEW COMPANION.
... the peal of eight , and other consider- able benefactions . The altar was built , in the present manner , about the year 1730. The design is elegant , ` and the workmanship well performed : besides the common 34 NEW COMPANION.
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ante-chapel Archbishop arched beautiful benefactors Bishop Bishop of Lincoln Bishop of Winchester building built Bust centre Chancellor Chapel Charles chimney Christ Church cloister collection Common Room consists contains Corpus Christi College court curious D. D. Late daughter Dean Ditto door Duchess Duke of Marlborough east Edward elegant entrance erected Exeter College feet in length Fellows figures Founder front gallery Garden gate gateway Gothic Hall handsome head Henry High-street Holy Family inches high Ionic order James John Duke King Kneller Lady Landscape Late and preſent lege Library Lord Magdalen Magdalen College marble Mary Master ment Merton College north side opposite Oriel College ornamented Oxford painted picture piece portraits present Principal Profeffor Provost quadrangle Queen Rector roof Rubens Saviour Scholars Simon Sir Nathaniel Lloyd Sir William Society spacious statue Thomas Titian tower University Vandyck Visitor wainscot window
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Página 155 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That, in the various bustle of resort, Were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired. 380 He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i...
Página 130 - University is a corporate body, described through a succession of ages by the style or title of the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Oxford. It is governed by statutes of its own making.
Página 135 - TO THE MEMORY OF QUEEN ANNE UNDER WHOSE AUSPICES JOHN DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH CONQUERED AND TO WHOSE MUNIFICENCE HE AND HIS POSTERITY WITH GRATITUDE OWE THE POSSESSION OF BLENHEIM.
Página 157 - My love, my life, said I, explain This change of humour : pr'ythee, tell : That falling tear — What does it mean ? She sigh'd ; she smil'd : and to the flowers Pointing, the lovely moralist said : See, friend, in some few fleeting hours, See yonder, what a change is made. Ah me! the blooming pride of May, And that of beauty are but one: At morn both flourish bright and gay, Both fade at evening, pale, and gone; At dawn poor Stella...
Página 48 - In 1711, the profits arising from the sale of Lord Clarendon's History of the Rebellion, the copyright of which had been given to the University by his son...
Página 142 - HARCOURT. .AT the general survey this manor belonged to Richard de Curcy : afterwards to the Family of Riparys, or Redvers. Mary...
Página 141 - The Castle of BLENHEIM was founded by Queen ANNE, In the Fourth Year of her Reign, In the Year of the Christian JEra 1705. A Monument designed to perpetuate the Memory of the Signal Victory Obtained over the French and Bavarians, Near the Village of...
Página 85 - I have mentioned, than that famous picture of king Charles the First, which has the whole book of psalms written in the lines of the face, and the hair of the head. When I was last at Oxford I perused one of the whiskers, and was reading the other...
Página 141 - Reconcil'd various, and even opposite Interests ; Acquired an Influence Which no Rank, no Authority can give, Nor any Force, but that of superior Virtue ; Became the fixed important Centre, Which united, in one common Cause, The principal States of EUROPE ; Who, by military Knowledge, and irresistible Valour, In a long Series of uninterrupted Triumphs, Broke the Power of FRANCE, When raised the highest, when exerted the most, Rescued the EMPIRE from Desolation : Asserted and confirmed the Liberties...
Página 55 - Wykeham, one of his firft fet of Fellows at New College in Oxford, where he took the degree of Doctor of C'ivil Law. He was Archdeacon of Sarum, and afterwards Chancellor of the fame Church ; and becoming known to Henry IV. was fent on feveral embaffies by that Monarch, and advanced firft to the Bifhopric of St. David's, in which...