A Pocket Companion FOR OXFORD: O R, Guide through the University. CONTAINING An accurate Description of the PUBLIC EDIFICES, the BUILDINGS in each of the COLLEGES; the GARDENS, STATUES, BUSTS, PICTURES; the HIEROGLYPHICS at MAGDALEN COLLEGE, and all other CURIOSITIES in the UNIVERSITY. With an Hiftorical Account of the Foundation of the Colleges, their History, and prefent State. WITH LISTS of the CHANCELLORS, HIGH-STEWARDS, VICECHANCELLORS, PROCTORS, HEADS of COLLEGES, PROFESSORS, LECTURERS, &c. Adorned with a PLAN and other COPPER-PLATES. To which are added, Correct Descriptions of the BUILDINGS, the TAPESTRY, PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES, TEMPLES, GARDENS, and all other Curiofities at BLENHEIM, DITCHLEY, and STOW, His Grace the Duke of MARLBOROUGH, And feveral other confiderable Houfes and Gardens in the Neighbourhood. A NEW EDITION, Corrected and much Enlarged. OXFORD, Printed for DANIEL PRINCE, near the Clarendon PrintingHoufe; JOHN RIVINGTON, in St. Paul's Church-Yard,, and R. BALDWIN, in Pater-nofter-Row, London. 1764. See! Oxford lifts her Head sublime, 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. WARTON'S Ode. |