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New Oxford Guide: Or Humorous Supplement To All Former Accounts, Ofthat Ancient City And University.
exercise is regularly performed both morning and afternoon . Add to these , certain schools , familiarly denominated billiard tables , where the laws of motion are exemplified , and which may be considered as a necessary supplement to our courses of experimental philosophy . Nor must we omit the many nine-pin and skittle alleys , open and dry , for the instruction of scholars in geometrical knowledge , and particularlyfor proving the centripetal principle .
, Other schools , and places of academical discipline , not-generally known as such , may be . mentioned . The peripatetics execute the courses proper to their system , upon the parade . Navigation is learnt , on the Isis ; gunnery , on the adjacent hills ; horsemanship , on Port-Meadow , Buliington-Green , the Henley , Wycombe , Woodstock , Abingdonand Banbury roads . The axis in Peritrochio is admirabl
, y illustrated by a scheme in a phaeton . Adjoining to the east end of Carfax church are to be found the imperfect traces of a place properly dedicated to the muses , and . described in our statutes , by the familiar , but forbidding , denomination of Pennyless-Bench . -History and tradition report , that many eminent poets have been benchers here . To this seat of / the muses we
are , most probably , indebted for that celebrated poem , the Splendid Shilling of Phillips : and that the author of the Panegyric on Oxford Ale was no stranger to this inspiring bench , may be concluded from these verses , where he addresses the god , or goddess of Ticking , ' Beneath thy shelter , pennyless , I quaff The
' cheering cup . '' — We wish some future genius may arise , to lament the change which modern barbarism has produced . in this valuable antiquity—Nothing which formerly belonged to it now remains , except two ferocious warriors , clad in coats of mail , originally placed above , to admonish the loiterers , by their significant strokes at just intervals , of the rapid flight of time .
The original pavement of the classic ground beneath , has not indeed been destroyed ; but the seat itself has been rudely torn away , and the hospitable covering , which formerly protected the sons of contemplative indigence , is at present abridged to an useless scanty border , which looks like an apology for the devastation committed upon the former venerable canopy . At no very great distancein the Hih-streetwe find an antique
, g , column of a tetragonal construction , opposite to a venerable gothic building , called the Black Pot House . This column , at present , supplies the neighbouring inhabitants with water , by means of an engine artfully inclosed in the midst of it ; and , as it still retains on its top two distinct heads , or bustos , has acquired the vulgar appellation of the two-faced pump . —Various have been the conjectures of the
learned concerning- this inestimable piece of antiquity . The late industrious and indefatigable Dr . Kawlinsoii' affirms it to have been a complete and genuine Roman Priapus , but suspects that the members have been'impaired vitio tanporis , Others imagine that the double
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New Oxford Guide: Or Humorous Supplement To All Former Accounts, Ofthat Ancient City And University.
exercise is regularly performed both morning and afternoon . Add to these , certain schools , familiarly denominated billiard tables , where the laws of motion are exemplified , and which may be considered as a necessary supplement to our courses of experimental philosophy . Nor must we omit the many nine-pin and skittle alleys , open and dry , for the instruction of scholars in geometrical knowledge , and particularlyfor proving the centripetal principle .
, Other schools , and places of academical discipline , not-generally known as such , may be . mentioned . The peripatetics execute the courses proper to their system , upon the parade . Navigation is learnt , on the Isis ; gunnery , on the adjacent hills ; horsemanship , on Port-Meadow , Buliington-Green , the Henley , Wycombe , Woodstock , Abingdonand Banbury roads . The axis in Peritrochio is admirabl
, y illustrated by a scheme in a phaeton . Adjoining to the east end of Carfax church are to be found the imperfect traces of a place properly dedicated to the muses , and . described in our statutes , by the familiar , but forbidding , denomination of Pennyless-Bench . -History and tradition report , that many eminent poets have been benchers here . To this seat of / the muses we
are , most probably , indebted for that celebrated poem , the Splendid Shilling of Phillips : and that the author of the Panegyric on Oxford Ale was no stranger to this inspiring bench , may be concluded from these verses , where he addresses the god , or goddess of Ticking , ' Beneath thy shelter , pennyless , I quaff The
' cheering cup . '' — We wish some future genius may arise , to lament the change which modern barbarism has produced . in this valuable antiquity—Nothing which formerly belonged to it now remains , except two ferocious warriors , clad in coats of mail , originally placed above , to admonish the loiterers , by their significant strokes at just intervals , of the rapid flight of time .
The original pavement of the classic ground beneath , has not indeed been destroyed ; but the seat itself has been rudely torn away , and the hospitable covering , which formerly protected the sons of contemplative indigence , is at present abridged to an useless scanty border , which looks like an apology for the devastation committed upon the former venerable canopy . At no very great distancein the Hih-streetwe find an antique
, g , column of a tetragonal construction , opposite to a venerable gothic building , called the Black Pot House . This column , at present , supplies the neighbouring inhabitants with water , by means of an engine artfully inclosed in the midst of it ; and , as it still retains on its top two distinct heads , or bustos , has acquired the vulgar appellation of the two-faced pump . —Various have been the conjectures of the
learned concerning- this inestimable piece of antiquity . The late industrious and indefatigable Dr . Kawlinsoii' affirms it to have been a complete and genuine Roman Priapus , but suspects that the members have been'impaired vitio tanporis , Others imagine that the double