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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2010
Neville's Court is the most beautiful specimen of the collegiate quadrangle in Cambridge. The noble façade of the Library on one side—the Hall opposite to it, and the fair ranges of building which connect them—with the smooth grass plot in the midst unencroached on by gravel path, form a picture which gladdens the heart of every son of Trinity as he looks upon it, and is stored up in the memory amongst his recollections of the loveliest scenes it has been his lot to behold.
In Neville's Court there is nothing garish; there is no gay display of pinnacle and turret; its magnificence is sober and majestic. He therefore who would see it aright, should choose such time as the uneasy throng of students has ceased to pour through its cloisters, and the noise of mirth and revelry to sound from its chambers; when the moon softly beams on its grey walls, spangling the broad windows of the Library and throwing the cloisters into the deepest shade;—and the yellow light here and there shining from a casement tells of the midnight toils of those who still outwatch the Bear
With thrice great Hermes, and unsphere
The spirit of Plato.
The echoing steps of a solitary student are heard as he paces slowly along the gloomy pavement, to cool the blood burning in his temples after a long and arduous struggle with some occult problem.
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