[Footnote 46: Wordsworth in "The Prelude" tells us how he loved "The antechapel, where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone."] Other heroic figures are grouped around, Francis Bacon, (Tennyson's "Large-browed Verulam The first of those that know,") [Illustration: _The Fountain, Trinity College._] Tennyson himself, Macaulay, Dr. Barrow, the Master to whom the College owes its Library,[47] and the massive virility of his omniscient successor, Dr. Whewell.[48] Brasses affixed to the walls commemorate many another great inmate of the College, who, "having served his own generation according to the will of God," is here laid to rest: "Trinity's full tide of life flooding o'er him Morning and evening as he lies dead." [Footnote 47: Barrow's great wish was that the University should build a theatre (like the Sheldonian at Oxford), instead of having its dramas performed, as they then were, in the University Church. When the Senate boggled at the expense, he declared that Trinity should shame them by erecting unaided a yet finer building than he proposed, and "that very afternoon" himself staked out the foundations of the Library. (_Clark's Guide_, p. 123.)] [Footnote 48: Of the astonishingly wide sweep of Whewell's knowledge many tales are yet told. There was no subject on which he could not talk with authority. It is related how an impertinent Fellow once hoped to puzzle him by getting up an article on Chinese music in a back number of the _Edinburgh Review_, and introducing the subject in Hall. "Ah," replied Whewell, "it is a long time since I thought of that. But you will find an article of mine about it in the _Edinburgh_, some ten or fifteen years ago."]