[Oxford University in 1856] How ancient is the aspect of these college quadrangles. So gnawed by time. Some crumbly, so blackened, so grey where they are not black, so quaintly shaped with here a line of battlements and there a row of Gables; and here a turret with probably a winding stair inside, and lattice windows with stone mullions and little panes of glass set in lead, and the cloisters with a long arcade looking upon a green or pebbled enclosure.