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98
SORØ.
Chap. VII.
of his childhood, he exempted Sorø from military
contribution, and extended to it his royal protection against
all outrage.
You enter the university by the Gothic gateway of
brickwork, now whitewashed, belonging to the ancient
convent. An avenue of trees leads to the church,
surrounded by a small cemetery, and in front stands the
college; on the other side a handsome building of the
present century. The original edifice was consumed by
fire in the year 1813. As we entered the court some
very small boys were indulging in the recreation of
shooting stones and horse-chesnuts from a sling, the
traditional amusement of boys of all ages and countries
from the time of David to the present generation.
We mount the steps and enter by a long corridor,
hung with square portraits of the kings of Denmark
from the earliest ages, like those we see on the tables of
our kings of England. They are, I fancy, copies taken
from a series of engravings I have since seen in the
Müller collection at the Royal Library of Copenhagen.
A glass window in the door of each school-room
allowed us to peep at the boys engaged in their studies.
We then mounted upstairs, and were introduced to their
dormitories—large airy rooms with numberless small
beds arranged in rows, the windows opening wide and
overlooking the lake below. On the first floor were a
well-filled museum of natural history, a debating and
lecture room. In this room stands the chair of
Holberg the historian, and also the Sheridan of the Danish,
drama, by whom the academy was richly endowed.
Several full-length portraits of the kings of Denmark
hang on the walls: Christian IV. and V., and Frederic V.
and VI., arrayed in their robes of state. Frederic V.
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