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Winterslow: Essays and Characters Written There

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WINTERSLOW

ESSAYS AND CHARACTERS
WRITTEN THERE

BY

WILLIAM HAZLITT

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LONDON
GRANT RICHARDS

48 LEICESTER SQUARE
1902

The World’s Classics

XXV

THE WORKS OF
WILLIAM HAZLITT—III

WINTERSLOW
ESSAYS AND CHARACTERS
WRITTEN THERE

These Essays were first published collectively in the year 1839. In ‘The World’s Classics’ they were first published in 1902.

Edinburgh: Printed by T. and A. Constable

The World’s Classics

I.

JANE EYRE. By Charlotte Brontë. [Second Impression.

II.

THE ESSAYS OF ELIA. By Charles Lamb. [Second Impression.

III.

THE POEMS OF ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, 1830-1858. [Second Impression.

IV.

THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. By Oliver Goldsmith.

V.

TABLE-TALK: Essays on Men and Manners. By William Hazlitt. [Second Impression.

VI.

ESSAYS. By Ralph Waldo Emerson. [Second Impression.

VII.

THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN KEATS. [Second Impression.

VIII.

OLIVER TWIST. By Charles Dickens.

IX.

THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS. By Thomas Ingoldsby. [Second Impression.

X.

WUTHERING HEIGHTS. By Emily Brontë.

XI.

ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. By Charles Darwin. [Second Impression.

XII.

THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS. By John Bunyan.

XIII.

ENGLISH SONGS AND BALLADS. Selected by T. W. H. Crosland.

XIV.

SHIRLEY. By Charlotte Brontë.

XV.

SKETCHES AND ESSAYS. By William Hazlitt.

XVI.

THE POEMS OF ROBERT HERRICK.

XVII.

ROBINSON CRUSOE. By Daniel Defoe.

XVIII.

HOMER’S ILIAD. Translated by Alexander Pope.

XIX.

SARTOR RESARTUS. By Thomas Carlyle.

XX.

GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. By Jonathan Swift.

XXI.

TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION. By Edgar Allan Poe.

XXII.

NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. By Gilbert White.

XXIII.

CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM EATER. By T. De Quincey.

XXIV.

BACON’S ESSAYS.

XXV.

WINTERSLOW. By William Hazlitt.

XXVI.

THE SCARLET LETTER. By Nathaniel Hawthorne.

XXVII.

LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME. By Lord Macaulay.

XXVIII.

HENRY ESMOND. By W. M. Thackeray.

XXIX.

IVANHOE. By Sir Walter Scott.

Other volumes in preparation.

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PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1850

Winterslow is a village of Wiltshire, between Salisbury and Andover, where my father, during a considerable portion of his life, spent several months of each year, latterly, at an ancient inn on the Great Western Road, called Winterslow Hut. One of his chief attractions hither were the noble woods of Tytherleigh or Tudorleigh, round Norman Court, the seat of Mr. Baring Wall, M.P., whose proffered kindness to my father, on a critical occasion, was thoroughly appreciated by the very sensitiveness which declined its acceptance, and will always be gratefully remembered by myself. Another feature was Clarendon Wood—whence the noble family of Clarendon derived their title—famous besides for the Constitutions signed in the palace which once rose proudly amongst its stately trees, but of which scarce a vestige remains. In another direction, within easy distance, gloams Stonehenge, visited by my father, less perhaps for its historical associations than for its appeal to the imagination, the upright stones seeming in the dim twilight, or in the drizzling mist, almost continuous in the locality, so many spectre-Druids, moaning over the past, and over their brethren prostrate about them. At no great distance, in another direction, are the fine pictures of Lord Radnor, and somewhat further, those of Wilton House. But the chief happiness was the thorough quiet of the place, the sole interruption of which was the passage, to and fro, of the London mails. The Hut stands in a valley, equidistant about a mile from two tolerably high hills, at the summit of which, on their approach either way, the guards used to blow forth their admonition to the hostler. The sound, coming through the clear, pure air, was another agreeable feature in the day, reminiscentiary of the great city that my father so loved and so loathed. In olden times, when we lived in the village itself—a mile up the hill opposite—behind the Hut, Salisbury Plain stretches away mile after mile of open space—the reminiscence of the metropolis would be, from time to time, furnished in the pleasantest of ways by the presence of some London friends; among these, dearly loved and honoured there, as everywhere else, Charles and Mary Lamb paid us frequent visits, rambling about all the time, thorough Londoners in a thoroughly country place, delighted and wondering and wondered at. For such reasons, and for the other reason, which I mention incidentally, that Winterslow is my own native place, I have given its name to this collection of ‘Essays and Characters written there’; as, indeed, practically were very many of his

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