...Tilbury, to exchange good things with, and vary the same stale topics over again, for once let me have a long age in the deep-delved earth, Tasting of Flora...and sunburnt mirth! 0 for a beaker full of the warm dinner—and then to thinking! It is hard if I cannot start some game on these lone heaths. I laugh,...

...noted this. "I cannot see the wit" he writes, "of walking and talking at the same time." And he adds, "Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the...if I cannot start some game on these lone heaths." There was a touch of perversity in Hazlitt, I confess, — a mood now and then of quarrel that made...

...contemptible things, call road before me, and a three hours' march upon us to judge of their naturalness. to dinner — and then to thinking ! It is * + * hard...these lone heaths. I laugh, I run, I leap, I sing 10 for joy. From the point of yonder rolling WILLIAM HAZLITT 0778-1830) r» îhe^s'Se^suSrnf "fkdlaî...

...beguiling song That cries and croons and calls along The winding road to wonder. II FRIENDSHIP VALLEY Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green...three hours' march to dinner — and then to thinking! — HAZLITT SOME weeks later, at three o'clock in the afternoon of a September day, I put in my plough...

...on the individual's independence of the crowd and the superior delights of the great out-of-doors: " Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green...winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner—and then to thinking! It is hard if I cannot start some game on these lone heaths. I laugh,...

...Manor Farm. By this road Hazlitt walked to Stonehenge. "Give me the clear blue sky over my head ... a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner." And here was a winding road and a three hours' march, even if sunlight did not always answer to the summons....

...should be a tax levied on all who have not read it: "Give me the clear blue sky over my head," says he, "and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road...lone heaths. I laugh, I run, I leap, I sing for joy " Bravo! After that adventure of my friend with the policemen. you would not have cared, would you,...

...Hazlitt starting out on his winding road for his three hours' march to dinner. 'It is hard,' he wrote, 'if I cannot start some game on these lone heaths. I laugh, I run, I leap, I sing for joy.' There are no lone heaths left in any part of the world that Mr. Hazlitt would be likely to inhabit;...

...Hazlitt, "how learned" these two enthusiastic pedestrians are "in the theory of walking tours"42 : Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a' winding road before, and a three hours' march to dinner— and then to thinking! ... I laugh, I run, I leap, I sing for...

...and carry the metropolis with them. I like more elbow room and fewer encumbrances. Give me the dear blue sky over my head and the green turf beneath my...three hours' march to dinner, and then to thinking." This is the Hazlitt that captivated Stevenson, the delightful gossip whose influence is so marked in...