Sire, Ancestors, Himself,’ etc.
‘May no rude hand deface it,
And its forlorn hic jacet.’
Wordsworth, Ellen Irwin, 55–6.
ESSAY X. ON LIVING TO ONE’S-SELF
[90]. ‘Remote, unfriended,’ etc. Goldsmith, The Traveller, l. 1. Winterslow. Hazlitt’s wife inherited some cottages at Winterslow, a small village six or seven miles from Salisbury on the Andover road, and in one of these cottages a part of their early married life was spent. See Memoirs of William Hazlitt, I. 168 et seq., where an account is given of a visit paid to Mr. and Mrs. Hazlitt by Charles and Mary Lamb. After 1819 (see Memoirs II. 16) Hazlitt began to frequent Winterslow Hut or the Pheasant Inn, where many of his essays (collected under the title of ‘Winterslow’) were written. ‘While Heavn’s chancel-vault,’ etc. Cf.
‘When the chill rain begins at shut of eve
In dull November, and their chancel vault,
The Heaven itself, is blinded throughout night.’
Keats, Hyperion, II. 36–8.