the nineteenth century: at least twice as many of them as had
been computed half a century earlier. As for weighing them,
Thomas Hardy, who was born as late as 1940 and didn't die
until 1928, would never submit to be weighed in his life be-
cause it was unlucky.

There was something radically untamed about Regency
England. It was a quality that D. H. Lawrence believed to have
survived in the countryside of his father's midland England. It
was celebrated in the England of Queen Victoria by George
Borrow when he wrote of his youth under the Regent and
George IV. It was the spirit of the England of the tents, the
horse-fair, the prize-ring, the tramping pedlars and mumpers,
the Flaming Tinman and Isopel Berriers. England was still a
land of wide commons and lost hamlets, sleepy country towns
and sudden violence. The man-made things in such a landscape
were often as beautiful as the things made by nature. Their
beauty was something inherent in the care and craft that had
gone to the making rather than something consciously added

The London--Brighton stage-coach

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