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    Windsor Castle
    Windsor Castle
    Windsor Castle
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    Windsor Castle

    By Edward Thomas

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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    Edward Thomas

    Edward Thomas was born near Uxbridge in 1943 and grew up mainly in Hackney, east London in the 1950s. His teaching career took him to cental Africa and the Middle East. Early retirement from the profession enabled him to concentrate on writing. Along with authorship of half a dozen books, he has contributed regular columns to several journals.

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      Windsor Castle - Edward Thomas

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Windsor Castle, by Edward Thomas

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Windsor Castle

      Author: Edward Thomas

      Release Date: November 11, 2012 [EBook #41345]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WINDSOR CASTLE ***

      Produced by sp1nd, David E. Brown and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

      produced from images generously made available by The

      Internet Archive)

      THE CURFEW TOWER

      WINDSOR CASTLE

      Described by EDWARD THOMAS

      Pictured by E. W. HASLEHUST

      BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED

      LONDON   GLASGOW   AND   BOMBAY

      Blackie & Son's Beautiful Series

      Beautiful England

      Beautiful Ireland

      Beautiful Switzerland

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      WINDSOR CASTLE

      THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

      Celebrated places make a strong and often a visual impression upon the mind before they are seen either in reality or in picture. Windsor Castle, especially from the west and at some little distance, is one of those which confirm and even augment, when first seen, the mysterious vision of the imagination. Seen from the flat meadows of Clewer on a moist morning, when thrushes are singing in the elms, Windsor Castle rises up like a cloud in the east, with nothing behind, or on either side of it, but a sky of dull silver, and nothing below but the smoke wreaths of the town gently and separately ascending. It is like a cloud, a huge soft cloud, without motion yet full of change; and it is presently resolved into the predominant Round Tower, and on one side of it the perpendicularly carved St. George's Chapel and the Curfew Tower, on the other side the cliffy, long front of the State Apartments. Even thus clear, the buildings are as remote as a cloud in a mental atmosphere of time and undefined associations. For these green meadows of Clewer belong to to-day. Behind their cheap fences they seem to expect the builder; they are edged by lowly and modern houses which vote Liberal and flutter white linen on the grey air. And on every hand the country is what it has been made within recent times. The river, the Court, and Eton College have changed the face of this countryside into something characteristic in every detail of a piece of England which is both attractive in itself and conveniently near London—almost within half an hour by rail and hardly more by road, if you ignore the law and the multitude. It is dotted with neat white-windowed houses of the rich and comparatively rich. The very dogs are wearing Conservative ribbons as they trot between their slouching red-faced masters and their delicately stepping indolent mistresses. The roads are many and excellent, and the beat of carriage horses' hoofs is a constant music, though interrupted by the motor car's hoot and throb and hiss. Every road is as smooth as a die, a real stockjobber's road. For centuries the roads to Windsor must have been exceptionally good; in Swift's time it was little more than a three-hours' journey from London. The inns are many. Bread and cheese and a drink cost half a crown, by paying which the visitor confers upon himself a companionship in a nameless but very honourable Victorian or Edwardian Order. There are

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