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beggarly verbal pictures ( as the best must be ) of beauties which are before the eyes ; but one wants something which excites emotions that will not jar with those excited by the scene . Now here is the Political Unionist ' s Catechism , by Junius Redivivus , just out ; I cannot for the soul of me open it again here . Set me
down in London , or Birmingham , or Liverpool , or Manchester , or Norwich , and I shall have gone , again and again , over its nervous and manly language ,, shall be all heart and soul in the writer ' s noble purpose ., and would call , as with a trumpet voice , to the working men of Britain to learn from it how to qualify themselves for , and how to struggle for , those political rights without which
there is no hope of any efficient improvement of their condition , or of any repose for the community . I would tell them to make it their daily manual , and to have it , not merely by rote , but by heart . But here—1 do not know what Whig and Tory mean here ; they are not things of God's making , and none else are free of this paradise . Shelley and Tennyson are the best books
for this place . They sort well with the richness , richness to every sense ; with the warm mists , and the rustling of the woods , and the ceaseless melody of sound . They are natives of this soil ; literally so ; and if planted would grow as surely as a crow-bar in Kentucky sprouts tenpenny nails . Probatum est . Last autumn L dropped a poem of Shelley ' s down there in the wood ,
amongst the thick , damp , rotting leaves , and this spring some one found a delicate , exotic-looking plant , growing wild on the Very spot , with Pauline' hanging from its slender stalk . Unripe fruit it may be , but of pleasant flavour and promise , and a mellower produce , it may be hoped , will follow . It would be a good speculation to plant a volume of Coleridge . The singing of the nightingales would promote its growth .
Dinner ! dinner ! Not that way ; here is the hall-passage , between these verdant clustering pillars , under these natural gothic arches and rich tracery-work ; now we enter the ante-room , treading the thick carpet of harebells , and looking out through the beautiful lattice-work of the thinned copse on hill , wood , and valley ; and yonder is the salle a manger . How gracefully the
festoons of our pavilion hang from branch to branch , just fluttering in the sun yet not scaring away the birds ; and there she sits beneath , the queen of our simple revels , in all the unassuming state and absolute power of affection , the grandaughter of Peslalozzi , ( not by father ' s side , nor by mother ' s , ) and calls her pupils to come , like the hen gathering her chickens , and they will . See
how they muster , like the pretty stage witches in Macbeth , but at a sweeter spell , and to a better kettle of fish and soup . One tod I in wee thing raises her blue-bonnetted head amid the rank grass , like a springing harebell . Another drops gently from tree to ground , like a mellow apple . Among the roots of the old tree , where they overhang the declivity , a broad straw hat surmounting
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Local Logic . 421
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1833, page 421, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2616/page/61/
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