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again ! there , you batter in breach ; he welcomes the assault ; he capitulates ; clown drawbridge ! up portcullis ! c Knaves , make haste ; do not keep a gentleman waiting at my gates / He greets you heartily ; 'Welcome , sir ; welcome to Wheedle Castle . ' ( I have translated the name of the place with a view to your better understanding it ; it goes by a different appellation . ) Take me as your invisible Mentor , be you Telemachus , reader , through the mansion and grounds which he obligingly shows to you . From wine-binns in the cellar to lumber in the attics , from porch at entrance to the dunghill behind the stables , the hospitable , courteous , free-hearted fellow escorts you , communicative , descriptive , and explanatory in all . Up to the turret-leads with him you go . There is a glorious prospect ! every way , far and near , all around , —rich , verdant , various , beautiful ! ' My land extends about half a mile
over the hill : you see the hill yonder ? ' ' Yes , I see it ; with a carpet of eye-gladdening verdure , surrounded on three sides by a crisp and clumpy copse halfway down it , and at its foot a liquid ribbon (sparkling , fluttering , and waving : beautiful ! Nature ! here , indeed , thou art lovely . I bow to her in worship , sir / Mad as a March hare / stares Mr . John Bull ; but he is silent , and becomes semi-sulky . Hark ye , Telemachus , you will be swamped to a certainty ; that is not the kind of talk you are to hold to Mr . John Bull ; you must admire and envy the owner of the beauty , for all his sense of it is in possession : it is his . So let it be thus : * Ah ,
sir , you have a noble estate , a magnificent one , in high cultivation ; does you honour , sir ; honour to your taste , and skill , and agricultural knowledge / * I am glad you like it / Mended , Telemachus ; but not exactly the thing yet . Remember , it is the ownership which makes the cockles of his heart i to leap / And there , just turning the eastward of that plantation , is a most charming and inviting spot ; fertility embraced by seclusion ; there , the
willow , and ash , and shrubs , bending to gaze at their own beauty in the mirror that flashes below them . I am sure you are often tempted to sit there , with a book or a — ' That , sir , is nbt mine / Blank again ! Get back into the house . He has something else to show you : no hope of you here .
* You have not seen my pictures—and my sculptures : here they are , sir / A coup < Tceil from the collection at once enchains your faculties before you examine more closely and in detail . 'Admirable effect , excellent judgment in the arrangement , sir / Yes ; I paid a man five guineas a-day while he was doing it , and all his expenses / ' What ! doing all his expenses ? Oh , I understand / That was a slip , Telemachus ; he half suspected you . 4 Money well expended , Mr . John Bull . That is a Correggio . Beautiful ! divine emanation of genius ! ' Fine picture , is it not , sir ? ' ' Indeed it is , Mr . John Bull . Exquisite Correggio ! And that statue , too . Cauova has waved the marble over with lights and
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710 John Bull % Esquire , of Wheedle-HaU .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1833, page 710, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2624/page/50/
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