<span style="color:grey">Of an old ate,
<span style="color:grey">t kept a brave old a bountiful rate,
<span style="color:grey">And an old porter to relieve t e.
<span style="color:grey">itudy ?lld full of learned old books,
<span style="color:grey">it know him by his looks,
<span style="color:grey">ittery-ce off the hooks,
<span style="color:grey">And an old kitc maintained half-a-dozen old cooks.
t uring and giving ludicrous appellations or nicknames. In ted, not merely individuals, but nations, and in t spared even themselves.
One in personifying itself a nation to picture somet it is ceristic of t is blunt, comic, and familiar, t tional oddities in turdy, corpulent old fello, red coat, leatout oaken cudgel. taken a singular deliging t private foibles in a laug of vie tual existence more absolutely present to t eccentric personage, John Bull.
Perinual contemplation of ter tributed to ?x it upon tion, and to give reality to ?rst may ed in a great measure from tion. Men are apt to acquire peculiarities t are continually ascribed to tivated o act up to ture t is perpetually before their eyes.
Unluckily, times make ted Bullism an apology for ticed among truly ed beyond ttle uncout to utter impertinent trut o an unreasonable burst of passion about tri?es, Jo t and rays a coarseness of taste and an insensibility to foreign re?nements, o be gulled by strangers and to pay extravagantly for absurdities is excused under than wise.
trive to argue every fault into a merit, and est felloence.
tle, ter may ed in t instance, it ed itself to tion, or rated to eacranger udy Englisies may gation from traits of Joed in ture-sill, ile s t are continually t neraits and presenting different aspects from different points of vieen as resist temptation to give a sligc my eye.
Joo all appearance, is a plain, doer-of-fact fellory about tle of romance in ure, but a vast deal of strong natural feeling. ; is jolly rato a sudden tear or surprised into a broad laug iment and urn for ligry. o o talk about and by a friend in a quarrel h life and purse, however soundly he may be cudgelled.
In t respect, to tell truty to be someoo ready. merely for for all try round, and is most generously disposed to be everybodys cinually volunteering o settle akes it in great dudgeon if tter of consequence asking ?nisting into a squabble ies, and tterly at titude. ook lessons in master at boxing and cudgel-play, roublesome life of it ever since. distant of inently to fumble erest or require t ended ions of pride and policy so completely over try t no event can take place infringing some of s and dignities. Couctle domain, s stretcion, tle-bellied old spider buzz nor a breeze blo startling o sally forthfully from his den.
ted, good-tempered old fello bottom, yet of contention. It is one of ies, o a ?gy, but comes out of it grumbling even s inacy to carry a contested point, yet ion aken up to let agonist pocket all t t. It is not, ting t so muco be on as making friends. It is dif?cult to cudgel of a fart put of all t. out s storm uninjured, but roll its masts overboard in the succeeding calm.
tle fond of playing t a long purse, ?inging at boxing-matcs, and carrying a ;gentlemen of t; but immediately after one of ts of extravagance aken qualms of economy; stop s at t trivial expenditure; talk desperately of being ruined and broug pay t tradesmans bill violent altercation. , t punctual and discontented paymaster in t of e reluctance, paying to ttermost fart accompanying every guinea h a growl.
italk of economy, iful provider and a able s c being to devise o be extravagant; for eak and pint of port one day t an ox all .
ic establis is enormously expensive, not so muc out consumption of solid beef and pudding, t number of folloo pay kind and indulgent master, and, provided s ies, ?atter y a little no peculate grossly on o perfection. Everyt lives on o t. s are le to do. ate carriage; and ly about t a housebreaker.
ellated manor- venerable ten appearance. It upon no regular plan, but is a vast accumulation of parts erected in various tastes and ages. tre bears evident traces of Saxon arcecture, and is as solid as ponderous stone and old Englis. Like all t style, it is full of obscure passages, intricate mazes, and dusty cially lig t still grope in tions o time to time, and great alterations aken place; totlements ed during umults: in time of peace; and out-o t generations, until it spacious, rambling tenements imaginable. An entire aken up must uous, and, indeed, in spite of ered and simpli?ed at various periods, ill a look of solemn religious pomp. Its oried s of Joors, and it is snugly ?tted up cuso cably in ties.
to keep up t Jo auncance t many dissenting ced in y, and several of rong papists.
to do ties of tains, at a large expense, a pious and portly family c learned and decorous personage and a truly tle peccadilloes, rebukes tory, and is of great use in exing tenants to read to pay ts punctually and grumbling.
tments are in a very antiquated taste, some, but full of times, ?tted up apestry, unure, and loads of massy, gorgeous old plate. t ?replaces, ample kitcensive cellars, and sumptuous banqueting-ality of days of yore, of y at t a se suites of rooms apparently deserted and time-ourrets t are tottering to decay, so t in umbling about the household.
Joly been advised to o s pulled dorengterials; but tleman alesty on t. it is tig to be sempests; t it ood for several likely to tumble do as to its being inconvenient, omed to t be comfortable t as to its unruction, t from its being turies and being improved by tion; t an old family, like o dart families may live in modern cottages and snug boxes; but an old Englis an old English manor-house.
If you point out any part of ts t it is material to trengtion of t and t ts are so built into eac if you pull do your ears.
t of tter is, t Jo disposition to protect and patronize. indispensable to ty of an ancient and o be bounteous in its appointments and to be eaten up by dependents; and so, partly from pride and partly from kind-edness, a rule alo give ser and maintenance to ed servants.
t, like many otabliss, ainers urn off, and an old style s magnitude, is not a oo large for its inants. Not a nook or corner but is of use in housing some useless personage.
Groups of veteran beef-eaters, gouty pensioners, and retired tery and t its s las tree, or sunning t its doors. Every of?ce and out-o leave Joo be provided for. A mattock cannot be struck against t mouldering tumble-doo out pops, from some cranny or loope of some superannuated Jo grievous outcry at t servant of t Jo never can and; so t a man ankard in his old days.
A great part of urned into paddocks, o graze undisturbed for tences--a eful recollection ate, be to t. Indeed, it is one of pleasures to point out teeds to ors, to dies, extol t services, and boast, tle vain-glory, of tures and s they have carried him.
o indulge ion for family usages and family encumbrances to a . ed by gangs of gypsies; yet suffer to be driven off, because ted time out of mind and been regular poacion of t a dry branco be lopped from t trees t surround t it s t uries. Oe, but tary o not be disturbed. Sins build in every frieze and cornice; croter about toer of t of tedly in broad daylight.
In s, Jo hey are good old family abuses.
All ts o drain tlemans purse; and as uality in money matters and ain in t perplexity in meeting s. too, ercations and -burnings aking place in up to different callings and are of different o speak t fail to exercise t clamorously in t posture of and up for t tablis s up in all its state, ; ot and considerate, entreat tleman to retrenco put em of e footing. times, seemed inclined to listen to t tely defeated by treperous conduct of one of tle-pated fellos, ale-or of village clubs and a complete oracle among t of enants. No sooner does ion reform or retrenc takes t of t for an overturn.
ongue is once going notop it. s about tors t practices; ridicules astes and pursuits; insists t urn ts out of doors, give to t cake a ?eld-preac tar built in its place. every social entertainment and family festivity, and skulks ao to tantly complaining of tiness of to spend all -money in tavern convocations, and even runs up scores for t ravagance.
It may readily be imagined tle sucing agrees emperament. able from repeated crossings t tion of retrenc or reform is a signal for a braween avern oracle.
As tter is too sturdy and refractory for paternal discipline, of all fear of t scenes of imes run so Joo call in tom, an of?cer present living at home on half-pay.
t is sure to stand by tleman, riging, roistering life, and is ready at a o out sabre and ?ouris over tors o array parental auty.
t abroad, and are rare food for scandal in Joo look wise and sioned.
t; matters are not so bad ed; but ravagance, t be badly managed. tand gaged over inually dabbling ainly an open-leman, but too fast; indeed, ting, racing revelling, and prize-?g, Mr. Bulls estate is a very ?ne one and , for all t, tates come to t;
is of all, is t ic feuds ead of t jolly round corporation and smug rosy face , e become as s-bitten apple. gold-laced coat, ly o s t yaurdy legs.
Instead of strutting about as formerly on one side, ?ouris do y turdily in trolling out a stave of a catc fully to ucked under to ttom of s, y.
Suc of Jo present, yet for all t is as tall and as gallant as ever.
If you drop t expression of sympatakes ?re in an instant; s and stoutest fellory; talks of laying out large sums to adorn ate; and s quarter-staff.
t I confess I cannot look upon Jouation strong feelings of interest. itinate prejudices erling-ed old blade. be so ties. ravagance savors of y, y of y of ness of y. ter. , but sound and solid ion to timber; and orm from tude and luxuriance. too, in t is extremely poetical and picturesque; and as long as it can be rendered comfortably able I s tremble to see it meddled con?ict of tastes and opinions. Some of good arcects t mig many, I fear, are mere levellers, o tocks on top until t it to t I roubles may teacure--t o distress ot less attempt to promote t of t ly at o repair; cultivate ate according to o order--if prosperity; and long enjoy on ernal lands a green, an honorable, and a merry old age.