The sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent[pseud.] together with Abbotsford and other selections from the writings of Washington Irving .. . John Bull and his Sailors, John Bull playing on the1807 Bass Violin (base villain) From caricatures reproduced in Wrights Englandunder the House of Hanover. fix it upon the nation, and thus to give reality to what atfirst may have been painted in a great measure from theimagination. Men are apt to acquire peculiarities that arecontinually ascribed to them. The common orders of Eng-lish seem wonderfully captivated with the beau ideal whichthey have formed of
The sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent[pseud.] together with Abbotsford and other selections from the writings of Washington Irving .. . John Bull and his Sailors, John Bull playing on the1807 Bass Violin (base villain) From caricatures reproduced in Wrights Englandunder the House of Hanover. fix it upon the nation, and thus to give reality to what atfirst may have been painted in a great measure from theimagination. Men are apt to acquire peculiarities that arecontinually ascribed to them. The common orders of Eng-lish seem wonderfully captivated with the beau ideal whichthey have formed of John Bull, and endeavor to act up tothe broad caricature that is perpetually before their , they sometimes make their boasted Bull-ism anapology for their prejudice or grossness; and this I haveespecially noticed among those truly homebred and genuinesons of the soil who have never migrated beyond the soundof Bow-bells. If one of these should be a little uncouth inspeech, and apt to utter impertinent truths, he confessesthat he is a real John Bull, and always speaks his he now and then flies into an unreasonab
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