Note 75 — STRAWBERRY HILL.

The order, elegance, and neatness in which Strawberry Hill is kept, in the absence of its present noble owner, is only too perfect for antiquarian illusions. A little touch of the dreariness and desolation of an Irish absentee’s “place,” would leave nothing to lament on that subject; and the virtuoso visitor might then sing, with the poet of slovenly beauty, “Such sweet neglect most pleaseth me.”