See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

GEORGE See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

HENRY See also:

• GEORGE HENRY BORROW (18o3-1881)

BORROW (18o3-1881)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English traveller, linguist and author, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East See also:

• DEREHAM (properly EAST DEREHAM)

Dereham, See also:

• NORFOLK
• NORFOLK, EARLS AND DUKES OF

Norfolk, on the 5th of See also:

• JULY

July 1803, of a See also:

• MIDDLE

middle-class Cornish See also:

• FAMILY

family . His See also:

• FATHER

father was a recruiting officer, and his See also:

• MOTHER

mother a Norfolk See also:

• LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

lady of See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French extraction . From 1816 to 1818 See also:

• BORROW, GEORGE HENRY (18o3-1881)

Borrow attended, with no very See also:

• GREAT

great profit, the See also:

• GRAMMAR (from Lat. grammatica, sc. ars; Gr. ypaµ)

grammar school at See also:

• NORWICH
• NORWICH, GEORGE GORING, EARL OF (1583?-1663)

Norwich . After leaving school he was articled to a See also:

• FIRM

firm of Norwich solicitors, where he neglected the See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, but gave a great See also:

• DEAL

deal of desultory See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages . He was encouraged in these studies by See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William See also:

• TAYLOR
• TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
• TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
• TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
• TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
• TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
• TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
• TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
• TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
• TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
• TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
• TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
• TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
• TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
• TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
• TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
• TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
• TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
• TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)

Taylor, the friend of See also:

• SOUTHEY, ROBERT (1774-1843)

Southey . On the See also:

• DEATH

death of his father in 1824 he went to See also:

• LONDON

London to seek his See also:

• FORTUNE, ROBERT (1813-188o)

fortune as a See also:

• LITERARY

literary ad-venturer . In 1826 he published a See also:

• VOLUME

volume of Romantic See also:

• BALLADS

Ballads translated from the Danish . Engaged by See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

Richard See also:

• PHILLIPS
• PHILLIPS, ADELAIDE (1833-1882)
• PHILLIPS, EDWARD (163o-1696)
• PHILLIPS, JOHN (1800—1874)
• PHILLIPS, SAMUEL (1814—1854)
• PHILLIPS, STEPHEN (1868– )
• PHILLIPS, THOMAS (1770-1845)
• PHILLIPS, WENDELL (1811-1884)

Phillips, the publisher, as a hack-writer at See also:

• STARVATION

starvation See also:

• WAGES (the plural of " wage," from Late Lat. wadium, a pledge, O. Fr. wagier, gagier)

wages, his experiences in London were See also:

• BITTER, KARL THEODORE FRANCIS (1867– )

bitter indeed . His struggles at last became so dire that if he would See also:

• ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape See also:

• CHATTERTON, THOMAS (1752-1770)

Chatterton's See also:

• DOOM (Old Eng. dOm, a word common to Tent. languages for that which is set up or ordered, from " do," in its original meaning of " place "; cf, Gr. &Ass, from stem of ri'rust)

doom, he must leave London and either return to Norwich and See also:

• SHARE (O. Eng. scearu, chiefly in compounds, e.g. land-scearu, a share of land, from sceran to cut; cf. " shear" )

share his mother's narrow income, or turn to See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account in some way the magnificent See also:

• PHYSICAL

physical strength with which nature had endowed him . Determining on the latter of these courses, he See also:

• LEFT

left London on See also:

• TRAMP

tramp . As he stood considerably more than 6 ft. in height, was a fairly trained See also:

• ATHLETE (Gr. aOX177'7r; Lat. athleta)

athlete, and had a countenance of extra-See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary impressiveness, if not of commanding beauty—See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek in type with a dash of the See also:

• HEBREW

Hebrew—we may assume that there had never before appeared on the English high-roads so majestic-looking a tramp as he who, on an afternoon in May, left his squalid lodging with bundle and stick to begin See also:

• LIFE

life on the roads . Shaping his course to the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south-See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west, he soon found himself on See also:

• SALISBURY
• SALISBURY, EARLS OF
• SALISBURY, ROBERT ARTHUR TALBOT GASCOYNECECIL, 3RD MARQUESS OF (1830-1903)
• SALISBURY, ROBERT CECIL, 1ST EARL OF (c. 1565-1612)
• SALISBURY, THOMAS DE MONTACUTE, 4TH EARL OF (1388-1428)
• SALISBURY, WILLIAM LONGSWORD (or LONGESPEE), EARL OF (d. 1226)

Salisbury See also:

• PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

Plain .

And then his extraordinary adventures began . After a while he became a travelling hedge-See also:

• SMITH
• SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
• SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
• SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
• SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
• SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
• SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
• SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
• SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
• SMITH, G
• SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
• SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
• SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
• SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
• SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
• SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
• SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
• SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
• SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
• SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
• SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
• SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
• SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
• SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
• SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
• SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
• SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
• SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
• SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
• SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
• SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
• SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
• SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
• SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
• SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)

smith, and it was while pursuing this avocation that he made the acquaintance of the splendid road-girl, born at See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

Long Melford workhouse, whom he has immortalized under the name of Isopel See also:

• BERNERS, BARNES
• BERNERS, JOHN BOURCHIER, 2ND BARON (1469-1533)

Berners . He was now brought much into contact with the See also:

• GIPSIES, or GYPSIES

gipsies, and this fact gave him the most important subject-See also:

• MATTER

matter for his writings . For picturesque as is Borrow's See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style, it is this subject-matter of his, the Romany See also:

• WORLD

world of Great See also:

• BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain, which—if his pictures of that world are true—will keep his writings alive . Now that the better class of gipsies are migrating so rapidly to See also:

• AMERICA

America that scarcely any are left in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, Borrow's pictures of them are challenged as being too idealistic . It is unfortunate that no one who knew Borrow, and the gryengroes or See also:

• HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

horse-dealers with whom he associated, and whom he depicted, has ever written about him and them . Full of " documents " as is Dr Knapp's painstaking See also:

• BIOGRAPHY (from the Gr. (3ios, life, and yp&4 , writing)

biography, it cannot be said to give a vital picture of Borrow and his surroundings during this most interesting See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period of his life . It is this same See also:

• PECULIAR

peculiar class of gipsies (the gryengroes) with whom the See also:

• PRESENT

present writer was brought into contact, and he can only refer, in See also:

• JUSTIFICATION

justification of Borrow's descriptions of them, to certain publications of his own, where the whole question is discussed at length, and where he has set. out to prove that Borrow's pictures of the See also:

• SECTION
• SECTION (Lat. sectio, cutting, secare, to cut)

section of the English gipsies he knew are not idealized . But there is one great blemish in all Borrow's dramatic scenes of gipsy life, wheresoeverthey may be laid . This was pointed out by the See also:

• GENTLEMAN (from Lat. gentilis, " belonging to a race or gens," and " man "; Fr. gentilhomme, Span. gentil hombre, Ital. gentil huomo, in its original and strict signification, a term denoting a man of good family, the Lat. generosus (its invariable transl

gentleman who " read " Zincali for Mr See also:

• MURRAY
• MURRAY (or MORAY), EARLS OF
• MURRAY (or MORAY), JAMES STUART, EARL OF (c. 1531-1570)
• MURRAY (or MORAY), SIR ROBERT (c. 1600-1673)
• MURRAY, ALEXANDER STUART (1841-1904)
• MURRAY, DAVID (1849– )
• MURRAY, EUSTACE CLARE GRENVILLE (1824–1881)
• MURRAY, JAMES (c. 1719-1794)
• MURRAY, JOHN
• MURRAY, JOHN (1778–1820)
• MURRAY, LINDLEY (1745–1826)
• MURRAY, LORD GEORGE (1694–1760)
• MURRAY, SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS HENRY (1837– )
• MURRAY, SIR JOHN (1841– )

Murray, the publisher: " The dialogues are amongst the best parts of the See also:

• BOOK

book; but in several of them the See also:

• TONE, THEOBALD WOLFE (1763-1798)

tone of the speakers, of those especially who are in humble life, is too correct and elevated, and therefore out of See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character . This takes away from their effect . I think it would be very advisable that Mr Borrow should go over them with reference to this point, simplifying a few of the terms of expression and introducing a few contractions—See also:

• DON
• DON (anc. Tanais)

don'ts, cants, &c .

This would improve them greatly." It is the same with his pictures of the English gipsics . The reader has only to compare the dialogues between gipsics given in that photographic study of Romany life, In Gipsy Tents, by F . H . Groome, with the dialogues in Lavengro and The Romany See also:

• RYE

Rye, to see how the illusion in Borrow's narrative is disturbed by the uncolloquial locutions of the speakers . It is true, no doubt, that all Romanies, especially perhaps the English and Hungarian, have a See also:

• PASSION (post-classical Lat. passio, formed from pati, passus, to suffer, endure)

passion for the use of high-See also:

• SOUNDING (for derivation see SOUND above)

sounding words, and the present writer has shown this in his remarks upon the Czigany Czindol, who is said to have taught the Czigany See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language to the See also:

• ARCHDUKE (Lat. archidux, Ger. Erzherzog)

archduke See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

Joseph, often called the " Gipsy Archduke." But after all See also:

• ALLOWANCE (from "allow,' derived through 0. Fr. alouer from the two Lat. origins adlaudare, to praise, and allocare, to assign a place; so that the English word combined the general idea of "assigning with approval")

allowance is made for this racial peculiarity, Borrow's presentation of it considerably weakens our belief in Mr and Mrs Petulengro, See also:

• URSULA, ST

Ursula, and the See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest, to find them using complex sentences and bookish words which, even among English See also:

• PEOPLE

people, are rarely heard in conversation . As to the deep impression that Borrow made upon his gipsy See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends, that is partly explained by the singular See also:

• NOBILITY

nobility of his See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance, for the gipsies of all countries are extremely sensitive upon matters of this See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind . The silvery whiteness of the thick See also:

• CROP (a word common. in various forms, such as Germ. Kropf, to many Teutonic languages for a swelling, excrescence, round head or top of anything; it appears also in Romanic languages derived from Teutonic, in Fr. as troupe, whence the English " crupper "

crop of See also:

• HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

hair which Borrow retained to the last seemed to add in a remarkable way to the nobility of his hairless See also:

• FACE (from Lat. fades, derived either from facere, to make, or from a root fa-, meaning " appear "; cf. Gr. cbatvstv)

face, but also it gave to the face a kind of See also:

• STRANGE, SIR ROBERT (1721-1792)

strange look " not a See also:

• BIT (from the verb " to bite," either in the sense of a piece bitten off, or an act of biting, or a thing that bites or is bitten)

bit like a Gorgio's," to use the words of one of his gipsy friends . Moreover, the shy, defiant, stand-off way which Borrow assumed in the See also:

• COMPANY

company of his social equals left him entirely when he was with the gipsies . The result of this was that these wanderers knew him better than did his own See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country-men . Seven years after the events recorded in Lavengro and The Romany Rye Borrow obtained the See also:

• POST

post of See also:

• AGENT (from Lat. agere, to act)

agent to the See also:

• BIBLE
• BIBLE, ENGLISH

Bible Society, in which capacity he visited St See also:

• PETERSBURG

Petersburg (1833-1835) (where he published See also:

• TARGUM

Targum, a collection of See also:

• TRANSLATIONS

translations), and See also:

• SPAIN
• SPAIN (Espana)

Spain, See also:

• PORTUGAL

Portugal and See also:

• MOROCCO

Morocco (1835-1839) . From 1837 to 1839 he acted as correspondent to the See also:

• MORNING

Morning See also:

• HERALD (O. Fr. heraut, herault; the origin is uncertain, but O.H.G. heren, to call, or hariwald, leader of an army, have been proposed; the Gr. equivalent is Kddpvi : Lat. praeco, caduceator, fetialis)

Herald . The result of these travels and adventures was the publication, in 1841, of Zincali, or The Gypsies in Spain, the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original MS. of which, in the hands of the present writer, shows how careful was Borrow's method of See also:

• WORK

work .

In 1843 appeared The Bible in Spain, when suddenly Borrow became famous . Every See also:

• PAGE
• PAGE, THOMAS NELSON (1853- )
• PAGE, WILLIAM (1811-1885)

page of the book glows with freshness, picturesqueness and vivacity . In 1840 he married See also:

• MARY
• MARY (1457-1482)
• MARY (1496-1533)
• MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS

Mary See also:

• CLARKE, ADAM (1762?—1832)
• CLARKE, CHARLES COWDEN (1787-1877)
• CLARKE, EDWARD DANIEL (1769–1822)
• CLARKE, JAMES FREEMAN (1810–1888)
• CLARKE, JOHN SLEEPER (1833–1899)
• CLARKE, MARCUS ANDREW HISLOP (1846–1881)
• CLARKE, MARY ANNE (c.1776–1852)
• CLARKE, SAMUEL (1675–1729)
• CLARKE, SIR ANDREW (1824-1902)
• CLARKE, SIR EDWARD GEORGE (1841– )
• CLARKE, THOMAS SHIELDS (1866- )
• CLARKE, WILLIAM BRANWHITE (1798-1878)

Clarke, the widow of a See also:

• NAVAL

naval officer, and permanently settled at Oulton Broad, near See also:

• LOWESTOFT

Lowestoft, with her and her daughter . Here he began to write again . Very likely Borrow would never have told the world about his vagabond life in England as a hedge-smith had not The Bible in Spain made him famous as a wanderer . Lavengro appeared in 1851 with a success which, compared with that of The Bible in Spain, was only partial . He was much chagrined at this, and although Lavengro See also:

• BROKE, or BROOKE, ARTHUR (d. 1563)
• BROKE, SIR PHILIP BOWES VERE, BART

broke off in the midst of a See also:

• SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene in the See also:

• DINGLE

Dingle, and only broke off there because the three volumes would hold no more, it was not until 18J7 that he published the sequel, The Romany Rye . In 1844 he travelled in south-eastern See also:

• EUROPE

Europe, and in 1854 he made a tour with his step-daughter in See also:

• WALES (Cymru, Gwalia, Cambria)

Wales . This tour he described in See also:

• WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

Wild Wales, published in 1862 . In 1874 he brought out a volume of See also:

• ILL

ill-digested material upon the Romany See also:

• TONGUE (O. Eng. lunge)

tongue, Romano Lavo-lil, or Word-book of the Gypsy Language, a book which has been exhaustively analysed and criticized by Mr See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John See also:

• SAMPSON, WILLIAM THOMAS (1840–1902)

Sampson . In the summer of 1874 he left London, bade adieu to Mr Murray and a few friends, and returned to Oulton . On the e6th of July 1881 he was found dead in his See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house at Oulton, in his seventy-ninth See also:

• YEAR

year .

Borrow was indisputably a linguist of wide knowledge, though he was not a See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar in the strict sense . The variety of his attainments is shown by his See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation of the See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

Church of England Homilies into Manchu, of the See also:

• GOSPEL (O. Eng. godspel, i.e. good news, a translation of Lat. bona annuntiatio, or evangelium, Gr. evayyeXwv; cf. Goth. iu spillon, " to announce good news," Ulfilas' translation of the Greek, from iu, that which is good, and spellon to announce)

Gospel of St See also:

• LUKE
• LUKE, GOSPEL OF ST

Luke into the Git See also:

• DIALECT (from Gr. Sia stcror, conversation, manner of speaking, &aXeyec6at, to converse)

dialect of the Gitanos, of The Sleeping See also:

• BARD

Bard from the See also:

• CAMBRIAN

Cambrian-See also:

• BRITISH

British, and of See also:

• BLUEBEARD

Bluebeard into See also:

• TURKISH

Turkish . But it is not Borrow's linguistic accomplishments that have kept his name fresh, and will continue to keep it fresh for many a See also:

• GENERATION (from Lat. generare, to beget, procreate; genus, stock, race)

generation to come . It is his character, his unique character as expressed, or partially expressed, in his books . Among all the "remarkable individuals" (to use his favourite expression) who during the middle of the 19th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century figured in the world of letters, Borrow was surely the most See also:

• ECCENTRIC (from Gr. F,c, out of, and Kivrpov, centre)

eccentric, the most whimsical, and in many ways the most extraordinary . There was scarcely a point in which he resembled any other writer of his See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time . With regard to Lavengro and The Romany Rye, there has been very much discussion as to how much Dichlung is mingled with the Wahrheit in those fascinating books . Had it not been for the amazingly clumsy pieces of fiction which he threw into the narrative, few readers would have doubted the autobiographical nature of the two books . Such incidents as are here alluded to See also:

• SHED

shed an See also:

• AIR (from an Indo-European root meaning " breathe," " blow ")
• AIR, or ASBEN

air of unreality over the whole . It has been said by Dr Knapp that Borrow never created a character, and that to one who thoroughly knows the times and Borrow's writings the originals are easily recognizable . This is true, no doubt, as regards people whom he knew at Norwich, and indeed generally as regards those he knew before the period of his gipsy wanderings . It must not be supposed, however, that such a character as the See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man who " touched " to avert the evil See also:

• CHANCE (through the O. Fr. cheance, from the Late Lat. cadentia, things happening, from cadere, to fall out, happen; cf. " case ")

chance is in any sense a portrait of an individual with whom he had been brought into contact .

The character has so many of Borrow's own eccentricities that it might rather be called a portrait of himself . There was nothing that Borrow strove against with more See also:

• ENERGY (from the Gr. ivipyela; iv, in, ipyov, work)

energy than the curious impulse, which he seems to have shared with Dr See also:

• JOHNSON, ANDREW
• JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
• JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
• JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
• JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
• JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
• JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
• JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
• JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
• JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
• JOHNSON, THOMAS

Johnson, to See also:

• TOUCH (derived through Fr. toucher from a common Teutonic and Indo-Germanic root, cf. " tug," " tuck," O. H. Ger. zucchen, to twitch or draw)

touch the See also:

• OBJECTS

objects along his path in See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order to See also:

• SAVE, or SAVA (Ger. Sau; Hungarian Szdva; Lat. Savus)

save himself from the evil chance . He never conquered the superstition . In walking through See also:

• RICHMOND
• RICHMOND, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• RICHMOND, LEGH (1772-1827)
• RICHMOND, SIR WILLIAM BLAKE (1842– )

Richmond See also:

• PARK (Fr. part; Ital. parco; Sp. Marque; O.Eng. pearroc; connected with Ger. pferch, fold, and pfarrei, district, translating med. Lat. parochia, parish)
• PARK, EDWARDS AMASA (1808–1900)
• PARK, MUNGO (1771-1806?)

Park with the present writer he would step out of his way constantly to touch a See also:

• TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
• TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )

tree, and he was offended if the friend he was with seemed to observe it . Many of the peculiarities of the man who taught himself See also:

• CHINESE, JAPANESE AND

Chinese in order to distract his mind from painful thoughts were also Borrow's own . (T .