Transcribed from the 1896 David Nutt edition ,
A few passages in this monograph are taken from a shortarticle on “George Borrow” whichappeared in “Good Words.”
W. A. D.
by
WILLIAM A. DUTT
“The foregoing generations beheld God andNature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should wenot also enjoy an original relation to the universe? . . . Thesun shines to-day also. There is more wool and flax in thefields. Let us demand our own works, and laws, andworship.”—Emerson.
london
DAVID NUTT, 270–271, STRAND
1896
chap. | page | |
I. | EAST ANGLIA | |
II. | EARLY DAYS | |
III. | THE LAWYER’S CLERK | |
IV. | DAYS IN NORWICH | |
V. | LIFE AT OULTON | |
VI. | BORROW AND PUGILISM | |
VII. | BORROW AND THE EAST ANGLIAN GIPSIES | |
p. 6“Apart from Borrow’sundoubted genius as a writer, the subject-matter of hiswritings has an interest that will not wane, but will goon growing. The more the features of our‘Beautiful England,’ to use his ownphrase, are changed by the multitudinous effects of therailway system, the more attraction will readers find inbooks which depict her before her beauty wasmarred—books which picture her in those antediluviandays when there was such a thing as space in theisland—when in England there was a sense ofdistance, that sense without which there can be noromance—when the stage-coach was in its glory,when the only magician that could convey man and hisbelongings at any rate of speed beyond man’s own walkingrate was the horse—the beloved horse whose praisesBorrow loved to sing, and whose ideal was reached in themighty ‘Shales’—when the greathigh roads were alive, not merely with the bustle ofbusiness, but with real adventure for thetraveller—days and scenes which Borrow,better than any one e
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