Lavengro by George Borrow (read me a book txt) 📕

party governs England, provided it is governed well. But he has no hopes of good government from the Whigs. It is true that amongst them there is one very great man, Lord Palmerston, who is indeed the sword and buckler, the chariots and the horses of the party; but it is impossible for his lordship to govern well with such colleagues as he has⁠—colleagues which have been forced upon him by family influence, and who are continually pestering him into measures anything but conducive to the country’s honour and interest. If Palmerston would govern well, he must get rid of them; but from that step, with all his courage and all his greatness, he will shrink. Yet how proper and easy a step it would be! He could easily get better, but scarcely worse, associates. They appear to have one object in view and only one⁠—jobbery. It was chiefly owing to a most flagitious piece of jobbery, which one of his lordship’s principal colleagues sanctioned and promoted, that his lordship experienced his late parliamentary disasters. ↩

Thistlewood and Ings: See article in Celebrated Lives and Trials, volume VI, p. 339. —⁠Knapp ↩

The old Radical: John Bowring in 1821. —⁠Knapp ↩

Volume of translations: See Specimen of the Russian Poets: With Preliminary Remarks and Biographical Notices. By John Bowring, F.L.S. London: Whittaker, 1821. —⁠Knapp ↩

Red Rhys: Rhys Goch of Snowdon. See Wild Wales, p. 150, and Neu Flodau Godidowgrwydd Awen. O gasgliad Rhys Jones, o’r Tyddyn Mawr. [Beauties of the Bards of Wales; or, Flowers of Welsh Poetry. Collected by Rhys Jones of Great Farms] Amwythig (Shrewsbury), 1773. —⁠Knapp ↩

A fact. ↩

The Doctor of Medicine: Dr. Lewis Evans. See Life, I, p. 74. —⁠Knapp ↩

S⁠⸺⁠, read “Southey.” —⁠Knapp ↩

Literary project (1829⁠–⁠30): See Life, I, p. 129. —⁠Knapp ↩

Astolfo: His journey to the moon mentioned in Pulci, ed. 1546, Canto XXI, f. cxx b:

“Malagigi tagliava le parole,
Astolfo sopra ’l suo caval rimonta;
Cavalcano à la luna tanto e al sole
Che capitorno al castel di Creonta.”

—⁠Knapp ↩

MS. “Aberdeen.” —⁠Knapp ↩

MS. “Aberdeen.” —⁠Knapp ↩

In ⸻, read “China.” —⁠Knapp ↩

To ⸻, read “China.” —⁠Knapp ↩

Copy of a work: Borrow’s edition of the Manchu New Testament, St. Petersburg, 1835. All the dashes mean Canton or China. —⁠Knapp ↩

Serendib: (Ceylon) put for China. —⁠Knapp ↩

Boxiana⁠—Fights for the Championship, and Celebrated Prize Battles, from the Days of Figg and Broughton to the Present Time. London, 1855, II, 497. —⁠Knapp ↩

The change from Ambrose to Jasper was made in pencil in Mrs. Borrow’s transcript at the last moment in 1849, before handing it to the printers. —⁠Knapp ↩

Beginning⁠—

Mas tinn no slán atharlaigheas féin,
Do ghluàis me trá, agus bfhéirde mé,
Air cuáirt an Seóin le sócal dfhághail,
“An Stafartach saímh, nach gnáth gan chéill.”

—⁠Knapp ↩

“El qual (Noé) despues del diluuio, por su inuencion del uino, fue lhamado lano, porque Ianin en ebràico quiere dezir uino, y lo pintan con dos caras boltadas, porque tuuo uista antes del diluuio y despues” (Foja 71, verso). —⁠Knapp ↩

Like Ingilis in Turkish, for English; Beritania (England) in Hawaiian, for Britannia. —⁠Knapp ↩

Zincali, 1843, second ed., volume II, p. 146. —⁠Knapp ↩

“I think I’ll go there,” p. 301. “He is about to quit his native land on a grand philological expedition,” p. 303. —⁠Knapp ↩

Canning: Premier from 24th April to his death, 8th August, 1827; succeeded by Viscount Goderich from September, 1827, to 25th January, 1828.⁠—312. —⁠Knapp ↩

Luigi Pulci: Io vo’ tagliar, etc.: I’ll sever the hands of them all and bring them to those holy monks. —⁠Knapp ↩

Tu sarai or perfetto, etc.: Now thou wilt be as true a friend to Christ as aforetime thou wert his foe (Morgante Maggiore di Luigi Pulci Firentino, etc. Venetia, 1546, canto I, stanzas 53 and 57). —⁠Knapp ↩

Carajo: An oath fit neither to be written nor pronounced, but common to the lower classes of Spaniards, or to ambitious foreign Hispanophiles who cannot know its meaning. See Oudin’s Tesoro, Paris, 1607. —⁠Knapp ↩

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Lavengro and The Romany Rye
were published in 1851 and 1857 respectively by
George Borrow.

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