The book George Borrow, the Man And His Work was written by author R a J Robert Alfred John Walling Here you can read free online of George Borrow, the Man And His Work book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is George Borrow, the Man And His Work a good or bad book?
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* Oh, I can't,' I replied. He said, ' You ought : it's your own language.^ It was an old Saxon book. He used to spend a great deal of his time in this room, writing, translating, and at times singing strange words in a stentorian voice, while passers-by on the lake would stop to listen with astonishment and curiosity to the singular sounds. ** A note on his person^ appear- ance, by the same hand, may help to keep his figure in mind : ^ He was six feet three, a splendid man, with handsome hands ...and feet. He wore neither whiskers, beard, nor moustache. His features were very handsome, but his eyes were peculiar, being round and rather small, but very piercing, and now and then fierce. He would sometimes sing one of his Romany songs, shake his fist at me, and look quite wild. Then he would ask, ' Aren't you afraid of me?' 'No, not at all,' I would say. Then he would look just as gentle and kind, and say, ' God bless you, I would not hurt a hair of your head.' " Here was he, then, when he set up author in real * Eastern Daily PresSj October i«t, 1892.
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