Vulgar words in George Borrow and His Circle - Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of - Borrow And His Friends (Page 1)
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Because I have seen him several times in the Papal chapels with a certain air of an ass and certain grimaces of a blockhead that cannot happen to a man of talent.
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Surely this slight reference amid many dissertations of his own upon Spain was to damn his friend's book with faint praise: A Handbook is a Handbook after all, a very useful thing, but still--the fact is that we live in an age of humbug, in which everything, to obtain note and reputation, must depend less upon its own intrinsic merit than on the name it bears.
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Immediately on closing the third volume I secured a few pages in _Fraser's Magazine_ for _Wild Wales_, for though you do not stand in need of my aid, yet my notice will not do you a mischief, and some of the reviewers of _Lavengro_ were, I recollect, shocking blockheads, misinterpreting the letter and misconceiving the spirit of that work.