Citations:Borrovian

English citations of Borrovian

• 1894, Fergus Hume, The Gates of Dawn, page 60:

  Nay, more; Fate has taken a leaf from that glorious book and bestowed on me an adventure or so in the Borrovian style. My dell is a replica of that famous Dingle, and - would you believe it? - I have done battle with an individual […]

• 1910, The Irish Monthly, page 67:

  "At its best it has radiance and gusto, both very rare qualities, and a pleasant wayside Borrovian flavour." *"Borrovian" is an adjective derived from George Borrow, as Shavian is an adjective derived from George Bernard Shaw.

• 1911, The Bookman, page 28:

  His powers of suction have proved fully equal to the task, and he has given us a thoroughly well-organized repertory of biographical fact and Borrovian legend. To those who are familiar with the rambling autobiography committed to the […]

• 1913, The Living Age, page 714:

  The Borrovian pie was opened, so to speak, the birds began to sing, and the first piper was "Isopel Berners." I wrote the Introduction, which serves well still as an introduction to beginners in the cult of Borrow, with the […]

• 1923, Ernest Rhys, Modern English Essays, page 117:

  The article showed a great deal of what may be called Borrovian knowledge of the Welsh language and Welsh literature, and perhaps it is not ungenerous to say a good deal of Borrovian ignorance too. For never was Nature's love of whim […]

• 2007, Paul Skinner, Ford Madox Ford's Literary Contacts, Rodopi, →ISBN, page 34:

  The most intriguing tie between Ford and Borrow in terms of England and the English is Ford's decidedly Borrovian emphasis on the mixedness, the inherent foreignness, of 'the English People': 'that great, migratory people who in the […]'