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"Romany" Quotes from Famous Books

... marvellous composition is occupied by the Dingle episode, in which Lavengro (the "word-master," Borrow's gipsy name for himself) is revealed to us in conflict with "the flaming Tinman" and in colloquy with his Romany friend, Jasper Petulengro, with a subtle papistical propagandist, "the man in black," with the typical gipsy chi, Ursula, and with the peerless Isopel Berners. His account of his relations with her we take to be strictly and almost literally ...

— George Borrow - Times Literary Supplement, 10th July 1903 • Thomas Seccombe

... among them Emerson. He contributed twenty-eight articles in all, more than half of them verse, to different numbers, from the first to the thirty-seventh volume. Among them are several of his best known poems, such as "The Romany Girl," "Days," "Brahma," "Waldeinsamkeit," "The Titmouse," ...

— Ralph Waldo Emerson • Oliver Wendell Holmes

... of "The Minerva Library" invited me to write a few introductory words to this edition of Borrow's "Romany Rye," I hesitated at first about undertaking the task. For, notwithstanding the kind reception that my "Notes upon George Borrow" prefixed to their edition of "Lavengro" met with from the public and the Press, I shrank ...

— The Romany Rye - A Sequel to 'Lavengro' • George Borrow

Words linked to "Romany" : gypsy, Sanskritic language, Roma, Rommany, gipsy, gitano, bohemian, Sanskrit, Romani, Indian, gitana