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Updated: May 12, 2025
It seems scarcely conceivable that the hand that had written the appendix to The Romany Rye could have so restrained itself as to write Wild Wales. Borrow had evidently read and carefully digested Whitwell Elwin's friendly strictures upon The Romany Rye.
Goldsmith refers, I suppose, to Pope's letter to Steele of July 15, 1712, where he writes: 'The morning after my exit the sun will rise as bright as ever, the flowers smell as sweet, the plants spring as green, the world will proceed in its old course, people will laugh as heartily, and marry as fast as they were used to do. Elwin's Pope's Works, vi. 392.
"Borrow was just then very sore with his slashing critics, and on someone mentioning that Elwin was a 'Quartering reviewer, he said, 'Sir, I wish you a better employment. Then hastily changing the subject, he called out, 'What party are you in the Church Tractarian, Moderate, or Evangelical? I am happy to say, I am the old HIGH. 'I am happy to say I am NOT, was Elwin's emphatic reply.
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