half-cornish

Updated: June 15, 2025

... Opie indeed is a very extraordinary man. I have now twice seen him. Without any thing of politeness, his manners are pleasing, though their freedom is out of the common; and his conversation, though in a half-uttered, half-Cornish, half-croak, is interesting.

Joseph Cottle - Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey