As for Wordsworth, Borrow (with characteristic wrong-headedness) conceived him as an impostor.

Had _he_ made Nature his tent and the hard earth his bed with the stars for a canopy?
No; he walked out to sing of moorland, and fell from a "highly eligible" cottage in the Lakes, where women-folk, at his beck and call, bore the brunt of the "plain living." {27a} The "splendid old corsair," E.J.

T., is best known perhaps as the grim and grizzled pilot in Millais' great picture (now in the Tate) of the North-west Passage.

Trelawny and Borrow are linked together as men whose mental powers were strong but whose bodily powers were still stronger in the _Memoirs_ of Gordon Hake (who knew both of them well).
Another rival of Borrow in respect to the _Mens sana in corpore sano_ was the famous Dr.Whewell, Master of Trinity.

Mr.Murray tells a story of his concern at a dinner-party upon a prospect of an altercation between Borrow and Whewell.