The Life of Richard Porson, M. A.: Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge from 1792 to 1808 |
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... Copy of the Homer , and acknow- ledging the Receipt of it . Publication of the Medea . · Porson's Opinions on Greek Accentuation . - Wakefield's Hostility to Accents . --Brunck's and Elmsley's Notions respecting them . — Porson's Long ...
... Copy of the Homer , and acknow- ledging the Receipt of it . Publication of the Medea . · Porson's Opinions on Greek Accentuation . - Wakefield's Hostility to Accents . --Brunck's and Elmsley's Notions respecting them . — Porson's Long ...
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... residing at Hayes , near Horsham , with the only copy in his possession , written when Porson was about twelve years old . The handwriting is beautiful as copper - plate . On a Moonlight Night . Who can the beauties of.
... residing at Hayes , near Horsham , with the only copy in his possession , written when Porson was about twelve years old . The handwriting is beautiful as copper - plate . On a Moonlight Night . Who can the beauties of.
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... copy of verses , which indeed evince the rapid progress of his mind , but would not do honour to his memory . " That he could repeat by heart almost all the books read at Eton , before he became an Etonian , he himself told Mr. Maltby ...
... copy of verses , which indeed evince the rapid progress of his mind , but would not do honour to his memory . " That he could repeat by heart almost all the books read at Eton , before he became an Etonian , he himself told Mr. Maltby ...
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... copies of school - Latin verses , written by Porson when he was at Eton , are in the library of Trinity College , having been presented to it in 1851 by T. L'Estrange Ewen , Esq . , of Dedham , Essex . One is in iambic verse , a ...
... copies of school - Latin verses , written by Porson when he was at Eton , are in the library of Trinity College , having been presented to it in 1851 by T. L'Estrange Ewen , Esq . , of Dedham , Essex . One is in iambic verse , a ...
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... is carefully printed in italics at the top , on the left hand . His mind was first inclined to critical researches , as he himself used to relate , by reading Toup's " Longinus , " with a copy of which he was presented by Dr.
... is carefully printed in italics at the top , on the left hand . His mind was first inclined to critical researches , as he himself used to relate , by reading Toup's " Longinus , " with a copy of which he was presented by Dr.
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