The Life of Richard Porson, M. A.: Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge from 1792 to 1808 |
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... Editors . — An acute Emendation . — London Edition of Heyne's Virgil ; Porson had little concern with it . - Parr's Panegyric on Porson . Re- view of Payne Knight on the Greek Alphabet . - Considerations on Verbal and other Criticism ...
... Editors . — An acute Emendation . — London Edition of Heyne's Virgil ; Porson had little concern with it . - Parr's Panegyric on Porson . Re- view of Payne Knight on the Greek Alphabet . - Considerations on Verbal and other Criticism ...
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... Editor.— Wake- field's " Diatribe Extemporalis . " - His Reasons for his Displeasure . His Vanity and Presumption . - Critical Niceties . - Notice of Wake- field and Porson in the " Monthly Review . " - Wakefield's awkward attempts at ...
... Editor.— Wake- field's " Diatribe Extemporalis . " - His Reasons for his Displeasure . His Vanity and Presumption . - Critical Niceties . - Notice of Wake- field and Porson in the " Monthly Review . " - Wakefield's awkward attempts at ...
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... but little ; and as to Greek he had made comparatively but little progress when he came to Eton . The very ingenious and learned editor of one account of him has been misinformed C in most particulars ; and many of the incidents which.
... but little ; and as to Greek he had made comparatively but little progress when he came to Eton . The very ingenious and learned editor of one account of him has been misinformed C in most particulars ; and many of the incidents which.
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... editing Eschylus , he sent him specimens of two or three emendations . Ruhnken was pleased with the letter , and after ... editor's duty . But on being told that he must preserve Stanley's text unaltered , and must admit all Pauw's ...
... editing Eschylus , he sent him specimens of two or three emendations . Ruhnken was pleased with the letter , and after ... editor's duty . But on being told that he must preserve Stanley's text unaltered , and must admit all Pauw's ...
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... him to waste much time in comparatively trifling occupations . The only excuse to be made for the Syndics is that * Letters to Travis , p . 57 ; Kidd , Tracts , p . xxxvi . Porson was then untried as an editor , and that D 4.
... him to waste much time in comparatively trifling occupations . The only excuse to be made for the Syndics is that * Letters to Travis , p . 57 ; Kidd , Tracts , p . xxxvi . Porson was then untried as an editor , and that D 4.
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ÆSCHYLUS afterwards Anecdotes appeared Aristophanes Barker's Lit Beloe Bentley Bishop cæsura called Cambridge character Church copy corrected critic Dictionary East Ruston Edinburgh Review editor Elmsley emendations English Engravings Eschylus Essays Eton Euripides expressed favour Greek Greek language H. R. Luard Hecuba Hermann History hogs Homer honour Horace Illustrations Ireland John Kidd language Latin learned letter literary Lord Lucretius Maltby manuscripts Medea Memoirs ment metre morning never notice observed opinion papers Parr Parr's passage Plates Plautus poets Porsoniana Post 8vo preface present Professor published reader remarks replied Review revised RICHARD PORSON Rogers's Table Talk salt-box says scholar Second Edition Sexagenarian Shakspeare Sophocles Square crown 8vo thought tion told translation Travis Trinity College verse VILLOISON volume Wakefield William Henry Ireland Woodcuts words writing written wrote καὶ
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