The Life of Richard Porson, M. A.: Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge from 1792 to 1808 |
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... third Act discovers Punch and Joan sitting half asleep , with bottle and tumblers beside them , and the head in a huge frying - pan on the fire ; Dr. Faustus having charged them to watch the roasting of it , and to let him know when it ...
... third Act discovers Punch and Joan sitting half asleep , with bottle and tumblers beside them , and the head in a huge frying - pan on the fire ; Dr. Faustus having charged them to watch the roasting of it , and to let him know when it ...
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... third of thirty hexameters and pentameters on the Progress of Pastoral Poetry . We have extracted a few lines from the first as a specimen : Natura solers ipsa legibus suis Sese coercet , ut tenetur ordine A se reperto , se regens ...
... third of thirty hexameters and pentameters on the Progress of Pastoral Poetry . We have extracted a few lines from the first as a specimen : Natura solers ipsa legibus suis Sese coercet , ut tenetur ordine A se reperto , se regens ...
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... fault that Parr could point out , he himself would find seven . He took his degree in 1782 as third senior optime , the number of wranglers being eighteen . Soon after- D wards he obtained the first Chancellor's medal , Sparke ,
... fault that Parr could point out , he himself would find seven . He took his degree in 1782 as third senior optime , the number of wranglers being eighteen . Soon after- D wards he obtained the first Chancellor's medal , Sparke ,
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... third year ; after which event it surely did not take place . He might indeed have entered into a short engagement of the kind during one of the vacations , but , if he did , it is strange that there is no allusion to it in any other ...
... third year ; after which event it surely did not take place . He might indeed have entered into a short engagement of the kind during one of the vacations , but , if he did , it is strange that there is no allusion to it in any other ...
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... third example of Oouxudions from the same source , and then says : - " But wherever the word Kudos , or its derivatives , occur in ancient Greek poetry ( and they occur very frequently ) , * Kidd , Tracts , p . lxvi . they have the v ...
... third example of Oouxudions from the same source , and then says : - " But wherever the word Kudos , or its derivatives , occur in ancient Greek poetry ( and they occur very frequently ) , * Kidd , Tracts , p . lxvi . they have the v ...
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