Literary Anecdotes and Contemporary Reminiscences of Professor Porson and Others: Porsoniana, or Anecdotes of Prof. Porson, &cJ. R. Smith, 1852 |
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الصفحة 64 - In this pursuit, he soon acquired undisputed preeminence. He got the medal of course, and was elected a Fellow in 1781. In 1785, he took his degree of Master of Arts ; but, long before the period had elapsed when he must either enter into holy orders, or surrender his fellowship, he had, after the most grave and deliberate investigation, to which he had brought all that acute gift of examination that has been made so perceptible in his letters to Mr. Archdeacon Travis, made up his mind on the subject...
الصفحة 102 - ... produce some benefit to the interests of learning and the credit of the University, that trifling gain would be as much exceeded by keeping the Professorship a sinecure, and bestowing it on a sound believer, as temporal considerations are outweighed by spiritual. Having only a strong persuasion, not an absolute certainty, that such a subscription is required of the Professor elect, — if I am mistaken, I hereby offer myself as a candidate ; but if I am right in my opinion, I shall beg of you...
الصفحة 136 - He had undertaken to make out and copy the almost obliterated manuscript of the invaluable Lexicon of Photius, which he had borrowed from the library of Trinity College. And this he had, with unparalleled difficulty, just completed, when the beautiful copy which had cost him ten months of incessant toil, was burnt in the house of Mr.
الصفحة 98 - Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.
الصفحة 61 - Ruston, and who, though in humble life, and without the advantages himself of early education,' laid the basis of his son's unparalleled acquirements. From the earliest dawn of intellect, Mr. Porson began the task of fixing the attention of his children, three sons and a daughter ; and he had taught Richard, his eldest son, all the common rules of arithmetic, without the use of a book or slate, pen or pencil, up to the cube root, before he was nine years of age. The memory was thus incessantly exercised;...
الصفحة 37 - He conversed in a lively manner, walking with us to and fro in a sort of alley ; and at parting gave us a list of some of his works, adding, ' Ce sont des livres de quoi il faut se munir,' they were such as would fortify our young minds against religious prejudices.
الصفحة 91 - All this, be it observed, was tempered with a judgment, which preserved him invariably from the rocks against which even the greatest of his critical predecessors have at some time or other split ; we mean precipitation in determining that to be unsound, which after all had no defect ; and rashness...
الصفحة 63 - ... retained whatever he had acquired. He took him and his brother Thomas under his care, and instructed them in the classics. The progress of both was great, but that of Richard was most extraordinary. It became the...
الصفحة 63 - Person was the constant adviser and support. He used to dwell on this lively part of his youth with peculiar complacency ; and we have heard him repeat a drama, which he wrote for exhibition in their long chamber, and other compositions, both of seriousness and drollery, with a zest that the recollection of his enjoyment at the time, never failed to revive in him.
الصفحة 63 - August, 1774, when he was in his fifteenth year ; and in that great seminary, he, almost from the commencement of his career, displayed such a superiority of intellect, such facility of acquirement, such quickness of perception, and such a talent of bringing forward to his purpose all that he had ever read, that the upper boys took him into their society, and promoted the cultivation of his mind by their lessons, as well, probably, as by imposing upon him the performance of their own exercises. He...