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Porson at first took no notice of either, but went on with his Euripides, publishing the Orestes in 1798, the Phoenissae in 1799 and the Medea in 1801, the last printed at the Cambridge press, and with the editor's name on the title-page.
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Talbot was educated at Rottingdean, Harrow School and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was awarded the Porson prize in Classics in 1820, and graduated as twelfth wrangler in 1821.
He was educated at Charterhouse School and Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 1809 was elected Regius Professor of Greek in succession to Porson.
He was especially anxious that the Medicean manuscript at Florence should be collated for the new edition, and offered to undertake the collation ; but the syndics refused the offer, the vice-chancellor John Torkington, master of Clare Hall, observing that Porson might collect his manuscripts at home.
The following year Porson wrote his Notae breves ad Toupii emendationes in Suidam, though this treatise did not appear till 1790 in the new edition of Jonathan Toup's book published at Oxford.
When this occurred, with part of the sum the Porson prize was founded in 1816 at Cambridge, and remainder was devoted to the foundation of the Porson scholarship, first awarded in 1855.
Porson and first
East Ruston is distinguished as the birthplace of that eminent Greek scholar, Richard Porson, M. A., who was born here in 1759, and was first initiated in letters by his father, then clerk of the parish.
Porson and took
He was an intimate friend of Richard Porson, whom he took as his model in textual criticism, although he showed less caution in conjectural emendation.
When Porson was eleven, the curate of East Ruston took charge of his education.
Porson and no
In 1792 his fellowship was no longer tenable by a layman ; and Porson decided not to take holy orders.
Porson and on
* Brink, C. O. Lutterworth. com, English Classical Scholarship: Historical Reflections on Bentley, Porson and Housman, James Clarke & Co ( 2009 ), ISBN 978-0-227-17299-5.
At Cambridge, Richard Porson worked on the missing lower right corner of the Greek text.
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He was the discoverer of Porson's Law ; and the Greek typeface Porson was based on his handwriting.
With his help Porson entered Trinity College, Cambridge, as a pensioner on 28 March 1778, matriculating in April.
During 1787 he wrote three letters on John Hawkins's Life of Johnson for the Gentleman's Magazine, which were reprinted by Thomas Kidd in his Tracts and Criticisms of Porson, and in a volume of Porson's Correspondence.
" But it was then the unpopular side: the publisher is said to have lost money by the book ; and one of his early friends, Mrs Turner of Norwich, cut down a legacy she had left Porson to £ 30 on being told that he had written what was described to her as a book against Christianity.
During the years that followed Porson continued to contribute to the leading reviews, writing in the Monthly Review the articles on Joseph Robertson's Parian Chronicle, Thomas Edwards's Plutarch on Education, and Richard Payne Knight's Essay on the Greek Alphabet.
* Brink, C. O., English Classical Scholarship: Historical Reflections on Bentley, Porson and Housman, James Clarke & Co ( 2009 ), ISBN 978-0-227-17299-5.
Porson and with
Bentley was credited with creating the English school of Hellenists, by which the 18th century was distinguished, including scholars such as R Dawes, J Markland, John Taylor, Jonathan Toup, T Tyrwhitt, Richard Porson, Peter Paul Dobree, Thomas Kidd and James Henry Monk.
In 1786, a new edition of Thomas Hutchinson's Anabasis of Xenophon was called for, and Porson was asked by the publisher to supply notes, which he did in conjunction with Walter Whiter.
Porson and Cambridge
The Cambridge press was proposing a new edition of Thomas Stanley's Aeschylus, and the editorship was offered to Porson ; but he declined to reprint Stanley's corrupt text and incorporate the variorum notes.
Porson and .
He was the father of John Tyrwhitt Davy Kidd who served in India for many years and Richard Bentley Porson Kidd, who was rector of Potter Heigham church among other duties in Norwich, Norfolk.
Kidd was an intimate friend of Richard Porson and Charles Burney the younger.
Richard Porson ( 25 December 1759 – 25 September 1808 ) was an English classical scholar.
His literary skill was partly due to the efforts of Summers, who long afterwards stated that during fifty years of scholastic life he had never come across boys so clever as Porson and his two brothers.
Porson did not care for Eton, but he was popular there ; and two dramas he wrote for performance in the Long Chamber were remembered.
Porson graduated MA in 1785.
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At the first restaurant he sensibly pulled up to go in for his dinner, and as a consequence did not see Cobb strike the open range at the mouth of the canyon and head straight across the swells for Antler.
at first gratingly, caught by grains of corn -- then with a clash into its slot.
The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.
After he had spent the first three years in New York as associate conductor, at Toscanini's invitation, of the NBC Orchestra, he made numerous guest appearances throughout the United States and Latin America.
When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.
Yet when, at war's end, the ex-Tory made the first move to resume correspondence, Jay wrote him from Paris, where he was negotiating the peace settlement:
It was at my first Communion.
The highroad, one might say at first, belongs to life, while the way to the churchyard belongs to death.
Life is further characterized, in antithesis to Piepsam, as animal: the image of a dog, which appears at several places, is first given as the criterion of amiable, irrelevant interest aroused by life considered simply as a spectacle: a dog in a wagon is `` admirable '', `` a pleasure to contemplate '' ; ;
It resembles, too, pictures such as Durer and Bruegel did, in which all that looks at first to be solely pictorial proves on inspection to be also literary, the representation of a proverb, for example, or a deadly sin.
Being somewhat delicate in health, at the age of sixteen he was sent to Southern Europe, for which he at once developed a passion, so that he spent nearly all of the following ten years abroad, at first in Italy, then in Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Palestine.
She was more excited than frightened at the prospect of having her first child in a foreign land.
Even the first wave of homesickness had passed, although there were moments when Captain Heard pointed out on his compass the direction of Bradford that she felt a little twinge at her heart.
The first act of Adoniram and Samuel on reaching Calcutta was to report at the police station, a necessity when landing in East India Company territory.
He seemed timid ( at first, ) wore nose glasses from which a black ribbon dangled, and was no bigger than a jockey.
On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.
It was probably at this period that Littlepage got his first good look at the ordinary Russian soldier.
We stopped first at the amphitheater that lies at the foot of the height crowned by the Parthenon.
The evening of our first day we drove with Christopher and Judy Sakellariadis, who were friends and patients of Norton, to dine at a restaurant on the shores of the Aegean.
Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.
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