Parriana: Miscellaneous materials bearing on Parr's controversiesEdmund Henry Barker Henry Colburn, 1829 |
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... PORSON , Bp . SHIPLEY , GILB . WAKEFIELD , and other Literary and Contemporary Characters : 5. Dr. PARR's Observa- tions on the Etymology of the word SUBLIMIS , approved by DUGALD STEWART and Dr. COPLESTON , with a Refutation of them by ...
... PORSON , Bp . SHIPLEY , GILB . WAKEFIELD , and other Literary and Contemporary Characters : 5. Dr. PARR's Observa- tions on the Etymology of the word SUBLIMIS , approved by DUGALD STEWART and Dr. COPLESTON , with a Refutation of them by ...
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... PORSON is alluded to the best Greek scholar in England ? p . 156 ; at this time , ( 1789 , ) he was not Greek Professor , he had only taken his degree in 1782 , and his reputation for scholarship was , it seems , not very general , for ...
... PORSON is alluded to the best Greek scholar in England ? p . 156 ; at this time , ( 1789 , ) he was not Greek Professor , he had only taken his degree in 1782 , and his reputation for scholarship was , it seems , not very general , for ...
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... Porson , * that he had * [ " The Bishop of Gloucester never thought it expedient to save appearances by shaking off ... Porson is undoubtedly the scholar alluded to by Parr , and Parr himself names Porson elsewhere . In the Doctor's ...
... Porson , * that he had * [ " The Bishop of Gloucester never thought it expedient to save appearances by shaking off ... Porson is undoubtedly the scholar alluded to by Parr , and Parr himself names Porson elsewhere . In the Doctor's ...
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... Porson . My dispute with the Bishop of Worcester did not for one moment ' suspend my great respect for his talents : and if , upon a fair ' and full inquiry , I had discovered that my words were in the ' slightest degree too strong for ...
... Porson . My dispute with the Bishop of Worcester did not for one moment ' suspend my great respect for his talents : and if , upon a fair ' and full inquiry , I had discovered that my words were in the ' slightest degree too strong for ...
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... Porson ; Dr. Parr examined also , and arrived at the same conclusion . On the other hand , though Mr. Green pointed out to Dr. Parr the variations from the first edition , yet Mr. Green never viewed them in the same light as Porson did ...
... Porson ; Dr. Parr examined also , and arrived at the same conclusion . On the other hand , though Mr. Green pointed out to Dr. Parr the variations from the first edition , yet Mr. Green never viewed them in the same light as Porson did ...
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Page 164 - God loves from whole to parts : but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake : The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds ; Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next ; and next all human race...
Page 440 - It never through my mind had past The time would e'er be o'er, And I on thee should look my last, And thou shouldst smile no more ! And still upon that face I look, And think 'twill smile again; And still the thought I will not brook, That I must look in vain. But when I speak — thou dost not say What thou ne'er left'st...
Page 556 - I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong ; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to be right.
Page 441 - Sweet Mary, thou art dead! If thou wouldst stay, e'en as thou art, All cold and all serene, I still might press thy silent heart, And where thy smiles have been. While e'en thy chill, bleak corse I have, Thou seemest still mine own; But there I lay thee in thy grave, — And I am now alone! I do not think, where'er thou art, Thou hast forgotten me; And I, perhaps, may soothe this heart In thinking, too, of thee; Yet there was round thee such a dawn Of light ne'er seen before, As fancy never could...
Page 440 - And still upon that face I look, And think 'twill smile again; And still the thought I will not brook, That I must look in vain. But when I speak — thou dost not say What thou ne'er left'st unsaid; And now I feel, as well I may, Sweet Mary, thou art dead! If thou wouldst stay, e'en as thou art, All cold and all serene, I still might press thy silent heart, And where thy smiles have been.
Page 237 - Warburton has most general, most scholastic learning; Lowth is the more correct scholar. I do not know which of them calls names best." The King was pleased to say he was of the same opinion; adding, "You do not think then, Dr. Johnson, that there was much argument in the case." Johnson said, he did not think there was. "Why truly, (said the King,) when once it comes to calling names, argument is pretty well at an end.
Page 549 - And having been a little chastised, they shall be greatly rewarded : for God proved them, and found them worthy for himself.
Page 432 - The oaks of the mountains fall ; the mountains themselves decay with years ; the ocean shrinks and grows again ; the moon herself is lost in heaven ; but thou art for ever the same rejoicing in the brightness of thy course. When the world is dark with tempests, when thunder rolls and lightning flies, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and laughest at the storm.
Page 432 - But thou art, perhaps, like me, for a season, and thy years will have an end : thou shalt sleep in thy clouds, careless of the voice of the morning. Exult, then, O Sun, in the strength of thy youth ! Age is dark and unlovely ; it is like the glimmering light of the moon, when it shines through broken clouds, and the mist is on the hills; the blast of the north is on the plain, — the traveller shrinks, in the midst of his journey.
Page 200 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys: So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way, Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad!