Porson

British  

/ ˈpɔːsən /

noun

1. Richard. 1759–1808, English classical scholar, noted for his editions of Aeschylus and Euripides

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Example Sentences

This crowd is all connected to PC Travel, a partnership between mean, porcine Charles Porson and charming, handsome Derek Crowley.

From Time Magazine Archive

The awful word 'verbose' has been launched against certain pages of the history by a critic, formidable and friendly—the great Porson.

From Res Judicat? Papers and Essays by Birrell, Augustine

Anecdotes and contemporary reminiscences, of Professor Porson and others: from the manuscript papers of the late E. H. Barker . . .

From A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 1 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe by Various

By-and-by several friends of the Austins came—the Rev. Mr Porson and his daughters, whom Fidelia had seen before, and others whom she had not seen.

From Eunice by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)

Porson used to say of Bishop Pearson that, if he had not muddled his head with theology, he would have been a first-class critic in Greek. 

From The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)