Porson
Britishnoun
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With the help of the short green man he gives her the scissors, the comb, and the King of Porson’s head, which she requires.
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His reading, and especially his classical acquirements, I presume to be far wider and deeper than those of Thackeray, who, it need hardly be said, was as Porson or Parr when compared with Dickens.
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He took the Porson and Craven in successive years.
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One does not envy Porson, the greatest of modern Greek scholars, his habitually dirty and shabby dress, because it is forever associated with his learned celebrity!
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In the classics—but more particularly in Greek,—by the written opinions of Cowper, and the oral testimony given in society, by Porson, Parr, Burney, Symmons, and others.
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