Porson
Britishnoun
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This crowd is all connected to PC Travel, a partnership between mean, porcine Charles Porson and charming, handsome Derek Crowley.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by McCarthy, Justin
Now take one example out of fifty of the tone and temper of Porson.
From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose
The late Mr. William Upcott, who urged the publication of Evelyn's diary at Wootton, was fellow-secretary with Porson.
From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter
I must stop a moment to consider the hard and far different fate of Porson.
From Res Judicat? Papers and Essays by Birrell, Augustine
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