Parriana: Or, Notices of the Rev. Samuel Parr ...H. 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 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 Dr. Bennet was at this time residing ...
... PORSON is alluded to 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 Dr. Bennet was at this time residing ...
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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 < 6 6 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 ...
... Porson . My < 6 6 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 ...
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... Porson first discovered the variæ lectiones to be in part substitutions of courtly for un- courtly language ; Dr ... Porson ; Dr. Parr examined also , and arrived at the same conclusion . On the other hand , though Mr. Green pointed out ...
... Porson first discovered the variæ lectiones to be in part substitutions of courtly for un- courtly language ; Dr ... Porson ; Dr. Parr examined also , and arrived at the same conclusion . On the other hand , though Mr. Green pointed out ...
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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 200 - A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust; Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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 751 - THE NARROW GLEN IN this still place, remote from men, Sleeps Ossian, in the NARROW GLEN ; In this still place, where murmurs on But one meek streamlet, only one : He sang of battles, and the breath Of stormy war, and violent death ; And should, methinks, when all was past, Have rightfully been laid at last Where rocks were rudely heaped, and rent As by a spirit turbulent ; Where sights were rough, and sounds were wild, And everything unreconciled...
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!
Page 200 - 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, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad...
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.