Among My Books Papers On Literary Subjects By the Following Writers Augustine
Among My Books Papers On Literary Subjects By the Following Writers Augustine
Birrell Augustine
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' It would be difficult to kill two birds more neatly with one stone. Porson was not merely the greatest classical scholar since the death of Bentley. He was ac- quainted with English literature as few classical scholars at that time were. He knew Shakespeare as we should all like to know him, and the New Testament as we all ought to know it — that is to say, by heart. Even Byron never made a better Shakespearian quotation than Porson flung con- temptuously at that typically bad scholar, Gilber...t Wakefield, who presumed to criticise his edition of the Hecuba of Euripides — 'What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba?' He was saturated with Milton, Dryden, and Pope. He was an omnivorous and re- tentive reader, whose vast knowledge was at his fin- gers' ends. There are modern professors who despise him because he said that life was too short to learn German. I will not ask whether it is possible to be the worse for German. There are, as Porson knew to his cost, more pernicious forms of excess.
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