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Richard Porson - drunkard
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Porson: Critic, Librarian, DRUNKARD
Erik March 31, 2020
https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2020/03/31/porson-critic-librarian-drunkard-2/
Lives of Wits and Humourists: R. Brinsley Sheridan. Richard Porson. Rev. Sydney Smith. Theodore Hook. James and Horace Smith (1862)
John Timbs 1801-1875
https://books.google.com/books?id=0m4LAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA187
Innumerable are the stories of Porson’s intemperance.
The former has found an able apologist in the Saturday Review, who says of his thirst, “rather than the uglier word drunkenness, although Porson unhappily was a drunkard, yet his excesses, even in an age of hard drinking, were so marked and abnormal, that we are driven to the supposition of some unexplored disease being at the root of them.
Recollections of the Table-talk of Samuel Rogers: To which is Added Porsoniana (1856)
Samuel Rogers (1763-1855)
Porsoniana by Wililam Maltby (1763–1854)
http://google.cat/books?id=3IU3AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA216
Porsoniana - p. 295-334
When Poison dined with me, I used to keep him within bounds; but I frequently met him at various houses where he got completely drunk. He would not scruple to return to the dining-room, after the company had left it, pour into a tumbler the drops remaining in the wine-glasses, and drink off the omnium gatherum.* p. 217
http://google.cat/books?id=3IU3AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA295
During the earlier part of his career, he accepted the situation of tutor to a young gentleman in the Isle of Wight; but he was 6oon forced to relinquish that office, in consequence of having been found drunk in a ditch or a tumip-field. p. 296
Tooke used to say that “ Porson would drink ink rather than not drink at all.” Indeed, he would drink any thing. He was sitting with a gentleman, after dinner, in the chambers of a mutual friend, a Templar, who was then ill and confined to bed. A servant came into the room, sent thither by his master for a bottle of embrocation which was on the chimney-piece. “I drank it an hour ago,” said Porson. p. 298
See p. 298 (more). 299
The Life of Richard Porson ... Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge from 1792 to 1808 (1861)
John Selby Watson (1804-1882)
https://books.google.com/books?id=oS06AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA276
The redness of his nose, to which he alludes in the letter above, proceeded greatly from his indulgence in port, which he preferred to every other wine, as well at dinner as after it. Of liquors his favourite was brandy, the drink of heroes. Mrs. Parr said that more brandy was drunk during three weeks that Porson spent at Hatton than during all the time that she had kept house before.
Literary Anecdotes and Contemporary Reminiscences of Professor Porson and Others: Porsoniana, or Anecdotes of Prof. Porson, &c
Edmund Henry Barker (1788-1839)
https://books.google.com/books?id=vKjcHDfd6eQC&pg=PA14
This book has some additional scuzzy stuff that I will bypass.
G. L. Hendrickson reviewing M.L. Clarke used the phrase
"eccentric slave to drink".
https://www.jstor.org/stable/263986?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
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