...derision in several parts of Mr. Person's writings. It may be added, that Mr. Hermann is best known in England by his work on Greek and Latin metres ; a...has long repented of writing that book. Whatever he may have been formerly, undoubtedly he is now a very considerable proficient in his art, although he...

...derision in several parts of Mr. Person's writings. It may be added, that Mr. Hermann is best known in England by his work on Greek and Latin metres ; a...has long repented of writing that book. Whatever he may have been formerly, undoubtedly he is now a very considerable proficient in his art, although he...

...his work on Greek and Latin metres: a book, of which too much ill cannot easily be said , and \\hich contains a smaller quantity of useful and solid information, in proportion to its hulk, ili. m any elementary treatise, on any subject, which we remember to ha>e seen. In all probability,...

...characterises that work (the first edition, he it remembered, — not the work ue are familiar with) as ' a book of which too much ill cannot easily be said,...treatise, on any subject, which we remember to have seen.' And as to Iris edition of the X«bes, besides the choice specimens of criticism given by Porson ad...

...work from what it was at its first appearance. Of the first edition Elmsley remarked that it was " a book of which too much ill cannot easily be said,...treatise, on any subject, which we remember to have seen." It was afterwards transformed into the Treatise so well known to scholars, which, though containing...

...published in 1796, at the age of twenty-four, an elaborate treatise on metres, which Elmsley described as 'a book of which too much ill cannot easily be said,...treatise, on any subject, which we remember to have seen'. On the appearance of Porson's Hecuba, Hermann rapidly produced a rival edition (1800), with a Preface...