Had but little regard for each other, and when the latter published
his _Hecuba_, Porson said--
"What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,
That he should publish her?"
At another time, being teased for his opinion of a modern Latin poem,
his reply was,--"There is a great deal in it from _Horace_, and a
great deal from _Virgil_: but nothing _Horatian_ and nothing
_Virgilian_."
Dr. Parr once asked the professor, "what he thought of the origin of
evil?" "_I see no good in it_," was his answer.
The same pugnacious divine told him one day, that "with all his
learning, he did not think him well versed in metaphysics." "Sir,"
said Porson, "I suppose you mean _your_ metaphysics."
It is not generally known that during the time he was employed in
deciphering the famed Rosetta stone, in the collection of the British
Museum, which is _black_,