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Show BOTH THINKER AND DRINKER. Eminent Englishman One of the Most Bibulous of Men. The great Porson, librarian and Greek scholar, would sit up drinking nil night without seeming to feel any bad effects from It. Home Tooko told Samuel Rogers that ho once asked Porson to dine with him in Richmond buildings, and, as ho know that Porson Por-son had not been In bed for the throe preceding nights, he expected to get rid of him nt.a tolerably early hour. Porson, however, kept Tooke up tht whole night, and in tna morning the latter. In perfect de-jjsilr, said: "Mr. Porson, 1 am engaged to meet s friend at breakfast at a coffee house In Leicester square." "Oh," replied .Porson, "I will go with you," and he nccordlsgly did so. Soon nftor they had reached tho coffee house Tooke contrived to slip out, and, running home, ordered his servant not to let Mr. Porson In, even If he should at tempt to batter down the door. "A rasa," observed Tooke, 'who could sit up four nlshts successively might havo sat up 40." " Tooka used to' Bajthat "Porson would drink ink rather than not drink at all." Indeed, he would drink anything. any-thing. He was sitting with a gentleman gentle-man after dinner In the chambers of a mutual friend, a Templar, who was then III and confined to bed. A servant serv-ant came Into the room, sent thither by his master, for a bottle of embrocation, embro-cation, which was on the chimney-piece. chimney-piece. "I drank It nn hour ago," said Porson. London's T. P.'s Weekly. |