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See also:RITSON, See also:JOSEPH (r7.52-1803) , See also:English See also:antiquary, was See also:born at See also:Stockton-on-See also:Tees, of a See also:Westmorland See also:yeoman See also:family, on the and of See also:October 1752. He was educated for the See also:law, and settled in See also:London as a conveyancer when twenty-two. He devoted his spare See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to literature, and in 1782 published au attack on See also:Warton's See also:History of English See also:Poetry. The fierce and insulting See also:tone of his Observations, in which Warton was treated as a showy pretender, and charged with See also:cheating and lying to See also:cover his See also:ignorance, made a See also:great sensation in See also:literary circles. In nearly all the small points with which he dealt Ritson was in the right, and his corrections have since been adopted, but the unjustly See also:bitter See also:language of his criticisms roused great anger at the time, much, it would appear, to Ritson's delight. In 1783 See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson and See also:Steevens were assailed in the same bitter See also:fashion as Warton for their See also:text of See also:Shakespeare. See also:Bishop See also:Percy was next subjected to a furious onslaught in the See also:preface to a collection of See also:Ancient Songs (printed 1787, dated 1790, published 1792). The only thing that can be said in extenuation of Ritson's unmatchable acrimony is that he spared no pains himself to ensure accuracy in the texts of old songs, See also:ballads and metrical romances which he edited. His collection of the See also:Robin See also:Hood ballads is perhaps his greatest single achievement. See also:Scott, who admired his See also:industry and accuracy in spite of his See also:temper, was almost the only See also:man who could- get on with him. On one occasion, when he called in Scott's See also:absence, he spoke so rudely to Mrs Scott that See also:Leyden, who was See also:present, threatened to " thraw his See also:neck." and throw him out of the window. Spelling was one of his. eccentricities, his own name being an example: Ritson is See also:short See also:pronunciation for See also:Richardson. As See also:early as 1796 Ritson, showed signs of See also:mental collapse, and on the loth of See also:September 1803 he became completely insane, barricaded himself in his See also:chambers at See also:- GRAY
- GRAY (or GREY), WALTER DE (d. 1255)
- GRAY, ASA (1810-1888)
- GRAY, DAVID (1838-1861)
- GRAY, ELISHA (1835-1901)
- GRAY, HENRY PETERS (1819-18/7)
- GRAY, HORACE (1828–1902)
- GRAY, JOHN DE (d. 1214)
- GRAY, JOHN EDWARD (1800–1875)
- GRAY, PATRICK GRAY, 6TH BARON (d. 1612)
- GRAY, ROBERT (1809-1872)
- GRAY, SIR THOMAS (d. c. 1369)
- GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771)
Gray's See also:Inn, made a See also:bonfire of See also:manuscripts, and was finally forcibly removed to Hoxton, where he died on the, 23rd of the See also:month.
End of Article: RITSON, JOSEPH (r7.52-1803)
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