 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...Impotence. Such shameless Bards we have; and yet, 'tis true, There are as mad, abandon'd Critics tooThe bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. 615 All books... | |
 | 740 pages
...gluttony, thus suffering from mental repletion, he is incapacitated for high achievements. He is " A bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head." He is, it may be, a living lexicon, a walking encyclopedia; but he is motionless and dead, so far as... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1851 - 328 pages
...impotence. Such shameless bards we have ; and yet 'tis true There are as mad abandon'd critics too. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, i With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always listening to himself appears. All books he reads,... | |
 | Henry Hegart Breen - 1857 - 342 pages
...almost every line : — " But, absorbed as he was with his studies, "Whethamstede was not a mere ' — Bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.' It is true, he was an inveterate reader, amorously inclined towards vellum tomes and illuminated parchments,... | |
 | William Lucas Sargant - 1870 - 406 pages
...accomplishments, or the fathers madness. Suppose the boy had lived : what could he have become but a pedant? " A bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head." Quetelet1331 has some excellent remarks on this subject. " I do not know whether we have any exact... | |
 | William Lucas Sargant - 1870 - 356 pages
...accomplishments, or the father's madness. Suppose the boy had lived: what could he have become but a pedant ? " A bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head." Quetelet( 33 ) has some excellent remarks on this subject. " I do not know whether we have any exact... | |
 | John Walker Vilant Macbeth - 1875 - 558 pages
...reality, a delicate rhyme at the beginning of words instead of at the end ; as in Pope, of a pedant : " A bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head." So, too, the pun is more than mere words ; for in it there must be a difference of sense, and not merely... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1876 - 314 pages
...gluttony, thus suffering from mental repletion, he is incapacitated for high achievements. He is <A bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head/ He is, it may be, a living lexicon, a walking encyclopaedia ; but he is motionless and dead, so far... | |
 | Anna Jane Buckland - 1882 - 544 pages
...to restrain all censure. A description follows of a false and a true critic — the false : — " A bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always listening to himself appears." Then Pope asks... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 pages
...vain Distempers of an artificipl bniin. 8788 Butler : Sat. Upon Abuse of H. Learning. Urn; 21)3. I'he bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own toiigue still edifies his ears, And always listening to himself appears. 3789 Pope : E.... | |
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I might occupy a good deal of your time if I were to set myself to bring together all the judgments that I could find in our great literary works against the pedant. But it would be somewhat beside my mark; for there may be desultory readers who deserve... 
