 The 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.  Englische Studien - Page 611880Full view - About this book
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot. Line 53. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. Line 66. For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Ode on Solitude. Thus let me live, unseen, unknown,... | |
 | 1857 - 600 pages
...progress of mind from the heavy tome of learned disquisitions, such as by the poet described — " The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head." Next, learning took a more discursive form, and percolated through the British Essayists. On the fall... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 pages
...the rage of impotence. Such shameless bards we have ; and yet 'tis true There are as mad abandon'd critics too. The bookful blockhead ignorantly read,...loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always listening to himself appears. All books he reads, and all... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...rage of impotence! Such shameless bards we have: and yet 'tis true, 610 There are as mad, abandon'd critics too. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,...loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always listening to himself appears. All books he reads, and all... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 334 pages
...the rage of impotence! Such shameless bards we have ; and yet 'tis true There are as mad abandon'd critics too. The bookful blockhead ignorantly read,...loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies liis ears, And always listening to himself appears. »AH books he reads, and all... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...learned dust Involves the combatants ; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both. LEARNED.— The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. Pore. — On Criticism, Line 812. I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban. SHAXSFERE. — King... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot. Part iii. Line 15. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. Part iii. Line 53. For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Part iii. Line 66 Led by the light... | |
 | 1866 - 328 pages
...the rage of impotence ! Such shameless bards we have ; and yet 'tis true . There are as mad abandon'd critics too. The bookful blockhead ignorantly read,...loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always listening to himself appears. All books he reads, and all... | |
 | 1866 - 490 pages
...CEITICISM." — PAET III. [Description of a shameful and dishonest critic.] Such shameless bards we have, and yet 'tis true. There are as mad, abandoned critics too. The bookfnl blockhead, (12) tyaorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue... | |
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