...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...

...untutor'd intellect^ But from the over-curious and vain Distempers of an artificial brain. Butler, Sat. n. The 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. Pope, EC 612. Pursuit of fame...

...contemplate Nature only in the mirror of the Greeks and Latins. His influence shattered the credit of " The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head." A Dennis feebly, but for a time successfully, maintained the literal text of French laws of criticism...

...; and yet 'tis true, 610 There are as mad, abandon'd critics too. The bookful blockhead, iguorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always listemng to himself appears. All books he reads, and all...

...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 list'ning to himself appears. 1 And stares, tremendoiis,...

...went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining; GOLDSMITH'S Re.taUutioii. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own totigue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. Pora Be silent always, when...

...syllables in the same verse ; it is the chief characteristic of Anglo-Saxon and early English poetry : eg The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. How high his highness holds his haughty head ! Begot by butchers, but by bishops bred. Parallelism...

...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...

...his face, How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home. * " The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head." — POPE, Essay on C, iii. 612. " For there we dim the eyes and stuff the head, With all such reading...

...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...