| Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 páginas
...have: and yet 'tis true, 610 There are as mad, abandon'd critica too. The bookful blockhead, ignorontly No time the dear remembrance can remove, For, oh ! how vast a memory has listening to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails, From Drydcn'a Fables down... | |
| 740 páginas
...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 - 1839 - 510 páginas
...impotence. Such shameless bards we have ; and yet 'tis true, There aro as mad, abandon'd critics too. ill cost a plum. Wise Peters sees the world's respect...therefore hopes this nation may be sold: Glorious ambition listening to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails, From Uryden's Fables down... | |
| Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena e Lencastre Alorna (Marquesa de) - 1844 - 884 páginas
...i1 • . Such shameless Bards we have; and yet 'tis true, There are as mad, abandon'd Critics too. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads...his ears,. And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails, From Dryden's Fables down to Dorfey's Tales. With him... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 868 páginas
...and stoutly builded too. Dugard. Feriei on Gataker, (1655,) p. 75. The bookful blockhead, ignoranily read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifiei his ears! And always listening to himself appears. Poft. Eu*y MI Crilieitm. Devout people may... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 850 páginas
...ev'ry oar, and hoist up ev'ry sail ; And take th' advantage of the friendly gale. liryden. .Eneis, АП books he reads, and all he reads assails, From Dryden's Fables down to Durfey's Talcs. Pope. £stay on Criticism. His most frequent assailment was the head-ach, which he used to relieve... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 páginas
...Impotence. Such shameless Bards we have ; and yet, 'tis true, There are as mad, abandon'd Critics too. 611 The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads...assails, From Dryden's Fables down to Durfey's Tales. With him most authors steal their works, or buy ; Garth did not write his own Dispensary. Name a new... | |
| 1847 - 540 páginas
...on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining. GOLDSMITH'S Retaliation. 15. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads...his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. POPE. 16. Be silent always, when you doubt your sense, And speak, tho' sure, with seeming diffidence.... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 páginas
...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...his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always listening to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails, From Dryden's Fables down... | |
| 1849 - 472 páginas
...well as intrinsic value, I should doubtless have notably illustrated Pope's alliterative couplet. " The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head." As it was, I ingorged with anacondine voracity innumerable writings, of which I had no glimmering comprehension,... | |
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