 | 1857 - 600 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 páginas
...impotence! Such shameless bards we have: and yet 'tis true, 610 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 Dryder 's Fables down... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 334 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...lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies liis ears, And always listening to himself appears. »AH books he reads, and all he reads assails,... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 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... | |
 | 1866 - 490 páginas
...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 still edifies his ears, 55 And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails, From Dryden's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 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... | |
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All books he reads, and all he reads 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. 
