 | Theology - 1833 - 422 pages
...gall." Though he wrote in bitterness and wrath, it cannot be denied, that he described a character. " The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With bis own tongue still edifies his ears, And always listemng to himself appears. All boohs he reads,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...sense, And rhyme with all the rage of impotence ! Such shameless bards we have; and yet, 'tis true, 610 There are as mad, abandon'd critics too. The bookful...of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always listening to himself appears. 615 All books he reads, and all he... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...impotence ! Such shameless bards we have: and yet 'tis true, 610 There are as mad, abandon'd crities too. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With...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 he reads... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...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 memor still edifies his ears, And always listening to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 336 pages
...be a kitten, and cry mew ! Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers." SHAgsTKAU. ' Such shameless bards we have ; and yet 'tis true, There are as mad, abandon'd critics too." POPE. [THE first edition of this satire, which then began with what is now the ninety-seventh line... | |
 | Fashion - 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 - 1839 - 510 pages
...And rhyme with all the rage of impotence. Such shameless bards we have ; and yet 'tis true, There aro as mad, abandon'd critics too. The bookful blockhead...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 he reads... | |
 | Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena e Lencastre Alorna (Marquesa de) - 1844 - 884 pages
...their sense, And rhyme with all the rage of Impotence. ."-.-., •• • . i1 • . Such shameless Bards we have; and yet 'tis true, There are as mad,...of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears,. And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 868 pages
...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... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining. GOLDSMITH'S Retaliation. 15. 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. POPE. 16. Be silent always, when you... | |
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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. 
