 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...And rhyme with all the rage of impotence ! Such shameless bards we have ; and yet 'tis true There arc 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...out the last dull droppings of their sense, And rhyme with all the rage of 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 of learned lumber in his head, With his own... | |
 | William Carlisle - Demonology - 1825 - 194 pages
...understanding, and a levity of mind, from which nothing can be expected but inconsistency and folly." " The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head." The existence of a supernatural evil being has been believed in all ages, by the wisest and best of... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...out the last dull drippings of their sense, And rhyme with all the rage of impotenee ! Sueh shameless own advaneing, First to the lively pipe his hand addrest, But erities too. T!-e bookful bloekhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, M'ith... | |
 | Oscott St. Mary's sem - 1828 - 496 pages
...bosom that beats, Is for friends that are far away. T. THE RUM-FISH CLUB. TO THE EDITOR. " The bookfull 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." POM. MR. 1DITUR, THIS truth is, I... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 832 pages
...Plato and Pindar, at his own table, to some boohleamed companion, without blushing. Km ft. The bookjvl 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. Among those venerable galleries,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...sense, And rhyme with all the rage of impotence! Such shameless bards we have: and yet 'tie trae, 61C e. And stain his rival's mail with issuing gore, 950...(A Thracian blade distinct with studs of gold) Shal still edifies his ears, And always listening to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1831 - 498 pages
...be a kitten, and cry mew ! Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers." SHAKSPEARE ' Such shameless bards we have; and yet 'tis true, There are as mad, abandon'd critics too." POPK. A fifth edition of the « « English Bards and Scotch Reviewers," in which Lord Byron introduced... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - Poets, English - 1832 - 350 pages
...a kitten, and cry mew ! Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers." SHAKSPEARB. ' Such shameless bards we have ; and yet 'tis true. There are as mad, abandon'd critics too." POPK. [The first edition of this satire, which then began with what is now the ninety-seventh line... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Theology - 1833 - 892 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 his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always listening to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads... | |
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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. 
