 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...the last dull droppings of their sense, And rhyme with all the rage of impotence ! 610 Such shameless bards we have ; and yet 'tis true, There are as mad,...With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his owii tongue still edifies his ears, And always listening to himself appears. All books he reads, and... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot. Line 53. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. Line 66. For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Ode on Solitude. Thus let me live, unseen, unknown,... | |
 | Law - 1857 - 600 pages
...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 - English language - 1857 - 342 pages
...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 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...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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 586 pages
...kitten, and cry mew ! Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers." — SHARSFEARE. " Such shameless bards we have ; and yet 'tis true, There are as mad, abandon'd crities too." — POPE. PREFACE. ALL my friends, learned and unlearned, have urged me not to publish... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 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. All books he reads, and all he reads... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 pages
...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." POPE. PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. ALL my friends, learned and unlearned, have urged mo not to publish,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 334 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...of learned 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... | |
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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. 
