...have: and yet 'tis true, 61C There are as mad, abandon'd critics too. The bookful blockhead, ¡gnomntly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With...his ears, And always listening to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails, From Dryden's Fables down to Durfey's Tales ¡ With him...

...as lie boldly «Tit, Such shameless bard» we have ; and yet 'tis true, There are as mad, abandon'd critics too. The bookful blockhead ignorantly read,...his ears, And always listening to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails, From Uryden's Fables down to Durfey's Tales. With him...

...:..... •• •' .-=' . Such shameless Bards we have; and yet 'tis true, There are as mad, abandon'd Critics too. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in bis heed, W T ith his own tongue still edifies bis ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All...

...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...his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. 615 All books he reads, and all he reads assails, From Dryden's Fables...

...calls him, on the carpet, let me digress a little from our main subject and say a word or two upon This bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. ludicrously false that the reader can hardly believe he was in earnest. " Hurd cried up Warburton's...

...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,...his ears, And always listening to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails, From Dryden's Fables down to Durfey's p Tales. With him...

...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,...

...responsible duties of an abbot; 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;...

...impotence! Such shameless bards we have: and yet 'tis true, G10 There are as mad, abandon'd critics loo. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads...his ears, And always listening to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails, From Dryden's Fables down to Durfey'a Tales : With him...

...do." A sufficiently clumsy inversion this last, yet in some degree emulated by the following : — " With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always listening to himself appears." " Made for his use all creatures if he call, Say what their use, had he the powers of all." " (Her...