...Fear most to tax an honorable fool, (Fr. Ill) Whose right it is, uncensured to be dull; (Fr. Ill) 55 TrGrPo When the Lamp Is Shattered 89 (Fr. Ill) 56 For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. (Fr. HI) 57 Though learned, well-bred; and...

...Finn have never encountered a learned pedant. Or perhaps they have forgotten Pope's description of the "bookful blockhead ignorantly read, with loads of learned lumber in his head." 31 What is involved in human communication in the real world is far more subtle than what emerges from...

...pronouncement. There are, finally, echoes of earlier conversations embedded in the flow of this one: The Bookful Blockhead, ignorantly read, With Loads...his own Tongue still edifies his Ears, And always List'ning to Himself appears. All Books he reads, and all he reads assails, 5 From Dryden's Fables...

...Criticism As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. 3314 An Essay on Criticism The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber In his head. 3315 An Essay on Man Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, man is not a fly. 3316...

...who have piled such a load of books on their heads, their brains have seemed to be squasht by them:* The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.* They have neither lived wisely nor read wisely. They regard knowledge as a kind of capital—not revenue....

...who have piled such a load of books on their heads, their brains have seemed to be squasht by them:1 The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.* They have neither lived wisely nor read wisely. They regard knowledge as a kind of capital—not revenue....

...lumbcrpie: minced fish or flesh with eggs, baked in a pie. Pope, in his Essay on Criticism (1711), speaks of The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. "You will hang like an icicle on a Dutchman's beard"- Twelfth Night, iii.l. bhareku: crowd, stuff,...

...that if he had read as much as other men he would have known no more than they, 27 and Pope wrote of “the bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, / With loads of learned lumber in his head” (An Essay on Criticism 612—13). Behind the topos of the scholar unfitted for life or sex by erudition...

...unpleasant side-effects. The British poet and satirist Alexander Pope (i688—i 7¿4), for one, slated ‘The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, / With loads of learned lumber in his head'.4 But the social trend of an accelerating literacy encouraged by wider access to books was not...

...understood how to rectify it" (p. 133). As Pope again said it in An Essay on Criticism, such a critic "With his own Tongue still edifies his Ears, / And always Listening to Himself appears. / All Books he reads, and all he reads assails" (lines 614-16). Pope added that such a critic also...