...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 Tales. With him...

...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 Tales. With him...

...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 D'urfey's Tales. With him...

...be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot. Partili. Line 15. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. Part iii. Line 53. Most authors steal their works, or buy ; Garth did not write his own Dispensary....

...cause liisn to ovei\Qot. Such shameless barda we have; and yet 'tis true, There are as mad, abaudou'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 D'Urfey's Tales. With him...

...taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot. Part iii. Line 15. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. Part iii. Line 53. For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Part iii. Line 66. Led by the light...

...syllables in the same verse; it is the chief characteristic of Anglo-Saxon and early English poetry : eg The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. How high his highness holds his haughty head! Begot by butchers, but by bishops bred. Pope. Parallelism...

...his face, How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home. * " The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head."—POPE, Essay on C'. iii. 612. " For there we dim the eyes and stuff the head, With all such...

...be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot Part iii. Line 15. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. Part iii. Line 53. Most authors steal their works, or buy ; Garth did not write his own Dispensary....

...accomplishments, or the father's madness. Suppose the boy had lived: what could he have become but a pedant ? " A bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head." Quetelet' 33 ' has some excellent remarks on this subject. " I do not know whether we have any exact...