abandoned critics too. 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. 615 All books he reads, and all he reads assails, From Dryden's... The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - الصفحة 222بواسطة Alexander Pope - 1891عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | David Pryde - 1871 - عدد الصفحات: 144
...; and he soon degenerates into the character described with such alliterative force by Pope :— " The bookful blockhead ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head." A wise student, on the other hand, never makes such a mistake. He recognises the great truth that the... | |
 | Pye Henry Chavasse - 1872
...present system is very conducive to the making of them! Pope well describes the bookful blockhead:— " The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head." It is cruel, unnatural, and wicked, to confine a little child, as a foolish mother sometimes does,... | |
 | WILLIAM FRANCIS AINSWORTH - 1873
...short at this. Having discussed the poem, he proceeded to discuss the poet:—" I i " The bookf ul blockhead ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber...his ears, And always listening to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he leads assails, From Dryden's Fables down to D'Urfe/s Tales. With him... | |
 | 1873
...of botany, by riding through a forest. He can hardly be even said to realize Pope's description: " A bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head." Type No. 3. The POPULAR MAN. This gentleman, and the class he represents, is rather a difficult one... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 772
...one in strong cowhide. POPE. To love an altar built Of twelve vast French romances neatly gilL POPE. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads...his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. I, fond of my well.chosen seat, My pictures, medals, books complete.... | |
 | THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876
...rage of impotence ! Such shameless bards we have; and yet 'tis true 610 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... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1876
...gluttony, thus suffering from mental repletion, he is incapacitated for high achievements. He is 'A bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head/ He is, it may be, a living lexicon, a walking encyclopaedia ; but he is motionless and dead, so far... | |
 | John Walker Vilant Macbeth - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 542
...reality, a delicate rhyme at the beginning of words instead of at the end; as in Pope, of a pedant: " A bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head." So, too, the pun is more than mere words; for in it there must be a difference of sense, and not merely... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 448
...Such shameless bards we have; and yet 'tis true, AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM. H! 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 Talcs. With him... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 340
...practice of throwing bones to doga is a more natural method of accounting for the saying. Bookful.—The BOOKFUL blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. POPE, Essay on Criticism. Book of Nature—Boughs are daily rifled By the gusty thieves, And the BOOK... | |
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