 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 276 pages
...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...head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, An<l always listening to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails, From Dryden's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 400 pages
...his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. 615 AD books he reads, and all he reads assails, From Dryden's...Dispensary. Name a new play, and he's the poet's friend, 620 Nay show'd his faults—but when would poets mend? -No place so sacred from such fops is barr'd,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 404 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...Such shameless Bards we have; and yet, 'tis true, There are as mad, abandon'd Critics tooThe bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber...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... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...Such shameless bards we have ; and yet 'tis true There arc as mad abandon'd critics too. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned...not write his own Dispensary. Name a new play, and he 's the poet's friend ; Nay, sho w'd his faults — but when would poet s mend ? No place so sacred... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 538 pages
...shameless bards we have : and yet 'tis true, There are as mad, abandon'd critics too. 611 The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned...All books he reads, and all he reads assails, From Dryden'e Fables down to Durfey's Tales : With him most authors steal their works, or buy; Garth did... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1828 - 222 pages
...Such shameless bards we have; and yet 'tis tri There are as road abandoned critics too. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned...always listening to himself appears. All books he rends, and all he reads assails, From Dryden's fables down to Durfey's tales. With him most authors... | |
 | Oscott St. Mary's sem - 1828 - 496 pages
...bosom that beats, Is for friends that are far away. T. THE RUM-FISH CLUB. TO THE EDITOR. " The bookfull blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned...his ears, And always listening to himself appears." POM. MR. 1DITUR, THIS truth is, I fear, too literally exemplified in th« limited sphere which you... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 832 pages
...Plato and Pindar, at his own table, to some boohleamed companion, without blushing. Km ft. The bookjvl blockhead, ignorantly read. With loads of learned...his ears, And always listening to himself appears. Pope. Among those venerable galleries, and solitary scenes of the university, I wanted but a black... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 854 pages
...dares the world ; and eager of a name. He thrusts about, and jostles into fame. Id. Hind and Panther. All books he reads, and all he reads assails, From Dryden's Fables down to D — y's Tales. Pope. Sensible of their own force, and allured by the prospect of so rich a prize,... | |
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Tales.' With him most authors steal their works, or buy : Garth did not write his own 'Dispensary. 
