...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. 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 reading...

...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...

...accomplishments, or the fathers 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." Quetelet1331 has some excellent remarks on this subject. " I do not know whether we have any exact...

...; 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...

...mistakes volumes for brains, has been poetically, but truthfully and accurately, described by Pope as, "The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. " The most disconsolate and pitiable individual, is the lawyer who has consumed an hour or more of...

...modern world of The Canons Yeoman's Tale. I2 Introduction When Pope castigates bad critics such as The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head, each reader is invited to name his own candidate for the post. Unless a reader is capable of recognising...

...fierce Tyrant in Old Tapestry] Another six give us a view of the Bookful Blockhead, ignorantly read 612 With Loads of Learned Lumber in his Head, With his own Tongue still edifies his Ears, And always List'ning to Himself appears. All Books he reads, and all he reads...

...natural frequency square matrix vector vector transposed Chapter 1 The lessons from earthquake damage 'The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.' An essay on criticism, Alexander Pope 1.1. Damage studies The study of earthquake damage was the original...

...(Fr. II) 54 Fear most to tax an honorable fool, Whose right it is, uncensured to be dull; (Fr. Ill) 55 P." Edith P. Hazen( still edifies his ears, And always listening to himself appears. (Fr. Ill) 56 For fools rush in where...