...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...

...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...

...Impotencel Such shameless Bards we have; and yet 'tis true, 610 There are as mad, abandon'd Criticks too. The Bookful Blockhead, ignorantly read, With...of Learned Lumber in his Head, With his own Tongue still edifies his Ears, And always List'ning to Himself appears. 615 All Books he reads, and all he...

...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...

...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...