 | Alexander Pope - 1717 - 468 pages
...droppings of their fenfe, And rhyme with all the rage of Impotence ! Such ihamelefs Bards we^have; add yet 'tis true, There are as mad, abandoned Critics too. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, * • With his own tongue ftill edifies... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 398 pages
...the laft dull droppings of their fenfe, And rhyme with all the rage of Impotence. 610 Such fliamelefs Bards we have ; and yet 'tis true, There are as mad, abandoned Critics too, The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue ftill edifies his ears,... | |
 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 pages
...brain, Strain out the, last dull dropping of their sense, And rhyme with all the rage of impotence ! Such shameless bards we have ; and yet 'tis true, There are as mad, abandon'd critics too. 6" The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...brain, Strain out the last dull droppings of their sense, And rhyme with all the rage of impotence ! Such 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 lumber in his... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...brain, Strain out the last dull droppings of their sense, And rhyme with all the rage of impotence ! Such shameless bards we have ; and yet 'tis true There are as mad abandon'd critics too. The boekfnl blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1809 - 108 pages
...BT LORD BYRON. I had rather be a kitten, and cry, mew ! Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers. Such shameless Bards we have; and yet 'tis true, There are as mad, abandon'd Critics too. . SECOND EDITION, WITH POPI. CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS AND ALTERATIONS. LONDON:... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...brain, Strmin out the last dull droppings of their sens*, And rhyme with all 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, With loads of learned lumber in his... | |
 | 1809 - 890 pages
..." I had rather be a kitten, and cry mewl Than one of these same metre balladmongers." SHAKSMAHE. " Such shameless Bards we have; and yet 'tis true, There are as mad, abandon'd Critioks too." Port. The Poem opens with great forc£ by a« retrospective -view of the Muse... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1810 - 102 pages
...BYRON. I had rather be a kitten, and cry, mew ! Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers. SHAKSFEARE. Such shameless Bards we have; and yet 'tis true, There are as mad, abandoned Critics too. THIRD EDITION. aott&on: POPE. PRINTED FOR JAMES CAWTHORN, BRITISH LIBRARY, No. 24, COCKSPUR STREET.... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...brain, strain out the last dull droppings of their sense, and rhyme with all 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, with loads of learned lumber in his... | |
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. 
