"Book-learned" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose: I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learned skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw; And, as a hare whom hounds and horns pursue Pants to the place from whence at first he flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return—and ...
— Goldsmith - English Men of Letters Series • William Black
... primary source should be again consulted; and seeing that profound ignorance of the ancient Saxon coupled with, as now, total indifference about its acquisition, place me in the list of incapables, I leave the good suggestion to be used by pundits of the Camden or Roxburghe or other book-learned society. If it may have been already done by some neglected scribe, bring it to the light, and let us see the bright example set to all future ages by that early Crichton; if never yet accomplished, my zeal is over-paid ...
— The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper • Martin Farquhar Tupper
... the better of him. The transformation of sentiment into self-seeking, ordinarily slow, tortuous, and veiled by hypocrisy in better educated people, was swift and direct in the old "bear," who demonstrated the superiority of shrewd tipple-ography over book-learned typography. ...
— Lost Illusions • Honore De Balzac
... king recovers his speech and sends for the "book-learned;" but none of the scholars were wise enough to read it.] Sone so e ky{n}ge for his care carpi{n}g my[gh]t wy{n}ne, He bede his burnes bo[gh] to at wer{e} bok lered, To wayte e wryt at hit wolde & ...
— Early English Alliterative Poems - in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century • Various |
