The mighty blockhead.

Go hang, ye blockheads, get ye from my sight!

If God has not blessed you with the talent of rhiming, make use of my poor stock and welcome; let your verses run upon my feet, and for the utmost refuge of notorious blockheads, reduced to the last extremity of sense, turn my own lines against me, and in utter despair of my own satire, make me satirize myself.'

* * The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learnèd lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always listening to himself appears.

At the age of eight he went to the Rev. Mr. Gilpin's superior school of Elphin, in Roscommon, where he was considered "a stupid, heavy blockhead, little better than a fool, whom everyone made fun of."

Breslin was an honest, well-meaning farmer; the Major was furious to find such a man allied with Foy's foescertain sign that other decent blockheads would do likewise.

"I am the densest blockhead in all Europe!"

Our lot, in this sense, may improve; but we do not ask much of it if we are inwardly rich: on the other hand, a fool remains a fool, a dull blockhead, to his last hour, even though he were surrounded by houris in paradise.

* "What egregious blockheads must those animals have been who discover a resemblance to my style in Latin or other quotations.

But what of that? Beside the chances that M. Hordal might be a gigantic blockhead, it is notorious that what small matter of spelling Providence had thought fit to disburse amongst man in the seventeenth century, was all monopolized by printers: in France, much more so.]

Diligently instil into a boy that he is a stupid, idle, bad-hearted blockhead, and you are very likely to make him all that.

In private life he would have been called an honest blockhead; and Fortune that made him a king, added nothing to his happiness, only prejudiced his honesty, and shortened his days.

Diligently instil into a boy that he is a stupid, idle, bad-hearted blockhead, and you are very likely to make him all that.

We are illegal blockheads; so thoroughly without law, that we don't know even if we have a right to be blockheads; and our mind is made upthat the first man drawn from the oven of coronation at Rheims, is the man that is baked into a king.

12.Of some impenetrable blockhead, Horace, telling how himself was vexed, says: "O te, Bollane, cerebri Felicem!

"Why, you incorrigible blockhead," said lord Martin, "you have neglected half your instructions.

The man must have been an abject blockhead, as I believe most professional criminals are.

I think you will blush even through the unblushing front of manhood, and think what a terrific, unutterable, conceited, intolerable blockhead you were.

I distrust all these gentry; I am suspicious of Tavannes' ambition; Vieilleville loves nothing but good wine; Cosse is too covetous; Montmorency cares only for his hunting and hawking; the Count de Retz is a Spaniard; the other lords of my court and those of my council are mere blockheads; my Secretaries of State, to hide nothing of what I think, are not faithful to me; insomuch that, to tell the truth, I know not at what end to begin."

It was impossible to suspect any one of being such a monstrous blockhead; so I was rather disagreeably startled at hearing the crack of a gun, and feeling the tingling of a bullet whizzing past my ear.

So into the yard went "Olivante de Laura, the nonsensical old blockhead," "rough and dull Florismart of Hyrcania," "noble Don Platir," with nothing in him "deserving a grain of pity," Bernardo del Carpio, and Roncesvalles, and Palmerin de Oliva.

"No; the obstinate blockhead will not consent!" Catherine gave a glance at Henry which Charles understood perfectly, and which said, "Why, then, is he alive?" "He lives," said the king, "because he is my relative.

So, too, in intercourse with others, every man shows a decided preference for those who resemble him; and a blockhead will find the society of another blockhead incomparably more pleasant than that of any number of great minds put together.

As it is, he occasions me continual annoyance; he is the most punctilious blockhead in the world.

There is no divine promise, that, if a reckless blockhead leaves his children to starve, they shall not starve.