I was a sad little dunce, and scarcely knew my letters; my own mamma had often said, when she got better she would hear me read every day, but as she never got better it was not her fault.

This weans from blushes lewd Tyrawley's face, Gives Hawley praise, and Ingoldsby disgrace, From Mead to Thomson shifts the palm at once, A meddling, prating, blundering, busy dunce!

This weans from blushes lewd Tyrawley's face, Gives Hawley praise, and Ingoldsby disgrace, From Mead to Thomson shifts the palm at once, A meddling, prating, blundering, busy dunce!

Ah, she was thinking then, I ween, Of me, poor clumsy dunce, who e'en Had torn her silken dress.

I should much like to try Monty Carlo, and 'ave a fair flutter for once, But I fear it won't run to it, pardner; my boss is the dashdest old dunce. Won't raise me to three quid a week, the old skinflint.

There haughty dunces, whose unlearned pen 30 Could ne'er spell grammar, would be reading men.

A heedless wilful dunce, and wild, The parents' fondness spoil'd the child; The youth in vagrant courses ran; Now abject, stooping, old, and wan, Their fondling is the beggar man.

When the spelling class was up, Squeers says to Smike, the big, helpless dunce, 'Spell window,'"

Dulness with transport eyes the lively dunce, Rememb'ring she herself was Pertness once.

This weans from blushes lewd Tyrawley's face, Gives Hawley praise, and Ingoldsby disgrace, From Mead to Thomson shifts the palm at once, A meddling, prating, blundering, busy dunce!

Grey day followed grey day, and I might in time have abandoned all efforts to be faithful to my dreams, and achieved a kind of beast-like submission that was all the authorities expected of notorious dunces.

Marion Dale, I remember you once, In the days when you blushed like a rose half-blown, Long ere that wealthy respectable dunce Sponged up your beautiful name in his own.

I was a sad little dunce, and scarcely knew my letters; my own mamma had often said, when she got better she would hear me read every day, but as she never got better it was not her fault.

all attempts to attain more elegant accomplishments remained fruitlessRoseen was a thorough little dunce.

Thou unreprieveable Dunce!

Thou that hast no more knowledge than thy Clerk infuses, Thy dapper Clerk larded with ends of Latin, And he no more than custom of offences; Thou unrepriveable Dunce!

But, since it appears in his name, let him have the credit of it, and of representing the compiler whom he calls "that able writer" and "that eminent philologist," as an untasteful dunce, and a teacher of nonsense: "To say that, unless we 'make every line sensible to the ear,' we mar the melody, and suppress the numbers of the poet, is all nonsense.

This applies, in various degrees, to every step in the long scale of mental power, from the veriest dunce to the greatest genius that ever lived.

Its founder was a veritable dunce, but he was the cleverest of bookmakers, and made more by it in one night than all the authors of that day in their lives.

He was a thousand times recommended by his poetical friends to great persons, as a young man of excellent parts who deserved encouragement, and received a thousand promises; but his modesty, and a generous spirit, which disdained the slavery of continual application and attendance, always disappointed him, making room for vigilant dunces, who were sure to be never out of sight.

Marion Dale, I remember you once, In the days when you blushed like a rose half-blown, Long ere that wealthy respectable dunce Sponged up your beautiful name in his own.

A heedless wilful dunce, and wild, The parents' fondness spoil'd the child; The youth in vagrant courses ran; Now abject, stooping, old, and wan, Their fondling is the beggar man.

He was not ambitious of ecclesiastical preferment, for aristocratic dunces occupied the great sees and ruled the great monasteries.

Persist, by all divine in man unawed, But learn, ye dunces, not to scorn your God!