And, if he lie not, must at least betray; Who to the Dean and silver bell can swear, And sees at Canons what was never there; Who reads, but with a lust to misapply, Make satire a lampoon, and fiction, lie: A lash like mine no honest man shall dread, But all such babbling blockheads in his stead.

He who is at the top is a madman, those who are beneath are blockheads.

It must be owned that they are often slightly dull; and in matters of Art are not unfrequently blockheads.

The blockheads have gone on negotiating with me just long enough to enable Grant to bring all his army up to this point.

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.'

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.

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.

It is my own impression that the Pharaohs were also blockheads.

"Whilst these blockheads avoid one fault, they fall into its opposite.

It is telling the maimed soldiers of the Invalides, "You are but blockheads and brigands.

Many Blockheads in the Trade are making fortunes; and did we not succeed as well as they, I think it must be imputed only to ourselves.

their Governors had fallen out; and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.

Wise men ne'er cut their names on doors or rock-heads, But leave the task to scribblers and to blockheads; Pert, trifling folks, who, bent on being witty, Scrawl on each post some fag-end of a ditty, Spinning, with spider's web, their shallow brains, O'er wainscots, borrowed books, or window panes.

The men blundered in their exercise; the baron blundered in his English; his French and German were of no avail; he lost his temper, which was rather warm; swore in all three languages at once, which made the matter worse, and at length called his aide to his assistance, to help him curse the blockheads as it was pretendedbut no doubt to explain the manoeuvre.

We ourselves have frequently descended to make ourselves merely the most agreeable man in the world, till we unfortunately discovered that the blockheads who could not comprehend us when we were serious, were still farther from understanding the ineffable beauty of our nonsense; so that in both cases we were the sufferers.

"Never saw such a set of damned blockheads!" yelled the officer in exasperation.

If God has not blessed you with the talent of rhyming, 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 upon me, and, in utter despair of your own satire, make me satirize myself.

Yet still he found his fortune at a stay: Whole droves of blockheads choking up his way; They took, but not rewarded, his advice; Villain and wit exact a double price.

In the following couplet, there is an ellipsis of the infinitive; for the phrase, "fool with fool," means, "for fool to contend with fool," or, "for one fool to contend with an other:" "Blockheads with reason wicked wits abhor, But fool with fool is barb'rous civil war.

74; players, compared with, ii. 235; plodding-blockheads, ii. 10; soliciting employment, ii. 430; work greatly mechanical, ii. 344.

324 Boswell's love of the mysterious, iv. 94, n. 2; 'the wisdom of blockheads,' iii. 324, n. 4; universal, iii. 342. MYTHOLOGY, its dark and dismal regions, iv. 16, n. 4; can no longer be used by poets, iv.

'An Athenian blockhead is the worst of all blockheads,' i. 73.

these blockheads know no better.

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.

But who knows what may happen to-morrow? LORD CHESTERFIELD 'Buy good books and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.'