Homiletics is not a series of nursery-rules for manformal, didactic droppings of a pedant's tongue.

Webbe, it is true, was a pedant, but certainly not a scholar.

He lives inglorious or in want, To college and old books confin'd; Instead of learn'd he's call'd pedant, Dunces advanc'd, he's left behind: Yet left content a genuine Stoick he, Great without patron, rich without South Sea.'

'Inglorious or by wants inthralled, To college and old books confined, A pedant from his learning called, Dunces advanced, he's left behind.'

What if I thought Cromwell and Pierre Leroux infinitely more faithful men in their way, and better members of the "Invisible Church," than the torturer-pedant Laud, or the facing bothways Protestant-Manichee Taylor?' It was lucky for the life of young Love that the discussion went no further: Argemone was becoming scandalised beyond all measure.

Marcantonio was no pedant, but these treasures simply had their place in the richly painted cabinet, beside many other bits of exquisite workmanship, because rare things in every art were beautiful to our dilettante, and possessions of all kinds came to him easily.

The pedant of the house, though he promise her marriage, cannot grow further inward with her; she hath paid for her credulity often, and now grows weary.

ON THE DEATH OF A CERTAIN JOURNAL {282} So die, thou child of stormy dawn, Thou winter flower, forlorn of nurse; Chilled early by the bigot's curse, The pedant's frown, the worldling's yawn.

The low-bred, self-taught man, the pedant, and the dependant on the great contribute to form the Editor of the Quarterly Review.

With all his faults, that conceited old pedant contrived to make one of the most entertaining books ever written on this side the water, and we wonder that no one should take the trouble to give us a tolerably correct edition of it.

Klopstock probably felt most directly what was wanting in the literature of his people, as he was also the most burning patriot of all our classical writers; and at the same time, as is proved by the Republic of Letters, his strange treatise on the art of poetry, he was the one among them who bore the most resemblance to the literary pedant of the old days.

Through all these things the ill-dressed, coarse, ungainly pedant had struggled manfully up to eminence and command.

Under their instruction he proved as ready a scholar, as he had been indocile and restive to the pedant who held the office of his tutor.

I have seen too many hard essays strained from the labour of a pedant, and pastoral ditties distressed in lack of a meaning.

The name of a pedant is so formidable to young men when they first sally from their colleges, and is so liberally scattered by those who mean to boast their elegance of education, easiness of manners, and knowledge of the world, that it seems to require particular consideration; since, perhaps, if it were once understood, many a heart might be freed from painful apprehensions, and many a tongue, delivered from restraint.

This "Ritt-master" is a pedant, very conceited, full of vulgar assurance, with a good stock of worldly knowledge, a student of divinity, and a soldier who lets his sword out to the highest bidder.

Being resolved to judge between the rival scholarship of an Oxford pedant and a captain in the army, he gets both to speak Greek before him.

The doctor is a pedant and antiquary, choleric in temper, and immensely bigoted, wholly without any knowledge of the human heart, or indeed any practical knowledge at all.

For by the nature of things there happens to be something of the pedant in every philosopher and the incurable propensity of the pedant is to remove everythingbut Literature especiallyout of the category to which it belongs and consider it in another with which it has but a remote concern.

For by the nature of things there happens to be something of the pedant in every philosopher and the incurable propensity of the pedant is to remove everythingbut Literature especiallyout of the category to which it belongs and consider it in another with which it has but a remote concern.

I'll make you say somewhat else than, 'All things are doubtful; all things are uncertain;'[Beats him]I will, you old fusty pedant."

Four months afterwards, with friendships changed, they gave, him the "justice" of appearing in their pages, in a long and virulent article against me and my works, representing me, "with emphatic force," as "a knave, a liar, and a pedant."

A pedant,canting preacher,and a quack, Are load enough to break an ass's back.

The titles of some of the articles"The Dulness of Dante," "The Sloppiness of Scott," "George Eliot as Pedant," "Jane Austen the Prude"indicate sufficiently the richness of the treat provided in these stimulating pages.

We know what Lewis Carroll was in daily life: he was a singularly serious and conventional don, universally respected, but very much of a pedant and something of a Philistine.