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Critically annotated editions of the great French writers also came into fashion, and were no longer written by mere pedants.
These words are necessary instruments for swift understanding, and only a philosophical pedant could propose to expel them.
And this virtue of humility, while being practical enough to win battles, will always be paradoxical enough to puzzle pedants.
They were too condensed in language, too difficult in style, too sublime in imagination for the pedants of the later empire.
The fifteenth century was consequently rich in scholars, copious in pedants, but poor in genius, and barren of strong thinkers.
No more charming woman have I ever seen or heard making game of mankind in general, and in particular of pedants and hypocrites.
Which, taking it for a proverbial expression, I have loosely rendered, Fortune can make kings of pedants and pedants of kings.
I have not wanted friends, even among strangers, who have defended me more strongly, than my contemptible pedant could attack me.
Pedants are bred everywhere out of literature, and the variety in verbiage once exhibited by some university men has been justly condemned.
He was also a pedant who concealed from himself his own baseness by a scrupulous devotion to ancient forms even in religion.
The vernacular grammar is simplicity itself compared with the literary style, which only schoolmasters or pedants affect in everyday speech.
The pedant, according to his own account, so soon as the approach of Ernest had been announced, fell straightway into a trance.
Ten years later, with the love of Marius in her heart, she would have replied, "An insufferable pedant, you are quite right."
Maidens teach a softer science - laughing Love his pinions dips, Hush'd to hear fantastic whispers murmur'd from a pedant's lips.
The learned pedant is conversant with books only as they are made of other books, and those again of others, without end.
The young gentleman in college regards these pedants as his natural enemies, and the outwitting of them as one of his entertainments.
I have seen too many hard essays strained from the labor of a pedant, and pastoral ditties distressed in lack of a meaning.
The exceptionally scholastic quality of his education helped to give him a taste for learning, but also tended to make him a pedant.
People were never such pedants as not to infringe a custom, not sacred but a secular bargain, when strong need came on them.
He sneers continually at the regular built academic pedant; but he himself, though no academic, was essentially the very impersonation of pedantry.
He was to study literature and appreciate art, though he was carefully to avoid the excess which makes the pedant or the virtuoso.
They were not afraid of being called pedants because they occasionally used a Latin phrase or referred to some great name of Greece or Rome.
A despotic and arbitrary, violent and unjust monarch, he was at the same time a capricious and perfidious ally, a vain and harsh pedant.
He appeared to them to be a queer kind of pedant; they did not care for him, made no overtures to him, and he avoided them.
This is realized by the whole popular instinct called religion, until disturbed by pedants, especially the laborious pedants of the Simple Life.
We feel in most of these poems that it is no real lover languishing for his mistress, but a pedant posing before a critical public.
I prefer this view to that of unimaginative pedants who, attaching undue importance to facts, inform me that this blindness is self-inflicted, to avoid conscription.
It is, on the other hand, a subject ripe for the most portentous, the most meaningless, the most tedious aberrations of the pedant.
The image of a pedant is as uninteresting as the pedant himself, and he is no less a pedant because you look at him in a mirror.
In the other room the pedant slept soundly, with his head on the table, and the tyrant opposite to him snored like a giant.
It is to female pedants only, that the ridiculous question of the French academy, whether a reputable woman could write a book, ought to apply.
Was he the first man in the world who had been thrown over by a girl because he had been discovered to be a tiresome pedant?
If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant is a caricature of a man.
Naturally the whole subject fell into inextricable confusion, and when it was abolished in 1827, even pedants must have given a sigh of relief.
If the knowledge of language produces pedants, the other kind of knowledge (which is proposed to be substituted for it) can only produce quacks.
I have never seen or heard another music drama which so completely bowled over its first audiences, whether they were street-car conductors or musical pedants.
I must give notice to an odd pedant, as we pass, of my nuptials: I use him, for he is obscure, and shall marry us in private.
He appeared to them to be a queer kind of pedant; they did not care for him, and made no overtures to him, and he avoided them.
Unless you follow the pedants who make some point of the arrangement of her drapery, there is not a trait of vulgarity in her aspect.
The pedant therefore proceeded to his desk, and straightway composed the very worst poem that had ever been written in any language, even Flemish.
He was not only noisy and troublesome, but he was also a pedant; he snubbed professors and listened to the advice of very young children.
Death, the dry pedant, spares neither the rose nor the thistle, nor does he forget the solitary blade of grass in the distant waste.
We learn to deride the pedant who sacrifices everything to the accumulation of empty learning, which he displays at all times, as a peddler his wares.
Was it any wonder that authors were pedants to the marrow of their bones when pedantry was the only paying thing in their profession?
Perhaps, in such particular passages, I have thought that I discovered some beauty yet undiscovered by those pedants, which none but a poet could have found.
He differs from a pedant as things do from words, for he uses the same affectation in his operations and experiments as the other does in language.
It is not to be taught in workshops and schoolrooms by craftsmen and pedants, though it may be ripened in studios by masters who are artists.
He has indeed rescued it out of the hands of pedants and fools, and discovered the true method of making it amicable and lovely to all mankind.
In one of his poems Browning describes the steps taken by a reader to banish the memory of a dreary pedant, whose book he had been perusing.
The warm brown color of the stone adds to the effect, and anyone but an architectural pedant must admit the amazing beauty of the place.
Like the many other charges of plagiarism brought against Napoleon by pedants, this one overlooks the difference between mediocrity and genius in the use of materials.
Words once expressive of the strongest faith were either used to utter the bigotry of narrow pedants, or were adopted only to be explained away into insipid commonplace.
And, above all, that conceited amorous old pedant should suffer for it, for he, of course, had set the whole train going against him!
We allow the obscure pedant to talk high of the dignity of his office, and magnify, as much as he pleases, the importance of his speculations.
It is not the Government but the war that has appointed the great generals, sifted out the pedants, put in the new and vigorous blood.
What right has any pedant, because he thinks proper to vex and entangle his own brain with doubts, to force his gloomy dogmas upon me?
It would be pleasant to see the pedants and professors searching for etymologies of strange dishes, and tracing more wonderful transformations than any in the Metamorphoses.
The race of college professors, pedants of pale ink, have lived upon him and stretched him thin, chattering over him like a cloud of locusts in a tree.
For it is an artist's school, and not a pedant's, or a vague speculator's, who knows not how to converge his speculation, even upon his mode of tradition.
Little David Lester, the pedant, the mother's boy, who looked eighteen but was probably older, pouted, and his heavy lips in his thin face moved.
The straightforward simplicity of the young lady whom he wished to prove a pedant or a "blue" baffled him, and made him feel ashamed of his satire.
Perhaps it is the whirlpool and turmoil of classes which has pitchforked into the power of the Pedant whole groups of men who used to escape him.
Although unable to refine the true metal from its dross, the pedants of "fourteen hundred" were miners who discovered the precious ore, and ascertained its component ingredients.
This parasite, which has clogged the newer shoots from the old tree, is a parasite of the classical and especially of the history don and pedant.
And this benefit is real, because we are entitled to these enlargements, and, once having passed the bounds, shall never again be quite the miserable pedants we were.
Claudius is described as a stupid and clumsy pedant, deformed and inarticulate: in reality he seems to have been a scholar with a leaning towards antiquarian and republican traditions.
With all his varied gifts, he had the misfortune to be a pedant, a schoolmaster in private life, and, what is worse, to be quite unconscious of his pedantry.
They seem to have been pedants, who, though destitute of those valuable qualities which are frequently found in conjunction with pedantry, thought themselves great philosophers and great politicians.
In these infamous productions, hatched by celibate pedants in the foul atmosphere of the Jesuit colleges, the gamut of charges always ranges from bad grammar to unnatural crime.
It is academic, a thing on which scribes may lecture, while the voice of the scholastic pedant with blatant repetitions overpowers the living, authoritative voice within the soul.
One might be forgiven for thinking such a production the absurd effusion of a whimsical pedant were it not that Hunt is so grimly in earnest in everything he does.
Sometimes he proceeds in a less orderly way; for it goes without saying that his methods are the methods of freedom, and not the invariable recipes of a pedant.
It might have been thought that, with a professed pedant like James I. following the learned Queen Elizabeth, there would have been a renewed impetus towards the profounder studies.
The king himself, a conceited pedant, drew up a Book of Canons consisting of one hundred and forty-one articles, expressed in the most arrogant style of pretensions to infallibility.
I did exactly what I liked in the library and browsed about with a splendid incoherence which would have shocked a pedant, but delighted a true man of letters.
The neighboring clergy respected him as a scholar, "breathing libraries;" the ladies despised him as an absent pedant who had no more gallantry than a stock or a stone.
This impudent production was the most effectual vengeance he could have taken on his tutor, who had all the supercilious arrogance and ridiculous pride of a low-born pedant.
She meets a consummate pedant, who is piteously ridiculed for his petty and hide-bound intellect, and immediately takes him to be her hero and guide to lofty endeavor.
Which would somewhat confound and pose you, and pose also, for that matter, every pedant that ever went blind and crook-backed over books, or took ivory for horn.
He had in fact the temper of a pedant, a pedant's conceit, a pedant's love of theories, and a pedant's inability to bring his theories into any relation with actual facts.
She knew the value of varied information in making a woman, not a pedant, but a sympathetic, companionable being; and such she was to almost every class of mind.
The pedants have a habit of considering these genial old artists as in some mysterious way their own private property, for do not the pedants live by expounding them?
The Quarterly, as conducted by the acrid and deformed pedant Gifford, had no mercy for opponents: and one of the harshest of its contributors was the virtuous Southey.
Pedants also will not recognize eloquence except in public orations, and can see no distinction between it and a heap of figures, the use of big words and flowing periods.
What do the physicists, the chemists, the learned pedants in office need, then, to arouse them from their torpor and make them shake their ears and open their eyes?
Our sorry education, far from cultivating in us the feeling for enthusiasm, makes us in our youth little pedants who without result overwhelm ourselves and others with our pretensions.
In the first place, when we speak about books, let us avoid the extravagance of expecting too much from books, the pedant's habit of extolling books as synonymous with education.
The besetting silliness of every class is exposed: of the man of pleasure, of the man of business, of women and of husbands, of the writer and of the pedant.
In a word, this military pedant was impracticable, and Rose gave him up in disgust, and began to call up a sulky look when the other two sang his praises.
He's a sort of pedant, who has come to think that the mixture of medical learning and knowledge of police conventions which he possesses makes him a paragon of efficiency.
The pedant quickly came back, carrying a large basket in each hand, and with a triumphant air placed a huge pasty of most tempting appearance in the middle of the table.
Let incurable pedants, crammed full of bourgeois democratic and parliamentary prejudices, shake their heads gravely over our Soviets, let them deplore the fact that we have no direct elections.
Jonson, it is true, was a pedant of the classics, Donne of the speculative sciences; but both of them alike ate to a surfeit of the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
It may be impossible for us to accept the Stoic paradox in the case of little children whom even the greatest pedant would scarcely attempt to console with philosophic maxims.
It began to be understood that the young pedant knew something about his profession, and that he had not been fagging so hard at the science of war for nothing.
Her father had probity, financial skill, and, I suppose, a certain amount of talent in other directions; but while he must have had some domestic virtues he was a wooden pedant.
He was, judged by his writings, a man of considerable education, a good deal of a pedant, and shared the credulity and fondness for embellishment of the writers of his time.
Far different was the idea she entertained of the doctor, whom, from this day, she considered as a conceited pedant; nor could all Amelia's endeavors ever alter her sentiments.
Her successor and distant cousin, James of Scotland (James I of England), was a bigoted pedant, and under his rule the perennial Court corruption, striking in, became foul and noisome.
First as freaks and cranks, then as scholars and pedants, then protected and perhaps stimulated under the competitive royal patronage as societies and academies, they prepared for the harvest.