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The blockhead must imagine that Malmsey runs in a stream under the ocean, like the Alpheus.

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_Porson._ The plagiary has a greater latitude of choice than we; and if he brings home a parsnip or turnip-top, when he could as easily have pocketed a nectarine or a pineapple, he must be a blockhead.

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Whethamstede was a passionate bibliomaniac, and when surrounded with his books he cared little, or perhaps from the absence of mind so often engendered by the delights of study, he too frequently forgot, the important affairs of his monastery, and the responsible duties of an abbot; but absorbed as he was with his studies, Whethamstede was not a mere ..... "Bookful blockhead ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head."

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"_Blockhead_!"

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The following is a fair specimen:-- "Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart."

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I will produce a verse and a half of his, in one of his Eclogues, to justify my opinion; and with commas after every word, to show that he has given almost as many lashes as he has written syllables: it is against a bad poet, whose ill verses he describes:-- _non tu, in triviis, indocte, solebas_ _Stridenti, miserum, stipula, disperdere, carmen?_" [Wouldst thou not, blockhead, in the public ways, Squander, on scrannel pipe, thy sorry lays?]

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"Blockhead!" exclaimed the irritable Dey, "that does not explain the nature of the satisfaction."

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"Blockhead!" cried the Professor, whose enthusiastic spirit was easily roused to indignation, "it was your duty to carry it till ordered to lay it down.

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"They'd say you were a fine, genial, hearty, good-natured blockhead," said Lawrence, laughing.

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Or if, too classic for his vulgar brain, He fear'd his neck to venture such a nag on, And he must needs mount nearer to the moon, Could not the blockhead ask for a balloon?

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'Blockhead!

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"Blockhead!

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"Ho, Meetuck!" shouted Peter Grim, "give this old blockhead a taste o' your lingo.

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"Stop, you blockhead!" he shouted.

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But, after all, you deserved it, you superstitious blockhead.

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If I had read it in a tale, now, or a romance, I would not have been surprised, for authors are such blockheads, generally, that they always make things of this kind fit in with the exactness of a dove-tail; but that it should _really_ come to pass in my own experience, is quite incomprehensible.

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You great puffing blockhead, what are you staring at?"

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"Blockhead!" exclaimed the irate Osman, who was a sturdy but ill-favoured specimen of Moslem humanity.

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"Situs" is "nasty stuff;" "oscula jungere" is "to tip him a kiss;" "pingue ingenium" is a circumlocution for "a blockhead;" "anilia instrumenta" are "his old woman's accoutrements;" and "repetito munere Bacchi" is conveyed to the sense of the reader as, "they return again to their bottle, and take the other glass."

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_Stunpoll_ (7), stone head, blockhead; also an old tree almost dead.

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"'I don't want him to turn out a dull blockhead,' he said, 'and so I propose that you should take charge of him, and teach him to keep himself young.

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Mr. Swinburne is indeed able to find in some, at all events, of these quarrels a species of holy war, waged, as he says, in language which is at all events strong, 'against all the banded bestialities of all dunces and all dastards, all blackguardly blockheads and all blockheaded blackguards.'

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"You pwovoking blockhead!--Good Heavens, how _stoopid_ you Iwish are!--the village that leads to Dublin."

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"Go out o' this, you blockhead!

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I mean to offer some kind of explanation, some kind of apology, for the past; to open my whole heart to you, and by convincing you, that though I have been always a blockhead, I have not been [286] always a rascal, to obtain something like forgiveness from Ma--, from your sister."

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Wondering what this might mean, I listened, when all of a sudden a stentorian voice shouted out these words:-- "But what's the matter with those blockheads?

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'Miss Blockhead' was his pet name for me."

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As the man who spoke these words had thereby proved himself a blockhead, I edged away from him as soon as possible toward a very decent looking fellow who appeared to have more brains than speech.

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"I have been butting my skull against a wall," he had said in those hours of confidence; "and, to be as sublime a blockhead, if you'll allow me the word, you, my dear fellow, have kept sounding the charge.

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"Well, I don't know," said he, a little nettled, "I draw tolerably--_should_ do it at least, have had good masters--and flatter myself that I am not quite a blockhead."

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Why did that confounded old blockhead forget to introduce her to you?

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If I did not sometimes change my mind I should consider myself a blockhead or a fool.

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"What art doing here, blockhead?

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He had a head just suited for a cuckold, this blockhead!

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you big simpleton, you did go about it cautiously; but, when men pay attention to us, you dear blockhead, you see we like it, and then they must make quick work of it, and not keep us waiting.

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Addison's criticism of the ballads was scarcely a legitimate object for this kind of attack, but Augustan satire and parody were free and hospitable genres, always ready to entertain more than one kind of "bard and blockhead side by side.

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There is a shallow prejudice very acceptable to all blockheads, that men who are both learned and laborious must necessarily be stupid.

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I'd like to get that blockhead over the line.

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Since I left England (and it is not for all the usual term of transportation) I have scribbled to five hundred blockheads on business, etc., without difficulty, tho with no great pleasure; and yet, with the notion of addressing you a hundred times in my head, and always in my heart, I have not done what I ought to have done.

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He is a fool, a dolt, a blockhead; night and day he snores away; and you need not fear that the lady will fall in love with him; you may easily have him discarded whenever you please.

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"Whoever there are in any place whatsoever, whoever have been, and whoever shall be in time to come, fools, blockheads, idiots, dolts, sots, oafs, lubbers, I singly by far exceed them all in folly and absurd ways."]

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The unbridled insults which it heaps upon Charles I and still more upon Salmasius, for whom its least offensive titles are such as "blockhead," "liar" and "apostate," exceed even the wide limits of abuse customary in these days.

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And you, you blockhead, you come here and insult the man upon whose word the whole thing depends."

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And that means getting rid of the fools, idiots, maniacs, blockheads, morons, psychopaths, paranoids, timidity-ridden, fear-worshipers, fanatics, thieves, criminals and a whole lot more._ "Get rid of them?"

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For one thing they've got an easier job._ _In this country, the teams are looking for ways to get rid of the blockheads, and there are a lot of them.

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In Russia, you don't have to get rid of the blockheads.

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_I don't doubt that the men who are maintaining Russia's power are intelligent men-- but what they're doing is bad for the world as a whole, in the long run._ _So you foul them up, and leave the blockheads a clear field to run the country into the ground.

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And that's easier than fouling up the blockheads._ _Sure it is._ _There are fewer intelligent, active people around than there are blockheads._ _Always were._ _And maybe there always will be--but not if the PRS can help it._ _Oh, and by the way,_ Malone thought.

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They who advised her to it were blockheads.

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"I know he's to be a farmer, but there, even farmers mustn't be blockheads of dunces, as Oscar'll be if he don't alter," said Mrs. Grant.

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I resolved to listen, while the skipper eyed the barometer, and we all rocked back and forth in search of the centre of gravity, looking like a troupe of mechanical blockheads nodding in idiotic unison.

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A boy was never stupid--he lacked common intelligence; never a blockhead--his perceptions were very dull.

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By deceiving one man (a great blockhead), and tempting two (not incorruptible), he might have secured a majority of the States."

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Yet these blockheads all profess that they do not wish to change the Government, though they are doing all that they can to annihilate them.

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In his political controversies, Dickinson acted on the principle that an opponent is necessarily a blockhead or a scoundrel.

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As to the name Bigollo, used by Leonardo, some have thought it a self-assumed one meaning blockhead, a term that had been applied to him by the commercial world or possibly by the university circle, and taken by him that he might prove what a blockhead could do.

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This is a true story, and the hero of it might perhaps, on the strength of owning so many learned works, have passed for a philosopher, if he had not taken the pains to advertise himself as a blockhead.

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"Sassafras!" here broke in Mars Jones; and, good-natured, despite his roughness, he took from his pocket a _tickler_, and handing Jerry a dram, said: "Drink this, you old blockhead.

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why, that must be a hundred thousand--blockhead that I am!--more than a hundred and fifty thousand pounds Milanese!"

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"Semminating"-- "Dissemminating, you blockhead--disseminating what?"

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Well, then, shall I have no power to oust this blockhead?

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And now what is't the blockhead waits for, Syrus?

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_MENEDEMUS alone._ That I'm not overwise, no conjurer, I know full well: but my assistant here, And counselor, and grand controller Chremes, Outgoes me far: dolt, blockhead, ninny, ass; Or these, or any other common terms By which men speak of fools, befit me well: But him they suit not: his stupidity Is so transcendent, it exceeds them all.

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Why prithee, blockhead, could you be afraid, Had you abated somewhat of your right, And humor'd the young gentleman, he would not Have paid you back again with interest?

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"Not a drunken blockhead," Forrester finished triumphantly.

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"Who you calling a blockhead, buster?"

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There is nobody, in whom passion, interest, education, and favourable chance, could not have surmounted all the obstacles of an unpromising nature; and there is no great man who, in the absence of passion, interest, education, and certain chances, would not have been a blockhead, in spite of his happier organisation.

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By his contempt for a bad law did he any the less encourage blockheads to despise good ones?

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I was a blockhead, a fool, a rascal; I was not good for a single thing; I was not worth the glass of water which they gave me to drink.

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When Luther, however, could seriously affirm that witchcraft 'is the devil's proper work wherewith, when God permits, he not only hurts people but makes away with them; for in this world we are as guests and strangers, body and soul, cast under the devil: that idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb are men in whom ignorant devils have established themselves, and all the physicians who attempt to heal these infirmities as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads who know nothing about the power of the demon,' we cannot be indignant at the blind credulity of the masses of the people.

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Last year when the boys went to Mexico he said that if he had a son instead of a blockhead he'd be sending a boy to do his share down there.

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A warrant granted by a reformed bacon stealer would be absurd; but a hot brained young blockhead, who chose to favor the mutiny at the Nore, may, when he is forty years of age, and has cast his jacobin teeth, make a useful magistrate and loyal subject.

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"There is nothing wonderful in that," said I; "we are at the commencement of a philological age, every one studies languages: that is, every one who is fit for nothing else; philology being the last resource of dulness and ennui, I have got a little in advance of the throng, by mastering the Armenian alphabet; but I foresee the time when every unmarriageable miss, and desperate blockhead, will likewise have acquired the letters of Mesroub, and will know the term for bread, in Armenian, and perhaps that for wine."

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Poor blockheads!--as if we could not be useful nor happy without _them_!

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_Dodge._ A Blockhead, to proclaim his own Disgrace, and make himself laugh'd at.

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_Comp._ And O how they will laugh at their Clients when they sit in a Tavern, and call them Fools, Blockheads and Coxcombs, and then whip up their Causes as nimbly as a Barber trims his Customers on a _Christmas-Eve_; a Snip, a Wipe and away.

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It was idiotic of you to go to his meeting, and the conduct of a vulgar blockhead to get drunk; but in what way..." "That's not all, sir; after the meeting the bands came into collision, and I got taken up."

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"Of course not; but you would understand that he was a blockhead to show off his learning in that way.

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Yet this man was no fool, he was not even a blockhead; but he was frightened out of all propriety nevertheless.

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What a piece of invention, that blockhead.

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It is difficult to restore Buteo; for not only now is _butor_ a blockhead as well as a bird, but we really cannot know what kind of bird Buteo stood for.

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He is meant for the feather-brained thing of tags and laces, which frequently inhabits courts; but he wants the grace and agility proper to the species; he is less a fool than a blockhead, less perverted than totally inane.

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"Then," say I, ironically, "see where you can find a new blockhead, my muscular fairy!

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Some stupid blockhead inserted it in the newspapers, and it is now unfortunately chronicled in your valuable work.

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"He's a regular blockhead, in my opinion."

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"There is nothing wonderful in that," said I; "we are at the commencement of a philological age, every one studies languages: that is, every one who is fit for nothing else; philology being the last resource of dulness and ennui, I have got a little in advance of the throng, by mastering the Armenian alphabet; but I foresee the time when every unmarriageable miss, and desperate blockhead, will likewise have acquired the letters of Mesroub, and will know the term for bread, in Armenian, and perhaps that for wine."

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"Blockhead!" stealthily ejaculated that amiable aristocrat.

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It was not that they were big--plenty of blockheads are big: nor was it that they were handsome--plenty of nincompoops are well-favoured; but, besides being tall, and strong, and handsome, they were free, and hearty, and sensible, and wise--even in their joviality--and so thorough-going in word, sentiment, and act, that it was quite a pleasure merely to sit still and watch them, and listen.

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[150-8] A coof is a stupid person, a blockhead.

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Swift himself had previously written to his friend Dr. Sheridan a letter in which he declared that "Walpole is peevish and disconcerted, stoops to the vilest offices of hireling scoundrels to write Billingsgate of the lowest and most prostitute kind, and has none but beasts and blockheads for his penmen, whom he pays in ready guineas very liberally."

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One would have thought that beasts and blockheads could hardly prove very formidable enemies to Swift and Bolingbroke and Pulteney.

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In Trinity College he remained for thirteen years, studying, thinking, dreaming, bewildering most of the collegians, his colleagues, who seemed to have been unable to make up their minds whether he was a genius or a blockhead.

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"But look at me, you blockhead!" exclaimed Tartlet, who added example to precept.

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The big blockhead little knew his man.

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Blockhead!"

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"Because they were such blockheads they were afraid Kay's invention was going to put them out of their jobs.

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Wo be to him, we say--for as sure as there is truth in the retributive justice of posterity, he will attain an eminent position, not in the roll of beatified bards, but in that of the British blockheads, and be elected by unanimous consent as a proper Laureate for the Fogie Club.

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I wonder they don't become utter blockheads beneath the strain.

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