PEDANTRY

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1. A Babylonish dialect
   Which learned pedants much affect.—SAMUEL BUTLER, Hudibras
   

2. The languages, especially the dead,
   The sciences, and most of all the abstruse,
   The arts, at least all such as could be said
   To be the most remote from common use.—BYRON, Don Juan
   

3. Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.—COLERIDGE, Biographia Literaria

4. Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.—HOLBROOK JACKSON, Anatomy of Bibliomania
   

5. Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style,
   Amaze th' unlearn'd, and make the learned smile.—POPE, Essay on Criticism
   

6. The book ful blockhead, ignorantly read,
   With loads of learned lumber in his head.—POPE, Essay on Criticism
   

7. An artist may visit a museum, but only a pedant can live there.—SANTAYANA, Life of Reason
   

8. Bold in thy applause,
   The Bard shall scorn pedantic laws.—SCOTT, Marmion
   

9. Figures pedantical.—SHAKESPEARE, Love's Labour's Lost
   

10. A reasoning, self-sufficing thing,
    An intellectual All-in-all.—WORDSWORTH, A Poet's Epitaph