All learned, and all drunk!

William Cowper (1731-1800): The Task. Book iv. The Winter Evening. Line 478.

All the learned and authentic fellows.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): All's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 3.

All his faults observed,

Set in a note-book, learn'd, and conn'd by rote.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Julius Caesar. Act iv. Sc. 3.

Underneath this sable hearse

Lies the subject of all verse,—

Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother.

Death, ere thou hast slain another,

Learn'd and fair and good as she,

Time shall throw a dart at thee.

Ben Jonson (1573-1637): Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke.

Babylon,

Learned and wise, hath perished utterly,

Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh

That would lament her.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Ecclesiastical Sonnets. Part i. xxv. Missions and Travels.

Soul of the age,

The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage,

My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by

Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie

A little further, to make thee a room.

Ben Jonson (1573-1637): To the Memory of Shakespeare.

Yes, social friend, I love thee well,

In learned doctors' spite;

Thy clouds all other clouds dispel,

And lap me in delight.

Charles Sprague (1791-1875): To my Cigar.

Great contest follows, and much learned dust.

William Cowper (1731-1800): The Task. Book iii. The Garden. Line 161.

In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill,

For e'en though vanquish'd he could argue still;

While words of learned length and thundering sound

Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around;

And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew

That one small head could carry all he knew.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774): The Deserted Village. Line 209.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,

With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Essay on Criticism. Part iii. Line 53.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,

With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Essay on Criticism. Part iii. Line 53.

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Epistle ii. Book ii. Line 85.

Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style,

Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Essay on Criticism. Part ii. Line 126.

Such sights as youthful poets dream

On summer eyes by haunted stream.

Then to the well-trod stage anon,

If Jonson's learned sock be on,

Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child,

Warble his native wood-notes wild.

John Milton (1608-1674): L'Allegro. Line 129.

Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style,

Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Essay on Criticism. Part ii. Line 126.