Charles Caleb Colton Quote

It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.


Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan (ed. 1823)


It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages ...

It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages ...

It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages ...

It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages ...