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For why should a blockhead have one in ten For prating so long like a book-learned sot Till pudding and dumpling burn to a pot?

From Time Magazine Archive

Not content with book-learned appreciation of foreign affairs, students will go abroad in their upperclass summer vacations to study and observe while living in "homes where only the foreign language is spoken."

From Time Magazine Archive

“Wha’ should he be, but some silly, book-learned body that bides in a college there awa’.

From Janet's Love and Service by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)

He was, and is, a scholar—not merely book-learned, for he was one of the first three in a class of sixty in Saint Mary's Seminary, but the man of parts that bespeak the student.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 by Various

But then it will require the experience to give your book-learned wisdom its full force.

From The Bright Face of Danger Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the Sieur de la Tournoire by Stephens, Robert Neilson