"Erudition" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is no wonder that we find the later Greek and Roman writers using the words cyclic and cyclic poet as terms of disparagement. The great Mythus of Troy had run its course and exhausted itself; the age of imitation, formalism, erudition had come, while that of creation had passed away. Still it has preserved for us the idea of the cycle, which is necessary for the adequate comprehension of Homer, and which the Greeks ...
— Homer's Odyssey - A Commentary • Denton J. Snider
... mother had some little misgivings as to the solid benefit to be derived from such fantastic erudition, and timidly consulted my ...
— The Caxtons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... genius whom the Cassinesi claim as their alumni; nor, with Boccaccio's testimony to their carelessness, and with the evidence of their library before our eyes, can we rate their services to civilised erudition very highly. I longed to possess the spirit, for one moment, of Montalembert. I longed for what is called historical imagination, for the indiscriminate voracity of those men to whom world-famous sites ...
— New Italian sketches • John Addington Symonds
... the vulgar pretensions of the learned, from their appeal to ancient names and their quotations in unfamiliar tongues, and from the easy fall into technicality of men struggling to be explicit where a high degree of explicitness is impossible. But it needs erudition and accumulated and alien literature to make metaphysics obscure, and some of the most fruitful and able metaphysical discussion in the world was conducted by a number of unhampered men in small Greek cities, who knew no language ...
— First and Last Things • H. G. Wells
... young gentleman, "the last work of the Herr Doctor Hohenstockwitz, cousin and librarian of your Prince here in Gruenewald—a man of great erudition ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
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