" "He's a cursed white-blooded pedantic coxcomb," said Will, with gnashing impetuosity.
Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide , Late school-boys and sour prentices, ,, Go tell court-huntsmen that the king will ride, ,, Call country ants to harvest offices ; ; Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime, ,,, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
You see this young man as a spoilt, lazy pain in the butt — and in return he doubtless sees you as a pedantic and stupid old man who personifies everything he has already learnt to hate in his job.
Culture improves, and occasions elicit, natural talents I make no doubt but that there are potentially, if I may use that pedantic word, many Bacons, Lockes, Newtons, Caesars, Cromwells, and Mariboroughs at the ploughtail behind counters, and, perhaps, even among the nobility; but the soil must be cultivated, and the season favourable, for the fruit to have all its spirit and flavour.
