Social Commentaries
Language of the Learned
From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language (ed. James Parton)
Social Commentaries
Were Tully now alive, he'd be to seek
In all our Latin terms of art and Greek;
Would never understand one word of sense
The most irrefragable schoolman means:
As if the Schools design'd their terms of art,
Not to advance a science, but to divert;
As Hocus Pocus conjures to amuse
The rabble from observing what he does.
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Butler, Samuel. “Language of the Learned.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/butler_samuel/19/.
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