Vulgar words in Bibliomania in the Middle Ages (Page 1)
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Whethamstede was a passionate bibliomaniac, and when surrounded with his books he cared little, or perhaps from the absence of mind so often engendered by the delights of study, he too frequently forgot, the important affairs of his monastery, and the responsible duties of an abbot; but absorbed as he was with his studies, Whethamstede was not a mere ..... "Bookful blockhead ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head."