untaught

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No flunkster ever yet was barred From gaining all he might of good About a brand of special knowledge Untaught within the larger college.

From Time Magazine Archive

The land of Cyclops first, a savage kind, Nor tamed by manner, nor by laws confined: Untaught to plant, to turn the glebe and sow; They all their products to free nature owe.

From Heathen Mythology by Various

And with her came the maid of Attic stole, Untaught of dazzling schools the gauds to prize, Who breathes in purest forms her calm control, Heroic strength, and grace that never dies!

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 366, April 18, 1829 by Various

Untaught by experience, Henry III. listened to the appeals of his mother and her husband.

From The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by Hunt, William

In the prologue to his doctored version of Troilus and Cressida, Dryden made the ghost of Shakspere speak of himself as "Untaught, unpracticed in a barbarous age."

From Brief History of English and American Literature by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)