book-learned

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For why should a blockhead have one in ten For prating so long like a book-learned sot Till pudding and dumpling burn to a pot?

From Time Magazine Archive

Not content with book-learned appreciation of foreign affairs, students will go abroad in their upperclass summer vacations to study and observe while living in "homes where only the foreign language is spoken."

From Time Magazine Archive

Because the things that he fancies he’s going to see don’t really exist, nor never yet did in spite of what book-learned people may say!

From Tom Finch's Monkey and How he Dined with the Admiral by Anonymous

But then it will require the experience to give your book-learned wisdom its full force.

From The Bright Face of Danger Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the Sieur de la Tournoire by Stephens, Robert Neilson

I still had hopes—for pride attends us still— Amidst the swains to show my book-learned skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt and all I saw.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great by Hubbard, Elbert