 Their only Labour was to kill the Time ; And Labour dire it is, and weary Woe. . They sit, they loll, turn o'er some idle Rhyme ; Then, rising sudden, to the Glass they go, Or saunter forth, with tottering Step and slow : This soon too rude an Exercise...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Página 3761822Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1896 - 1224 páginas
...at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness, n. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 5. ke my rest ; So many hours must I contemplate. s....one day end it. t. Troilus and Cressida. Act IV. steps and slow. o. THOMSON — Castle of Indolence. Canto I. LXXII. There is no remedy for time misspent;... | |
 | Frederick Marryat - 1896 - 436 páginas
...— but, what was still worse, he carried off the " practice ! " Chapter XLV "Their only labour is to kill the time; And labour dire it is, and weary woe. They sit — they lounge — turn o'er some idle rhyme : Then rising sudden — to the glass they go, Or saunter forth... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1896 - 794 páginas
...now so strange do these things seem, Mine eyes have leisure for their tears. TENNYSON : In Memoriam. Their only labour was to kill the time ; And labour dire it was, and weary woe : They sit, they loll, turn o'er some idle rhyme; Then, rising sudden, to the glass... | |
 | Madison Clinton Peters - 1905 - 206 páginas
...for better companionship than those of whom it is said: Their only labor is to kill time, And labor dire it is and weary woe, They sit, they loll, turn o'er some idle rhyme, Or saunter forth with tottering step and slow. Life is not a toy to be played with, an ornament to... | |
 | James Thomson - 1908 - 550 páginas
...to twist, to range the vernal bloom ; But far is cast the distaff, spinning-wheel, and loom. LXXII Their only labour was to kill the time ; And labour...and slow : This soon too rude an exercise they find ; Strait on the couch their limbs again they throw, Where, hours on hours, they sighing lie reclined,... | |
 | James Mitchell - 1908 - 502 páginas
...those for whom time does not pass all too quickly ; as Cowper says of those " Whose only labour is to kill the time, And labour dire it is and weary woe." The word diversion, from the L. diverto, diversum — L. dis, aside, and verto, to turn (see note,... | |
 | Reinard Willem Zandvoort - 1921 - 216 páginas
...experiments. To kill time is to pass or consume time idly. This hardly includes undertaking experiments. Their only labour was to kill the time ; And labour dire it is, and weary woe (Thomson, Castle of Indolence, I, Stanza 72). He killed some time by scraping the addresses and stencil-marks... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 páginas
...Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence. TACITUS— Annales. XVI. 18. 23 Horace. Ep. IL 241. 20 Here Ceres' gifts in waving...reaper's hand. POPE— Windsor Forest. L. 39. 21 And he steps and slow. THOMSON — CasUe of Indolence. Canto I. 72. M L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.... | |
 | 1924 - 288 páginas
...the 'Castle of Indolence' described by Thomson: "Their only labor was to kill the time, (And labor dire it is, and weary woe) They sit, they loll, turn...sudden, to the glass they go. Or saunter forth with tott'ring steps and slow; This soon too rude an exercise they find, Straight on the couch their limbs... | |
 | 1923 - 520 páginas
...the 'Castle of Indolence' described by Thomson: "Their only labor was to kill the time, (And labor dire it is, and weary woe) They sit. they loll, turn...sudden, to the glass they go. Or saunter forth with tott'ring steps and slow; This soon too rude an exercise they find, Straight on the couch their limbs... | |
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