 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 - Page 3761822Full view - About this book
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 pages
...sluggardis'd nt home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness. y. Tico Gentlemen of Verona. Act I. Sc. 1. Their only labour was to kill the time, And labour dire it is, and weary woe: They ait, they loll, turn o'er some idle rhyme, Then, rising sudden, to the glass they go, Or saunter forth,... | |
 | 1882 - 1434 pages
...sluggardis'd at home, Wear out thy youth with, shapeless idleness. P- Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act I. Sc. 1. o. 225. COQUETRY. Like a lovely tree She grew to an 1 weary woe: They sit, they loll, turn o'er some idle rhyme, Then, rising sudden, to the glass they... | |
 | Christian ethics - 1883 - 296 pages
...for heaviness that his cart went light." Enjoyment stops where indolence begins. His labour only is to kill the time, And labour dire it is and weary woe. If a man indulges habits of bodily indolence, the natural powers of the constitution are impaired ;... | |
 | Richard S. Rhodes - 1885 - 444 pages
...Praised to be when you can hear no more, And much enrich' d with fame, when useless worldly store. Their only labour was to kill the time (And labour dire it is, and weary woe;) They sit, and loll; turn o'er some idle rhyme; . Then, rising sudden, to the glass they go, Or saunter forth,... | |
 | Jerome Paine Bates - 1886 - 882 pages
...; and Cn as useful to me as RIGHT USE OF TIME. "Whose only labor was to lull the time, Who sit and loll, turn o'er some idle rhyme, Then, rising sudden,...go, Or saunter forth with tottering step, and slow. But this too rude an exercise they find, Then straight on the couch their limbs they throw, Where hours... | |
 | James Thomson - 1891 - 458 pages
...free, They lay, poured out in ease and luxury. 635 Lxxir. Their only labour was to kill the time ; 640 And labour dire it is, and weary woe. They sit, they...and slow : This soon too rude an exercise they find ; 645 Straight on the couch their limbs again they throw, Where hours on hours they sighing lie reclined,... | |
 | Madison Clinton Peters - 1893 - 228 pages
...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 steps and slow." Life is not a toy to be played with, a doll to be... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1893 - 686 pages
...retrospective glance at the last seventeen years of her Ladyship's life. CHAPTER XXVin. Her " only labour waa to kill the time ; And labour dire it is, and weary woe." Castle of Indt lance. YEARS had rolled on amidst heartless pleasures and joyless amusements, but Lady... | |
 | John Macmillan Brown - 1894 - 436 pages
...", i the " most Christian kings " " with honourable ruffians in their hire", "the languid beauties", ("their only labour was to kill the time and labour dire it is and weary woe"), Lethargy, Hydropsy, ("still he drank and yet he still was dry "), Hypochondria, " mother of spleen... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1894 - 330 pages
...take a retrospective glance at the last seventeen years of her ladyship's life. Chapter jcjcjc. Her " only labour was to kill the time ; And labour dire it is, and weary woe." Castle of Indolence. YEARS had rolled on, amidst heartless pleasures and joyless amusements, but Lady... | |
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