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" 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 they... "
Conversation; or, Shades of difference - Page 186
by Heron - 1821
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 11

Scotland - 1822 - 880 pages
...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...Straight on the couch their limbs again they throw, AVhere hours on hours, they sighing, lie reclined. And court the vapoury god soft breathing in the...
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The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation

John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...kill the time ; And labour dire it is, and weary wo : They sit, thev loll, turn o'er some idle rhyme, Then, rising sudden, to the glass they go, Or saunter...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,...
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A Summary View of America: Comprising a Description of the Face of the ...

Isaac Candler - Southern States - 1824 - 540 pages
...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...limbs again they throw, Where hours on hours they sighing lie reclined, And court the vapoury God soft breathing in the wind." Notwithstanding this inaction...
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A Summary View of America: Comprising a Description of the Face of the ...

Isaac Candler - Southern States - 1824 - 530 pages
...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...limbs again they throw, Where hours on hours they sighing lie reclined, And court the vapoury God soft breathing in the wind." Notwithstanding this inaction...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...kill the time; And labour dire it is, and weary woe. They sit, they loll, turn o'er some idle rhyme; ike one forlorn, Or craz'd with care, or cross'd in...miss'd him on the custom'd hill, Along the heath an ; Straighten the couch their limbs again thev throw, Where hours and hours they sighing lie reclin'd,...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...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...with tottering step and slow. This soon too rude an exereise they find ; Straight on the eoueh their limbs again they throw, Where hours and hours they...
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The Seasons, and Castle of Indolence: To which is Prefixed the Life of the ...

James Thomson - 1826 - 268 pages
...kill the time, And lahour 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...an exercise they find; Straight on the couch their limhs again they throw, Where hours on hours they sighing lie reclin'd, And court the vapoury god soft-hreathing...
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Select British Poets: Containing the Works of Goldsmith, Thomson, Gray ...

Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...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...limbs again they throw, Where hours on hours they sighing lie reclin'd, And court the vapoury god soft-breathing in the wind. LXXIII. Now must I mark...
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The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never ...

William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...kill the time ; (And labour dire it is, and weary wo) They sit, they loll, turn o'er some idle rhyme; -a plumber I should be a complete glazier; and sighing lie reclined, And court the vapoury god, soft breathing in the wind.t • The Rev. Mr. Murdoch,...
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Newton Forster; or, The merchant service, by the author of 'The king's own'.

Frederick Marryat - 1832 - 274 pages
...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 with loitering step and slow. CASTLE or INDOLENCE. CAPTAIN Oughton, who commanded the Windsor Castle, was...
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