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“Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Letter to Boswell. Dec. 8, 1763.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ac20eac8b03eaf64fa777bff73c285fac02a05b704a767f08537c9b244112eb4
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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“In indolent vacuity of thought.”
William Cowper
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Gloomy as night he stands.”
Alexander Pope
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.”
William Cowper
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.”
Pliny the Younger
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.”
John Milton
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“The gloomy companions of a disturbed imagination, the melancholy madness of poetry without the inspiration.”
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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