idleness

  • 21Industry and Idleness — is the title of a series of 12 plot linked engravings created by William Hogarth in 1747, intending to illustrate to working children the possible rewards of hard work and diligent application and the sure disasters attending a lack of both.… …

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  • 22Love in Idleness — is one of the many old names for the pansy. Shakespeare uses the name in A Midsummer Night s Dream (Act 2, Scene 1) where Oberon (Fairy King) takes revenge on Titania (Fairy Queen) and sends Puck to retrieve the flower:Yet mark d I where the bolt …

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  • 23Love-in-idleness — Love Love (l[u^]v), n. [OE. love, luve, AS. lufe, lufu; akin to E. lief, believe, L. lubet, libet, it pleases, Skr. lubh to be lustful. See {Lief}.] 1. A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; pre[… …

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  • 24love-in-idleness — Pansy Pan sy, n.; pl. {Pansies}. [F. Pens[ e]e thought, pansy, fr. penser to think, L. pensare to weigh, ponder. See {Pensive}.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus {Viola} ({Viola tricolor}) and its blossom, originally purple and yellow. Cultivated… …

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  • 25Against Idleness And Mischief — is a poem in Divine Songs for Children , by Isaac Watts, and is one of his best known poems. As the title suggests, it is an exhortation to work hard.Text:How doth the little busy bee:Improve each shining hour,:And gather honey all the day:From… …

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  • 26pass time in idleness — index loiter Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 27love-in-idleness — trispalvė našlaitė statusas T sritis vardynas apibrėžtis Našlaitinių šeimos daržovinis, dekoratyvinis, maistinis, vaistinis augalas (Viola tricolor), paplitęs Europoje ir vakarų Azijoje. atitikmenys: lot. Viola tricolor angl. European wild pansy; …

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  • 28eat the bread of idleness — be inactive, loaf, do nothing, laze …

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  • 29love-in-idleness — /lʌv ɪn ˈaɪdlnəs/ (say luv in uydlnuhs) noun the wild pansy, Viola tricolor …

  • 30love-in-idleness — noun a common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived • Syn: ↑wild pansy, ↑Johnny jump up, ↑heartsease, ↑pink of my John, ↑Viola tricolor • Hypernyms: ↑viola …

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