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  • His lazy, long, lascivious reign.

    - Daniel Defoe
      Of Charles II. The True-Born Englishman, pt.1, l.236.

  • It is the responsibility of the poet to be lazy to hang out and prophesy.

    - Grace ne  e  Goodside Paley
      Begin Again: New and Collected Poems,'Responsibility'.

  • Men ignorant of letters, studious for their bellies, and ignominiously lazy.

    - George Sandys
      On the monks of Patmos. Relation of aJourney Begun An. Dom.1610. Spanish^US   philosopher,    poet   and   novelist,    Professor   of Philosophy  at  Harvard  (1907^12).  His  writing  career  began  as a   poet   with   Sonnets   and   Other  Verses   (1894),   but   he   later became  known  as  a  philosopher  and  stylist,  in  such  works  as The  Life  of  Reason  (5  vols, 1905^6),  Realms  of  Being  (4  vols, 1927^40),  and  his  novel The  Last  Puritan  (1935).  He  moved  to Europe   in  1912,   stayed   at   Oxford  during  World  War   I,   then settled in Rome.

  • Daisy and Lily, Lazy and silly, Walk by the shore of the wan grass sea, Talking once more 'neath a swan-bosomed tree.

    - Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
      Fa c° ade 'Valse'.

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