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Poor tired Tim! It’s sad for him He lags the long bright morning through, Ever so tired of nothing to do.
Walter De La Mare
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How fleet is a glance of the mind!Compared with the speed of its flightThe tempest itself lags behind,And the swift-winged arrows of light.

william cowper

— Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk.

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They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to man's improvements or to his power of reaching perfection. But he is very far from receiving intact that storehouse of knowledge which the centuries have piled up before him; he may perfect some inventions, but in others, he lags behind the originators, and a great many inventions have been lost entirely. What he gains on the one hand, he loses on the other.

eugène delacroix

— 21 September 1854 (p. 256)

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Where theory lags behind the facts, we are dealing with miserable degenerating research programmes."


— Imre Lakatos (1978, p. 6), cited in: Vernon L. Smith, "Theory, experiment and economics]." The Journal of Economic Perspectives (1989):p. 168

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How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light.

william cowper

— Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk.

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Upon my lips the breath of song, Within my heart a rhyme, Howe'er time trips or lags along, I keep abreast with time!


— Clinton Scollard, The Vagrant.

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Superfluous lags the vet'ran on the stage.

samuel johnson

— Line 308. (Vanity of Human Wishes (1749))

Tags: Superfluous, stage

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