Sluggard

"Sluggard" -- why, it is a calling and vocation, it is a career.

Notes from the Underground 1918

"Sluggard" -- why, it is a calling and vocation, it is a career.

Notes from the Underground Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1851

'Sluggard! this night I will have my will; nor shalt thou prevail.

Smoke and Mirrors: Internalizing the Magic Lantern show in _Vilette_ 2005

“Truly,” said the knight, “Holy Clerk of Copmanhurst, men call me in these parts the Black Knight, — many, sir, add to it the epithet of Sluggard, whereby I am no way ambitious to be distinguished.”

Ivanhoe 2004

“Get thine iron pot on thy head then, friend Sluggard, as quickly as thy nature will permit,” said the hermit, “while I remove these pewter flagons, whose late contents run strangely in mine own pate; and to drown the clatter — for, in faith, I feel somewhat unsteady — strike into the tune which thou hearest me sing; it is no matter for the words — I scarce know them myself.”

Ivanhoe 2004

“Sluggard” — why, it is a calling and vocation, it is a career.

Notes from Underground 2003

“Sluggard! this night I will have my will; nor shalt thou prevail.”

Villette 2003

The emptiness of the whole notion of an everlasting 'good time' is shown up in Breughel's picture The Land of the Sluggard, where the three great lumps of fat lie asleep, head to head, with the boiled eggs and roast legs of pork coming up to be eaten of their own accord.

Why Socialists Don't Believe In Fun 1998

Sluggard, art thou asleep still? art thou resolved to sleep the sleep of death?

The Riches of Bunyan Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin

'Tis the voice of the Sluggard, I hear him complain,

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 4, 1892 Various