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She therefore solicited Imlac never to desist from inquiry, and to leave no art of intelligence untried, that at least she might have the comfort of knowing that she did not suffer by negligence or sluggishness. "Yet what," said she, "is to be expected from our pursuit of happiness, when we find the state of life to be such that happiness itself is the cause of misery?
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. Piozzi Letters, i. 134. See ante, iii. 157. 'At Dunvegan I had tasted lotus, and was in danger of forgetting that I was ever to depart, till Mr. Boswell sagely reproached me with my sluggishness and softness. Johnson's Works, ix. 67.
Out of all the inner turmoil and confusion emerged the one salient fact that the mere atmosphere, the merest casual touch, of this girl, unseen, unknown in the darkness, had been sufficient to stir dormant fires in the centre of his heart, and rouse his whole being from a state of feeble sluggishness to one of tearing and tumultuous excitement.
Came Grandmaison cursing and swearing at the sluggishness of the Marats, reminding them as he had been reminding them for the last hour that it was time to be off, that the tide was on the ebb.
On becoming aware of his state, the individual may acknowledge his inactivity and make half-formed resolves to be more earnest and diligent, only very soon to relapse into the same former sluggishness. This virus of sloth inoculates the entire spiritual being, poisoning the will and making spiritual activity most disagreeable.
"I don't think any of his household are in danger of contracting the gout from luxurious living." "I guess not," said Tom. "I think," said Jane, slyly, "you'd better hire out Tom to the squire." "The squire would have the worst of the bargain," said his father, with a good-natured hit at Tom's sluggishness. "He wouldn't earn his board, however poor it might be."
His form to conclude the picture is constructed with singular power; and though not symmetrical, is far from ungainly. When impelled by some stirring motive, his carriage is easy, without seeming effort, and his huge frame throws aside the sluggishness which at other times invests it, putting on a habit of animated exercise, which changes the entire appearance of the man.
With as much sluggishness as might have been expected from their clumsy architecture, the ships of the Armada consumed nearly three weeks in sailing from Lisbon to the neighbourhood of Cape Finisterre.
Then Aunt Paula sends me away, and I become all right again as I am now." Blake did not express the impatient thought of his mind. He only said: "A little sluggishness of the blood and a little congestion of the brain. I had such sleep once after I'd done too much work and fought too much heat in the Cavite Hospital.
His spirit seemed to awaken from its sluggishness, and his memory brought back to him all the merry greenwood life how the birds were singing blithely there this bright morning, and how his loved companions and friends were feasting and making merry, or perhaps talking of him with sober speech; for when he first entered the Sheriff's service he did so in jest; but the hearthstone was warm during the winter, and the fare was full, and so he had abided, putting off from day to day his going back to Sherwood, until six long months had passed.
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