leisure-amusement

Updated: June 20, 2025

To no one of whom, however, though otherwise a most diligent solicitor and purveyor, did he so attach himself: such vulgar courtierships were his paid drudgery, or leisure-amusement; the worship of Johnson was his grand, ideal, voluntary business.

- The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III