torporen

Updated: May 6, 2025

But it is an old habit of mine, to linger over the plan and subject of a work, for years, perhaps, before the work has, in truth, advanced a sentence; "busying myself," as old Burton saith, "with this playing labour otiosaque diligentia ut vitarem torporen feriendi."

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete