Dawdler. Layabout. Shit-heel. Loser. For as long as mankind has had to work for a living, which is to say ever since the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, people who work have disparaged those who prefer not to. This glossary, which closel..
Mark Kingwell's introductory essay offers a playful defence of the idler as homo superior, while Joshua Glenn's glossary playfully explores the etymology and history of hundreds of idler-specific terms and phrases, while offering both a corrective to popul..
Essays, Biographical, Critical, And Historical, Illustrative Of The Rambler, Adventurer, & Idler, And Of The Various Periodical Papers In Imitation Of The Writings Of Steele And Addison
The Works Of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight ... Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey To Flanders And Holland, And His Commentary On Du Fresnoy''s Art Of Painting, Volume 2
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