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Examples
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By my carclefsnefs and floth, I have been cafl into a deep deep.
Life in God's favour, the substance of sundry sermons upon Psalm, 30. 5 1796
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What crops of wit and honefty appear From fpleen, from obflinacy, hate, or fear I See anger, zeal and fortitude fupply j Ev n av'rice, prudence j floth, philofophy;
Poems, Moral, Elegant and Pathetic: Vis. Essay on Man Alexander Pope , Helen Maria Williams 1796
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; The ecclefiaftical corporations, therefore, fuperferviceably rife, are ftill fuffered in Flanders — they over-run it, in the worft way, with rapacity and floth.
A journey in the year 1793, through Flanders, Brabant, and Germany, to Switzerland 1795
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The heart feels no repo/e, the highcft happi - nefs on earth, except in Solitude: but this term mufl: not be conftrucd into indolence and floth.
Solitude Considered with Respect to Its Influence Upon the Mind and the Heart: Written ... Johann Georg Zimmermann, J. B . Mercier 1794
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Bcfidcs, a meagre day fubducs The cruder clodi by floth or luxury Collected, and unloads the wheels of life.
Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry: Selected for the Improvement of ... 1791
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Whence could fond floth the flattering gifts procure?
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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From whence he makes an artful tranfition into the fecond part of his fubjeft: wherein he firft complains of the floth of fcholars, and afterwards perfuades them to the purfuit of their true liberty;
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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And, fpringing from the bed of floth, enjoy The cool, the fragrant, and the filent hour.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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And floth diftem. per'd, fwept off burning crowds.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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And quits fame's noble harveft, to expire The death of Monks, of furfeit, and of floth!
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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