"The extream Idle have no Goust to any Thing but sauntering, which more effectually wearies the Mind and Body than Exercise and Toil."
— Manley, Delarivier (c. 1670-1724)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for John Barber and John Morphew
Date
1720
Metaphor
"The extream Idle have no Goust to any Thing but sauntering, which more effectually wearies the Mind and Body than Exercise and Toil."
Metaphor in Context
Here William the Collier, and Joan his dear Wife, learn'd to forget that they had ever known a higher, since a less happy Condition. Here they enjoyed their Fill of Love, sweeten'd by the Toils of his necessary Occupation, which more endear'd their [Page 322] Delights. Laziness spoils the Blood, and depraves the Taste. The extream Idle have no Goust to any Thing but sauntering, which more effectually wearies the Mind and Body than Exercise and Toil. Adelasia, employed her self, during her Husband's absence, in the necessary Care of his Children; to keep all Things neat and clean, and in providing a homely, comfortable Meal against his coming home, always sweet'ned by chearfulness, and her own lovely Looks, which suffered no alteration, neither from Habit, nor any Circumstance of their Condition. Once indeed an Incident happened, which, for a Moment, thrust between Them and Happiness, or might have done so, if Alerane had been less assured of the Vertue of Adelasia.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "exercise" in HDIS (Prose)
Citation
Delariviere Manley, The power of love: in seven novels viz. I. The fair hypocrite. II. The physician's stratagem. III. The wife's resentment. IV.V. The husband's resentment. In two examples. VI. The happy fugitives. Vii. The perjur'd beauty. Never before published. By Mrs. Manley (London: London : printed for John Barber on Lambeth-Hill, and John Morphew, near Stationers-Hall, 1720). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
03/20/2007
