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Images about Boredom
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A student reads to an audience the epic poems of Sir Richard Blackmore and the sermons of John ("Orator") Henley to find out which is the more soporific; his audience fall asleep with boredom. Etching by C. Grignion after F. Hayman.
Q1441554Date: [between 1750 and 1759?]Reference: 2497721i- Books
Melancholy and society / Wolf Lepenies ; translated by Jeremy Gaines and Doris Jones.
Lepenies, Wolf. Melancholie und Gesellschaft. EnglishDate: 1992
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Four conversations in which one speaker annoys the other. Coloured etching, 1800.
George Murgatroyd WoodwardDate: Nov. 9th 1800Reference: 493409i- Books
Fatigue and boredom in repetitive work / by S. Wyatt and J.N. Langdon ; assisted by F.G.L. Stock.
Wyatt, S. (Stanley)Date: 1937
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A parson guilty of long tedious sermons has fallen asleep as a veteran relates at length the tactics used at the battle of Dettingen: both ignore a woman who brings them a dish of cooked chicken. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1784.
Thomas RowlandsonDate: Feb. 11 1784Reference: 33167i