14 results filtered with: 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- Books
Boredom : a lively history / Peter Toohey.
Peter TooheyDate: 2011- Books
The upside of downtime / Sandi Mann.
Mann, SandiDate: 2016- Archives and manuscripts
"Boredom"
Coppard, Fay, active approximately 1968Date: 20 May 1968Reference: 2921876iPart of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)- Books
Langeweile : zum Umgang mit Zeit und Gefühlen in Deutschland vom späten 18. bis zum frühen 20. Jahrhundert / Martina Kessel.
Martina KesselDate: [2001], ©2001- Books
L'ennui : histoire d'un état d'âme, XIXe-XXe siècle / sous la direction de Pascale Goestchel [and others].
Date: 2012- E-books
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Experience without qualities : boredom and modernity / Elizabeth S. Goodstein.
Elizabeth GoodsteinDate: 2005- Books
A philosophy of boredom / Lars Svendsen ; translated by John Irons.
Svendsen, Lars Fr. H., 1970- Kjedsomhetens filosofi. EnglishDate: 2005
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World War One: three French prisoners of war slouching in a prison yard. Colour halftone after a crayon drawing by L. Raemaekers.
Louis RaemaekersReference: 24576i
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An army officer lectures his bored class on the effects of gas, one student is made to wear a gas mask while another wickedly tries to set light to it. Pen and ink drawing by H. Bury, 1916.
Bury, Horace.Date: 1916Reference: 24074i