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Pope takes the name Dulness largely, for the offuscation of heart and head.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various
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I return'd into my Closet, or rather my Den of Dulness, for the Retreat of such a Student deserves not the Name of a Study.
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Station; which render us agreeable to the World, and the World to us; but live in a Stoical Dulness or humersome Stupidity.
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Dulness hedges such miserable homes round with walls of brass, enclosing the horrors of the desert and the infinite void.
A Second Home 2007
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Dulness fled from their presence; they could tell stories, whistle melodies, and sing comic songs without weariness or cessation: fortunate were those near enough to be enlivened by their drolleries during the tedium of a night detention.
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Dulness hedges such miserable homes round with walls of brass, enclosing the horrors of the desert and the infinite void.
A Second Home 2007
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To pause, however, in this disquisition, which was carrying us far off Kingstown, New Molloyville, Ireland — nay, into the wide world wherever Dulness inhabits — let it be stated that
Mens Wives 2006
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And the great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.
Mens Wives 2006
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“History of Dulness in all Ages of the World,” is a book which a philosopher would surely be hanged, but as certainly blessed, for writing.
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Dulness and Ill-manners, closely to attend his person in all encounters.
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