Dulness

Pope takes the name Dulness largely, for the offuscation of heart and head.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various

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.

A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies 2008

Station; which render us agreeable to the World, and the World to us; but live in a Stoical Dulness or humersome Stupidity.

A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies 2008

Dulness hedges such miserable homes round with walls of brass, enclosing the horrors of the desert and the infinite void.

A Second Home 2007

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.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

Dulness hedges such miserable homes round with walls of brass, enclosing the horrors of the desert and the infinite void.

A Second Home 2007

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

And the great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.

Mens Wives 2006

“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.

Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

Dulness and Ill-manners, closely to attend his person in all encounters.

The Battle of the Books 2003