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 | Boredom is a reactive state of emotion that interprets the condition of one's environment as wearingly dull due to repetitive, non-existent or tedious stimuli. Boredom stems from a lack of interesting things to see, hear, or do (physically or intellectually) when not in the mood of "doing anything." Often it is a clearly subjective state; one person may find a classical music concert "boring," for example, while another may find it riveting. | |
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| Quarterly Review was a review journal started by John Murray, the celebrated London publisher, in March 1809 (though it bore a title page date of February), in rivalry with the Edinburgh Review, which had been seven years in possession of the field, and was exerting, as he judged, an evil influence on public opinion; in this enterprise he was seconded by George Canning, Robert Southey, and Walter Scott, the more cordially that the Edinburgh Review had given offence to the latter by its criticism of "Marmion." It was founded in the Canningite Tory interest for the defence of Church and State, and it had William Gifford for its first editor, while the contributors included, besides Southey and Scott, all the ablest literary celebrities on the Tory side, of which the most zealous and frequent was John Wilson Croker. | |
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| The French Studies Bulletin: A Quarterly Supplement is published for the Society for French Studies by Oxford Univer- | |
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