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I understand that literature is going on flaggingly in England just now, on account of nobody caring to read anything but telegraphic messages.

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir

During the six or seven autumn weeks spent at Hampstead after his return from Oxford Keats was getting on, a little flaggingly, with the fourth book of Endymion, besides writing an occasional lyric or two.

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney