slow (n.)

slow (v.)

Learn to read slow: all other graces

Will follow in their proper places.

William Walker (1623-1684): The Art of Reading.

I am slow of study.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.

This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confess'd,—

Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784): London. Line 176.

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

Old Testament: Proverbs xvi. 32.

Be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.

New Testament: James i. 19.

Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 6.

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,

Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774): The Traveller. Line 1.

But, alas, to make me

A fixed figure for the time of scorn

To point his slow unmoving finger at!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Othello. Act iv. Sc. 2.