Noah Webster
Inattention
INATTEN'TION, noun [in and attention.] The want of attention, or of fixing the mind steadily on an object; heedlessness; neglect.
Novel lays attract our ravished ears,
But old, the mind with inattention hears.
INATTEN'TION, noun [in and attention.] The want of attention, or of fixing the mind steadily on an object; heedlessness; neglect.
Novel lays attract our ravished ears,
But old, the mind with inattention hears.