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...busy. By contrast, you might never have had a dispute over the boundaries of a piece of land (though perhaps you have!). For the original audience, however, these scenes might have seemed equally familiar. Many people would have led lives centred on agriculture, and so issues of land management would have been a part of everyday life. Passages like this in the Iliad are...

...business of her life was to get her daughters married; its solace was visiting and news. (Austen, 1813, p. 3) Compare this with the opening of the final chapter of Pride and Prejudice: Happy for all her maternal feelings was the day on which Mrs. Bennet got rid of her two most deserving daughters. With what delighted pride she afterwards visited Mrs. Bingley and talked of...

...busy working on this theme. Other than that, there's not a lot we have to go on. We do know that Goya went to Italy, staying in Pama and Rome, and in doing so availed himself of the ideal grounding for an eighteenth century artist. This kind of training would serve as a n ideal preparation for work in the Royal Palaces, whose staff he was trying to join through a network...