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" However the exaltedness of some minds (or rather as I shrewdly suspect their insipidity and want of feeling or observation) may make them insensible to these light things, (I mean such as characterize and paint nature) yet surely they are as weighty and... "
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Annals of Mr. Bowyers press ... - Page 374
by John Nichols - 1812
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The Works of Thomas Gray: Containing His Poems, and Correspondence ..., Volume 1

Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...throughout he shews himself well read in StageCoaches, Country Squires, Inns, and Inns of Court. His reflections upon high people and low people, and misses...shrewdly suspect their insipidity and want of feeling or observation) may make them insensible to these light things, (I mean such as characterize and paint...
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Elegant epistles: a copious selection of instructive, moral, and ...

Elegant epistles - 1812 - 320 pages
...throughout he shows himself well read in stage-coaches, country squires, inns, and inns of court. His reflections upon high people and low people, and misses...shrewdly suspect, their insipidity and want of feeling or observation) may make them insensible to these light things (I mean such as characterize and paint...
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The British Prose Writers...: Gray's letters

British prose literature - 1821 - 394 pages
...throughout he shows himself well read in stage-coaches, country 'squires, inns, and inns of court. His reflections upon high people and low people, and misses...shrewdly suspect their insipidity and want of feeling or observation) may make them insensible to these light things, (I mean such as characterize and paint...
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Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings

Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 pages
...throughout he shews himself well read in stage-coaches, country squires, inns, and inns of court. His reflections upon high people and low people, and misses...shrewdly suspect their insipidity and want of feeling or observation) may make them insensible to these light things, (I mean such as characterize and paint...
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Letters of Thomas Gray: Two Volumes in One

Thomas Gray - Poets, English - 1820 - 492 pages
...throughout he shows himself well read in stage-coaches, country 'squires, inns, and inns of court. His reflections upon high people and low people, and misses...shrewdly suspect their insipidity and want of feeling or observation) may make them insensible to these light things, (I mean such ns characterize and paint...
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The Works of Thomas Gray, Esq

Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...throughout he shews himself well read in stage- coaches, country squires, inns, and inns^pf court. His reflections upon high people and low people, and misses...shrewdly suspect their insipidity and want of feeling or observation) may make them insensible, to these light things (I mean such as characterize and paint...
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Works, Volume 2

Thomas Gray - 1835 - 342 pages
...throughout he shews himself well read in Stage-Coaches, Country Squires, Inns, and Inns of Court. His reflections upon high people and low people, and misses...shrewdly suspect their insipidity and want of feeling or observation) may make them insensible to these light things, (I mean such as characterize and paint...
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The People's journal (with which is incorporated Howitt's ..., Volumes 3-4

People's and Howitt's journal - 938 pages
...composition. The poet Gray, referring to Fielding's Joseph Andrews, maintains, in a letter to West, that, however "the exaltedness of some minds, (or rather,...shrewdly suspect, their insipidity and want of feeling or observation) may make tlicin insensible to these light things (I mean Mich as characterise and paint...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 22

American periodicals - 1851 - 604 pages
...referring to Fielding's Joseph Andrews, maintains, in a letter to West, that, however " the exalted ness of some minds, (or rather as I shrewdly suspect, their insipidity and want of feeling or observation) may make them insensible to these light things, (I mean such as characterize and paint...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 97

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1855 - 614 pages
...much which in society is wearying and commonplace as well as to that which is intrinsically winning. ' However the exaltedness of some minds, or rather,...shrewdly suspect, their insipidity and want of feeling or observation, may make them insensible to these light things, I mean such as characterise and paint...
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