swainish

He made us feel that the scholar's demand for accuracy was not merely pedantic, still less an arbitrary moral discipline, but rather a niceness, a delicacy, to lack which argued "a gross and swainish disposition."

Surprised by Joy Lewis, C. S. 1955

“Nor blame it, readers, in those years to propose to themselves such a reward, as the noblest dispositions above other things in this life have sometimes preferred: whereof not to be sensible when good and fair in one person meet, argues both a gross and shallow judgment, and withal an ungentle and swainish breast.

John Milton (1859) 1909

Whereof not to be sensible when good and fair in one person meet, argues both a gross and shallow judgment, and withal an ungentle and swainish breast.

Milton Mark Pattison 1848

Nor blame it, readers, in those years to pro - pose to themselves such a reward as the noblest dis - positions above other things in this life have some - times preferred: whereof not to be sensible, when good and fair in ohe person meet, argues both a gross and shallow judgment, and withal an ungentlei and swainish breast.

Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth ... 1813

"Nor blame it, readers, in those years to propose to themselves such a reward, as the noblest dispositions above other things in this life have sometimes preferred; whereof not to be sensible when good and fair in one person meet, argues both a gross and shallow judgment, and withal an ungentle and swainish breast.

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