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Country, renders one unfit to live in the great World, amongst People of refin'd and nice Breeding; and though I had bestow'd Time and Pains in

A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies 2008

The Language, I hope, the Reader will accept as it is, it being the familiar Stile of the Age, neither so obsolete, nor so refin'd, as to render it obstruse; at least, I design'd it so: But if in this, or any

Exilius 2008

You read them: our choice spirit, our refin'd rare wit,

Poems and Fragments 2006

Desires, Wishes, and Hopes; no way suitable, I must confess, to your rational and refin'd Contemplation of Beauty.

18th Century British Aesthetics Shelley, James 2006

You read them: our choice spirit, our refin'd rare wit,

Poems and Fragments 2006

Did guilde her mortal shape and all her charms refin'd.

The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

Principal Persons resorting to it: Intermix'd with innumerable Strokes of the most refin'd Wit, Humour, Gaiety, _&c.

The Annual Catalogue: Numb. II. (1738) Or, A new and compleat List of All The New Books, New Editions of Books, Pamphlets, &c. Various

Beaux Airs; and how wou'd _Vanbroug_ be able to pass a Comedy on them, if they shou'd once be so nice in their Taste as to disgust Obscenity; this indeed wou'd be a Vexation, and such a Delicacy which Mr. _Congreve_ cou'd not be pleased with: And if the Town shou'd be so refin'd to admit of nothing but what is Natural, we can't expect that ever he will gratifie us with another Tragedy.

A Letter to A.H. Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698) and The Occasional Paper No. IX (1698) Anonymous

Nor did any of the Prophets, which came after him, ever advance any such refin'd way of Worship; but constantly blam'd the People for not observing the Law of _Moses_, and neglecting the Statutes and

The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan Ibn Tufail

Difficulty is to show that their Thoughts are refin'd; for all allow a

A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) Thomas Purney