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Meaning: (idiomatic,obsolete)Having one's thoughtsdirectedtowardsmeanorinsignificantsubjects.Early C19,Percy Bysshe Shelley,A Defence of Poetry:In spite of thelow-thoughtedenvy which would undervalue contemporary merit, our own will be a memorable age in intellectual achievements, and we live among such philosophers and poets as surpass beyond comparison any who have appeared since the last national struggle for civil and religious liberty1634October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited byH[enry] Lawes,A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634:[…][Comus], London:[…][Augustine Matthews] forHvmphrey Robinson,[…], published1637,→OCLC; reprinted asComus:[…](Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.:Dodd, Mead & Company,1903,→OCLC:Which men call Earth, and, withlow-thoughtedcare,Confined and pestered in this pinfold here
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