William Shenstone
William Shenstone
William Shenstonewas an English poet and one of the earliest practitioners of landscape gardening through the development of his estate, The Leasowes...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth18 November 1714
age magnificence admiration
Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.
window inns written
Written on a Window of an Inn,
flattery imagine enough
Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.
ambition passion play
It seems idle to rail at ambition merely because it is a boundless passion; or rather is not this circumstance an argument in its favor? If one would be employed or amused through life, should we not make choice of a passion that will keep one long in play?
poetry disease flattering
Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
hate writing garden
I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and never rises to what one can call an inequality.
men zealous belief
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
witty fool
A fool and his words are soon parted.
respect mean men
Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's in regard to money.
weather people envy
People can commend the weather without envy.
patience doe panacea
Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?
goodbye farewell return
So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.
money men rich
A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
motivational unhappiness pleasure
What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.