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
taste wit good-nature
It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.
tree littles village
In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame.
sympathy coffee men
The most reserved of men, that will not exchange two syllables together in an English coffee-house, should they meet at Ispahan, would drink sherbet and eat a mess of rice together.
taste good-nature connected
Taste and good-nature are universally connected.
fashion taste expenses
Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.
pain giving favors
Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favor.
thankfulness thanks
Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.
character action importance
Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.
inanimate-objects oaks objects
A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.
color choices style
Persons are oftentimes misled in regard to their choice of dress by attending to the beauty of colors, rather than selecting such colors as may increase their own beauty.
aunt lasts economy
The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.
life success men
A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.
money littles infinite
It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it procures.
lying believe men
To one who said, "I do not believe that there is an honest man in the world," another replied, "It is impossible that any one man should know all the world, but quite possible that one may know himself."