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
eye easy
The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.
garden design landscape
A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.
humility haughtiness assuming
Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.
writing long house
Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.
war fool toil
Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.
sleep bees invites
My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.
second-thoughts worst
Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.
opposites simplicity latter
Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.
efficacy increase insincerity
Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.
poet very-good critics
Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.
law break-through texture
Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.
nature
Love can be founded upon Nature only.
honesty pain knaves
It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.
health perfect perfect-beauty
Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the most perfect beauty.