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
freedom broken people
What some people term Freedom is nothing else than a liberty of saying and doing disagreeable things. It is but carrying the notion a little higher, and it would require us to break and have a head broken reciprocally without offense.
weather people envy
People can commend the weather without envy.
envy people reason
There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
writing thinking people
The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.
ice people obscurity
The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage; especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves.
order accomplishment people
There would not be any absolute necessity for reserve if the world were honest; yet even then it would prove expedient. For, in order to attain any degree of deference, it seems necessary that people should imagine you have more accomplishments than you discover.
silly character people
I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend; I am now convinced that the nature of servitude generally bears a contrary tendency. People's characters are to be chiefly collected from their education and place in life; birth itself does but little.
mean people littles
The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved; and is only blamable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive.
years people causes
I know not whether increasing years do not cause us to esteem fewer people and to bear with more.
reads thy verses
Thy verses are eternal, O my friend, For he who reads them, reads them to no end
hear seldom shall
For seldom shall she hear a taleSo sad, so tender, and so true.
hear seldom shall tale
For seldom shall she hear a tale So sad, so tender, and so true.
found gift
I have found out a gift for my fair;I have found where the wood-pigeons breed.
found gift
I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed.