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
writing narrative facts
A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment.
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.
writing thinking people
The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.
writing musical style
Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As a proof of this, let us reflect what texts of scripture, what lines in poetry, or what periods we most remember and quote, either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones.
writing long house
Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.
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.
birth claims gives politeness source surest
Of all that gives politeness birth,Of all that claims to please,In motion, manners, or in mirth,The surest source is ease.
claims gives politeness source surest
Of all that gives politeness birth, Of all that claims to please, In motion, manners, or in mirth, The surest source is ease.
art fair found humble low thou
To thee, fair Freedom! I retireFrom flattery, cards, and dice, and din:Nor art thou found in mansions higherThan the low cot, or humble inn.
essence bears virtue
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches.