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
second-thoughts worst
Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.
reason approach awe
Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him.
goodbye farewell return
So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.
weather people envy
People can commend the weather without envy.
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.
envy people reason
There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
poetry disease flattering
Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
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.
flattery imagine enough
Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.
judgment pupils wit
Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.
love-is various
Love is a pleasing but a various clime.
doe intimacy sensitive
Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.
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.