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
clothes shining dresses
Those who are incapable of shining out by dress would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage.
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Taste and good-nature are universally connected.
fashion taste expenses
Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.
thankfulness thanks
Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.
inanimate-objects oaks objects
A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.
imagination perfection tree
The works of a person that begin immediately to decay, while those of him who plants begin directly to improve. In this, planting promises a more lasting pleasure than building; which, were it to remain in equal perfection, would at best begin to moulder and want repairs in imagination. Now trees have a circumstance that suits our taste, and that is annual variety.
tree littles village
In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame.
essence bears virtue
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches.
years people causes
I know not whether increasing years do not cause us to esteem fewer people and to bear with more.
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.
taste wit good-nature
It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.
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.
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.
fashion fancy able
Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish themselves from the vulgar.