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
garden design landscape
A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.
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.
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.
window inns written
Written on a Window of an Inn,
musical lines scripture
The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.
hope men palaces
Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.
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.
gentleman crowds may
We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.
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.
honesty book men
When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.