William Shenstone Quotes


Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.


Citations

Shenstone, William. The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq, vol. 2, J. Dodsley, 1764, p. 163.

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William Shenstone
William Shenstone
  • Born: November 18, 1714
  • Died: February 11, 1763
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Poet, Landscape Gardener

William Shenstone was an English poet and one of the earliest practitioners of landscape gardening through the development of his estate, The Leasowes.