William Shenstone Quotes


Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.


Citations

Shenstone, William. The Works in Verse and Prose of William Shenstone, Esq; Vol. II. J. Dodsley, 1764.

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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.