William Shenstone: Zitate auf Englisch
“There seem near as many people that want passion as want reason.”
Essays on Men and Manners (1804)
“For seldom shall she hear a tale
So sad, so tender, and so true.”
Jemmy Dawson (c. 1745), st. 20
“Prudent men should lock up their motives, giving only their intimates a key.”
Essays on Men and Manners (1804)
“Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.”
"Detached Thoughts : On Writing and Books", p. 129
Essays on Men and Manners (1804)
“A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.”
Essays on Men and Manners (1804)
“Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow,
Emblem right meet of decency does yield.”
Stanza 6
The Schoolmistress (1737-48)
Written at an Inn at Henley (1758), st. 6. Compare: " From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,— Path, motive, guide, original, and end", Samuel Johnson, Motto to the Rambler, No. 7
“Love is a pleasing but a various clime.”
Elegies, no. 5, st. 3
“A little bench of heedless bishops here,
And there a chancellor in embryo.”
Stanza 28
The Schoolmistress (1737-48)
Stanza 11
The Schoolmistress (1737-48)
Essays on Men and Manners (1804)
