Frases de William Shenstone

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✵ 18. Novembro 1714 – 11. Fevereiro 1763
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“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)

“Whoe'er has traveled life's dull round,
Where'er his stages may have been,
May sigh to think he still has found
The warmest welcome, at an inn.”

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

“Pun-provoking thyme.”

Stanza 11
The Schoolmistress (1737-48)