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William Shenstone was an English poet, born on November 18, 1714, and died on February 11, 1763. His poetry is known for its fresh and natural style and its depiction of rural life.

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“The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.”

People Thinking World Writing May Divided Foxes Hunters

Author:William Shenstone

“A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment.”

Writing Facts Effects Narrative Related Remarkable Comment

Book:The Select Works in Verse and Prose of William Shenstone ... The Third Edition

Source: The Select Works in Verse and Prose of William Shenstone ... The Third Edition

“Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As a proof of this, let us reflect what texts of scripture, what lines in poetry, or what periods we most remember and quote, either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones.”

Writing Remember Lines Greater Style Periods Judgment Weight Harmony Musical Proof Scripture Prose Melody Verses

Book:Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc

Source: Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc

“I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and never rises to what one can call an inequality.”

Writing Hate Style Garden I Hate Inequality Flats Slides Eels

Book:The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...

Source: The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...

“Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.”

Writing Littles Long House Rooms Sentences Composition

Book:The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...

Source: The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...