William Shenstone Quotes About Gardens

Quotes about: Gardens

• A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.

  William Shenstone

  Art, Garden, Design

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.59

• 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.

  William Shenstone

  Hate, Writing, Garden

  William Shenstone (1764). “The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...”, p.176

• In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily place as to exhibit a view of the whole design. I have sometimes thought that there was room for it to resemble a epic or dramatic poem.

  William Shenstone

  Epic, Opportunity, Garden

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.86

• Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.

  William Shenstone

  Heart, Men, Garden

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.43

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