William Shenstone Quotes About House

Quotes about: House

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

  William Shenstone

  Writing, Long, House

  William Shenstone (1764). “The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...”, p.170

• 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

• The most reserved of men, that will not exchange two syllables together in an English coffee-house, should they meet at Ispahan, would drink sherbet and eat a mess of rice together.

  William Shenstone

  Sympathy, Coffee, Men

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

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