William Shenstone Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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

• 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

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

  William Shenstone

  Writing, Thinking, People

  'Essays on Men, Manners, and Things' 'On Writing and Books' in 'Works in Verse and Prose' (1764) vol. 2

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

  William Shenstone

  Writing, Narrative, Facts

  William Shenstone (1775). “The Select Works in Verse and Prose of William Shenstone ... The Third Edition”, p.125

• 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.

  William Shenstone

  Writing, Musical, Style

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.116

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