Shenstone

Cited as Shenstone. — 20 quotations

Conscience is at most times a very faithful and prudent admonitor.

In beseemly order sitten there.

His face besprent with liquid crystal shines.

A plain brown bob he wore.

A stagnant, breezeless air becalms my soul.

In cloistered state let selfish sages dwell, Proud that their heart is narrow as their cell.

The cowslip's golden cup no more I see.

Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

Yet o'er that virtuous blush distreams a tear.

I have found out a gift for my fair.

But let me that plunder forbear.

The term indecision . . . implies an idea very nicely different from irresolution; yet it has a tendency to produce it.

Jealousy is the . . . apprehension of superiority.

When I have on those pathless wilds a appeared, And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered.

In glaring Chloe's manlike taste and mien.

To patch his paneless window.

Its phial'd wrath may fate exhaust.

Pungent radish biting infant's tongue.

His warmest welcome at an inn.

To think how modest worth neglected lies.