William Shenstone Quotes about Writing

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Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little 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

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

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

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