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"Love is a pleasing, but a various clime!"
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William ShenstoneLaws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little c — William Shenstone
"Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle size are alone entangled in."
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William Shenstone
William Shenstone
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William Shenstone was an English poet and one of the earliest practitioners of landscape gardening through the development of his estate, The Leasowes.
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"Theirs is the present who can praise the past."
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"Every good poet includes a critic; the reverse will not hold."
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"Oft has good-nature been the fools defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense."
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"Love can be founded upon nature only; or the appearance of it."
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"Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are shewing you the grounds of it."
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