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• A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embryo.
  -- William Shenstone (1714-1763) -- The Schoolmistress, Stanza 28...
• Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblems right meet of decency does yield.
  -- William Shenstone (1714-1763) -- The Schoolmistress, Stanza 6...
• A fool and his words are soon parted. -- William Shenstone
• For seldom shall she hear a tale So sad, so tender, and so true.
  -- William Shenstone (1714-1763) -- Jemmy Dawso...
• My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.
  -- William Shenstone (1714-1763) -- A Pastoral, Part ii...
• I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed.
  -- William Shenstone (1714-1763) -- A Pastoral, Part i...
• So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.
  -- William Shenstone (1714-1763) -- A Pastoral, Part i...
• Cervantes smil'd Spain's chivalry away.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto xiii, Stanza 11...
• Might shake the saintship of an anchorite.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto i, Stanza 11...