William Shenstone. 1714-1763. John Bartlett, comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.

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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

William Shenstone. (1714–1763)

    Whoe’er has travell’d life’s dull round,
  Where’er his stages may have been,
May sigh to think he still has found
  The warmest welcome at an inn. 1

Written on a Window of an Inn.

So sweetly she bade me adieu,
I thought that she bade me return.

A Pastoral. Part i.

I have found out a gift for my fair;
I have found where the wood-pigeons breed.

A Pastoral. Part i.

My banks they are furnish’d with bees,
Whose murmur invites one to sleep.

A Pastoral. Part ii. Hope.

For seldom shall she hear a tale
So sad, so tender, and so true.

Jemmy Dawson.

Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow,
Emblems right meet of decency does yield.

The Schoolmistress. Stanza 6.

Pun-provoking thyme.

The Schoolmistress. Stanza 11.

A little bench of heedless bishops here,
And there a chancellor in embryo.

The Schoolmistress. Stanza 28.

Note 1.
See Johnson, Quotation 26.

Archbishop Leighton often said that if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn.—Works, vol. i. p. 76. [back]

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