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"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."
William Shenstone / Written on a Window of an Inn.

Written on a Window of an Inn.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return."
William Shenstone / A Pastoral. Part i.

A Pastoral. Part i.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed."
William Shenstone / A Pastoral. Part i.

A Pastoral. Part i.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep."
William Shenstone / A Pastoral. Part ii. Hope.

A Pastoral. Part ii. Hope.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"For seldom shall she hear a tale So sad, so tender, and so true."
William Shenstone / Jemmy Dawson.

Jemmy Dawson.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblems right meet of decency does yield."
William Shenstone / The Schoolmistress. Stanza 6.

The Schoolmistress. Stanza 6.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embryo."
William Shenstone / The Schoolmistress. Stanza 28.

The Schoolmistress. Stanza 28.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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