John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
William Shenstone 1714-1763 John Bartlett
| 1 |
| 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. |
| 2 |
| So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return. |
| A Pastoral. Part i. |
| 3 |
| I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed. |
| A Pastoral. Part i. |
| 4 |
| My banks they are furnish’d with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep. |
| A Pastoral. Part ii. Hope. |
| 5 |
| For seldom shall she hear a tale So sad, so tender, and so true. |
| Jemmy Dawson. |
| 6 |
| Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblems right meet of decency does yield. |
| The Schoolmistress. Stanza 6. |
| 7 |
| Pun-provoking thyme. |
| The Schoolmistress. Stanza 11. |
| 8 |
| 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] |