Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it … - William Shenstone

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Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.

William Shenstone

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William Shenstone (18 November 1714 – 11 February 1763) was an English poet, essayist and one of the earliest practitoners of landscape gardening through the development of his estate, The Leasowes.

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