Source: The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan
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“Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.”
Source: The Prophecy of Famine: A Scots Pastoral
“By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?”
Source: The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan
“All hunt for fame, but most mistake the way.”
Source: The Rosciad ... The eighth edition. With large additions. To which is added, The Smithfield Rosciad
“He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.”
Source: The Poems of Charles Churchill
“The laws I love; the lawyers I suspect.”
Source: The poetical works of Charles Churchill, with notes by W. Tooke. with a memoir by J.L. Hannay
Source: The Poems of Charles Churchill
“With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.”
Source: The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan
Source: The poetical works of Charles Churchill, with notes by W. Tooke. with a memoir by J.L. Hannay
“Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.”
“No tribute is laid on castles in the air.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill
“Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.”
Source: The Poems of Charles Churchill
Source: The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill
“He hurts me most who lavishly commends.”
Source: The Poems of Charles Churchill
Source: The Poems of Charles Churchill
“Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.”
Source: The Beauties of Churchill, Containing All the Celebrated Poems
Source: The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan
“Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.”
“With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill
“To copy faults is want of sense.”
Source: Poems
“Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends; He hurts me most who lavishly commends.”
Source: Poetical Works: With a Memoir by James L. Hannay and Copious Notes by W. Tooke
“To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense”
“Genius is of no country; her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.”
Source: The Poems of Charles Churchill
Source: The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Copious Notes and a Life of the Author
“Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still.”
Source: Poems ...: In Two Volumes
Source: The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill
“The best things carried to excess are wrong.”
Source: The poetical works of Charles Churcill: With memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes
“The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.”