Charles Churchill
Charles Churchill
mouths oratory bones
He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
girl kings boys
No two on earth in all things can agree; All have some darling singularity; Women and men, as well as girls and boys, In gewgaws take delight, and sigh for toys, Your sceptres and your crowns, and such like things, Are but a better kind of toys for kings. In things indifferent reason bids us choose, Whether the whim's a monkey or a muse.
play listening wonder
Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.
children rain sunshine
Childhood, who like an April morn appears, Sunshine and rain, hopes clouded o'er with fears.
aces four doom
On the four aces doom'd to roll.
brother forgiving dunces
Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce.
men reason poor
Drawn by conceit from reason's plan How vain is that poor creature man; How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf To grate about that thing himself.
mean flattery praise
If you mean to profit, learn to praise.
art feet hens
Gipsies, who every ill can cure, Except the ill of being poor Who charms 'gainst love and agues sell, Who can in hen-roost set a spell, Prepar'd by arts, to them best known To catch all feet except their own, Who, as to fortune, can unlock it, As easily as pick a pocket.
pain children evil
Old Age, a second child, by nature curst With more and greater evils than the first, Weak, sickly, full of pains: in ev'ry breath Railing at life, and yet afraid of death.
voice cells justice
Within the brain's most secret cells, A certain lord chief justice dwells, Of sov'reign power, whom one and all, With common voice we reason call.
hero heart discretion
Even in a hero's heart Discretion is the better part.
land size culture
England, a happy land we know, Where follies naturally grow, Where without culture they arise, And tow'r above the common size.
son honor way
If honor calls, where'er she points the way The sons of honor follow, and obey.