Charles Churchill
Charles Churchill
wings giving age
When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, Short is her life, and impotent her sting; But when to truth allied, the wound she gives Sinks deep, and to remotest ages lives.
doctors imagination evil
Most of those evils we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.
envy raises censure
Those who raise envy will easily incur censure.
envy pale turns
With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.
lying giving world
Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.
country rays genius
Genius is of no country; her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.
genius enthusiasm
Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.
pain farewell men
Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.
country faults england
Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still.
spring humor hands
Great use they have, when in the hands Of one like me, who understands, Who understands the time and place, The person, manner, and the grace, Which fools neglect; so that we find, If all the requisites are join'd, From whence a perfect joke must spring, A joke's a very serious thing.
It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.
excess best-things
The best things carried to excess are wrong.
school race criticism
A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece, and slaves to musty rules.
blow wind wave
Wherever waves can roll, and winds can blow.