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  • Fame is nothing but an empty name.

    Names   Paganism   Fame  
    Charles Churchill, William Tooke (1804). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill”, p.24
  • With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.

    Envy   Pale   Turns  
    Charles Churchill (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churcill: With memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes”, p.6
  • The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.

    Woods   Flood   Command  
    Charles Churchill, Robert Southey (1854). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Copious Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.90
  • Tis mighty easy o'er a glass of wine On vain refinements vainly to refine, To laugh at poverty in plenty's reign, To boast of apathy when out of pain, And in each sentence, worthy of the schools, Varnish'd with sophistry, to deal out rules Most fit for practice, but for one poor fault That into practice they can ne'er be brought.

    Pain   Wine   School  
    Charles Churchill (1855). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes”, p.377
  • On the four aces doom'd to roll.

    Four   Aces   Doom  
    Charles Churchill, George Gilfillan (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan”, p.102
  • England a fortune-telling host, As num'rous as the stars, could boast; Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of Fate in grounds of tea.

    Stars   Fate   Tea  
    Charles Churchill (1766). “Poems ...: In Two Volumes”, p.166
  • Knaves starve not in the land of fools.

    Land   Knavery   Knaves  
    Charles Churchill (1855). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes”, p.223
  • Enough of satire; in less harden'd times Great was her force, and mighty were her rhymes. I've read of men, beyond man's daring brave, Who yet have trembled at the strokes she gave; Whose souls have felt more terrible alarms From her one line, than from a world in arms.

    Men   Brave   Soul  
    Charles Churchill (1822). “The Poems of Charles Churchill”, p.164
  • Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason, In such a state as theirs, is downright treason.

    Charles Churchill, James L. Hannay (1866). “Poetical Works: With a Memoir by James L. Hannay and Copious Notes by W. Tooke”, p.66
  • What is this world?--A term which men have got, To signify not one in ten knows what; A term, which with no more precision passes To point out herds of men than herds of asses; In common use no more it means, we find, Than many fools in same opinions joined.

    Mean   Men   Use  
    Charles Churchill, George Gilfillan (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan”, p.61
  • 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.

    Voice   Cells   Justice  
    Charles Churchill, “The Ghost - Book IV”
  • To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense

    Want   Faults   Fame  
  • Childhood, who like an April morn appears, Sunshine and rain, hopes clouded o'er with fears.

    Charles Churchill, George Gilfillan (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan”, p.137
  • Satire, whilst envy and ill-humor sway The mind of man, must always make her way; Nor to a bosom, with discretion fraught, Is all her malice worth a single thought. The wise have not the will, nor fools the power, To stop her headstrong course; within the hour Left to herself, she dies; opposing strife Gives her fresh vigor, and prolongs her life.

    Wise   Men   Giving  
    Charles Churchill, “The Author”
  • With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.

    Art   Brain   Curiosity  
    Charles Churchill, William Tooke (1844). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill”, p.252, London : W. Pickering
  • Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.

    Charles Churchill (1763). “The Prophecy of Famine: A Scots Pastoral”, p.5
  • The stage I chose--a subject fair and free-- 'Tis yours--'tis mine--'tis public property. All common exhibitions open lie, For praise or censure, to the common eye. Hence are a thousand hackney writers fed; Hence monthly critics earn their daily bread. This is a general tax which all must pay, From those who scribble, down to those who play.

    Lying   Eye   Play  
    Charles Churchill, George Gilfillan (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan”, p.43
  • 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.

    Pain   Children   Evil  
    'Gotham' (1764) bk. 1, l. 215
  • Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.

    Causes   Ill  
    Charles Churchill, Robert Southey (1854). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Copious Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.284
  • Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.

    Couple   Men   Wife  
    'The Rosciad' (1761) l. 1005
  • By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?

    Success   Men   Different  
    Charles Churchill, George Gilfillan (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan”, p.98
  • The more haste, ever the worst speed.

    Haste   Speed   Worst  
    Charles Churchill, Robert Southey (1854). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Copious Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.66
  • No tribute is laid on castles in the air.

    Air   Castles   Building  
    Charles Churchill, William Tooke (1854). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill”, p.166
  • Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.

    Play   Listening   Wonder  
    Charles Churchill (1892). “The Poetical Works of Charles, Churchill”
  • Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.

    Fool   Dunces   Folly  
    Charles Churchill, James L. Hannay (1866). “Poetical Works: With a Memoir by James L. Hannay and Copious Notes by W. Tooke”, p.64
  • 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.

    Wings   Giving   Age  
    Charles Churchill, Robert Southey (1854). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Copious Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.177
  • The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ills which we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.

  • 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.

    Girl   Kings   Boys  
    Charles Churchill (1822). “The Poems of Charles Churchill”, p.95
  • Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.

    Fashion   Knavery   Use  
    1761 The Rosciad, l.455-6.
  • This a sacred rule we find Among the nicest of mankind, (Which never might exception brook From Hobbes even down to Bolingbroke,) To doubt of facts, however true, Unless they know the causes too.

    Doubt   Might   Sacred  
    Charles Churchill (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churcill: With memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes”, p.239
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