Charles Churchill (satirist) Quotes

Charles Churchill , was an English poet and satirist.

✵ 1731 – 4. November 1764
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Famous Charles Churchill (satirist) Quotes

“Be England what she will,
With all her faults she is my country still.”

The Farewell (1764), line 27; comparable with: "England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!", William Cowper, The Task, book ii. The Timepiece, line 206

“Apt alliteration's artful aid.”

The Prophecy of Famine: A Scots Pastoral (1763), line 86

“No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains
To tax our labours and excise our brains.”

Night, an Epistle to Robert Lloyd (1761), line 271

“A joke's a very serious thing.”

Book IV, line 1386
The Ghost (1763)

Charles Churchill (satirist) Quotes about laws

“Just to the windward of the law.”

The Ghost (1763)

Charles Churchill (satirist) Quotes

“With curious art the brain, too finely wrought,
Preys on herself, and is destroy'd by thought”

Epistle to William Hogarth (July 1763), line 645
Context: With curious art the brain, too finely wrought,
Preys on herself, and is destroy'd by thought:
Constant attention wears the active mind,
Blots out our powers, and leaves a blank behind.

“Of sovereign power, whom one and all
With common voice, we Reason call.”

The Ghost (1763)
Context: Within the brain's most secret cells
A certain Lord Chief Justice dwells
Of sovereign power, whom one and all
With common voice, we Reason call.

“He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.”

The Rosciad (1761), line 322

“Wherever waves can roll, and winds can blow.”

The Farewell (1764), line 38; comparable with: "Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam", Lord Byron, The Corsair, canto i. stanza 1

“Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse,
Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse;
Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known,
Defacing first, then claiming for his own.”

Apology addressed to the Critical Reviewers (1761), line 232, comparable with: "Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,—disguise them to make 'em pass for their own", Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic, act i. sc. i

“But, spite of all the criticising elves,
Those who would make us feel—must feel themselves.”

The Rosciad (1761), line 961; comparable with: "Si vis me flere, dolendum est/ Primum ipsi tibi" (translated as "If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief"), Horace, Ars Poetica, v. 102

“There webs were spread of more than common size,
And half-starved spiders prey’d on half-starved flies.”

The Prophecy of Famine: A Scots Pastoral (1763), line 327

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