Charles Churchill
Charles Churchill
speak cowardice familiar
Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.
blessing fire soul
Nature, through all her works, in great degree, Borrows a blessing from variety. Music itself her needful aid requires To rouse the soul, and wake our dying fires.
mean giving guilt
The villager, born humbly and bred hard, Content his wealth, and poverty his guard, In action simply just, in conscience clear, By guilt untainted, undisturb'd by fear, His means but scanty, and his wants but few, Labor his business, and his pleasure too, Enjoys more comforts in a single hour Than ages give the wretch condemn'd to power.
spring hands rose
The virtuous to those mansions go Where pleasures unembitter'd flow, Where, leading up a jocund band, Vigor and Youth dance hand in hand, Whilst Zephyr, with harmonious gales, Pipes softest music through the vales, And Spring and Flora, gaily crown'd, With velvet carpet spread the ground; With livelier blush where roses bloom, And every shrub expires perfume.
thrones virtue weak
Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.
mean men use
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.
writing aids alliteration
Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.
success men different
By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?
mistake way fame
All hunt for fame, but most mistake the way.
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.