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Charles Churchill

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Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.
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Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.
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Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.
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Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.
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Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur’d prose, which they call verse.
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Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur’d prose, which they call verse.
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And reputation bleeds in ev’ry word.
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And reputation bleeds in ev’ry word.
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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.
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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.
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With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn’d without sense, and venerably dull.
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With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn’d without sense, and venerably dull.
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To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.
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To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.
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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...
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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...
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Fashion – a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.
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Fashion – a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.
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Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow’rs, and leaves a blank behind.
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Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow’rs, and leaves a blank behind.
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