CHARLES CHURCHILL

(The North Briton)


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Charles Churchill

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.
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Charles Churchill

Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.
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Charles Churchill

If honor calls, where'er she points the way
The sons of honor follow, and obey.
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Charles Churchill

Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.
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Charles Churchill

Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.
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Charles Churchill

Women ruled all; and ministers of state Were at the doors of women forced to wait,-- Women, who we oft as sovereigns graced the land, But never governed well at second-hand.
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Charles Churchill

Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound,
Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.
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Charles Churchill

Genius is of no country.
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Charles Churchill

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.
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Charles Churchill

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.
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Charles Churchill
Charles Churchill
  • Born:
  • Died: November 4, 1764
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Poet
Biography

In 1761 or 1762 he became a close ally and friend with the champion of liberty of the press John Wilkes, whom he regularly assisted with The North Briton weekly newspaper. His collaboration with Wilkes thereafter earned him an honourable place in the history of parliamentary democracy and civil liberties.

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