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Charles Churchill
1731 - 1764
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An Epistle To William Hogarth
Amongst the sons of men how few are known / Who dare be just to merit not their own! / Superior virtue and superior sense,
Dedication To Churchill's Sermons
Health to great Glo'ster!--from a man unknown, / Who holds thy health as dearly as his own, / Accept this greeting--nor let modest fear
Gotham
(In Three Books.) / Far off (no matter whether east or west, / A real country, or one made in jest,
Gotham. Book II
How much mistaken are the men who think / That all who will, without restraint may drink, / May largely drink, e'en till their bowels burst,
Gotham. Book III
Can the fond mother from herself depart? / Can she forget the darling of her heart, / The little darling whom she bore and bred,
Independence
Happy the bard (though few such bards we find) / Who, 'bove controlment, dares to speak his mind; / Dares, unabash'd, in every place appear,
Lines Written In Windsor Park
When Pope to Satire gave its lawful way, / And made the Nimrods of Mankind his prey; / When haughty Windsor heard through every wood
Night
Contrarius evehor orbi.--OVID, Met. lib. ii. / When foes insult, and prudent friends dispense, / In pity's strains, the worst of insolence,
The Apology. Addressed To The Critical Reviewers
Tristitiam et Metus. / -HORACE. / Laughs not the heart when giants, big with pride,
The Author
Accursed the man, whom Fate ordains, in spite, / And cruel parents teach, to read and write! / What need of letters? wherefore should we spell?
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