Charles Churchill (1656-1714)

Quotes

• “He sickened at all triumphs but his own.”
• “Genius is of no country; her pure raySpreads all abroad, as general as the day.”
• “Fashion—a word which knaves and fools may use,Their knavery and folly to excuse.To copy beauties, forfeits all pretenceTo fame—to copy faults, is want of sense.”
• “So much they talked, so very little said.”
• “Not without Art, but yet to Nature true,She charms the town with humour just, yet new.”
• “The two extremes appear like man and wife,Coupled together for the sake of strife.”

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