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Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.

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Charles Churchill
Died: 1764
Died: November 4
Poet
Writer
City of Westminster
Wonder
Nature
Play
Work
Made
Whilst
Shakespeare
Stood
Listening

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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.
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Genius is independent of situation.
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He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
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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.
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Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail.
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Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.
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Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.
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Within the brain's most secret cells, A certain lord chief justice dwells, Of sov'reign power, whom one and all, With common voice we reason call.
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Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce.
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Genius is of no country her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.
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Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
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With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
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With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.
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Great use they have, when in the hands Of one like me, who understands, Who understands the time and place, The person, manner, and the grace, Which fools neglect so that we find, If all the requisites are join'd, From whence a perfect joke must spring, A joke's a very serious thing.
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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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The oak, when living, monarch of the wood The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.
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If you mean to profit, learn to praise.
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He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
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Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford and reputation bleeds in every word.
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