Charles Churchill
» Critics and Criticism » “Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.”
» Dullness » “Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.”
» Famine » “Half-starved spiders prey’d on half-starved flies.”
» Genius » “Genius is independent of situation.”
» Poetry and Poets » “Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.”
» Speakers and Speaking » “He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.”
» Writers and Writing » “Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration’s artful aid.”
