Frases de Charles Churchill (poeta)

Charles Churchill foi um poeta inglês.

✵ 1731 – 4. Novembro 1764
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Charles Churchill (poeta) frases e citações

“Uma piada é uma coisa muito séria.”

A joke's a very serious thing.
The poems of Charles Churchill - Volume 2, Página 130 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=aSFAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA130, Charles Churchill - Press of C. Whittingham, 1822

Charles Churchill (poeta): Frases em inglês

“With curious art the brain, too finely wrought,
Preys on herself, and is destroy'd by thought”

Epistle to William Hogarth (July 1763), line 645
Contexto: With curious art the brain, too finely wrought,
Preys on herself, and is destroy'd by thought:
Constant attention wears the active mind,
Blots out our powers, and leaves a blank behind.

“Of sovereign power, whom one and all
With common voice, we Reason call.”

The Ghost (1763)
Contexto: Within the brain's most secret cells
A certain Lord Chief Justice dwells
Of sovereign power, whom one and all
With common voice, we Reason call.

“Be England what she will,
With all her faults she is my country still.”

The Farewell (1764), line 27; comparable with: "England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!", William Cowper, The Task, book ii. The Timepiece, line 206

“Apt alliteration's artful aid.”

The Prophecy of Famine: A Scots Pastoral (1763), line 86

“Wherever waves can roll, and winds can blow.”

The Farewell (1764), line 38; comparable with: "Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam", Lord Byron, The Corsair, canto i. stanza 1

“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.”

Apology addressed to the Critical Reviewers (1761), line 232, comparable with: "Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,—disguise them to make 'em pass for their own", Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic, act i. sc. i

“But, spite of all the criticising elves,
Those who would make us feel—must feel themselves.”

The Rosciad (1761), line 961; comparable with: "Si vis me flere, dolendum est/ Primum ipsi tibi" (translated as "If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief"), Horace, Ars Poetica, v. 102