Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.
Charles Churchill
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.
Charles Churchill
He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
Charles Churchill
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Charles Churchill
Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.
Charles Churchill
Half-starved spiders prey'd on half-starved flies.
Charles Churchill
Genius is independent of situation.
Charles Churchill
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.