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And adepts in the speaking trade
Keep a cough by them ready made.

— Charles Churchill The Ghost (1763)

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

The Farewell (1764)

Men the most infamous are fond of fame,
And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.

The Author (1763)

He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.

The Rosciad (1761)

Wherever waves can roll, and winds can blow.

The Farewell (1764)

Not without art, but yet to Nature true.

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