Maxioms by Charles Churchill
Apt Alliteration's artful aid.
Apt Alliteration's artful aid.
Why should we fear; and what? The laws?
They all are armed in virtue's cause;
And aiming read more
Why should we fear; and what? The laws?
They all are armed in virtue's cause;
And aiming at the self-same end,
Satire is always virtue's friend.
To vanish nonsense with the charms of sound.
To vanish nonsense with the charms of sound.
Not without art, but yet to Nature true.
Not without art, but yet to Nature true.
Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares,
She blunder'd on some virtue unawares.
Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares,
She blunder'd on some virtue unawares.
