No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains To tax our labours and excise our brains.
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Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.Charles Churchill
With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
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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.
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With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.
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Genius is of no country her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.
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Who often, but without success, have prayed For apt Alliteration's artful aid.
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