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date: 15 June 2025

Charles Churchill 1731–64
English poet 

  1. The danger chiefly lies in acting well;
    No crime's so great as daring to excel.
     
    An Epistle to William Hogarth (1763)
  2. Be England what she will,
    With all her faults, she is my country still.
     
    The Farewell (1764) l. 27; see Cowper
  3. And adepts in the speaking trade
    Keep a cough by them ready made.
     
    The Ghost (1763)
  4. Keep up appearances; there lies the test;
    The world will give thee credit for the rest.
    Outward be fair, however foul within;
    Sin if thou wilt, but then in secret sin.
     
    Night (1761)
  5. Apt Alliteration's artful aid.
     
    The Prophecy of Famine (1763) l. 86