Quote #12
Within the brain's most secret cells A certain Lord Chief Justice dwells Of sovereign power, whom one and all With common voice, we Reason call.
More from Charles Churchill
- As the law does think fit No butchers shall on juries sit.
- Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still.
- Wherever waves can roll, and winds can blow.
- Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.
- Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own?
- With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
- There webs were spread of more than common size, And half-starved spiders prey'd on half-starved flies.
- Apt alliteration's artful aid.