“He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.”
“Half-starved spiders prey'd on half-starved flies.”
“Genius is independent of situation.”
“Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.”
“Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.”
“Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.”
“Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.”
“Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.”
“No statesmen ever will find it worth his pains, to tax our labor and excise our brain.”
“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.”