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" Who builds a church to God, and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name... "
A New Pronouncing Spelling Book, and Concise Expositor of the English ... - Page 143
by James M'Donald - 1815 - 156 pages
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...monument, inseription, stone ? His raee, his form, his name almost unknown ? P. Who builds a ehureh slumbers in the pompous sha.k. Alas ! not dazzled with their noon- tid seareh it there, where to be born and die, Of rieh and poor makes all the history ; Enough, that virtue...
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Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing ..., Volume 14

1830 - 336 pages
...pleasures of a rural life ; nor is it in my power to follow the advice of the poet, in an inquiry after a name — " Go ! search it there, where to be born, and die, Of rich and poor makas all the history," — so recent is the institution of our parish registers. In the beginning...
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A tour in France, Savoy, northern Italy, Switzerland, Germany and the ...

Seth William Stevenson - 1827 - 930 pages
...are invariably alluded to by most modern tourists as if still in existence. Our English poet says " Who builds a church to God, and not to fame, " Will never mark the marble with his name :" Bat, so miserable an apology for a church, the French hard, politician, philosopher, and historian,...
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The Lion [ed. by R. Carlile]., Volume 2

846 pages
...Popes or cardinals who founded them, never forget to have their names inscribed on the front :— " Who builds a Church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name." I am very much inclined to believe the poet, and doubt the sincerity of these ceremonious and splendid...
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Lion, Volume 2

1828 - 844 pages
...Hopes or cardinali who founded them, never forget to have their names inscribed on the front :— " Who builds a Church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name." I am very much inclined to believe the poet, and doubt the sincerity of these ceremonious and splendid...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 2, Volume 17

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pages
...impeached and finally condemned ; but 1 was an hungry, and ye gave me no meat. Calamy't Sermom. \\ ho builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name ; Co search it there, where to be- boru and die, Of rich and puur makes all the history. P^ie. To be...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...what! no monument, inscription, stone ? His race, his form, his name almost unknown ? P. Who builds u 's bow ; And, swelling to embrace the light, Spreads...beneath the sight. Old castles on the cliffs arise, imd die, Of rich and poor makes all the history ; Enough, that virtue filled the space between •...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...rays. B. And what! no monument, inscription, stone? His nee, his form, his name almost unknown 7 P. m m<r k / s-arch it there, where to be born and die, Of nrh and poor makes all the history ; I'.iio'igh that...
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Military Reminiscences, Volume 2

James Welsh - 1830 - 400 pages
...Mosques, and little charity, proved them to be utterly ignorant of the beautiful apophthegm of the Poet, " Who builds a Church to God, and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name." These ungodly people are more jealous of their Mosques than any Mussulmans I have ever known, and I...
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The Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review, Volume 8; Volume 19

1837 - 504 pages
...upon the society to esteem them very highly in love for this work's sake : and but for that we know "Who builds a church to God, and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name," we would gratify our own feelings, and perform an act of gratitude, and justice, by enrolling them...
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