 | 1834 - 804 pages
...parish churches. These pious works, memorials of other days, were conducted on the pure principle- — " Who builds a church to God, and not to fame, Will never mark the maible with his name;" and thus it seldom happens that in our early parochial investigations we can... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 434 pages
...makes great sacrifices, for the purpose of obtaining fame, forgetting the moral of Pope's maxim, — " Who builds a church to God, and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name." There is also a foolish pride, which seems to imagine the Deity under an obligation to us for our puny... | |
 | William Gardiner - 1833 - 168 pages
...poet we will exclaim : " And what, no monument t inscription ! stone! " His name, his form ! his life almost unknown ! «• Who builds a church to God, and not to fame, " Need never mark the marble vrith his name. K " Go, search it there, whe're to be born and die, "... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 972 pages
...then, if they had written till doomsday, would never have benefited the world. But I will not say, ' Who builds a church to God and not to fame Will never mark the marble with his name. ' Posterity is generally more just ; it comes up with those whom contemporaries did not understand,... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 278 pages
...your blaze ! Ye little stars, hide your diminished rays ! And what ! no monument, inscription, stone ! His race, his form, his name, almost unknown !—...marble with his name. Go search it there, where to be bom and die, Of rich and poor, makes all the history ; Enough, that virtue filled the space between... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 pages
...[blaze ! B. And what ! no monument, inscription, stone ? Hi> race, his form, his name ahnost unknown? P Who builds a church to God, and not to fame, Will...marble with his name : Go, search it there, where to be bom and die, Of rich and poor makes all the history ; Enough that virtue fill'd the space between,... | |
 | James Fletcher - 1836 - 372 pages
...mercy's side," and may even answer the detractors in Pope's noble words : — " Who builds a chuvch to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name." On the death of Mieczylas, in 999, the ducal authority devolved on his son, Boleslas. Like his father,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pages
...what ! no monument, inscription, stone ? Hia race, his form, his name almdst unknown ? P. Who huilds stops, and anxious with his soul debates, Fix'd in a ma/hle with his name : Go, search it there, where to he horn and die, Of rich and poor makes all the... | |
 | 1862 - 464 pages
...al zijne theologische misslagen, te mogen beitelen de volgende regelen van den Engelschen dichter: Who builds a church to God and not to fame Will never mark the marble with his name. Go, seek it there where to be born and die Of rich and poor makes all the history: Enough if virtue fills... | |
 | 1837 - 512 pages
...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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