Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name : Go, search it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the history ; Enough, that Virtue fill'd the space between ; Prov'd by the ends of being,... Deliciae Literariae: A New Volume of Table-talk - Pagina 66door Joseph Robertson - 1840 - 273 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
| Alexander Pope - 1778 - 410 pagina’s
...not to fame,, Will never mark the marble with his name : 2.86 •U ua . ' Go, Go, fearch it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the hiftory. Enough, that virtue fill'd the fpace between ; Prov'd, by the ends of being, to have been.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 392 pagina’s
...builds a Church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his Name : Go, fearch it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the hiftory; Enough, that Virtue fill'd the fpace between; Prov'd by the ends of being, to have been. »9o... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1787 - 396 pagina’s
...Church to God, and not to Fame,. Will never mark the marble with his Name : 286Go, fearch it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the hiftory ; TtR.aSi. Blufh, Grandeur, tlujh ! fmuJ Courts, witbjtaw your llazt, rtr.] In tHis fubJime... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 398 pagina’s
...a Church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his Name : 'Go, fearch it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the hiftory ; Enough, that Virtue fill'd the fpace between ; Prov'dty the ends of being, to have been.... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 pagina’s
...Whobuilds a church toGocl, and notto fame, Will never mark the marble with his name : Go, fearch it there, ' aerial guard Defcend, and fit on each important card : Fi Jiiftory ; Enough, that virtue fill'd the fpacc between ; Prov'd by the ends of being, to have been.... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 pagina’s
...church to God, and not to famr, Will never mark the marble with his name : Go, fearch it there, M here to be born and die^ Of rich and poor makes all the hilloryj Enough, that virtue fill'd the fpace between , Prov'd by the ends cf being to have been. When... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 520 pagina’s
...in my power to follow the advice of the Poet, in an enquiry after a name— ** Go ! fearch it there, where to be born, and die, " Of rich and poor makes all the hiftory." So recent is the inltitution of our parifti regifters. In the beginning of the feventeenth... | |
| Gilbert Wakefield - 1796 - 382 pagina’s
...builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name. Go, fearch it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the hiflory. That practice of " building to Fame" is thus finely ridiculed by Hall, book iii. fat. 4. Whoever... | |
| Samuel Ireland - 1797 - 342 pagina’s
...to God, and not to fame, ' •« Will never mark the marble with his name : " Go, fearch it there, where to be born and die, ** Of rich and poor makes all the hiftory ; " Enough that virtue fill'd the fpace between ** Prov'J by the ends of being, to have been."... | |
| W. M. - 1801 - 356 pagina’s
...builds a church to God, and not to fame, Will never, mark the marble with his name : Go fearch it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the hiftory; Enough, that Virtue fill'd the fpace between'; Prov'd by the ends of being to have been. POPE.... | |
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