 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
 | 1832 - 564 pagina’s
...justify, by their meagreness, Pope's sarcastic allusion to a Parish Register — " Go seek it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor, makes all the history." Not such was good Thomas Crockford's notion of what parochial archives should consist. He did not hold... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1833 - 764 pagina’s
...commentary on the trite text, Mors omnibus communis ? What is it, but a barren abstract of the annals of mortality — Where to be born, and die, Of rich and poor makes all the history ? It might, indeed, set on a calculator, or a life-insurance broker, to compute the comparative duration... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pagina’s
...church to God, and not to fame, 285 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 ; without it might wait for ever. Kyrle pointed out the way, and by his personal exertions induced... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1836 - 774 pagina’s
...commentary on the trite text, Mors omnibus communis ? What is it, but a barren abstract of the annals of mortality — Where to be born, and die, Of rich and poor makes all the history ? It might, indeed, set on a calculator, or a life-insurance broker, to compute the comparative duration... | |
 | Philip Falle - 1837 - 548 pagina’s
...useful life of nearly fourscore years is to be found in two or three entries of a parochial Register. " Where to be born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the History." Pope's Man of Ross. Mr. Poingdestre is also -mentioned by Mr. Le Geyt, (Chap. IV. Det Jurez) but it... | |
 | 1862 - 464 pagina’s
...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 the space between Proving by the end of things to have been. (AANHANGSEL.) DE... | |
 | Philip Falle - 1837 - 548 pagina’s
...useful life of nearly fourscore years is to be found in two or three entries of a parochial Register. " Where to be born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the History." Pnpe't Man of Ron. Mr. Poingdestre is also mentioned by Mr. Le Geyt, (Chap. IV. Dei Jure*) but it is... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pagina’s
...in my power to follow the advice of the poet, in an enquiry after a name — " Go I search it there, where to be born, and die, Of rich and poor makes all the history." So recent is the institution of our parish registers. In the beginning of the seventeenth century,... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pagina’s
...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 filled the space between, Proved by the ends of being, to have been. THE BATTLE... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 496 pagina’s
...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 makes all the history," so recent is the institution of our parish registers. In the beginning of the seventeenth century,... | |
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