| Seth William Stevenson - 1827 - Страниц: 928
...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,... | |
| 1828 - Страниц: 844
...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... | |
| Страниц: 846
...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... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - Страниц: 426
...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... | |
| James Welsh - 1830 - Страниц: 400
...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... | |
| 1837 - Страниц: 504
...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... | |
| 1834 - Страниц: 804
...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 - Страниц: 436
...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... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1834 - Страниц: 972
...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,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1835 - Страниц: 378
...diminish'd rays ! B. And what? no monument, inscription, stone? His race, his form, his name almost unknown ? P. Who builds a 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... | |
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