Remarks on English churches and on the expediency of rendering sepulchral memorials subservient to pious and Christian uses (1843)
Markland, J. H. (James Heywood), 1788-1864 · Oxford : J.H. Parker · leaf 188
LET NOT LOVE NOR GRIEF BELIEVE THAT WE ASSENT WHO NEITHER LOVED NOR GRIEVE TO ALL THAT PRAISE, WHICH ON THE TOMB IS READ,TO ALL, THAT PASSION DICTATES FOR THE DEAD;BUT MORE INDIGNANT WE THE TOMB DERIDE,WHOSE BOLD INSCRIPTION FLATTERY SELLS TO PRIDE. CRABBES BOROUGH, LETTER ii. … 1EpttapI)g.I. this avarice of praise in times to come,those long inscriptions crowded on the tomb. Dryden. sepulchral lies our holy walls to grace. Pope. Epitaphs are so closely connected with the main sub-ject of these pages, that some remarks upon them canscarcely he deemed irrelevant. Those of…
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