It seems evidently borrowed by Pope, when he applies the thought to Erasmus:—
At length Erasmus, that great injured name,
The glory of the priesthood and the shame!
Young remembered the antithesis when he said,
Of some for glory such the boundless rage,
That they're the blackest scandal of the age.
Voltaire, a great reader of Pope, seems to have borrowed part of the expression:—
Scandale d'Eglise, et des rois le modèle.
De Caux, an old French poet, in one of his moral poems on an hour-glass, inserted in modern collections, has many ingenious thoughts. That this poem was read and admired by Goldsmith, the following beautiful image seems to indicate. De Caux, comparing the world to his hour-glass, says beautifully,
C'est un verre qui luit,
Qu'un souffle peut détruire, et qu'un souffle a produit.
Goldsmith applies the thought very happily—
Princes and lords may flourish or may fade;
A breath can make them, as a breath has made.