 | Anna Maria Hall - 818 Seiten
...wretch, was yet alive. No generous patron would a dinner give. See him, when starved to death and turned to dust, Presented with a monumental bust. The Poet's fate is here in emblem shown — He asked for bread, and he received a stone. We must not linger upon the epigrammatists of unknown names... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1845 - 846 Seiten
...was still alive. No gen'rous patron would a dinner give : See him, when starved to death, and turned to dust, Presented with a monumental bust ! The poet's fate is here in emblem shown ; He asked for bread, and he received a stone. Wbat la Honor? BY SIR CHAKLES SFDLEY. Not to be captious,... | |
 | 1845 - 570 Seiten
...by Mr. Samuel Wesley : While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No gen'rous patron would a diuner give ; See him, when starv'd to death, and turn'd to dust, Presented with a monumental bust. * Sacred to the memory of Samuel Butler, who was born at Strensham, in Worcestershire, in 1612, and... | |
 | 1846 - 324 Seiten
...occasion to the following epigram by Mr. Samuel Wesley : While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No gen'rous patron would a dinner give ; See him, when...turn'd to dust, Presented with a monumental bust. * Sacred to the memory of Samuel Butler, who was born at Strensham, in Worcestershire, in 1612, and... | |
 | 1846 - 396 Seiten
...that he who, when living, was destitute of almost everything, might not also want a tomb when dead. The poet's fate is here in emblem shown, He ask'd for bread, and he received a stone. In 1786, when the church of St. Paul was repaired, a marble monument was erected... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1848 - 678 Seiten
...needy Wretch ! was yet alive, No purse-proud printer would a dinner give : ^ See him, when starved to death, and turn'd to dust, Presented with a monumental...bust ! The poet's fate is here in emblem shown : He asked for bread, and he received a stone." In the printed copies, "no generous patron" is found instead... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 478 Seiten
...Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give : See him, when starved to death and turn'd to dust, Presented with a monumental...is here in emblem shown ; He ask'd for bread, and he received a stone." But the true type of the principles of taste, and the system, not only of literature,... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1849 - 652 Seiten
...Butler, needy wretch! was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give. Behold, now he 's dead and turn'd to dust, Presented with a monumental bust! The Poet's fate is here in emblem shown : — He atk'dfor bread— and lie received a ilone." They are here offered for the careful consideration of... | |
 | 1850 - 778 Seiten
...is thus noticed by an epigrammatist of that age: " Whilst Butler, needy wretch ! was yet alive, No gen'rous patron would a dinner give ; See him, when...is here, in emblem, shown; He ask'd for bread and he received a stone." Butler undoubtedly suffered from the neglect of his friends ; but, considering... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1850 - 528 Seiten
...alive, No generous patron would a dinner give ; See him, when starved to death, and turn'd to dnst, Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's fate is here in emblem shown, He asfc'd for bread, and he received a stone. Soon after this monument was erected in Westminster Abbey,... | |
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While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give ; See him, when starved to death, and turn'd to dust, Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's fate is here in emblem shown, He ask'd for bread, and he received a stone. 
