 While Butler, needy 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.  Quiet Hours in Poets' Corner - Página 116por Stephen Coleridge - 1925 - 130 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Art - 1762 - 290 páginas
...text of fcripture, on the fetting up a monument in H'eftminjler Abbey, to the memory of the ingenious 'While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give. See him when ftarv'd to death, and turn'd to duft, Prefented with a monumental buft ! The poet's fate is here in... | |
 | John Newbery - 1762 - 292 páginas
...up a monument in Weftminfter Abley, to the memory of the ingenious Mr. Butler, author of Hudibrcn. While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give. See him when ftarv'd to death, and turn'd to duft, Prefented with a monumental buft ! The poet's fate is here in... | |
 | Samuel Ireland - 1795 - 480 páginas
...epigrammatic epitaph, written in confequence of a buft having been erected in honour of his memory : w When Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, *' No generous patron would a dinner give. " See him now lifelefs and reduced to duft " Prefented with a monumental buft. " The poet's fate is here in emblem... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 450 páginas
...Hudibrai. lia ' Wliik 17? Cluraâcr of the едлtijit Zpita; h» in vetIV, vi'.h remark« upCB tbcni. While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No generous patron would a dmfier give. See him when ftarv d to death, and tur n'd to duft, Prefented with a monumental bull !... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1807 - 512 páginas
...His Poems were published in 410. l?36. On the setting up Mr. Rulltr's Monument in Westminster-Atbty, Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No generous patron...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... | |
 | Flowers of literature - 1807 - 626 páginas
...wretch) was yet alive, Jjri gen'rous patron would a dinner give, See him when starv'd 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 lie receiv'da stone. It is worth remarking, that the poet was starving,... | |
 | Panorama - 1809 - 368 páginas
...Drunkard grows, And Bacchus love-sick lies. ON THE SETTING UP MR. BUTLER'S MONUMENT IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. WHILE Butler, needy wretch ! was yet alive, No generous Patron would a Dinner give : See him, when starv'd to death and turn'd to dust, Presented with a monumental bust! The Poet's fate is here in emblem... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 páginas
...of this monument, Mr, Si: . el Wesley wrote the following Epigram. « While Butler, needy wretch I was yet alive, no generous patron would a dinner give : see him, when starv'd to death, and turn'd to dust, presented, with a monumental bust. The poet's fate is here in... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1812 - 876 páginas
...puns, rarely transfueible into a foreign tongue, or much of their spirit is lott in the attempt*. " While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give: See him, when starv'd to death, and tnrnM to dost, Presented with a monumental bnst. The poet's fate is here in emblem... | |
 | 1812 - 156 páginas
...wretch, was yet alive, No gen'rous patron would a dinner give : See him when starv'd to death, and turn'd to dust, Presented with a monumental bust ! The poet's fate is here in emblem shown,— He asfc'd for bread, and he receiv'da stone, CCXLVUI. When man and -woman die, as poets sung,... | |
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