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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. "
The Balance, and Columbian Repository - Página 282
1804
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Poems on Several Occasions

Samuel Wesley - 1736 - 434 páginas
...Cliffs, or CALAIS Sands. ON • The fetting up Mr. B u TLE R'S Monument in WESTMINSTER-ABBEY. WHILE BUTLER, needy Wretch ! was yet alive, No gen'rous 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...
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The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Time ..., Volumen2

Robert Shiells - 1753 - 366 páginas
...why fhould the mufes fleece be only dry.' The .following epigram is not unworthy a place here. Whilft Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No gen'rous patron would a dinner give ; Ihrt lo behold ! when dead, the mould'ring duft. Rewarded with a monumental buft I A poet's fate,...
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Select and Remarkable Epitaphs on Illustrious and Other Persons ..., Volumen1

John Hackett - 1757 - 306 páginas
...up of this Stone to his Memory was the Occafion of a very good Epigram by Mr. Samuel Wejlty. Whilft Butler (needy Wretch) was yet alive, No gen'rous 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...
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Hudibras: In Three Parts, Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Volumen1

Samuel Butler - 1757 - 496 páginas
...in Weftminfter Abbty. (Poems nfevtrtlQccafant, 4'° 1736. pag. 62.) While Butler, needy Wretch, ieas yet alive, No Gen'rous Patron would a Dinner give : See him when Stared to death, and turnd it Duff, Prefentedeaith a Monumental Buft. fiie Poet's Fate is here in Emblem...
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The english anthology.

1793 - 376 páginas
...ale expires. 6N THE SETTING UP MR. SUTLER'S MONUMENT IN WESTMINSTER-ABBEY. BY SAMUEL WESLEY.* Vv HILE BUTLER, needy wretch! was yet alive, No gen'rous 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...
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The English Anthology ...

Joseph Ritson - 1793 - 388 páginas
...potent ale expires. ON THE SETTING DP MR. SUTLER'S MONUMENT IN WESTMINSTER-ABBEY. BY SAMUEL WESLEY.* iLE BUTLER, needy wretch! was yet alive. No gen'rous patron would a dinner give : See him, when ftarv'd to death and turn'd to daft, Prefented with a monumental buft ! The poet's fate is here in...
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Select epigrams, Volumen1

Select epigrams - 1797 - 188 páginas
...rife again. ON SEEING BUTLER'S MONUMENT IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. BY THE REV. SAMUEL WESTLEY*. "WHILST Butler, needy wretch ! was yet alive, No gen'rous patron would a dinner give ; * A Poet, who, as he often employed the prcfs, thought better of his verfes, perhaps, than the refl,...
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The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and ...

1801 - 860 páginas
...eredled to his memory in Weftminfter Abbey i which occafioned the following epigram ; " When Bauer, needy Wretch, was yet alive, No gen'rous patron would a dinner give. See him, when ftarv'd to death, and tnrn'd to dun, Preiented with a monumental buft! The poet's fate is here in emblem...
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The British Martial: Or, An Anthology of English Epigrams: Being ..., Volumen1

1806 - 274 páginas
...their purse strings, ty'd but to their tongue. CCCCLXVIII. ON BUTLER'S MONUMENT IN WESTMINSTER ABBKT. See him when starv'd to death, and turn'd to dust,...bust ! The poet's fate is here in emblem shewn,— He ask'd for bread, and he receiv'da ,\l<»ut. CCCCLXIX. EVE'S CURIOSITY. When Eve would try, but to...
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Flowers of literature; for 1801 & 1802(-1805): or, Characteristic ..., Volumen4

Flowers of literature - 1807 - 626 páginas
...occasion of this very good Epigram by MR. S. WESLEY. WHILST Butler (needy wretch) was yet alive, Jjri gen'rous patron would a dinner give, See him when...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,...
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