...of Butler's merit gave origin to one of the acutest epigrams in the English language : — " Whilst 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 ask'd...

...monument to the author of Hudibras, in Westminster Abbey, convey a moral too pointed to be omitted. " While 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...

...1721. On the latter part of this epitaph the ingenious Mr. Samuel Wesley wrote the following lines : While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No generous...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...

...! 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 ask'd for bread and he received a stone." Butler undoubtedly suffered from the neglect of...

...whose monument in Westminster Abbey the following graphic and sarcastic lines were written : — Whilst BUTLER, needy wretch ! was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give ; See him, when starv'd todoath, and turned to dust, Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's fate is here in emblem...

...poetamus — Soon after the erection of this monument, Mr Samuel Wesley wrote llie following epigram : — While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give; See him, when starv'd to death and turned to dust, Presented with a monumental bust. The Poet's fate is here in emblem...

...with a blanket thrown over his shoulders, fastened by a wooden skewer, with a pen in his hand. " When Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give. See him, resolved to clay and turned to dust, Presented with a monumental bust ! The Poet's fate is here in...

...with a blanket thrown over his shoulders, fastened by a wooden skewer, with a pen in his hand. " When Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give. See him, resolved to clay and turned to dust, Presented with a monumental bust I The poet's fate is here in...

...upon a stone erected sometime afterwards. The lines were composed by the ingenious Samuel Wesley. " While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give ; Sec- him, when starved to death and turned to dust, Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's...

...to the sad list ; and for an article on the subject, see Disraeli's " Curiosities of Literature." " While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No generous...monumental bust. The poet's fate is here in emblem shown ; He asked for bread, and he received a stone." SAMUEL WBSTLET, on the Epitaph in Westminster...