| 1812 - 760 páginas
...Butler (needy wretch '.) was yet alive, No generous Patron would a dinner give ; Behold him, atari' >l to death, and turn'd to dust, Presented with a monumental bust ! The Poet's fate in emblem here is shown — He ask'd for bread — and he receiv'cl a stone. SW" Impressed with a conviction... | |
| 1813 - 566 páginas
...Butler (needy wretch !) was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give. Behold him, starved to death, and turn'd to dust, Presented with a monumental bust ! The Poet's fate in emblem here is shown— He asked for bread—arid he received a stone. ANALECTIC MAGAZINE. FOR SEPTEMBER,... | |
| 1813 - 552 páginas
...WHILE Butler (needy wretch!) was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give. Behold him, starved to death, and turn'd to dust, Presented with a monumental bust! The Poet's fate in emblem here is shown — He asked for bread — and he received a stone. VOL. II. 2D EDIT. 24 jDe... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 páginas
...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 inscription upon it is as follows: MS SAMUELIS... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 536 páginas
...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 inscription upon it is as follows : MS SAMUELIS... | |
| 1818 - 596 páginas
...Mr. S. Wesley. \\ hilst Butler (needy wretch) was yet alive, Nt> gen'rous patron would a dinner give, See him when starv'd to death and turn'd to dust,...monumental bust. The Poet's fate is here in emblem' shown — Ileask'd for bread, and he reeeir'3 a stone. It is worth remarking, thnt the Poet was starving,... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1819 - 560 páginas
...of its point : ' 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,...monumental bust. The poet's fate is here in emblem shown, He ask'd for bread, and he receiv'da stone." bras ; it is Don Quixote, it is our Satyre Menisse... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1819 - 390 páginas
...• Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No genrous patron would a dinner give. See him when stared to death, and turn'd to dust, Presented with a monumental bust. The Poet's fate it here in emblem shown, He ask'dfor bread, find he receiv'da stone. Which is thus translated by the... | |
| Robert Burns - 1819 - 658 páginas
...Ferguson's grave ? I do not doubt it ; such things have been, as Shakespeare says, in the olden-time.' ' The Poet's fate is here in emblem shewn, ' He ask'd for bread, and he received a stone.' It is I believe upon poor Butler's tomb that this is written. But how many brothers... | |
| William Oxberry - 1822 - 430 páginas
...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 emblem shown, He asked for bread, and he received a stone." A gentleman found Dryden in his old age exposed... | |
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