 | Theodore Dwight - 1845 - 846 páginas
...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... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1848 - 678 páginas
...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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 478 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." But the true type of the principles of taste,... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1849 - 652 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1850 - 778 páginas
...of that age: " Whilst Butler, needy wretch ! was yet alive, No 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; He ask'd for bread and he received a stone." Butler undoubtedly suffered from the neglect of... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1850 - 528 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1851 - 608 páginas
...! 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 shown ; He aeked for bread, and he received— a slow. " To subsist in lasting monuments," as Sir Thomas... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1852 - 520 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. Soon after this monument was erected in Westminster... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 538 páginas
...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 shown, He ask'd for bread, and he receiv'da stone I Mr Longueville has declared, that, notwithstanding... | |
 | 1853 - 504 páginas
...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 fate is here in emblem shown, He asked for bread, and he received a stone." BDBKS, the great Scotch poet, and one of the greatest... | |
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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. 
