 | Sydney Whiting - 1855 - 458 páginas
...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." SAMUEL WBSTLET, on the Epitaph in Westminster... | |
 | James Parton - 1856 - 720 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. ON THE DISAPPOINTMENT OP THE WHIG ASSOCIATES... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1857 - 374 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. # See Delineation of Butler's Monument in Dart's... | |
 | 1858 - 798 páginas
...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 ask'd for bread, and he receiv'da stone I " KHS (Cambridge). Thanked, though anticipated.... | |
 | T P Grinsted - 1859 - 342 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." It is pleasurable to be enabled to remark... | |
 | 1860 - 568 páginas
...: — " While Butler, needy wretch, was vet alive No gen'rous Patron would a Dinner give : See nim, when starv'd to Death and turn'd to Dust, Presented...Monumental Bust: The Poet's Fate is here in emblem shown : He ask'd for Bread and he received a Stone." J. TANSWBLL. Temple. COLDHARBOUR. There has been... | |
 | 1861 - 756 páginas
...-wretch, was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner gire. See bom 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." Congreve found Dryden, in his old age,... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1860 - 718 páginas
...was yet alive, No purse-proud printer would a dinner give : See him, when starved to death, and tum'd to dust, Presented with a monumental b,ust ! 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... | |
 | 1861 - 304 páginas
...Butler, needy wreteh, 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 reeeived a stone. ina I THE VICAR OF BRAY. i N good King Charles's... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1861 - 248 páginas
...with florid canopy, crockets, and finial, was placed in the See him, when starred 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. * This is an error. The grave of Butler is outside... | |
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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. 
