 | John Wesley Hales - 1878 - 772 páginas
...Butler, needy wretch, was still alive No generous patron would a dinner give, See him when slarv'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." 164. Eydiat was a man of various learning, distinguished... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1878 - 444 páginas
...wretch, was yet alive, No generons 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 Wesley. r character; Butler invests... | |
 | William Michael Rossetti - 1878 - 510 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. ADVICE TO ONE WHO WAS ABOUT TO WRITE, TO AVOID... | |
 | Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange - 1878 - 380 páginas
...has written Butler's epitaph in imperishable sarcasm : — " 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." CHAPTER VIII. Comic Drama of the Restoration... | |
 | Alfred Guy K. L'Estrange - 1878 - 384 páginas
...has written Butler's epitaph in imperishable sarcasm : — " 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." CHAPTER VIII. Comic Drama of the Restoration... | |
 | Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange - 1878 - 378 páginas
...has written Butler's epitaph in imperishable sarcasm :— " See him when starved to death and turned to dust, Presented with a monumental bust; The poet's fate is here in e.mblem shown, He asked for bread, and he received—a stone." CHAPTER VIII. Comic Drama of the Restoration—Etherege—Wycher... | |
 | James De Mille - 1878 - 584 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." " Seven Grecian cities strove for Homer dead.... | |
 | John Guard - 1879 - 476 páginas
...and an epitaph. ' Whilst 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 received a stone.' Westminster Review. The Hind and the Panther.... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 604 páginas
...! 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." In 1739 (George II.) Sir Micajah Perry (Haberdasher)... | |
 | Worcestershire exhibition - 1882 - 316 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 shewn — He asked for bread, and he received a stone." 70. -Lord Keeper Coventry , (See No. in Nave 34). Lent by... | |
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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. 
