 While Butler, needy 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.  Epitaphs, or, Church-yard gleanings, collected by Old Mortality, jun - Página 63por Epitaphs - 1875Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Samuel Butler - 1861 - 248 páginas
...reference to this monument and inscription, Wesley wrote the following well-known inscription : — While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive. No generous patron would a dinner give ; Shortly after this monument was erected, some persons proposed to place in the church of Covent Garden... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1862 - 346 páginas
...written, was that urn. Samuel Wesley wrote the following lines on this part of the epitaph : — ' While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive. No generous...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... | |
 | John Hoskyns Abrahall - 1863 - 140 páginas
...lapidibus. On the Erection of a Bust of the Author of 'Hudibras ' in Westminster Abbey. Samuel Weslty. WHILE Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No generous...bust ! The poet's fate is here in emblem shown : He asked for bread, and he received a stone. Homer at Oxford. i Cmcper. COULD Homer come himself, distress'd... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 846 páginas
...postumus — Soon after the erection of this monument, Mr Samuel Wesley wron ihe 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... | |
 | Jest book - 1864 - 396 páginas
...know, a man maybe both." "So I see, sir," said Cannon, turning away. MDLXXIL — ON BUTLER'S MONUMENT. WHILE Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No generous...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... | |
 | John Kirk - 1864 - 448 páginas
...sarcasm of his lines on the erection of a monument to the author of Hudibras. in Westminster Abbey ? " While Butler, needy wretch ! was yet alive, No generous...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 shewn, — He... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1864 - 518 páginas
...ITSil. 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 patron would a dinner give ; Bee him, when starved to death, and turn'd to dust, Presetted with a monumental bust. The poet's... | |
 | John Booth - 1865 - 400 páginas
...poet for the king. Dr. S. Johnson. On the setting up Butler's Monument in Westminster Abbey. Whilst Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give ; (5•) See him when starved to death and turn' d to dust, Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's... | |
 | Epigrams - 1865 - 398 páginas
...poet for the king. Dr. S. Johnson. On the setting up Butler's Monument in Westminster Abbey. Whilst Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give ; (59) See him when starved to death and turn' d to dust, Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's... | |
 | 1866 - 390 páginas
...printer and the city bard. The lines also by Samuel Wesley are well known (vide Poems, 4to. 1736, p. 62.) While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No generous...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... | |
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