 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.  The British Poets - Página xvi1866Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | John Timbs - 1868 - 902 páginas
...alive. No generous patron would a dinner give ; Bee him, when starved to death, and turned to dull, Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's fate is here in emblem shown : Be ask'd for bread, and he received a slone." It was soon after this proposed to erect a monument... | |
 | Epigrammatists - 1870 - 654 páginas
...OF BUTLER'S MONUMENT IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. Whilst Butler, needy wretch ! was yet alive, No gen'rous patron would a dinner give : See him, when starved...here in emblem shown, — He ask'd for bread, and he recoiv'da stone. emoluments which it was expected would be showered upon him, he was left in obscurity... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1870 - 652 páginas
...WESTMINSTER ABBEY. Whilst Butler, needy wretch ! was yet alive, No gen'rous patron would a dinner give : Sec him, when starved to death, and turn'd to dust, Presented...here in emblem shown, — He ask'd for bread, and lie receiv'da stone. Culler, the celebrated author of "Hudibras," was entirely neglected in life. His... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1870 - 536 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. The times of William, Queen Anne, and George L, were the... | |
 | Francis Fisher Broune - 1870 - 524 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. The times of William, Queen Anne, and George L, were the... | |
 | 1871 - 930 páginas
...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, Presented with a monumental...here in emblem shown ; He ask'd for bread, and he receivM a stone." The witty writer has made one mistake in this epitaph. He did " not ask for bread... | |
 | 1871 - 908 páginas
...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, Presented with a monumental...is here in emblem shown ; He ask'd for bread, and lie receiv"da stone." The witty writer has made one mistake in this epitaph. He did " not ask for bread... | |
 | 1871 - 910 páginas
...was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give : See him, when starv'd to death, and tura'd to dust, Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's...here in emblem shown ; He ask'd for bread, and he receiv'da stone." The witty writer has made one mistake in this epitaph. He did " not ask for bread... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1875 - 868 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. — S. WESLEY. OVERDRAWN COMPLIMENT. So much, dear Pope,... | |
 | John Walker Vilant Macbeth - 1876 - 568 páginas
...wretch, was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give. See him, when starved to death and ttirn'd to dust, Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's...here in emblem shown : He ask'd for bread, and he receiv'da stone.'' The memorable sonnet on Shakespeare, by Hartley Coleridge, makes repeated use of... | |
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