 | 1850 - 778 páginas
...! was yet alive, No gen'rous patron would a dinner give ; See him, when starv'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." Butler undoubtedly suffered from the neglect of his friends... | |
 | 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 Abbey,... | |
 | 1851 - 608 páginas
...needy wretch ! 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 Browne... | |
 | 1853 - 504 páginas
...Wesley. " While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give ; Sec- him, when starved to death and turned to dust, Presented...shown, He asked for bread, and he received a stone." BDBKS, the great Scotch poet, and one of the greatest geniuses of the »orld, was born 175!). Some... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 538 páginas
...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 shown, He ask'd for bread, and he receiv'da stone I Mr Longueville has declared, that, notwithstanding the many... | |
 | F. S., Frederick Saunders - 1853 - 306 páginas
...would a dinner give. See him, resolved to clay and turned to dust, Presented with a monumental bust I The poet's fate is here in emblem shown — He asked for bread, and he received a stone." A recent instance of the supremacy of poetry over poverty may be seen in the case of Cooper, the Chartist.... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1853 - 314 páginas
...give. See him, resolved to clay and turned to dust. Presented with a monu mental bust ! The poet'e fate is here in emblem shown — He asked for bread, and he received a stone." A recent instance of the supremacy of poetry over poverty may be seen in the case of Cooper, the Chartist.... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1854 - 520 páginas
...Ferguson's grave ? I do not doubt it ; such things have been, as Shakspeare says, ' in the olden time ; ' 'The poet's fate is here in emblem shown, He asked for bread, and he received a stone.' i It is, I believe, upon poor Butler's tomb that this is written, But how many poor brothers of Parnassus,... | |
 | Sydney Whiting - 1855 - 458 páginas
...sad list ; and for an article on the subject, see Disraeli's " Curiosities of Literature." " While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No generous patron...shown ; He asked for bread, and he received a stone." SAMUEL WBSTLET, on the Epitaph in Westminster Abbey inscribed on Sutler's Monument. scape, like a mirage... | |
 | James Parton - 1856 - 700 páginas
...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 OP THE PRINCE... | |
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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 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. 
