...not doubt it ; such things have been, as Shakspeare says, ' in the olden time ; ' ' The poet's fate u here in emblem shown, He asked for bread, and he received a stone.* 1 1 It is, I believe, upon poor Butler's tomb that this is written. Bnt how many poor brothers of Parnassus,...

...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 Westminster...

...written by hamuel Henley, and will lie found in his Poems, 4to., 1736, p. 42., as follows : — " While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive. No generous patron...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. JFL will...

...sympathies of the nation were roused, when it was too late. The old epigram came once more into play — The poet's fate is here in emblem shown ; He asked for bread, and he received a stone. There was a public funeral of the author of the "Cotter's Saturday Night," though the little room in...

...Ferguson's grave? I do not doubt iij 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.' It is, I believe, upon poor Butler's tomb that this is written. But how many poor brothers of Parnassus,...

...sympathies of the nation were roused, when it was too late. The old epigram once more into play— The poet's fate is here in emblem shown; He asked for bread, and he received a stone. There was a public funeral of the author of the "Cotter's Saturday Night/ ' though the little room...

...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 that the story...

...Butler, needy -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...• He asked for bread, and he received a stone." Congreve found Dryden, in his old age, exposed to the attacks of poverty, and pining in a garret, in...

...citizens who wouldn't give him mutton. Well might they write upon the grand tomb they gave him: — " The poet's fate is here in emblem shown, He asked for bread, and he received a stone." " Ah, Mr. Italian Iron! your own filings would scarcely be a harder diet to digest, than this reversionary...

...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 with a 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 already...