 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1866 - عدد الصفحات: 484
...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 x is here in emblem shown; He ask'd for bread, and he received a stone." But the true type of the principles... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - عدد الصفحات: 332
...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. EELIGION. MILD, sweet, serene, and cheerful was... | |
 | Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - عدد الصفحات: 332
...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 astd for BREAD, and he received a STONE. RELIGION. MILD, sweet, serene, and cheerful was... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - عدد الصفحات: 404
...dead,* Thro' which the living Homer begg'd his bread. On 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 to death, and turn'd to dust, Presented with a monumental bust ! The poet's fate is here in... | |
 | John Timbs - 1868 - عدد الصفحات: 346
...which drew from Samuel Wesley these lines : " While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give ; See him, when starv'd...monumental bust. The poet's fate is here in emblem shown — He asked for bread, and he received a stone." 1739. Alderman Micajah Perry, Mayor. He laid... | |
 | Metrical epitaphs - 1868 - عدد الصفحات: 266
...Butler, needy wretch ! was still alive, No gen'rous 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. composing songs seemed to be his chief talent,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1868 - عدد الصفحات: 896
...alive, No generous patron would a dinner give ; Sec him, when starved to death, and turned lo dud. Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's fate is here in emblem shown : He ask'd for bread, and be received a stone." It was soon after this proposed to erect a monument... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 340
...wrote the following lines upon the setting up of Mr. Butler's monument in Westminster Abbey : While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No gen'rous patron...monumental bust. The poet's fate is here in emblem shown, He ask'd for bread, and he receiv'di stone. HUD I BRAS. CANTO I.— ARGUMENT. Sir HUDIBRAS his... | |
 | Epigrammatists - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 654
...secure it from morning to night ? ON THE ERECTION 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 to death, and turn'd to dust, Presented with a monumental bust ! The poet's fate is here in... | |
 | Francis Fisher Broune - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 524
...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,... | |
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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. 
