 | William Michael Rossetti - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 510
...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. ADVICE TO ONE WHO WAS ABOUT TO WRITE, TO AVOID... | |
 | Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 380
...has written Butler's epitaph in imperishable sarcasm : — " 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." CHAPTER VIII. Comic Drama of the Restoration... | |
 | James De Mille - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 584
...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." " Seven Grecian cities strove for Homer dead.... | |
 | Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 378
...has written Butler's epitaph in imperishable sarcasm :— " See him when starved to death and turned to dust, Presented with a monumental bust; The poet's fate is here in e.mblem shown, He asked for bread, and he received—a stone." CHAPTER VIII. Comic Drama of the Restoration—Etherege—Wycher... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 444
...wretch, was yet alive, No generons 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."— Samuel Wesley. r character; Butler invests... | |
 | John Guard - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 476
...want anything, a monument and an epitaph. ' Whilst 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 ask'd for bread, and he received a stone.' Westminster Review. The Hind and the Panther.... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 604
...! 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." In 1739 (George II.) Sir Micajah Perry (Haberdasher)... | |
 | Worcestershire exhibition - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 316
...part of this epitaph are by Samuel Wesley : " 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 shewn — He asked... | |
 | Christian ethics - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 296
...Took up himself the courtier's trade ; And grown a minister of state, Saw poets at his levfo wait. See him when starv'd to death and turn'd to dust,...monumental bust ; The poet's fate is here in emblem shown : He ask'd for bread, and he receiv'da stone. * * * * When bards extol their patrons high, Perhaps... | |
 | Curious epitaphs - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 208
...erection of the above monument was the occasion of this very good epigram by Mr. S. Wesley :— Whilst BUTLER (needy wretch !) was yet alive, No gen'rous...a dinner give ; See him, when starv'd to death and turr'd to dust, Presented with a monumental bust! The poet's fate is here in emblem shown, He ask'd... | |
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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. 
