 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 328 страница
...writhed in the pangs of starvation. Some one has thus aptly alluded to the circumstance : — " When Butler, needy wretch ! was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give ; See him, resolv'd to clay and tura'd to dust, Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's fate is here in emblem... | |
 | 1829 - 506 страница
...in the gnawing pangs of starvation. Some one has thus aptly alluded to the circumstance : — " When Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive,] No generous patron, would a dinner give, — See him resolved to clay, and turned to dust, Presented with a monumental bust ; The poet's fate is here in... | |
 | 1831 - 256 страница
...\vh<> took offaM the world. ON THE MONUMENT TO BUTLER'S MEMORY. Wien Butler, needy wretch, was still 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... | |
 | John Dove - 1832 - 134 страница
...dinner give: " Whilst Butler, needy wretch', was yet alive, See Dim, when starred to death, and turned to dust, Presented with a monumental bust; The poet's...shown: He asked for bread, and he received a stone." Previously to this, DRYDEN, in his " Hind and Panther," makes the Hind (or Church of Rome) complain... | |
 | John Dove - 1832 - 128 страница
...BARBER, citizen of London, which gave occasion to the following lines by Mr. SAMUEL WESLEY : "Whilst Butler, needy wretch! was yet alive, No generous patron...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... | |
 | John Dove - 1832 - 136 страница
...BARBER, citizen of London, which gave occasion to the following lines by Mr. SAMUEL WESLEY : " Whilst Butler, needy wretch! was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give : See him, when starred to death, and turned to dust, Presented with a mouumental bust; The poet's fate is here in... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 340 страница
...the city bard. The lines also by Samuel Wesley are well known (vide Poems, 4to. 1736, p. 62.) 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 received a stone. 5 See Delineation of Butler's Monument in Dart's Westminster... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 410 страница
...On the latter part of this epitaph the ingenious Mr. Samuel Wesley wrote the following lines : While 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 bust. The poet's fate is here in... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 410 страница
...On the latter part of this epitaph the ingenious Mr. Samuel Wesley wrote the following lines : While 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 bust. The poet's fete is here in... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 332 страница
...dinner give ; ^ /^V/?''-// •? .' /•; See him, when starved to death and turn'd to dust, 'ijt-/? • Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's fate is here in emblem shown. He ask'd for bread, and he received a stone. 5 See Delineation of Butler's Monument in Dart's Westminster... | |
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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. 
