 | 1840 - 480 pages
...grave, and he was universally allowed to have been the greatest poet that the peninsula ever produced. " The poet's fate is here in emblem shown — He asked for bread, and he received a stone. " From contemplating the melancholy life of this great man, we turn to the more delightful task of... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 818 pages
...wretches," " creatures," " souls," &c. ON BUTLER'S MONUMENT. " Whilst Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive. No generous patron would a dinner give. See...shown — He asked for bread, and he received a stone. We must not linger upon the epigrammatists of unknown names and of fugitive poetry books. Those thick... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1845 - 846 pages
...Hudibras, is said to have died of want.] Whilst Butler, needy wretch, was still alive. No gen'rous patron would a dinner give : See him, when starved...shown ; He asked for bread, and he received a stone. Wbat la Honor? BY SIR CHAKLES SFDLEY. Not to be captious, not unjustly fight ; 'Tie to confess what's... | |
 | United States - 1846 - 516 pages
...would a diuner give. See him, resolved to clay and turned to dost. Presented with a monumental bnst ! The Poet's fate is here in emblem shown — He asked for bread, and be received a stone." 1846.] [December, Even Drydon sunk into neglect in his old age, having died in... | |
 | Adam Clarke - Endsley family - 1848 - 678 pages
...yet alive, No purse-proud printer would a dinner give : ^ See him, when starved to death, and turn'd to dust, Presented with a monumental bust ! The poet's...shown : He asked for bread, and he received a stone." In the printed copies, "no generous patron" is found instead of " purse-proud printer." There are many... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1849 - 652 pages
...needy wretch! was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give. Behold, now he 's dead and turn'd to dust, Presented with a monumental bust! The Poet's fate is here in emblem shown : — He atk'dfor bread— and lie received a ilone." They are here offered for the careful consideration of... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - English literature - 1849 - 478 pages
...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." But the true type of the principles of taste, and the system,... | |
 | Theology - 1850 - 778 pages
...! 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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
