 | Book - Birthdays - 1872 - 326 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. In advanced life the learned and pious literary women of... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...wretch, was still 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 emblem shown : He ask'd for bread, and he received a stone." 164. Lydiat was a man of various learning, distmguished... | |
 | Charles Stokes Carey - 1872 - 314 pages
...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. f A REGIMENT SENT TO OXFORD, AND A PRESENT OP BOOKS TO CAMBRIDGE,... | |
 | Henry Coppée - English literature - 1873 - 508 pages
...dead." Upon the occasion of erecting this, Samuel Wesley wrote : While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give; See...shown, He asked for bread, and he received a stone. To his own age he was the prince of jesters ; to English literature he has given its best illustration... | |
 | Archaeology - 1873 - 670 pages
...well-known epigram on the setting up of this stone, ie : — " While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give ; See...dust, Presented with a monumental bust. The Poet's fame is here in emblem shown, He asked for bread, and he received a stone." W. WINTERS. Jaris aaïr... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1874 - 446 pages
...yet alive, No generous patron wonld a dinner give; See him, when starved to death and turned to duet, Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's fate...emblem shown, He asked for bread, and he received a stone."—Samuel Wesley, character; Butler invests bis personages with the utmost degree of odium that... | |
 | American literature - 1874 - 992 pages
...! was still alive, No gcn'roiu patron would a dinner give. See him, when starv'd to death and turnM to dust, Presented with a monumental bust ! The poet's fate is here in emblem shown ; He ask'd for bread, — and he receiv'da stone !" Mr. Middleton has also pointed out that the lines of... | |
 | American literature - 1874 - 414 pages
...was still 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 j He ask'd for bread, — and he receiv'da stone !" Mr. Middleton has also pointed out that the lines... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Anthologies - 1875 - 868 pages
...:-- • If this fair rose offend thy sight, ON BUTLER'S MONUMENT. While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give. See...shown : He asked for bread, and he received a stone. — S. WESLEY. OVERDRAWN COMPLIMENT. So much, dear Pope, thy English Homer charms, As pity melts us,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1879 - 448 pages
...dinner give ; See him, when starved to death and turned to dust, Presented with a monumental hast. The poet's fate is here in emblem shown, He asked for bread, and he received a stone."— Samuel Wesley. character ; Butler invests bis personages with the utmost degree of odium that is compatible... | |
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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. 
