 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 608 oldal
...epigrams in the English language : — " Whilst Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No generous patrou would a dinner give : See him, when starved to death...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,... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1849 - 652 oldal
...to the author of Hudibras, in Westminster Abbey, convey a moral too pointed to be omitted. " While Butler, 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... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1850 - 528 oldal
...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...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,... | |
 | 1850 - 778 oldal
...Butler, needy wretch ! 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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1851 - 608 oldal
...whose monument in Westminster Abbey the following graphic and sarcastic lines were written : — Whilst BUTLER, 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... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1852 - 520 oldal
...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...bust. The poet's fate is here in emblem shown, He ask'd for bread, and he received a stone. Soon after this monument was erected in Westminster Abbey,... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 538 oldal
...Soon after the erection of this monument, Mr Samuel Wesley wrote llie following epigram : — 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... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1853 - 358 oldal
...with a blanket thrown over his shoulders, fastened by a wooden skewer, with a pen in his hand. " 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... | |
 | F. S., Frederick Saunders - 1853 - 306 oldal
...with a blanket thrown over his shoulders, fastened by a wooden skewer, with a pen in his hand. " 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 I The poet's fate is here in... | |
 | 1853 - 504 oldal
...stone erected sometime afterwards. The lines were composed by the ingenious Samuel Wesley. " While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give ; Sec- him, when starved to death and turned to dust, Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's... | |
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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. 
