 | T P Grinsted - 1859 - 342 oldal
...The latter part of its Latin inscription drew from Samuel Wesley the following epigram : — " 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." It is pleasurable to be enabled to remark that the story... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1859 - 530 oldal
...Ferguson's grave? I do not doubt iij such things have been, as Shakspeare says, { in the olden time ; ' 'The poet's fate is here in emblem shown, He asked for Bread, and he received a stone.' It is, I believe, upon poor Butler's tomb that this is written. But how many poor brothers of Parnassus,... | |
 | James White - 1859 - 118 oldal
...sympathies of the nation were roused, when it was too late. The old epigram once more into play— The poet's fate is here in emblem shown; He asked for bread, and he received a stone. There was a public funeral of the author of the "Cotter's Saturday Night/ ' though the little room... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1860 - 718 oldal
...was yet alive, No purse-proud printer would a dinner give : See him, when starved to death, and tum'd to dust, Presented with a monumental b,ust ! 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... | |
 | 1860 - 568 oldal
...Butler, needy wretch, was vet alive No gen'rous Patron would a Dinner give : See nim, 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." J. TANSWBLL. Temple. COLDHARBOUR. There has been already... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1860 - 538 oldal
...pride, To sin with penitence allied." ISptgrams. ON BUTLER'S MONUMENT. WHILE Butler, needy wreteh, 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 pcet's fate is here in emblem shown: He asked... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1860 - 490 oldal
...citizens who wouldn't give him mutton. Well might they write upon the grand tomb they gave him: — " The poet's fate is here in emblem shown, He asked for bread, and he received a stone." " Ah, Mr. Italian Iron! your own filings would scarcely be a harder diet to digest, than this reversionary... | |
 | 1861 - 756 oldal
...with the gnawing pangs of starvation. Some one has thus aptly aUuded to the circumstance : — " When Butler, needy -wretch, was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner gire. See bom resolved to clay and turned to dust, Presented with a monumental bust ; The poet's fate... | |
 | 1861 - 304 oldal
...merry John, the old soap-boiler.' ON BUTLER'S MONUMENT. REY. SAMUEL WESLEY. ILE Butler, needy wreteh, was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give....bust. The poet's fate is here in emblem shown— He ask'd for bread, and he reeeived a stone. ina I THE VICAR OF BRAY. i N good King Charles's golden days,... | |
 | 1861 - 300 oldal
...was yet alive. No generous patron would a dinner .eive. See him, when starved to death and turn'il to dust. Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's fate is here in emblem shown — He ask'd for bread, and he reeeived a stone. THE VICAR OF BRAY." X good King Charles's golden days, When... | |
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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. 
