 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.  The Literature of Society - Page 214by Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1862Full view - About this book
 | John Walker Vilant Macbeth - 1876 - 568 pages
...notes to the enamor'd air. Here Nature, in her unaffected dress, Sits lovely in her native russet." "While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No generous...a dinner give. See him, when starved to death and ttirn'd to dust, Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's fate is here in emblem shown : He ask'd... | |
 | William Mathews - 1877 - 324 pages
...for a grave, provoked one of the acutest epigrams in the language: While Butler, needy wretch, waa 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 shone: He asked... | |
 | Richard Gosche, Franz Schnorr von Carolsfeld - 1877 - 650 pages
...No generous patron would a diimer give; See him, when starv'd to death and turn'd to dust, Preseuted with a monumental bust. The poet's fate is here in emblem shown, He asked for bread, and he receiv'da stoue." Butlers sonstige Schriften anlangend, die nach seinem Tode... | |
 | Richard Gosche, Franz Schnorr von Carolsfeld - 1877 - 642 pages
...No generous patron would a dinner give; See bim, when starv'd to death and turn'd to dust, Preseuted with a monumental bust. The poet's fate is here in emblem shown, He asked foi- bread, and he receiv'da stone." Butlers sonstige Schriften anlangend, die nach seinem Tode... | |
 | William Michael Rossetti - 1878 - 510 pages
...movement promoted by his brother John]. ON THE SETTING-UP MR. BUTLER'S 1 MONUMENT IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. WHILE Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No generous...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... | |
 | Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange - 1878 - 378 pages
...has written Butler's epitaph in imperishable sarcasm :— " See him when starved to death and turned to dust, Presented with a monumental bust; The poet's fate is here in e.mblem shown, He asked for bread, and he received—a stone." CHAPTER VIII. Comic Drama of the Restoration—Etherege—Wycherley.... | |
 | James De Mille - 1878 - 584 pages
...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." " Seven Grecian cities strove for Homer dead. Through which... | |
 | Alfred Guy K. L'Estrange - 1878 - 384 pages
...has written Butler's epitaph in imperishable sarcasm : — " 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." CHAPTER VIII. Comic Drama of the Restoration — Etherege—... | |
 | Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange - 1878 - 380 pages
...has written Butler's epitaph in imperishable sarcasm : — " 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." CHAPTER VIII. Comic Drama of the Restoration — Etherege... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1878 - 444 pages
...impairing our respect for his noble and heroic * " While Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No generons 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... | |
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