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. Covent Garden: Its Romance and History - Сторінка 46автори: Reginald Jacobs - 1913 - 269 стор.Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
| Robert Southey - 1807 - 512 стор.
...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...shown, He asked for bread, and he received a stone, Advice to One who was about to u-rile, to avoid t&gImmoralities of the Ancient and Modem Poets.. IF... | |
| William Oxberry - 1822 - 430 стор.
...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...shown, He asked for bread, and he received a stone." A gentleman found Dryden in his old age exposed to the attacks of poverty, and pining in a garret,... | |
| 1822 - 440 стор.
...— the gift of that very country, that when living, "food denied him!"— '< The poet's fate is hele in emblem shown, He asked for bread, and he received a stone." Yet, it must be remembered, that Burns ivas a poet-^not a writer on subjects that required more penetration... | |
| 1829 - 506 стор.
...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...shown, He asked for bread, and he received a stone." A gentleman found Dryden in his old age exposed to the attacks of poverty, and pining in a garret,... | |
| 1831 - 256 стор.
...is hurled ; Death took him off, \vh<> took offaM the world. ON THE MONUMENT TO BUTLER'S MEMORY. Wien Butler, needy wretch, was still alive, No generous...shown ; He asked for bread, and he received a stone. . THE CONTEST. She would keep stakes ; I was content; But, when I won, she would be paid ; Chloe and... | |
| John Dove - 1832 - 128 стор.
...which gave occasion to the following lines by Mr. SAMUEL WESLEY : "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" Previously to'lhis, DRYDEN, in his " Hind and Panther," makes the Hind (or Church of Rome) complain... | |
| John Dove - 1832 - 134 стор.
...generous patron would a dinner give: " Whilst Butler, needy wretch', was yet alive, See Dim, when starred to death, and turned to dust, Presented with a monumental...shown: He asked for bread, and he received a stone." Previously to this, DRYDEN, in his " Hind and Panther," makes the Hind (or Church of Rome) complain... | |
| John Dove - 1832 - 136 стор.
...would a dinner give : See him, when starred to death, and turned to dust, Presented with a mouumental bust; The poet's fate is here in emblem shown : He asked for bread, and he received a stone." Previously to this, DRYDEN, in his " Hind and Panther," makes the Hind (or Church of Rome) complain... | |
| Adam Clarke - 1836 - 468 стор.
...him, when starved to death, and turned to dust, Presented with a monumental bust ! The Poet's fete is here in emblem shown : He asked for bread, and he received a stone." In the printed copies, " no generous patron" is found instead of " pur .se-prottd printer." There are... | |
| 1839 - 226 стор.
...Which once adorned her glittering curls, And still recall those happier hours. BUTLER'S MONUMENT. When Butler, needy wretch! was still alive, No generous...shown; He asked for bread, and he received a stone. Tom swells in mammoth dignity, Loud blusters, swears and drinks, But put Tom in a corner, he Like any... | |
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