 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 - 第 214 頁Mrs. A. T. Thomson 著 - 1862完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | 1855 - 848 頁
...to his memory, •was recorded in an epigram, of which the point is its literal truth : — " Whilst Butler, needy wretch, was yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner pivo : See him, when starved to death and turned to Presented with n monumental bust. The poet's fute... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 頁
...Setting Up of Mr. Butler's Monument In Westminster Abbey 1 See him, when starved to death and turned asked for bread, and he received a stone. (1. 3—6) InvP; NBLV; NOEC; OBD; OxBSP ROBERT WEVER (fl.... | |
 | 156 頁
...monument erected to him in Westminster Abbey by one of his admirers gave rise to the following verses: "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, — •... | |
 | 1881 - 436 頁
...matter is "clenched wi' Scripture " by one of the sweetest of our hymnists. "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 Crust, The poet's fall is here in emblem shown : He asked... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - 1927 - 492 頁
...SAMUEL WESLEY, THE YOUNGER (1691-1739) On the Setting Up of Mr Butler's Monument in Westminster Abbey WHILE Butler, needy wretch! was yet 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... | |
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