 | Robert Burns - 1834 - 206 pages
...Ferguson's grave ? I do not doubt it; such things have been, as Shakspeare says, ' in the olden time;1 The poet's fate is here in emblem shown, He ask'd for bread, and he received a stone. Jl is, I believe, upon poor Butler's tomb that this is teriMm. Hut how many poor brothers of Parnassus,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 340 pages
...needy 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....shown, He ask'd for bread, and he received a stone. 5 See Delineation of Butler's Monument in Dart's Westminster Abbey, pi. 3, torn. 1, pp. 78, 79. With... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 456 pages
...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....is here in emblem shown, He ask'd for bread, and he receiv'da stone. Soon after this monument was erected in Westminster Abbey, some persons proposed to... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 332 pages
...dinner give ; ^ /^V/?''-// •? .' /•; See him, when starved to death and turn'd to dust, 'ijt-/? • Presented with a monumental bust. The poet's fate...shown. He ask'd for bread, and he received a stone. 5 See Delineation of Butler's Monument in Dart's Westminster Abbey, pi. 3, torn. 1, pp. 78, 79. With... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 276 pages
...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...is here in emblem shown, He ask'd for bread, and he reeeiv'da stone I Mr Longueville has declared, that, notwithstanding the many disappointments Butler... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 494 pages
...yet alive, No generous patron would a dinner give; See him. when starv'd to death and turned to diut, Presented with a monumental bust. The Poet's fate...is here in emblem shown, He ask'd for bread, and he rccoiv'da stone 1 Mr Longueville has declared, that, notwithstanding the many disappointments Butler... | |
 | 1839 - 226 pages
...wretch! was still 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. Tom swells in mammoth dignity, Loud blusters, swears and... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 628 pages
...do not doubt it ; auch things have been, as Shakespeare says, " in the olden time :" " The poet'» fate, is here in emblem shown, - He ask'd for bread, and he received a stone.' It is, I believe, upon poor Butler's tomb that thU is written. But how many brother» o: Parnassus,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1839 - 374 pages
...Fergusson's grave ? I do not doubt it ; such things have been, as Shakspeare says, " in the olden-time ;" " The poet's fate is here in emblem shown, He ask'd for bread, and he received a stone." " It is I believe upon poor Butler's tomb that this is written But how many brothers of Parnassus,... | |
 | 1845 - 570 pages
...he who, when living, was destitute of almost everything, might not also want a tomb when dead. 107 The poet's fate is here in emblem shown, He ask'd for bread, and he received a stone. In 1786, when the church of St. Paul was repaired, a marble monument was erected by a subscription... | |
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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 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. 
