Whilst Butler needy wretch was still alive
- DMI number:
- 24090
- First Line:
- Whilst Butler needy wretch was still alive
- Last Line:
- He asked for bread and he received a stone
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram and Couplet
- Themes:
- Patronage and Poetry / literature / writing
- Author:
- Samuel Wesley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Wesley (1743): 90 ('On the setting up Mr. Butler's Monument in Westminster Abbey', in 'Poems on Several Occasions').
- First Line:
- While Butler needy wretch was still alive
- Last Line:
- He asked for bread and he received a stone
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- First Line:
- When Butler needy wretch was still alive
- Last Line:
- He asked for bread and he received a stone
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Epigrams fresh gather'd from the conversation of the polite [N18487] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.27
- Poem Title:
- On setting up Mr. Butler's Monument in Westminster-Abbey.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Comic Miscellany. Vol. II. [ESTC N51175]
- Page No(s):
- p.169
- Poem Title:
- CLXXIV. On setting up Mr. Butler's Monument in Westminster-Abbey.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The sports of the muses. Or a minute's mirth for any hour of the day [vol II] [T85787] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.169
- Poem Title:
- CLXXIV.
- Attribution:
- On setting up Mr. Butler's Monument in Westminster-Abbey.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of select epigrams in which are many originals never before printed by the most eminent hands [T124651]
- Page No(s):
- p.133
- Poem Title:
- CCCCLIII. On Mr. Butler's Monument in Westminster Abbey.
- Attribution:
- Sam. Westley.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Wesley
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