| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 63728 |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Samuel Wesley (1691–1739), British poet. On the Setting Up of Mr. Butler’s Monument in Westminster Abbey (l. 3–6). . .
Oxford Book of Short Poems, The. P. J. Kavanagh and James Michie, eds. Oxford University Press. |
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