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Samuel Wesley Quotes

d. 1739 England

Samuel Wesley the Younger (10 February 1690 or 1691 – 6 November 1739) was a poet, schoolmaster and an Anglican cleric. He was the eldest of the Wesley brothers—with younger brothers John and Charles—but did not play a notable role in the nascent Methodist movement.

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Whilst Butler, needy wretch! was yet alive,
No gen'rous 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 receiv'd a stone.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Samuel Wesley (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.