 | 1879 - 796 pàgines
...MICHAEL DRAYTON. A memorable Poet of his age, Changed his laurels for a crown of glory. 1631. . Do, pions marble let thy readers know What they and what their children owe To Drayton's name, whose sacred dust We recommend nnto thy trust, Protect his memory and preserve his story, Remain a... | |
 | Francis Quarles - 1880 - 288 pàgines
...who erected the monument, and told Aubrey that Quarles was the author ' (' Lives,' as before) : — ' Do pious marble, let thy readers know What they, and what their children, owe To Drayton's name, whose sacred dust We recommend unto thy trust. Protect his memory, and preserve his story, Remain a... | |
 | Michael Drayton - 1883 - 240 pàgines
...raised him a monument in Poets' Corner, and tradition says that Ben Jonson wrote the inscription : — "Do, pious marble, let thy readers know What they and what their children owe To Drayton's name ; whose sacred dust We recommend unto thy trust. Protect his memory and preserve his story ; ' I am... | |
 | Edmund Goldsmid - 1885 - 120 pàgines
...Year of our Lord Thirteen hundred four score three and odd. In Westminster Abbey, on MICHAEL DRAYTON. Do, pious Marble ! let thy Readers know What they, and what their Children owe To Drayton's Name, whose sacred Dust We recommend unto thy Trust ; Protect his Mem'ry, and preserve his Story ; Remain... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 pàgines
...another, Learn'd and fair and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee. II. ON MICHAEL DRAYTON Do, pious marble, let thy readers know What they, and what their children owe To Drayton's name ; whose sacred dust We recommend unto thy trust. Protect his memory, and preserve his story ; Remain... | |
 | 1893 - 154 pàgines
...Esq., a memorable Poet of his age, exchanged his " laurel for a Crown of Glory, anno 1631. '* Do, plons marble, let thy readers know What they, and what their children, owe To Draiton's name, whose sacred dust We recommend unto thy trust: Protect his mem'ry, and preserve his... | |
 | Estelle Davenport Adams - 1894 - 432 pàgines
...the rest ; Whose stately Numbers are so well addrest. BARNFIELD : A Remembrance of some English f'oeh Do, pious marble, let thy readers know What they, and what their children owe To Drayton's name ; whose sacred dust We recommend unto thy trust. Protect his memory, and preserve his story, Remain... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 452 pàgines
...conversation, and well-preserved carriage" of Meres, or the tender lines of his friend Ben Jonson: — " Do, pious marble, let thy readers know What they and what their children owe To Drayton's name; whose sacred dust We recommend unto thy trust. Protect his memory, and preserve his story, Remain a... | |
 | Longman (Firm) - 1897 - 296 pàgines
...near him lie the bodies of Dryden, Beaumont, Cowley, and Drayton. Drayton's epitaph is a fine one — Do, pious marble, let thy readers know What they and what their children owe To Drayton's name, whose sacred dust We recommend unto thy trust. Protect his memory and preserve his story ; Remain a... | |
 | Mrs. Birchenough - 1903 - 122 pàgines
...Drayton.' ' Drayton ! ' I replied ' I never heard of him before.' "* The epitaph is fine one : — Do, pious marble, let thy readers know What they and what their children owe To Drayton's name, whose sacred dust We recommend unto thy trust. Protect his memory and preserve his story ; Remain a... | |
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Do, pious marble, let thy readers know What they, and what their children owe To Drayton's name: whose sacred dust We recommend unto thy trust. Protect his memory, and preserve 'his story, Remain a lasting monument of his glory. And when thy ruins shall... 
