 | Mrs. Birchenough, Mrs. A. Murray Smith - 1905 - 124 pàgines
...Drayton.' ' Drayton I ' I replied : 'I never heard of him before.1"* The 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. Ptotect his memory and preserve his story ; Remain a... | |
 | Henry Charles Shelley - 1910 - 432 pàgines
...confident his contemporaries were of his abiding fame is evident from the glowing epitaph on his tomb : Do, pious marble, let thy readers know What they and what their children owe 97 To Drayton's name, whose sacred dust We recommend unto thy trust. Protect his memory and preserve... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1913 - 206 pàgines
...another, Learn'd and fair, and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee. EPITAPH 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... | |
 | George B. Guild - 1913 - 284 pàgines
...as he gazes up at that typical form, partake of the inspiration that we would have to linger here. "Pious marble! Let thy readers know What they and what their children owe To the brave men whose sacred dust We here commit unto thy trust. Protect their memory, preserve their... | |
 | Wilberforce Jenkinson - 1917 - 388 pàgines
...disdain, But shew'd and then put up again.3 Camden himself, addressing Michael Drayton's monument, says : Do, pious marble, let thy Readers know What they and what their children owe To Drayton's name.4 1 Diary, Feb. 17, 1661-2. * Printed by Camden Society, No. 83. » Camden's Remains, ' On Epitaphs.'... | |
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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... 
