 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 912 pages
...me, to fee If 1 can be a friend, and friend to thce. On Michael Draytcn, tur'ud in WeftmwjlcT'AUtj*. Do, pious marble, let thy readers know What they, and what their children owe To Drayton's facred name ; whofe >h.lt We recommend unto thy truft. Protect his memory, preferve his ftory, And... | |
 | John Aikin - 1807 - 692 pages
...article A. -38, ascribed to Randolph, author of "the Muses' Looking-glass." The lines may be given — DO, pious marble, let thy readers know What they, and what their children owe To Drayton's sacred name; whose dust We recommend unto thy trust. • Protect his memory, preserve his story, And... | |
 | John Aikin - 1807 - 692 pages
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 | John Smith, George Canning, Robert Percy Smith, John Hookham Frere - 1809 - 192 pages
...remarkable for its elegance and simplicity. Drayton was a poet, who lived in the sixteenth century. ' Doe, pious marble, let thy readers know, What they and what their children owe To Drayton's name, whose sacred dust Wee recommend unto thy trust ; Protect his memory and preserve his storye, Remain... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 746 pages
...me, to see if I can be a friend, and friend to thee. MICHAEL DRAYTON, BURIED IN WESTMINSTER-ABBEY '. Do, pious marble, let thy readers know What they, and what their children owe To Dray ton's sacred name; whose dust We recommend unto thy trust. Protect his memory, preserve his story,... | |
 | R. B. - Antiquities - 1811 - 184 pages
...Drayton, the poet, was born at Athelston, and died in 1021, •who hath this epitaph in Westminster Abbey. Do, pious marble, let thy readers know What they, and what their children owe, To Drayton's name,. whose sacred dust, We recommend unEo thy trust: Protect his memory, and preserve his story, Retain... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 482 pages
...that envies me, to see If I can be a friend, and friend to thee. XVII. EPITAPH ON MICHAEL DRAYTON.? Do, pious marble, let thy readers know What they, and what their children owe io Drayton's name ; whose sacred dust We recommend unto thy trust. Protect his memory, and preserve... | |
 | Sir John Mennes - 1817 - 568 pages
...herse, What e'r thou spak'st (like Ovid) was a verse. 187. On Michael Drayton buryed in Westminster. Do pious Marble, let thy Readers know, What they, and what their children ow . To Draytons sacred name, whose dust We recommend unto thy trust. Protect his memory, preserve... | |
 | English poetry - 1817 - 524 pages
...thy herse, What e'r thou spak'st (like Ovid) was a verse. On Michael Drayton buryed in Westminster. Do pious marble, let thy readers know, What they, and what their children ow To Draytons sacred name, whose dust We recommend unto thy trust. Protect his memory, preserve his... | |
 | 1828 - 454 pages
...MICHAEL DRAYTON, EsQCTH!, A memorable poet of his age, Exchanged his laurel for a crown of glorr, 1631. Do, pious marble, let thy readers know What they, and what their children am To DRAYTON'S name, whose sacred dust We recommend unto thy trust, Protect his memory, and preserve... | |
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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... 
