| Robert Kemp Philp - 1864 - 1126 pages
...desist from the attempt ? — Good friend, for Jesus' pake, forbear To dig the bones enclosed here. Blest be the man that spares these stones And curst be he that mores my bones. The greatest honour which can be paid him is to respect his wishes, and it is a proper... | |
| Washington Irving - 1849 - 544 pages
...thoughtful minds. Good friend, for Jesus' sake, forbeare To dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be he that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones. Just over the grave, in a niche of the wall, is a bust of Shakepeare, put up shortly after his death,... | |
| Francis Lieber - 1851 - 618 pages
...lines, attributed to himself: Good friend, for Jesus 7 sake, forbear To digg- the dust encloased here ; Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones. and drawn out as wanted. Plaiters should be taught to use their second fingers and thumbs, instead... | |
| Royal Ralph Hinman - 1852 - 962 pages
...descendants say with the poet, " Good Friend, for Jesus' sake, forbear To remove the dust that resteth here, Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones ! " The maiden name of the wife of Jonah or Jonas Hinman, is not satisfactorily found, or whether he... | |
| 1852 - 672 pages
...following well-known lines — " Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear, To dig the dust inclosed here ; Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bone*" — be not literally applicable in the present case, they breathe such a spirit as would almost... | |
| 1853 - 444 pages
...to be written by himself: — " Good friend, for Jesus' sake, forbear To dig the dust inclosed here. Blest be the man that spares these stones ; And curst be he that moves my bones." GENEKAL POST OFFICE, LONDON, AT SIX O'CLOCK, PM RECEPTION OF COLUMBUS BY FERDINAND AND ISABELLA IN... | |
| Benjamin Moran - 1853 - 408 pages
...import to the sacrilegious : — Good friend, for Jesus's sake forbear To dig the dust enolos'd here ; Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones. The other tombs are inscribed with the date of the birth and death of his children, and adjoining are... | |
| William Cowper, Henry Stebbing - 1854 - 850 pages
...Shakspeare o'n his tomb :^ . ' Good friend, for Jesus' sate forbear To dig; the dnst Inclosed here. Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves, my bones.' M 2 For instance, at this very time I feel a wish by cheerful rhyme To soothe my friend, and. had I... | |
| 1854 - 778 pages
...arose amid many associations, the Bard of Avon's fearful monumental denunciation came to our aid : " Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves these bones." RICHARD HOOPER.. St. Stephen's, Westminster. ECHO POETRY. " A Dialogue between a Glutton... | |
| Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1856 - 444 pages
...quaint adjuration ; " Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here ; Blest bo tho man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones." him his wife reposes, with a Latin inscription on a small metalic tablet. On the tomb of their daughter... | |
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