 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1864 - 762 pages
...feeling : — ' Good friend for Jesu's sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here : Blest be tho mail that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.' We may also find in Shakspeare an appalling sense of the supernatural, the nearness of the spirit world,... | |
 | W. E. Gladstone - 1969 - 662 pages
...'well-deserving'. 'may the earth be light upon you'. 'may he and his kin perish utterly'. '. . . Blest be he that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones', on *Shakespeare's tomb at Stratford on Avon. " Twelve and a half miles east of Oxford. 11 Child's amulet,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1983 - 1198 pages
...and thoughtful minds: Good friend, for Jesus' sake, forbeare To dig the dust encloased here. Blessed be the man 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 Shakespeare, put up shortly after his death,... | |
 | Migene González-Wippler - 1988 - 414 pages
...Shakespeare's tomb at Stratford. Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here Blest be the man that spares these stones And curst be he that moves my bones . . . Many curses of this sort have been found in funeral inscriptions throughout Europe. In Cornwall... | |
 | Michael C. Kearl - 1989 - 542 pages
...culture's model of who its members are and what values they hold. Cemeteries as Cultural Institutions Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones From epitaph of William Shakespeare What are your feelings when you approach a cemetery? They probably... | |
 | Joseph Scalia - 2013 - 92 pages
...inscription on his tombstone reads: Good Friend, for Jesus' sake, forbear To dig the dust enclosed here; Blest be the man that spares these stones And curst be he that moves my bones. Historical Background In 1599, when Julius Caesar was first performed, Queen Elizabeth I, the Tudor... | |
 | François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Alexandre de La Rochefoucauld, Norman Scarfe - 1995 - 308 pages
...engraved as he ordered: Good friend, for Jesus' sake forebear To move the dust that resteth here.4 Blest be the man that spares these stones And curst be he that moves my bones. Francois transcribed it with slight inaccuracies: Alexandre got it right and gave Francois a good French... | |
 | James M. Gabler - 1995 - 344 pages
...anyone who might remove his bones: "Good Friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here: Blest be the man that spares these stones And curst be he that moves my bones." 48. Diary of John Adams, III: 184-185. At the time of their visit to Shakespeare's house it was owned... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...or perhaps of the present. The Good friend, for Jesus' sake, forbear To dig the dust inclosed here. Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he who moves my bones. Oxford editor did very wisely, therefore, in abiding by the measure, as he could... | |
 | Michael S. Franck - 1996 - 222 pages
...Cholera October 6, 1832. Good Friend, for Jesus sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here. Blest be he that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones. The inscription was borrowed from an epitaph William Shakespeare wrote for himself before he died in... | |
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Jesus' sake, forbeare To dig the dust enclosed here: Blessed be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones. 
