 | 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
...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...over the grave, in a niche of the wall, is a bust of Shakespeare, put up shortly after his death, and considered as a resemblance. The aspect is pleasant... | |
 | Migene González-Wippler - 1988 - 414 pages
...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
...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
...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... | |
 | James M. Gabler - 1995 - 344 pages
...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... | |
 | François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Alexandre de La Rochefoucauld, Norman Scarfe - 1995 - 308 pages
...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... | |
 | Michael S. Franck - 1996 - 222 pages
...of 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... | |
 | Howard Marchitello - 1997 - 262 pages
...hallowedness: GOOD FREND FOR JESUS SAKE FORBEARE TO DIGG THE DUST ENCLOASED HEARE: BLESTE BE THE MAN THAT SPARES THESE STONES, AND CURST BE HE THAT MOVES MY BONES What this effectively does is produce Shakespeare's bones - actual material objects - as artifacts... | |
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Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here ; Blessed be he that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones. 
